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Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1904. Book. Illus. by Charles Dudley Warner, West, Travel, Americana, Frank T. Merrill, E.H. Garrett, C.D. Weldon, Frederick Dielman, Dan C. Beard, Alice Barber Stephens, B. William Clinedinst, Peter Newell, Seymour M. Stone, P. Allan Gilbert, W. Granville Smith, Louise Roger. Very Good. Cloth. By Artists, Editor and Publisher. Limited, Numbered and Signed Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 15 volumes, #408 limited to 612 copies signed by many of the artists, the editor and the publisher. Cloth is mildly rubbed, stained, backstrip sunned, The pages were apparently unopened, but were badly opened as there are many pages with tears. The books have the previous owner's signature, Edwin Reynolds, 1905 in every volume; the ink bleeds through to the back page. Bindings are solid..

New York: Houghton Mifflin Book. Very Good. Red Buckrum. Standard Library Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In Fifteen Volumes, standard Library Edition, illustrated with etchings and engravings on steel- all volumes present, and in very good condition with light rubbing to backstrip and previous owner's signature on front free end page..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1899. Book. Illus. by E. Boyd Smith. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 11 Volumes, lightly soiled boards, The books are unnumbered, and are missing Anna Karenina Vol. I and II. 1 The Cossacks, Sevastopol, The Invaders, and Other Stories frontispiece by F. C. Yohn and other illustrators 2 My Confession, My Religion, The Gospel in Brief frontis sketch of Tolstoi by Ryepin 3 What is to be Done, Life 4 The Kingdom of God is Within You, What is Art? What is Religion? Frontispiece by Ryepin 5 The Long Exile, Master and Man, The Kreutzer Sonata, Dramas Frontispiece by T. V. Chominski 6 A Russian Proprietor The Death of Ivan Ilyitch and other Stories. Frontispiece by T. V. Chominski 7 Resurrection Vol. I-II 8 Anna Karenina Vol. III Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. 9 War and Peace Vol. I and II 10 War and Peace Vol. III and IV 11 War and Peace Volumes V and VI The volumes are sound and the pages are clean. One volume has a small tear on… Read More

New York: P. F. Collier, 1937. Book. Very Good. Brown Blindstamped Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 46 volumes plus the unnumbered Reading Guide, missing volumes 8, 12, 20, 21, and 32. Volume 50 is the Introduction, Readers Guide and Indexes. Only the mildest of wear to the present volumes..

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1902. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Twenty five volumes in salmon cloth with decorative backstrip, blindstamped cover, gilt edged top g.e.t. nice set! Here is a list of titles with authors: 1 Story of Books, Gertrude Rawlings 2 Story of the Alphabet, Edward Clodd 3 Story of the Earth, H. G. Seeley 4 Story of Photography, Alfred T. Story 5 Story of the Living Machine, H. W. Conn 6 Story of the Cotton Plant, Frederick Wilkinson 7 Story of Animal, Life, B. Lindsay 8 Story of the Mind, James Mark Baldwin 9 Story of "Primitive Man", Edward Clodd 10 Story of the Art of Building, P. Leslie Waterhouse 11 Story of a Piece of Coal, Edward A Martin 12 Story of King Alfred, Walter Besant 13 Story of Earth's Atmosphere, Douglas Archibald 14 Story of Life in the Seas, Sydney J. Hickson 15 Story of the Solar System, George F. Chambers 16 Story of Geographical Discoveries, Joseph Jacobs 17 The Story of A Grain of Wheat ,… Read More

University Socierty Inc. Book. Good. 1908, 5 volume set, 1-3 comprised of animals of the world, and 4 and 5 consist of Living races of Mankind. Nearly 2,000 illustrations, some color plates. Three quarter red leather with brown cloth. Spines are chipping badly. One volume has a cracked binding, but the books are solid, The illustrations of the living human races are very interesting..

Scribners Book. Near Fine. 1899, frontispiece, deckled edges, 10 volumes, green cloth, gilt lettering, G.E.T., very good to fine cond. Matches the James Whitcomb Riley set, very nice!.

Scribners, 1899. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 10 volumes, 1899, fine yellow cloth, G.E.T., deckled pages, near fine cond. Matches the Eugene Field Set, very nice!.

St. Louis and Chicago: Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1899. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather/ Board. Royal Destroyed Plate Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ten volumes, #855 of 1000 sets of this edition known as the Royal Destroyed Plate Edition, 4107 pages including general index of orators, index of subjects of orators, chronological index of orators and subjects, and general index, ex library, three of the volumes have been without thought to aesthetics fortified with black library tape on the leather backstrips, all bindings tight, generally very clean, one volumes frontiospiece tissue is torn, gilt edged top. Volume 10 has examples of plates that were destroyed. Many of the plates are fine gravures, profusely illustrated filled with great orators from long ago to 1898..