Lot 759:
A Collection of Vintage Hardcover and Softcover Books, Early to Mid-20th Century (DJ)
Description
An assortment of approximately thirty-eight volumes encompassing literature, biography, history, reference, and regional interests. The collection features several notable editions and publishers, including George Eliot’s Middlemarch in the Modern Library series, Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers published by the International Collectors Library in faux-leather with gilt-stamped decoration, and a Grosset & Dunlap edition of Gene Stratton-Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost. Other titles include Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me by Lillian Gish and Ann Pinchot (Prentice-Hall), All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field (Macmillan), and The Peaceable Kingdom by John Sedgwick. Reference and non-fiction works are represented by the New York City Guide, Taylor’s Encyclopedia of Gardening, and Good Reading: Achievement published by Ginn and Company. Modern literature includes Cashelmara by Susan Howatch and A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren (Random House). Bindings consist of varied materials including publisher’s cloth, printed boards, and decorative imitation leather. Several volumes retain their original dust jackets.Height: 8 inches (measured at the New York City Guide).
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