Antique factory Literature, Myrtle Reed & Others in Purple

A collection of lavender antique books with gilt decoration for home or office interiors. Titles include: A Weaver of Dreams by Myrtle Reed; The Heart of Hyacinth; and Le Disciple. Edition details:

A Weaver of Dreams by Myrtle Reed. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY. Copyright 1911. Lavender cloth cover with gilt and floral decoration. Light soiling along the cover edges. Spine has darkened gilt decoration with at least one dark streak near the author's name. Back cover is pale purple with fingerprint soiling. Eps are white with light foxing and penciled signature. Color illustration of a female and her dog on frontispiece. Tissue is yellow with spider web style decoration. Interior pages are soft, white and well intact with occasional foxing spot or fingerprint. Heavy dark foxing or soiling from pages 17-30 and 245-251. Rear eps are white. 373 pages, 8 x 5 3/8"

The Heart of Hyacinth by Onoto Watanna. Illustrated by Kiyokichi Sano. Published by Harper & Brothers NY. Copyright 1904. Book features a lavender cloth cover with floral and gilt decoraiton. Soiling and discoloration on the cover along the cover edge. The spine has a gilt title with some darkening. Back cover has many discoloration spots and some rubbing at the upper right cover connection. Eps are white with light floral decoration. Penned signature on plain pre-title page. Beautiful picture of a female on frontispiece (pictured) is loose with the tissue insert. Title page has tanning / foxing in the margin with nature decoration. The nature / Asian decoration is continued on each page throughout the book. Interior pages are soft, white and well intact. Rear eps are white with light foxing. 251 pages, 8 1/2 x 5 5/8"

French edition, "Le Disciple" by Paul Bourget. Introduction by T. de Wyzewa. Published by Nelson Editeurs, Paris around 1920 (n.d.). Book factory is in French language only. Book has a soft white cloth cover with lavender and teal decoration. Back cover has light soiling near the center. Penned signature on upper right corner of eps. Book is shaken. Color plate illustration on frontispiece. Interior pages are soft, clean, white and well intact. Hinge is cracked with webbing barely hanging on at rear advertising. Rear eps are clean and white. Last page(s) is misaligned due to cracked hinge. 355 pages + advertising, 6 3/8 x 4 1/4"