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Hey, Gang! Let's Build a Fountain!
(A DIFFERENT KIND of “Student Social Activism” @ Berkeley). University of California magazine. Under the Berkeley Oaks. Stories by students of the University of California; selected and edited by the editorial staff of the University of California magazine. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1901, ©1900. 12mo (19 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., [2] ff., 227, [1] pp.
$110.00
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Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' “Travis Hallett's Half-back.” Norris (1870–1902) was class of '94.
It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.
Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”
BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good. (34834)
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Funny *&* Educational — Illustrated Roman Shenanigans
Abbott à Beckett, Gilbert. The comic history of Rome. [London]: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., [ca. 1852]. 8vo (22 cm, 8.7"). xii, 308 pp.; 10 col. plts., illus.
$325.00
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Sequel to the Comic History of England: An amusingly interpreted — but, broadly speaking, generally accurate — history of Rome from its founding through the fall of Caesar, written by one of the original staff members of Punch. Originally issued serially in parts, the work appears here in a very early book-form edition. John Leech supplied the illustrations, including
10 hand-colored plates as well as numerous in-text steel engravings and woodcuts. Leech's designs feature historic figures with a delightful contemporary spin, including Romans wearing top hats and greatcoats, dancing ballroom waltzes, and checking pocket watches, with the clever visual allusions and the tone of the text combining to suggest
trenchant commentary on Victorian society and mores.
Binding: Publisher's textured green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped vignettes. All edges gilt.
NSTC 2A1051. Binding as above, moderate rubbing to edges and extremities with top of spine pulled, gilt vignettes showing slight rubbing. Early pencilled ownership inscription in upper portion of first text page; some plate leaves a bit more age-toned than others or than text leaves.
Overall both attractive and entertaining. (37284)
“WONDERFUL
is the
Comfort
of Words”
Aked, Charles F. Wells and palm trees. Cool water and abundant rest on life's rough way. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., © 1908. 12mo. Frontis., [6], 149, [1] pp.
$75.00
First edition: Inspiring Christian meditations by the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York — a radical English-born nonconformist, reformer, and pacifist known as “the fighting parson.” The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, and the decorative chapter-opening capitals are printed in red and black, as is the title-page.
This is the original first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's light blue straight-grained cloth, front cover and spine with
gilt-stamped title, front cover with desert vignette stamped in black and green.
Binding as above, minimal wear to extremities, spine with small area of light discoloration. Light pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis, including a star and a wing (all removable). A nice copy of an interesting volume. (28604)

Signed Binding —Pure Gold
Albin, Thomas, ed. Pure gold from the rivers of wisdom. Edited by the author of “Affection's keepsake.” New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1841. 32mo (10.5 cm; 4.25"). [1 (ads)] f., 126 pp., [2 (ads)] pp.; frontis. (included in pagination).
$40.00
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First American edition, “From the twentieth London edition.” A near-miniature gift book anthology of quotations from the writing of famous and little-known authors: The quotations range from more than a page and a half to a single short sentence, but all have moral pith and sage advice on living happily and uprightly. The women and men of letters who are excerpted range from Hannah More to Dr. Johnson and on to St. Augustine, Seneca, Jeremy Taylor, Southey, Fenelon, William Penn, Jane Taylor, and the ever lurking Anonymous. But NOT Shakespeare!
The frontispiece (retaining its tissue guard) is an engraving by Thomas Phillibrown showing a young male writer in a sea-side cave with a quill pen, leaning on his writing pad and looking for inspiration.
Binding: Signed binding (embossed stamp on front fly-leaf) by B. Bradley of Boston. Green cloth, spine stamped in gold with vines, grapes, and title; stamped in blind on covers featuring birds and vines. Yellow calendared endpapers. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Mid- to late-19th-century pencil signature of L.A. Nichols.
American Imprints 41-128. Binding as above. Minor discoloration in a few inner and foremargins; offsetting from frontispiece to title-page despite tissue (or because of it). Very good. (36017)

Romance in the Bluegrass State
Allen, James Lane, & Hugh Thomson, illus. A Kentucky cardinal; and Aftermath. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1900. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). xxxii, 276, [4] pp.
$20.00
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First printing of this “new edition,” revised and with a new preface and with
100 charming illustrations by Hugh Thomson, best known for his illustrations of works by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Recluse Adam's lifelong dedication to nature troubles his romance with society girl Georgianna; when she requests the capture of a Kentucky cardinal, Adam struggles between his respect for nature and his love for her. He ultimately chooses Georgianna and their love suffers, but then grows as a result.
James Lane Allen's depiction of Kentucky's people and culture won him the title of
“Kentucky's first important novelist.” A Kentucky Cardinal and its sequel, Aftermath, were his third and fourth novels published.
Binding: Publisher's hunter green cloth with gilt lettering and all-over decoration of foliage and cardinals to front board and spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; top edge gilt.
Bound as above; spine faded and light rubbing to rear board. Very minor crack at front hinge (inside) and another minor crack at gutter, p. 46; interior clean.
A lovingly illustrated tale in a beautiful binding. (37532)

“A God-Hero of the Golden Age of Myth” —
The First Original English-Language Poem on the Buddha
Arnold, Edwin. The light of Asia. Being the life and teaching of Gautama prince of India and founder of Buddhism. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. Folio (30 cm, 11.8"). xxiv, 193, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts.
$100.00
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Limited Editions Club edition of Sir Edwin's epic verse retelling of
the life of the Buddha, with an introduction by Melford E. Spiro. Ayres Houghtelling painted eight brightly colored, “highly unconventional” plates, as to which he said that he “allegorically painted by design and symbolism what [he hoped] Sir Edwin Arnold would have liked” (according to the newsletter); he also provided a number of black-and-white and two-color line drawings. The volume was designed by Frank J. Lieberman, and the green, yellow, cream, and tan paisley and floral cotton cloth binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Co.
This is
numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator. Both the appropriate Club newsletter (in its original envelope) and the prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 497. Publisher's fabric-covered binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in original brown paper–covered slipcase with printed paper label; spine cloth very slightly (and unobtrusively) sunned, slipcase showing only minimal traces of shelfwear.
A nice copy of this handsome piece of LEC exotica. (36838)

