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Austen, Jane; Sterne, Laurence; Poe, Edgar Allan; et al
[The First 10 penguin Illustrated Classics]. Pride and Prejudice; A Sentimental Journey; Some Tales of Mystery & Imagination; Walden; Selected Poems [Browning]; Robinson Crusoe I & II; Typee; The Story of my Heart; Gulliver’s Travels
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex;
Date of Publication: 1938
Stock Code: 9796
FIRST THUS. Softcover, pp. 308; 182; 248; 278; 245; 213; 436; 280; 179; 280, adverts to each volume. Wood engravings to each volume. All in original orange and white card wraps with pictorial wood engraved illustration to front cover, replicated on dust-jackets to three volumes. Various volumes show light soiling to wraps and page block edges, minor loss to spine tails, small spine tears, 2cm max. Previous owner’s details written in ink inside Some Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and The Story of My Heart, blue marker dot to front free endpaper of Pride and Prejudice ; overall a very good set. The first 10 Penguin Illustrated Classics: C1-C10. Ten classic tales with an introduction to each by G. B. Harrison. Wood engravings to volumes by Helen Binyon, Gwen Raverat, Douglas Percy Bliss, Ethelbert White, Iain Macnab, J. R. Biggs, Robert Gibbings, Gertrude Hermes and Theodore Naish. £150.00