The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862.
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. First American and first illustrated edition. Very good in brown cloth covered boards with wear at the spine ends, corners worn through, some stains on the boards, an ink notation on the front endpaper, slightly shaken.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
birth name: William Makepeace Thackeray
born: 7/18/1811
died: 12/24/1863
Biography
English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847-48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and Henry Esmond, 3 vol. (1852), set in the early 18th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore