[Works] [Virginia Edition]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. LANKES, J.J.. Works] [Virginia Edition]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

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GLASGOW, Ellen. [The Works of Ellen Glasgow]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

Virginia Edition. Limited to 810 numbered copies, signed by the author. This copy is one of twenty sets for presentation as stated on limitation leaf in volume I, this set being number 1. Twelve large octavo volumes (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 157 mm). Comprising: Barren Ground; The Miller of Old Church; Vein of Iron; The Sheltered Life; The Romantic Comedians; They Stooped to Folly; The Battle-Ground; The Deliverance; Virginia; The Voice of the People; The Romance of a Plain Man; and Life and Gabriella. Photogravure frontispieces. Woodblocks by J.J. Lankes in Volumes VIII and XII.

Full red morocco. Quadruple ruled in gilt on front and back boards. Elaborate gilt corner devices on boards. Spine stamped, ruled and lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Inner covers are red morocco, with an inlaid panel of blue morocco, stamped and ruled in gilt. Watered silk free endpapers. Top edges gilt, others uncut. A fine and attractive set.

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), "Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose realistic depiction of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia...In The Voice of the People (1900) she began a planned social history of Virginia from 1850. The series also included The Battle-Ground (1902), The Deliverance (1904), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), and Virginia (1913)" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature).

Kelly, pp. 115-116.

HBS 68954.

$3,750.