[Bindings - Literature]. A group of 26 titles, many first editions, including:

POE, Edgar Allan. The Bells. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1881. Original cloth cover bound-in at rear. -- JAMES, Henry. The Wings of the Dove. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 2 volumes. Later slipcase. -- ADAMS, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Original cloth; later folding case. -- TARKINGTON, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1918. Original cloth cover bound-in at rear. -- WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Original cloth spine bound-in at rear. -- MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. The King's Henchman. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Original blue cloth; publisher's dust jacket; later chemise; later quarter morocco slipcase. -- HALL, Radclyffe. Well of Loneliness. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. -- MILNE, Alan Alexander. The Christopher Robin Story Book. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. Original cloth and spine bound-in at rear. -- NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959. Original cloth spine bound-in at rear. -- FINNEY, Jack. Time and Again. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. Original cloth bound-in at rear. -- And 15 others. Together, 26 works in 27 volumes, 8vo and 4to sizes, most in later morocco unless otherwise noted, condition generally fine.

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Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

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