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Sat, Jan 26, 2019 09:00AM EST
Lot 899

Eight Literature Books with Fine Bindings

Estimate: $400 - $800

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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 fine; The 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 fine; The 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 good; The 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 fine; The 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

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