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Octavo, saddle-stitched binding, in original illustrated wrappers. collection of literary circulars - "not intended as 'literary' productions -- critical essays and biographical appreciations -- but as intensely practical summaries of telling facts and persuasive opinions" - from publisher's letter to the agent. Includes circulars on Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, J. Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, among others. Very Good Plus, firmly bound volume, staples rusted but firm, pencil drawings to front endpaper, nibbling to lower corner of agent's letter, some soiling and edge wear to wrappers.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, thick printed pictorial wrappers, variously paginated, each of the individual authors or sets giving differing lengths of coverage and promotion. They include, among others, Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Bulwer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, H. Rider Haggard, E. P. Roe, Mary J. Holmes, F. Marion Crawford, Cooper, and others, comprising brief but substantial descriptions of the nature and content of each set. A Good+ copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. A trade paperback - 8" x 5 1/4" in brown wraps decorated and lettered in red, white and black. Two color title page, numerous author portraits and text printed in brown. Bound for booksellers by the Book Department of the publisher, with their letter of introduction. Followed by approx. 13 individually paginated circulars concerning the works of H. Rider Haggard, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, and more. List of all the publisher's office locations on last page. New York: P. F. Collier & Son (1905), approx. 150 pages. A Nearly Fine copy with modest wear to wraps. Unmarked interior with rusty staples.