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NEW YORK TIMES: WEEK OF November 13, 2011

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SIGNED BY THOMAS EDISON

(EDISON, Thomas Alva) RAMSAYE, Terry. A Million and One Nights. New York, 1926. Two volumes. Signed limited first edition of one of the most important histories of cinema, number 218 of 327 sets signed by Ramsaye and Thomas Edison. With over 100 illustrations. $6000.
“SETS THE STANDARD AND THE LIMITS OF LITERATURE”

SHAKESPEARE. Works. London, 1937. Ten volumes. Later edition of the Bard’s histories, comedies, tragedies and poems, limited to 100 sets for distribution in fine bindings by Rivière & Son. $4200.
“THE MOST HANDSOME BOOK PRODUCED IN THE WHOLE OF THE 19TH CENTURY”

SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London, 1843. Two volumes. First edition of this beautifully illustrated study of costumes and decorations by Shaw, one of the greatest illuminators of the 19th century, with 94 plates of finely tailored and crafted French and English Medieval dress and accoutrements, many exquisitely hand-colored and heightened with gold and gum arabic, handsomely bound by Hatchards of London. $3500.

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