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Lot 120
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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$200 -
400
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$175
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Lot Description
(ON THE EXOTIC)
A group of seven pre-WWI works bound in decorative cloth, pertaining to the theme of the exotic. Including: (1) Charles Lotin Hildreth, The mysterious city of OO. New York: Belford Company, 1889; (2) Frank Aubrey, The devil-tree of El Dorado. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1897; (3) Edward Markwick, The city of gold: a tale of sport... travel, and adventure in the heart of the dark continent. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1898; (4) Le Roy Hooker, Enoch the Philistine: a traditional romance of Philstia, Egypt and the Great Pyramid, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1898; (5) Edward S. van Zile, Perkins the Fakeer: a travesty on reincarnation. New York: The Smart Set, 1903; (6) Robert W. Chambers, In search of the unknown. New York: Haper & Brothers, 1904; and (7) Beatrice Grimshaw, The sorcerer's stone. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914.
