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Auction archive: Lot number 226

Works, i.e.] The Writings of Mark Twain

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$9,000
Auction archive: Lot number 226

Works, i.e.] The Writings of Mark Twain

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$9,000
Beschreibung:

Title: [Works, i.e.] The Writings of Mark Twain Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1929 Description: 37 volumes. Gravure plates froom drawings, paintings, photographs, etc.; printed tissue guards. 8½x5¾, half gilt-ruled red levant morocco & cloth, spines elaborately tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. No. 38 of 1024 sets of the Stormfield Edition. Sales Note: The spine for the Huckleberry Finn volume has been rebacked. Handsome set of the works of the great American humorist Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. Bound in at the front of each volume is an ornate leaf stating "Library of Fannie May Howard." Lot Amendments Condition: A touch of shelf wear, margins of endpapers and flyleaves darkened from leather turn-ins; near fine to fine. Item number: 178307

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: [Works, i.e.] The Writings of Mark Twain Author: Twain, Mark Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1929 Description: 37 volumes. Gravure plates froom drawings, paintings, photographs, etc.; printed tissue guards. 8½x5¾, half gilt-ruled red levant morocco & cloth, spines elaborately tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. No. 38 of 1024 sets of the Stormfield Edition. Sales Note: The spine for the Huckleberry Finn volume has been rebacked. Handsome set of the works of the great American humorist Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. Bound in at the front of each volume is an ornate leaf stating "Library of Fannie May Howard." Lot Amendments Condition: A touch of shelf wear, margins of endpapers and flyleaves darkened from leather turn-ins; near fine to fine. Item number: 178307

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
30 Nov 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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