VANITY FAIR: A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$1,950 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition · Signed

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 . 216 x 139 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 . xvi, 624 pp. With ad for the forthcoming Great Hogarty Diamond at front. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, the Earliest Issue. Pleasing polished calf, gilt, by Root & Son stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper , covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron, one red and one

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