Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Repaired portion of the backstrip at upper spine. Forward cock to spine, previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, by ink-stamp at first free endpaper, and residue from former bookplate inside front flap and recto. "M[ichael]. A[angelo]. Titmarsh" is the pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray. 221 pp., with a publisher's ad regarding another of Thackeray's works. Fine-looking gilt illustration to front cover, blind-stamped designs to covers and spine. Lovely hand-tinted illustration at frontis, "A Street View of Constantinople," protected by a present but detached tissue guard.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
William Makepeace Thackeray. Notes of a Journey from Cornhill. Chapman & Hall, London, 1846.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, 1st issue. With the hand colored engraved view of Istanbaul ca. Constantinople, with the author as Titsmarsh, his nom de plume. Full title is Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo in the year 1844. with visits in between to LIsbon, Athens, Constantinople,and Jerusalem. Bound in a signed Tout of London full mottled calf, marlbed end sheets, with red and honey gilt title labels on spine, raised bands, great binding, needs to be re joined, thus the low price. otherwise very good. pretty copy.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$260.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiv, 301, 16 pp. Red morocco gilt lettered spine, with the original publisher's cloth boards. Hand coloured frontispiece, spotting to extremities. 16 page publisher's list dated December 1845 at rear. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$272.33 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated red cloth. Front and rear panels elaborately tooled in blind with detailed gilt vignette to front panel. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Gilt cross-bands. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages; Physical desc.: xi, 221 p. ill., 18 cm. frontis (Steel-engraved with tissue guard). Subjects: Travel -- Memoir. Notes: 24 page publishers catalogue bound in at rear. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$304.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated red cloth. Front and rear panels elaborately tooled in blind with detailed gilt vignette to front panel. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Gilt cross-bands. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages; Physical desc.: xi, 221 p. ill., 18 cm. frontis (Steel-engraved with tissue guard). Subjects: Travel -- Memoir. Notes: 24 page publishers catalogue bound in at rear. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. pp. xiv, 301, [1] + 16 pp. of publisher's ads. with half-title. hand-coloured frontis.& 15 wood-engraved text illus. original gilt & blind-stamped pictorial cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, preserving endleaves. armorial bookplate of Richard Penn and noted book collector Major John Roland Abbey, the latter dated 1933. First Edition. An account of Thackeray's travels in Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Holy Land and Egypt in the autumn of 1844. Ibrahim-Hilmy II p. 282. NCBEL III 857. Röhricht 2068 (citing incorrect date).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xiv, 301, (1) pp. with hand-colored frontispiece, lacking ads. Hardcover, bound in gilt-tooled full red morocco, the original cloth cover and spine bound inside, by Bayntun with a slipcase. Some darkening to the spine; a few modest blemishes within the text block.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.