Lot 240

151 Volumes on French Literature

Estimate: $500 - $1,000

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151 volumes, including: Guy de Maupassant, 17 volumes, complete, ed. 374/999, illustrated, 3/4 red leather over cloth boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, teg; Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Emile Zola, 19 volumes, Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1906, illustrated, embossed cover and spine, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, quarto; The Works of Honore de Balzac, 15 volumes, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, illustrated, green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine   

Provenance: Property from the Collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger

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Property from the Collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger

Guy de Maupassant front cover detached but retained; light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and small losses to leather and boards, a few bumped corners, some cracked hinges, each volume not inspected