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Next Day Air and Second Day service is available upon request. Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted • WorldWidE shippiNg IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS, INC. CATaloGUE XXXII 3 4 CATaloGUE XXXII IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS, INC. IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS, INC. IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS, INC. 185 HARRIET BEEchER STOWE Writings, including samples of rare autographed material IMPERIAL FINE BOOKS, INC. CATaloGUE XXXII 5 1. ALISON, Sir Archibald in a magnificent deluxe gilt-tooled binding, with title page in History of Europe from the Commencement of the red and black, red engraved initials and vignettes through- French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bour- out text. Original blue printed wrappers bound in. Very good bons in 1815 with Portraits condition, occasional faint foxing, beautifully bound. Pub: Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. 1849. $3,500 9. AUSTEN, Jane 14 volumes. Bound in ¾ wine morocco, marbled boards, top Works edges gilt, raised bands. pub: london: Eveleigh Nash and grayson. ltd. 1927. $2,500 2. (ANONYMOUS) 5 volumes. With an introduction by John Bailey. Bound in ¾ Old and New London blue morocco by Bayntun (spines slightly faded) top edges Pub: London: Cassell, Peter & Galpin n.d., circa gilt, raised bands, gilt panels. 1890’s. $1,800 6 volumes. A narrative of its history, its people and its places. 10. AUSTEN, Jane Illustrated with numerous engravings. Bound in ¾ wine calf, The Novels and Letters marbled edges, raised bands, gilt panels. Quartos. pub: New York and philadelphia. Frank S. Holby. 1914. $7,500 3. (ANONYMOUS) 12 volumes. Edited by Reginald B. Johnson. “Hampshire Edi- Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (thin paper tion.” With colored illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock. dictionary) Bound in ¾ wine morocco, top edges gilt, raised bands, or- Pub: Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam and Co. nate gilt on spines. A fine set. 1953. $550 1 volume. Bound in full blue morocco, top edge gilt, raised 11. BALZAC, de Honore bands, ornate gilt on covers and spines. La Comédie Humaine Pub: La Societe Renaissance. 1902. $27,500 4. (ANONYMOUS) 46 volumes. Beautiful and unique set, in French, Extra-illus- Ballet and Opera trated. The text in French (unexpurgated) finely printed on Pub: London: David Bogue. n.d., circa 1880’s. $1,200 Japanese vellum paper with wide margins. Profusely illus- 1 volume. Beauties of the Opera and Ballet. Illustrated with trated with a charming series of etchings in two states, on highly-finished portraits, engraved on steel and numer- Japan paper and India paper mounted; Extra-illustrated ous engravings on wood under the superintendence of Mr. with a series of 46 original signed water-color drawings and Charles Heath. Elaborately bound in full red morocco, or- over 100 original etchings on Japan paper inlaid; 46 origi- nate gilt designs on covers and spine. Quarto. A beautiful nal signed water-color drawings on the title pages and over copy. 150 Goupil photogravures (many colored by hand) on Hol- land paper inlaid on Japan paper. Handsomely bound in 5. (ANONYMOUS)) full violet polished French levant morocco, inlays of green Mother Goose and the old Nursery Rhymes and white morocco, elaborately gilt, doublures of green le- Pub: London: William Heinemann. 1913. $6,500 vant morocco within gold panels and in the front doublure 1 volume. Illustrated in color and signed by Arthur Rackham. of each volume is a magnificent water-color drawing, 4 x 7 Bound in full maroon morocco, top edge gilt, raised bands, inches, under transparent vellum. Green and violet moiré gilt panels, quarto. silk ends and fly-leaves, gilt tops, uncut, in plush lined slip- cases. A very beautiful and unique set, of which but one 6. ARCHER, Thomas copy exists, made under the personal direction of the own- Queen Victoria, Her Life and Jubilee er, a well-known collector whose signature appears on each Pub: London: Blackie & Son. n.d., circa 1880’s. $750 water color drawing which had to be submitted for his ap- 2 volumes. Illustrated with a series of highly-finished etch- proval and acceptance before being placed in the volume; ings. Bound in ¾ red morocco, marbled boards, all edges over four thousand dollars being expended to complete the gilt, raised bands. set. Exquisite set. 7. (ART) Gebhart, Emile 12. BARRIE, J. M. Sandro Botticelli et Son Epopque Quality Street Pub: Paris: Goupil and Co., Manzi, Joyant & Co. Pub: London: Hodder and Stoughton. n.d., circa 1907. $3,500 1910. $2,500 1 volume. Folio, bound in full contemporary brown levant 1 volume. Illustrated in color and signed by Hugh Thomson. morocco, ornate gilt-tooled covers and spine, raised bands, Limited to 1000 copies this being #646. Bound in full decora- gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others un- tive vellum, gilt on covers and spine. Quarto. cut. Limited to 300 copies on special paper, in a superb, or- nate gilt-tooled full morocco binding, containing ten lovely 13. BELDAM, George W. full color and fifty tinted plates on heavy stock. Original pa- Great Golfers per wrapper bound in. A beautifully printed and produced Pub: London: MacMillan & Co. 1904. $2,500 work, with title page in red and black, and red engraved ini- 1 volume. The methods at a glance. Illustrated by 268 ac- tials and vignettes throughout text. Fine condition, in an tion-photographs.