Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BOUND WITH A MANUSCRIPT LEAF COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. The Writings. 33 volumes. Illustrated throughout including hand-colored frontispiece on Japan vellum and photogravure title-page vignette to each volume; all with lettered tissue-guards. 8vo, contemporary full tan polished morocco, leaf-and-vine scrollwork within gilt panels, red morocco flower onlays, spines similarly gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, occasional rubbing to board and spine extremities, few insignificant scrapes, few corners bumped, wide turn-ins, full morocco gilt doublures with white and green floral onlays, silk moiré endpapers. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1906]

Additional Details

author's autograph edition. number 57 of 63 sets. with folio page containing 40 lines of manuscript bound-in (the volume containing The Spy) to a preliminary leaf, with several holograph corrections. Luxuriously bound set.