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British & Continental Auction | June 26, 2024

Wed, Jun 26, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 201

American Literature and History Group, 21 Volumes

Estimate: $300 - $500

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21 volumes total, including: The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882, early printing, publisher's green and gilt cloth; The History of the Later Puritans by J. B. Marsden, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1872, bound in full dark blue leather with gilt ruled covers, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled boards and endpapers, aeg; works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, n.d., 15 volumes; The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge, Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, n.d., four volumes

Provenance: Private Collection, South Carolina

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Private Collection, South Carolina

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and losses to leather, some bumped corners