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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK TWO VOLUMES. Chapman and Hall, 1843.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: THACKERAY, William Makepeace. THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK. Two Volumes. With 38 Wood Engravings by Thackeray. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. Small 8vos., olive-green, full-levant morocco leather, gilt-tooled spines & gilt-tooled borders, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. First Edition. Thackeray used his real name for the first time in his dedication to Charles Lever in this title. [Van Duzer 96]. Very Good (both half-title pages are present; covers nice with very small spot to Vol. 2, spines tanned to brown; contents tight with minor foxing). $250.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Michael Angelo Titmarsh. The Irish Sketch Book. Chapman and Hall, London, 1843.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (William Makepeace Thackeray) The Irish Sketch Book by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh (pseudonym.). First edition in dark bluish-green cloth. (2 volumes). Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London, 1843. Bindings are is very good plus condition slight wear to spine ends, front board on volume 1 loose but intact. Contents clean. Bookplate on each pastedown. 311,327 pages. 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches. Authors note at the end of volume II explaining the absence of the intended frontispiece to volume II. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #19-086. Price: $500.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With numerous engravings on wood by the author. 2 vols., full polished calf, with leather labels, gilt spines and dentelles; some light foxing. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First Edition. Thackeray's travel writing brought him early fame. He was in Ireland during the potato famine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, two volumes, two inserted engraved frontispiece plates and 38 illustrations in the text after Thackeray, original green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panels stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First edition. Thackeray "made a trip to Ireland in 1842 and stayed for a time with the novelist Lever. THE IRISH SKETCH-BOOK, which annoyed the Irish very much, appeared in 1843, and in the dedication to Lever, Thackeray used his own name for the first time." - Kunitz and Haycraft (eds), British Authors of the Nineteenth Century, p. 615. Van Duzer 96. Appears to be a married set. The green cloth of volume one is a dark green cloth while volume two is a medium green cloth. Both half title leaves are present, as is the blank leaf preceding the half title leaf in volume two. The inserted frontispieces are foxed with some offset onto the title pages. Volume one is near fine. Volume two is slightly leaned, has a small label of the Leighlin Bridge Book Society affixed to the front paste-down, and has a large, but not unpleasant, damp stain to the cloth on the rear cover. Still a pleasing set. Uncommon in the original cloth. (#114150)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.