Book Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition Thus. Published by St. Martin's Press, 1978. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: Fair. 1904. First Edition Thus. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Noticeable water stain to top edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate sunning and marking. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ffolkes, Michael; Thackeray, William Makepeace (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. 160pp, with amusing cartoon style line drawings. Purple cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dust wrapper is a little worn and faded, gently rubbed at edges and slightly sunned over the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London. Undated. First edition thus, first impression. Dark green boards. Gilt lettering and gilt bands to spine. Gilt stamped author's initials to upper board. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece. With 308 illustrations. Cloth ribbon marker. No dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted to front pastedown. Pastedowns and endpapers and page edges lightly tanned. Overall, the book is in a good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Ffolkes; William Makepeace Thackeray (illustrator). 1st Edition. 160pp. The work of "Various Hands". Names of the "eminent" contributors and the topic on which they wrote are listed on the back of the dust cover and also on the Contents page. Contributors include Henry Longhurst on Sport and J.B. Priestley on Literature. Purple cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Bumping to top and tail of spine and slight sun fading to lower edge of front cover. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Otherwise no inscriptions and clean inside pages. Dust jacket is unclipped but has wear to top edge and minor loss at top of spine cover. Hint of cocking to one side of spine. Otherwise the dust jacket is in very good condition. Now protected in a mylar wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. Part of "The Pocket Edition" of Thackeray's works, including several essays other than "Snobs." This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition Thus. Small octavo format. Illustrated. Marbled paper boards; red cloth spine (somewhat faded) with gilt lettering. 348 pages, with four pages of publisher's adverts for its other various series. Clean text, still bright. Rubbing to the margins; spine faded to orange. Front gutter a bit loose. A cute little volume, meant for the traveller. No dustwrapper. Size: 12mo - over 6Ÿ" - 7Ÿ" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Condition: Gut. Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. 288 Seiten mit einem Titelporträt. 18,5 x 12 cm. In altdeutscher Schrift (Fraktur). Lesetipp des Bouquinisten! Guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Aus der Bibliothek von Dr. Beate Kayser, der vormaligen Feuilletonchefin der Münchner TZ. Mit einem Ex Libris von von Georg Meyer auf dem Vorsatz. «Ein spritziges Kleinod voller Spottlust und Esprit.» (Deutschlandradio Kultur): Wo die Roben rauschen und wo man elegante Lässigkeit pflegt, da sind sie zu Hause, die Snobs. Mit Opportunismus gepaarte Überheblichkeit zeichnet sie ebenso aus wie die genaue Kenntnis des Adelskalenders und eine Heidenangst, nicht mehr Teil der High Society zu sein. Heute verbreiteter denn je und in aller Munde, wurde der Typus des arroganten Selbstdarstellers überhaupt erst mit diesem Buch berühmt. William Makepeace Thackeray beschrieb als Kolumnist der Londoner Satirezeitschrift «Punch» alle erdenklichen Arten von Snobs dabei nie um eine Pointe verlegen. - William Makepeace Thackeray (* 18. Juli 1811 in Kalkutta; 24. Dezember 1863 in London) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und gilt neben Charles Dickens und George Eliot als bedeutendster englischsprachiger Romancier des Viktorianischen Zeitalters. Leben: Thackeray wurde als einziges Kind des Kolonialbeamten Richmond Thackeray in Indien geboren. Er wurde Halbwaise, als 1815 sein Vater starb. Seine Mutter hieß Anne Becher. Er selbst wiederum war Urenkel von Thomas Thackeray, einem Direktor der Harrow School. Thackeray wurde 1817 zum Schulbesuch auf Internate nach England geschickt. So lernte er in der Charterhouse School das englische Schulwesen kennen, das er später in der Weihnachtserzählung Doctor Birch and his young friends und in verschiedenen seiner größeren Werke anschaulich schilderte. 1829/30 studiert er am Trinity College in Cambridge, verließ es aber ohne Abschluss und ging nach London. Im Jahr darauf unternahm er eine Reise auf den europäischen Kontinent und besuchte dabei neben Frankreich und Italien auch Deutschland, wo er unter anderen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar kennenlernte. 1831/32 studierte er Rechtswissenschaft in London. 1833 verlor er sein geerbtes Vermögen und ging nach Paris, um Kunst zu studieren. 1836 heiratete er in Paris die Irin Isabella Shawe. Aus der Ehe gingen drei Töchter hervor, u. a. Anne Thackeray Ritchie, die selbst Schriftstellerin wurde. Im selben Jahr erschien Thackerays erster Artikel in der von seinem Stiefvater begründeten Zeitung The Constitutional", einem Blatt von liberaler Ausrichtung, das jedoch schon nach einem Jahr wieder eingestellt wurde. 1837 kehrte er nach London zurück und begann als Journalist zu arbeiten. 1840 erschien sein erstes Buch in England. Thackerays Frau erlitt in diesem Jahr einen Nervenzusammenbruch und landete in einer Heilanstalt. 1844 unternahm er eine Reise ans Mittelmeer und in den Nahen Osten. Das Erscheinen seines literarischen Meisterwerks Vanity Fair (deutsch: Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit) 1847/48 machte ihn endgültig zu einem angesehenen Autor und verschaffte ihm auch materiellen Wohlstand. Sein hohes soziales Ansehen kam auch in seiner Mitgliedschaft in gleich vier der renommiertesten britischen Clubs zum Ausdruck, nämlich im Athenaeum, im Travellers, im Garrick und im Reform Club. . . . Aus: wikipedia-William_Makepeace_Thackeray. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 371 Graues Leinen mit farbigen Vorsätzen, schwarzgeprägten Rückentiteln, mit floraler Deckelornamentik und Kopffarbschnitt. Ab einem Gewicht von 1000 Gramm müssen unsere Bücher als Päckchen versendet werden.

