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Day 1: Fine Art & Decorative Works

Thu, Jul 16, 2015 05:00PM EDT - Fri, Jul 17, 2015 05:00PM EDT
Lot 271

Four Children's Books, 1874 to 1930

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Christmas Drawings by Thomas Nast, New York, 1890, with black and white illustrations, 11-1/2 x 9 in., good in original pictorial cloth, wear at the extremities, a bit of loss at the top and bottom of the spine; The Happy Hour, New York: Appleton, 1874, in original beveled pictorial boards, elaborately gilt and blind-stamped, 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in., very good with some wear and loss at the extremities; Old Rhymes for Old Times by Cicely Mary Barker, New York: The Dodge Publishing Company, circa 1930, with black and white illustrations and 12 color plates, 10 x 8 in., very good in original cloth, a bit rubbed at the extremities, frontispiece plate is laid in; Good and Bad Cats by Frederick White, New York: Stokes, 1911, with black and white illustrations, in original pictorial boards with pictorial labels on the front and back covers, 10-1/4 x 7-1/2 in., good only, spine-faded, front hinge detached . Provenance: Estate of Frances S. McKeighan, Asheville, North Carolina

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