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The Estate of Peter H. Tillou | Day 2

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 694

63 Leatherbound Books on Poetry

Estimate: $400 - $600

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including: [The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903, 12 volumes, bound in three quarter green leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, four raised bands, marbled endpapers, teg; [The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes], Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892, 14 volumes; 37 assorted volumes on poetry

Provenance: The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut

Condition

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and scratches to leather, some bumped corners, scattered light staining throughout; one volume of Holmes back board detached

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