#226 • Antique Early 20th Century Hardcover and Suede Bound Literature Book Lot

Part of FAR 777 - The Splendor of Yesteryear: Fine Antiques, Art & Historic Treasures (timed auction by Farmer Auctions)

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A four-volume collection of early 20th-century literature and poetry. The lot features *Madame Butterfly* by John Luther Long, Japanese Edition published by Grosset & Dunlap (1903), with illustrations by C. Yarnall Abbott and decorative pictorial cloth binding. Also included is *The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám*, translated by Edward FitzGerald, published by Barse & Hopkins in a soft suede leather binding with Art Nouveau embossed motifs; *Poems* by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by Hurst & Company, in a limp brown suede binding with hand-painted floral decoration to the front cover and patterned endpapers; and *The Song of Our Syrian Guest* by William Allen Knight, published by The Pilgrim Press (1906), in stiff paper covers. 4 books. 6" W x 8.5" H Location-Library