Sale 623: Fine Books in All Fields (#623) 08/31/2017 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 165 of 478:
Smoking in illustrated verse 1890  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$200
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
With the Poets in Smokeland

Author:
Forman, Allan, et al.

Place:
Richmond, VA

Publisher:
Allen & Ginter

Date:
[c.1890]

Description:

Unpaginated Approximately 25 pages of illustrated verse and 6 full color illustrated plates. Additional blank leaves are inserted throughout. (8vo) three quarter leather and boards, original illustrated wrappers bound in.

Scarce volume celebrating the joys of tobacco in pictures and verse. All text pages with numerous illustrations in the margins and sometimes in the background of the text itself, with additional full color plates, most illustrating scenes of tobacco manufacturing.


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Condition:
Wear and rubbing to leather and extremities; interior solid with some light toning and a few instances of light foxing; very good.


 
Item number:
283565
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