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NY: Harper & Bros, 1930. Fair (has top of spine cover is gone otherwide Good) Small Book Size: Small Book. 1st Printing.. Hard Cover. Fair to Good/No Jacket. Illus. by William Makepeace Thackeray.

John Murray, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanning overall.

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1930. First printing. Boards. Very good. An illustrated ABC designed c. 1833 by the author for the child of a friend. Spine sunned, edges bumped, boards a little faded and soiled. One miscut page. Previous owner's initials to ffep.

Hardcover. Very Good. 1929 UK 1st printing. VG+ book/ VG- jacket.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rounded corners darkened spine. Worn area on the back board and it's also rubbed. Endpaper inscription and a small dent to some of the fore edge. Clean throughout.

John Murray, London, 1929, second impression,. Very Good. 1929. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, unpaginated, illustrations by the author, slight foxing and browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, paper-covered boards and quarter-cloth binding, slightly rubbed, Very Good / no dustwrapper. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American printing. Written and illustrated by Thackeray. 12mo. Near fine with sunnig at the spine and nick at the crown in good only dust jacket split at the spine, toned and splash marks on the front panel.

The Thackeray Alphabet, Written and illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray. Published by John Murray, London, 1929. 16mo up to 6½" tall. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Cream cloth over brown boards with a white label printed in brown to front board. Ghosting to pastedown from jacket flaps, light rub to rear top corner edge and otherwise in fine condition. Unclipped dustjacket has 2 small closed tears front, tiny ruffling of spine head and light crease to back panel. This is a reproduction of an Alphabet book drawn and hand written by Thackeray in 1833 for a small boy named Eddy Chadwick. In 1929 Eddy's heirs shared the manuscript for publication and provided the introductory note.

John Murray, London 1929. First Edition. No DW. Small slim 8vo. Brown boards, cream linen backstrip. Illustrated. Front board is a little discoloured to outer margin and spine is browned. Bookplate and gift inscription to front endpapers and contents are slightly age browned o/w a lovely tight volume. VG.

London: John Murray, 1929. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7" by 5". William Makepeace Thackeray. A wonderful illustrated alphabet of facsimile plates by important British author William Makepeace Thackeray. An illustrated alphabet, with letters including C for Cow, M for Medicine, O for Oyster and T for Trout.Written by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Most renowned for this work which satirises life in early 19th century Britain, Thackeray was primarily known for his satires and parodies, criticising high society and the fickle aspirations of its members, such as profitability, marriage and power.Complete in an unclipped pictorial dust wrapper.With charming illustrations for each letter by Thackeray. A first edition of this work. In a quarter cloth binding, with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a little wear to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a touch chipped to the head and tail, with some general wear and… Read More

London : J. Murray, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed paper-covered boards with paper label. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: [6] p., [26] leaves of plates : facsims ; 16cm. Subjects: Chadwick, Edward Frederick (1829-1915). Alphabets.

New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1930., 1930. First edition, first printing (so stated; "A-E"). Small 8vo. Dust jacket (two short tears). Fresh, bright copy. No Enclosed in 1/2 blue morocco slipcase with folding fleece lined chemise. Printed at the Golden Hind Press. From the library of noted Hollywood "Gone With The Wind" director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front free endpaper.. F. Hardcover.