Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. Madame Bovary. Translated by John Stirling. 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, dampstain to bottom of front and rear boards, slightly rubbed extremities; "J. Geo Hintz's Circulating L'brary" bookplate to front pastedown, front hinge cracked but holding, 1-page ad on verso of title, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue at end. Elusive early American edition. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, (1881). [With:] Stevenson, Robert Louis. Island Nights' Entertainments. Illustrated. 8vo, original gilt-decorated blue/green cloth, slightly rubbed extremities; ownership label to front pastedown, publisher's ads at end. First edition, with hand-corrected price list facing half-title page. London: Cassell and Company, 1893. (2) Vp, vd