[Rarebooks] FS: Finely Bound WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Signed by Stowe, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $7500,      Now $6000

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. THE WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. 
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896. Large-Paper Edition. Seventeen 
octavo (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") volumes attractively bound in 3/4 green morocco 
leather and green cloth with gilt rules, the spine with five raised 
bands and gilt decorations and lettering, top edge gilt. Includes the 16 
volumes of the WRITINGS plus the additional volume of the LIFE OF STOWE. 
Illustrated with frontispieces in both an uncolored and colored state. 
Copy #17 of 250 sets with an inserted sheet SIGNED and dated by Stowe on 
5 January 1896. As Stowe signed only a few sheets at a time, each 
inserted sheet bore different dates. This is the second to earliest date 
listed.  Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. Spines 
uniformly faded to brown, many volumes with light flaking at joints and 
tips, but all sound and attractive overall; Volume 11 professionally and 
almost invisibly rebacked; Volume 10 with dampstaining to the first 
section of contents, not visible from the spine. Near Fine. (#015996) 
$7,500.00

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