Lot 204: [LITERATURE]

[LITERATURE] -- A) Thoreau, Henry David. "The Essay on Friendship". The Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, NY, 1903. 45pp. Period green suede wrappers, deckled edges, hand-colored title page and historiated initials. B) "The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories in 10 Volumes" (Complete Set). Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1927. Hardcover (32mo). Bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering to spines, faded. Fair condition. C) "The Complete Works of Shakespeare...From the text of the Corrected Copy, George Steevens, Esq...and a Memoir by Alex Chalmers." Rickey and Carroll, Cincinnati, 1864. 828pp, spine detatched, not effecting the binding. Illustrated throughout with steel engravings, foxing and toning throughout. D) Kipling, Rudyard. "Soldiers Three The Story of Gadsbys In Black and White". Doubleday & McClure Company, NY, 1899. E) Stempel, Guido. "A Book of Ballads Old and New". Henry Holt and Company, NY. 1936. F) "The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Edited from Numerous Manuscripts". Skeat, Walter W. (editor). Oxford, 1906.

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