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[BINDINGS – LITERATURE]. A group of 9 works, including: WYSS, Johann David. The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of a Shipwrecked Family on a Desolate Island. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. 8vo. Half–title, numerous in text illustrations. Full olive leather gilt, raised bands, red and blue leather lettering–pieces gilt, gilt tooling in compartments, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles. “A new and unabridged translation”. –– The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Sidney Colvin. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911. 4 volumes, 8vo. Photogravure frontispieces. Half blue morocco, marbled sides, raised bands, gilt–lettering and centerpieces in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut. “A new edition”. –– DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. London et al: William Heinemann, [1961]. 8vo. Full red leather gilt, raised bands, blue and green leather lettering–pieces gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, stamp–signed by Bayntun–Riviere. Later edition. –– TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [and] Huckleberry Finn. London and New York: J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, [1969] and [1970]. 2 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. Full red leather gilt, raised bands, two green morocco lettering–pieces gilt, compartments tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles. Later editions. –– MILNE, A.A. [The Pooh Books]. London: Methuen Children’s Books, [1972]. 4 volumes in one, 8vo. Decorations by E.H. Shepard. Full crushed red niger gilt with central gilt ornament of Pooh, Eeyore and Christopher Robin, raised bands, gilt–lettering in two compartments, remainder with gilt centerpiece ornaments of Pooh, all edges gilt, turn–ins gilt, gilt stamp–signed by Bayntun–Riviere. Later edition. –– Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, all finely bound, condition generally fine.
 [BINDINGS – LITERATURE]. A group of 9 works, including: WYS...
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