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The Complete Works of Charles Reade, 12 Vol.
Reade, Charles · New York
- Author
- Reade, Charles
- Date
- c1890
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.25" x 8") 12 volumes complete. Half tan polished leather with corners over marbled boards. Spines with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second and fourth compartments, fancy gilt frames and single gilt floral device cenetred to every other compartment. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, spine lightly sun-faded, some boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Peggy and Steve Fossett to front pastedown, James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007, while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Fossett's remains and plane were discovered in 2008. Every volume with an engraved frontispiece, title pages in orange and black ink. A very attractive set of books that once belonged to one of this world's most daring pilots.
- Format
- This set comprises: The Cloister and the Hearth, Part I, The Cloister and the Hearth, Part II, The Autobiography of a Thief, Foul Play, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy, Peg Woffington, Hard Cash: A Matter-of-Fact Romance, Part I, Hard Cash: A Matter-of-Fact Romance, Part II, Singleheart and Doubleface: A Matter-of-Fact Romance, Good Stories of Man and Other Animals, Love Me Little, Love Me Long, Christie Johnstone, It Is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-Fact Romance, Put Yourself in His Place,A Simpleton: A Story of the Day, White Lies, A Terrible Temptation: A Story of the Day, The Jilt and Other Stories, A Woman-Hater, The Wandering Heir,
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.10345
The Complete Works of Charles Reade, 12 Vol. c1890. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
Handsomely bound twelve-volume set of Charles Reade’s fiction, including The Cloister and the Hearth, Hard Cash, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Griffith Gaunt, Peg Woffington, and other major works. This set is especially notable for the bookplates of record-setting aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett and Peggy Fossett.
8vo.(5.25" x 8") 12 volumes complete. Half tan polished leather with corners over marbled boards. Spines with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second and fourth compartments, fancy gilt frames and single gilt floral device cenetred to every other compartment. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, spine lightly sun-faded, some boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Peggy and Steve Fossett to front pastedown, James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007, while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Fossett's remains and plane were discovered in 2008. Every volume with an engraved frontispiece, title pages in orange and black ink. A very attractive set of books that once belonged to one of this world's most daring pilots.
Condition
Near Fine
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