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Stamped in the Titular Metals
(“A” is for . . . A Lovely Little Production)! Ellwanger, George H.
In gold and silver. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1892. 12mo (17.1 cm, 6.73"). Frontis., illum. t.-p., viii, 156, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 8 plts., illus.
$55.00
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First edition of these four stories: one example of prime 19th-century Orientalist exoticism in which a traveler tries to track down a famously beautiful rug, two fishing tales, and an account of a fox's triumph over his would-be hunters. The stories are
illustrated with a frontispiece, eight additional plates, and a number of in-text vignettes by A.B. Wenzell, W.C. Greenough, and W. Hamilton Gibson, as well as a title-page printed in accordance with the title.
Binding: Publisher's brick-colored cloth, front cover with cream medallion stamped in gilt and silver, in silver- and gold-stamped frame with corner fleurons, spine and back cover repeating the corner fleuron motifs. Top edges gilt. Silk bookmark detached but laid in.
Binding as above; spine foot chipped, corners rubbed, otherwise fresh and bright inside and out.
In fact a lovely little volume, with both the gold and the silver, i.e., aluminum, shine extraordinarily bright and clear. (41288)



“Harry of England, Your Career Shall be Stained in
Blood!”
Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An historical romance. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.69"). Add. engr. t.-p., x, [2], 324 pp.; 22 plts., illus.
$350.00
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Dramatically Gothic treatment of the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, enlivened by a supernatural subplot involving Herne the Hunter — along with a non-fictional, illustrated account of the building and history of the castle itself. The text is adorned with
a total of 22 engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, 4 plates by Tony [Antoine] Johannot, and 14 by George Cruikshank, who stepped in to replace Johannot as soon as he had finished illustrating Ainsworth's previous serial, The Miser's Daughter. In addition, W. Alfred Delamotte supplied an abundance of in-text wood engravings.
The work was first serially published in Ainsworth's Magazine in 1842–43, with a three-decker book-form printing following shortly after its completion; the present example (described as a “new edition” on the title-page) follows the story's first appearance in one volume in 1843. This copy is in the publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth binding.
Provenance: Upper outer corner of title-page with inked inscription of Mrs. Jarvis, 1852. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 912; NSTC 2A5904. Publisher's textured red cloth, covers with embossed knotwork frames, front cover with gilt-stamped deer and castle vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title and three scenes; joints and extremities rubbed with cloth starting to peel at back corners, spine and board edges somewhat darkened. Frontispiece portrait with upper outer corner waterstained (not affecting image), added engraved title-page darkened, scattered small spots of foxing to pages and plates.
A delightful Cruikshank item, and thrill-inducing in its own right as an English Gothic historical novel. (39887)

“WONDERFUL is the
Comfort of Words”
Aked, Charles F. Wells and palm trees. Cool water and abundant rest on life's rough way. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., © 1908. 12mo. Frontis., [6], 149, [1] pp.
$75.00
First edition: Inspiring Christian meditations by the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York — a radical English-born nonconformist, reformer, and pacifist known as “the fighting parson.” The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, and the decorative chapter-opening capitals are printed in red and black, as is the title-page.
This is the original first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's light blue straight-grained cloth, front cover and spine with
gilt-stamped title, front cover with desert vignette stamped in black and green.
Binding as above, minimal wear to extremities, spine with small area of light discoloration. Light pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis, including a star and a wing (all removable). A nice copy of an interesting volume. (28604)

Burd's Festive Little Women
Alcott, Louisa M.; Clara M. Burd, illus. Little women. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1926. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.25"). Col. frontis., xiii, [1], 496, [2] pp.; 4 col. plts., illus.
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Delightful edition of the beloved classic: Clara Miller Burd — noted as both an illustrator and a stained glass artist who worked for Tiffany — supplied the illustrations, including a color-printed frontispiece and four color plates, a number of full-page stipple engravings, and a rendition of the Alcott home in Concord, MA for the endpapers. This is
the first edition to feature Burd's art, and also offers an introduction by Albert Lindsay Rowland. This copy has an inked inscription reading “Marjorie [/] From 'Lookie' Christmas 1930.”
Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover with foliate frame stamped in gilt and light green surrounding a chromolithographed paper onlay depicting the March girls peacefully at work in the woods, spine with foliate motifs repeated.
Binding as above; gently rubbed, spine slightly darkened, lower corners bumped. Inscription on front fly-leaf as above. Pages faintly age-toned, with foxing surrounding plates (plates themselves unaffected).
Loved and still lovely, with an appealingly sentimental inscription. (41375)

