Thackeray miss anne (10 Ergebnisse)

Brown hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. First edition thus. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). xii, 399pp..

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Published in 1881, bound in a quarter leather binding bound by Birdsall and Son of Northampton, this copy bearing the bookplate of its original owner, Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 ? 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain. Guest established the Mabinogion as a source literary text of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. The name Guest used for the book was derived from a mediaeval copyist's error, already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. The book is a small slim format, marking to both boards, small piece missing from lower corner of rear board, internally noticeable foxing to endpapers a few creased page corners else in good acceptable condition. this is a lighter book, overseas shipping costs will be reduced at checkout where possible.…

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. xii, 502pp. Original cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations. Slight rubbing and a few small marks to covers, slight nicking and chipping to spine ends, inner rear hinge starting, slight foxing to first few pages, otherwise very good. No jacket. Vol. 1 of the Works of Miss Thackeray.…

Hardcover. First US edition. 104 pp., illustrated, text in double columns; octavo, contemporary red morocco and marbled boards. Publishd the same year as the UK first edition. Anne Isabelle Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition, notes that she wrote "novels of an impressionistic kind which influenced her step-niece Virginia Woolf." Wear to corners and spine ends, else about very good.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 394pp. Original red cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations. Covers slightly edge rubbed and bumped, slight nicking to spine ends, otherwise near very good indeed. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Some rubbing and splitting to cloth along head of spine. Tears up to 1/4" along tail of cloth spine. Some staining to rear board. Some rubbing to cloth at corners of boards.; x, 412 pages. Brown cloth boards. Boards illustrated in gilt and black. Volume V. The Works of Miss Thackeray. "Old keys have always had a strange interest for me. There are many places where they may be found, hidden away, or openly put up for sale. They are of every size and substance." - opening sentences.; 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. First American edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 12mo. hardcover in blindstamped pebbled brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 224 pp. A tight, very good copy, spine lettering somewhat rubbed and bit of wear to the otp and bottom edges of the mspine; occasional light foxing in the text. "This is the story of a foolish woman, who, through her own folly, learnt wisdom at last; whose troubles--they were not very great, they might have made the happiness of some less eager--were more than she knew how to handle.". Anne Isabella Thackeray (1837-1919, later married to her cousin Richmond Ritchie) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray and was quite highly regarded as an author in her own right in the mid- to late- Victorian era becoming a significant literary figure by the late 1800s. She was the custodian of her father's literary legacy and her short fiction, which placed traditional fairy tales in Victorian settings, was particularly popular.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Octavo. vii, 229pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titles. covers slightly rubbed and marked with slight nicking and repair to spine ends, slight offsetting to endpapers and title page, occasional fox spot to contents with slight mark to upper edge, otherwise very good. No jacket. Name to endpaper. Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine &c. Octavo. vii, 229pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titles. covers slightly rubbed and marked with slight nicking and repair to spine ends, slight offsetting to endpapers and title page, occasional fox spot to contents with slight mark to upper edge, otherwise very good. No jacket. Name to endpaper. Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine &c.…

First Edition, Late Impression. Very good copy finely bound in gilt-blocked, blue half leather over blue marbled boards, now slightly rubbed at the corners, joints and endbands. Spine with decorative, gilt-tooled raised bands. All edges gilt, with preliminary and final leaves foxed and the interior remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; viii, 531 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Kensington. London. Local history. 19th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus. Hardback. Presentation copy from the author. Octavo. (iv), 357pp. 4 plates. Original cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt and black. Covers with slight wear and rubbing, spine slightly faded with slight chipping to ends, inner front hinge cracked, light foxing to prelims, otherwise near very good indeed. Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine &c.…