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13 vols. books: various titles dated 1824-1970 THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, Charlestown, MA, George Davidson, 1824. 2 vols., full brown leather and gilt decorated spine, 432 and 416 pp. (Water damage with tide lines and warped leaves evident in both volumes; foxing; worm holes in rear of first volume; rubbing and wear to leathers and corners; leather is cracked at spine on second volume; rubbing and wear to leathers and corners; leather is cracked at spine on second volume; tears to last page of second volume). Murdoch, Patrick, ed. THE SEASONS BY JAMES THOMSON, Philadelphia, EH Butler & Co., 1857. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on spine and covers, with urn on covers, with 11 illustrations by Schmolze, gilded leaves, 332 pp. (Wear to cloth, especially at corners and edges of spine; foxed and with acid stains throughout). Volume 2 of GOETHE'S RAMMLITCHE WERKE, Stuttgart, TG Cotta'fcher, 1885. Red quarter leathers with marbled paper boards, gilding at spine, marbled fly leaves, with two illustrations, in German. (Rubbing to leathers and marbled paper; age staining throughout and possible water damage to upper corners with visible tide lines). Tennyson, Alfred. IDYLS OF THE KING, Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Red cloth with gilding at spine and front cover, front cover with coat of arms, maroon fly leaves, illustrations by Eytinge and Coleman, gilded leaves, 178 pp. (Wear to cloth, especially at lower spine where cloth has frayed and split; loss to first page; age stained with visible fingerprints throughout). Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE MEN, Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1892. Brown cloth with embossed decoration at spine and cove of tree branch in yellow and black, yellow floral fly leaves, illustrated, 276 pp. (Wear to edges of spine and corners; black staining to front cover; age staining and some pages dog-eared). Sartre, Jean-Paul. EXISTENTIALISM, New York, Philosophical Library, 1947, translated by Bernard Frechtman, green DJ, blue cloth with red and gilt titles, 92; with index. (Losses to DJ and edges and middle of spine, age stained; wear to cloth at upper rear edge and middle of spine; age stained). Sartre, Jean-Paul. THE AGE OF REASON. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Translated by Eric Sutton, green paper DJ, red cloth. 397 pp. (Wear and age staining to DJ with losses to edges of spine; foxing on front and rear cloth covers; age staining). Mailer, Norman. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, New York, Rhinehart and Co., 1948. (Red and black DJ, brown paper boards, 721 pp. (DJ is worn with losses to edges of spine and age staining; tear to lower edge of spine; age staining). Mauet, Albert. ALBERT CAMUS: THE INVINCIBLE SUMMER, New York, George Braziller, Inc., 1958, translated by Herma Briffault, gold paper DJ, beige cloth with black cloth spine, 224 pp. with appendix and bibliography. (Wear and losses to upper edge of DJ spine; age staining or possible water damage to beige cloth; staining visible on front and back fly leaves). Kolb, Leon, ed. THE WOODCUTS OF JAKOB STEINHARDT, Jewish Publication Society of America,1962. (Good condition, staining and tears to DJ). Hesse, Hermann. ROSSHALDE, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970, translated by Ralph Manheim, pop art DJ, purple cloth, gilded spine, black fly leaves, 211 pp. (DJ is age stained; edges and spine of cloth are faded). Hudson, W.H, GREEN MANSIONS, New York, Illustrated Editions Co., no date. Yellow and blue boards, 276 pp. (Stains to rear cover; age staining).

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