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“Pithy, Ironic, Pen Portraits” of the
1630S
Earle, John. Micro-cosmographie, or, A piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Small 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). vi, 73, [1] pp.
$100.00
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Earle (1601?–65) published this work anonymous but his authorship was soon well known. The work fits well into “the craze for characters — pithy, ironic, pen portraits of social
or moral types, often with a didactic moral purpose” that was prominent in the 1620s and 30s (DNB online; Earle's biography).
This edition reprints the text from the first complete edition of 1633. And as the colophon clearly states: “This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, and completed on January 10th, 1928. Compositors: A. H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A. C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 400 copies, of which 150 are for the United States of America.” This is copy 249.
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)
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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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Interesting & Still Instructive
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson; & Roger Wearne Ramsdell. The practical book of chinaware. With 12 illustrations in colours[,] 191 in doubletone, and diagrams. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1925. Large 8vo. xix, 326; illus.
$37.50
Part of Lippincott's "Practical Book" series. Aimed at the era's collectors of moderate but not extravagant means, this provides detailed descriptions of china in its major varieties from the beginnings of its manufacture up to 1840.
Numerous black-and-white and color illustrations.
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)
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“Politics is the Profession of the Second-rate”
Eliot, T.S. Charles Whibley, a memoir. [colophon: London: Pub. by Humphrey Milford, Pr. at the University Press, Oxford, by John Johnson , 1931. 8vo. 13, [3] pp.
$60.00
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Whibley was an English literary journalist and author and was the man who recommended Eliot to Geoffrey Faber, thus securing the poet his position at Faber & Faber; he was also the man who expressed the judgment of our caption.
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)
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“There May be Four Voices. There May Be, Perhaps, Only Two.”
Eliot, T.S. Three voices of poetry. London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1953. 12mo. 23, [1] pp.
$95.00
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First edition, preceding the American of the same year. “The Eleventh Annual Lecture of the National Book League, delivered at the Central Hall, Westminster . . . 19th November 1953.”
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)
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Reviving a Man
Who “Had Long Lived in Dignified Obscurity”
Ellis, Havelock. Chapman. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1934. 8vo (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [4], 146, [2] pp.
$100.00
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Nonesuch Press commemoration of the tercentenary of the death of poet, classicist, and dramatist George Chapman. The volume was designed by Meynell, set in Centaur and Arrighi, and printed by the Cambridge University Press on Van Gelder paper watermarked “Nonesuch”; the title-page bears a vignette in bistre and brown, and the chapter numbers are embraced by typographical ornaments. This is
numbered copy 227 of 700 printed.
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)
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“200 Favorite Songs & Exercises”
Emerson, L.O. The golden wreath; a choice collection of favorite melodies, designed for the use of schools, seminaries, select classes, etc.. Also, a complete course of elementary instruction, upon the Pestalozzian system, with numerous exercises for practice. Albany: Newcomb & Co., 1857. Oblong 12mo. 240 pp.
$35.00
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New edition, revised and enlarged; the Pestalozzian “instruction” is extensive. Proudly blazoned on the cover as the “FIFTIETH EDITION” of this classic.
Publisher's quarter sheep with printed sides; neatly respined with cloth tape. Signed by previous owner on front pastedown. (4182)
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A Happy Ending (This Time)
[English, Clara?]. The children in the wood. An affecting tale. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1839. 16mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). 31, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Here featuring a happy ending: the children are rescued, nasty Ned is sent to the gallows, the wicked uncle dies in prison, and the children get their estate. This American version of a long-popular doleful ballad is illustrated with unusually neatly hand-colored wood engravings.
The title vignette is signed “J.H.H.” (John H. Hall); the front wrapper gives a publication date of 1838, while the title-page gives 1839.
There are two interesting points about the wrapper here. First, the title is printed down the slim little spine in minute letters, with “bands” above and below it; the “binding” part of the operation of putting this together was designed to be more than usually unforgiving. And the back wrapper offers an interesting emblematic engraving with text reading, “ORATORIO . . . to aid in rebuilding Zion Church.” (Is the reference to “metaphorical Zion”; was this perhaps sold as a fund-raiser; or did the Phinneys just have the plate lying around, and figure it would fit?? — which last does not seem to fit with the care taken in the spine treatment?).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
American Imprints 49687. Very Good copy. Publisher's printed gray-blue paper wrappers, slightly faded, lower back outer corner nicked. Moderate foxing. A seemingly unread copy, with added interest from the
very pretty contemporary but non-childish hand-coloring. (38489)
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A Politician's Prose & Poetry — Presentation Copy
Everhart, James B. Miscellanies. West Chester, PA: Edward F. James, 1862. 8vo. Frontis., [6], ii, 300 pp.
