HARDBACK "BIOGRAPHY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date: 1999.* Pub: * Binding and cover condition: Dark maroon cloth covered boards with silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a detail from the crayon portrait by Samuel Lawrence 1852. Not Price clipped showing a shelf price of £25.00. Now in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (maroon). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Top edge very slightly dusty. FINE* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, prints and line drawings.* Pages: 456 pp. text. xl pp. appendices, notes & reading list, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: VANITY FAIR, published 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous - all but the top of the tree, he told his mother, and having a great fight up there with Dickens, if truth be known. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo Indian childhood, dominated by the figure of his mother; a fortune lost by his early twenties: a disastrous marriage to a wife who went mad and left him to bring up their two small daughters in near penury. (1999-09-27). D.J.Taylor has written four acclaimed novels and several books about English literature and history.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Dust jacket now in a clear un-attached protected wrapper.* 1999-01-01.

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Title

Thackeray

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0701162317

ISBN 13

9780701162313

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

y 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.

Condition

F/F/F

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Thackeray

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O.J. Taylor is the author of four novels, most recently Trespass, and several works of non-fiction including the controversial A Vain Conceit and After the War: The Novel in England Since 1945.

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