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Fri, Sep 14, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 347

Eight Literature Books With Fine Bindings

Estimate: $400 - $800

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

including The Poems of John Keats, New York: Brentano's, 1924, two volumes, in signed Brentano's bindings, with five raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated and ruled spines and covers, inner gilt dentelles, teg., very slightly rubbed otherwise near fineThe Lyrical and Dramatic Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, New York: Brentano's, 1924, two volumes, in signed Brentano's bindings, with five raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated and ruled spines and covers, inner gilt dentelles, teg., very slightly rubbed otherwise near fineThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, London, 1806, 2 volumes, in signed Morrell bindings, with elaborated decorated spines and covers, morocco spine labels, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, aeg, light surface wear including one scratch otherwise very goodThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, London: Routledge, no date, with five raised bands, gilt decorated and ruled spine and covers, inner gilt dentelles, teg., near fineThe Harlot's House and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929, with illustrations by John Vassos, in three-quarter leather over patterned boards, with four raised bands, gilt decorated spine, teg., lightly rubbed at the extremities otherwise very good condition

, Provenance: Estate of Anne Fries Clark