Lot 299
Easton Press: Dickens, Melville, Twain, and Wells. Four outstanding masterpieces in deluxe volumes
1. Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2011. Deluxe limited edition 377/400 copies. Hardcover. 624 pages. Half-bound in dark green leather, with gilt lettering and design to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges to pages, and ribbon marker. Book size: 6 x 9". In near mint to mint condition.
2. Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. The Folio Society, London, 2009. Limited edition 148/1750 copies with Rockwell Kent's classic illustrations. Hardcover. 768 pages. Full black leather binding with silver lettering on spine and cover design based on one of Kent's illustrations. Book size: 9¼" x 6¾". Accompanying commentary volume, 312 pages, bound in buckram, also 9¼" x 6¾". Presented together in a handsome buckram-bound solander box. Near mint to mint.
3. Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2011. Deluxe limited edition 74/400 copies. Recreation of the historic 1882 first edition, including all 192 original illustrations. Hardcover. 411 pages. Full dark green leather binding with gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover, marbled endpapers handmade in Spain, and gilt edging to pages. Matching green custom solander box, with matching gilt lettering and design to spine and front cover. Near mint to mint.
4. Wells, H.G. The Outline of History: A plain history of life and mankind, 2 vols. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2012. Deluxe limited edition 101/400. Hardcover. 780 pages in total. Fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design against black on spine and covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edging to pages, and with every monochrome and full-color illustration and period advertisement from the original fortnightly serial editions of 1919-1920. Book size: 8½ x 11". Presented in the matching red buckram-bound slipcase. Near mint to mint. Estimate Value $600 - 700
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