Pre-Civil War Kentucky — Particularly Its Birds — But Also Those Lovely Dresses!
Allen, James Lane; & Hugh Thomson, illus. A Kentucky cardinal and Aftermath. New York & London: The Macmillan Co. (pr. by Norwood Press), 1900. 12mo (20.9 cm, 8.22"). [2], xxxii, [2], 276, [4 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Two connected novels from an acclaimed Kentucky author, here in a newly combined and revised edition with
a new preface by the author and 100 drawings by Hugh Thomson. Set in a Kentucky village, the two pieces recount from beginning to end — in a fashion reminiscent of a natural history — the relationship between a serious-minded naturalist and the young lady who moves next door. The stories' focus on native plants and and birds was informed by the author's own experiences growing up near Lexington as one of the last of several generations of gentleman farmers. Cardinal, which opens in 1850, was first published in 1894 and Aftermath in 1895, with both stories making references to the coming war and to the question of Kentucky's honor; the publisher's advertisements at the back of this edition quote contemporary praise for their simplicity, gentleness of spirit, and “old-time courtesy.”
This edition was the first to feature Thomson's charming illustrations, depicting both indoor and outdoor scenes while notably prioritizing well-dressed human figures over Allen's lovingly described gardens and woods.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped branch and bird designs (unsigned).
BAL 468; Wright, III, 76 & 80 (for first eds.). Binding as above, spine and board edges sunned. Page edges untrimmed; one signature carelessly opened.
Aesthetically pleasing, culturally intriguing, and sure to be of interest to both birders and gardeners. (37531)

“A God-Hero of the Golden Age of Myth” —
The First Original English-Language Poem on the Buddha
Arnold, Edwin. The light of Asia. Being the life and teaching of Gautama prince of India and founder of Buddhism. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. Folio (30 cm, 11.8"). xxiv, 193, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts.
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Limited Editions Club edition of Sir Edwin's epic verse retelling of
the life of the Buddha, with an introduction by Melford E. Spiro. Ayres Houghtelling painted eight brightly colored, “highly unconventional” plates, as to which he said that he “allegorically painted by design and symbolism what [he hoped] Sir Edwin Arnold would have liked” (according to the newsletter); he also provided a number of black-and-white and two-color line drawings. The volume was designed by Frank J. Lieberman, and the green, yellow, cream, and tan paisley and floral cotton cloth binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Co.
This is
numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator. Both the appropriate Club newsletter (in its original envelope) and the prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 497. Publisher's fabric-covered binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in original brown paper–covered slipcase with printed paper label; spine cloth very slightly (and unobtrusively) sunned, slipcase showing only minimal traces of shelfwear.
A nice copy of this handsome piece of LEC exotica. (36838)
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Eye-Filling
BRIGHT CHROMO Illustration
“Aunt Fanny”; Weir, Harrison, et alii, illus. Aunt Fanny's pretty picture book with beautiful coloured illustrations, containing the following favourite stories for children: A large-letter alphabet. Tales of animals. Story of Cock Robin. Old Mother Hubbard. The naughty chicken. Punch and Judy. London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, [ca. 1875?]. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.76"). [2] pp., [48 (col. illus.)] ff.
$450.00
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Uncommon illustrated children's book: Stories in verse, depicted in
48 striking, vividly colored chromolithographed leaves combining images and text, printed on one side each. Many of the animal illustrations were signed by Harrison Weir; W.T. Green, Walter Gorway, William Measom, and H. White (among others) have signed others, but many plates are unattributed. The texts likewise are unassigned; several different women wrote under the Aunt Fanny pseudonym, and this publisher's five-shilling picture book “Aunt Fanny” series may or may not have been connected to any of them.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with elegant Victorian decorative title within frame, back cover with same design in blind.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription to James Curfew from Mr. Pilkington, dated 1869.
Not in Gumuchian; not in Opie; not in Osborne Collection. Binding as above, spine sunned, sides with a few small scuffs, light rubbing overall more noticeable to spine and extremities. Title-page with offsetting and faint shadowed image of inscription on endpaper; pages age-toned, variable foxing, light soil and the occasional stain including an old, light one to a leaf's lower corner just touching edge of image.
A scarce item with bright, vivid illustrations — this copy clearly read and loved, but not “to death.” (41164)
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Szyk's LEC Ruth
Bible. O.T. Ruth. English. 1947. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The book of Ruth from the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I with a preface by Mary Ellen Chase and illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: [Printed by the Aldus Printers for the] Limited Editions Club, 1947. Small folio (31 cm, 12.2"). 42, [6] double-fold pp.; col. illus.
$250.00


