Miss anne thackeray (33 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original single issue (no supplement) , approximately 12x17 inches, string bound, 16 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings; contains installment of "Susy" by Miss Thackeray (Anne Thackeray Ritchie) and article about woman working for the federal government in the Treasury Department. Includes full page drawing of "The Hussar's Greeting" by A. Greil, and "Tempus Fugit" by Thomas Davidson" showing a fashionably dressed woman with two children checking her pocket watch against a sundial, with an elderly man holding a scythe pointing to it. Good to very good. Folded in half, previous owner's mailing label, age yellowed, nicks along edges, 2- 3 dozen or so 1/8th to 1/4 inch drop marks on front cover, four approximately 1/8th inch holes punched in margin of side edge, 1 to-3 inch deep light tan stain along most of top edge, a 2x3 inch light tan stain on side edge , open tear along most of the side fold, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Ephemera; popular culture; history; fashion; vintage clothing; news; women's studies; feminism; Victorian; prints; engravings; fashion plates; humor; cartoons; sewing; antiques; cartoons.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original single issue (no supplement) , approximately 12x17 inches, string bound, 16 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings; contains installment of "Susy" by Miss Thackeray (Anne Thackeray Ritchie) and an excerpt from " Impressions of Theophrastus Such" by George Eliot. Front cover has full page illustration "The terrace of the Capitol, Washington", showing fashionably dressed people in foreground, panorama in background; centerfold two full page illustrations, "Fifty years ago" showing elderly woman holding old photo with box of letters on table, and "Decoration Day" depicting young woman placing wreathes on graves; racist cartoon of a stereotyped Chinese man about to give a rat to a baby on last page. Good to very good. Folded in half, previous owner's mailing label, age yellowed, nicks along edges, 1 inch tear side edge of one leaf, upper corners of two adjoining leaves creased, four approximately 1/8th inch holes punched in margin of side edge, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Ephemera; popular culture; history; fashion; vintage clothing; news; women's studies; feminism; Victorian; prints; engravings; fashion plates; humor; cartoons; sewing; antiques; cartoons.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original single issue (no supplement) , approximately 12x17 inches, string bound, 16 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings; contains installment of "Susy" by Miss Thackeray (Anne Thackeray Ritchie) and an excerpt from " Impressions of Theophrastus Such" by George Eliot. Centerfold "Ladies', children's, infants' and nurses' dresses"; , full page illustration "Milking the Cow". Good to very good. Folded in half, previous owner's mailing label, age yellowed, nicks along edges, 2 inch tear side edge of one leaf, an approximately 1 to 2 inch deep light tan stain along entire top edge and two-thirds of the side edge, four approximately 1/8th inch holes punched in margin of side edge, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Ephemera; popular culture; history; fashion; vintage clothing; news; women's studies; feminism; Victorian; prints; engravings; fashion plates; humor; cartoons; sewing; antiques; cartoons.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original single issue (no supplement) , approximately 12x17 inches, string bound, 16 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings; contains installment of "Susy" by Miss Thackeray (Anne Thackeray Ritchie) and an excerpt from " Impressions of Theophrastus Such" by George Eliot. Good to very good. Folded in half, previous owner's mailing label, age yellowed, nicks along edges, 3/4 inch chip and corresponding crease on upper corner of first leaf (text unaffected) , an approximately 1 to 2 inch deep light tan stain along entire top edge and two-thirds of the side edge, four approximately 1/8th inch holes punched in margin of side edge, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Ephemera; popular culture; history; fashion; vintage clothing; news; women's studies; feminism; Victorian; prints; engravings; fashion plates; humor; cartoons; sewing; antiques; cartoons.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. Original single issue (no supplement) , approximately 12x17 inches, string bound, 16 pp, well illustrated with black and white drawings; contains installment of "Susy" by Miss Thackeray (Anne Thackeray Ritchie) and an article on the English royal family. Good to very good. Folded in half, previous owner's mailing label, age yellowed, nicks along edges, 3/4 inch chip and corresponding crease on upper corner of first leaf (text unaffected) , an approximately 1 to 2 inch deep light tan stain along entire top edge and two-thirds of the side edge, four approximately 1/8th inch holes punched in margin of side edge, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Ephemera; popular culture; history; fashion; vintage clothing; news; women's studies; feminism; Victorian; prints; engravings; fashion plates; humor; cartoons; sewing; antiques; cartoons.…

