Literature
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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) HALLMARK DOLLS
A group of two Hallmark Dolls Collector Albums. n. p.: Hall Brothers, 1948. Oblong 8vo, pictorial covers. Made to house doll cards. From the Land of Make Believe. With all 16 numbered doll cards complete and fitted into slots. Dolls of the Nations. Numbers 17-24 only of 32 slots. Wear to edges of covers on both volumes; otherwise paper dolls are in fine condition. $100-200 153
(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) SENDAK, MAURICE
Outside Over There. (New York): (Harper and Row, 1981). Oblong 4to, original red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. With a signed card laid in. Fine. $100-200 154
(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) WALTER, JERROLD
The Big Book of Fables. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1912. 4to, original pictorial cloth stamped gilt, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers. With 28 colored plates and numerous illustrations throughout. Fading to boards; head of spine and edges of boards bumped; minor dampstaining to front board; hinges starting; otherwise fine. $100-200 155
DICKENS, CHARLES
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Bleak House. Illustrated by H. K. Brown. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine with red label, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, frontispiece and engraved title. First edition in book form. Soiling to edges of frontispiece and title page; rubbing to extremities of boards; very minor scorching to boards; age darkening to extremities of some plates; very minor foxing; otherwise a fine first edition. $200-400 156
ELIOT, T. S.
A Song for Simeon. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Thin 8vo, gilt titles to boards. One of 500 copies of the limited large paper edition, numbered and signed by T. S. Eliot to the limitation page. Minor soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $200-400 157
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Autographed letter signed. 1 p. Concord, January 24, 1849. To an unknown recipient, concerning an engagement in Albany, New York. Lightly creased in quadrants; minor darkening to outer edges; otherwise fine. $300-500 158
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 159
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FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
8vo, brown embossed cloth. First edition. Together with May Day and Other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. First edition. Both 8vo, wear to cloth boards; minor foxing throughout; otherwise fine. $300-500