Description: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Francis W. Halsey (1914) Complete in Ten Volumes, Very GoodNew York, 1914, Funk & Wagnalls Company. Ten photo-illustrated hardcover volumes in grey-blue cloth with dark blue titling. Each volume measures 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" and contains approximately 190 - 215 pages.Francis W. Halsey (October 15, 1851 – November 24, 1919) was a prolific journalist and author who wrote for The New York Times from 1880 to 1896 and served as its literary editor from 1892. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors features excerpts from literary giants including Robert Louis Stevenson, Bayard Taylor, William Makepeace Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Henry James and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow among others. Makes for very interesting reading, one of Halsey's most popular series.This set is clean, complete and tightly bound. 8/10 have the previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown. Several volumes have discoloration to the text block edges, internally the pages are uniform in tone and unblemished. Minimal wear, primarily to the extremities. A nice tidy set. All Orders Are Carefully Wrapped and Promptly Shipped.
Price: 89 USD
Location: Barrington, Illinois
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Shipping Cost: 8 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Francis W. Halsey and Various Authors
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Topic: Travel, Literature
Subject: Non Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
