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No. 46 Sketch Book By Irving Rosmary Series Full Limp Leather K. M. Caldwell Co, New York and Boston
Leather is dark blue or perhaps black, in excellent condition. There is no date stamp or copywrite date/info, but there is written in pencil the name of the owner and a date of 1909. The cardboard box the book came in is not in great shape, but the label is. The book contains 33 stories by Irving, including The Voyage, Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Re: Sketch Book By Irving
With books it's all about Author ,edition and condition, which means in many cases it requires physical examination by a book dealer. You can look up your book here http://used.addall.com/Used/ to give you a general idea, but you'll really need to contact a book dealer to get a hard value.
Re: Sketch Book By Irving
Hi: H.M. Caldwell published many ornate reprint edition at the turn of the century, mostly clothbound - yours might actually be leatherette but could perhaps be a deluxe leather ed. Other Calwell printings of this title featured decorative paste-down illustrations or blind stamped gold and silver decorationns. Anyway, bottom line, its worth about $12-$15.
Regards, Sammy, Wombat Books