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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (Modern Library #131.3)
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. [c.1958]. Hardcover. Thackeray's great satirical novel, in an illustrated Modern Library reprint edition. With a reproduction of first edition title page and wrapper for an original monthly issue of this work, which first appeared in 1847. With several other black & white illustrations, probably by the author. With an introduction by Joseph Warren Beach. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red cover & spine blocks / faded red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 383 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #131.3. --- With inkings to introduction, but not in main body of the novel, a little dulling to cover gilding; else an unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with complete vertical tear at spine; other tears and chipping, else intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxx, 731 pages .
Synopsis
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82763
- Title
- Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (Modern Library #131.3)
- Author
- THACKERAY, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1958]
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About Bluebird Books
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Fair
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- Spine
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