About this title: Arthur Pendennis is spoiled by his mother and by Laura Bell, a distant relative of his own age with whom he grows up. He goes through the university, enters London society, writes a successful novel, becomes editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and is involved in love affairs of varying character. He finally marries Laura, who has always loved him, and whom he has grown to love.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons, London
Date Published: 1901
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Small soft leather volume is in fair condition with significant edgewear, fraying/chipping spine ends, scuffed cover, erased note inside cover, loosening binding, folded/creased thin pages and inscription to previous owner inside front cover. New Century Library version of The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. This is Volume 2. read more
Binding: Leather Bound
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date Published: 1909
Description: Fair. Quite a bit of wear to the cover edges and top and bottom of spine. Gold lettering and design along spine. Binding loose but not detached. No marked or torn pages. read more
Description: Good in None jacket. Complete 2 Volume Set-This hardbound book is in good condition. The navy covers have light wear at corners and spine ends, and corner bumping. Gilt lettering is faded on both volumes. Volume 1 has previous owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper. Both volumes have a few interesting and brief notations neatly written in. The bindings are solid. No dust jacket. I ship within 24 hours with free delivery confirmation. E-mail notification of shipment. Always happy to ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780192831682ISBN:0192831682
Description: Good. 1994 paperback good + condition. Thanks for looking at our books we ship fast. One of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian Bildungsroman, this introspective novel treats London's bohemian and literary underworld and the romantic entanglements of its hero, Arthur Pendennis, with comic and uninhibited style. Son of a selfless widow, Pendennis moves from one disastrous romantic involvement to another on the fringes of the corrupt upper classes. Thackeray had slaved for ten years in ... read more
Binding: Leather
Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date Published: 1901
Description: Very Good. Very Good Fiction A clean tight copy brown leather binding, gilt lettering and edging. New Century Library edition (small size) read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1887
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 392, 391 pp. Several signatures are coming loose, but all seem to still be attached. The hinges are strong, the binding is square, and the text is clean. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wurtle lovell, New York
Date Published: no date
Description: Hardcover, green boards, gilt lettering, edges worn, front hinge starting, pages sound, clean, intact, sticker on front paste down endpaper. INV#H-33 G/no DJ. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Date Published: 1898
Description: Fair. Fair condition. [box x]. Collectible edition, published by Dent (Everyman's Library) in 1952. Has underlining and notation throughout the volume. DJ has major rips, edgewear. Fair reading condition overall. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1889
Description: William Makepeace Thackeray. Very Good. No Jacket. Novel. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book: Very Good. Minor wear, corners bumped. No jacket. 462 pages clean and bright, binding tight. "If this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a work more elaborate might lose..." read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very Good. Very good hardcover in DJ. undated (ca 1940? ). Nelson classics double volume edition. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. End papers lightly tanned. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1994-08-18
ISBN-13:9780192831682ISBN:0192831682
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperbook
Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz Jun, Leipzig
Date Published: 1850
ISBN-13:9780543918819ISBN:0543918815
Description: New in New jacket. This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz Jun. in Leipzig, 1850. This book is in English. This book contains 458 pages. Print on demand edition. read more
Edition: Early Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1880
Description: Thackeray, William Makepeace. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Ex-Library A handsome copy bound in rich brown cloth covers with bold gilt letters on spine cover. 820 pages. Light wear to edges. Library markings. Bit of paper over front inner hingee cracked. Otherwise a tight, clean, complete copy with clean text. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: A. L. Burt
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray. A. L. Burt, . Binding: Decorative ClothDust Jacket: No Jacket. NOTES: No date, circa 1900s, from Burt's Library of the World's Best Books. In very good clean condition inside and out, showing only minimal wear. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: Hard Back/Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London, UK
Description: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 7 1/2" Tall. xxxvii + 1004 pages. No dustjacket. No date or edition given but looks early 20th centruy. Deep maroon leather(? ) binding. Wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Spine colour-faded with gilt titles. Page-edges lightly browned o/w contents very clean. read more
Binding: hb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Date Published: ND (c. 1920)
Description: black-&-white illustrations. Very nicely bound in full maroon calf, with top edge gilt. Small 8vo, pp. xxxvii, 1004 The Oxford Thackeray edition, printed on india paper, with 186 illustrations. The first edition, in book form, was in 1849-50. Top of spine pulled with small loss of leather. Boards show light scuffing to leather. Contents clean and tight. Former owner's bookplate on inside front board. Overall, in good, to good plus condition. read more
Edition: First edition. Copyright ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Bros., New York
Date Published: 1855
Description: illustrations on wood by the author. Very good. No dust jacket. 2 volume set. 2 Volume set Black cloth, 2 volumes, embossed line decorations on cover. Wear to edges of spine and scuffed corners. Mild spotting throughout both volumes. First Edition. Gilt lettering on the spine. read more
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