Description:
Literature, 20th Century, Six Titles. Including: Maugham's Of Human Bondage, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1936, one of 751 copies signed by the author and illustrator Rudolph Schwabe, in the publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase (jacket tattered); E.M. Forster's Howard's End, London: Arnold, 1910, publisher's red cloth; [and] A Passage to India, London: Arnold, 1924, publisher's red cloth; Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Howe, 1920, in publisher's cloth, bumped; Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York: Scribner's, 1940, no dust jacket; and Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV, New York: Viking, 1957, in the dust jacket. (6)
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
Rudolph Schwabe, Sinclair Lewis, London, IndiaJohn Dorfman
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