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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… Read More

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… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1924. Hardcover. Ex-library with evidence of a label removed from the spine, ink stamps to head of text block and front pastedown. Spine ends bumped and somewhat worn, tail corners bumped, joints rubbed. Spine and the head edge of front cover sunned. Small dark spot to front cover. Lacks the dust jacket.; The personal correspondence and journals of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Provides a very revealing first-person account of her father's turbulent home and married life and the unusual circumstances of his children being raised by his own parents. The letters of both Anne and William show the workings of their daily lives, writing processes, and social and world views. Frontispiece of John Singer Sargent's pencil drawing of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Includes previously unpublished line drawings by both Anne and William, the latter's drawings accompanying facsimiles of his… Read More