Fantastic Lifetime Book Collection

Fantastic Lifetime Book Collection

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Muscarelli Auction is proud to be Handling The Book Collection from a local Collector.
Collection includes modern first editions and author signed first editions. A great collection of books by respected Japanese writers of novels, poetry, and short stories can be found among our many listings. Limited edition Roycroft books signed by Elbert Hubbard, history, fine literature and Easton Press leather bindings round out this superb collection.
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"The Lady Of The Boat" By Lady Murasaki, 1932

Lot # 101      

Published by Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston & New York, 1933, First Edition, fifth volume in the Japanese Classic "The Tale Of Genji", hardcover, good condition, spine has...more faded and paste down label has chipping and soiling, covers are very good with rubbing to corners, interior is very good with deckled edges, edges are soiled.

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"The Tale Of Genji" Part Four: Blue Trousers By Lady Murasaki 1928

Lot # 102      

Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston & New York, 1928, Hardcover in original dust jacket, good + condition, color dust jacket has chipping on spine bottom and ...moresome edges-minor, interior is reasonably clean with light page toning, edges of pages are foxed. part 4 in the series The Tale Of Genji.

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"The Tale Of Genji" Part Three: A Wreath Of Cloud By Lady Murasaki 1927

Lot # 103      

Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston & New York, 1927, Hardcover in original dust jacket, very good condition, dust jacket has chipping has clipped price other...morewise very good +, interior is reasonably clean with light page toning, edges of pages have some foxing, part three in series The Tale Of Genji, comes covered in mylar.

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"Blue Trousers" By Lady Murasaki, Translated By Arthur Waley 1928 First Edition

Lot # 104      

Published by George Allen & Unwin, 1928, first edition-first published, hardcover, brown cloth with gilt titles, good condition, covers are rubbed in corners and top and ...morebottom of spine has light chipping, first few pages of interior has light foxing-remainder is light toned, part 4 in series The Tale Of Genji

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"The Tale Of Genji" By Lady Murasaki 1926

Lot # 105      

Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company Boston-New York, 1926, first American edition, fourth impression, hardcover no dust jacket, very good condition, covers edges are ...morerubbed, blue cloth spine has faded and paste on label has small chip, interior is reasonably clean with light page toning, front endpaper has discoloration from storage of sheet of paper. edges of pages are lightly soiled.

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Signed First Edition "The Story Of A Developing Furniture Style" Stickley

Lot # 106      

Published by L. & J. G. Stickley Inc, 1950, hardcover with title on front cover, 52 pp., signed by author Leopold Stickley, illustrated with drawings, very good-corners a...morend edges of boards are rubbed, back cover has some scratches, interior is clean.

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"Essays Of Michel De Montaigne" Illustrated By Salvador Dali 1947

Lot # 107      

Published by Doubleday & Company New York 1947, illustrated by Salvador Dali, translated by Charles Cotton, hardcover grey and green cloth binding with gilt decoration an...mored titles, very good +, covers are slightly bumped at corners, interior is clean, nice tight clean copy.

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Folio Society " The Qur'an" 2010

Lot # 108      

Published by The Folio Society London, 2010 3rd printing, white cloth hardback with gilded top edge and ribbon marker, illustrated with 6 double-page color plates from th...moree Qur'an of Sultan Baybars, fine condition in publishers cellophane wrap.

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"Women In Love" By D. H. Lawrence, 1988

Lot # 109      

Published by Easton Press 1988, hardback with burgundy covers with stamped gilt decoration and titles, fine condition, still in publishers cellophane wrap....more

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" The Great Gatsby" By F. Scott Fitzgerald 1991

Lot # 110      

Published by Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut, 1991, leather with gilt decorations and titles, moire endpapers and silk bookmark, fine condition, still in publishers cell...moreophane wrap.

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"The Iliad Of Homer" Easton Press 1979

Lot # 111      

Published by Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut, 1979, leather with gilt decorations and titles and page edges, fine condition, still in publishers cellophane wrap....more

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4 Volumes Of 6 of Collier's Pearl Buck's Writings 1931-39

Lot # 112      

Published by P. F. Collier & Son 1936, 4 volumes of 6 volume set, bound in brown cloth with gilt titles, lot includes The Good Earth 1931, Sons 1932, The House Divided 19...more35 and The Exile 1936, all books are in very good + condition with tissue jackets which are in fair condition. interiors are clean and bright, covers have minor wear.

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2 Copies Of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" BY Ernest Hemingway 1940 First Editions

Lot # 113      

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940, first editions, copy one has original dust jacket in fair condition, copy two has no dust jacket, both books are bou...morend in an oatmeal cloth, bindings are in very good condition with some light soiling at seams of spine and bumped corners, interior is page toned and front endpapers are stained and foxed otherwise good condition.

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Master Of Greylands By Mrs. Henry Wood 1973 First Edition

Lot # 114      

Published by T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia, 1873, cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine, First American Edition, cloth binding is in good condition with tears and bump...mores to its corners-top and bottom of spine has minor tears and chips, spine seam on back is beginning to split, interior is reasonably clean with page toning and soiling.

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Very Rare "Santa Claus And His Friend St. Nicholas A Christmas Story Book" Circa 1880 Hurst & Co.

