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Price: US$180.88 + shipping
Description: Serial issues 1-17 (lacking 6 and 16). No. 1 without the wrappers, otherwise all good to very good pamphlet copies. Physical description; 15 vols. Subjects; Inheritance and succession ; Fiction. Americans England. Brothers. Twins. United States History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 ; Fiction. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians. Bradbury, Evans, London, 1857.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1857-59, 21 original parts, lacks parts 17, 23 & 24. In modern clamshell box with paper label, worn. GOOD-VERY GOOD, Part I front wrapper separated but present, lacking backstrip, Part 2 lacking about 1/2 of backstrip, Part 3 lacks about half of backstrip, Part 4 lacks about 1/4 of backstrip, Part 5 lacks half of back strip, Part 7 lacks 1/3 of backstrip, Part 9 lacks 3/8" of backstrip, Part 11 lacks 3/8" of backstrip, Part 13 lacks 1/8" of backstrip, Part 15 lacks 1/4" of backstrip, Part 18 lacks 3/8" of backstrip, Part 19 lacks 1 1 1/2" backstrip, Part 21 lacks 1 1/2" backstrip, Part 22 lacks 1 3/4" backstrip, Part 22 has 2" tear from page 313 to end. Top front corner of Part 20 chewed, Part 19 some mild staining to last few pages, Part 11 has staining to front wrap, Part 9 has mild staining to front wrap, Part 4 has previous owner's name. Part 2 has blue offsetting on rear wrapper. General foxing to plates, not collated but appears complete except for missing parts, all wraps present.
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$208.00 + shipping
Description: Serial issues 1-17 (lacking 6 and 16). No. 1 without the wrappers, otherwise all good to very good pamphlet copies. Physical description; 15 vols. Subjects; Inheritance and succession ; Fiction. Americans England. Brothers. Twins. United States History French and Indian War, 1755-1763 ; Fiction. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Thackeray (William Makepeace). The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, 24 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1857-9, 48 etched plates including frontispiece and vignette title (moderately spotted and browned), original printed wrappers, part 1 lacking front wrapper and pp. 1-4 advertisements, part 24 rear wrapper torn, chipping to spine-ends, 8vo - Quantity (24)
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The original 24 monthly installments of The Virginians (plus an extra copy of #22). All 24 issues have the original yellow wraps with illustration on the front and ads on the back. The front cover of the first installment is detached, but present. All the rest are complete with all pages including the covers tightly bound. Each issue has 2 engravings, with a tissue page between to protect them. Each has 8 pages of ads at the front and an ad insert at the rear which in some issues is printed on blue or gray paper. Some issues also have sample pages from other works bound in at the rear. About half the issues have the name C. Birch signed on the front cover. A bookplate with the name Edith Barbara Tranter is tipped to the front cover of the first volume. Some of the installment are entirely uncut. About 30 pages in each issue, numbered sequentially 382 + 376 pages. At the end of each 'volume' (each year) there is a title page provided, which is often used when a binder puts the installments together into a single volume. Each issue measures 5.5 x 8.75 inches. The whole stack of 24 of them is just over 4 inches tall. First issue is dated November 1857. It ends in October 1859. Extra shipping will be required for international or priority mailing.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Thackeray,William Makepeace. VIRGINIANS. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1857-1859., 1857.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY". In the original twenty-four monthly parts, illustrated yellow wrappers (some wear at the edges, several spines somewhat worn). (November 1857-October 1859). Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches). vii, 382, [2]; vii, 376 pp. Two engraved vignette titles and forty-six engraved plates by the author. Title page, contents, list of plates, etc., for volume 1 at end of Part 12; for volume 2 at end of Part 24. Collates nearly complete, with all back ads and slips correct and complete except for one extra slip in Part 23. Two additional pages of the "Educational Guides" advertisement in Part 1. One copy of the Dr. De Jongh's ad in Part 15. "Accident" slip precedes the text in Part 20. With "actressess" instead of "ancestresses" on page 207. 8 page book ad in Part 1 (not 6-page). De Jongh ad on yellow in Part 4 (not pink). Does not include an ad for "Prayers for Public Worship" in Part 13 (not mentioned). Does not include an ad for "Prayers for Public Worship" in Part 17 (not mentioned). Includes a book ad in Part 18 (not mentioned). Does not include 2 additional book ads in Part 19. Lacks "Grace Aguilar's Works" ad in Part 24 (as always). Original wrappers, some soiling, first parts with wear. Plates somewhat foxed, most tissue guards present. In a cloth clam-shell box, titled and dated in gilt to front.
