Vanity Fair a Novel Without a Hero

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition of Thackeray's comic masterpiece, illustrated by the author. "A novel without a hero," Vanity Fair follows the entangled adventures of two school friends, the gentle, trusting Amelia Sedley and the calculating Becky Sharp, as they come of age during the Napoleonic Wars. "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem… Read more about this item

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents an EXTREMELY HANDSOME REPRINT copy of Thackeray's VANITY FAIR (overall VERY GOOD PLUS condition), with no date specified, and no dust jacket (as designed?). 6" x 9 1/4", 770 pp., all the original illustrations, gold tint to top edges, foxing to side edges only, print pages unusually white and unusually… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848, 1848. Hardcover. Acceptable. 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.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 Illustrated by Thackeray. First edition, mixed issue, with the engraved title page dated 1848, lacking the "Marquis of Steyne" woodcut on page 336, with "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, advertisement leaf for "The Great Hoggarty Diamond" at front. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy, recased… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". William Makepeace Thackeray. An mixed issue copy of the first edition of Thackeray's classic novel, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Illustrated throughout by the author himself. A first edition in book form, mixed issue; without the suppressed woodcut to page 336 of the first… Read more about this item

[New York]: A.L. Burt Company, 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Red cloth with top edge gilt. Near fine with rear hinge starting. Part of The Home Library.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [1], viii, 9-332 pages. 4 pages of advertisements on back. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped decorated borders on the covers. Gilt illustration and title on the front cover and spine. Binding is "cocked." Cloth edge and shelf worn on the boards and chipped head and… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue, with all three first issue points present: the heading on p. 1 in rustic type; the woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on p. 336 (suppressed in later issues); and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453. Octavo. pp. [iii-vii] viii-xiv, [1]… Read more about this item

The Franklin Library, 1981. The Franklin Library, 1981, 8vo.. Book bound in a brown decorated faux leather with all edges gilt, illustrations. Five raised bands on spine with gilt decorated compartments. Book in near fine condition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bradbuy & Evans, 1849. Book. Good. Hardcover. [Secondary State/Issue]. Frontispiece, vignette title and thirty-eight plates by the Author. Recently rebound in brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands, black leather title label and impressed decorations on spine; all edges marbled. Light foxing, some offsetting from plates, otherwise good in fine binding. Without the suppressed plate of The Marquis of… Read more about this item

Heritage Press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Good condition slipcase

NY: Random House, 1958 Black spine with green and white boards, Fair. Edges rubbed, scuffing to boards. Colour title page. Introduction by John Marquand. Black and white & colour illustrations by Robert Ball. 543 pages. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Ball, Robert . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1958. VANITY FAIR- A Novel Without A Hero- William Makepeace Thackeray- Illustrated by Robert Ball- Random House-NY- 1958-1st Edition Thus - Hardcover:-Large 8vo- VG++-no dj as issued-missing slipcase- 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 ". 8vo, patterned light green and grey paper with illustration of Hansom cab in blk, blk cloth spine, xviii, 543pp all… Read more about this item

Bradbury & Evans, London., 1848. First edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on page 336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, initial advertisement leaf for "Great Hoggarty Diamond" present. Octavo. pp xvi, 624. Etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes. Fine 19th century binding by Ramage of full… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author. xvi, 624, [1] pp. 8vo.… Read more about this item

New York: Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later printing. 12mo. Blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Introduction by Joseph Warren Beach. Pages lightly age-toned, bookplate on front pastedown, corners bumped, very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper, age-toned, short tears on edges. Modern Library, No. 131.

London : Smith, Elder and Co, 1890. Cloth. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847-48, satirising society in early 19th-century Britain. Illustrated throughout with engravings. The book's title comes from John Bunyan's allegorical story The Pilgrim's Progress, first published… Read more about this item

Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. TWO VOMUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Volume Two is without the dust jacket. This is a limited edition, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JOHN AUSTEN, this being #733/1500 copies. Twenty full-page illustrations by Austen. Housed in elusive custom slipocase with paper label, with same designs as the covers. Box has one small area of old tape repair… Read more about this item

Aldine Book Publishing Co, N.D. VG-. VERY-GOOD-MINUS. VERY ATTRACTIVE QUARTER LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED ENDPAPERS

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Illustrated with 200 drawings made by the author. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in book form in 1848. William Thackeray (1811-1863) was a promint and prolific novelist and writer in the English… Read more about this item