Christmas Books by Thackeray, W.M - 1891

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 332 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding is shaky, however pages remain fully attached. Some pages are dog-earred. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean.

Collins, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Noted. 332 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and dog-eared pages throughout and pen inscriptions to frontis. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 428 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate cracking and crinkling to gutters, with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

J.M. Dent & Sons. 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 fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

1897 re-issue. G Newnes - London.. Six stories in this collection. Original burgundy blind stamped cloth with gilt spine titles & teg. Spine just a touch faded otherwise VG. .

LONDON, MACMILLAN, 1911. THE HARRY FURNISS CENTENARY EDITION. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. ILLUSTRATIONS BY FURNISS, OCTAVO, RED CLOTH, PAPER LABELS, VERY GOOD.

London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. An early collected edition of Thackeray's gentle and engaging social satires, delightfully illustrated with his own drawings, which were originally published as Christmas books between 1846 and 1848. "Eschewing what has become a species of conventional Christmas mannerism - depending for interest and genial tone of colouring neither upon yule logs, nor plum puddings, nor branches of mistletoe, nor smoking boar's heads garnished with bay sprigs and rosemary - Mr. Thackeray's Christmas offering has all the peculiar and original characteristics of the individual mind of its producer ... the very incarnation of riot-running fancy" (Morning Chronicle, 29th December 1846). Crown 8vo (183 x 133mm). viii,(52); 56; (52)pp. Folding frontispiece, engraved title and fifty engraved and lithographed plates from Thackeray's own designs. Bound, without half-title, in an elegant contemporary half chestnut roan, banded and gilt; black label; marbled edges, by Andrew Grieve of… Read More