Seller: BookSearch, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-1859. In the original 24 serial parts. First edition, first issue, p. 207 with "actresses" for "ancestresses", and part 12 with chapters XVII-XVIII misnumbered as XVIII-XIX. Publisher's yellow paper wrappers, advertisements present. A very good set with some toning and soiling to wrappers, some wear to edges, particularly to volumes I, X, XV, XVI, XVIII-XX, and XIV, the others being only lightly worn, a few light pencil and ink marks from previous owners, volume IV with small bookseller's sticker to front wrapper, volume I with spine split and several pages disbound but present. Overall, a lovely set that presents well. The Virginians, written as a sequel to Thackeray's earlier work Henry Esmond (1852), picks up where the first novel left off, telling the story of Henry Esmond's two grandsons, George and Henry Warrington. A historical novel, the book takes place at the start of the American Revolution, and the two protagonists must navigate the obstacles of standing on opposing sides during the war. Unlike most of Thackeray's work, The Virginians is set in North America.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: First issue, with "actresses" instead of "ancestresses" on p.207, line 15 (No.7, Vol.1). 24 octavo parts n original printed wrappers; illus. Housed in a quarter leather clamshell case with chemise. Skillful restoration to lower 1.5cm of front wrapper on No.1. Wrappers lightly and uniformly soiled, lightly worn overall, though complete. Text edges lightly toned with some scattered soil throughout; brief contemporary owners name written on upper margin on five parts; a solid, Very Good set overall. Presence of ads for this set conform to Van Duzer with exception to the following: Part VI lacking rear ad leaf; Part XIV lacks slip and illstration page at rear; Part XV lacking slip; pp.1-2 are numbered in Part XVI; Part XX lacking "The Daily News" ad; Grace Aguilar ads lacking in Part XXIV, as always. Presence of tissue is lacking in 13 of 24 parts (though its presence or absence is not a point of issue). A handsome set. VAN DUZER 232.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.52 + shipping
Description: 24 monthly parts (from at least two different sets), 8vo, with the 48 etched plates and woodcut vignettes in the text, all after drawings by the author; plates variably foxed or browned as usual, some occasional light damp-staining, closed tear to pt V pp.135-139, pt XXIII slightly chewed at head; in the publisher's illustrated printed yellow wrappers; some of the wrappers soiled and frayed, some spines repaired or renewed; housed in a dark blue morocco-backed box; some parts with the ownership inscription of Mrs J.P.Grant at head of upper wrapper, others with the ownership inscription or stamp of the Royal Institution of South Wales.First edition in the original monthly parts of Thackeray's American sequel to Henry Esmond. The early readings 'actresses' for 'ancestresses' (p.207) and, in part XII, chapters 'XLVIIIXLIX' for 'XLVIIXLVIII' are present, as are the advertisements and slips listed by Van Duzer except those at the back of part III, the front of part XIII, the front of part XXI and the back of part XXIV (Van Duzer describes the latter as being of twenty pages, numbered anomalously 322, with the heading 'Grace Aguilar's Works' on page 3: we have never seen a copy with this advertisement, and suspect that it was a sophistication in Van Duzer's set, comprising the Advertiser from part I with the first and last leaves missing). A slip in part XX announces that 'in consequence of an accident, the Plates for the present month will appear along with those of the ensuing number', and the plates are so bound. One important advertisement is the notice in part XX of a proposed new weekly periodical, Once a Week, with two pages headed 'Mr.Charles Dickens and his late Publishers', explaining the parting of the ways of Dickens and Bradbury & Evans over Household Words. Van Duzer 232; Wolff 6700. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1024.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in original 24 parts, engraved plates, odd light occasional foxing, most covers with contemporary owner's name inked to head. First issue, with the first word on page 207 in No. 7 misprinted "actresses" (corrected in later editions to "ancestresses")and issue 12 with the Chapter numberings incorrectly shown as "XLVIII"-"XLIX" Issue 20 has the tipped in errata regarding omitted plates; . Original yellow printed wrappers, generally very good condition, bindings consistently excellent and square. Preserved in cloth chemise and full green morocco gilt decorated pull-off box [Van Duzer 232], 8vo, 1857-59.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition in the original 24 monthly parts, 8vo, 48 plates, illustrations in text, original yellow printed wrappers, a few minor repairs to backstrips, wrapper to part I soiled, but generally a very good set with the earliest state of all the adverts, and with virtually all the required inserted slips, except the Straber ad in part 5, the specimen pages of Knight's Popular History at the back of part 17, the family medicine insert at the back of part 19, the accident slip at the back of part 20, and the publisher's catalogue in part 24. This set with the bookseller label of John Camden Hotten on four of the parts. Contained in two matching slipcases with chemises. Van Duzer 232.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: English novel; first edition; 24 nos.; 23cm; frontispiece; illustrations; 44 plates; added title pages, engraved and illustrated; red morocco solander case; 24 numbers issued monthly, November, 1857, to October, 1859, in illustrated yellow paper covers; title page, contents, list of plates, etc., for volume 1 at end of number 12; for volume 2 at end of no. 24. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.