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Szyk's eight full-page, full-color “Oriental Realism” illustrations, in the style and tradition of Oriental miniatures, are dramatically eye-filling in this Limited Editions Club production. The edition is limited to 1950 copies (this is no. 230, with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in), each signed by the illustrator. The volume is set in intertype Weiss, with six large initials in gold; “Ruth” on the half-title and title-page are also printed in gold; and the paper is Worthy special.
Binding: Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half white leather with slightly raised bands a gilt-background title label; smooth vellum-paper sides, gold-stamped with a large image of Ruth holding a sheaf of grain and a scythe. Top edge gilt.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 184. Binding as above, in the original gold foil-covered slipcase; volume with spine and corners moderately darkened and rubbed, slipcase foil with expectable rubbing and spine chipped. LEC newsletter creased, with small stains. In spite of these flaws, still a sturdy case and a pleasing book, internally bright and lovely. (36857)
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A NOVEL “Which Proves That War is Solving Civilization's Problems
& Has Made Love Again Triumphant”
(Margaret Armstrong Binding)
Bradley, Mary Hastings. The wine of astonishment. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.56"). 312, [2] pp.
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Romance set at the start of WWI, with the main difficulty separating the two lovers being at first financial issues and then her subsequent “marriage of friendship.” Stamped in purple and green with a grapevine and heart design, the
binding is signed MA, for Margaret Armstrong: the dust jacket is in the style of Maxfield Parrish, although unsigned. This is the second printing.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription of Harry E. Young, dated 1921.
American Fiction, 1901-1925, B-858; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 38. Publisher's tan paper–covered sides with title stamped in black and grapevine design in green and purple, light green cloth shelfback with matching grape motif, in original color-printed dust jacket; jacket, with spine and back panel slightly dust-soiled, front joint rubbed, three short edge tears and a few tiny edge nicks, in overall very good, attractive condition. The volume itself, in its Armstrong binding, shows a faint narrow band of offsetting across its back cover (only) from “protective” plastic wrapping the dust jacket; otherwise, very clean and fresh.
A nice copy of the now-uncommon first edition of a socially interesting novel in an “MA” binding. (37550)

Reconstruction-Era Novel Set in ALABAMA
by an Alabama Author
Brown, Annie G. [a.k.a. Annie Finley Green]; Joseph “J.C.” Leyendecker, illus. Fireside battles. Chicago: Laird & Lee, (1900). 8vo (21.4 cm, 8.42"). Frontis., 327, [1] pp.; 8 plts., illus.
$80.00
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First edition: Following the Civil War, a formerly well-to-do Alabama family struggles to keep the household afloat, with the burden falling largely on steadfast Jean. The sole full-length work of fiction published by Tuscaloosa-born teacher Brown (1855–1923), this novel is
illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (known for his Saturday Evening Post covers), as well as in-text vignettes.
Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, gorgeously stamped in silver and light and dark blue arabesque motifs surrounding a cream title panel, framed in brown; spine with similar motifs. Top edges gilt.
Binding as above, spine gently darkened and with a small light spot of discoloration to front cover, otherwise showing very little wear. Pages with a few scattered small spots of light foxing. A handsome copy of a work offering multiple aspects of interest. (41394)

