•  Recent, handsome black moiré cloth with caramel color spine labels; text blocks excellent with only the very occasional instance of a generally light spot/stain, short closed tear, or dog-ear. Handsome on shelf, comfortable in lap.  (27436)

Binding:  Black pebbled cloth, plain spine, covers bordered with multiple rules. A large rendering of the statue appears in gilt on the volume's front cover along with neat descriptive lettering also in gilt.

•  Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, a touch of rubbing only to extremities. Pages and plates crisp and fresh.  (41396)

•  Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 169; Gaer, California Literature of the Gold-Rush, F 24; Gumuchian 2204.   Publisher's cream paper printed in green and gilt with title on front cover and swan vignette on back, nicely recased preserving original paper covers in light green linen–covered boards, using endpapers marbled in violet and pink; original paper covers lightly dust-soiled, back cover with minor chipping to paper edges (repaired). Pages with age-toning most visible at margins; a few light spots of foxing. A very attractive copy of a VERY attractive book. (41666)

•  Publisher's very colorful (bright pink and bright green) printed paper wrappers; slightly cockled, small spot of staining to foot of front wrapper. A nice piece of political ephemera.  (34158)

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says “Mother's Club,” but all online references to the organization give either “Mothers' Club” or “Mothers Club.”.   In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained. A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable.  (38138)

Binding: Publisher’s red morocco, covers framed in gilt rolls, front cover with gilt-stamped angel vignette and title, back cover with gilt-stamped urn, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities rubbed with leather chipped at spine head, spine somewhat darkened and with gilt dimmed (not lost); appearance of three small pin-type wormholes through leather at front joint, but this is associated with the sewing stations. Pages gently age-toned, with a few lightly foxed or stained; first few leaves loosening.Delightful lying on a table in 1856, delightful doing the same thing now. (15208)

Binding:  Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.

•  Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean.  (29126)

•  On Dunlap, see: Oxford Companion to the Theatre, 211. American Imprints 24237; BAL 5026; Howes D571; Sabin 21303.   Publisher's quarter green diced cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, spines sunned, sides with spots of staining and discoloration. Front hinges (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: spines with paper shelving labels, front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplates and inked shelving numbers, title-pages and one other in each volume rubber-stamped, no other markings. Some outer corners of vol. II lightly waterstained; a very few instances of small spots of staining.  (27558)

But for many, of far more interest is the“Poem, by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13, 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse” (sectional title at rear). Whitman (1803–78) was variously a poet, essayist, Transcendentalist, spiritualist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as “intelligent, gifted, witty, and warm” and says “She was widely read.” The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature, that bastion of white male authors.

Provenance:  Gift inscription on front wrapper, “Jno. McClellan, Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer, Jr.”

•  BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425.   Yellow printed wrappers. Very good.  (40377)

Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of “Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T.” A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.

•  Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389.   Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior. Sound and unassuming and more than respectable, much like its target audience.  (38084)

•  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)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ownership inscription by Henry Binkly, dated 1833; several laid-in slips of paper include a recipe for hair dye and a concoction involving sulphur, sugar of lead, and bay rum.

•  Shoemaker 8591; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S., 2565. Contemporary sheep framed in blind, spine with blind-ruled raised bands, abraded but solid. One clasp lacking, one present and working. Moderate foxing; one sectional title with pencilled annotations. Clearly a volume that saw both use and reasonable care. Plain, and pleasing.  (3424)

Binding:  Publisher's fine beaded-grain brown cloth, covers with modest blind ruling and elaborate blind-embossed corner devices, each cover sporting a blind embossed central oval; the front cover has within that an emblematic gilt medallion with border reading “Republica del Salvador. Codigo Penal,” this embracing a gilt triangle whose sides symbolize the three branches of the country's government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial). Within that is a row of five cone-peaked volcanoes rising out of the Pacific Ocean, symbolizing the fellowship of the five original isthmian member states of the United Provinces of Central America.

•  Bound as above with corners bumped and spine tips worn; small spots or areas of light discoloration only. Text age-toned as would be expected of the paper and with occasional foxing, light spotting or staining, and one instance of wide-patterned pinpoint-type spotting from something once laid in. A work both handsomely produced and of historical importance. (41658)

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

The volume is illustrated with43 lithographed plates done by Weber & Co., including a portrait of “A New Mexican Indian Woman,” a fish of the Gila River, a map of “the actions fought at San Pasqual in upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th 1846,” and a view of cliffside hieroglyphics, as well as a series of 14 botanical images.

•  Cowan & Cowan 195; Graff 1249 (other 1848 issues only); Haferkorn 38; Howes E145; Sabin 22536 (for House ed. only); Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 148:2; Zamorano 80, 33.   Recent black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Oversized, folding map lacking. Plates and pages with some light to moderate foxing; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Clean, strong.  (27364)

•  Sabin 23225; not in Shoemaker. Period-style quarter tan cloth with paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page and a few others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; title-page with inner margin repaired. Mild to moderate foxing throughout.  (18636)