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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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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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“Play to the Whistle”
Elston, Frank. Organized games for the school, the hall, or the playground. [with, as issued] More organized games and class play for the school, the hall, and the play-ground. Leeds & Glasgow: E.J. Arnold & Son, Ltd., [1908]. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.38"). 79, [7], 81–192, [2 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
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Games are marked if suitable for girls or “mixed classes,” with the further explanation that “all the games may be played by boys”; this is the second edition, revised. Small photographic reproductions illustrate a number of games, and where songs are indicated, sheet music is provided; neither the tune nor the lyrics given for “Dog Bingo” match the version in current circulation (“His name was Bobby Bing-o”???).
Publisher's sage cloth–covered boards, front cover stamped in black, slightly cocked and rubbed/soiled; spine darkened, back cover with adhesions and scuffs. Front free endpaper with inked and pencilled ownership inscriptions. Some lower corners bumped. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A wealth of play ideas and child lore. (40973)
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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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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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A Quick Introduction to Early Bookhands — The Enlarged Edition
Fairbank, Alfred. A book of scripts. [London]: Penguin Books, (1968). 12mo (19 cm, 8"). 48 pp., 80 pp. of illus.
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A revised and enlarged edition of this classic first published in 1949, incorporating both fresh text and additional illustrations; the latter, which are labelled as “plates” and printed on both sides of a leaf, identify the illustrated manuscript examples as to place and date of inditement and give the current location of the manuscript.
A lovely, informative guide to a considerable variety of handwritings both useful and ornamental.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Original illustrated paper over boards, with the dust jacket (a little worn with interior repair at top of spine). Clean.
A very nice copy. (41368)
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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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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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“Sweet Love, Do Not Frown, But Put off Thy Gown”
Floethe, Richard, illus. Cupid's horn-book: Songs and ballads of marriage and of cuckoldry. Mt. Vernon, NY: Airmont Publishing, 1936. 8vo (25.8 cm, 10.125"). 150, [2] pp.; illus.
$50.00
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“Written by various hands and embellished with cuts by Richard Floethe”: Merrily bawdy verses, progressing from the sensual aspects of wedded bliss to the riskier pleasures of extramarital affairs. Only 390 copies were printed — by Peter and Edna Beilenson of the Peter Pauper Press, in modest disguise — of this celebration of lawful and lawless carnality.
Publisher's quarter floral-patterned paper with woodgrain-patterned paper–covered sides, spine with black leather title-label stamped in silver, in original matching slipcase; one corner bumped and spine extremities with small chips, slipcase showing moderate shelfwear and with one upper edge split and repaired with archival tissue. Pages clean. Internally very appealing despite minor external wear. (39805)
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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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An Illustrated Children's Series Book — An Uncle's Kind Gift Inscription
Forrester, Francis [pseud. of Daniel Wise]. Arthur's temptation: or, The lost goblet. Boston: Brown & Taggard, 1860. 18mo (15.5 cm, 6.125"). Frontis., 64 pp.; illus.
$35.00
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From the “My Uncle Toby's Library” series, a delightful little book containing a child's story illustrated by
small wood engravings throughout, plus an engraved frontispiece being an illustrated listing of the other volumes in the series. Daniel Wise (1813–98) was an English-born Methodist Episcopal pastor, author, and editor who emigrated to New England in 1833. This tale of his is printed in large type for the novice reader.
Provenance: On the front pastedown, an inscription reading, “Twenty five cents' worth of Uncle Dan's sympathy for Maggie's misfortune. 1862 May 24.” The name of Robert Hale is inked black on the title-page corner above some red-inked numbers.
WorldCat has located three copies of this 1860 edition, two of which are in the U.S.
Sternick, Bibliography of 19th-Century Children's Series Books, 496. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, boards with blind decoration of children dancing hand-in-hand in a circle; overall rubbing especially to spine ends and with some board exposed, spine cocked and mild soiling. Provenance as above; interior with some soiling throughout, mild gutter cracks and rear joint cracked. Sounder than it sounds and still capable of making a child (or adult!) smile. (38522)
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Figures from Schiller
Förster, Erwin; William Kaulbach, illus. Schiller-Gallery. From the original drawings of William Kaulbach, C. Jaeger, A. Mueller, Th. Pixis, R. Beyschlag, W. Lindenschmit. New York: Stroeffer & Kirchner, [ca. 1868]. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.85"). [4], 136 pp.; 22 plts.
