Thackeray W H (44 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. T. H. Robinson (illustrator). A hardcover fiction in good condition. Pages are spotless and intact, with no markings. The cover is clean and well-preserved, with some age-related stains on the spine but no major signs of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. T.H. Robinson (illustrator). A hardcover book in very good condition. Pages are spotless and intact, with no markings. The cover is clean and well preserved with no major signs of wear.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. T.H. Robinson (illustrator). Includes Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, in addition to Lovel the Widower. 18mo. 374 pages. No date of publication given. Purple cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Purple endpapers. Black and white plates, including frontispiece. Boards faded on spine; with light edgewear. Previous owner's name stamped on verso of front free endpaper and on final page of text; otherwise pages clean. Gutter cracked near middle of volume; otherwise binding firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A book filled with short stories mostly from England Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Oxford World's Classic. Paperback. Couple of creases to corner cover. On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rual England to Waterlook and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satrical novels in the language - one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature's most resourceful, attractive, and amoral characters. 949 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. H. M. Brock (illustrator). Dust wrapper has some loss to spine, red boards, 166p, b/w drawings with two colour plates one by Millicent Sowerby.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H. M. Brock (illustrator). First Edition. 'The Lunn Readers Number Two. Every Item is Complete and Unabridged.' Red cloth hard boards. Pp 165; b/w frontis. and b/w draings in the text; also two full-colour plates - one by Millicent Sowerby and one unidentified . A square, tight, clean copy; contents are bright and clean. Image/further information available upon request.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Present. Furniss,H., Doyle R. et al (illustrator). 469 pages, de luxe edition limited to 1000 copies, some pages unopened, edges uncut.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. W.H. Marcetson (illustrator). HB 1st this Ed. Black leather cover. Gilt titles + leaf design spine. Black end papers. New Century Library. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Vol. XII. b/w frontis plate: 'Eugenio presses his suit to Calista. Protective tissue good + in situ. 341 pages. 15.8 x 11c.m. Thin paper pages. Condition: Leather cracked down left seam of spine, right seam reinforced with clear tape. Sides + corners rubbed, leather could do with a feed. o/p seam cracked at bottom. Small owner initials following blank page bottom left. Pages clean. V little wear. Binding good. Good + condition.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. 864pp. Black leather spine and corners. Black, pebbled cloth boards. Edge wear, some scuffs, Text is in great condition. Three inch top corner of title page is lost. Contents include: Napoleon Bonaparte. by John S. C. Abbott, The Newcomes. by W. M. Thackeray. The Flight of Youth, by R. H. Stoddard. The Catskills by T. Addison Richards. The Holy Week At Rome. Naturalist Among the Hymalayas, by Joseph Dalton Hooker. A Night In An Old Castle, by G. P. R. James. News reports on the Crimean War. Numerous illustrations, cartoons, and fashion plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. H. Vizitelly (illustrator). Third Edition. All original hb in decorated card. All edges gilt. With 14 full page coloured LIthographs (of 22 called for). 16x 22 cms. Both boards detached. Covers worn but hand colored lithos bright and fox free (see images). "Mrs. Perkins's Ball" is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published under the pseudonym "M. A. Titmarsh" in 1846. An annotaion on the first free end paper states "Pictures by H. Vizitelly or his Father, 1820 - 1894".and indeed one engraving is signed "H. Vizitelly. Sr".

HRD. Condition: Very Good. Rebindered No dust jacket Very Good Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No date [c. 1910]. 192 pages. Brown cloth covers with red and black lettering and illustration on front board. Gutters cracked. Webbing exposed at front hinge. Some foxing to preliminary leaves. Cloth covers clean. ; 8vo.

Condition: Molto buono. "Romanzi brevi", edizione 1987, pp. 661, formato 14 x 21,5. Copertina rigida di colore blu con titoli in oro sul dorso. Sovraccoperta illustrata. Volume a cura di Aldo Valori. Condizioni molto buone.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, ink stamp on front endpaper of fourth volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Spines a bit faded with some weakening of gilt titles, boards lightly soiled, endpapers of volume three a bit foxed with top corner of front free endpaper clipped, ink stamp on front endpaper of volume four with small spot on fore edge. 1931 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. viii, [2], 403, [1]; viii, [2], 431, [1]; vi, [2], 419, [1]; viii, [2], 483, [3] pp. 8vo. Essays and articles celebrating one hundred years of Rochester, New York, including contributions by various authors. The first three volumes include poems about Rochester, and the fourth the music for the Centennial Hymn composed for the occasion. Includes Volume 1: Beginnings, Volume 2: Home Builders, Volume 3: Expansion, and Volume 4: Jubilee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1899 in original binding volume 13 biographical edition teg , 751 pp + intros.

in-12, demi-reliure de l'époque, 248p. Bon état. NB. Les commandes et questions sont traitées dans les 24h, les expéditions reprendront le 13 juin. Tous les ouvrages de notre catalogue peuvent être consultés et retirés sous quelques jours à Saint-Gilles ou Paris, 5e arr. Merci de nous contacter.

Hardcover. First edition. 122 pages. 13 x 12 cm. 4 engraved plates. 19th-century facsimile edition reprint 1841 but later, as evidenced by 4 stars, not 5, between verses on p. 120. Thackeray's account of Napoleon funeral in Paris. Interior contents clean. VAB DUZER 194. Rebound in modern tan boards with cloth backstrip. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engravings, this 2-volume set contains a selection of old and new British ballads illustrated by some of the best illustrators of the their times. Moderate rubbing along joints. Covers slightly darkened / soiled. Some foxing to very first pages of both volumes. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Hardcover. First edition. 407 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Thackeray rambles through many topics and thoughts, starting with food. Clean, very fresh copy with interior spotless. Tiny nick at head. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Near Fine.

hardcover. 52 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Thackeray's take on a social climbing couple and a bit of mockery for the upward ambition. Bound by R.W. Smith in three quarter brown morocco, raised bands. gilt arabesque spine labels, marbled endpapers with matching marbled covers. Interior contents clean. Original yellow front covers laid-in. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine.

Hardcover. First edition. 49 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. One advert page at rear. Sixteen full page illustrations. Fictional account of a boy's educational academy in the 19th century. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean. Marbled endpapers, raised bands with spine panels gilt decorated with gilt arabesques. Sharp copy. Three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine.

Hardcover. First edition. 275 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The life of a young man in 18th century France. Interior contents very clean, fresh and bright. Marbled endpapers, raised bands with spine labels decorated in gilt florets. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine.

leather_bound. Condition: Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. First edition. 258 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. A bright, clean and fresh copy A middle age man finds himself newly widowed and unsure how to navigate his way through life. Illustrated with full page black and white plates. Raised bands spine panels in gilt arabesques, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt.