THACKERAY, W.M.

Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., of the Kingdom of Ireland

First English edition, first printing, first issue (without "The right of translation is reserved" on the title page). Full red morocco, elaborately gilt, with the original glazed yellow printed wrappers bound in. A few small tears on the pages neatly strengthened else a beautiful, fine copy. Bound with Thackeray's Ballads (also with the wrappers bound in). The exceptionally uncommon American edition precedes. Basis for the sweeping cinematic achievement directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1975. No copy of this edition at auction in the last thirty years. Van Duzer 11 (his copy also bound with the wrappers preserved).

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