thackaray (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Red boards with gilt titles. Gilt page edges. Firm binding and clean pages. Housed in its slipcase. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Cloth spine with tears at the sides and fraying a top and tail. Marbled boards rubbed edges. vi, 376 pages clean and tight.This is a compilation of a very heterogeneous series of articles that refer to Paris. Text only no illustrations. Contents:- 1. Invasion of France. 2. Caution to Travellers. 3. The Files of July . 4. the French School of Painting. 5. Painter's Bargain. 6.Carlouhe. 7. On some French Fashionable Novels. 8. A Gambler's Death. 9. Napoleon and his System. 10. The Story of Mary Ancel. 11. Beatrice Merger . 12. Caricatures and Lithography in Paris. 13 Little Poinsinet. 14. The Devil's Wager. 15.Madame Sand and the New .Apocalypse. 16. The Case of Peytel. 17. Imitations of Beranger 18. French Dramas and Melodramas. 19. Meditations at Versailles.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume 5 of The Works of William Makepiece Thackaray.Green covers with gilt titles to spine. No marks or inscription. Tissue guarded frontic. 770pp plus 2pp Thackaray's Works.

Zustand: Good. Volume 13. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. From the works of Miss Thackary Vol. VI. Brown covers with black embossed design. Gilt initials to centre. Black and gilt design to spine. Gilt titles. Top 2cm of spine has come adrift and have been Sellotapes. Bottom spine shelf worn. Black end papers. Minor foxing to title pages. Small neat signature dated October 1884 to first title page. ow clean copy internally.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Gordon Home (illustrator). Published by A & C black in 1916. Size: 6 1/2 x 9 inches or 16.5 x 22.5 cms. Page number: 10 pages of text. 69 illustrations ( 32 in colour, 39 black and white). Hardcover. Yellow boards with brown lettering to front and spine and a picture of The Syrup Seller on the front. The author states that ' to speak of the Egyptians at the present day is almost impossible. Such a strangely mixed aggregation of Levantine races dwells in the delta and valley of The Nile that it is safer to speak of the people of Egypt than of Egyptians.' This aggregation is illustrated by Gordon Home. It includes the Peep-show Man, Dragoman, Running Sais, Incense Burner, Shadoof Men, Monkey Boy, Bisharien Arab and Public Cook. Condition: Very Good. The cover is a little rubbed and slightly grubby with a dark mark on the back board. The coloured picture of The Water Carrier within is slightly damaged. It sits unevenly in the text block. Also the black and white picture that precedes it. The rest of the book is clean; the pages being fresh and un-thumbed.The binding remains secure.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Kenny Meadows. (illustrator). 4th Edition. 400 pages with 50 wood engraved plates by Orrin Smith after Kenny Meadows + an engraved frontis and half title and woodcut illustrations to the preface, in the original green blind stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine, boards a little faded at edges and spine, contents very good except where the top edges have been opened when attached from the printers (as partly unopened) and some closed splits have occurred to several pages and some longish tears on one page, no loss of text. Small octavo no date c1846-50. *The essays on various characters and professions with their PORTRAITS. Inc; the Hangman, The Printers Devil, The Pew Opener, The Street Conjurer, The Beadle, The Undertaker, The Auctioneer (this article by Douglas Jerrold), Captain Rook and Mr Pigeon (by W. M.Thackaray), The Common Informer, The Teetotaler, The Diner Out, The Fashionable Physician, The Postman, The Cockney, The Retired Tradesman, The Theatrical Manager, etc, etc. *A good book for writers and historians who wish to get a brief, humorous and full explanation of 19th century English types & their employments.

Original Cloth. Zustand: VG-. No Jacket. W. M. Thackeray (illustrator). First Edition. Book has bumped corners, faded spine, modest cover wear, wear spots on fixed endpapers thus very good minus. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Doyle, Walker, Keen, Crookshank, Leech, DuMaurier, Barnard, Millais, Fildes and the Author (illustrator). 1898/99. Biographical Edition. Matching red cloth with Anne Ritchie and Thackery monogram on front board in gilt. Titles gilt to spine. Black end papers. Gilt top page edges. Other edges uncut. Some light foxing mainly to eps. Spine is slightly sunned but all other covers clean. Internally generally very clean. Many illustrations e.g. Vol. 1X has 141 illustrations by Doyle. (Would consider splitting).Postage will be high for set so please check prior to ordering.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. W M Thackaray (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition 1858/59 copy of The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century; Volumes I & II by W M Thackeray. Half green leather with marble boards, ornate gilt decorated raised banded spine with gilt title and volume number on red and green labels respectively. Marbled endpapers and marble text block edges. Both volumes in very good condition with some rubbing in the usual places, corners, edges and spine ends. Some age related marks to the boards overall. Previous owner's name/address stamped inside both volumes to ffep and prelim pages. Considerably foxing throughout both volumes. No inscriptions.