Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. 4 Vols.

London: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original brown cloth with black and orange lettering on label at spine, all in acetate dustjackets. Top edge gilt. Four frontispiece engravings with tissue guards. "Motteux, the translator of Cervantes and Rabelais, possesses a native humor which no other translator that we ever met has approached." (Blackwood's Magazine). Some light wear along edges of bindings. Blocks uncut at fore and bottom edge. Slightly starting after half-title of volume one. Half inch strip cut off at bottom of title page in volume one. Starting at inside front cover of volume 3. Very small dealer stickers at lower left corner of inside back cover, volumes one and two. Binding and interior in overall good+ to very good condition. g to vg. Item #39451

Price: $65.00

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