Item 64513Lovel the Widower.
Price: $200
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First edition in book form. Read More Item Details for Lovel the Widower Add to Wish List
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William Makepeace Thackeray (Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and George Savage Fitz-Boodle)
1811 - 1863
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century known best for his work entitledVanity Fair (1847)which, in Becky Sharpe, features one of the great female characters in English literature. His satirical works offered an scathing portrait of English society.
Item 64510The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life.
Price: $325
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861. First English edition, following American. First issue with publisher's ads at end dated November 1861. Read More Item Details for The Four Georges. Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life Add to Wish List
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Item 57331Unpublished Letters. These letters are printed here for the first time with the kind permission of Lady Ritchie.
Price: $300
London: Privately Printed for Clement Sorter, April 29, 1916. First edition, Number 9 of 25 copies. Inscribed ""Ernest Maggs (one of the original Maggs brothers of Maggs Bros.) with Clement Shorter's kind regards May 1, 1916." Read More Item Details for Unpublished Letters. These letters are printed here for the first time with the kind permission of Lady Ritchie Add to Wish List
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In Parts
Item 53774The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.
Price: $900
London: Bradbury and Evans, October , 1853 - August, 1855. Doyle, Richard. First edition in the original 23/24 monthly parts. A certain amount of American ill-feeling was stirred up by the narrator's unfortunate reference to Washington as "heading the American rebels with a courage, it must be confessed, worthy of..... Read More Item Details for The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq Add to Wish List
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Item 376167Reading a Poem. Communicated to the Sette at a Meeting Holden at Limmer's Hotel, on Friday the 1st of May...
Price: $150
London: Chiswick Press for the Sette of Odd Volumes, 1891. First edition, No. 316 of 321 copies. Read More Item Details for Reading a Poem. Communicated to the Sette at a Meeting Holden at Limmer's Hotel, on Friday the 1st of May, 1891 by Brother Charles Plumptre Johnson Add to Wish List
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Item 371833Autograph letter, signed ("WM Thackeray").
Price: $900
London: 26 March c. 1862. Characteristically terse and tart response from Thackeray to someone seeking him out, although in this case, not putting him off entirely. It reads in full: Sir If you write to see me regarding the Cornhill Magazine I have to inform you that I am no..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed ("WM Thackeray") Add to Wish List
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Finely Bound, with an Autograph Letter, Signed
Item 366292Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero.
Price: $3,500
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. The letter, on a folded 8vo sheet, is undated, and likely written to Percival Leigh, the..... Read More Item Details for Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero Add to Wish List
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Item 346866Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.
Price: $5,000
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first issue: with the suppressed woodcut on p.336 and the title on p. 1 in rustic type. Read More Item Details for Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero Add to Wish List
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Item 33152The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.
Price: $500
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First book edition, with "actresses" on page 207 and chapters 47 and 48 misnumbered 48 and 49 in the first volume. Read More Item Details for The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century Add to Wish List
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Item 320977The History of Henry Esmond Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself.
Price: $400
London: Printed for Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. First edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Henry Esmond Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself Add to Wish List
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OVER 100 ORIGINAL KYD WATERCOLOURS
Item 319364The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Price: $5,000
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1878. Number 500 of 1000 copies. Read More Item Details for The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray Add to Wish List
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Item 309287Mrs. Perkin's Ball. By M.A. Titmarsh.
Price: $450
London: Chapman & Hall, [1847]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Mrs. Perkin's Ball. By M.A. Titmarsh Add to Wish List
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Item 302882“Our Street.” By Mr. A. Titmarsh.
Price: $175
London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. First edition. Read More Item Details for “Our Street.” By Mr. A. Titmarsh Add to Wish List
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Item 262747The History of Pendennis. The Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy.
Price: $500
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. First edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Pendennis. The Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy Add to Wish List
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Item 24581The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq.
Price: $250
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. First separate edition. Also published as part of the second volume of the “Miscellanies, Prose and Verse”. Read More Item Details for The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq Add to Wish List
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Sir Robert Peel's Copy
Item 24580The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis.
Price: $400
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-55. First edition. With the bookplate of the statesman Sir Robert Peel, third Baronet (1822-1895). Read More Item Details for The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis Add to Wish List
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Item 233134The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.
Price: $350
London: Tilt and Bogue, n.d. Cruikshank, George. Second Edition. The poem is by Thackeray, the notes by Dickens, and the illustrations are by the incomparable Cruikshank. This second edition (undated) is uncommon; the third edition is dated 1851. Read More Item Details for The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman Add to Wish List
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FIFTY-TWO VOLUMES
Item 231303The Works of ….
Price: $4,000
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1869-1886. Number 962 of 1000. Read More Item Details for The Works of … Add to Wish List
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Item 223888The Four Georges. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century.
Price: $75
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1870. Read More Item Details for The Four Georges. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century Add to Wish List
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Item 220061The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.
Price: $1,250
London: Bradbury and Evans, November 1857 - October 1859. First edition in the original parts. Read More Item Details for The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century Add to Wish List
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Item 219324The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond.
Price: $250
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First English edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond Add to Wish List
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Item 210042The Students’ Quarter or Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since.
Price: $200
London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. [1870]. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Students’ Quarter or Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since Add to Wish List
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Item 210041Early and Late Papers Hitherto Uncollected.
Price: $175
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. Read More Item Details for Early and Late Papers Hitherto Uncollected Add to Wish List
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Item 18925The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond.
Price: $150
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. First English edition. Read More Item Details for The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond Add to Wish List
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Item 19820The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.
Price: $250
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First book edition, with “actresses” on page 207 and chapters 47 and 48 misnumbered 48 and 49 in the first volume. Read More Item Details for The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century Add to Wish List
Item #19820