[LITERATURE]. A group of 28 works of art, history, and literature, including:

DRYDEN, John. The Works. NY: Croscup & Sterling Company, n.d. 10 volumes (of 18, vols., lacking vols. I-II of Drama, vols. I-II of Poems, and vol. I-II of Prose and 2 others). Contemporary half green crushed levant gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 13 of 26 copies for American of the "Cambridge edition." -- Winter Poems by Favorite American Poets. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1870]. -- [Breviary Treasures]. Boston: Privately printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. 11 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, number 266 of 550 copies on French hand-made paper of the "Doric edition." -- SMITH, F. Hopkinson. In Dickens's London. NY, 1914. FIRST EDITION. -- COLE, Timothy. Art by the Way. NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. Original printed dust jacket. -- HARRIS, Charles K. After the Ball Forty Years of Melody an Autobiography. NY., 1926. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 22 of 550 copies of "Edition de Luxe," SIGNED BY HARRIS. -- ANSON, W.S.W., editor. The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs. L et al: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, n.d. Glassine. -- WHISTLER, James McNeill. Modern Masters of Etching James McNeill Whistler... Number 13. Malcolm C. Salaman, introduction. L et al: The Studio Ltd. et al, 1927. -- And 20 others. Together, 28 works in 60 volumes, various sizes, most illustrated, most in original bindings, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

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