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Lot 3117

Eight Titles, Most from The Easton Press

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(8) titles, (9) total volumes; to include (5) Collector's Editions from The Easton Press (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1980-1989), all bound in genuine leather with gilt-lettering and decoration, moire endpapers, all edges gilt, and silk ribbon bookmark, with the following titles: Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa; Joy Adamson's Born Free; Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago (2 volumes); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; and Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Also included in the lot are Discovering Britain & Ireland (National Geographic Society), Kenneth Roberts's Rabble in Arms (International Collectors Library), and Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (International Collectors Library).

Largest 9 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.; Smallest 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

Private Collection, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Easton Press books with occasional very light wear to boards and page edges; one with a small spot of grime otherwise interiors are pristine; all volumes very good or near fine. The remaining three volumes range from good to very good condition; all with age and shelf wear, two with ownership blind stamp, one with bowed boards and joint cracking, with heaviest wear to Favorite Poems (loss at head of spine).