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546 items

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Lot 1
Cooper, J. Fenimore . Cooper's Novels Stringer and


Cooper, J. Fenimore . Cooper's Novels Stringer and Townsend, New...

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Lot 2
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Edited By William J. Rolfe T

he Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate in 12 Volumes...

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Lot 3
Scott, Sir Walter The Waverley Novels in Twelve Volu

mes (lacking Vol. 3) Printed from the Latest English Editions...

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Lot 4
Ruskin, John. the Works of John Ruskin (12 volumes)

John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1886. Very Good++.illus, 12mo...

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125
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Lot 5
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. The Works of Alfred Lord Tenn

yson Poet Laureate, 6 volumes. Boston and New York, Houghton...

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Lot 6
Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881) Complete Works of D


Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881) Complete Works of Disraeli...

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Lot 7
Dryden, John with Notes by Sir Walter Scott. The Wor

ks of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes illus...

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Lot 8
Shakespeare, William the Works of William Shakespear

e (20 volumes) John D. Morris and Company, Philadelphia...

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Lot 9
Kipling, Rudyard The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipl

ing Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Hardcover. Very good in a...

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Lot 10
Mabie, Hamilton Wright Works (writings) of hamilton

Wright Mabie Including Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas; My...

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Lot 11
Lowell, James Russell The Writings (Prose and Poeti

cal) of James Russell Lowell (Riverside Edition, Complete in...

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Lot 12
Kingsley, Charles THE NOVELS AND POEMS OF CHARLES K

INGSLEY (14 Volumes Complete) NY, J.F. Taylor & Co., 8vo...

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Lot 13
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth THE COMPLETE WORKS OF H

ENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES...

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Lot 14
(4 sets by Anthony Trollope) The Chronicles of Bars

etshire: The Warden; Barchester Towers; Dr. Thorne; Framley...

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Lot 15
(6 Easton Press/Franklin Library titles) PILGRIM'S


(6 Easton Press/Franklin Library titles) PILGRIM'S PROGRESS and...

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Lot 16
(8 leather volumes-Classic Lit) Smith, James and Ho

race Smith. Consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the...

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Lot 17
The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text Formed f

rom an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: With the...

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Lot 18
(9 various Limited Editions Club titles) Each is li

mited to 1500 numbered copies and most are signed by the...

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Lot 19
(19th [mostly] century leather backed literature-6

titles in 8 volumes) Ingoldsby, Thomas ( Richard Harris Barham...

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Lot 20
Hunt, Leigh, Men, Women, and Books; a Selection of

Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected...

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Lot 21
Elliot, George (Lewes, Mary Anne Evans; Evans, Mari

an) 1819-1880 Daniel Deronda (Volumes 1-4) William Blackwood and...

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Lot 22
22. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Edited By S. R. To

wnshend Mayer Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to...

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Lot 23
(19th century leather-bound literature, some illus)

Mason, Edward T., Comp. Songs of Fairy Land G. P. Putnam's Sons...

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Lot 24
(7 Anthony Trollope firsts and early reprints, most

ly in orig cloth) Ralph the Heir Strahan & Co, London...

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Lot 25
Trollope, T. Adolphus. The Girlhood of Catherine de

' Medici Chapman and Hall, London, 1856. Very Good. Title Page...

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Lot 26
Yates, Edmund Kissing the Rod Tinsley Brothers, Lon

don, 1866. Good++. 1st Edition, 12mo., complete in 3 vols. Edmund...

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Lot 27
(7 Twain firsts and early reprints) CHRISTIAN SCIEN

CE Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1907. Very...

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Lot 28
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne clemens) The Prince a

nd The Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages R. Osgood and...

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Lot 29
Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and t

he Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. American Pub Co, Hartford...

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Lot 30
(3 James Fenimore Cooper titles) The Wing-and-Wing,

or Le Feu-Follet G. P. Putnam, New York. Very Good. Frontis...

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Lot 31
(George Macdonald 1st Sir Gibbie + 9 other firsts &

early reprints) Sir Gibbie, Lippincott, Phila, 1879. Brown cloth...

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Lot 32
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang GOETHE'S WORKS. illus BY TH

E BEST GERMAN ARTISTS George Barrie, Phila, NY, and Boston...

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Lot 33
Andersen, Hans Christian, Translated By Mary Howitt

The Improvisatore: Or, Life in Italy. From the Danish of Hans...

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Lot 34
(Signed/limited Birthday Edition) Hale, Edward Ever

ett, THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, NY, Outlook Co., 1912. One of...

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Lot 35
(5 pre-civil war titles by female authors) Taylor,

Jane. Godfrey Hall: or, Prudence and Principle : a Tale Munroe...

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Lot 36
Gore, Catherine Grace Frances (1799-1861) Stokeshil

l Place : or the Man of Business in Three Volumes Henry Colburn...

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Lot 37
(9 various 19th century bound American periodicals)

The Princeton Review, Bound Volume (I), Nos I-IV (January, April...

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Lot 38
(9 Late 18th-late 19th century bound British litera

ry/illus periodicals) The Novelist's Magazine, Vol. I Harrison and...

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Lot 39
THE HARVARD CLASSICS, BONDED LEATHER COLLECTOR'S ED

ITION 31 VOLUMES Grolier Enterprises Corp., Danbury CT, 1980. Near...

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Lot 40
(Mostly 19th century leatherbound poetry) Byron, Ge

orge, Poems, Kirk and Mercin, Etc., Philadelphia, 1817. Very...

150
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Lot 41
(Leatherbound poetry, signed bindings) The Poetical

Works of Thomas Parnell William Pickering, London, 1852. Very...

250
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Lot 42
(4 Leatherbound Sir Walter Scott) The Lay of the La

st Minstrel, A Poem, Etheridge and Bliss, Boston, 1807. 2nd U. S...

75
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Lot 43
Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale. And Othe

r Poems by Thomas Campbell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London...

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Lot 44
(Signed, Inscribed and/or limited poetry) Selection

s from the Poems of S. Weir Mitchell, Macmillan, London...

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Lot 45
John, Edmund, The Flute of Sardonyx, Herbert Jenkin

s, London, 1913, Frontis. Port., 1st Edition, 2nd Issue. 12mo...

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Lot 46
THE POEMS OF JOHN DRYDEN Edited By James Kinsley, C

larendon Press, Oxford, 1958. First thus, Very Good+ in lightly...

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Lot 47
(Thackeray 1st, + 1 other) The Virginians by W. M.

Thackeray, Bradbury & Evans, London, 1858, Illus. by author, 1st...

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Lot 48
Allibone, S. Austin A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLIS

H LITERATURE, AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS. LIVING AND...

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Lot 49
(4 on Lit. Crit.) Chesterton, G. K. Appreciations a

nd Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens J. M. Dent, London...

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Lot 50
( Poetry, 4 1sts + an illus Rossetti) SONGS FOR ALL

SEASONS by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ticknor and Fields 1865, Boston...

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