[BINDINGS]. A group of 183 volumes, most in fine full, half, or quarter leather bindings, including works relating to American and European literature and poetry.

Together, 31 works in 183 volumes, various sizes, most in full, half, or quarter morocco or calf gilt or in original cloth bindings gilt, condition generally very good.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Condition generally very good. Complete list of works in the lot:

1. ALEXANDRE, Roger. Le Musee de la Conversation. Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1897. 8vo. Contemporary morocco-backed boards. Third edition.

2. RILEY, James Whitcomb. Green Fields and Running Brooks. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1894. 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: Alberta De Forest (signature).

3. FENN, George Manville. Fire Island. L: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Provenance: J.M. Taylor (bookplate, prize binding). “New and cheaper edition.”

4. ANGUS, Joseph. The Bible Hand-Book. L: The Religious Tract Society, 1866. 8vo. Later morocco.

5. FRANCE, Anatole. The Revolt of the Angels. -- The Well of Stain Clare. -- The Gods are Athirst. L et al: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., et al, [1926, 1927, 1928]. 3 volumes, 8vo. Later half morocco.

6. O’NEILL, Eugene. [Works]. NY: Horace Liveright, 1925-1926. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: Peggy Anne Veeck (signatures).

7. [The Delphian Course]. Chicago: The Delphian Society, 1913. 10 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

8. SERVISS, Garrett P., editor-in-chief. Popular Science Library. NY: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1922. 14 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

9. [Miss Mulock’s Works]. NY et al: Harper & Brothers, 1898-1899. 26 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: J.W. Kendrick (bookplates).

10. CLEMENTS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”). Works. NY: P.F. Collier & Son Company, [1912]. 9 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. “Harper & Brothers edition.”

11. BAUM, L. Frank. Oz the Complete Collection. NY et al: Aladdin, n.d. 5 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jackets.

12. FIELD, Eugene. Th Writings in Prose and Verse. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1899. 10 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: Annelle Gandolfs (signature, 1899).

13. SCOTT, Walter, Sir. [The Waverley Novels]. Chicago: Hooper, Clarke, & Co., n.d. 11 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. “University edition.”

14. [Immortal Masterpieces of Literature]. N.p.: The Spencer Press, [1937]. 7 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

15. REGNARD, J.F. Oeuvres. Paris: E.A. Lequien, 1820. 3 volumes (4, 5, and 6 only), 8vo. Later morocco-backed boards. “Nouvelle Edition.”

16. CARLYLE, Thomas. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels. L: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1888. Volume III only (of 3), 8vo. Provenance: Weymouth College (prize binding).

17. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Goldsmith’s Choice Works. Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1884. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Provenance: Ernest J. Hill Manning (bookplate).

18. SCOTT, Walter, Sir. The Poetical Works. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862. 5 volumes, 8vo. 19th-century half morocco.

19. ELIOT, George. [Works]. Edinburgh et al: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883 or n.d. 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half morocco. Provenance: Joanna F. Bonham Carter (signature, 1884). “New edition” of Middlemarch; the rest are “Stereotyped edition.”

20. BRYON, George Gordon (“Lord Byron”). Works. L: John Murray, 1832. 17 volumes, 8vo. 19th-century half morocco.

21. FRANCE, Anatole. Le Livre de Mon Ami. Paris: Calmann-Levy, n.d. 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed boards.

22. Progress of Nations. Chicago: Department of Rehabilitation Disabled American Veterans of the World War, 1930. 10 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

23. [The Grolier Society]. Days of the Dandies. L: the Grolier Society, n.d. 15 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: J.W. Kendrick’s (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 633 of 1000 copies of “Edition de Luxe.”

24. KEATS, John. The Poetical Works. L et al: Macmillan and Co., 1894. 8vo. 20th-century half morocco.

25. CERVANTES, Miguel. Don Quixote. P.A. Motteux, translator. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1902. 4 volumes, 8vo. Later half morocco. Provenance: sold The Monastery Hill Bindery (laid in description).

26. MAETERLINCK, Maurice. Aglavaine and Selsette. --Wisdom and Desinty. NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911, 1913. 2 volumes, 8vo. 20th-century half morocco. Provenance: Carol Rogers Lyon (bookplates).

27. RILEY, James Whitcomb. The Works. Edmund Henry Eitel, editor. New Castle, PA: C.B. Randall, 1913. 6 volumes, 8vo. Original watercolors tipped in by Beebee. Original morocco gilt extra, stamp-signed by The Monastery Hill

Bindery (laid in card). LIMITED EDITION, number XV of 150 sets of the “Elizabeth Marine Riley Edition,” SIGNED BY THE C.B. RANDALL, publisher for an unnamed recipient. With a card laid in SIGNED BY RILEY, 1897.

28. CLARKE, Samuel. A Collection of the Promises of Scripture. L: The Proprietors of the English Classics, 1826. 12mo. 19th-century half morocco.

29. READE, Charles. ‘It is Never Too Late to Mend.” L: Richard Bentley, 1857. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. “Illustrated edition.”

30. KINGSLEY, Charles. Two Years Ago. L et al: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 8vo. 20th-century half calf.

31. GAUTIER, Theophile. The Works. NY et al: E.R. Dumont, [1901]. 8 volumes (of 10), 8vo. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 180 of 250 copies of “Edition en Grande Tenue.”

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Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection, Part III

[BINDINGS]. A group of 183 volumes, most in fine full, half, or quarter leather bindings, including works relating to American and European literature and poetry.

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