$150.00
First edition: Reminiscences, travelogues, and musings from James Bowen Everhart, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate 1876–83 and the U.S. House of Representatives 1883–87.
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)
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Overview of
CA Printing History, in Miniature — Satisfying CA Provenance
Fahey, Herbert. Early printing in California. San Francisco: San Francisco Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1949. 48mo (9.8 cm, 3.875"). 63, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Dedicated to the Thirtieth Annual Convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, this small-size keepsake was the first appearance of a work that would later be expanded and become Fahey's authoritative Early Printing in California: From Its Beginning in the Mexican Territory to Statehood. Fahey, a bookbinder and teacher of fine binding as well as a scholar of typography, helped set the text (Linotype Janson) alongside Ralph Scott, while Haywood Hunt designed the title-page and John C. Larsen did the presswork.
Provenance: Front pastedown with small bookplate of Albert Sperisen (1909–99), librarian of the Book Club of California.
Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-stamped title. Offsetting to endpapers. Clean. (35691)
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NOT a “Collector's Copy” But FUN to Have
in This Early Form
Faulkner, William. Requiem for a nun. New York:
Random House, [copyright 1951]. 8vo. [6], 286 pp.
$40.00
First edition, second printing; top page edges stained gray as issued, M. McKnight Kauffer listed on front dust jacket flap.
Cloth with a few light spots, spine extremities faintly worn, dust jacket with slightly ragged edges and some spine fading. (2113)

A De-Catholicized Archbishop?
[Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe]. Selections from the writings of Fenelon. With a memoir of his life. By a lady. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Wilkins, 1831. 8vo (18.4 cm; 7.25"). 304 pp.
$100.00
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Fénelon (1651–1715), a French theologian and archbishop, had a tense and complex relationship with the Church hierarchy because of his writings. His office in Cambray was one of the richest benefices in France, and upon his banishment from the court of Louis XIV for the publication of his Maxims of the Saints, he dedicated himself fully to his position, making himself “in all that he did the perfect churchman” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 253).
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)
Fergusson's First Novel of the Southwest
Fergusson, Harvey. The blood of the conquerors. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 8vo. [4], 146, [4 (adv.)] pp.
$45.00
Early paperback edition of this “romantic tale of the Southwest,” originally published in 1926: the first novel from a New Mexico–born journalist, screenwriter, and novelist. About a young Mexican lawyer, his affair with a beautiful blonde society girl, and his issues with finances, race, and class, this 25-cent production was designed to be eye-catchingly attractive; in the series of “Red Seal Books,” its covers and dust jacket both bear a design of red pinnipeds rampant, repeated in six rows.
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)
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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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You know you'll turn first to that third one . . .
Five popular songs. The Angel's whisper. Helen the fair. The Wind blew the bonny lassie's plaidy awa. Mistress Johnston. Do you ever think on me, Peg? Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo. 8 pp.
$65.00
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Title woodcut vignette of a young man dancing with one arm raised. “[No.] 59 “ printed at the foot of the title.
Not located in RLIN.
Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The front edge of the title page is darkened, else very good. (17422)
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Madame Bovary Bound in
Silk & with Atmospheric Watercolors
Flaubert, Gustave, Gunter Böhmer, illus. Madame Bovary. Zurich: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club by Fretz Brothers Ltd., 1938. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 348, [4] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Flaubert's debut novel about a young woman with romantic ideals trying to escape the monotony of her country life is presented here as a beautifully designed and delicately illustrated limited edition. This is the first English translation of the novel, originally completed in the 19th century by Eleanor Marx Aveling, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. French author André Maurois provides the introduction.Accompanying the text are
thoughtful watercolor illustrations by the German-Swiss painter and book illustrator Gunter Böhmer, including a small portrait of Madame Bovary on the title-page. The artist's signature appears on the limitation page, this being no. 618 of 1500 signed copies.
