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Thu, May 16, 2019 09:00AM EDT
Lot 28

Four Sets of Books, Some Leather Bound

Estimate: $200 - $400

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77 volumes including 37 volumes, The Chronicles of America Series. Allen Johnson, Gerhard R. Lomer, and Charles W. Jefferys series editors. New Haven: Yale University Press, et. al., 1918-1921, cloth with white and gold decorated cover; 22 volumes, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1869, original green, gilt stamped cloth over beveled boards; two sets of Waverly Novels, 12 volumes, Boston: James Osgood & Company, 1872 and six volumes, Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., undated, both sets with leather spines and corners, marbled sides

, Provenance: Davis Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina

Condition

fair to good condition, rubbing of spines and board, bumped edges and corners, losses to some bindings, minimal interior foxing throughout 

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