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MEREDITH, GEORGE.
Works.
27 volumes. Titles in red and black. Illustrated
throughout. 8vo, contemporary
1
/
2
tan calf, spines lettered and blocked in gilt in compart-
ments, all edges gilt, by Bumpus, scattered rubbing with occasional nicks and abrasions,
slight staining to a few fore-edges; scattered foxing internally. A complete and uniform set
of the “Memorial Edition.”
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
London: Constable and Company, 1909-11
[350/500]
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MERIMÉE, PROSPER.
Writings.
8 volumes. Essay by George Saintsbury. Titles
in red and black. Plates with lettered tissue guards. 8vo,
1
/
2
turquoise morocco, spines with
gilt flowers inlaid, top edges gilt, spines slightly dried, slight rubbing to extremities, few
scuffs, by La Belle Sauvage; Robert and Alice Bailey Garland bookplates.
New York: Croscup & Holdy, 1905
[500/750]
ONE OF
520
NUMBERED COPIES
of the Large-Paper Edition with the plates in two states.
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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT.
Group of 7 First Editions.
Together, 8 vol-
umes. 8vo, cloth; dust jackets as called for; condition varies but generally good with
exceptions noted below.
New York: Harper & Brothers, vd
[400/600]
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. 1923 * The Buck in the Snow. Jacket soiled and torn
with loss to spine panel. 1928 * Fatal Interview. 1931 * Wine From These Grapes. 1934 *
Huntsman, What Quarry? 1939 * Make the Arrows Bright. Variant binding in limp leather;
in publisher’s box. 1940 * Collected Sonnets. In publisher’s card slipcase. 1941 * With: Yost.
A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1937.
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MELVILLE, HERMAN.
Pierre;
or, The Ambiguities.
8vo,
3
/
4
brown
morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt,
tiny chip to head of spine, mild rubbing to
board edges and joints; top edges gilt;
original blind-stamped, gilt-lettered pur-
ple cloth bound in at end, some very
occasional minor foxing, else clean.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
attractively rebound, retaining
original covers. The follow-up to Moby-Dick.
The notorious opprobrium of the critics towards
Melville’s later novels likely reached their
zenith as regards the reception of Pierre, with
the objections such that his sanity was called
into question. Today, the work is considered
perhaps “the best psychological novel that had
yet been written in English.” (Higgins and
Parker, p. 196). BAL 13666.
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