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Boston: Houghton Mifflin,. Fine with no dust jacket. 1883-95. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Complete 13 vols. Riverside Edition. Edited by Hawthorne's son-in-law, Julian. 8vo, original 3/4 scarlet morocco leather and marbled bds, title and spine gilt, raised bands. Heads and tails completely intact. Etched frontispieces. Extremely attractive and well cared for set in FINE condition. Provenance Wasserman, Sessler's Book Store, Mabel Zahn. BAL 7643. Hawthorne's complete works: The Ancestral Footstep; Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers with a biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop; Dr. Grimshaw's Secret - a Romance; Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks; The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton with an appendix containing The Ancestral Footstep; The Marble Faun; Our Old Home and English Notebooks, Vol.1 and 2; Passages from the American Notebooks; The House of Seven Gables and The Snow Image; A Wonder-Book, Tanglewood Tales, and… Read More

N Y, N Y: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. AMERICANA; Leatherstocking Tales; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; THE IROQUOIS EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF J. FENIMORE COOPER [33 VOLS. CT] Circa 1900. Red cloth, paper spine labels, top edges gilt. Very good, some light soiling and wear, one spine label with small stains. Numerous plates. #289 of 1000, both hand numbered and punched. Title pages printed in red and black, frontis' with tissue protectors. Considered to be the best edition of his works. Leatherstocking tales. Frontis' are tissue protected. Firm, clean and tight. 6.25 x 9.25 x 1.625, about 95 pounds of books occupying about 55" of shelf space. A handsome edition. Over 15,000 pages. .

Edward and Charles Dilly. Good with no dust jacket. 1779. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages; MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE LATE PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD... [VOL 3 ONLY of 4]. With bookplate by J. Riegel Jr. (1946) for Thomas Wistar, in tree calf, with front cover detached. .

Paris: Briand,. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1810- 1816. Hardcover. French Language; FINE Binding; 18mo; pages; Full tree calf leather, spines decorated in gilt with Gallic cross motif, red and black leather spine labels. Few vols with light staining to covers, minor edgewear, minor loss to crown of 2 vols, bdgs and contents very good. Includes Galathée pastorale imitée de Cervantes, Nouvelles I-II, Numa Pompilius I-II, Théâtre I-III, Mélanges de poésie, Estelle, Gonzalve de Cordoue I-III, Fables, Don Quichotte I-VI, Guillaume Tell, Eliezer et Nephtaly, Nouveaux mélanges de poésie, La jeunesse de Florian. Severable adhesion between subsequent leaves in Vol 3-4. Vol 24, pp19-24 slightly loose. VG+. Illustrated with 24 engraved frontispieces. .

London: Cadell & Davies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1811. Leather bound. vignette; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; abt 3000 pages; Bound in full patterned olive calf leather. Ornate spines with 2 black spine labels. Rubbed. Bindings solid with firm hinges. With vignette of Addisson hading volume I. Contents generally clean and VG with some scattered light foxing in two of the volumes. Vol II with clear tape to upper portion of spine. Red marbled eps with matching textblock edges. .

Edinburgh And London,: Blackwood. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1854-57. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Period light brown calf and marbled boards, pairs of red and black leather spine labels plus gilt designs in spine compartments. All edges marbled, marbled end papers, all vols with extra engraved titles MIld wear and scuffing at joints and edges, few spine labels slightly nicked, solid set with text firm. Penciled owner's name on first free blank. Hinges sound and not cracked. Provenance- Extensive collection of Jim Bready of Baltimore, recently deceased polymath collector. His son, Chris, has operated Baltimore Book for some 30 yrs. Consists of volumes 2-3-4 only of 7 volumes. Volume II: Tales and Historic Scenes, The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, Modern Greece, Translations from Camoens and Other Poets, Miscellaneous Poems, Italian Literature: : Volume III: The Sceptic, A Tale of the Secret Tribunal, Superstition and Revelation, The Caravan in the… Read More