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Group of Six Early Literary Editions. [V.p., ca 19th – 20th centuries]. 8vos. Some illustrated. All but one in original publisher's cloth (some general rubbing, mild soiling, ownership markings). Very good or better. Titles include: Salome and A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde (3rd English foolscap edition), Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain (later edition, first “complete" edition – recased), Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (unknown early English edition, with the bookplate of science fiction author William Olaf Stapledon), Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling (“Copyright Edition" by Tauchnitz, 1910, rebound in modern half calf), The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (later American edition of the first appearance of Peter Pan), Aubrey Beardsley by Robert Ross (first edition by Bodley Head).