[Rarebooks] FS Four Books from the Hyde Collection
David Klappholz
d.klappholz at worldnet.att.net
Mon Oct 18 18:31:42 EDT 2004
We are happy to offer the following five books, from the Donald & Mary Hyde
collection at Four Oaks Farm, as a lot:
Smith, Hal H., On the Gathering of a Library, privately printed, n.p.,
1943, 8vo, half beige buckram over blue cloth, VG. Inscribed to Mary
[Hyde], mentioning Donald, and signed by the author.
Bentinck-Smith, William, Building a Great Library: the Coolidge Years at
Harvard, Harvard University Library, Cambridge, 1976, small 4to, blue
cloth, VG. Inscribed to Mary Hyde and signed and dated by the author
Charnwood, Lady [Dorothea Mary Benson], An Autograph Collection, London,
Ernest Benn Ltd., 1930, 8vo, three quarter brown buckram over marbled
cloth, VG. From the Donald & Mary Hyde collection at Four Oaks Farm, with
their oval book label, with a laid in letter to Mrs. Hyde from a British
friend.
Du Bois, Henri Penne, Four Private Libraries of New York, New York, Duprat
& Co., 1892, One of 800 copies on Holland paper from an edition of 1000
copies. 8vo, orange patterned cloth covered boards, with chips missing
from the fragile spine overall VG-. From the Donald & Mary Hyde collection
at Four Oaks Farm, with their oval book label
Carter, John, and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain
XIXth Century Pamphlets, London (Constable & Co. Ltd.) and New York
(Charles Scribner's Sons), 1934, 8vo red cloth. VG, with none of the
frequent fading of the cloth covers. From the Donald & Mary Hyde
collection at Four Oaks Farm, with their oval book label
$200 ppd media mail within the US
David Klappholz
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