Decorative (American) Burns
Burns, Robert; F.A. Chapman, illus. The cotter's Saturday night. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. (pr. by John Mooney), 1867. 4to (21.3 cm, 8.38"). [2], 47, [1] pp.; 4 plts., illus.
$125.00
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First edition of this heavily illustrated presentation of one of Burns's most influential pieces — notable (according to the publisher) for “the cordial enthusiasm with which artist, engraver, printer, and binder have lent their happiest skill to present [the poem] in attire harmonious with its spiritual beauty, and worthy of its essential preciousness” (p. 5). John Filmer engraved the
four plates and numerous in-text vignettes after designs by Frederic Augustus Chapman.
Binding: Publisher's dark brown pebbled leather, covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind with embossed corner fleurons, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; turn-ins with gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Bound as above, corners and edges showing moderate rubbing, spine slightly more; a very good example, being in significantly better condition that usually is found. Printed on heavy stock, really almost light cardboard, with sewing loosening as such production inevitably encourages; final plate fully separated. Occasional instances of foxing or minor soil.
Inherently both fragile and attractive. (41399)

A Musical Novel of Iceland — In a Signed, Themed Binding
Caine, Hall. The prodigal son. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1904. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.59"). [8], 408 pp.
$55.00
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First American edition: A popular novel that kicks off with two brothers falling in love with the same girl. The story — the basis for both a play and a movie — is set largely in Iceland, featuring much description of that country as well as some of the musical world of the titular figure, a composer led astray by a beautiful singer. The
Viking-inspired binding is signed “AR” — Amy Richards.Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in red and gilt, signed as above.
Bound as above; corners and spine extremities with minor rubbing, front cover with unobtrusive small, faint area of discoloration. Front free endpaper with inked inscription of Walter White, dated 1905. Pages clean; last few leaves opened somewhat roughly, with short edge tears.
A handsome book and a tear-jerker of a story. (41337)

