Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$950 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. This is the first volume edition of the first work by Thackeray published under his own name, and the one that catalyzed his prominence and fortune. The novel was first serialized in 19 monthly parts in 1847 & 1848, initially subtitled Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, before this single volume publication in 1848 as Vanity Fair: A Novel

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