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Lot 139
[ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE] A miscellany of illustrated works.
Comprising: [THOMSON, HUGH] BARRIE, J. M. Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Number 10 of 1000 signed by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's full vellum, elaborately gilt. 12 x 9 1/2 inches; 22 mounted color plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Light wear, the boards bowed causing the edges of pastedowns to come loose, lacks green silk tie, contents lightly toned; [RACKHAM, ARTHUR] BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. Blue calf gilt. Color plates after Rackham. Light wear along joints, spine and rear board fading, bookplate; [RACKHAM, ARTHUR] GRAHAME, KENNETH. The Wind in the Willows. New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt, all edges red, in original dust jacket. Color plates and in-text illustrations. Spine ends softened, top edge toned, jacket lightly soiled with small chips, creases and tears around spine ends, edges and corners; DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. Confessions of an Opium Eater. East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1898. Copy number 101 of 925. Publisher's quarter green suede with drab boards, gilt. Light wear, spine sunned; [GIBBINGS, ROBERT] COPPARD, A. E. The Hundredth Story of A. E. Coppard. Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. Number 501 of 1000. Quarter green leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Spine rubbed and sunned, small chip from head of spine, boards toned; [CLARKE, HARRY] POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Brentanos, [n.d.]. One of 2500 copies. Publisher's black cloth. Color and black and white plates, in-text illustrations. Binding worn; [KREDEL, FRITZ] TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Barchester Towers. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Number 7 of 1500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel. Publisher's quarter black leather gilt. In-text illustrations. Light rubbing and wear to extremities; [SHAW, HENRY WHEELER], NAST, THOMAS. Everybody's Friend, or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor. Hartford, CT.: American Publishing Company. Publisher's boards, gilt. Worn, rebacked; [SHAW, HENRY WHEELER], HOWARD, J. H. Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things. New York: Carleton, 1870. Publisher's boards. Light rubbing and wear. BUTLER, SAMUEL. Erewhon. London: Trubner, 1872. First edition. Later brown crushed morocco. Light rubbing to joints and corners, paper evenly toned and brittle, bookplate; IRVING, WASHINGTON, BOUGHTON, GEORGE. Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London: Macmillan, 1915. Three quarters crushed calf over marbled boards, gilt spine and top edge. Light wear, bookplate; and SUE, EUGENE. The Wandering Jew. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. First American edition. Calf backed marbled boards, gilt. Rubbing and wear to boards and spine, occasional spotting to contents, bookplate. Sold as is. The lot 12 volumes.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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