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Lot 75
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$938
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Lot Description
[FINE BINDINGS]. A group of 6 works in 6 volumes, comprising:
BESANT, Walter, Sir. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. London, 1888. Half purple morocco gilt; slipcase. [Bound in:] ALS from Sir Walter Besant to Rudyard Kipling. 25 January 1892. -- SMITH, F. Hopkinson. A Gentleman Vagabond. Cambridge, MA, 1895. Half blue morocco gilt. LIMITED EDITION number 43 of 250 copies. Signature tipped in. -- WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne. London and New York, 1902. Full green morocco gilt; slipcase. -- GARLAND, Hamlin. A Son of the Middle Border. New York, 1917. Hald green morocco gilt. “Special Autographed Edition” SIGNED BY GARLAND. -- PETERSON, Theodore. Magazines in the Twentieth Century. Urbana, IL, 1956. Red morocco gilt. -- CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. Garden City, New York, 1934. Rockwell Kent, illustrator. Half green morocco gilt.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery