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Premier Auction - Session I

Fri, Jul 15, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 327

Group of 74 Books, American and British Literature

Estimate: $600 - $900

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$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

74 volumes total, including: The Works of Mark Twain, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924, The Mississippi Edition, 11 volumes, bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, five raised bands, teg; The Works of James Fenimore Cooper, New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, circa 1895, The Mohawk Edition, 18 volumes, bound by Stikeman & Co. in three quarter green leather over cloth boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, four raised bands, morocco spine labels, teg; The Works of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, London: Chapman and Hall, circa 1849, bound in three quarter green leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spines, morocco spine labels, five raised bands, marbled edges; and others

Provenance: Private Collection, Brookline, Massachusetts

Condition

wear to extremities, bumped corners, scattered scuffs, rubbing, and minor losses to leather, scattered areas of light staining throughout; Cooper titles with hinges tender, several volumes with front and/or back boards starting or detached