121469: FULL-LEATHER LITERARY CLASSICS, SIX BOOKS

FULL-LEATHER LITERARY CLASSICS, SIX BOOKS:Including Thomas Moore, LAKA ROOKH: AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE, published by Longman Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1853, in moderately worn, original full green morroccan and gilt-decorated covers, A. E.G. inked gift inscription on f.f.e.p., with tissue engravings; William Edmond Stone Aytoon, LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS & OTHER POEMS, Wm. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1881, in good, moderately worn original full blood leather gilt decorated covers, A.E.G. with illustrations by Sir Joseph N. Paton and Walter H. Paton; Geofrey Chaucer, THE POETICAL WORKS OF, London, 1843, published by Edward Moxon, in very good original dark brown Morrocco and gilt type covers, A.E.G.; Mark Van Doren, editor, THE AMERICAN POETS 1630-1930, Boston, 1932, in 1/2 blue leather and 1/2 red cloth covers, T.E.G. this book was awarded to Donald Thurber as the highest ranking scholar at the Detroit University School during the 1934-35 school year; Andre Maurois, ARIEL: A SHELLEY ROMANCE, in very good original full blue polished calf, gilt decorated covers (bound by Sargorsler & Sutcliff), A.E.G., with color illustrations by Jacquier London, 1925; Rudyard Kipling, THE DAYS WORK, in good 1/2 blue leather and 1/2 red cloth covers, awarded to Donald Thurber, the highest ranking scholar at the Detroit University School, 1935-36. Ex Estate Margaret Thurber, Rathbone Place, Grosse Pointe.