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Lot 52
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[MOUNTENEY BINDING]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). A Book for Christmas Reading. Chicago: The Cuneo Press, 1947.
8vo. Full green morocco elaborately gilt, smooth spine gilt, turn-ins gilt, red watered silk doublures and endpapers by Mounteney. Sixth volume of the Annual Christmas Stories series.
[With:] Two other editions of the Cuneo Press Annual Christmas Stories series, comprising: WIGGIN, Kate, Washington IRVING, Bret HARTE, and Nathaniel HAWTHORNE. Stories of America's Past. 1954. The 13th volume of the series. -- CRANE, STOCKTON, HARDY, CONRAD, et al. Stories of Land and Sea from the Late 19th Century. 1956. The 15th volume of the series. -- Both in red morocco gilt, smooth spines gilt, turn-ins gilt, red watered silk doublures.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery