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Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1878. Hardcover. Good+. Complete set in four volumes; 12mos, green cloth, no djs; good+ (boards rubbed; spine ends worn and frayed; ugly scar from removal of bookplate to all four front pastedowns; hinges starting; chip to cloth on spine of v2; rfep of v3 is torn and creased); pages bright and free of writing, each volume has nice engraved frontispiece.

New York: Scribner's, 1903. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Good+. Thackeray. Kensington Edition, 1903-1904. Limited #100/100, printed on Japan paper. INCOMPLETE set, only 30 of 32 volumes (v26 and v27 missing). Tan colored paper boards with art vellum spines and corners. Pages untrimmed. Good Plus condition with spines slightly soiled. Spine of Vol 8 is yellowed; foxing to spines of Vols 17-21 and 23-25. Boards slightly soiled with very light foxing to several vols; foxing to top edges. Bindings loosening with hinge cracks in several vols. Vol 3: .5" portion of first blankpage in rear cut out. Vol 12: Water mark to top edge of front board; 2" tear to rear joint; erased pencil markings to last two blank pages in rear. Vol 32 : Water spots and marks on rear board. Due to weight of set, extra postage will be required.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. Very Good-. Author's Autograph Copy N0. 295." SIGNED by Harte in vol. 1 and dated Septem. 1896. This set includes all volumes published until 1903 but lacks vol. 20, published in 1914. A vg- set, overall; the spines are faded to brown, the title pieces darkened w/ several chipped (vol. 1 and 15-20), spine ends bumped and worn (few tiny tears to ends and chips to cloth). Hinges repaired in vol. 1, which also has a thin waterstain at the bottom corner of the ffep only. Pages 297-312 creased along side edge. Text in all vols. free of marks. This wonderful set includes illustrations by many of the finest artists of the time, and many have SIGNED various plates: James Montgomery Flagg, E. Boyd Smith (3x), Guy Rose, B. West Clinedinst, Mary Hallock Foote (2x), Alice Barber Stephens (2x), W.L. Taylor, Fredric Remington, Otto H. Bacher, M.J. Burns, Malcolm Fraser (2x), T. de Thulstrup, Frederick Dielman, Orson Lowell (2x), Frank T. Merrill, Eric Pape,… Read More