“Looking upwards towards the Fountain of Light & Love”
Arthur, Timothy Shay. The maiden: A story for my young countrywomen. Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1848 (copyright 1845). 12mo (15.3 cm, 6"). [2], [v]–162 pp.
$40.00
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From the prolific and popular T.S. Arthur, known for his edifying fiction, comes this very, very, very moral tale of a dutiful young lady whose ethics and sense of propriety lead her to reject two suitors of her own (and one of her friend's) before she ends up safely wed to an impeccably respectable young man. Arthur published two sequels about Anna Lee, the titular maiden — unsurprisingly called The Wife and The Mother. This is the work's fourth printing (following the first of 1845), published in the city in which Arthur both lived himself and set his story.
Binding: Publisher's dark brown vertical leather-grained cloth (Krupp Lea8); covers with blind-stamped ruled frame and symmetrical foliate “drawer handles” top and bottom. Spine with title and foliate decorations gilt-stamped. Yellow endpapers.
Wright, I, 112. On the book cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, Lea8. Binding cocked, corners and spine extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared; intermittent light to moderate foxing, pages otherwise clean. In fact a nice copy, in the original cloth. (38152)

The Joys of:
Good Honest Farming, Living Debt-Free, & Raising Children
Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 12mo (18 cm; 7"). [10], 157, [1] pp.; 12 plts.
$65.00
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First edition: An old-fashioned lawyer aims (with the aid of the all-important female influence) to restore good Yankee virtues of thrift and domesticity in a Connecticut village gone mad (and sometimes bankrupt or to jail) over automobiles, diamonds, oversized mansions, and Europhilia. The novel is illustrated with a total of 12 halftone plates by German-born, American-raised artist Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner (a.k.a. William Henry Dethlef Koerner); the frontispiece depicts a dramatic “Duel with Automobiles,” while several other plates portray rather sweet scenes featuring children.
Signed binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover pictorially stamped with a young lady in a luxury car in black, white and red, spine with gilt-stamped title. Front cover design with “A” monogram in a half circle. Designer unknown.
Dinkytown, American Decorated Covers, 1890–1930, 13. Binding as above, slightly cocked with very (very) minor rubbing to extremities.
A nice copy of an interesting “period” work. (36774)

Some of Bacon's Most Loved Reflections
Bacon, Francis. Of gardens: an essay. London & New York: John Lane, 1902. 24mo (15.2 cm, 6"). Frontis., 29, [1], [16 (15 adv.)] pp.
$30.00
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Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Of Gardens is a philosophical look at the ideal arrangement of a garden; it originally appeared as a part of the 1625 (enlarged) edition of Bacon's Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall. This edition includes a black-and-white frontispiece by English artist Edmund H. New that depicts the perfect very large-scale garden, and offers an introduction by Helen Milman.Binding: Publisher's appropriately green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; front board with floral pattern, author/title, and double-ruled border all in gilt. Top edge gilt.
Provenance: On front pastedown, inked ownership inscription reading “Marie Louise Russell from Ruth Louise Parker, November, 1904”; on front free endpaper, a card (presumably from Parker) inserted in four small slits in the leaf, reading “To Marie Louise of whom I find the poet Cowley saith, 'The fairest garden in her looks, / And in her mind the wisest books',” dated November 1904 on the reverse. A laid-in clipped piece of paper (also from the early 20th century) announces the New York address and office hours of Dr. Richard J. Scofield.
Bound as above; extremities and front joint very lightly rubbed and front board faintly soiled. Small abrasions to front endpapers, two tears at top edge of front free endpaper (repaired with tiny pieces of tape) from card insertion.
An attractive little volume in very pleasing condition. (38091)

“The Great Tools Used in the Work of the World”
Barnard, Charles. Tools and machines. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., [1903]. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 164 pp.; illus.
$20.00
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History and (then) current uses of various essential tools, such as the hammer, chisel, and saw. Barnard makes a strong argument for continuing education on the uses of various tools, saying “the boy who can drive a nail true and straight . . . or the girl who can copy a thousand words on a typewriter without a mistake is a better boy or a better girl than any of the poor, helpless creatures who have that queer, old-fashioned idea that it is beneath them to do so fine a thing as work.” The volume is
illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and many smaller, in-text illustrations displaying the tool examined in each chapter.
Provenance: On front pastedown in blue ink, “School District No. 1 Form of Davenport.” A black number 36 is also inked in the corner.
Publisher's grey-blue cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, yellow and black torch, gear, and hammer decoration to front board and blind-stamp to rear one; rubbing to boards and
edges,staining and a light patch to front board. Page edges foxed (not the pages themselves), and very minor and occasional soiling or staining to interior.
An interesting production in a copy sturdy and “decent” despite “school” provenance. (37514)

“Never, in All Its History, Was the Proud & Opulent City of New York More Glad & Gay
Than in the Bright Spring Days of 1791.”
Barr, Amelia E. The maid of Maiden Lane: a sequel to “The bow of orange ribbon”: a love story. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1900]. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). 338, [8 (adv.)] pp.
$30.00
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Special limited edition (as per the title-page): an old-fashioned love story housed in an endearing, decorated binding in the original dust jacket. Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919) was a novelist and teacher who, despite the tragic loss of her husband and many children, achieved ample success through her historical novels. The publication of her first novel opened a
floodgate; she was highly prolific for the rest of her life.
Binding: Publisher's light blue cloth with navy-stamped lettering and a cameo portrait in profile on navy ground decorating the front board; red and blue roses to spine and cover, with green touches in the latter place.
Designed by Thomas Watson Ball.
Wright, III, 332 (for the Dodd, Mead printing of the same year). Not in Minsky. See the University of Rochester Library website for attribution of binding design to Ball (https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/3352). Bound as above, very minor rubbing to edges. Original brown dust jacket present with light chipping to extremities and overall gentle age-toning, both flaps listing the publisher's available titles. Pages age-toned and notably clean.
A charming, rosy binding! (37496)

