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BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
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20th-Century British Culture — IN A BOX
Hadfield, John. The Saturday book. Sixteenth annual issue. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1956. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 280, [16] pp.; col. illus.
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matching original box was done by Philip Gough, and later chosen for the cover of the Best of the Saturday Book collection.
• Publisher's grey cloth–covered boards, front cover and spine with gilt- and red-stamped decorative title, in original dust jacket and color-printed box; jacket price-clipped with light edge wear and two short tears just starting from foot of spine, box gently faded with edges and extremities rubbed and cream-colored portions showing mild spotting, volume with front board slightly sprung, book itself otherwise clean and unworn. 
A nice copy, complete with both jacket and box. (40966)
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Edward Everett Hale Pursues Good Works — Signed Hale, Edward Everett. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unknown recipient. On paper, in English. Roxbury, MA: 1893. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [1] f.
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the earliest known literary depiction of a man-made satellite.
With the present letter, Hale notifies an unidentified recipient of a planned meeting for an Ithaca church subscription committee, by way of a clearly written note on his Roxbury, MA, letterhead. This very nice example of his signature (here, “Edw. E. Hale”) on his stationery is also a pleasing reminder of the great author's commitment to good works throughout his life.
• Creased along original folds, one lower corner creased acriss.
Excellent bit of Hale memorabilia. (36715)
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A Writer at a (Charming!) Loss for WordsHall, Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to Isabella Walsh. Philadelphia: 17 December 1827. Small 4to (24 x 19 cm; 9.5" x 7.5"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. “Your Brother has just called with this album, in which, he tells me, it is your wish that I should write something.
But as it becomes every well bred lion to roar for the entertainment of the company when he is bid — whether he be in a growling mood or not — I take up my pen accordingly.
Yet I daresay you will often have the mortification of hearing the visitors to this your 'menagerie' exclaim — 'Well! I am sure I never saw such a stupid wild beast before — I dont [sic] believe he is a real lion after all — I have heard many a donkey make quite as good an exhibition!'”
Hall (1788–1844) was a Scot, a naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28 (1829). Miss Walsh (b 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 Nov. 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
• Very good condition. (34491)
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“Hitherto Entirely Unknown to Bibliographers”? — Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, ed. The debate and stryfe betwene Somer and Wynter; a poetical dialogue, from the unique copy printed by Laurence Andrew early in the sixteenth century. London: Printed for the editor [colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press], 1860. 24mo (14.7 cm, 5.75"). 19, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.limited to 30 copies and is neatly printed.
Provenance: Pencilled signature of prominent Bostonian book collector Henry Gardner Denny on half-title margin; pencilled collation note at rear from the Quaritch firm; later rubber-stamp reading “F.S.H. Dupl.” at back. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Winsor, Halliwelliana, 1860:14. Quarter roan in imitation of morocco with chocolate paper–covered boards, spine gilt-lettered; gently rubbed with some loss of leather at joints and paper at corners/edges. Provenance marks as above; light pencilling on endpapers and title-page. (38010)
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Cultural Scholarship . . .Hardison, O.B., Jr. Disappearing through the skylight. Culture and technology in the twentieth century. [New York]: Viking [Penguin], [1989]. 8vo. 389 pp. 
• Near fine. Quarter publisher's cloth over blue paper. Original dust jacket in good condition. Author's presentation inscription on half-title. (3083)
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“My daddie looks sulky, my minnie looks sour,
They frown upon Jamie because he is poor” Harry Bluff. Logie O'Buchan. Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town. / Oh! No, We Never Mention Her. / Oh, Say Not Womam's [sic] Love is Bought. / Dearest Maid, My Heart Is Thine. / Meet Me in the Moonlight. / Tell Me Why Men Will Deceive Us. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2B38504. Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)
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“This King Midas Was Fonder of
Gold than Anything Else in the World”Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The golden touch. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1927.
Click the images for enlargements. During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, the
Grabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigableValenti Angelo.
• Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31. Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides, in original paper–covered slipcase; slipcase with edges sunned and with a rough partial split to one edge from one corner, volume internally and externally pristine. Unopened save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy. (33532)
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He BeatMark 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.
• 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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Bruce Rogers Designed This — An Uncut, Unopened Copy Hay, John. A poet in exile. Early letters of John Hay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 12mo. 48 pp., 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The text was edited by Caroline Ticknor and the volume wasdesigned by Bruce Rogers.
Issued in an edition of 440 copies, 400 of which were for sale. This is copy 158: It retains the prospectus and the spare label.
• Work of Bruce Rogers 199; Warde 102. Publisher's brown paper–covered boards. A fine copy, uncut and unopened. (31244)
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Fossil Flora — 65 PlatesHayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to (30.4 cm,
11.9"). xv, [3], 366 pp.; 65 plts. 
• Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid. (19652)
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From Discussion through Completed Work — With Four Original IllustrationsHays, H.R. Poems 1933–67. San Francisco: Kayak, 1968. 8vo (16.2 cm, 6.4"). [2], 79, [1] pp.; illus. [with the same author's] Crisis. Menomie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1969. 16mo (16.2 cm, 6.4'). [14] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. In addition to the printed Poems and Crisis, Gerson Leiber's
four original ink drawings for Crisis — including one not printed in the piece — are here, with a cover letter (dated 1993 and apologizing for the 24-year delay!), signed by editor and publisher Don Olsen. Also present is Hays's typescript of “Crisis,” addressed to Olsen and stapled to two typed, signed letters from Olsen to Leiber regarding the artwork commission and subsequent printing details.
A card designed and printed by Fredric Aldwyn Brewer at the Raintree Press on behalf of the Indiana University LIbraries, with a warm handwritten message from Brewer thanking the recipient (presumably Leiber) for an engraving, is laid in to Crisis.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector.
• Poems: Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers; spine and edges sunned. Crisis: Publisher's brown paper wrappers, front wrapper with black-stamped title and author information. A marvelous look at one example of the collaborative process among writers, artists, and printers. (33615)
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“Exquisite Studies of Japan” — Bruce Rogers BindingHearn, 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.
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Bruce Rogers designed the elegant binding, and Japanese artist Keichu Takenouche supplied the drawings for the frontispiece and plate.
• 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)
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“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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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A Well-Meaning but Not Very High-Rising MUSEHill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
privately printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the poems and short pieces display intelligence, but not much by way of polished craft — unsurprising given that most of them were written during Hill’s adolescence. One unfinished poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would plume her wing, / And higher as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the note beneath humorously reads “Muse did n’t get any further up that trip” (p. 25).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.
• Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (13883)
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College Sermons — Presentation CopyHoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
• Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)
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The Punishment of Tantalus in ART plus English, Greek, & LatinRUZICKA Renders HOLBEIN Homer; William Broome, transl.; Rudolph Ruzicka, illus.; et al. Tantalus. [Cambridge, MA]: The Cygnet Press, 1937. Sm. 8vo (17.1 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [16] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Ruzicka's delicately color-printed woodcut rendition of a design by Hans Holbein the Younger. “Since the pictorial representation would not be complete without a verbal explanation, the original eleven lines in Greek . . . are given together with a metrical translation of them by Alexander Pope's collaborator, the Rev'd William Broome,” followed by Pindar's account in Greek and in Sandys' English translation, and by 12 lines from Horace's first satire in the original Latin and in H. Rushton Fairclough's translation.
This is the fourth of a series of booklets intended for friends of Philip Hofer and George Parker Winship's Cygnet Press, with
only 200 copies printed (“more or less,” according to the colophon). The italic in which the English text is set and the Greek are both attractive fonts, and complement each other in pleasing fashion.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Chapbook in heavy cream wrappers sewn at spine, within publisher's gold-brushed black paper dust-wrapper; wrapper split along chipped spine, chapbook itself crisp and clean. A handsome item of interest to classicists and aficionados of fine printing alike. (41015)
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The Boss & FamilyCelebrate Christmas at the Ranch Hotchkis, Katharine Bixby. Christmas eve at Rancho Los Alamitos. [San Francisco]: California Historical Society, 1971. 8vo. vii, [1], 23, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. growing up on the headquarters of a working ranch in southern California in southern California during the early 20th century, illustrated with color-printed line drawings. This is special publication no. 47 of the California Historical Society.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers. A clean, fresh copy. (26075)
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Dartmouth's LaureateHovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp. 
• 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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Including“A Fight for the Breeches”Hudson, Thomas. Betsey Baker. Glasgow: J. Neil, 1829. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2H34825. Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (16963)
For SCOTLAND & SCOTS, click here. For CHAPBOOKS, click here. For more of WOMEN's interest, click here.Book of Designs forBakers & ConfectionersHueg, Herman. Ornamental confectionery, and practical assistant to the art of baking in all its branches, with numerous illustrations. New York: H. Hueg & Co., © 1896. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). 48, 48 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. ephemeral sidekick to Hueg's popular
Ornamental Confectionery and the Art of Baking offers baking tips, recipes, and decoration patterns, combined with a product and book catalogue with price list. Some of the depicted cake structures and designs are jaw-droppingly ornate! Originally published in 1893, the pamphlet is now notably less common than its hardcover sibling.
• Cagle & Stafford 389 (for first ed.). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, spine and edges rubbed, front cover with spots of discoloration; offsetting inside wrappers from staples. Pages very slightly age-toned. 
Delightful for those who like to bake, those who like to eat, or those who just like to appreciate implausible confectionery accomplishments. (35008)
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Filmed Twice — Here in a Decorative Designers BindingHutchinson, Arthur Stuart-Menteth. The happy warrior. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1913. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.59"). Frontis., ix, [1], 448, [4 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 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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