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Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 609p octavo, First edition bound from the parts with blue printed wrap bound in the rear. Author/Poet Eugene Field's Copy with eritten statement from hisson and from Julia S Field his wife. His son has written " This book comes from yje library of my father, Eugene Field, and was one of his choicest items. Eugene Field 2nd Oct 14 1923" Then it was signed and notarized by Julia Field in 1929. This copy sold at auction in 1937. A very good copy in full calf, old restoration along the gutters, top edge gilt . Old antiquarian bookseller's (Trebizond Rare Books)note circa 1950's laid in.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers. Chapman and Hall, London, 1837.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 22 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xiv (2) 609pp. Half-title. Handsomely bound in full red leather, gilt lettering to spine.Signed binding "Harry F. Marls."Gilt top foredge. 5 raised bands to spine. Marble endpapers. With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. Infamous forger Eugene Fields, Jr. association copy with "This book comes from the library of my father, Eugene Field - Eugune Field II Oct 20 - 1920". First edition first issue with points described in "Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth" by Walter E. Smith (Part 1: 3) the the suppressed plates by R. W. Buss present opposite pages 69 and 74. . Light scuffing to raised bands. Two closed tears to the half-title page. Small trianglular piece re-attached to the frontispiece which effects the very edge of the image. Housed in a custom red and brown slipcase, which shows some scuffing. Nice copy.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.