Country Comedy — Sacker Binding
Bell, Lilian. At home with the Jardines. New York: A. Wessels Company, 1906. 8vo (19 cm; 7.5"). 322 pp.
$20.00
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First published in book form in 1904 and here reprinted bearing the original Amy Sacker–designed binding (with her AS monogram), this is the tale of a well to do couple who move from New York City to the country to live close to the earth not as gentlefolk farmers. Much commentary emerges on life both in the city (noise, manners, transportation, customs, etc.) and in the country (hardness of farming and animal husbandry, attitudes of old friends and rural folk).
Bell (1867–1929) was born in Chicago, brought up in Atlanta, and after marriage lived in Tarrytown, NY.
Binding: Blue cloth, front cover stamped in black, very pale green, and rust; at center a young couple arm in arm in formal wear with four small vignettes at the corners of the frame around them. The four offer symbols of love (hearts and an arrow), commitment to honest hard work (a rooster up at dawn), social relaxation (a wine carafe and glass, and study (books and an inkwell and pen). Signed “AS” (Amy Sacker).
Provenance: Private pressure-stamp, “The Blasberg Collection,” to endpaper and title-page.
Evidence of readership: Pencil notes on front free endpaper and on the contents page either tying text to appearances in Harper's Magazine or summarizing events on specific pages of this book.
Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, B-463 (for first book edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed. Old paperclip rust-stains to four leaves, else very good. (37059)
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A Very Protestant “Catholic” N.T. — Publisher's Moiré Cloth Binding
Bible. N.T. English. Rheims. 1834. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated out of the Latin Vulgate, diligently compared with the original Greek, and first published by the English college of Rheims, anno 1582. With the original preface, arguments and tables, marginal notes, and annotations. To which are now added an introductory essay and a complete topical and textual index. New York: Jonathan Leavitt, 1834 (copyright 1833). 8vo (23 cm; 9"). [1] f., 458 pp.
$650.00
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First edition of this edition prepared for a Protestant audience; issued without a nihil obstat, it claims to be a faithful reprinting of the 1582 Rheims N.T., but it is most certainly not. As Hills explains, “This is a reprint in modernized spelling of the original edition of the Rheims NT, prepared for Protestants. O'Callaghan (p. 233–236) points out a good many errors in spite of the certificate of six clergymen that 'it is an exact and faithful copy of the original work without abridgment or addition, except that the Latin of a few phrases which were translated by the annotators, and some unimportant expletive words were undesignedly omitted'.”
A vastly anti-Catholic work in its preface and apparatus, it calls itself “a book of reference for all persons who desire to comprehend genuine Popery.”Binding: Publisher's green “contour” moiré cloth over boards with printed paper label on spine.
Hills 881; O'Callaghan 233-36; American Imprints 23377. On binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, Moi4. Bound as above; rebacked and most of original spine laid downwith hinges (inside) strengthened. Six-digit number stamped in lower margin of one preliminary page; moderate foxing, mostly in margins. (35413)

Szyk's LEC Ruth
Bible. O.T. Ruth. English. 1947. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The book of Ruth from the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I with a preface by Mary Ellen Chase and illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: [Printed by the Aldus Printers for the] Limited Editions Club, 1947. Small folio (31 cm, 12.2"). 42, [6] double-fold pp.; col. illus.
$250.00


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Szyk's eight full-page, full-color “Oriental Realism” illustrations, in the style and tradition of Oriental miniatures, are dramatically eye-filling in this Limited Editions Club production. The edition is limited to 1950 copies (this is no. 230, with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in), each signed by the illustrator. The volume is set in intertype Weiss, with six large initials in gold; “Ruth” on the half-title and title-page are also printed in gold; and the paper is Worthy special.
Binding: Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half white leather with slightly raised bands a gilt-background title label; smooth vellum-paper sides, gold-stamped with a large image of Ruth holding a sheaf of grain and a scythe. Top edge gilt.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 184. Binding as above, in the original gold foil-covered slipcase; volume with spine and corners moderately darkened and rubbed, slipcase foil with expectable rubbing and spine chipped. LEC newsletter creased, with small stains. In spite of these flaws, still a sturdy case and a pleasing book, internally bright and lovely. (36857)
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Attractive
Altemus Binding to Celebrate an ADMIRABLE Man
Brooks, Phillips. Addresses. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, n.d. (ca. 1900). 18mo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). 165 pp.
$25.00
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A lovely small volume of addresses by Phillips Brooks from the Altemus Company. The American Episcopal clergyman remained at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia for seven years where he built a favorable reputation. In addition to being remembered as the author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln, included in this little volume, is remembered as providing evidence of both men's impressive characters. Brooks also addresses “True Liberty,” “The Beauty of a Life of Service,” and a number of other topics within this volume.Illustrated with a frontispiece of Phillips Brooks.
Binding: Publisher's very light, silvery blue-green cloth, spine and both boards with
decorations of white-stamped flowers with silver-stamped (i.e., aluminum-stamped) stems; spine and front board with “silver”-stamped lettering.
Provenance: On front pastedown, an ownership stamp reading “Private Home Library, No. 325.”
Bound as above, edges rubbed. Lacking front free endpaper, interior otherwise intact and clean.
These great sermons in a classic binding for the Altemus collector. (37821)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus.
$150.00
Early English edition (1st was New York, 1886) of this American author's most famous novel, wildly popular well into the 20th century and memorably made into a film starring Freddy Bartholomew. This edition is amply illustrated with plates (integral to pagination) and in-text pictures also.
Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.
Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)
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A Beautiful Country Girl & a Spanish Bullfighter
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The pretty sister of José. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 12mo (19.1 cm; 7.5"). iv, 127, [8] pp (publisher's
catalogue), [12] leaves of plates.
$35.00
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First edition, second state. A “tale of Spanish love and romance” by the author of children's classics such as The Secret Garden and The Little Princess.
Twelve beautiful plates illustrated by C.S. Reinhart accompany Burnett's tender story, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.Binding: Publisher's green decorative cloth printed on front cover with a guitar and lady's fan in gilt and with a flowering vine design in dark green and gold; spine lettered in gold.
BAL 2073, state 2; Wright, III, 814. Bound as above, slightly cocked; top and bottom of spine rubbed with loss of green coloring of cloth, now a bit frayed, and spots of discoloration on rear cover. Interior lightly age-toned, overall unmarked and readable.
A nice copy. (35454)

Armstrong Binding — Sensational Story
Cable, George W. Bylow Hill. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 12mo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). Frontis., vii, [1], 215, [1] pp.; 5 col. plts.
$35.00
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From American novelist George W. Cable, a story of two families presented in a wonderful, signed binding and illustrated with six colored plates (including the frontispiece) by Frederick Coffay Yohn. Cable (1844–1925) was known for depicting Southern life in 19th-century America; the animosity he experienced because of his support for racial equality forced him to leave the South and move to Northampton, Massachussetts, where this tale of domestic tragedy (still having a Southern component) is set.
“Isabel was a fugitive from the murderous wrath of a jealous husband . . . ” (p. 187).
Binding: Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and small gilt and black floral decorations to spine. On the front board, gilt and black lettering and intertwined clusters of black-stemmed gilt flowers, with a coiled, gilt snake at the base. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed.
Signed by Margaret Armstrong.
BAL 2371; Minsky, American Decorated Publisher Bindings,1872–1929, p. 77; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 54; Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, C-16. Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, minor fading to spine and rear board. A beautifully decorated volume, and
Armstrong's cover emblem tells the story. (38290)

WILL CARLTON

One
could build a very interesting little collection of bindings and illustration,
using his books!
They were SO popular, and oft-produced . . .
(Ditto, of course, Burns, Cowper, Scott, or
Mrs. Hemans for example.)
Quaint Customs
Carleton, Will. Farm festivals. New York: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1881. 8vo. 167, [1], 6 (adv.)] pp. ; 18 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
$50.00
First edition of this “Farm” volume by a successful and beloved poet. A copy of Carleton's poem "Captain Young's Thanksgiving," including illustration, has been affixed to the back fly-leaf and free endpaper.
BAL 2482 (second printing state, with plates included in pagination). Publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and green, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover lightly scuffed, with corners rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription "to My Daughter," dated 1890; newspaper clipping about Carleton affixed to front fly-leaf, poem affixed to back fly-leaf as described above. Several insurance advertisements, religious leaflets, and other ephemera laid in. (14367)

“The
Little Sleeper”
& “Paul's
Run Off with the Show”
ILLUSTRATED
Carleton, Will. Farm legends. New York: Harper & Brothers, c. 1887. 8vo. 187, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 17 plts., illus.
$50.00
With engraved plates and in-text illustrations by various hands.
Very good; traces of wear to corners and spine extremities, one small spot to front cover. Slightly cocked. Front flyleaf with gift inscription. (1250)



A Southern Hero Enters the “Brawl with Boston” — Illustrated by Christy
Girl Heroes, Prominent!
Chambers, Robert W. The maid-at-arms. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. Frontis., vi, [6], 342, [6] pp.; 7 plts.
$75.00
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First edition of this novel from the “Cardigan” series, set in New York state during the American Revolution and written by an author best known for his important supernatural work The King in Yellow. The plot here stars George Ormond, a Southerner of good family; it also features a character named Catrine Montour, based in part on the half-French, half-Native American “Queen” Catherine Montour (1710–1804), while the climactic rescue involves two maidens riding to the aid of an officer captured by Senecas. The
eight halftone plates were done by Howard Chandler Christy, and the belles are much in the style of his famed Christy Girls.
This is the genuine first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover with Art Nouveau water lily design and gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title.
Binding as above, minor rubbing at extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled Christmas gift inscription dated 1902; back free endpaper with rubber-stamped numeral (no other markings). Pages and plates clean. A very nice copy. (28585)
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“Waes Hael” Indeed In a Nicely “Thematic” Binding by Amy Richards
Chase, Edithe Lea, & W.E.P. French. Waes Hael, the book of toasts; being, for the most part, bubbles gathered from the wine of others' wit, with here and there, an occasional humbler globule believed to be more or less original. New York: Grafton Press, 1904. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 303, [1] pp.
$30.00
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“And, lo, sweet friend! behold this cup, / Round which the garlands intertwine; / With Massic it is foaming up, / And we would drink to thee and thine. / And of the draft thou shalt partake.”
A book of toasts and quotations for all occasions organized by categories (love, the army, colleges, sports, particular quaffs, life's joys, etc.) presented in a merry, decorative (and signed) binding.
Binding: Publisher's yellow/tan cloth with yellow-stamped lettering to spine, purple and yellow-stamped lettering bordered by black on front board with purple grapes, green leaves and yellow tankards and goblets surrounding a giant steaming punchbowl as decoration. Top edge gilt, black ribbon bookmark included. Signed “AR” (i.e., Amy Richards).
Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, parts of text on spine rubbed, faint spots of soiling to front board. Light spotting to fore-edge, a few random finger smudges, soiling to gutter of p. 98.
Wassail in a fitting decorative binding! (38318)

“A Story of Modern American Life”
Colton, Arthur. The debatable land. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [10], 312, [8] pp.
$65.00
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First edition of this novel in Harper's “Stories of Modern American Life” series: an interestingly divided romance, partly dedicated to aesthetically pleasing flights of fancy regarding music, the nature of women, and philosophy, and partly dedicated to two of the male protagonists' experiences as soldiers in the Civil War.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription: “John H. White Merry Christmas from Mabel 1903.”
Binding: Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and decorative red-stamped frame surrounding an affixed, color-printed illustration of a broken cannon in a cloudy landscape.
Binding as above, very slightly cocked, extremities very lightly rubbed. Inscription as above; pages clean and crisp.
A lovely thing. (35256)

19th-Century Ontario Childhood Stories — An Arts & Crafts Binding
Connor, Ralph. Glengarry school days: a story of early days in Glengarry. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell & Co., 1902. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.375"). [8], 13–340 pp.; 3 plts.
$20.00
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First U.S. edition. From the prolific Canadian novelist Ralph Connor — otherwise a prominent Presbyterian and later United leader, the Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon — come these tales of days in a rural Ontario schoolhouse, illustrated with
three halftone plates by American painter Edgar Samuel Paxson.
Binding: Publisher’s green cloth with white lettering to front board and spine, front cover with dark green and white scene of a log cabin in the woods. Unsigned (and notably fine).
Provenance: On front free endpaper, signature of Frank U. Burden, “Christmas, 1902.”
Not in Minsky. Bound as above; mild rubbing to edges and spine-head, wrinkle to cloth at top outside corner of front board. Light offsetting from something once laid in to inner margins of two facing pages.
A charming binding, a clean handsome book. (37533)

Years & Years' Worth of
Self-Sacrifice — On Both the Man's & the Woman's Part
Crawford, F. Marion. A rose of yesterday. New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1897. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [4], 218, [10 (adv.)] pp.
$75.00
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A seemingly impossible romance between two mature individuals, one unhappily married; Crawford, a prolific and best-selling author, includes
extended meditations on divorce and on women's rights, with the latter focusing on the perceived undesirability of trading the right to vote for the privilege of being supported by a man. This is an early reissue, marked “tenth thousand,” of the first edition of the same year.
Binding: Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, front cover stamped with gilt rose and ribbon design, spine with similar motifs; front cover
signed “G.W.E.” — George Wharton Edwards.
BAL 4200. Binding as above, gently faded overall, slightly cocked, edges and extremities rubbed. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. A few scattered faint spots, pages overall clean. (35835)

Making Her Own Way on Stage — Carpenter Illustrations, Richardson Binding
Crawford, F. Marion. Fair Margaret: A portrait. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1905. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75). [6], 383, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 6 plts.
$65.00
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The first novel in a trilogy: An American-born young woman of intelligence and self-possession, as well as prodigious musical talent, sets out on the road to becoming the greatest lyric soprano of the day — while being wooed by a mysterious Greek financier and an almost equally mysterious English literary lion. Possibly more interesting than either of the potential love interests is Margaret's vivacious and vividly drawn mentor, the older prima donna Madame Bonanni. This is the first U.S. edition (in Great Britain, the work was known as Soprano), and it is illustrated with a
frontispiece and five other plates by Horace T. Carpenter.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “Merry Xmas 1905 [/] C.B.B. from Puss.”
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, black, and yellow.
Binding signed “RR” — Rome K. Richardson.
BAL 4224. Binding as above, extremities slightly rubbed, spine gilt with one small spot of rubbing (front gilt bright and fresh); front hinge (inside) tender. Inscription as above; pages gently age-toned.
A pretty copy of a rather interesting novel. (35745)

Bite-Sized
Theatrical Morsels
in
Fancy
Dress — Signed
Bindings
Cruz, Ramón de la. Sainetes de D. Ramón de la Cruz. Barcelona: Biblioteca “Arte y Letras” E. Domenech y Ca., 1882. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). 2 vols. I: [4], xliii, [1], 338, [2] pp.; 16 plts. (some incl. in pagination). II: [4], 343, [5] pp.; 5 plts.
$275.00
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Resplendent
collection of
clever, satiric 18th-century theatrical vignettes, originally intended to be
performed as intermedios during longer plays. The pieces, which include
“La Comedia de Maravillas,” “El Café de Máscaras,”
“La Duda Satisfecha,” “Manolo,” and many others, appear
here illustrated with
21
plates and numerous in-text engravings by José Llovera
and A. Lizcano, most depicting lively social scenes, musicians, dancers, and
flirtatious maidens. Although the second volume contains fewer plates than the
first, it makes up for the difference with extra in-text images.
Signed Binding: Publisher's teal pebbled cloth, front covers with striking chariot and armorial scene in light blue, tan, and gilt. The “Cibeles” statue found in Madrid's Cibeles Plaza and the coat of arms (and gilt monogram) of the city of Madrid appear with de la Cruz's name stamped in gilt below; spines offer gilt-stamped title and black-stamped griffin decoration. Cover of vol. II is signed “J. Orba.” All page edges are stamped in a Greek key pattern in blue and gilt.
Provenance:
Half-titles each with old-fashioned rubber-stamp of José Carmona y
Ramos.
Palau 65340. Bindings as above, edges and extremities
showing minor shelfwear, back cover of vol. I with small spots of faint discoloration,
front joint of vol. II rubbed. Collector's stamp as above, each front pastedown
with small paper label bearing hand-inked numeral. Pages age-toned; edges
slightly embrittled, occasionally with small chips or short tears. Scattered
light smudges in vol. I; vol. II with mild to moderate foxing.
A
peacocky set. (29262)

“By the Author of
'The Martyrdom of an Empress'”
Cunliffe-Owen, Marguerite. Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.375"). 3–328, [1] pp.
$18.75
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“It was mellow October weather in a deep green forest of the Argoät — where forests are deepest and greenest, and October days, when not veiled by warm showers of fine
rain, mellower than anywhere else in the world.” This tale by Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, historical novelist, nonfiction writer, and poison-penned syndicated newspaper columnist, is
illustrated by four color plates of her watercolor drawings, including a frontispiece.
Before her emigration to America (caused by ruined fortunes in Europe), Margaret was the Countess Marguerite, daughter of Count Jules du Planty de Sourdis; she was most commonly known as La Marquise de Fontenoy or the Countess du Planty. The poems interspersed throughout this work and signed “M.M.” are by Edward Forrester Sutton.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth with gilt and white-stamped lettering and decorations including the titular emerald and ermine. Top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom edge deckled.
Bound as above, pretty binding bright and clean. Romantic interior clean.
An attractive production in lovely condition. (37493)

A Celebration of Fine Education — Inscribed by the Author
Cunningham, Frank H. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.1 cm; 7.875"). xiv, 360 pp. illus.
$200.00
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First edition and inscribed by the author. One of the oldest secondary schools in the United States is celebrated in this handsome, illustrated volume; first established in 1781 in New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy is known for its conference-style classes and professed tradition of diversity.
Over 20 illustrations of buildings, interiors, and portraits illustrate the beauty of the campus and its history, many offering two images (or more) per plate leaf (with a tissue guard). A fold-out “Table of Athletic Tournaments” listing events from 1874 to 1881 is also included.
Binding: Original brown cloth with beveled edges, stamped in gilt and black with gilt lettering to front board and spine; gilt vignette of the Academy to front board.
Provenance: Cunningham, an affectionate and appreciative graduate of the Academy, has inscribed the front free endpaper
“With the compliments of the author, 6/22, '83.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Extremities lightly rubbed, minor bumping; gilt bright on spine and brighter on cover.
Very nice, clean copy “personalized” by the author. (37760)

Popular Author — Decorative Designers Binding
Deland, Margaret. Dr. Lavendar's people. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [viii], 369, [7 (adv.)] pp.; 12 plts.
$45.00
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First edition, illustrated with
twelve plates by Lucius Hitchcock: loosely interconnected tales of Deland's beloved “Old Chester” setting. One story features four snippets of printed music.
Signed binding: Teal cloth, front cover with village scene stamped in dark green, terra cotta, and white, marked with the distinctive intertwined capital Ds of Decorative Designers (Henry and Lee Thayer).
Binding as above, slightly cocked, spine dimmed, front panel lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription of Lottie Ellis. One piece of dried plant matter laid in. (35665)

Polychromatic Binding & 16 Plates
De Ligny, François. Vie de N.S. Jésus-Christ tirée des
quatre Évangélistes par de Ligny. Limoges & Paris: Librairie des Bons Livres, 1852. Folio (38.5 cm). ix, [1], 152, 22, [2] pp.; 16 plts.
$600.00
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Colorful, oversized deluxe edition: The life of Jesus, adapted from Father de Ligny's Histoire de la vie de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ. The text is printed inside decorative borders and illustrated with
16 neoclassical stipple-engraved plates done by Bouchard, Henri, Tassaer, Mademoiselle Louvier, Forget, Choubard, and unattributed hands after designs by Duvivier and others. This is the third printing thus, following the first of 1841.
Provenance: Inked inscription reading “Souvenir de Madame de Lagarde à Madame Dellac [/] Priez pour elle,” dated 1855.Binding: Percaline mosaïquée binding of publisher's violet cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped Last Supper vignette surrounded by smaller vignettes and decorations stamped in gilt, white, green, red, and pink; back cover with elaborate IHS display stamped in gilt, green, blue, red, and white; spine gilt extra and stamped in red and green. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, spine and edges of front cover somewhat sunned, front cover with a few small spots of discoloration, extremities rubbed, “presence” very nice. Hinges (inside) tender, requiring some caution (not unexpected in a volume of this size).; one plate separated, one starting to separate. Intermittent faint foxing only; in fact
a sumptuous and pleasing presentation, with an intriguing inscription, in a copy that can
be called not only “clean” but “bright.” (30993)
Dobson, Austin. The ballad of Beau Brocade and other poems of the XVIIIth century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xiii, [3], 89, [3] pp.; 25 plts., illus.
$90.00
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Second edition, with numerous illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine decoratively gilt-stamped; spine, lower edges, and corners a touch rubbed. Top edge gilt. A few leaves and plates with waterstaining to lower outer corners, scattered spots of light foxing. (18409)

