•  Scott, A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Haggard 1856–1925, 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)

•  Later green cloth with paper spine labels; labels browned and chipped. A nice set.  (30071)

The work is signed by Hamady in pencil towards the back.

•  Publisher's tan paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped and embossed decoration. A nice copy.  (30933)

hand-inked note reading “here is copy number ten of ninety-five.”

Binding: Appropriately to contents, the endpapers here are crafted of portions of a Wisconsin map, and the hand-sewn binding is enclosed in heavy paper wrappers with a postal cancellation–inspired design on the front one.

•  Binding as above, clean and crisp. A very nice copy of an amusing, affectionate, aesthetically pleasing production.  (31241)

The sheets are printed on Plover Fineweave paper with the text set in Sabon Antiqua. At the head of each is a print of a nicely rendered pen-and-ink drawing of the Hamady farm (where “Mother Father & Daughter are well and thriving”), done by Jack Beal (“Laura's Uncle Jack”).

•  Not in Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press.   Sheets laid into a manila envelope labelled in Hamady's handwriting. Clean and crisp; some pages with markings as above.  (31364)

Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an oversized, folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.

•  NSTC H625; Sabin 30461.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols. II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece; vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled, reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean. Utterly absorbing.  (30651)

During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, theGrabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigableValenti Angelo.

•  Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31.   Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides. In its slipcase, a bit darkened at edges. Unopened copy save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy.  (33532)

•  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)

Thomas's monograph describes earwigs, cockroaches, devils-horses, walking-sticks, grasshoppers (this category including locusts), and crickets, and is illustrated with a few in-text wood engravings in addition to the lithographed plate (done by W.H. Holmes) showing 17 different U.S. insects. This copy is uncut and unopened.

•  Schmeckebier, Catalogue & Index of the Publications of the Hayden, King, Powell, & Wheeler Surveys, 21.   Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and half-title with outer margins repaired. Page edges untrimmed, signatures unopened. Spots of staining to outer margins of a few leaves. In fact a nice copy.  (25282)

•  Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid.  (19652)

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)

In addition to the printed Poems and Crisis, Gerson Leiber'sfour original ink drawings for Crisis — including one not printed in the piece — are here, with a cover letter (dated 1993 and apologizing for the 24-year delay!), signed by editor and publisher Don Olsen. Also present is Hays's typescript of “Crisis,” addressed to Olsen and stapled to two typed, signed letters from Olsen to Leiber regarding the artwork commission and subsequent printing details.

A card designed and printed by Fredric Aldwyn Brewer at the Raintree Press on behalf of the Indiana University LIbraries, with a warm handwritten message from Brewer thanking the recipient (presumably Leiber) for an engraving, is laid in to Crisis.

Provenance:  From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector.

•  Poems: Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers; spine and edges sunned. Crisis: Publisher's brown paper wrappers, front wrapper with black-stamped title and author information. A marvelous look at one example of the collaborative process among writers, artists, and printers.  (33615)

This isnumbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan. The appropriate LEC newsletter and an informational leaf regarding the binding leather are laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 530.   Binding as above, in original coordinating brown paper–covered slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title; slipcase showing light shelfwear, volume with spine gently sunned, back cover and spine lightly scuffed. Top edge gilt. A pleasing Heaney collection.  (36078)

•  NSTC 2H15366; Cagle 736 (for first and third eds. only.); Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25858.17 (first ed.).   Publisher's olive green textured cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped armorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped device and motto, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, extremities mildly rubbed. Hinges (inside) of this hefty volume now cracked, with joints tender but holding. One plate (the map dated 1560) with pencilled annotations. Some plates faintly age-toned; pages with a few instances of light foxing. A workfull of valuable and interesting detail in a nice, clean, and (as handled with care) sound copy.  (37084)

Illustrated witheight pastels in color by the author, printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, this is copy 46 in a limited edition of 280 set in Monotype Gill Sans 262 cast by Harry McIntosh on heavy Rivoli paper. It was bound by Rachel and Richard James in quarter bright yellow fine-grain cloth with the title gilt-stamped not on the spine but along the line of the its cloth on the handmade light green Larroque paper covering the boards; black Canson was used for the endpapers. Copies 241–80 were reserved for binders in sheets.

•  Binding as above. Pristine in a mylar wrapper.  (30558)

The listings are augmented in the first three volumes by numerous in-text reproductions of illustrations and title-pages from the books. This copy includesauction prices neatly inked alongside every book.

•  Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-ruled bands; sides showing minor rubbing, edges, joints, and extremities moreso. All hinges (inside) cracked or tender, some endpapers with pencilled notations. Vol. I: Two pages with light offsetting from now-absent item, one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Vol. IV with bookplate of Alvaro de Fontagud y Aguilera. Pages gently age-toned, most noticeably in vol. IV, with occasional light smudges; each volume with last page browned.  (29161)

Many of the 52 lithographed plates are in duotone; some were done by Ackerman Lithography and some by P.S. Duval & Co., after views of scenery, buildings, and natives drawn by Lieut. Gibbon.

Two volumes of maps, not present here, were issued separately.

•  Sabin 31524; Palau 113897. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; vol. I with spine sunned and cloth chipped at spine extremities; vol. II with corners bumped, cloth peeling away from spine and chipped at spine extremities, spine with gilt dimmed and small area of unobtrusive discoloration from now-absent label. Front pastedowns each with pencilled owner’s name and institutional rubber stamp (no other markings); front free endpaper of vol. II starting to tear along inner margin. Mild to moderate foxing and spotting; a few text gatherings unopened. One plate in vol. I with short tear from outer margin, turning into a narrow scrape extending about halfway into the upper portion of the image; one leaf in vol. II with tiny portion (less than one word) affixed to opposing plate. Not a perfect set, but a perfectly fascinating one.

Provenance:  Rolle family armorial bookplate.

•  ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813.   Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)

Provenance:  Ex–Franklin Institute Library (its on-site sale 1986) with its bookplate, lending rules, and stamps.

•  Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt on front cover and gilt on spine; top of spine pulled with a chip. Fore-, top, and bottom edges of book and all odd-numbered pages with the library's stamp, and even-numbered pages with offset from the stamps; titIe-page and one other leaf with a perforation-stamp.A testament to why 19th-century librarians were so often called enemies of books.  (35448)

The10 chromolithographed botanical illustrations of blood-root, pasture thistle, partridge-berry, the pitcher-plant, pale laurel, meadow beauty, bur-marigold, climbing hemp-weed, white bay, and cardinal-flower are each one accompanied by a prose description and thematically appropriate poetic selections.

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth with beveled edges, front cover with elegant decorative title and vignette ofEastlake ilk stamped in gilt, red, and black; spine with gilt- and black-stamped title and floral motifs. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, light wear to extremities. One plate with inner margin reinforced and unobtrusive repairs to edge chipping. A very few light spots and smudges, generally clean. Lovely, elegant, and extremely giftable.  (34991)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 504.   Binding as above, in original gray slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title; slipcase sunned with slight wear to corners, volume very crisp and fresh.  (35669)

This is numbered copy 31 of only 65 copies printed (50 numbered, 15 lettered),signed by the artist at the colophon.

The publisher's prospectus is laid in.

•  Publisher's cream-grey paper wrappers, front wrapper with title printed in dark brown. Very clean and crisp.  (32691)

•  Rohde, Old English Herbals, 222; Nissen 881 (for Bungay 1803 ed.); Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, III, 829.   Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and rules and blind-stamped devices in compartments; binding worn and scuffed, front joint cracked (sewing holding), spine leather with a number of small cracks. One plate with very short tear from upper margin, just barely extending into plate edge and not approaching image; small spots of foxing to some pages and plates, with two early plates showing somewhat more noticeable spotting. A very browsable and readable copy, with lovely plates.  (34849)

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)

Includes10 hand-colored wood engravings with blue, green, red, and brown accents, including some nontraditional coloring such as a blue apple pie and blue horses.

Provenance:  Undated ink signature of Susan Browning on title-page; signature of Miss Janette C. Browning dated 1852 on frontispiece.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 34913; Welch 563.15.   Sewn blue printed publisher's wrappers, first and last leaves pasted down; light rubbing at corners. Marked as above, light pencilling and inking on title-page, light waterstaining on inner bottom margin of many leaves, moderate age-toning throughout. A charming little Hartford chapbook.  (36295)

“[No.] 151" is printed at the foot of the title.

