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Lot 564

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[PUBLISHER'S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 8 decorative bindings, all duodecimos, comprising:


BYRON, Lord George (1788-1824). Child Harold’s Pilgrimage. New York: H.M. Caldwell Company, nd. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- MARVEL, Donald Grant “IK” (1822-1908). Dream Life: Fable of the Seasons. F.M. Lupton Publishing, nd. Original publisher’s decorated white cloth. Provenance: Miss Ruth Prenery (earlier ownership inscription). -- BAKER Jr., George A. (1821-1880). Point Lace and Diamonds. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1886. Original publisher’s decorated white cloth. New and Revised Edition. -- DRUMMOND, Henry (1851-1897). Addresses. Philadelhia: Henry Altemus, 1892. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- TABB, John B. (1845-1909). Poems by John B. Tabb. Boston: Copeland and Day and London: John Lane, 1895. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- WILKINS, Mary E. (1852-1926). The Jamesons. Philadelphia: The Publishing Company and New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- PEABODY, Josephine Preston (1874-1922). The Signing Leaves, A Book of Songs and Spells. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1903. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. Provenance: Emma Hall [Letter tipped in: “Dear Friend, Your work during the institute first aroused my interest, and I soon became eager to know your letters. Since then you have been kind to me in many wats, but I have not known how to thank you. Please accept this little book as an expression of my gratitude. I hop you will find something in it worth while. Lovingly, Emma Hall. Perry, March twenty seventh, nineteen hundred eight.”] -- PERCIVAL, Olive (1869-1945). Leaf-Shadows and Rose-Drift, Being Little Songs from a Los Angeles Garden. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1911. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, condition generally fine. 


From the Private Collection of Richard Cady

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