Author: THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
Title: Vanity Fair (Everyman's Library #298)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1941. Hardcover. 18th printing, 1941, of the 1908 issuance. An Everyman's Library reprint edition of Thackeray's magnum opus, in which, per Ross p.498-99 ".all the diverse characters are united under the dazzling influence of [Thackeray's main character] Becky Sharp." With an introduction by Whitelaw Reid. E.L. no. 298 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full carmine cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. Red jacket features Ravilious knot to cover. --- A sound, tightly-bound copy though with some darkening at front cover shell. Quite brittle jacket with a few chunks missing from spine ends and front flap, other small chips, otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xv, 699 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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