WILL CARLTON

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

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



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

Bite-Sized
Theatrical Morsels
in
Fancy
Dress — Signed
Bindings
Cruz, Ramón de la. Sainetes de D. Ramón de la Cruz. Barcelona: Biblioteca “Arte y Letras” E. Domenech y Ca., 1882. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). 2 vols. I: [4], xliii, [1], 338, [2] pp.; 16 plts. (some incl. in pagination). II: [4], 343, [5] pp.; 5 plts.
$275.00
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Resplendent
collection of
clever, satiric 18th-century theatrical vignettes, originally intended to be
performed as intermedios during longer plays. The pieces, which include
“La Comedia de Maravillas,” “El Café de Máscaras,”
“La Duda Satisfecha,” “Manolo,” and many others, appear
here illustrated with
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plates and numerous in-text engravings by José Llovera
and A. Lizcano, most depicting lively social scenes, musicians, dancers, and
flirtatious maidens. Although the second volume contains fewer plates than the
first, it makes up for the difference with extra in-text images.
Signed Binding: Publisher's teal pebbled cloth, front covers with striking chariot and armorial scene in light blue, tan, and gilt. The “Cibeles” statue found in Madrid's Cibeles Plaza and the coat of arms (and gilt monogram) of the city of Madrid appear with de la Cruz's name stamped in gilt below; spines offer gilt-stamped title and black-stamped griffin decoration. Cover of vol. II is signed “J. Orba.” All page edges are stamped in a Greek key pattern in blue and gilt.
Provenance:
Half-titles each with old-fashioned rubber-stamp of José Carmona y
Ramos.
Palau 65340. Bindings as above, edges and extremities
showing minor shelfwear, back cover of vol. I with small spots of faint discoloration,
front joint of vol. II rubbed. Collector's stamp as above, each front pastedown
with small paper label bearing hand-inked numeral. Pages age-toned; edges
slightly embrittled, occasionally with small chips or short tears. Scattered
light smudges in vol. I; vol. II with mild to moderate foxing.
A
peacocky set. (29262)
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“You Can't Keep a Squirrel on the Ground”
Cullen, Clarence Louis. Tales of the ex-tanks: A book of hard-luck stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.25"). 392 pp.
$35.00
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A series of fictional “hard-luck” stories about the goings-on of the Harlem Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates, originally written by Cullen — a “restless newspaper man” — for the New York Sun. The so-called “Ex-Tanks” tell tales of their less sober days with reference to
gambling/sporting adventures involving boxing, horse racing, cards, etc., and a Stradivarius found in a hock shop in quite a range of American cities. Cullen's stories are here gathered and presented in this handsome, decorated cloth binding.
Binding: Publisher's light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. The front board is divided into four compartments by single-ruled black borders; a scene of a man walking along a railroad track stamped in blue, black, and gilt decorates the top section.
Wright, III, 1331. Binding as above; extremities a bit rubbed, spine faded not unattractively. Small waterstain to top edge of about a dozen leaves, minor dirtying and finger-smudges to a handful of pages; overall very nice. (37534)
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A Celebration of Fine Education — Inscribed by the Author
Cunningham, Frank H. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.1 cm; 7.875"). xiv, 360 pp. illus.
$200.00
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First edition and inscribed by the author. One of the oldest secondary schools in the United States is celebrated in this handsome, illustrated volume; first established in 1781 in New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy is known for its conference-style classes and professed tradition of diversity.
Over 20 illustrations of buildings, interiors, and portraits illustrate the beauty of the campus and its history, many offering two images (or more) per plate leaf (with a tissue guard). A fold-out “Table of Athletic Tournaments” listing events from 1874 to 1881 is also included.
Binding: Original brown cloth with beveled edges, stamped in gilt and black with gilt lettering to front board and spine; gilt vignette of the Academy to front board.
Provenance: Cunningham, an affectionate and appreciative graduate of the Academy, has inscribed the front free endpaper
“With the compliments of the author, 6/22, '83.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Extremities lightly rubbed, minor bumping; gilt bright on spine and brighter on cover.
Very nice, clean copy “personalized” by the author. (37760)
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The Daniel Webster Statue in Concord, NH
(Daniel Webster). Official proceedings at the dedication of the statue of Daniel Webster at Concord, New Hampshire, on the 17th date of June, 1886. Manchester: John B. Clarke, 1886. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.33"). 120 pp.; 2 plts.
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A lovely copy of this official homage, clean and with gilt bright; both plates with their tissue guards. Published to commemorate the dedication of a statue raised to the orator in Concord, 1886, with reportage on the statue itself, on the dedication exercises, and on
the extended “Proceedings of Dartmouth Alumni” on the occasion.
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)
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Popular Author — Decorative Designers Binding
Deland, Margaret. Dr. Lavendar's people. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [viii], 369, [7 (adv.)] pp.; 12 plts.
$45.00
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First edition, illustrated with
twelve plates by Lucius Hitchcock: loosely interconnected tales of Deland's beloved “Old Chester” setting. The “Doctor” here is an old-fashioned pastor, not a physician; one story features four snippets of printed music.
Signed binding: Teal cloth, front cover with village scene stamped in dark green, terra cotta, and white, marked with the distinctive intertwined capital Ds of Decorative Designers (Henry and Lee Thayer).
Binding as above, slightly cocked, spine dimmed, front panel lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription of Lottie Ellis. One piece of dried plant matter laid in. (35665)
Dobson, Austin. The ballad of Beau Brocade and other poems of the XVIIIth century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xiii, [3], 89, [3] pp.; 25 plts., illus.
$90.00
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Second edition, with numerous illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine decoratively gilt-stamped; spine, lower edges, and corners a touch rubbed. Top edge gilt. A few leaves and plates with waterstaining to lower outer corners, scattered spots of light foxing. (18409)

