Posted by Wayne Hammond on April 14, 1998 at 15:32:56:
22) The twelve volumes of _The World's Story Tellers_, edited by Ransome and published by T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908-10, were advertised as available in both ordinary (1s.) and de luxe (with a gilt top, 1s. 6d.), but I've seen only ordinary copies. Does anyone own, or know of, a de luxe copy of any of the titles?
23) If anyone owns a copy of _Stories by Hawthorne_, edited by Ransome, published by E.P. Dutton, New York, in 1908, could you please compare the binding against the following description, and let me know any differences? (Vertical lines indicate line breaks.)
Bound in yellow-orange cloth over boards. Stamped on the upper cover in black, within a black single rule frame: '[device, a man holding a long sheet of paper in front of shelves of books, within a single rule circle, surrounded by, along the top curve:] [center dot] THE [center dot] WORLD'S [center dot] STORYTELLERS [center dot] [and along the bottom curve:] Edited by ARTHUR [center dot] RANSOME | [below the preceding:] Stories by | HAWTHORNE'. Stamped on the spine in black: '[center dot] THE [center dot] | WORLD'S | STORY | TELLERS | [device, an open book and a quill pen against a solid disk surrounded by a single rule circle] | STORIES | BY | HAW- | THORNE | DUTTON'. Wove endpapers. No headbands. Top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed.
Wayne Hammond
Wayne.G.Hammond@williams.edu