$610
Chicago and Cambridge: Stone & Kimball; H. [Herbert] S. Stone & Company, 1894-1898. 8 vols. bound in nine, complete save vol. 9, nos. 1-4, comprising May 15, 1894, to May 1, 1898. Vols. I-V (bound to vol. 6, no. 4) 12mo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; Vols. VI-VIII 4to, in publisher's red buckram, gilt-lettered and decorated boards and spines, with vols. VII and VIII uncut. A near-complete run of this example of fine printing by Stone and Kimball at the end of the nineteenth-century, the Chap-Book Semi-Monthly was distinguished by handsome type-face and design, and included contributions from artists such as Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm and Charles Dana Gibson, and authors such as Henry James, Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field and H. G. Wells. Vols. VI-VIII Lew Wallace copies, with his bookplates tipped to front pastedowns. Chipping to marbled boards at edges and endpapers in vols. I-VI; light sunning to buckram with spine ends lightly bumped; with exception of 2 nos. in vol. 1, original wrappers not bound in. Together with the auction catalogue from December 16-17, 1918. The Anderson Galleries, New York.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-11-15
