Antiquarian and Vintage Book Collection

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Brand: Mixed publishers — Funk & Wagnalls, Charles Scribner's Sons, A.L. Burt, Grosset & Dunlap, Harper & Brothers, Doubleday, Merriam-Webster, Avenel

• Material: Cloth-over-board bindings, decorative gilt and pictorial stamping, paper text blocks, some leather-backed and dust-jacketed volumes

• Dimensions: Typical volumes 5 x 7.5 in to 6.5 x 9.5 in; lot fills approximately 8–10 medium book boxes

• Color/Finish: Mixed — green, blue, red, black, tan and gray cloth with gilt and color-block stamping

• Condition: Good overall (estate condition) — sold as a mixed lot with a range from very good to worn. Visible shelf wear, sunned and faded spines, bumped corners, several cracked hinges and chipped spine ends, occasional foxing, tape residue, and former-owner names/library markings. A minority carry original dust jackets.

• Era/Period: Circa 1900–1970, with the bulk falling in the 1910s–1940s

• Weight: Approximately 250–400 lb total (roughly 1.5 lb per volume)

• Identified titles include: The Best of the World's Classics (Henry Cabot Lodge, Editor-in-Chief), The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol, The Call of the Sea by L. Frank Tooker, When a Man's a Man by Harold Bell Wright, Shaking Hands with England by Charles Hanson Towne, A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe (Scribner's), Stella Maris, Zane Grey's The Spirit of the Border, Eric Ambler's Cause for Alarm, The Lady of Arlington by Harnett T. Kane, Ivanhoe, Little Women, Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Erle Stanley Gardner Perry Mason omnibus, Who Were the Celts?

• Quantity: Estimated 200–300 volumes across boxes, stacks, and shelving shown

This is exactly the kind of untouched estate library that decorators, prop stylists, and booksellers hunt for — rows of gilt-stamped cloth spines in muted greens, blues, and reds that instantly warm a room or fill a set. Buy the whole lot at pennies per book and cherry-pick the sleepers (early Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright firsts, the Lodge World's Classics set) before wholesaling the rest by the linear foot. Estate libraries this deep rarely come to market intact, and once it's broken up, it's gone.