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

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. [Reprint]. Original grey cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; black endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, rubbed at head, blank leaf preceding series half-title excised, good+. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: 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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [Reprint]. Original grey cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; black endpapers. A few light marks on rear board, very good. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. original decorated cloth, advertisement leaves, spine bumped, hinges and corners a trifle rubbed, joints cracked, good; 364 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped, corners rubbed, advertisement leaves, joints cracked but supported, ex Times Book Club with label front pastedown, good; 364 pages.

Condizione: 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. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece. Original orange cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Corners rubbed, a little light soiling to cloth, light stain on edge of frontispiece, later endpapers, good. Wolff [5886]. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1869, Smith Elder, First Edition. VGC- front board has been re-attached.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Boston:Ticknor & Fields, 1867. The January 26, 1867 issue (Vol. III, No. 56) of Every Saturday. 10 1/2" x 7", newsprint wraps, 32 pp. + ads. Very Good; some corner wear and age toning (see scans), but sturdy and supple. A robust example. An extraordinarily scarce original wraps copy of Every Saturday, a literary journal which is found, when it is found, almost always as six-monthly hardbound aggregations. Every Saturday was the weekly offering of Fields & Osgood after Ticknor & Fields; each of which offered, in the publisher's words, "choice reading selected from current foreign literature" - i.e., usually reprints from similar overseas journals, generally English ones. This issue includes the typical variety of topics; please see cover-listed contents on scan. Most Every Saturday entries were reprinted from foreign journals, and occasionally became the first American appearance of works of some famous (or to-become-famous) authors, such as Jules Verne and Charles Dickens. Herein is a pre-publication chapter of "The Village on the Cliff" by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, though she is credited only as "Miss Thackeray"; five pre-publication chapters of Henry Kingsley's "Silcote of Silcotes"; and two pre-publication chapters of Edmund Yates' "Black Sheep", as well as a number of other literary diversions (see scanned image of the contents), and eight pages of quaint ends, four at the beginning and four at the end. A piece of publishing history. L-ES1. Engravings (illustratore).…

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.…

Half-Leather. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Novels. Copyright Edition. 7 titles in nine matching volumes, various dates: Old Kensington in 2 volumes 1873; Mrs. Dymond in 2 volumes1886; Fulham Lawn and Other Tales 1877; A Book of Sibyls 1883; Miss Angel1875; Madame De Sevigny, From A Stage Box, Miss Williamson's Divigations 1881; The Story of Elizabeth 1863. Leather spines scuffed with some small chips, corners worn. Small bookplates inside the second endpaper of every volumes, all bindings tight, pages tanned, top edges gilt. Small books 4.5" x 6.5" x 7" shelf length. Uncommon set.…

Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edge, pp 318 with 6 wood block illus. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, small nick at spine head and wear to tips, little spotted toends and edges. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frederick Walker (illustratore).…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edge, pp x 594. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, wear to tips, chipped to leather at bottom front cnr, toned at ends. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: 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.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. Contains 4 novella's. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edges, pp 229. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, mild edge wear, tips worn, little spotted to ends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edge, pp 322 with 6 wood block illus. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, tear at spine heel, wear to tips, toned at ends. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edges, pp viii 297. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, mild edge wear, little spotted to ends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. Contains 5 novella's. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edges, pp 394 with wood block frontis illus. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, mild edge wear, tips worn, little spotted to ends. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Half Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition. Author was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Her writing was highly regarded with her being a central figure in the late Victorian literary scene. CONDITION Half bound with Teal Leather spine and cnrs bright gilt title and gilt ruled at edges, marbled bds and end pages, gilt top edge, pp 357 with 4 wood block illus. Copy is bright and crisp, spine darkened, tear at spine heel, wear to tips, toned at ends. Overweight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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.…

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.…