The World's Thousand Best Short Stories (nine of 10 volumes; 1920s)

Hammerton, J A (ed)

Description:

Full sets of this collection of 20 parts bound as 10 volumes are now rarely found, with single volumes appearing most frequently on various lists.

In this context, a collection of nine of the double volumes (missing parts 13-14), however deficient, is uncommon.

Each volume has a frontispiece, an introductory essay and a selection of stories from one or more of the score of countries represented in the complete collection, all rendered into English. The last half-volume features war stories. Under Overseas (part 11), two Olive Schreiner stories are included.

This set is full bound in brown leather-cloth, gilt to front and spine, with decorative brown endpapers.

The covers and some of the text-blocks have water-stains and some of the covers are bowed. The lower fore-edges of the leaves indicate that all the volumes have been well read.

These copies are not ex-library and have no ownerships or other marks.

Despite the reservations noted, the volumes are, as the images show, still attractive after ninety years of use.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Allied Newspapers in association with the Educational Book Company
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: (1920s)
  • Edition: First in this form
  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Fair to Good
  • Size: 200 x 135
  • Lot No: 273
  • Hammer Price: $90
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 24
  • Estimate: $150
  • Reserve: $90

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