Full sets of this collection of 20 parts bound as 10 volumes are now rarely found, with single volumes appearing most frequently on various lists.
In this context, a collection of nine of the double volumes (missing parts 13-14), however deficient, is uncommon.
Each volume has a frontispiece, an introductory essay and a selection of stories from one or more of the score of countries represented in the complete collection, all rendered into English. The last half-volume features war stories. Under Overseas (part 11), two Olive Schreiner stories are included.
This set is full bound in brown leather-cloth, gilt to front and spine, with decorative brown endpapers.
The covers and some of the text-blocks have water-stains and some of the covers are bowed. The lower fore-edges of the leaves indicate that all the volumes have been well read.
These copies are not ex-library and have no ownerships or other marks.
Despite the reservations noted, the volumes are, as the images show, still attractive after ninety years of use.
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Fair to Good
- Size: 200 x 135
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
- Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
- Trade Associations: AA Approved
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