1st ed. thus 1/4 cloth Very Good 16 mo. 348pp., Pocket Edition. Nice copy in red cloth over marbled boards, gilt titles at spine.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 643 pages : fronts. Subjects: Snobs and snobbishness. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 643 pages : fronts. Subjects: Snobs and snobbishness. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. No date (late 1800s). Published by the department store Derry & Toms, Kensington, London. Books published by Derry & Toms are very scarce (only 3 other titles on AbeBooks at the time of this listing, none by Thackeray). With b&w illustrations by the author. Contains all 19 full-page b&w plates (3 are double-sided), plus 52 in-text b&w illustrations. A total of 74 b&w illustrations throughout. With 44 chapters, plus prefatory remarks, & concluding observations on snobs. Bound in original green cloth with bright gilt lettering to front board & spine, top edge gilt. Former owner's bookplate to front pastedown, title page detached but present, a couple of additional pages split at inner margin, spotting to endpapers, browning to pages (mostly margins), some brittle page edges with tiny tears, binding cracked & lightly shaken, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 162pp. Scarce. SB-16.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Michael Ffolkes & William Makepeace Thackeray (illustrator). First Edition. Slight edgewear and bumping to purple cloth, some mild fading of edges. Unclipped DJ, mild edgewear and chipping. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Oxford Thackeray With Illustrations; by William Makepeace Thackeray. Edited, with an Introduction, by George Saintsbury. This is a partial set comprising 10 volumes: Miscellaneous Contributions to Punch; The Yellowplush Papers etc; A Legend of the Rhine / Book of Snobs etc; The Newcombes, Vol. I; The Newcombes, Vol. II; The History of Pendennis, Vol. II; Ballads / Contributions to Punch; The Wolves & The Lamb / Roundabout Papers etc; Vanity Fair; The Adventures of Philip. Published by Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Bombay. Undated, but c. 1908, presumed first edition thus. A very good set of books bound in maroon limp leather over stiff card. Just minor scuffing and bumping, with bright gilt top edge, and ribbon. Spines are a little sunned, but still very presentable. Text bright and clean. All soundly bound. An attractive and decorative set. Text in English. Weight approximately 3.8kg unpacked (the set). Approx Dimensions: Each volume approximately 171mm high x 113mm wide x 20-28mm deep. More photos on request. Extra postage may be payable.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Faint rubbing along panel edges.

Flexible leather. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Near Fine in Flexible Leather. Boards have some scuffing, corners lightly worn. FEP has some light creasing. Spine a little darkened but gilt remains clear. ; 16mo 6" - 7" quarto.

leather_bound. First edition. 180 pages. 18 x 12 cm. His satirical taxonomy of snobs in an elegant binding by Orrock & Sons of Edinburgh -- raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in arabesques, inner dentelles, front and back covers with gilt paneling, marbled endpapers. VAN DUZER 16. "Sixty-five small woodcuts (by Thackeray). A few minimal text spots. Full maroon morocco. Fine in very good lined half brown and marbled board pull-off case.

London, Punch Office 1848. Near contemporary half calf, lower part of spine missing. Front hinge weak and cracking. VIII, 180pp. Title page vignette, numerous in-text illustrations. Old name on flyleaf. First edition.