[BINDINGS & SETS]. A group of 14 works in 79 volumes, including:

SWIFT, Jonathan. Works. London: J. Johnson, 1801. 19 volumes. Contemporary diced calf. -- BYRON, Lord. Works. London: John Murray, 1834. 17 volumes. Contemporary plum calf gilt. -- GARFIELD, James Abram. Works. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. 2 volumes. Original cloth; dust jackets. INSCRIBED BY GARFIELD'S SON. -- LAMB, Charles. Life and Works. [Boston: Merrymount Press for] Pafraets Book Company, 1902. 12 volumes. Original cloth-backed boards. Edmonton Edition. -- STERNE, Laurence. Writings. Boston and New York: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. 7 volumes. Original cloth-backed boards. Large paper edition. -- BRUFF, J.G. Gold Rush. New York: Columbia, 1944. Original cloth; slipcase. -- And others, all 8vo and 4to, in various bindings, condition generally very good.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Condition generally very good

List of titles:
The Works of James Abram Garfield. Large paper copy.

Gold Rush by Read and Gaines

The American Conflict by Greeley

Works of Charles Lamb. Edmonton edition

Works of Laurence Sterne. Large paper edition. (1927)

Works of Swift (1801)

Works of Byron (1834)

Quarterly Review (1812-1817)

The Mirror (lacking volumes 1-5)

Animal Biography by Bingley (1803)

Fables de La Fontaine

L’amant des Danseuses by Champsaur. 1888. Inscribed

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Mountain Meadow: Property from the Collection of Betty and Gordon Moore, Woodside, California

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