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Lot 37

Sale 5273 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 14, 2010 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$200 - 300
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$110
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6 vols.


6 vols.
Illustrated Books: (Smith, Jessie Wilcox, illus.) Macdonald, George. At The Back of The North Wind. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919. 8vo, orig. cloth, color pictorial cover label; moderately scuffed. Color pictorial title + 8 color plates. Cello-tape repair to title, light to moderate foxing to plates. Hinges reinforced with blue cloth. 1st J.W. Smith ed. * (Sterrett, Virginia Frances, illus.) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tanglewood Tales. Philadelphia: Penn., (1921). 4to, orig. blue cloth, gilt, color pictorial cover label; light wear, very small abrasion on front joint. With 10 color plates, incl. frontis. & pictorial title, lettered tissue guards. Internally clean & crisp. 1st Sterrett ed. * (Palmer, Doris, M., illus.) Omar Khayyam. The Rubiayat of. [Edinburgh]: L.B. Hill, [1921]. 4to, orig. black-lettered cream/yellow cloth, gilt, top edge stained black, other edges untrimmed; corners slightly bumped, minor wear, occasionally slightly dusty, small fissure at head of spine. With mounted color title + 12 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards, shoulder illus. Internally clean. Ink library stamp on top edge. * (Wyeth, N.C., illus.) Boyd, James. Drums. New York: Scribner's, (1928). 8vo, orig. black cloth, color pictorial cover label, gilt-lettered spine; light wear. With color title, 14 color plates, color pictorial endpapers, text illus. 1st Wyeth trade ed. Bright copy. * (Schaffer, Mead, illus.) Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of The Cachalot. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926. 1st ed. thus. 8vo, orig. black cloth, gilt; moderate wear. With map + 8 color plates. Moderate foxing to front matter. * (_ _.) Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1922. 1st ed. thus. 8vo, orig. cloth, color pictorial cover label; light wear, d/j (chipped & somewhat dusty). With 12 color plates. Internally clean.

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