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Lot 385:
Description
This lot consists of a ten-volume set of short story anthologies titled The World’s One Hundred Best Short Stories, edited by Grant Overton and published by Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1927. The collection is organized by theme, with individual volumes dedicated to Adventure, Romance, Mystery, Love, Drama, Courage, Women, Men, Ghosts, and Humor. The books are bound in the publisher’s original red cloth with black stamped titles and decorative vignettes on the spines. The set features works by a wide array of prominent authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Victor Hugo, Stephen Crane, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Booth Tarkington, and P.G. Wodehouse. Volume One contains pencil inscriptions on the front endpaper reading Jane Austen De Luxe Edition Limited and V.H Webb – p.3. Volume Ten includes various pencil notations on the title and copyright pages, including Grosset and Dunlap, The usual acknowledgements, Chapter one, and (smile!). Measurement: 6.25 inches X 4.25 inches. The set is in fair to good condition. The red cloth bindings show significant sun-fading to the spines and shelf wear to the extremities. Several volumes exhibit strained internal hinges. The text blocks show overall tanning to the page edges consistent with the paper stock of the period. Significant pencil marginalia and inscriptions are present on the preliminary pages of Volumes One and Ten as described. Dust jackets are not present.
Condition report:
The set is in fair to good condition. The red cloth bindings show significant sun-fading to the spines and shelf wear to the extremities. Several volumes exhibit strained internal hinges. The text blocks show overall tanning to the page edges consistent with the paper stock of the period. Significant pencil marginalia and inscriptions are present on the preliminary pages of Volumes One and Ten as described. Dust jackets are not present.
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