Miscellanies: Prose and Verse by Thackeray, W. M

Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1869. hardcover. ������������� . condition, green boards, gilt lettering; Includes The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, and Burlesques. .

Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1857. No Edition Remarks. 514 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Volume III. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, causing pages to become detached. Water staining throughout with marks to most pages. Text still readable. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Large area of loss to spine strip. Noticeable splits to joints, causing boards and bottom edge of spine to be loose. Water marks overall. Book is bowed and forward leaning.

A good - copy in tan cloth with gilt titles on spine and blindstamped design on both covers. Moderate scuffing and edge wear all around. 1/2" piece missing from top of spine. Hinges cracked but intact. Text quite clean and unmarked. An armorial bookplate of Wrest Park is affixed to the front pastedown. No other marks or damage.Wrest Park is a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion. The present house was built in 1834–39, to designs by its owner Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781–1859), an amateur architect and the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who was inspired by buildings he had seen on trips to Paris.

Bradbury and Evans, 1856. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1856. No Edition Remarks. 494 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Volume II. Both boards are loose. Pages are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Heavy cracking to hinges, causing boards to be loose. Cracks to guttering, causing pages to become loose. Label remnants to front endpaper. Thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Large splits with substantial area of loss to spine. Heavy sunning to boards with water drops overall. Book is bowed and forward leaning.

London: Bradbury & Evans. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume II only; crisp copy showing only slight shelf wear. .

London: Bradbury & Evans. Very Good-. 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume one only; crisp copy, but with a signature starting. Private book plate. .

London: Bradbury & Evans. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume III only; crisp copy showing only slight shelf wear and some light discoloring on back cover; private bookplate on endpaper. Tipped in is a "notice" of a new serial work by Thackeray. .

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. First edition. Original cloth, 8vo, gilt titled. Ex-library, with pockets, stamps, slight signs of label removal to spines, some spine ends lightly frayed, vol. one has a raisin-sized piece missing fr om the middle of the spine, but in all a crisp handsome set of the first printing.

Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1856. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1856. Copyright Edition. 327 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Volume IV. Moderate crinkling and cracking to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding throughout is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear and white marks to boards.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866. Half Leather - Hardbound. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 494 pages, plus ads. Tan leather over spine and corners, with red and black spine labels. Slightly raised spine bands. Gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled paper over boards, as well as marbled end leaves and edges. Light rubbing on covers, mostly on fore edge. Inked last name at top of title page. Volume remains tight and very attractive.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fenn, Harry; Earl, J.C. First thus. Spine faded. 1900 Hard Cover. xxxii, 276, [4] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations similar to those used in the Cranford Series, which began in 1891 and gave us the famous Peacock on Sundial cover design now coveted by collectors. Revised from the 1894 and 1895 originals, this edition includes the full text of A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, with a new preface by the author, and 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating local vernacular into his works, making his books useful sources for contemporary culture and dialect.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket . Decorated American trade binding, first edition. Green cloth boards with darker green, red and silver fish decoration on cover, fishing hook and fly design on spine, stamped gold lettering. Very slight browning to spine. Slight surface wear to spine corners, no fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges. Small previous owner name and date neatly penned on front free endpaper. Fifteen illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Decorated title page. Preface by the author. 357 pages with index. An extended investigation of the Ouananiche (a salmon of landlocked populations living in lakes in Labrador and Newfoundland)..

Brown leather boards with gold writing and images and raised bands on spine; embossed image of planet, sky, and tree in gold on front and back board. Novel not issued with dust jacket. Top corner of back board shows slight wear; top edges of pages show some spotting (see pic). This is a special Collector's Edition Easton Press printing (with white bookmark) bound in leather, illustrated by Bob Eggleton with an introduction by Charles Sheffield. Niven and Pournelle's classic science-fiction tale in a Very Fine copy. Hardcover, but no dust jacket, so novel cannot be protected by archival Mylar cover.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf. 1927 Half-Leather. iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, new end sheets. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.

Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.

Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, matching endpapers, gte, gilt to spine, (xii), 26. Errata statement printed at bottom of xii. Top edge slightly darkened/soiled, and marbled boards a wee dulled. Internals fine. No names or bookplates and desirable thus.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. #1546 of an edition of 1600, 1200 copies for sale by the Nonesuch Press, and 400 copies for sale in the United States by Random House. John Glanvill's translation of 1688. Designed by Francis Meynell, printed on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press, colour-stencil decorations by T.L. Poulton. Near Fine, gilt at spine a bit dulled yet legible, prior owner bookplate and gift inscription front end pages, rear end page toned from old paper laid in. Lacking the slipcase. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Richardson , Rome K (decorative covers). Brown, Ethel Pennewill (text decorations and illust). Remarkably well-conserved, as new copy still in publisher'sgift box. Elaborate mixed element floral cover design by Richardson K. Rome on green cloth. Text illustrtaions and decorations by Ethel Pennewill Brown. 8vo, gte, sides untrimmed, 76p. Unused, pages uncut, in orignal glassine wrapper all in as new condition housed in publisher's gift box, white paper with satin finish over cardboard, edged in gilt, top cover decorated with elements of Richardson's cover design, stated "Presenation Edition" An exemplar of the "gift book" at the commercial maturity of the decorative cover in American bindings. THE collector's copy.

Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. Presentation and Association Copy, SIGNED by Jake Zeitlin at the half-title page -" To Gary, With all my great hopes for his future as a bookman Jake July 12, 1975". From the collection of Gary Steigerwald, at the time a young bookseller working for Zeitlin. One of 800 copies. Fine. Typography by Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Pressm printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Binding by the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company. . SIGNED. Limited Edition. Quarter Buckram. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Small 4to. Presentation Copy.

New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original full calf stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. 140 pages, with many drawings and decorations by the author. Very Good, front hinge cracked yet holding nicelt, contemporary name and date front end page. Gilt bright, a handsome little book in a unique and lovely 1890s American binding, 5" x 3". . First Edition. Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.