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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Roundabout Papers. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good. No Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good in blind-embossed brown cloth. Irregular fading, light soiling, and wear to boards, spine chipped and faded, with much of its gilt rubbed off; pencil inscription on front free endpaper, light browning to text. 292 pages, B&W engravings.

Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

William Thackeray. The Roundabout Papers. , 1863.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Thackeray, William. Roundabout Papers. Reprinted from Cornhill Magazine. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863., Hardcover. First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. brown cloth, 292 pages + 8 pages of ads. Engraved illustrations throughout. Original brown cloth, spine starting slightly at edges, slight shelf-wear top and bottom of spine, spine faded.

Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.

William Thackeray. Roundabout Papers. , 1863.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Thackeray, William. Roundabout Papers. Reprinted from Cornhill Magazine. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863., Hardcover. First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. brown cloth, 292 pages + 8 pages of ads. Engraved illustrations throughout. Original brown cloth, spine starting slightly at edges, slight shelf-wear top and bottom of spine, spine faded.

Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.

THACKERAY, W.M.. Roundabout Papers. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1863.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition, Octavo, original purple blindstamped cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. From William Makepeace Thackery, British novelist and author known for his satirical works, a collection of sketches originally from "The Cornhill Magazine" includes black and white illustrations. Very good, spine faded to brown, top spine end bumped, foxing, pen inscription on front endpapers.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

William Makepeace Thackeray. Roundabout Papers. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first US edition of this collection of the columns William Makepeace Thackery contributed to the Cornhill Magazine. Illustrated by Thackeray himself. The very scarce first US edition, published in the same year as the first UK edition, of William Makepeace Thackery's publication of a large number of the columns he contributed to the monthly Cornhill Magazine, of which he became editor in 1860.With a frontispiece and numerous full plate and vignette illustrations from the author himself.Including the essays 'On a Lazy Idle Boy', 'Tunbridge Toys', 'On a Hundred Years Hence', 'A Mississippi Bubble', and more.He greatly enjoyed writing these column's expressing a preference for his role as columnist over editorWith four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip and board perimeters, with small loss of cloth to back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with the odd spot to tail of pages. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Roundabout Papers. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Roundabout Papers by W.M. Thackeray First American edition in original purple cloth. Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1863. Fading to the spine, else binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean. Tiny booksellers bookplate to the pastedown. 292 pages plus 4 pages of ads in back and one in front. 5 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #19-092. Price: $200.

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.