Black Poet, Black Photographers, Black Subjects, Major White Publisher
*&* a Margaret Armstrong Book Design
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. When Malindy sings. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1903. 8vo (22.5 cm; 8.875").144 pp. (the blank leaf prior to the half-title is included in the page count).
$200.00
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Dunbar wrote poems in both standard English and in “slave dialect”; the poems in this compilation are all in the latter style and all had been published previously, with exception of one. The best-known poem here, the title piece, is Dunbar’s paean to his mother and her spontaneous singing while doing household chores; it had first appeared in his self-published volume Major and minors, where it appeared in the “minors” section not because it was a minor piece but because it was in dialect.
The volume is “illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club,” lovely and atmospheric; it has a binding designed and signed by Margaret Armstrong, and pale blue ornamental page borders by her as well.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front board with Armstrong's design of a trellis entwined with a red flowering vine and with two scrolls; the larger scroll has a tan field bearing the title in gold and the smaller one has a field of the binding's brown bearing the author's name in gold. Top edge gilt.
BAL 4948; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 73. Binding as above; as usual, without the d/j. Signs of something once having been pinned to front free endpaper, minor cracking in gutter between quires, else very good. (35379)

New
Homes, New
Hearts
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition: Two intertwined stories of learning to love
again after loss, set at Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding:
Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback,
front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt
and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)

Biblical Law, Debated
Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques. The trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate. Being a refutation of Mr. Salvador's chapter entitled “The Trial and Condemnation of Jesus.” Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1839. 16mo (18 cm, 7.1"). viii, 88, [2 (blank)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, translated from the original French “by a member of the American Bar”: John Pickering (1777–1846), a lawyer and philologist. Salvador's Histoire des Institutions de Moise et du Peuple Hebreu included a chapter in which he concluded that as a court proceeding, the trial of Jesus was in accordance with Jewish law; Dupin here rebuts that chapter's arguments, while continuing to express admiration for Salvador as a scholar and author — and while focusing on legal issues rather than theological ones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Cloth is ribbed and fits Krupp's Rb3 pattern.
Evidence of readership: One pencilled footnote, arguing that capital punishment is the will of the divine.
American Imprints 55455. On the binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 40. Binding as above; spine and board edges gently faded, extremities rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. An interesting book in a good example of an early American cloth binding. (34765)

A Fantastic Fairy Tale Spin-off
Dyer, Ruth O. The adventures of the Ink Spots. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, (1923). 8vo (20.2 cm; 8"). [170] pp.
$40.00
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Endearingly illustrated children's poetry. The Red Ink and Black Ink families escape their bottles and holiday in Mother Goose's garden with nursery rhyme characters. L.J. Bridgman provides
small black and red illustrations in the margins, as well as a color frontispiece.
Binding: Publisher's grey cloth stamped in black and red with images of the escaped Ink Spots flying on a cloud above a hill on which walk Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep with a turreted castle in the distance; Mother Goose–inspired illustrated endpapers.
WorldCat locates only nine institutional copies of this edition.
Bound as above, frontispiece separated but present; gutter cracked at pp. 22–23 and faint staining to a handful of pages.
A nice copy. (37256)
CRANBERRIES
Eastwood, B. A complete
manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties.
New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts.
$125.00
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Early reprint, following the first edition of 1856.
Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches.
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)
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Lannigan & O'Shay at Sea
“Decorative
Designers” Binding
Fernald, Chester Bailey. Under the jack-staff. New York: Century Co., 1903. 8vo. [6], 262 pp.
$75.00
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First edition of these entertaining (and occasionally tragic) adventures of a pair of Irish-American sailors: “The Lights of Sitka,” “The Spirit in the Pipe,” “The Yellow Burgee,” “The Transit of Gloria Mundy,” “A Hard Road to Andy Coggin's,” “Clarence's Mind,” “The Proving of Lannigan,” “Help from the Hopeless,” “Clarence at the Ball,” “The Lannigan System with Girls,” and “A Yarn of the Pea-Soup Sea.”
Signed binding: Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped stylized double fish design, signed with the double D monogram of Decorative Designers; spine with gilt-stamped title and scallop shell. Top edge gilt.
Binding as above, corners and spine a bit rubbed. Front pastedown with private owner's bookplate. A clean, attractive copy. (28862)
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MARITIME matters, click here.
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more of IRISH interest, click
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“May Not a POET Now & Then / Reveal These Lives of Average Men?”
Foss, Sam Walter. Whiffs from wild meadows. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., copyright 1895. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., [2], ix, [1], 272 pp.; illus.
$50.00
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First edition: Humorous verse, often in assorted American dialects, with small in-text illustrations by various hands.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, gilt, and yellow, with a frame of apples and greenery surrounding a decorative title and small gilt motifs.
Binding as above, corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed, dust jacket lacking. Endpapers and a few pages sprinkled with spots of faint staining, pages generally clean
A popular and entertaining author, in an attractive and well-preserved binding. (35257)

Methodism & Society & Quite a Lot of
Marriage Advice
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft [Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin]. Place and power. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). viii, [2], 381, [9 (8 adv.)] pp.; 8 plts.
[SOLD]
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First American edition. Written by a popular author known for her winning, sprightly style, this novel intertwines romance and Christian faith with greed and the convolutions of English politics — two of the four having predictably detrimental effects. The secondary moral of the story is “Marry an intelligent person or be prepared to suffer the consequences.”
The story is illustrated with
eight black and white plates reproducing paintings by Nell Marion Tenison Cuneo (1867–1953).
Binding: Signed binding, marked “DD” for Decorative Designers: navy cloth, front cover and spine stamped with Art Nouveau–inspired pomegranate and leaf motif in green and with title in gilt.
Binding as above; extremities very lightly rubbed with all gilt and stamping bright. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. Pages very faintly age-toned with a few scattered spots, generally clean. A decidedly pretty copy of an interesting look at early 20th-century social mores regarding love, religion, and ambition. (35619)

