Fine Books and Manuscripts

Includes: The First Book of the Dofobs. Chicago: Society of the Dofobs, 1907. 8vo, original vellum backed boards with leather spine label, and paper-covered boards. First edition, limited to 50 copies, and printed on Italian hand-made paper. Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. Previous owner't bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper: James J. Conway; The Second Book of the Dofobs. Chicago: Society of the Dofobs, 1909. 4to, original leather backed boards moderately rubbed and chipped. First edition, limited to 50 copies, and printed on Italian hand-made paper. Illustrated with facsimiles. Lakeside Press Training Department sticker on the front pastedown endpaper; Poems and Letters of Lord Byron. Edited from the Original Manuscripts in th ePossession of W. K. Bixby, of St. Louis, by W.N.C. Carlton. Chicago: Society of the Dofobs, 1912. Folio, original cloth backed boards with original slicase. First edition, limited to 52 copies, and printed on Italian hand-made paper. Illustrated with 5 plates and 24 facsimile manuscript pages.

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