Newcomes by Thackeray William: Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. The illustrations are hand-colored through stencils (pochoir). Copy #1349 of 1500 numbered copies signed by artist. The books are pristine; in a good publisher's slipcase (case has heavy rubbing; lacks outer back panel). Ilustrated By Edward Ardizzone. Monthly letter, Number Eight, and Ardizzone's 'The Illustrated Illustrator' pamphlet laid in loose.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 2 volumes, 742pp., illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. About fine in the publisher's illustrated cloth with black cloth spines. Small scrape to the spine of volume II. As in all copies, there is some very dull wrinkling to a few of the plates (probably from the stencilled watercolor used to color the illustrations). In the publsiher's slipcase, very good, with some partial splits and mild edgewear. The top interior panel of the slipcase is partly loosened, but still in place. One of 1500 limited sets SIGNED by Ardizzone on the limitation page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Limited Edition. Very good with poor glassine dust jackets in a good to very good slipcase. Signed by the illustrator. Slipcase is rubbed at the corners and has a two inch slit in bottom edge. Rear hinge of volume one repaired. Volume two is bumped at spine tips. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover, In Slip Case - VG - No dust jackets if issued - Books are clean and tight with light wear - Illustrated - 2 Volume Set. - Copy number 1244 of Limited Editions signed by illustrator. - (SHIPPING IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA RATE ONLY). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Copy 1264/1500 signed by Ardizzone to the rear of volume 2. Both volumes are in clean undamaged near fine condition with just a slight touch of foxing to the edges of the page blocks. The slipcase is surface and edge worn, split along the base edge, and the spine-face with the title panel tipped on has come away but is still present. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. SIGNED BY ARDIZZONE and limited to 1500 numbered copies. Hand-colored plates. A superb set. In a near-fine slipcase. Signed.

Hardcover. The Centenary Edition. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #1062 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Limited. 2 volumes. Introduction by Angela Thirkell, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, hand colored (slight rippling tp plate pages, as usual). Tall 8vo, 1/2 black cloth spines, pictorial covers, black paper-covered slipcase (solid but worn around the opening). Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1954. A near fine set in a very good(-) box. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. #113 of 1500cc signed by the illustrator Edward Ardizzone. Two volumes in publisher's cloth backed illustrated boards and slipcase. Case is lightly edgeworn, else very good. Monthly letter and 'The Illustrated Illustrator' laid in.

Hardcover. Limited Edition #174/1500. Octavos, 2 Volumes. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's moderately worn black paper slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth and illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines. Protected with glassine. Minor shelf wear. Signed by Ardizzone and enumerated on limitation page in rear of Volume II. Shelved in LECs. 1408046. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Introduction by Angea Thirkell. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth spines and decorated paper over boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xxii, 352pp; vi, pp. 353-742. Color frontispieces, color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Interesting and unusual bibliophile's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A tight and handsome copy, limited to 1500 numbered copies (this #553) signed by Ardizzone. NEWMAN 252.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Complete in two volumes. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. Limited edition of 1,500 copies: this copy is a presentation copy and has the presentee's initials in place of a number. SIGNED by the illustrator. Both volumes are fine in fine original glassine dust wrappers. Housed in a very good or better slipcase.; 742 pages; Signed by Illustrator. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). …

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, edited by Arthur Pendennis Esq. with an introduction by Angela Thirkell and with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. 2 vols. 4to. Orig. cloth-backed pictorial cloth. Cambridge: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist. Fine copy. Signed.…

Hardcover. The Centenary Edition. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Small university bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator).…

