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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Leather portions of bindings have cracking, surface wear, and edge wear. Pages have scattered small brown patches and slightly browned edges. One section of Volume 1 has heavier foxing. ; In three volumes, complete. Three-quarter leather bindings with marbled boards and endpapers.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$233.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three hard cover volumes with dark blue leather spines and corners, marbled boards and negligible cover wear, gilt titles on each spine. Attractive previous owner's plate inside each front cover, frontispiece in volume I and volume III, 329, 304 and 301 pages; each volume is illustrated with several full page plates. Thackeray's last completed novel first published in 1862 in 3 volumes and in very good to near fine condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$395.06 + shipping
Description: Half title vol. I. Original blue bubble-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, with imprint 'Smith & Elder'; spines a little faded. See long note at Sadleir 3186; Wolff 6690 in blue cloth & 'Smith, Elder and Co.' on titlepage; Van Duzer 2. Sadleir argues that the imprint error (Smith & Elder) on titlepage & at tail of spines indicates the first issue. The copy here is in the primary cloth, but the titlepages & following leaves in each volume are cancels correcting the titlepages to 'Smith, Elder and Co.'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second binding (but first "official" issue). 3 vols. 8vo. The First "Official" Issue. Although Sadleir lists this binding first, he persuasively argues that it was probably the second binding based on the imprint on the spine -- ours reading Smith, Elder & Co. The brass imprint "Smith & Elder" was discontinued between 1824 and 1826. Apparently it was resurrected specifically for this title. Sadleir hypothesizes that given that George Smith was a very particular man and given his veneration for Thackeray, the violet-blue binding with "Smith & Elder" on the spine was probably done first. Smith probably rejected the imprint and thought the plain binding unworthy of the likes of Thackeray. Hence, the present binding was introduced, "furnished with a publiserh's catalogue, and Statutory copies were sent out in that style." Sadleir I: 339. Although the blue binding was the first done, it was the last to reach the market. Sadleir 3186 Original brown pebbled cloth (Sadleir's binding "i"). Bookplate; institutional notice in third volume (though no other ex-libris markings). Chipping and fraying to spine ends, hinges weak or cracked, a couple leaves with some minor marginal chipping and creasing, else very good First edition, second binding (but first "official" issue).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$560.92 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Three (3) volumes in blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Second issue binding. Hinges invisibly strengthened, minor touch-ups to spine ends. Three engraved bookplates to endpapers, including the name plate of Francis Bullard, 1862-1913, a prominent Boston collector. A fine set with some uncut pages.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [three volumes], [5], 329pp; [4], 304pp; [4], 301pp. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers, with some wear at hinge of Volume I. Half-title in Volume I. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to the front endpaper of each volume. From the library of Oliver Hoyt, a member of the Connecticut Senate. Housed in clamshell case by James Mcdonald Co. of New York, quarter green morocco, individual chemise for each volume, title in gilt with three compartments. (Sadleir 3186) (Wolff 4088) An attractive set, scarce in the publisher's green cloth. The Adventures of Philip was the last novel completed by William Thackeray before his death in 1863. It was first published as a serial in Cornhill magazine between 1861 and August of 1862, with illustrations by Frederick Walker.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Adventures of Philip.. Smith, Elder and Company, London, 1862.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 3 vols. 8vo, publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in gold, in custom slipcase. First edition. Hinges cracked in all three volumes, but still sound; slight shelf wear, particularly to the bottom of the spine of Vol. I; otherwise bright fresh copies.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in first issue bindings with "Smith & Elder" stamped at the foot of the spine. Three volumes. 329 pp; 304 pp.; 301 pp. Hardcovers, bound in publisher's blue-green cloth, housed in a morocco backed clamshell box. The case repaired along the front fold. The spines faded. Bookplates. An un-cut set.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.