A Collection of Letters of Thackeray 1847-1855; With Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Drawings
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2, [3], 6-189, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and a gold facsimile of W.M. Thackeray's closing for his letters on the front board, spine lettered in gold, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several pencil and pen drawings reproduced from Thackeray's collection, and steel lithograph portrait plates of the author himself and places important to Thackeray's life. Van Duzer 32. First American edition which Van Duzer indicates was published simultaneously with the first English edition. Thackeray's letters to Mrs. Brookfield originally appeared in Scribner's magazine. A lovely copy of Thackeray's letters and drawings. Near Fine. Item #00007882
A Near Fine book with light wear to the spine's crown and an old bookseller's ticket on the free front endpaper (Clarke and Carruth of Boston).
Price: $100.00