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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Here is "Vanity Fair, A Novel Without a hero" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It is Volume One, only of the Biographical Edition of the "works of William Makepeace Thackeray", which was issued in 13 volumes . This particular edition is delicious for the inclusion of Thackeray's original illustrations for the story, which help bring to visual life the many different characters found in the novel. It remains one of the great satirical masterpieces of English Literature. This is a previously owned book, having the inked signature of the original owner on the front paste-down : Isabel Bailey Cook. It's a handsome, large and somewhat heavy book, with a handsome decorated blue cloth covered board binding, with gilt top edge. As we pointed out above, this is Volume One only of the set. The spine has no number denoted, but notes instead : Biographical Edition. The frontispiece is a fine photogravure portrait of Thackeray, printed in a soft sepia tone. **************************************** SERIES : The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition / VOLUME : Volume One only / TITLE : Vanity Fair : a Novel Without a Hero / AUTHOR : William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 -1863) / INTRODUCTION : Anne Ritchie (Thackeray's daughter) / ILLUSTRATOR : Thackeray himself / IMPRINT : Harper & Brothers / PLACE : New York / DATE : © 1898 , and no date of publication given - but [1905] as per the 1905 "Publisher's Trade Annual" / EDITION : American Reprint / STATUS : This Edition OP / DETAILS : Trade hardcover - a single volume from a set; has a frontispiece sepia photogravure portrait of Thackeray; contains thirty one illustrations by Thackeray, including 10 within the Biographical Introduction - most of these having not much to do with the novel. The Introduction was written by Thackeray's daughter, Anne Ritchie; [xl] + 676 pages; approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8'; decorated cloth-covered boards and spine, with gilt lettering on spine. The boards have been given a densely repeating motif of the letter 'T' alternating with a flower - front and back; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edge are rough cut. ************************************* CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Spine extremities are compressed and display slight fraying as well as a touch of abrasion; joints are mildly rubbed; front board has only mild rub, and displays nicely; rear board has some scuff marks, else is clean; board bottom edges display shelf rub; top edge gilt displays rub and a touch of scuffing; fore- and bottom text-block edges are toned, else clean. / BINDING -- Solid / INTERIOR -- There are likely a few minute smudges and/or smudges - but nothing that is obvious to perusal; end-papers are lightly toned; the original owner's inked signature is written on the front paste-down (Isabel Bailey Cook).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Fore edge foxed. Prelims lightly foxed. Ink inscription on title page. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Illustrations Throughout (illustrateur). Reprint. Xlviii, 752 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Light Wear. 1900 Date On Title Page. Vol Ii Of The Biographical Edition Of The Works In 13 Volumes. Ownership Signature "Fanny Weston Bixby / November 1903 / Los Angeles". Fanny Weston Bixby [Spencer] (1879 - 1930) Was The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos, Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later, Fanny's Grandfather, The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway, Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities, Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad, In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School. She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley, She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch, Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College, She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston (Founded By Balch) And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College, She Moved Back To Long Beach, Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes, Including Long Beach's First Hospital (Seaside Hospital), And The Walt Whitman School (Private) And Her Settlement House, Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa, California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908, Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1, 1908, Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy, Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper, The Oakland World, And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater (Later The Musart Theater) In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband, W. Carl Spencer, At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa (Then Named Harper) In 1919, Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died, She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work, Bringing Up My Foster Children, Helping My Neighbors (Mostly Japanese Farmers) And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In." Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 8950 TOTAL Pp. VOL. I. VANITY FAIR 676 p., VOL II. PENDENNIS 752 p., VOL. III YELLOW PLUSH PAPERS 649 p., VOL. IV. THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON ESQ 711p., VOL. V SKETCH BOOKS 772 p., VOL. VI CONTRIBUTIONS TO "PUNCH" ETC 759 p., VOL. VII HENRY ESMOND ETC 725 p., VOL. VIII THE NEWCOMES 806 p., VOL. IX CHRISTMAS BOOKS ETC 340 p., VOL. X THE VIRGINIANS 809 p., VOL. XI THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ETC 640 p., VOL. XII DENIS DUVAL ETC 568 p., VOL. XIII BALLADS AND MISCELLANIES 743 p. PUBLICATION 1898-1899. COPYRIGHT 1898. BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION. DESCRIPTION: BLUE CLOTH HARDBOUND, GILT STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/BLUE STAMPED DESIGN ON SPINE COVER/BOARDS, FRONTIS ENGRAVING WITH PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED TEXTS, GILT UPPER LEAF EDGE. DIMENSIONS: 8 7/16" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/2" each volume. CONDITION: VERY GOOD +; VERY GENTLY BUMPED SPINE CROWN/HEELS, SOME GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED CORNER TIPS.