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

Biblical Law, Debated
Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques. The trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate. Being a refutation of Mr. Salvador's chapter entitled “The Trial and Condemnation of Jesus.” Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1839. 16mo (18 cm, 7.1"). viii, 88, [2 (blank)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, translated from the original French “by a member of the American Bar”: John Pickering (1777–1846), a lawyer and philologist. Salvador's Histoire des Institutions de Moise et du Peuple Hebreu included a chapter in which he concluded that as a court proceeding, the trial of Jesus was in accordance with Jewish law; Dupin here rebuts that chapter's arguments, while continuing to express admiration for Salvador as a scholar and author — and while focusing on legal issues rather than theological ones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Cloth is ribbed and fits Krupp's Rb3 pattern.
Evidence of readership: One pencilled footnote, arguing that capital punishment is the will of the divine.
American Imprints 55455. On the binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 40. Binding as above; spine and board edges gently faded, extremities rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. An interesting book in a good example of an early American cloth binding. (34765)
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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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Ellis on “the Whole Law of Woman's Life” — Complete Set
in the
SCARCE PRESENTATION CASE
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. (The Englishwoman's Family Library). The daughters of England, their position in society, character & responsibilities. The mothers of England[,] their influence & responsibility. The wives of England, their relative duties, domestic influence, & social obligations. The women of England, their social duties, and domestic habits. London: Peter Jackson & Fisher, Son, and Co., [ca. 1845]. 8vo (17.7 cm, 6.96"). 4 vols. Daughters: Frontis., 400 pp. Mothers: Frontis., [8], 390 pp. Wives: Frontis., 371, [1] pp. Women: Frontis., 343, [1] pp.
$5500.00
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Ellis's popular “Women of England” series: Moral education aimed not at fine ladies but rather at middle-class women, of “that estimable class of females who . . . enjoy the privilege of liberal education, with exemption from the pecuniary necessities of labor” (Women, p. iv). These volumes seek to teach Englishwomen to be observant, kind, and humble as girls; thrifty, domestic, and comforting as wives; dedicated instructors and guides as mothers; good, soothing Christian influences on those around them throughout their lives; and above all, patient and submissive — in short
the embodiment of the Angel in the House, though these books preceded the publication of that poem. Ellis grants the necessity of some degree of education for women primarily in order to make them better housekeepers and more interesting companions to men, noting that “so far as cleverness, learning, and knowledge are conducive to woman's moral excellence, they are therefore desirable, and no further” (Daughters, p. 105) — but still she reinforces women's agency, responsibility, and need for self-awareness and self-management, particularly in the daunting task of choosing husbands who will respect them and treat them well.
The four volumes, each with its own engraved frontispiece, appear here
in the publisher's leather-covered wooden display casewith shaped roof-like pediment, gilt decorations, gilt-stamped “Library” title, glass-fronted door, and push-button metal catch. The works were first published separately in 1839 (Women), 1842 (Daughters), early 1843 (Wives), and late 1843 (Mothers); the case, apparently first advertised in 1843, could be “had separately” and assembled sets then ensconced in it, or one could buy handsome, variously bound complete sets already encased when new.
Uniform sets are uncommon, and contained in cases like this one are even more so.
Provenance: Daughters with inked ownership inscription of Josephine Sparre, dated 1856; Women with early inked inscription of A.M. Kirwan of Well Park, Drumcondra (Ireland).
Publisher's red pebbled cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind, spines with gilt-stamped titles and embossed decorations; volumes with edges and extremities rubbed, small scuffs and spots of discoloration to sides, spines gently sunned, Daughters cloth somewhat lighter overall. Daughters: Offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. Mothers: Frontispiece lightly foxed; light pencilled marks of emphasis. Wives: Front free endpaper lacking; frontispiece foxed. Inscriptions as above; occasional small spots of foxing, smudges, and edge chips scattered throughout; box with scuffs and wear, cracks to leather at top refurbished. A removable dais has been added to the foot of the box in order to fit the presently contained volumes more snugly; markings to the cloth lining of the box suggest that, at one time, taller volumes resided there.
Some of Ellis's most successful and influential writing in a desirable uniformly bound set, within the rarely surviving and quite charming display case. (41250)

