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Lot 238
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$455
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Lot Description
[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. ABBOTT, Berenice (1898-1991), photographer. -- MITCHELL, Joseph (1908-1996). The Bottom of the Harbor. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1991.
4to. Original quarter morocco gilt over black cloth; publisher's slipcase. Publisher's newsletter laid in.
LIMITED EDITION, number 138 of 250 copies. SIGNED BY MITCHELL. The Bottom of the Harbor has been praised for its realistic character studies of various underdog characters encountered by the author while living in New York City, with its subjects described as "mainly old men... custodians of memory, their stories a link with the history of a city that has always been mercantile at heart."
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