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London: Smith, Elder & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1887. Hardcover. Very light foxing to endpapers, blanks, and title, occasional faint foxing in the pages. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Rubbed area to front cover cloth. ; Personal letters between Thackeray and his friends the Reverend W. H. and Jane Octavia Brookfield. Written in Thackeray's personally trying, desolate, and destitute times before the publishing of Vanity Fair and subsequent fame. Some letters are presented in entirety and some in excerpts, they shows the personal side of Thackeray and his relationships, daily life, European travel, etc. Reproductions of his drawings and many sometimes-humorous sketches he incorporated into his letters. Facsimile of a holograph letter of Thackeray's. Engraved frontis of Thackeray, plus several black and white plates. List of Illustrations and Index. "The letters contained in this volume are in the course of publication in Scribner's Magazine, and the…
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A Collection of Letters of W.M. Thackeray 1847-1855 : With Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Drawings
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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A Letter From T. J. Cobden-Sanderson : To My Dear Rbt. 20 November 1914
by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
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Birmingham, New York: The Silverado Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Limited Edition. Softcover. Several light, shallow creases to the front cover. Lightest bumps to head and tail corners. Front cover slightly lightened adjacent to spine.; This book reproduces T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's 20 November 1914, written in bed, personal letter to "Rbt." In it, Cobden-Sanderson recounts the workings of his Doves Press "...we are binding Shelley and printing Keats," the loss of an employee called to "the front" of World War I, and being "daily depressed by the atmosphere of the world yet happy in one another." He mused "At the actual moment I am in bed tho it is already 11 a.m. I find the morning time in bed between waking and getting up the golden time of day, the borderland between the dreams of night and the still, still stranger dreams of the world without." Cobden-Sanderson was an author, editor, a founder of Doves Press, and…
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