•  Original self wrappers; removed from a nonce volume. Very good.  (17556)

One signature at the back is unopened.

•  NSTC 2H10236.   Publisher's light yellow printed paper wrappers, removed from a nonce volume. Clean, crisp, unread copy.  (31946)

The text includes25 engraved anatomical illustrations, many full-page, and three colored plates in blue and red.

Advertisements at the back of the present volume promote Dr. Hollick's other works, including his Diseases of Women and Manual of Midwifery, as well as reprintings of praise for his 1844–52 lectures around the country — a number of which were given in Philadelphia.

•  Terra cotta publisher's cloth, spine lettered (from top to bottom!) in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind; lightly rubbed and bumped, spine sunned, some cloth discoloration, text slightly cocked. Light age-toning and moderate foxing with some spotting and staining, light old waterstaining along bottom margins of about half the text, a handful of pages with bottom margins creased. Looking at this volume, one sees that versions of the word “marriage” (married, marry) appearTHREE TIMES on the title-page and thrice again on the spine. Hollick clearly was trying to preempt accusations of “immorality” in publishing the work, and perhaps also reassuring “respectable” buyers/readers that it was in fact respectable!  (37091)

This work includes afrontispiece and five in-text wood engravings signed by Edward Whymper (1840–1911), an Arctic explorer and mountaineer best known for being the first to successfully ascend the Matterhorn.

•  Publisher's green printed wrappers, soiling and splitting along spine; one leaf separated, a light pencil mark or two, a handful of bent corners.  (36537)

Provenance:  Signature of journalist and author William Agnew Paton dated 1896 on upper margin of title-page in ink and on front endpaper dated 1898 in blue crayon; Paton also added a presentation inscription in 1911 to Lewis Buckley Stillwell, a president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and long a trustee of Princeton University. Stillwell wrote an inscription to his son Richard in 1831, a year before Richard became the director of the Princeton-associated American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Later in the collection of Classicist Pierre A. MacKay (1933–2015), a Classicist also with Princeton associations.

•  ESTC S119225; STC 13624.5.   19th-century mottled calf with gilt-lettered leather label and gilt-stamped compartments on spine, covers delicately framed in gilt double-rules around simple gilt triple-ruled rectangle with crown stamps at corners, all edges gilt; endpapers chipping, binding worn and abraded, text resewn and reattached to binding, rebacked with 19th-century spine laid on. Marked and lacking title-page and five blanks as above, light pencilling on endpapers, a few very short tears at margins, one leaf with ink spotting; light to moderate age-toning with the occasional spot.  (36544)

•  Publisher's green and cream marbled paper–covered sides with green cloth shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title; minimal wear to spine extremities, otherwise a lovely, clean copy.  (36843)

Signed binding: Contemporary brown morocco, front pastdown stamped “J. Wright Binder.” Boards with triple fillet gilt border at edges; center panel on each board composed of a triple fillet outer border with a floral/vine gilt roll within; gilt corner devices with elements extending along the outer edges of the center panel. Board edges with double fillet rules, turn-ins with same gilt roll as in the center panels of the boards, cream calendared endpapers. All edges gilt.

Evidence of readership: 20th-century notes relating to the text on rear free endpaper.

Provenance:  Large engraved armorial “Kimmel Park” bookplate of Hugh Robert Hughes of Kimmel (1827–1911), Co. Denbigh, and his small library shelf label to top of front pastedown. His signature in full, dated “June 11th 1855,” on front fly-leaf. “G.L.D. 1937" on front free endpaper.

•  NSTC 2H30539; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 94, 174.   Binding as above; joints (outside) abraded, so too lower edges of boards and corners. 20th-century notes as mentioned above; shelf label largely obscured by a later blank one; a very few dog-ears or short edge tears; age-toning with some foxing and other spotting, especially towards beginning and end. A remarkable, wonderful book.  (37188)

Binding:  Contemporary calf with covers framed in gilt double fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title-label and gilt-stamped acorn and foliate decorations in compartments, board edges with gilt roll. All edges red.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with black and red shelving location bookplate of the Dalton Hall library, reading “See writ below the shelf I claim / Replace me Reader whence I came.”