Binding: Publisher’s yellow Swiss silk binding with gilt-stamped brown leather spine label, housed in original mottled sand–colored slipcase. Top edges stained grey.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 101. Bound as above, spine lightly faded with label chipped and foot faintly water-stained, small spots of insect damage along front joint; slipcase with scuffs, waterstaining to corner (blending to some extent with slipcase's marbled paper), and extremities worn. Endpapers and fore-edges lightly foxed; internally clean; a more attractive copy, frankly, than the description suggests. (37979)
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SIGNED by the Author — Gerald Ford
Ford, Gerald. A time to heal: the autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, ©1987. 8vo. [8], 454 pp.
$495.00
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This copy is SIGNED by President Gerald Ford. From Easton Press's “Library of the Presidents” series, this offering includes the introductory pamphlet by Henry Kissinger.
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)
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For the Shelley Fan, a Revelation & a Fine “Read” . . .
Forman, H. Buxton. The Shelley library. An essay in bibliography. New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd., 1971. 8vo. 127, [1] pp.
$40.00
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Vol. I: “Shelley's own books pamphlets & broadsides posthumous separate issues and posthumous books wholly or mainly by him.” Reprint of the 1886 first edition.
Publisher's green cloth, spine with black-stamped title; minor wear to corners and spine extremities. Pages clean and crisp. (26152)
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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)
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One Could Collect CHAPBOOKS
Featuring GHOSTS . . .
Four favourite songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1830?]. 12mo. 8 pp.
$85.00
Scarce. The title-page gives, in addition to the main piece, "William and Margaret. / Go, Yarrow Flower. / Robin and Anna. / Could a Man Be Secure"; it also bears a woodcut vignette of a girl in a bonnet carrying two pails slung from a hoop round her knees, with "[No.] 10" printed below. In "William and Margaret" [3 pages], Margaret's ghost appears to the young man who betrayed her. He throws himelf on her grave and never speaks again.
NSTC 2S31074. Removed from a nonce volume. Clean save for some smudging to outer margin of one page. (16760)
A
Great Series of Song Titles . . .
Four favourite comic songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?].
12mo. 8 pp.
$75.00
The title-page promises
“The Cork Leg and Steam Arm. / The Great Sea Snake. / The Sailor's Consolation. / The Wonderful Nose” a woodcut vignette shows a young man dancing with one arm raised and “[No.] 28” printed at the foot.
Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (16763)

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)
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Watercolors Abound
France, Anatole. At the sign of the Queen Pédauque. Chicago: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Lakeside Press, 1933. Tall 4to. Frontis., [5], v–xii, 174, [2] pp., [3 (blank)] ff.; 19 plts.
$95.00
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This is number 1469 of 1500 in the Limited Editions Club edition of Anatole France's conte philosophique. Signed by the illustrator, Sylvain Sauvage, who created the book's 20 full-page and two smaller-sized water-colors, the work is here
translated from the French by "Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson," and carries both an introduction by Ernest Boyd and a prefatory note by the author. Designer William A. Kittredge chose a monotype centaur font printed in red and black inks, and embellished the title-page with red, blue, yellow, and black inks.
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)
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A Pennsylvania COLLEGE Charter — Partly, a
GERMAN AMERICANUM
Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa. Charter of Franklin College, published by resolution of the Board, passed, 19 October, A.D. 1837. Lancaster: Bryson & Forney, 1837. 8vo. 7 pp.
$55.00
Franklin College was ancestor to today's Franklin & Marshall College and its Charter suggests much of its flavor while confirming something often forgotten about the current institution's background: This opens with recitation of, “An act to incorporate and endow
the German College and Charity School, in the Borough and County of Lancaster, in this State.”
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)
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13,600 Volumes, 631 Lots, & 80 English Antiquarian Book Dealers
Freeman, Arthur, & Janet Ing Freeman. Anatomy of an auction: rare books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. London: The Book Collector, 1990. 8vo (22.1 cm; 8.75"). viii, 169 pp.
$60.00
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With the help of a sale catalogue annotated by an active bidder and a “complementary set of manuscript accounts of the insiders' settlements” following the sale, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman analyze the library sold at Ruxley Lodge in 1919. The auction was notable for the quality of the books and yet the meager prices for which they were sold — all due to the work of a ring of booksellers. The effectiveness of the ring prior to its abolition in England is also generally examined.
From The Book Collector: Occasional Series, vol. 1.
