Lot of 10 best sellers in Quarter Leather (Jagger Bequest)

Lot of 10 reprints of classic titles, mainly published in the immediate pre-Second World War period. All titles bound in quarter leather with gilt titling on spine, ex-library with usual markings, stamps and cards.

The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi, J.M. Dent & Sons, London,1953; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, George G Harrap & Company, London, 1937; The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, London; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Chatto & Windus, London; The Far-Distant Oxus by Katharine Hull & Pamela Whitlock, Jonathan Cape, London, 1945; The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffrey Farnol, Sampston Low, Marston and Co, London; Through Lands of the Bible by H.V. Morton, Methuen & Co, London, 1949; Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, George G Garrap & Co, London, 1934; They Seek a Country by Francis Brett Young, William Heinemann, London, 1st ed, 1937; The Magic Garden by Gene Stratton-Porter, Hutchinson & Co, London.

9/10 titles are from the Jagger Bequest. "John William Jagger was born in Yorkshire in 1859, educated at a Grammar School and came to the Cape in 1880. Three years later he founded the firm that bore his name and which soon grew to be one of the largest wholesalers in the land. He was a keen student of economics and rose to become the mouthpiece of commerce. Jagger House is so named to commemorate John William Jagger who generously provided for a bequest of ten thousand pounds to Kingswood, Grahamstown, in his will. This House, completed in September 1904, was constructed to relieve the boarding pressure that suddenly and unexpectedly built up during the years of conflict of the Anglo-Boer War.1903 saw him elected to the Cape Parliament. Later he took part in the National Convention that resulted in the Union of the four provinces into one country. In 1921 he became Minister of Railways in the Smuts Government of the day. Throughout his life he gave liberally to the cause of education and, as at Kingswood, the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town commemorates the memory of this generous man".