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Lot 324
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
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Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Lot Description
POST, Melville Davisson (1869-1930). The Man of Last Resort. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.
8vo. Original cloth (light toning). Provenance: Frances E. Thompson (presentation inscription, ownership inscription).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY POST. The Man of Last Resort was the second of three Post works to feature his amoral lawyer Randolph Mason, who would make his final appearance in 1908's The Corrector of Destinies.
[With]: POST. The Man of Last Resort. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Original publisher's wraps (rubbing, slight lean to spine). RARE WRAPPER EDITION.
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