Description:
Decorative Bindings, Three Sets, Approximately Thirty-nine Volumes, including: The Book of History, New York: Grolier Society, [1921], eighteen octavo volumes, bound in half leather, tooled in gilt, the set illustrated throughout; The Novels of Victor Hugo, New York: George H. Richmond & Co., 1892, Holland paper edition, copy number 454 of 1,000 printed, fourteen large quarto volumes bound in uniform half leather; [and] Charles Lever's Military Novels, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1906, in seven small octavo volumes, half leather, spines damaged; the three sets occupying approximately 4 1/2 feet of shelf space.
Estimate $150-250
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Keywords
Grolier Society, Richmond & Co., Brown & Co., Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, NetherlandsJohn Dorfman
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