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C. A. B. / William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair, Book Review. The American Review, NY, 1848.
Price: US$9.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 11pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The American Review: A Whig Journal, Volume VIII, No. 4, October, 1848. A contemporary review of Thackeray's novel that had been published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1848. Housed in protective mylar report cover.
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.98 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First US Edition. Illustrated. Fair in original brown blindstamped cloth with gilt illustration on front which is rather rubbed, gilt title on spine is dull, cloth is torn along spine edges, worn at corns, endpapers and paste-downs are darkened, bookplate on rear of ffep, page opposite title page is torn, light foxing throughout pages.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ** 1ST U.S. EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 1848 ** CLOTH-BOUND HARDCOVER ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** TEXT UNMARKED ** ILLUSTRATIONS BY AUTHOR **Published in New York by Harper & Brothers, 1848, with 335 double-columned pages (332 numbered, then ending with 2 unnumbered full-page engraved plates), 4 pages of ads at the end, and with many (32) full-page illustration plates by Thackeray from steel engravings and woodcuts, plus engraved title page and full-page frontis portrait of the author. First U.S. edition often harder to find than the original British first edition. In the original publisher's cloth binding with embossed gilt illustration device on the front above the title, decorative embossed gilt lettering on the spine, all cloth elaborately decorated in blind. The cloth binding is worn along the board edges and at the corners. There is wear and tearing at the spine ends, and a tear to the cloth along the front spine edge from the bottom up about ¾ of the way to the top. The book is square and straight, and remains firm in its binding. The interior hinges are sound and undamaged front and rear, the corners are worn but have not been bumped. A gathering of pages near the center of the book stands a bit proud, but remain firmly attached, and one plate has become partially detached causing a bit of extra wear to the page edge. The pages are clean and stain-free, lightly age-toned, but very little foxing present. All text and illustrations are sharp and legible. There is a previous owner's name on the blank front paste-down, but no other writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings in the book. Buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995.
Seller: Twice-Loved Books, East Palestine, OH, U.S.A.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. Harper & Brothers, 1848.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown publishers cloth over boards. Heavily rubbed on corners. Gilt on cover is rubbed. Most of cloth missing from spine. Yellow endpapers are stained. Name on FFEP and dated 1848. Although cloth on spine is lacking, binding it secure. B/W illustrations. Four pages of ads. Many pages age toned and foxed. First US Printing.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First American edition. Octavo. Engraved title, 332 pp., [4 p. ads], 32 plates. Original green cloth, gilt title vignette on front board. Wear and soiling to boards, chipping to spine. Bookplate of Hilda Wilkinson Bartlett. Foxing and toning. Plates browned as expected.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: "Some day you will write a book which will make your fortune. Becky Sharp made mine. I married early, and wrote for bread; and 'Vanity Fair' was my first successful work. I like Becky in that book. Sometimes I think I have myself some of her tastes. I like what are called Bohemians, and fellows of that sort." (Thackeray quoted in Appleton's Journal, Vol. VII, July - Dec 1879, p251). Scarce first American edition. Brown gilt stamped cloth, gilt illustration at front cover, gilt title at spine. Covers rubbed, spine and rear cover sunned. 8vo, 332pp, b&w ills, ads (4). Illustrations by the author, text in two columns. Internally, damp stains on early pages (up to p12), some plates toned, o/w very good.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Americn edition. Royal 8vo. hardcover in original publisher's ribbed and blindstamped dark brown cloth decorated in gilt. Engraved half-title. viii+ 332 pp plus final illustrated plate following final page of text+ 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. 32 inserted plates on heavier stock with drawings by the author. Generally about good, some wear and rounding at the tips and edge loss at the head and foot of the spine, short split top front gutter. Offsetting to the bright yellow endpapers and an 1873 ownership notation front free endpaper. Thackeray's most famous and popular work, a novel that follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during and after the Napoleonic wars. It was first published serially in 19 parts beginning in 1847 with the subtitle "Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society" and in book form with the subtitle changed to "A Novel Without A Hero". The work was immediately hailed by critics and the public (including Charlotte Bronte). It was adapted for the stage the times, the first being in 1899; for four silent films; and three sound films the most recent being in 2004.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848. Thackeray (1811-1863) had only moderate success until this mega-hit satirical novel, which has entered the canon of English literature. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of a Later Printing of the First American Edition. Marbled paper boards and endpapers with leather spine and tips. Four raised bands with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Clean text; 352 pages. Light spotting throughout (text remains bright and readable); mild rubbing to the margins. A solid copy. Later Printing. Half-Leather. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by William Makepeace Thackeray. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1144.82 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the 'Great Hoggarty Diamond', final ads discarded, 32 plates in 'Vanity Fair', foxed throughout (mostly lightly), plates toned, the upper blank corner of the illustrated title to vol. i torn away, some edges creased, pp. viii, [9]-332, [4], 67, 78-84 (as called for), 8vo., bound together in slightly later half dark red roan, marbled boards and endpapers, backstrip with four raised bands, second compartment gilt lettered direct, rubbed, a little chipping to backstrip, cornertips worn, morocco booklabel of Estelle Doheny, sound. The scarce first book-form edition of Thackeray's 'The Great Hoggarty Diamond', originally published serially in 'Fraser's Magazine' in 1841. This printing is based on the serial and hence is slightly different from the first English edition, which would be published in London the following year as 'The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond'. This version is much scarcer than the first English edition: according to Van Duzer, Dickson could locate only one copy, in the Boston Athenaeum, and there are no copies now listed in COPAC. ABPC records only four appearances at auction, all in America, and none after 1989. Bound before it is a later printing of the first American edition of Vanity Fair, with no date on the title but with publisher's ads including works issued in the early 1850s. (Van Duzer 88)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom