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11 Books of Literature, Belles-Lettres, Hawthorne

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11 Books of Literature, Belles-Lettres, Hawthorne
Lot of 11 books of Literature and Belles-Lettres: 1. ARISTOPHANES [HICKIE, WILLIAM JAMES]. The Comedies of Aristophanes. A New and Literal Translation, from the Revised Text of Dindorf, with Notes and Extracts from the Best Metrical Versions. Vol. I: The Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 12mo. Half calf and marbled boards, gilt embossed spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Engraved illustration frontispiece. Fair. Rubbed, losses to spine and splitting at front hinges, corner leather worn. Pencil marks to flyleaf, small dampstains to top and bottom of frontispiece, pages are clean. 2. MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT [Ik MARVEL]. WITH ALS. Reveries of a Bachelor, or, a Book of the Heart. New York: Baker & Scribner, 1850. With tipped-in signed letter from the author, dated 1873. 12mo. Original brown cloth with gilt acorn branch surrounded by blindstamped border decoration on front and back, gilt to spine. Fair to Good. Fading, slight losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, corners bumped and worn, bookplate on front pastedown, dampstaining to bottom corner of pages, starting at about page 107 and continuing to the back endpaper. Binding is loose at about the center, with two pages coming detached and having ink stains.  3. WILLMOTT, ROBERT ARIS. Gems of Epistolary Correspondence; Selected from the Best English Authors, from the Time of Sir Philip Sidney to the Present Day. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. 8vo. Original brown blindstamped decorated cloth, gilt to spine. Fair to Good. Rubbing to cover, corners bumped and worn, foxing/toning mostly to front pages, binding loose towards the back, there is some warping of the pages. 4. IRVING, WASHINGTON. Bracebridge Hall. London: Macmillan & Co., 1887. Illustrated throughout by R. Caldecott; illustrated title page and frontispiece. 12mo. Original dark green cloth, paper label on spine. Very Good. Only light wear, toning, previous owner's bookplate on pastedown. 5. IRVING, WASHINGTON. Old Christmas from the Sketchbook of Washington Irving. London: Macmillann & Co., 1892. Illustrated throughout by R. Caldecott; illustrated title page and frontispiece. 12mo. Original dark green cloth, paper label on spine. Very Good. Only light wear, toning, previous owner's bookplate on pastedown. 6.-11. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Six volumes: Our Old Home and English Note-Books, Vol. I; Our Old Home, and English Note-Books, Vol. II; The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton, with an Appendix Containing The Ancestral Footsteps; The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni; Mosses from an Old Manse; Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books. Incomplete set uniformly bound volumes, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1883-1887. Original brown cloth with gilt red leather labels on spines, gray endpapers, each with engraved illustration frontispiece. All are in good condition. Light wear and discoloring to the cloth, a few stains and marks, rubbing to the leather labels, but overall they look good.