Hardcover. The Centenary Edition. Two quarto volumes (6-3/4" x 10") bound in cloth-backed pictorial buckram. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Introduction by Angela Thirkell. With hand-colored illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Copy #1185 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Thus. Signed by Ilustrator Slip-Case - Hard Cover. Beautiful two volume set with some minor wear to slipcase. First edition for these illustrations. Signed by Edward Ardizzone, the illustrator. Volumes have attractive pictorial cloth boards. Very Nice. The 1954 First Thus publication of this Thackeray classic. Only Fifteen hundred copies were printed of which this is copy number 1274. Printed at the University Press in Cambridge, England. Fine Illustrations. The illustrator has signed the book on the limitation page. The book is bound in a Gorgeous pictorial cloth. The volumes are in Very Good+ condition and would be fine but there appears to be some slight rippling of the pages in the first volume, primarily to the plate pages. It's matching slipcase shows shelf-wear with some chipping and small loss of paper, particularly to the opening perimeter of the box. The box is very good- at best. The Limited Editions Club was founded in 1929. It was the creation of George Macy. Its purpose was to create very high quality versions of the classics that were also illustrated by the finest contemporary artists. All Limited Edition Club books are hand signed by the illustrators with a short description of the making of the book on the colophon in the rear of the volume. Only a few were published without a signature because the illustrator had passed away before publication. All LEC books come with a fine decorative slipcase and the great majority of them contain original fine art within.They are finely constructed books printed by the best printers and on fine paper.They are highly collectible.…

2 volumes. First Edition, Limited and Signed by the artist Edward Ardizzone. This copy with the original prospectus and letter describing the book and its production, and with a copy of the The Illustrated Illustrator, describing letters written by Ardizzone on his progress with the illustrations. With engraved full-page illustrations in colours and many throughout the text in black and white. Royal 8vo, publisher's original black cloth over covers illustrated in colours by the artist, the spines lettered in black, housed in the original slipcase. xxii, 352; [viii], 353-742, [1] pp. A very fine and handsome set, as pristine, the slipcase with some light evidence of shelving. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARDIZZONE. Generally acknowledged as one of the best of Thackeray's works. Sir Edward Burne-Jones wrote a long essay on the The Newcomes and hailed it "this last and greatest work of Thackeray; a wonderfully faithful picture of the great world as it passes daily before us, many-sided, deeply intricate; this is a masterpice of all novel writing.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. First edition (published 1854-1855). Three quarter dark brown leather over green cloth. Ruled and tooled in gilt; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by the Atelier Bindery. Some rubbing to extremities of binding, but very sound overall. Some foxing, esp. around the engraved plates. Each vol. has frontis. and extra engraved title page. Signed.…

Hardcover. 784 pages. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Edward Ardizzione. Centenary Edition with an introduction by Angela Thirkell. Limited edition, copy 463 of 1500, signed by Ardizzione. NEWMAN & WICHE 252. With the booklates of John Whiting Friel and Helen Otillie Friel designed by Rockwell Kent inside front covers. Quarter black linen, cloth sides are a color lithograph by the artist. Fine in slightly chipped slipcase with paper spine label. 2 Vols. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. A smart set of signed limited centenary editions of William Makepeace Thackeray's Victorian novel of family affairs, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. The centenary editions. Complete in two volumes.A limited edition, with these being No. 248/1500 numbered and signed by the illustrator.In the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings. In the original slipcase.A two volume set of William Makepeace Thackeray's 'The Newcomes', originally published serially in 1854-55, following the affairs of the Newcome family, and providing a commentary on arranged marriages.Illustrated profusely by Edward Ardizzone, a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. The illustrations in these works were coloured through stencils by Maud Johnson.With a coloured frontispiece to each volume, 8 coloured plates to Vol I, 11 coloured plates to Vol II, and monochrome in text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.With an introduction by Angela Thirkell, edited by Arthur Pendennis. In the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings. In the original slipcase. Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities, with the scarce small mark to rear boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Slipcase is fair, with the joints loosening and the bottom split, and marks to exterior. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardcover. 2 Vols. 4to. pp. xxii, 352; vi, [1 leaf], 353-742, [1]. 21 pochoir plates (incl. frontis.) & many b/w text illus. pictorial cloth. slipcase (light wear to edges). Edition limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Signed by Author(s).