•  Chanticleer (1921–36) 55.   Publisher' red cloth, spine slightly sunned; slight bubbling of cloth, possibly from glue action. Without the d/j. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed.A very good copy of a very nice and typical Golden Cockerel.  (36985)

•  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)

•  Publisher's cloth, front and spine stamped in black and blue; small stain to front cover, some wear to head and foot of spine. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Sturdy; pages clean.  (3175)

English Association pamphlet no. 80.

•  Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.), A68.   Publisher's green wrappers, spine darkened, and a little rumpled. A decent copy.  (27448)

•  Gallup, T. S. Eliot: A bibiography (rev. & ext. ed.), A63a.   Publisher's cream wrappers printed in green and wire stitched. Lightest soiling to wrappers; a clean copy.  (27432)

Binding:  Boards fetchingly covered with red-brown Curwen patterned paper by Enid Marx with a gray paper cover label, all edges untrimmed; housed in red-brown paper–covered chemise with patterned doublures matching the binding and a gray printed spine label — all in a gray paper–covered slipcase.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 93.   Bound as above, offsetting to fly-leaves from pastedowns, slipcase lightly dust-soiled and rubbed at corners with title and author pencilled on spine. Volume with a few light marginal spots (possibly from paper manufacture), otherwise clean.  (37125)

•  Publisher's quarter sheep with printed sides; neatly respined with cloth tape. Signed by previous owner on front pastedown.  (4182)

Provenance:  Inscribed by the author: “To B.F. Pyle, Esq. [?] from his friend the author.”

•  Publisher's textured violet cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; faded, especially over spine, tear to cloth along front joint with corners and extremities a bit rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked inscription as above. Endpapers, frontispiece (“The Rhine”), and title-page lightly foxed. In fact a clean, nice copy.  (23195)

•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-stamped title. Offsetting to endpapers. Clean.  (35691)

Thevery dramatic wood-engraved frontispiece is signed “Gilbert.”

Provenance:  “MESS West Salem No. 77" on front free endpaper in ink.

•  Shoemaker 33155.   Publisher's quarter navy cloth and marble paper covered boards, paper label on spine; covers rubbed, joints starting, hinges worn but sewing still strong. Something, perhaps a bookplate, removed from front pastedown, some ink and crayon markings on endpapers. Light foxing, spotting, and age-toning; a few, perhaps a dozen, leaves creased. A nice, representative example of an American Sunday School Union text.  (36019)

•  Cloth with a few light spots, spine extremities faintly worn, dust jacket with slightly ragged edges and some spine fading. (2113)

The “lady” was Eliza L. Cabot Follen (1787–1860), the Boston-born author, translator, and abolitionist.  She used her own translation — “a free one; but sedulous care has been taken never to depart from the spirit of the author” (v) — and one of her concerns in selection is to de-Catholicize the archbishop, allowing his more universal appreciation — for, as she says, his “writings necessarily contain many things that could not be acceptable to Christians of all denominations [and have therefore] been uniformly omitted” (v).

Fénelon's appearance in Follen's selective epitome would surely have amused him, and it pleased the book-buying public: This is the work’s third edition.

Provenance:  A note states that “this book belonged to Grandmother Dyer[:] Ann Eliza Morse”; Charles Dyer Norton has also signed an endpaper in ink.

•  American Imprints 7028. On Fénelon, see: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., X, 252–54.   Mid-19th-century plain black calf with gilt spine compartments tooled in an interesting pattern, single gilt rule around covers, a little gilt on board edges, marbled endpapers and edges; some wear and abrasions but spine gilt still bright. Provenance markings as above, some leaves creased across and a little interior staining and spotting especially at rear. A nice old book.  (36673)

•  Publisher's black and red printed paper wrappers, in original similar dust wrapper; dust wrapper with chips and short tears to margins (longer closed tear from upper front edge), spine slightly sunned. Front free endpaper with contemporary inked ownership inscription. Two leaves with short tear from lower margin, touching text without loss. Pages age-toned, embrittled as expectable; in fact, a nice copy, and with a “Three Seal Book Mark” laid in.  (28422)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed vignette surrounded by blind-stamped butterfly wing design, title and author stamped in cream, spine with publication information stamped in cream, volume inpublisher's original box with cover vignette rendered in tones of rose and sepia on lid. Endpapers with striking design of butterfly-winged sprites pulling a flying automobile, printed in pale green; each page framed with similar motifs.