Who Are Your Real Friends? What is REAL Love?
Garland, Hamlin. Money magic. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 8vo. [8], 354, [2] pp.; 8 plts.
$35.00
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First edition, illustrated by J.N. Marchand.
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, black, orange, and gilt; lacking the dust jacket, with binding slightly cocked, spine stamping a bit dimmed. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription. (13027)
Gilt
MOSAIC Binding
[Gavard, Charles]. Souvenir d'une promenade a Versailles. Paris: au Bureau des Galeries Historiques de Versailles, [ca. 1850–55]. Folio (36.5 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 50 leaves of plates.
$600.00
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One of several works with the identical title but from different publishers and with different contents! The present volume contains engravings after paintings in the palace's “Galeries Historiques”: the engravers include Leroux, Masson, Thomas, Nargoot, Rebel, Frilley, and many others. Curiously, many engravings bear a faint line of identification reading “Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard” and they have non-sequential numbering, meaning the images from this source could be and were recombined to form a wide variety of souvenir albums.
In this copy all plates are guarded by sheets of heavy paper stock.
Binding: In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.
On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97. Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding. (30464)

“Coal Cannot Be Obtained Except at the Cost of Life”
Gibbons, William Futhey. Those black diamond men: a tale of the Anthrax Valley. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1902. 8vo (20.4 cm; 8"). 389 pp.
$25.00
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First edition. “One of the hindrances to an understanding of other classes is a lack of imagination,” and this story of Pennsylvania coal miners, a tale of “plain men” and their families, attempts to close the gap. The author, a Presbyterian minister/missionary and journalist, is no fan of unions; but he certainly understands and well conveys why they are formed, and it appears that some of the incidents in this novel are transferred directly from his reporting.
Illustrated by five halftone plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.
Binding: Pictorial brown cloth stamped in black and orange. A miner stamped in black with orange face and hands stands beside a black-stamped mine entrance on the cover; a miner's gas lamp accents the spine; titles on spine and cover are in orange.
Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925: G-133; Hanna 1388. Quotations are from the novel's preface. Bound as above, minor rubbing to edges and joints, spine bumped at head. Light foxing to first and last couple of pages; offsetting from tissue guard to title-page.
A
neat copy. (37484)
This English
Classic
Presented in
Classic
Fashion
Goldsmith, Oliver. The deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus.
$49.50
Attractive Boston printing of Goldsmith's popular poem, here illustrated with a number of engravings
Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
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With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

Hand-Colored
Floral Frontispiece
Goodrich, Samuel G., ed. The token, or affection's gift,
a Christmas and New-Year's present. Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis., 312 pp.; 4 plts.
$112.50
Reprint of the 1838 “Token” gift book, with different plates and a hand-colored floral frontispiece offering pink roses. One of the four uncolored plates is of a “Young American in the Alps,” by Healey and engraved by Cushman; another and this cataloguer's favorite, “Sun Set on the Hudson,” is by Weir, engraved by J.A. Ralph.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.
Faxon 786. Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with good portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120 and some soiling. One signature extruded and others heading for that; one plate shaved very very close to image at top but image itself not quite touched! Not a fresh copy, still, an interesting one. (12944)

Temperance Autobiography — Signed Binding with
Interesting Personal Connection
Gough, John Bartholomew. An autobiography by John B. Gough. Boston: Pub. by and for the author, 1845. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.8"). [4], 172 pp.
$95.00
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First edition of the life of one of the great temperance speakers. Gough was born in England and at 12 years of age came to America, where he became a bookbinder before his heavy drinking led to the failure of that career and his subsequent attempts to make a living as a singer, storyteller, and actor in New York.
Binding: Contemporary dark green cloth, covers with blind-stamped foliate border, spine with similar design and gilt-stamped title; front free endpaper with pressure-stamp of Benjamin Bradley's Boston bindery — at which company Gough worked for a few months in late 1837 before being fired for presenting a shabby appearance.
American Imprints 45-2792. Binding as above, very slightly cocked, spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed; front and back fly-leaves excised. Scattered mild to moderate foxing and a few mild to moderate instances of stain; a few corners dog-eared. A very readable copy, with the added attraction of the Bradley connection. (34808)

“In the reign of good King René . . . ”
Guiney, Louise Imogen. The secret of Fougereuse: A romance of the fifteenth century; from the French. Boston: Marlier, Callanan & Co., 1898. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.375"). Frontis., 347, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition. Louise Imogen Guiney was an American Catholic poet and essayist active in the Boston literary circle of the late 19th century. This is her translation of Louis Morvan's Jehan de Fougereuse from the original French. The text is
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates in black and white.
Binding: Decorated publisher's binding: blue cloth with “silver”-stamped lettering and fleur-de-lis decorations to front board and spine, front cover with large “silver”-stamped vignette of a medieval gentleman holding a cage with two owls. “Silver” work actually aluminum and very bright!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
BAL 6747 (state A imprint, state A binding). Bound as above; spine cocked and extremities and joints lightly rubbed. Stamps as above. Crease to p. 42; interior otherwise unspoiled.
A handsomely medieval-esque production. (37506)
Allan Quartermain
Haggard, H. Rider. Maiwa's revenge; or, the war of the little hand. London & New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1891. 12mo. [8 (1 blank)], 115, [5], 24 pp.; 8 plts.
$125.00
First illustrated edition, with 8 illustrations (issued without frontispiece) by C. H. M. Kerr. The fourth book in the Allan Quartermain series. Text followed by a 28-page catalogue of books published Longmans, Green & Co., dated 7/91. First published in 1888.
Scott, A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Haggard 18561925, 10. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, issued without frontispiece. Spine a bit darkened, a few leaves with faint spots of foxing, endpapers lightly discolored. Spine slightly cocked. (8614)

Warning Against Disloyalty — Signed Cloth Binding
Hale, Edward Everett. Man without a country. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1916. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.625"). [2], frontis., 60 pp.; 3 plts.
$30.00
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A patriotic short story originally published in 1863, here presented in an attractive decorated cloth binding. American author and historian Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) successfully roused support for the Union cause with this story that allegorically represents the issue of the American Civil War. The main character, after facing a trial for treason and expressing disappointment with his country, is exiled from the United States and must live at sea.
Four black and white plates (including the frontispiece) done by F.T. Merrill accompany the text.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth with white lettering to spine; front board decorated with a ship at sea stamped in white and gray, with white lettering and two white single-rule borders.
Signed by Amy Sacker.
Bound as above; extremities very lightly rubbed. Small, rubber-stamped monogram (CMcA? JCA?) on the front free endpaper. Minor gutter crack at p. 30.
Overall a wonderful copy. (38127)