Publisher's paperback (not issued in cloth); lightest edgewear, spine faded. Several tiny spots of foxing on page edges (not into margins).
Near fine. (37781)
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“Exotic Dishes” from
Foreign Lands
Frost, Heloise. A world of good eating. A collection of old and new recipes from many lands. [Newton, MA?]: Phillips Publishers, Inc., © 1951. 8vo. 128 pp.; illus.
$40.00
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Recipes from around the world, “tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife and published for the enjoyment of many American families.” This cookbook was illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson, who also contributed the Scandinavian recipes; each section opens with a full-page, color-printed image of children in various national costumes, and small illustrations both in color and black-and-white are scattered throughout. The volume closes with a section of regional American cookery including Ozark Pudding, Southern Pecan Pie, Creole Calas, Texas Gumbo, Alaskan Nuggets (a sort of salmon croquette), Salt Cod Dinner, and California Orange Bread.
This is an
uncommonly 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)
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A Rich Anthology
Nicely Printed
Frothingham, Robert. Songs of the sea and sailors' chanteys: an anthology selected and arranged by Robert Frothingham. N.p.: Houghton Mifflin Company (Cambridge: The Riverside Press), 1924. 16mo. xxii, [2], 288 pp.
$85.00
The “Sailors' chanteys” (on pp. [241]–283) include the music.
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)
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Comedy
Signed by the Playwright
Fry, Christopher. The lady’s not for burning: a comedy. London: Oxford University Press (pr. by Vivian Ridler), 1950. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.5"). [8], 97, [1] pp.
$30.00
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Early edition, signed copy. Christopher Fry (1907–2005) was an English poet and playwright known for his revival of plays written in verse, a technique later adopted by friend and fellow playwright T.S. Eliot. The Lady's Not for Burning is Fry's most performed play; premiering in 1948, the romantic comedy set in the Middle Ages immediately received high praise from critics. This second edition is
signed by the playwright on the title-page.
Publisher's light green cloth with silver-stamped lettering to spine; dust jacket lacking, front board warped ever so slightly and with very faint lines of discoloration, rubbing to joints. Small bookseller's ticket of Mary Glasgow & Baker Ltd. (London) on front pastedown. Light foxing to fore-edge and interior.
A solid, sturdy, signed copy. (37949)
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Real Chinese Food — Bilingual & In Color
Fu, Pei Mei. Pei Mei's Chinese cook book. I, II, III. Taiwain: Chinese Cooking Class Ltd., T. & S. Industrial Co., [1969–77]. 4to. 3 vols. I: [2], 265, [1] pp.; 12 col. plts. II: [2], 386 pp.; 46 col. plts. (incl. in pagination). III: [2], 388 pp.; 56 col. plts. (incl. in pagination).
[SOLD]
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Complete set of all three volumes in their first editions: Best-selling, authoritative collection of Chinese recipes, written by a lady often called the Julia Child of China. Pei Mei Fu was a beloved television chef in Taiwan who founded an influential culinary school, and enjoyed a long and tremendously successful international career.
All three volumes are printed in both English and Chinese, with dictionaries of key Chinese terms and descriptions of obscure ingredients. All three are categorized by region, with vols. I and II focusing more on home-style dishes such as pork with brown sauce, stuffed bean curd, eggplant with chili sauce, Szechuan pickles, etc., and vol. III dedicated to fancier banquet menus including shredded jellyfish salad, shark's fin soup, deep-fried duck cakes, stir-fried frogs with garlic sauce, stewed spareribs with sea cucumber, and steamed stuffed lotus roots with syrup.
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)
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SINCERITY, Thy Name is Clara Mai . . .
Fuqua, Clara Mai Howe. Two dozen. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1912. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). 32 pp.
$35.00
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“At ev’ning by the sea I sat, / And watched the sun which sank to rest. / It changed to purest gold the waves, / And filled with glory all the West.” A pleasant volume of 24 poems celebrating nature, family, growth, and faith — apparently the Kentucky-born author’s sole publication.
WorldCat locates only nine institutional copies, these in a rather odd array of places with perhaps some being accounted for by H.L. Mencken’s having reviewed the volume not entirely unkindly in Smart Set.
For Mencken’s remarks, see: Smart Set, “The Bards in Battle Royal”; vol, 37 (1912). Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; publisher’s emblem blind-stamped to rear board, light rubbing to extremities. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle; small stains to bottom edge of pages.