•  Binding as above, book showing almost no wear; box mildly darkened and dust-soiled with paper and one side of the boxtop chipped. Front pastedown with early 20th-century inked ownership inscription. A very attractive acquisition or gift for fans of Edwardian-era illustration and design, screwball romances, or vintage automobiles.  (35162)

One appears to be a signed autograph manuscript copy of the fourth verse of Field's “The Wanderer” provided to a fan or friend as a “souvenir” (No place: 22 April 1894. Small 8vo, 20 x 12.5 cm; 7.75" x 5". 1 p.). Another reproduces an autograph letter signed by Field to Francis Wilson in which he thanks Wilson for an unexpected gift of “the Thackeray.” Field asks if Wilson and Miss Harriet might “fall into Rector’s after the show tonight and take a farewell nip with me” (No place [N.Y.?], 1 February 1889. 4to, 25 x 20.5 cm; 10" x 8". 1 p.).

The last would seem to be an autograph letter to a Mrs. Ehrich from Stevenson, in which he writes that he is in bed, sick. “Though I have never written to thank you, I have been punishing your cakes” (No place, no date. 12mo,1 x 10.5 cm; 6.75" x 4.25". 1 p.).

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  All very good with some old folds and one with evidence of having been mounted in an album.  (34473)

Not located in RLIN.

•  Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The front edge of the title page is darkened, else very good.  (17422)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 511.   Bound as above, slipcase gently rubbed at corners with sunning around edges; four small spots, possibly from paper manufacture. A beautiful collection of short stories.  (37136)

Stepping into the presidency amidst scandal, war, and a poor economy, Gerald Ford was presented with some very difficult leadership challenges. On the one hand, he was the right man at the right time: His honesty and reassurance restored the confidence in the presidency that been lost during the Watergate scandal, and his negotiation of the Helsinki Agreement contributed to the end of the Cold War. However, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon eroded much of the trust he had built early in his term. This fateful decision, together with the fall of Saigon and his inability to “whip inflation,” were the main factors that cost him reelection. This memoir speaks to his role in navigating the challenges of his time with the same honesty and straightforwardness that characterized his tenure as president.

•  Full red leather, covers lavishly gilt-stamped with a pattern of elephants, spine with raised bands, gilt title, author's name, and gilt elephants within “compartments.” Endpapers bear a version of the image of the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. Silk ribbon placemarker. All edges gilt. Fine condition.  (23605)

•  Publisher's green cloth, spine with black-stamped title; minor wear to corners and spine extremities. Pages clean and crisp.  (26152)

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)

•  NSTC 2S31074. Removed from a nonce volume. Clean save for some smudging to outer margin of one page.  (16760)

“The Cork Leg and Steam Arm. / The Great Sea Snake. / The Sailor's Consolation. / The Wonderful Nose”

•  Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean.  (16763)

•  ESTC R10666; Wing (rev. ed.) F1720.   Bound into recent plain paper wrappers with linen binder's tape; wrappers faded, front wrapper splitting along joint. Title-page with small inked numeral in lower margin; first and last pages darkened.  (19897)

The story is illustrated witheight 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)

The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49.   Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy.  (22313)

The College's founding trustees are a Who's Who of Pennsylvanians, both English and German; future trustees are to be chosen half from Lutherans and the other half from the Reformed or “Calvinist Church”; youth are to be instructed in the “German, English, Latin, Greek, and other learned languages” (note order); one-sixth of the endowment is to be used to support an adjunct children's charity school; etc. An interesting 19th-century ethnic-educational ephemerum, apparently not in NUC Pre-1956.

•  Sewn; in original yellow wrappers. Very good.  (9724)

•  Publisher's elaborately blind-embossed and gilt-stamped deep blue paper in imitation of leather; spine chipped and worn at tips with some loss of paper to covers (notably at bottom front corner).  (8004)

This is anuncommonly nice copy, still housed in its original publisher's box, which features the front cover image reproduced in color.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's spiral-bound wrappers, front wrapper color-printed with image of Dutch girls baking, in publisher's box (as above); one edge of box rubbed and corners of box bottom reinforced. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription and pencilled date (March 24, 1956). A clean, fresh, virtually unworn copy — and very uncommon as such.  (29584)

•  Publisher's quarter cloth over green paper boards; paper title label on spine. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Paper covers with some old minor scrapes and finger marks; VG.  (19462)

These books feature a grand total of 114 full-color plates depicting all the dishes. The glossy double-sided plates are divided sectionally in vol. I, gathered at the beginning of vol. II, and grouped as prospective dinner menus in vol. III; all three volumes are additionally illustrated with black-and-white photographic images from Pei-Mei's career.

•  Vol. I: Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered boards, vols. II and III in publisher's original dust wrappers over green and yellow cloth, respectively; vol. I with moderate shelfwear to edges and extremities, vol. II wrapper with extremities rubbed and a few small edge nicks, vol. III wrapper with spine extremities chipped and small scuff to back joint. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked gift inscription dated 1977. Pages of vols. II and III very clean and white, vol. I slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. Very attractive copies of a set seldom found all volumes together.  (30289)

Signed binding: Contemporary half tan morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands each accented above and below with single gilt rule and single black rule; gilt-stamped title, spine compartments framed in gilt with gilt dots in each corner and each with gilt center device. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.” Top edge gilt; silk ribbon place marker.

•  Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, corners and extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with private collector’s armorial bookplate. Pages clean. (19752)

•  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)

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)

Binding:  Publisher's quarter white linen with blue-green paper sides, printed paper label on spine; the variant binding without the embossed medallion on the front cover and bearing instead a paper label that gives full publication details and describes the book as in “imperial 8vo” costing “two guineas net.” Top edge gilt, others deckle.

•  Bound as above, without the d/j. A very good copy.  (34706)

•  Publisher's cream cloth, covers and spine with gilt-stamped floral and geometric pattern; binding slightly cocked, lower outer corners showing minor wear, offsetting to rear free endpaper from a leaf of paper(?) once laid in. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Dust jacket and slipcase lacking, thus the more affordable as a book; a clean, solid, enjoyable copy.  (33516)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Frances W. Stevenson, front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated 2005.

Binding:  Publisher's grey-green ribbon-embossed cloth in Krupp's style Fs1, front cover with gilt-stamped title.

•  American Imprints 38472.   Binding as above, cloth unevenly sunned with spots of discoloration; extremities rubbed. Pages age-toned and mildly spotted.  (33711)

•  Photographic dust jacket protected by mylar, not price clipped, over bright red boards; bottom edge bumped but no damage to jacket. Neat black “remainder” mark near spine on bottom edge; practically new!  (30106)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers. Clean and crisp.  (31231)

•  Clean and fresh.  (31233)

•  Publisher's textured navy paper wrappers, in original brown paper envelope printed in red; envelope corners slightly worn. Wrappers and pages clean and crisp.  (31228)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in original printed dust wrapper; dust wrapper partially split along front outer fold and nicked at corners. Pages age-toned.  (28931)

•  Hatch, Mosher, 688; Bishop, Mosher, 313.   Publisher's quarter tan paper and blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; spine moderately sunned, with extremities rubbed and one tiny fleck to one compartment. Back hinge (inside) cracked, front hinge tender, volume yet holding firmly; as usual, without the dust jacket or the slipcase. Overall, a very good copy ofan interesting book and an attractive Mosher production.  (34463)

Uncommon: WorldCat locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this 1911 (as per the imprimatur) edition.

Binding:  Cream-colored plasticized boards (with cream cloth intentionally visible at joints), front cover with color-printed overlay of an angel delicately tinted in light blue and pink with gilt backdrop beneath a rose and grapevine motif, turn-ins with gilt roll, moiré silk endpapers. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, corners slightly rubbed, minor discoloration to sides and spine head. Lacking pp. 19–30 (though with its not being entirely clear whether these were ever present). Pages age-toned; lower outer corners of first few leaves bumped. A beautiful little prayerbook.  (30391)

This is numbered copy 186 of 1200 printed, and issigned at the colophon by the artist.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 164.   Bindings as above, without slipcase; books clean, bright, andan attractive set.  (36867)

•  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)

16 steel-engraved maps

While the title-page gives the Boston publication line described above, the printed front cover gives Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1838; this is a later edition, following the first of 1832.

A first impression is that “child” readers had, in 1832, much greater powers of attention to print than is now common, but indeed the history here is — the stories are — absorbing and evocative.

•  American Imprints 50587.   Publisher's quarter sheep and printed green paper–covered boards, rubbed and worn; pages cockled and foxed, yet paper good and untattered. One page with stray ink marks, not obstructing legibility. A good, solid, pleasing copy.  (33716)

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)

The work isillustrated with a total of 12 engravings, including portraits of the first five presidents and an engraved half-title page.

Provenance:  Ownership signature on two front fly-leaves of Giles Satterthwaite, dated 1824; his note also, “Prise [sic] $1-75.”

•  Sabin 27871; Shoemaker 12704.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; binding worn and abraded, spine leather much chipped and cracked with some fragments carefully reattached in first panel; joints, corners, and headcaps restored. Pagesfoxed and age-toned throughout, loosening in some signatures, torn and chipped in margins and corners of a few pages; inner margin of one front fly-leaf reinforced. Ownership inscriptions as noted.  (5503)

•  Cary 216.   Printed grey wrappers; a few small tears, covers and top edge soot-stained with a majority of top and side margins and a few whole pages affected, some worse than others. A “survivor” copy priced accordingly.  (36763)

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)

The little volume also offers astriking wood-engraved frontispiece in orange and black by Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886–1950) who additionally provided the wood-engraved headpieces, and the colophon notes the item was printed by Ducros, Lefèvre, & Colas.

•  Red and black printed cream wrappers, gently worn around edges; light age-toning with a few occasional spots, frontispiece offset onto title-page. A very nice copy.  (36392)

Elaine Kerrigan selected and wrote the introduction to this group of Graves's poems, illustrated witheight double-page plates by Paul Hogarth reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company from original watercolors. This is copy number 1496 of 2000 designed by Freeman Keith in monotype Bembo and Arrighi, and printed on Curtis cream-toned paper at The Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, VT. BothKeith and Hogarth signed the colophon.

A. Horowitz & Sons designed the binding in quarter brown buckram over black and red patterned tan boards, with author and title gilt on spine and top edge gilt. The appropriate LEC prospectus and newsletter are laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 517 (200 pp., in error). On Graves, see: ODNB online.   Binding as above, in a matching slipcase with cloth at top and bottom edges and printed spine. Glassine dust jacket present. Very nice copy.  (35206)

Sickness is a theme here

The volume is illustrated with a total of three wood-engraved depictions of New England buildings.

•  Publisher's pebbled terra cotta cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened and worn with gilt rubbed, sides with small spots of discoloration, cover gilt nice and bright. Some light smudging to margins, pages otherwise clean. All edges gilt.  (27649)