Opposing Satan's Servants with
a Lot of Slogging
Fernald, Mark. Life of Elder Mark Fernald, written by himself. Newburyport: Geo. Moore Payne & D.B. Pike; Philadelphia: Christian General Book Concern (pr. by William H. Huse), 1852. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., 405, [1] pp.
$150.00
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First edition: Composed in diary-like fashion by a Free Will Baptist (1784–1851) who proselytized throughout New England, this autobiography largely focuses on where, when, and how Fernald's preaching was conducted. The determined, hardworking author was particularly opposed to drinking and dancing, and returns frequently to those subjects.
The work opens with an introduction from the publishers, who dedicated the Life to the members of the First Christian Church and Society of Kittery, ME.
The frontispiece portrait of Fernald was engraved by John Sartain, after a daguerrotype.
Binding: Publisher's textured black cloth, covers framed in blind rules and with foliate designs surrounding central gilt-stamped floral motifs on both boards. Spine gilt extra, all edges gilt.
Bound as above; spine extremities and corners rubbed, cloth showing small split starting at foot of front joint (hinge holding). Mild foxing to margins of frontispiece, with offsetting to title-page from guard leaf; two pages with small section of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages otherwise clean.
A solid, worthwhile copy with its gilt shining bright and crisp. (38618)
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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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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)
This English
Classic
Presented in
Classic
Fashion
Goldsmith, Oliver. The deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus.
$49.50
Attractive Boston printing of Goldsmith's popular poem, here illustrated with a number of engravings
Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)
Thomson's Illustrations The Vicar
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
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With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

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

“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)

Taking the Fad TOO Far?
Harsha, D.A. The Heavenly token a gift book for Christians. New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis: Asher & Co., 1859. 12mo (18.6 cm; 7.625"). Engr. frontis., 491 pp.
$125.00
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Religious “gift book” in name only, here reissued from the 1856 edition, with an engraved frontispiece of a throne under a rainbow overlooking people praying on earth by S.A. Schoff after Hammatt Billings. Tepper aptly notes about a similar edition that “it is 500 pages of exhaustive sermonizing on the love of Christ. . . . this is an interesting example of the lengths publishers would go to in
riding the coattails of the gift book fad.”
Binding: Blue publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt with fancified title and partly arabesque design, covers decoratively framed in blind.
Not in Faxon, nor Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books; for another year, see Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 100. Bound as above, recently well rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers, gently rubbed, small sticker on spine. Light age-toning and foxing (especially around the frontispiece as usual), with occasional other spotting or staining (some perhaps in press); a sound copy representing
an interesting phenomenon in marketing. (37262)
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He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)
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“Exquisite Studies of Japan” — Bruce Rogers Binding
Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and studies of strange things. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (pr. by the Riverside Press), 1904. 12mo (19.1 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [14], 240, [2] pp.; 1 plt.
$250.00
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First edition: Japanese ghost stories collected and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn (1850–1904) was a Greek-Irish journalist who left the United States for Martinique and later Japan, where he found such a wealth of material that he lived there for the remaining 14 years of his life, teaching English literature at the Imperial University in Tokyo and researching Japanese folklore.
This is state C as per the BAL, which does not establish precedence among the three states described (saying “No sequence has been established and simultaneous publication is quite possible”).
Bruce Rogers designed the elegant binding, and Japanese artist Keichu Takenouche supplied the drawings for the frontispiece and plate.
Binding: Publisher's greenish-black cloth, front cover with leaf and flower design in green and reddish-orange, decorative title stamped in gilt; spine with similar motifs. Top edge gilt.
BAL 7940, state C. Publisher's cloth as above, dust jacket not present; extremities rubbed, spine slightly dimmed, front hinge (inside) tender. Clippings about Hearn's life and his funeral attached to back endpapers. Pages evenly age-toned with one leaf torn in two places not touching text; two leaves with tiny chips in lower margins.
An attractive and intriguing copy, owned by someone interested in Hearn's life. (41512)