A pleasing collection of down-home’y poetry. (37793)
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Galsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp.
$100.00
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27 plays by the Nobel laureate and author of the Forsyte Saga.
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)

With Typical Kendrew Charm & Quality
Gardner, Frederick R. The house that Jack built; To which is added, some account of Jack Jingle, Showing by what means he acquired his learning and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself house [sic]. Adorned with cuts. York: Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [ca. 1820]. 64mo (8.5 cm; 3.375"). 24 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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This York, Kendrew chapbook offers “The house that jack built” and a short essay about Jack, illustrated with
15 woodcuts, including cover images associated (on front wrapper) with a poem entitled “The little girl that beat her sister” and (on the back one) a poem entitled “Mamma and Baby.”
All cuts are apt and charming.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
In hunter green printed wrappers, slightly darkened, removed from a nonce volume; frontispiece and last leaf mounted to inside of covers as issued.
Clean and crisp. (38469)
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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)
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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)
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“But Make Haste to Newgate”
Gay, John. The beggar's opera. London: Daniel O'Connor (London: Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Chiswick Press), 1922. 4to (29 cm; 11") ; xxxiv, viii, 99 pp., [24] leaves of plates, ill., facsims., ports.
$100.00
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One of 1000 copies: This one is not numbered. Edited and with an introduction by Oswald Doughty, “with
28 plates in collotype and a facsimile title of the first edition,” this was printed at the Chiswick Press with its title-page in black and red and using a type evoking the style of English books of the early 18th century.
Includes bibliographical references (pp. xxxiii–xxxiv) and bears illustrated endpapers.
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)
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18th-Century
London, Illustrated — Chiswick Press
Gay, John. Trivia: Or, the art of walking the streets of London. London: Daniel O'Connor, 1922. (28.3 cm, 11.2"). xxiv, 90, [2] pp.; 16 plts.
$100.00
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First trade edition: An evocative reprinting of Gay's mock-heroic verse description of London, with an introduction and notes by W.H. Williams. Printed at the Chiswick Press, the text reproduces the spelling, punctuation, and appearance of the 1716 first edition — with the exception of long S's, absent here for the modern reader's convenience — and is illustrated with 16 views of London by Hogarth and others.
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)
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Money
& Passion
Gere, Charlotte, & Marina Vaizey. Great women
collectors. London: Philip Wilson, 1999. Folio (27 cm, 10.6"). 208 pp.
$35.00
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Biographies of famous female collectors from Catherine the Great to Peggy
Guggenheim, richly illustrated with images of the women and their outstanding stuff.
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)
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“Dark, Roiling Visions” — Howard's Bran Mak Morn
Gianni, Gary, illus. Robert E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn. London: Wandering Star, 2000. 12mo (21 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$20.00
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Postcard of “The Last King” — Howard's Tale
Promised/PROMOTED
Gianni, Gary, illus. Robert E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn. London: Wandering Star, 2000. 10.2 cm, 4". [1] f.
$3.00 [That's CORRECT!]
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Neil Gaiman Thought
THIS Art Perfectly Matched Howard's Vision
Gianni, Gary, illus. The Solomon Kane sketchbook. London: Wandering Star, [1997]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Gianni's black-and-white sketches and designs for a deluxe illustrated edition of Robert E. Howard's The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, opening with introductions by Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola and featuring excerpts from Howard's text.
Pre-publication advertising ephemera at its best.
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)
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“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)
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A Tour of French Colonial Africa
Gide, André. Travels in the Congo. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 12mo. [12], 305, [4] pp.
$30.00
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“Red Seal” paperback edition of this classic travelogue, translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy.
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)
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Freed from GRINDING Poverty in London, a Writer
Looks Back at Life
Gissing, George, ed. The private papers of Henry Ryecroft. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1921. 4to (19.4 cm, 7.6"). lxiv, 246, [2] pp.
$45.00
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“Gissing's last and most beautiful book,” according to Mosher. The lightly fictionalized memoir — stylized as an edited, seasonally organized presentation of a deceased author's journal — is preceded by an introductory survey of Gissing's work, written by Thomas Secombe. This edition was printed on handmade Van Gelder paper, with the type distributed afterwards; only
700 copies were printed on paper, with an additional 25 on Japan vellum.
