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Lot 57

Smithers (Leonard C., editor) The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales), one of 5 copies on Japanese vellum, H.S Nichols & Co., 1894.

Hammer Price: Unsold

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Smithers (Leonard C., editor) The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales), one of 5 copies on Japanese vellum, title page printed in red and black, light marginal browning, watered silk endpapers (some separating and fraying to margins of endpapers), bookplate of Helen Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson, blue crushed morocco by H.S. Nichols, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, spine and covers a little darkened, t.e.g., 8vo, H.S Nichols & Co., 1894.

*** Rare limitation of this collection of tales, from the libraries of distinguished American collectors Helen Hay Whitney and her daughter Joan Whitney Payson. 

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