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Lot 932: A Collection of 20 Folio Society Books. London: The Folio Society, mid-to-late 20th Century.
A collection of 20 hardcover volumes published by The Folio Society, featuring an assortment of classic literary and historical works. Titles identified include Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Henry Fielding’s Amelia, Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate, Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion, Honoré de Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet, Restoration Carnival, Memoirs of Madame du Barry, Oscar Wilde’s The Young King and Other Stories, and William T. Sherman’s From Atlanta to the Sea. The volumes are presented in the publisher’s decorated cloth or paper-covered boards with illustrative designs and gilt-stamped spines. Love in a Cold Climate is contained within a patterned slipcase. The books are primarily octavo in format. An adhesive lot label numbered 931 is present on one spine.
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