Five 19th Century Literary Works.

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Five 19th Century Literary Works. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852, two volumes bound in beige cloth, gilt stamping on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated title page, (damage and losses to spines, read board of volume 1 is detached, soiling and fading to binding, foxing),7 3/4 x 5 in.; Mathews, Joanna H., Belle's Pink Boots, New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881, bound in green cloth with gilt decorations to front cover, floral green end papers, full gilt edges, with colored illustrations by Ida Waugh, inscribed on ffep, (some weakness to the binding especially at the joints, shelf wear),8 1/2 x 7 in.; Barnum, P.T., Struggles and Triumphs, Buffalo: Warren, Johnson & Co., 1872, bound in reddish brown cloth, blind-stamping on front and back covers, gilt lettering and stamping on spine, frontispiece portrait of Barnum, illustrated throughout, inscribed on ffep, (sunning and fading to spine and edges, foxing),8 x 5 1/4 in.; Pickerton, Allan, The Detective and the Somnambulist, Chicago: W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 1875, bound in blue cloth, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated throughout, inscribed on ffep, (sunning to spine, rubbing to boards, shelf wear),7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881, bound in green cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, with illustrations by John Tennel, inscribed on flyleaf, (weak binding, losses to spine, shelf wear),8 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate $300-500


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