19th Century Literature

Lot 78
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Lot 78 | 19th Century Literature
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NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE – Group of 11 titles, including American, French and English literature. Various places, 1857-1896.

Including first editions of Madame Bovary and of Trollope’s Last Chronicle of Barset in original parts. Comprises: FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Michel Lévy frères, 1857. First edition. Two volumes. * [LOWELL, James Russell.] The Biglow Papers. Boston: 1866. 6th edition. * TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset. London: Smith Elder, [1866-67]. First edition in original 32 weekly parts. Original color pictorial wrappers (backstrips worn, scattered stains). Custom quarter morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Grosse Pointe Library. * BURROUGHS, John. Wake-Robin. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. * WISTER, Owen. The Virginian. New York: Macmillan, 1902. Author’s signature tipped to half-title. * CRANE, Stephen. Maggie. A Child of the Streets. London: William Heinemann, 1896. * HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. Boston: Philips Sampson, 1858. * —. The Professor at the Breakfast Table. Boston: Ticknor, 1860. * —. The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Boston: Osgood, 1872. The three housed together in a custom slipcase. * The Holy Bible. Oxford University Press, 1881-1885. Presentation copy from the American Committee of Revision (laid in slip). Three volumes. * MORRIS, William. Old French Romances. Scribner’s, 1896.

Together, 14 volumes. All octavo. Condition varies, overall good to very good or better.
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