•  ESTC R41002; Wing (rev. ed.) H3140A.   Bound as above, covers reattached via Japanese long fiber method; edges and extremities rubbed, spine with leather cracked and head chipped, head and tail of spine also stabilized with Japanese paper. Front free endpaper and frontispiece with small hole, touching image; frontispiece with upper corner torn away, just touching corner and banner title of image. Pages closely trimmed, affecting some shouldernotes and headers; one leaf torn across without loss; two pages with ink blots, partially obscuring letters but not sense. Two early inked corrections, one annotation, occasional tiny dots of emphasis. Pagination jumps from 214 to 225, text and signatures uninterrupted. Not a perfect copy, but very readable and offering much of interest; in all waysquaint.  (34339)

•  NSTC 0356417.   Early 20th-century half blue morocco and blue cloth, leather edges with gilt rule, spines with particularly graceful gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spines slightly sunned, extremities rubbed. Front fly-leaves each with decorative ownership rubber-stamp. A scattered few light smudges to margins, pages otherwise clean.  (33151)

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 152.   Light creasing of joints (outside) of the upper portion, and hide with hairy bits abraded away in spots. Paper age-toned, as common; two plates with moderate spotting/foxing notably to versos, less (and mostly marginal) to rectos. As so often, without the slipcase. Very good condition.  (35447)

•  Cagle & Stafford 389 (for first ed.). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, spine and edges rubbed, front cover with spots of discoloration; offsetting inside wrappers from staples. Pages very slightly age-toned. Delightful for those who like to bake, those who like to eat, or those who just like to appreciate implausible confectionery accomplishments.  (35008)

In the translation of Isabel F. Hapgood, this edition was edited and augmented by David M. Glixon and is thefirst complete text of Toilers in English. Two chapters omitted from the original edition have been restored: “The Channel Islands,” a prologue dealing with the geography, culture, and history of the archipelago, and a chapter called “The Sea and the Wind.” The introduction is by Matthew Josephson, who wrote the 1942 biography Victor Hugo: A Realistic Biography of the Great Romantic.

The illustrations consist of101 wood engravings in text by Tranquillo Marangoni. Dr. Giovanni Mardersteig designed the book using a monotype Baskerville font, and supervised the printing of both text and illustrations atthe Officina Bodoni in Verona, Italy. Both the engraver and printer signed the colophon.

The binding is quarter black cotton fabric over light gray paper sides printed with an overall sea-green pattern of hand-drawn rectangles, with the gilt title on a sea-green spine label; edges were left deckle. This is numbered copy 88 of 1500 printed, and issigned at the colophon by both the artist and the printer.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 314.   Binding as above, in publisher's blue-gray slipcase; the often-absent dust jacket is not present here and the volume's spine is a bit sunned, with the slipcase showing only minimal shelfwear and the book itself being otherwise excellent — very clean and nice.  (35635)

In the translation of Isabel F. Hapgood, this edition was edited and augmented by David M. Glixon and is thefirst complete text of Toilers in English. Two chapters omitted from the original edition have been restored: “The Channel Islands,” a prologue dealing with the geography, culture, and history of the archipelago, and a chapter called “The Sea and the Wind.” The introduction is by Matthew Josephson, who wrote the 1942 biography Victor Hugo: A Realistic Biography of the Great Romantic.

The illustrations consist of101 wood engravings in text by Tranquillo Marangoni. Dr. Giovanni Mardersteig designed the book using a monotype Baskerville font, and supervised the printing of both text and illustrations atthe Officina Bodoni in Verona, Italy. Both the engraver and printer signed the colophon.

The binding is quarter black cotton fabric over light gray paper sides printed with an overall sea-green pattern of hand-drawn rectangles, with the gilt title on a sea-green spine label; edges were left deckle. This is numbered copy 88 of 1500 printed, and issigned at the colophon by both the artist and the printer.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 314.   Binding as above, in publisher's blue-gray slipcase; the often-absent dust jacket is not present here and the volume's spine is a bit sunned, with the slipcase showing only minimal shelfwear and the book itself being otherwise excellent — very clean and nice.  (35635)

•  Two cards with upper right corners chewed, by something very small; six others with barely perceptible damage to same area; all is otherwise clean and crisp. A charming and attractive set of dire warnings.  (36716)