Princess Maria Romanoff & July Estate Finds

6 Books Mary Poppins, Tolkien, Some 1st Editions

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Start price: $150

Estimated price: $300 - $400

Buyer's premium: 28%

Sales Tax: On the lot's price and buyer's premium

6 books. Kenneth Grahame, Dream Days, with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1902; P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins, with illustrations by Mary Shepard, Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, first American edition, 1934; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass with Autobiography, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1900; Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1936, later two column printing; J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, first American edition, 1977, with map; Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Hougton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, first edition, 1903.

Dream Days with inscription in ink dated 1903, stamp on half title page; Mary Poppins inscription dated 1934 on front endpaper; Leaves of Grass name written in ink on front endpaper, front board separating at pastedown, notations in pencil on rear pastedown, rear board torn and separating at pastedown; Rebecca bookplate with illegible name front pastedown and names written in ink on front endpaper, front board and cloth on spine separating from binding.

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