Sale 945 | Fine Books & Manuscripts Including Americana

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Publishers Trade Bindings Lots 524-571

524 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. BARRIE, James Matthew (1860-1937). The Little Minister. New York: Loveff, Coryeff and Company, 1892. 2 volumes, 8vo. Etched plates, title and initials printed in red. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Publisher’s mint green cloth, wrap-around gilt floral design, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few very small spots to edge). Provenance: Harrison Hayford (bookplate). A SUPERB COPY OF THIS RARE BINDING. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $150 - 250

525 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING]. BASILE, Giambattista (1566-1632). The Pentamerone, or the Story of Stories. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. 12mo. Illustrations after George Cruikshank. Publisher’s decorated brown cloth (minor loss to finish on front cover); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (some minor soiling, a few discreet repairs). [With:] HEWLETT, Maurice (1861-1923). The Little Iliad. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915. 8vo. Frontispiece by Philip Burne Jones. Publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to extremities); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET reproducing Jones’s frontispiece design (some very minor soiling, a few discreet repairs). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $150 - 250

526 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [ARMSTRONG, Margaret, designer]. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Pippa Passes. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900.

527 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. DASKAM, Josephine Dodge (1876-1961). Smith College Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.

2 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Margaret Armstrong. Original green cloth gilt-decorated, upper cover with floral canvas onlay, after a design by Margaret Armstrong (very slight rubbing to extremities).

8vo. Title printed in green and black. Publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (joints slightly rubbed, very slightly leaned). Provenance: Belknap and Warfield (bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown).

FIRST EDITION, A BRIGHT COPY. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300

[With:] WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (1856-1923). A Cathedral Courtship and Penelope’s English Experiences. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, 1p. publisher’s advertisement; illustrated by Clifford Carleton. Publisher’s decorated tan cloth (very minor stain). Provenance: Helen Case Tobey (signature); Frederick Loeser & Co. (bookseller’s ticket). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300

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