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The Complete Works of MAURICE MAETERLINCK! The Rare AUTOGRAPH EDITION. Complete with both subsets. Complete in 10 volumes + 9 volumes.Complete in 19 volumes, total. Being 1 of only 150 sets ever made. The Rare AUTOGRAPH EDITION, limited to only 150 sets ever made. EACH SUBSET is Autographed. The FIRST COLLECTED and the definitive edition of his works. The most desirable collection of his works. "One Hundred and Fifty Sets of This Edition Have Been Made Printed on hand-made old Stratford rag paper" This is an exceedingly rare set. Printed in English, and the FIRST E NGLISH EDITION, and presumably the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of his complete works. Known as the 'Belgian Shakespeare'.Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations" . This set is complete in 19 volumes. Comprised of two separate subsets.Each with it's own Autograph. Essays of Maeterlinck. Complete in 10 volumes.Signed Limited Autograph Edition. Plays of Maeterlinck. Complete in 9 volumes, with the final volume containing the Poems.Signed Limited Autograph Edition. Therefore complete with 19 volumes total, as is standard, and inclusive of all of Maeterlinck's Works.Each set is signed in volume one. There are therefore two signatures. Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Printed in English. Introduction by A. B. Walkley. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. No date. Circa 1900-1949.(Maeterlinck lived from 29 August 1862 ΓΆΒ Β" 6 May 1949.) This is the Autograph Edition issued in a limited edition of only 150 sets Printed on hand-made old Stratford rag paper. The Rare AUTOGRAPH EDITION, limited to only 150 sets ever made. With the author's signature in the first volume of the Essays, and the first volume of the Plays. Volumes 1 to 10 are the Essays of Maeterlinck. Volumes 11 to 19 are the Plays (as marked on the Spine, with Volume 19 containing the Poems). The Titles: This set is complete. This set is bound in the original, full leather bindings. Extensive gilding. All edges cased in gilt. Raised hubs. Full leather bindings were more expensive to produce and are highly desirable. Printed on hand made rag paper. CONDITION: Extremity abrasion. A lot of extremity abrasion. This set is exceedingly scarce, let alone to find it complete. Complete with all 19 volumes. In exceptional condition, but with abrasions to the bindings and hinges. The hinges are all strongly attached but with starting and with some abrasions, as shown in the pictures. This set has extremity micro chipping and abrasions. The spine extremities have abrasions and chipping. There is generalized wear to the bindings and extremities. Internally, this set is exceptionally well preserved. Printed on hand made rag paper. A gorgeous set. Each book will be individually wrapped and well protected for shipping. I have extensive experience shipping antiquarian books. Shipped in 2 boxes. $45 via Priority Mail.
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