$200.00
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Handsome gift book, offering a glossy set of presentations of Friedrich Schiller's heroines — and a few associated heroes. Illustrated here are Mary Stuart (confronting Elizabeth), Joan of Arc, Karl and Amalia (from Die Räuber), the Bride of Messina, the Maiden from Afar, and other memorable characters from Schiller's poems and plays, in
22 mounted and tipped-in albumen reproductions of drawings done by various artists after designs from “the masterly pencil of William Kaulbach” (p. 1), a.k.a. Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Explicatory text by Förster (or Foerster, as given by the title-page) accompanies the plates.
Binding: Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean.
A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)
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“Twiddle, Twiddle, & Tromp, Trompee” — Lighthearted Victorian Medievalism
Forsyth, Evelyn; Anna Hennen Broadwood, illus. Ye gestes of ye Ladye Anne: A marvelous pleasaunt and comfortable tayle. London: A. & G. Way, prs., [1884]. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.35"). [8], 105, [3 (pub. adv.)] pp.; illus.
$95.00
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Sole edition: Faux-medieval romance, ostensibly edited by Evelyn Forsyth (1851–1930) from an ancient manuscript discovered by one Griffith Boan in 1512. The witty, deliberately archaized misadventures of Lady Anne are set partly in italic and partly in black letter, and graced by a number of original ditties (including one with melody supplied) as well as
charming illustrations done in the style of woodcuts by Anna Hennen Broadwood, wife of Forsyth's uncle Thomas Capel Broadwood. A publisher's advertisement from the year of publication pitched this now-uncommon work as “quaint, humorous . . . a book for those with a taste for the antique and the ridiculous.”
NSTC 0255053. Imitation vellum over stiff wrappers, front wrapper stamped in black, dust-soiled, and a little short at fore-edge exposing front free endpaper also to dust-soiling;spine and front upper edge of wrapper chipped. Pages slightly age-toned with first few corners bumped, scrape along (closed) fore-edges.
Delightful gift for fans of either medieval or Victorian literature — an excellent “geste” indeed! (40442)
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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 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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“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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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)
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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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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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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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California Cookery — A Collector's Copy of This Check List
Glozer, Liselotte F., & William K. California in the kitchen. An essay upon, and a check list of, California imprints in the field of gastronomy from 1870(?) – 1932. [Berkeley]: Privately printed (lithographed by David Brothers), 1960. 8vo. ix, [1], 43, [3] pp.; 3 plts.
$87.75
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Sole edition of this useful and important bibliography, limited to 500 copies. The work is illustrated with two images of title-pages and one reproduction of a depiction of “Turtle soup service for a $2,500 per plate dinner.”
Laid in here is a copy of the prospectus.
Provenance: Mrs. E. P. Kravetzry's copy with her handwritten list of additional California culinary works and three 70s-era postcard sales quotes of the same offered by San Francisco and Berkeley booksellers.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, extremities rubbed; prospectus a little large for the binding into which it's laid, and so sunned and crumpled at edges. Pencilled check marks and a handful of annotations to bibliography, pages otherwise clean. (29792)
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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)

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.
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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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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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First Person Experience Varying Expert Opinion
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on
the Doctrine of Contagion in the Plague. Report from the Select Committee Appointed to Consider the Validity of the Doctrine of Contagion in the Plague. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 14 June 1819. [London]: No publisher/printer, 1819. Median folio (31.5 cm, 13.5"). 102 pp.
$65.00
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More than 90 witnesses gave testimony in this investigation into the nature of plague, how to distinguish it from other contagious diseases, and how it is transmitted.
Also addressed is the matter of quarantine.
Laid into later wrappers. Sewing mostly perished. Removed from a bound volume. Brittle paper, some chipping at the edges. (40957)
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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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King Penguin Color-Printed Flowers
Grigson, Geoffrey; Robin Tanner, illus. Flowers of the meadow. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, [1950]. 12mo (18.5 cm, 7.28"). 34, [2] pp.; 12 double-sided col. plts.
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First edition: No. 53 from the King Penguin Books series, a set of monographs being the first hardcover Penguin books as well as the first to feature color printing. The present example opens with 35 pages of musings from poet and naturalist Geoffrey Grigson on the subject of meadow wildflowers, followed by 24 strikingly attractive color-printed images (presented on 12 double-sided plates) done by Robin Tanner, who also designed the covers. The text pages were printed at the
Curwen Press, and the plates by John Swain and Sons.
Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards in original dust jacket; jacket spine sunned with chips at center and extremities, volume with covers very slightly sprung and extremities slightly rubbed. Half-title with small ownership inscription dated 1950.
Plates crisp and beautiful. (40872)
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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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