Garzoni on mental illness

TOP read in a May 20 sale held by Freemans of Philadelphia was one of 90 sets of the 37-vol. ‘Memorial’ edition of the writings of Mark Twain published by Harpers in 1929, which, in original three-quarter crushed green levant morocco gilt and marbled boards, sold at $12,000 (£6820).

A bit scuffed and faded, but bearing the bookplate and signature of John Greenleaf Whittier, an 1852…

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