The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. de Thackeray, William Makepeace - 1876

New York: A.L. Burt Co. Good with no dust jacket. No pub date. Hardcover. Owner Inscription/Worn and Soiled. .

James Nisbet & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. 648 pages. No dust jacket. Red with gilt decoration and lettering. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good-. 1900. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to spine ends. Volume VIII only ; 8vo; 806 pages .

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900T. hardcover. Good. .

Lonodn, Gresham & Co, nd;. Hardback. Good+ condition. xxi, 584pp with illustrations by William Rainey and an introduction by Wm Keith Leask. Blue covers with red/ gilt title label. .

GB: Smith Elder, 1884. Green cloth with gold lettering. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB £10. Packed weight 2900g.. Hardback. VG-/No DW. Illus. by Richard Doyle.

Philadelphia: John B. Alden, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering. Top edge gilt. Very good with light wear and no major faults. This is the publisher's "Library Edition", intended especially for libraries, but it is not ex-library. (box 96)

NY: Worthington Co., 1887. Hardcover. Good +. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Brown cloth boards with black lettering and clovers on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners and ends of spine bumped with wear, covers have very faint discoloration or soiling. Spine edges are rubbed and ends of spine are worn with some fraying. Spine gilt is quite bright. Binding is good and text clean with one PO's name on ffep, another stamped on the third blank pg. Ffep has small tear at side. Fiction. RGR.

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1898 DARK BLUE-GREEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND GOLD PRINT SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR AROUND EDGES. 80 SECTIONS, 30 ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY INTERESTING DETAILED BOOK. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855. Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then almost a miniature education in the Victorian era. Thackeray mentions poets, painters, novelists (some of the characters are reading Oliver Twist), politics, and other people, events and things both familiar and obscure to the 21st-century reader and does so in a natural way that enhances the story. There are also plenty of Latin, French language, and even Italian language and ancient-Greek phrases all untranslated. Colonel… Leer más

Smith, Elder & Co, 1890. Reprint. Hard Back. Very Good. 1890 Hard back binding in publisher's original dark bottle green cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine, W.M.T. monogram to the front cover, charcoal black paper end papers from the 13 volume works. 8vo. 8'' x 6'' 776 printed pages of text with tissue guarded frontispiece and many illustrations by the author. Complete in itself with no volume number on the spine. Very minor rubbing to the corners, front board a little marked spine not faded and in Very Good clean and square condition. Some pages uncut