“There are Few Difficulties That Cannot be Surmounted by
Patience, Resolution, & Pluck”
Henty, G.A. Condemned as a Nihilist: A story of escape from Siberia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 8vo (19 cm, 7.45"). 332, 16 (adv.) pp.; 8 plts., 1 map.
$65.00
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First U.S. edition: Written by George Alfred Henty, a prolific and popular novelist who specialized in historical juvenile adventures, this jaunty tale features a Russian-born but English-raised teenager exiled to Siberia after obliviously mingling with the wrong crowd. Much of the plot involves hearty outdoor adventures — including camping, boating, hunting, and fishing — during the course of our hero's travels from the east of Siberia to Norway and thence back home.
Reproduced in black and white,
Walter Paget's eight illustrations depict dramatic scenes of survival including a boxing match with a prisoner, a bear attack, and a fight with hostile Samoyeds; they are accompanied by one double-page map of the Russian empire.
Binding: Publisher's teal cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and scene of a bearded man either tying or untying the hero stamped in black, brown, and gilt, spine similarly stamped; midnight blue endpapers and all page edges stained to match boards.
Dartt, pp. 40-41; Newbolt 58. Bound as above, binding very slightly cocked with edges and extremities lightly rubbed. Text clean.
A nice copy of one of Henty's less common titles. (38686)
Something
Different from
the
Creator of Ruritania
Hope,
Anthony, pseud. Helena's path. New York: McClure Co.,
1907. 8vo. Frontis., [6], 241, [1] pp.
$40.00
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First edition of this romance from the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, Sir
Anthony Hope Hawkins. The volume opens with an unsigned, color-printed plate; the sprightly,
chivalrous tale features two strong-willed protagonists and their cast of entertaining friends —
including a barrister who must bear the brunt of Lord Lynborough's amused disdain for the law.Despite Hope's having been English and even knighted, this work was apparently never
printed in England.
Binding: Publisher's red
cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped garden design,
spine with gilt-stamped title. Signed binding:
Front cover with monogram of a J crowned with E (unidentified designer).
Binding as above,
cocked, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription
dated Christmas 1904. A few corners bumped, one torn away. Pages very clean. A bright,
pretty copy. (29132)
Dartmouth's Laureate
Hovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp.
$65.00
First edition. Poems by “Dartmouth's Laureate," edited by Edwin Osgood Grover.
BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)
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Attractive Little Book!
Howells, William Dean. Criticism and fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 12mo. Frontis., title-leaf, 188 pp., [2] ff.
$25.00
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Second edition.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front cover with an overall pattern of torches with bows, surrounding a central cartouche with the title and author in gilt.
BAL 9577 (for first edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed at base of spine, small area of minor discoloration on spine. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (26805)

Filmed Twice — Here in a Decorative Designers Binding
Hutchinson, Arthur Stuart-Menteth. The happy warrior. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1913. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.59"). Frontis., ix, [1], 448, [4 (adv.)] pp.
$35.00
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Surprisingly dark example of the “wrongfully dispossessed heir” novel genre, with the added excitement of an interlude in which the rightful Lord Burdon, having been adopted and raised by his postmistress aunt, becomes a boxer and hits the road with the circus. The dramatic ending was altered for both the 1917 and 1925 Hollywood versions. This is the second American edition, in a
binding signed “DD” for Decorative Designers, and with a frontispiece by Paul Julien Meylan.
Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and dark brown foliate motifs incorporating the motto, “I hold”; signed as above.
Bound as above, lacking the seldom-seen dust jacket; spine with gilt very slightly dimmed and minimal wear to extremities, otherwise clean and bright. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription and “Xmas 1913.” Pages slightly and evenly age-toned.
Very good. (41339)

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