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May 5, 2016
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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
A set of 34 uniformly bound first editions. London: various publishers, 1840-1867. 8vo, bound by Bumpus in 3/4 red levant morocco, marbled endpapers. Includes: Paris Sketch Book, 2 vols., 1840; Comic Tales and Sketches, 2 vols., 1841; Irish Sketchbook, 2 vols., 1843; Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846; Mrs. Perkins Ball, [1847]; Book of Snobs, 1848; Our Street, 1848; Vanity Fair, 1848 (With the suppressed woodcut on p. 336, and "Mr. Pitt" on p. 453); Doctor Birch, 1849; History of Pendennis, 2 vols., 1849-1850; Rebecca and Rowena, 1850; Kickleburys on the Rhine, 1850; Henry Esmond, 3 vols., 1852; The English Humourists, 1853; The Newcomes, 2 vols., 1854-1855; Miscellanies, 4 vols., 1855-57; The Virginians, 2 vols, 1858-59; Lovel the Widower, 1861; The Four Georges, 1861 (rare 1st issue); Adventures of Philip, 3 vols., 1862; Denis Duval, 1867.