Taking the Fad TOO Far?
Harsha, D.A. The Heavenly token a gift book for Christians. New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis: Asher & Co., 1859. 12mo (18.6 cm; 7.625"). Engr. frontis., 491 pp.
$125.00
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Religious “gift book” in name only, here reissued from the 1856 edition, with an engraved frontispiece of a throne under a rainbow overlooking people praying on earth by S.A. Schoff after Hammatt Billings. Tepper aptly notes about a similar edition that “it is 500 pages of exhaustive sermonizing on the love of Christ. . . . this is an interesting example of the lengths publishers would go to in
riding the coattails of the gift book fad.”
Binding: Blue publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt with fancified title and partly arabesque design, covers decoratively framed in blind.
Not in Faxon, nor Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books; for another year, see Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 100. Bound as above, recently well rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers, gently rubbed, small sticker on spine. Light age-toning and foxing (especially around the frontispiece as usual), with occasional other spotting or staining (some perhaps in press); a sound copy representing
an interesting phenomenon in marketing. (37262)

He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)
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“Know Thyself” — And FEAR Thy Sex Life
Hayes, Albert H. The science of life; or, self-preservation. A medical treatise on nervous and physical debility, spermatorrhoea, impotence, and sterility, with practical observations on the treatment of diseases of the generative organs. Boston: Peabody Medical Institute, © 1881. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). xviii, 286 pp.; 4 plts. (1 fold.).
$220.00
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Stern warnings regarding venereal disease, masturbation, premature sexual activity, and other sex-related issues — with much of the book making dire insinuations regarding the reader's potential ill-health, as well as the likelihood that any practitioner other than Dr. Hayes will make the reader's woes even worse. The volume opens with a folding reproduction of a certificate commemorating the alleged presentation of “the most beautiful and expensive gold and jewelled medal ever conferred upon any one, be he prince or potentate” (p. xii) to Hayes by three (seemingly nonexistent) officers of the National Medical Association; the three other plates depict two views of the medal itself, and “Victims of Self-Abuse, and Their Offspring.” At the back are a list of medicines and how to formulate them, as well as testimonials to Hayes's miraculous curative abilities. First published in 1868, this popular treatise appears here in a surprisingly flashy binding for its subject.
Binding: Publisher's very bright blue cloth, front cover with overall oak-and-acorn and geometric pattern stamped in gilt and black, with decorative title and sun vignette, spine similar. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, slightly cocked, extremities lightly rubbed; sewing of first signature loosening. Four leaves with short tear in upper margin, not touching text; several more creased across one corner; one page with light smudges, pages otherwise clean.
A simultaneously disturbing and amusing look at quack medicine of the 19th century. (35120)

Washington, D.C. — Life & Society, 1895
Hinman, Ida. The Washington sketch book. A society souvenir. Containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people, and fifty views of public buildings and statues. Washington, DC: Hartman & Cadick, 1895. 4to (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 112 pp., [2 (ads) ff.
$75.00
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A guidebook and social life manual aimed very much at the female audience. Illustrated with numerous black and white halftone illustrations throughout, including many views of the city and its important buildings both exterior and interior, this includes an extended section of profiles of “Some Prominent Women of Washington.”
Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Mollie, with Ada's love. 898.”
Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in silver with images of the Washington Monument and the Capitol; author's name and title of work stamped in in gold within silver cartouches. Light wear to edges of boards and a little spotting; a Very Good copy. (37010)

College Sermons — Presentation Copy
Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
$100.00
Sole edition: Sermons delivered at Hobart College, 1893, Geneva, NY, and S. Stephen's College, Annandale, NY.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)

Patience is the Game!
Hoffmann, Louis [pseud. of Angelo John Lewis], trans. The illustrated book of patience games. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1892. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.375"). 4, 123, [1] pp.; illus.
$50.00
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First edition: “Patience games, as the term is usually understood, are card games for a single player who plays against fate or chance, represented by the more or less favorable arrangement of the cards at the outset of the game” (p. 1). Angelo John Lewis (1839–1919), a lawyer and prominent writer on magic who published a number of significant works of his own, claimed to have translated this card game book from the “original” German, although its true first appearance appears to have been in French attributed to the Comtesse de Blanccoeur. Lewis used the pen name “Professor Hoffmann” for fear that his magical pursuits would damage his professional reputation as a lawyer.
The text, which opens with a wonderfully decorated title-page in black and red, presents
some 60 card games illustrated in black and red and is ornamented with red page borders, initials, and chapter titles. An errata slip is included.
WorldCat locates only five institutional holdings of this 1892 edition, all in the United Kingdom.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth with bevelled boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, and black and red–stamped decoration of playing cards on front board. All edges stained green.
Bound as above; cloth darkened, edges and joints rubbed. Faint foxing and dark spots throughout, including one dark spot to title-page, minor soiling to top of three pages; gutter cracks at pp. 16 and 24. An engagingly illustrated card game book, here in
an agreeable, readable copy. (37962)
Something
Different from
the
Creator of Ruritania
Hope,
Anthony, pseud. Helena's path. New York: McClure Co.,
1907. 8vo. Frontis., [6], 241, [1] pp.
$40.00
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First edition of this romance from the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, Sir
Anthony Hope Hawkins. The volume opens with an unsigned, color-printed plate; the sprightly,
chivalrous tale features two strong-willed protagonists and their cast of entertaining friends —
including a barrister who must bear the brunt of Lord Lynborough's amused disdain for the law.Despite Hope's having been English and even knighted, this work was apparently never
printed in England.
Binding: Publisher's red
cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped garden design,
spine with gilt-stamped title. Signed binding:
Front cover with monogram of a J crowned with E (unidentified designer).
Binding as above,
cocked, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription
dated Christmas 1904. A few corners bumped, one torn away. Pages very clean. A bright,
pretty copy. (29132)
Dartmouth's Laureate
Hovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp.
$65.00
First edition. Poems by “Dartmouth's Laureate," edited by Edwin Osgood Grover.
BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)

Attractive Little Book!
Howells, William Dean. Criticism and fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 12mo. Frontis., title-leaf, 188 pp., [2] ff.
$25.00
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Second edition.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front cover with an overall pattern of torches with bows, surrounding a central cartouche with the title and author in gilt.
BAL 9577 (for first edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed at base of spine, small area of minor discoloration on spine. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (26805)

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