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 of
an interesting book and an attractive Mosher production. (34463)
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Decorative
Polish Catholic Miniature
(God be with you!). Bóg z toba! Ksiazka do nabozenstwa dla katolików obojga plci. Warszawa i Wimperk: J. Steinbrenera, 1911. 16mo (9.8 cm, 3.75"). 256 pp. (19–30 lacking); illus.
$100.00
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Miniature (or near-miniature) Polish Catholic devotional book. All text here is in Polish except for one line of the title-page: “Printed in Czechoslovakia.” Steinbrener was the proprietor of a prominent printing concern in Vimperk, which published prayer books in more than 20 languages; the present example was first printed in 1895. The work is illustrated with portraits of Jesus and Mary, six images of priests conducting Mass, and smaller vignettes of the stations of the Cross.
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)
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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)

Around the World with
Maps & Costumes
Goodrich, Samuel G. The second book of history, including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Boston: Charles J. Hendee & G.W. Palmer and Co., 1838. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 180 pp.; 16 maps.
$75.00
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From the author of Peter Parley's Tales: a children's history reader aimed at pupils who had come a bit further along from that first book. The accounts here of the development of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, China, etc., and the countries' foreign relations, are illustrated with
in-text wood engravings including depictions of Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, “Algerine,” “Otaheitan,” and other national costumes; also included in the volume are
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)
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Hand-Colored
Floral Frontispiece
Goodrich, Samuel G., ed. The token, or affection's gift,
a Christmas and New-Year's present. H artford: 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)
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American History for
Schools (1823)
Goodrich, Charles Augustus. History of the United States of America. Hartford: Barber & Robinson, 1823. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.4"). [10 (blank)], engr. half-title, [3 (1 blank)], 3–400, [10 (blank)] pp.; 11 plts.
$125.00
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Third edition of this American school book by the Rev. Goodrich. The book is divided into 11 periods, “each distinguished by some particular characteristic . . . to aid the memory (p. 3–4).” In chronological order, the periods are distinguished for discoveries; settlements; the wars of King William, Queen Anne, and George II; French and Indian war; war of the Revolution; formation and establishment of the federal Constitution; Washington's administration; Adams' administration; Jefferson's administration; Madison's administration; and Monroe's administration.
The work is
illustrated 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. Pages
foxed 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)
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Ars Typographica
Goudy, Frederick W., ed. Ars Typographica. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Autumn, 1934. Folio (32.1 cm; 12.875"). [1] f., 50 pp., [1] f.; illus.
$22.50
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The final number (vol. I, #4) of Goudy's distinguished periodical, published 16 years after the first number, and the intervention of McMurtrie's periodical of the same title. A total of 514 copies were printed.
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)
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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)
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Limited Edition
French Symbolist Essay
Gourmont, Remy de. Le livret de l'imagier. Paris: Aux Éditions du “Sagittaire” chez Simon KRA, 1920. 16mo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 49 pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Essay from a French Symbolist poet with an introduction by Gabriel Albert Aurier (1865–92), printed on Holland paper in a limited edition of 950 copies, of which this is number 909.
The little volume also offers a
striking 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)
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“Something Which Belongs to the Muse, the Moon”
Graves, Robert. Poems. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Folio (25.3 cm, 10"). xx, 144, [2] pp.; 8 pls.
$100.00
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Following the publication of his collected poems in 1959, English writer Robert Graves (1895–1985) was awarded a gold medal in 1960 by the National Poetry Society of America; a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968; and a gold medal from the Queen of England the same year. He taught poetry at Oxford from 1961 to 1966 and was made an honorary fellow at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1971.
Elaine Kerrigan selected and wrote the introduction to this group of Graves's poems, illustrated with
eight 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. Both
Keith 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)
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Poetry from Springfield, Massachusetts
& the “Mansion” Hotel at Pas'comuck
Greene, Aella. After night, a summer-place talk, with other poems. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1873. 8vo. Frontis., 93, [1] pp.; 2 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$50.00
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First edition: Verses from a poet and journalist whose work was, in its day, considered to “most faithfully embody the genuine spirit of New England country life” (New England Homestead, 1881).
Sickness is a theme here, along with the pain of it bravely borne; and the last piece expresses the hope that “all the allopaths” would vanish from the earth and that only “pleasant herbs” and “mild botanics” be given to the sick, rather than calomel and drugs.
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)
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“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)
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