Origin: American, Norwalk, Connecticut
Date: Late 20th to early 21st century
Period/Style: Easton Press Collector's Editions
Maker: Easton Press
Materials: Full leather bindings, gilt decoration, and paper
Form: Group of thirteen books
Description: Group of thirteen Easton Press literary classics bound in full leather with raised spine bands, gilt decoration, and gilt page edges. Titles comprise Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Plato's Dialogues on Love and Friendship, The Alhambra by Washington Irving, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, The Analects of Confucius, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, and seven works by Ernest Hemingway comprising The Fifth Column, In Our Time, The Torrents of Spring, Islands in the Stream, Across the River and Into the Trees, Winner Take Nothing, and A Farewell to Arms.
Marks: Easton Press imprints and gilt spine titles.
Dimensions: Largest approximately 11 in. H, 8 in. W
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Overall good shelf condition with scattered rubbing and scuffs to the leather bindings and minor edge and corner wear. Gilt page edges exhibit dust, light scratches, smudging, tonal variation, and occasional label or adhesive residue.