Marie: A Story of Russian Love. (with 8 other volumes).

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes, 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"), variously paginated, uniformly (and exquisitely) bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons (signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper) ca. 19-teens. Full dark brown crushed morocco, the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, with elegant tooling in black wrapping the spines onto both boards mimicking coptic fastenings tied up with fleur-de-lys fasteners. Top edges gilt, floral blind-tooled inner dentelles, brown laid-paper doublures, and brown satin-ribbon page-markers bound in, with velvet-lined, tan cloth over board slipcase.

A few ribbon markers frayed, occasional light rubbing mostly at the joints, otherwise about Fine in slipcase which is soiled & stained mostly at the back of the box.

A lovely set of "Love in Leather," as we like to call it, which is perhaps more aptly characterized (courtesy Raymond Carver) as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The publisher provides a running title for most of the volumes of "Tales from Foreign Lands."

Includes:

Pushkin, Alexander (translated by Marie H. de Zielinska). Marie: A Story of Russian Love, 1906;

Galdos, B. Perez. Marianela: A Story of Spanish Love, 1907;

Mrs Gaskell. Cousin Phillis: A Story of English Love, 1910;

Alphonse de Lamartine (translated by James B Runnion) Graziella: A Story of Italian Love, 1905;

Drachmann, Holger. Nanna: A Story of Danish Love, 1901, first printing;

Charlot, Francis, Madeleine: A Story of French Love, 1906;

Krejsa, Antonie (translated by Caroline Svetla), Maria Felicia: A Story of Bohemian Love, 1900;

Jensen, Wilhelm. Karine: A Story of Swedish Love, 1909;

Muller, Max, Memories from the German of Max Muller, 1909