Lot 193: [LITERATURE]--Dickens, Sand, Cooper

[LITERATURE]-A) Dickens Illustrated Cabinet Edition, published by Dana Estes & Company, Boston. Item Description: Dana Estes & Company, Boston. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. This is an illustrated 28-volume set of Dickens' works, published circa 1900. Each volume is bound in green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine; gilt top page edges; rough cut fore and bottom page edges; frontispiece and interior illustrations are all tissue-covered. Books are all tight and unmarked; some with slight spine slants and edgewear to tail of spine. Included are Uncommercial Traveler, Little Dorrit (2 volumes), Martin Chuzzlewit (2), Our Mutual Friend (2), Bleak House (2), Miscellanies/American Notes, Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge (2), Edwin Drood, Child's History of England, Sketches by Boz, David Copperfield (2), No Thoroughfare/Reprinted Pieces, Dombey & Son (2), Oliver Twist/Hunted Down, Old Curiosity Shop (2; second volume with Hard Times), Pickwick Papers (2), Christmas Books (2), and Nicholas Nickleby (CHECK VOLUMES). B) Masterpieces of George Sand, George Barrie & Son, Philadelphia; 1900 (16 of 20 Vols), George Barrie & Son, 1900. GREEN CLOTH WITH DECKL ... Book Condition: Very Good. Sand, George. Masterpieces of George Sand. 20 volume set. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1900. Edition de Nohant, #423 of 1000 sets. 8vo. Green cloth with deckled edges and top edge gilt. Book condition: Very good. Lovely set with only faint shelf wear at extremities. Paper label is lacking on volume 1, and labels on several other volumes are chipped at edges with small pieces lacking, but otherwise readable. C) Cooper, James Fenimore. The Spy. Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., 1849. Hardcover. Possible Reprint.

Price Realized: $150

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