Lot # 115      

Published by Hurst And Company, circa 1880, very rare, hardcover bound in gilt decorated blue cloth, good condition-special note interior binding is turned around with fr...moreont cover at end of book. Beautiful gilt pictorial decorations and titles, front endpaper is beginning to tear at binding, covers are bumped and rubbed. Interior is reasonably clean with minor page toning, still a great copy for this rare and hard to find Christmas book.

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3 Harold Bell Wright Novels First Editions

Lot # 116      

Published by The Book Supply Company, including; The Uncrowned king, 1910, First Edition, hardback red cloth with gilt titles and decorations, very good condition; The Wi...morenning Of Barbara Worth, 1911, hardback burgundy cloth with gilt decorations and titles, good condition-front cover and spine is loose from binding-interior is very good with light page toning and When A Man's A Man, 1916, hardback burgundy cloth with gilt titles and decorations, good condition, cover is split at its interior seam of spine and pulled away from binding-binding is reasonably tight, interior is very good with some page toning.

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The Magic Mountain By Thomas Mann 2 Volumes 1927 First American Edition

Lot # 117      

Published by Alfred Knopf, New York 1927, Translated from German by H. T. Lowe Porter, black cloth hardback with red title on cover and green title on spine, missing its ...moreslipcase, books are in good condition with fading to spine and covers, some white spots on back of volume one and has 1 inch tear near top seam of spine and both spines are bumped, interior is reasonably clean with some staining in front near seam of binding and tear of decorative papers at seam on volume one.

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3 Pamphlets And 1894 Book Entitled "Steam" Lot

Lot # 118      

Steam book is published by The Babcock & Wilcox Co. 1894 28th edition, profusely illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and diagrams, green cloth hardc...moreover with gilt decorations and titles, good condition-covers are damp stained and rubbed, interior is clean but has split from binding at seams, lot also includes early paper booklet "The Boiler Expurgator", 1885 paper booklet "Water For Steam Boilers" by William Tweeddale, Topeka Kansas, very good condition, printed spec sheet for W. B. Warrens Draft Equalizer for Locomotive Boilers-1896-2 sheet, good condition.

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"Dawn Autobiography Of Early Youth" By Theodore Dreiser 1931

Lot # 119      

Published by Horace Liveright, New York, 1931 First Trade Edition in fair dust jacket-designed by Politzer, red and black cloth hardcover binding, very good with some lig...moreht edge wear, interior is clean with minor page toning to first few pages.

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Lot Of 2 Williamsburg Va. Books

Lot # 120      

Lot contains Williamsburg Art Of Cookery by Mrs. Helen Bullock, reprinted 1938 by Colonial Williamsburg Inc, 8th edition, leather bound hardcover-very good condition with...more some scratches and rubbing of covers, interior is near fine, binding is tight, 2nd book in lot is entitled "Colonial Virginia Shrines" by Luther Kibler, Garret & Massie publishers, Richmond 1936, guide book to Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, in original dustjacket-good condition-minor chipping and wear to edges, green cloth hardcover with red titles-very good condition, interior is clean.

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3 Rabindranath Tagore Books

Lot # 121      

Books include Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan Co, 25th printing 1969 in very good dust jacket and binding and "Rabindranath Tagore, A Biography" by Krishna Kr...moreipalani, First Edition, Oxford University Press publishers 1962, in very good dustjacket and green cloth hardcover with gilt titles, some white spotting near top left of front cover. "The Man And His Poetry" By Basanta Koomer Roy, Dodd Mead, New York, 1916, blue cloth binding with gilt titles, very good with wear to spine ends. soiling to page edges, interior is very good. Selling as a lot.

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"Sun Dials And Roses Of Yesterday" By Alice Morse Earle 1902 First Edition

Lot # 122      

Ex-lib, published by The MacMillan Company, 1902, first edition, pictorial green cloth hardcover binding with gilt titles on cover and spine, very good condition with ext...moreremities rubbed and bumped-traces of old library label on spine, interior is clean, front endpaper is taped where it began to split from binding and cover.

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"Unleavened Bread" By Robert Grant 1900 First Edition

Lot # 123      

Was one of the best selling novels in 1900. Published by Charles Scribner & Sons, 1900 First Edition, green cloth binding with gilt titles and decorations on cover and sp...moreine, good condition, corners are bumped and rubbed, small loss of cloth below title on spine, interior is clean.

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4 Volume Set "The Science Of Life" By H. G. Wells, 1931 First Edition

Lot # 124      

Published by Doubleday & Doran & Company Inc, 1931, stated first edition on back of title page, black cloth binding with orange decorations and titles on covers and spine...mores, very good condition, covers contain light wear and very minor staining, corners are rubbed and lightly bumped, interior is clean with the slightest of page toning. Nice 4 volume set.

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K. B. Gilden 2 Volume First Edition Set Of "Hurry Sundown"

Lot # 125      

Published by Doubleday & Co, 1964 first edition, black cloth hardcover binding with silver titles on spine, no dust jacket, very good condition-light soiling to covers, i...morenterior is clean. chronicles a year of the lives of a small Georgia town. Made into movie with Michael Cain, Jane Fonda and Fay Dunaway.

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