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“A Surprising Narrative” — Set in NYC
“Old Sleuth” [pseud. of Harlan Page Halsey]. Carrol Moore; or how he became a detective. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, © 1897. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 89, [11 (adv.)] pp.
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A now-uncommon dime novel, No. 77 in the “Old Sleuth's Own” series: a shrewd young illustrator, newly arrived in New York City, embroils himself in the hunt for a missing heiress.
WorldCat locates only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers slightly darkened with spine rubbed and back edges chipped. Pages predictably age-toned; final advertising leaves with edges chipped.
“You will never leave this room alive,” indeed! (34859)
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By an Irish-Canadian
O'Neill, Moira. Songs of the Glens of Antrim. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1904. 8vo. x pp., [1] f., 61 pp.
$75.00
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O'Neill was the pen name of
Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet. This is a later printing of her 1900 best-selling volume of poetry. Title-page in black and red.
Provenance: Inscription of M.A. O'Neil to fly-leaf, Portland, ME (1905); signature of Francis Massey O'Brien, Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller also of Portland, in his “Proinnsías Ó Bríain” form (1940).
Publisher's quarter brick red cloth with muted-apricot paper-covered sides; elegant gilt cartouche on front cover with author and title in black. Board edges lightly rubbed.
A pleasing, attractive copy with pleasing provenance. (29955)
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Experiments in Printing Subtlety from the Perishable Press
Oppen, George. Alpine. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable
Press, 1969. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.7"). [16] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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First edition, dedicated “to those who as poets and publishers have rescued a
nation's literature”; Walter Hamady, proprietor of the Perishable Press, was particularly pleased
with that dedication, saying “one of my favorite pages is the dedication page, 18 point Palatino
italic has a fine flow to it & the blind debossment of another geologic structure below it excites
me.” Like that blind-stamped illustration, his distinctive pressmark appears also in blind, at the
colophon — and
the copyright line (deliberately) appears in such a faint grey, overlying a
line on the title-page recto, that its near-invisibility caused issues with filing for copyright.
The text was set by hand in Palatino and Michaelangelo, and printed in black and grey on Shadwell paper; this is one of 250 copies printed.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 21. Publisher's tan paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title. Minimal wear to extremities, otherwise a clean and fresh copy. (30930)
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Explore Old Europe — Signed Decorated Cloth
Osborne, Albert B. Picture towns of Europe. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1926. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.375"). Frontis, xii, [2], 247, [1] pp.; 47 plts., map (incl. in pagination).
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A unique travel book written with a personal touch: “My aim has been to select from each country in Europe, save the northern lands which I have yet to see, the towns that of themselves, and by their environment, as well as by something of the ancient life and tradition still surviving there, suggest most clearly to the present day the colorful and picturesque past” (p. viii).
The author travelled Europe in search of a certain old-world atmosphere. His descriptions of his discoveries in towns such as Clovelly, England; Carcassonne, France; and San Gimignano, Italy, are accompanied by 48 black and white photographs, as well as a map of Europe. This is the second printing.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth with white lettering to spine. On the front board, a picturesque townscape with white-stamped stone exteriors and maroon-stamped roofs against a gilt sky; the lettering is also in white. Signed by “GH,” presumably George Washington Hood.
Bound as above, extremely minor rubbing to extremities, faint scratches to gilt decoration, scrape to bottom page edges; faint foxing to the very top edge of the plates and several leaves.
In a decorated binding as quaint as the towns! (38922)
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“Wonder Turners” for Everyone
Paris, John Ayrton. Philosophy in sport made science in earnest; being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1827 [Brattleboro, VT: Optical Toys, 1995]. 12mo (15.3 cm, 6.02"). 28 pp. (incl. pr. wrappers).
$95.00
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“This is a faithful reproduction of a set produced in France over 100 years ago”: Modern facsimile of the chapter on thaumatropes from the first edition of Dr. Paris's Philosophy in Sport,
accompanied by 14 working examples and instructions for their use. The 1827 text uses an elaborate fictional frame story about the Seymour family and friends to teach about conducting experiments and examining scientific principles via “the common toys which have been invented for the amusement of youth” (p. 25), including the thaumatrope, or wonder turner — a spinning-disk optical illusion serving as an early form of animation, and often considered a part of cinematic history. The French “jeu du thaumatrope” set reproduced here was originally published circa 1891; 12 of the present thaumatropes have preprinted illustrations, while two have been left blank for a user to decorate.
Provenance: Inside box lid with bookplate of Vance Gerry of the Weather Bird Press; later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, with small booklabel (“AHA”).
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, housed in the original printed paper–covered box with color-printed “Jeu du Thaumatrope” illustration; box edges and corners with minor rubbing.
Booklet and toys clean, absolutely fresh, and ready for fresh experimentation! (40819)
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Fine-Press Love Poems from
Medieval Andalusia
Parker, Margaret, transl.; Fredric Brewer, ed. I am going to cry. Bloomington, IN: The Raintree Press, 1977. 4to (17.9 cm, 7.04"). [12] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Scarce sole edition: Twelve kharjas — closing lines of strophic poems written in a mixture of
vernacular Arabic and early Spanish — translated into English by Dr. Parker, a professor at Louisiana State University. The text was handset by Brewer, who decorated it with zodiac symbols printed in black and red.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector, sans indicia.
Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers; spine very slightly sunned, faint dust-soiling in upper inner portion of front wrapper, light creasing at lower edges, presenting very well overall. Pages fresh and clean.
A nice copy of a very uncommon item. (41504)
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Spenser Susan Hawk Trouble
Parker, Robert B. The Catskill eagle: A Spenser novel. [New York]: Delacorte Press Seymour Lawrence, (1985). 8vo. 311 pp.
$25.00
First trade edition, first printing.
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, the flaps unclipped and retaining original price and month/year printing code. (6815)

Missionary in Mexico — Fine Press Production
Pascoe, James (1841–88). Mission work in Mexico: Reprinted from The Sword and the Trowel, London, 1886. Tacambaro: Taller Martin Pescador, 2020. 8vo (25.5 cm, 10"). [1 (blank)] f., 15 [i.e., 14] pp., [2] ff.; illus., photos.
$65.00
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Master Printer Juan Pascoe has found a copy of his great grandfather’s own account of religion in Mexico and his missionary work there, and as a tribute to him Juan has produced a nicely illustrated and handsomely printed edition of that article, which appeared in Spurgeon’s famous periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. The illustrations are two cuts of 19th-century presses, three tipped-in photographs (one of James, another of James’ mother-in-law, and the third of one of James’ daughters), and a title-page cut reproduced from
the only illustration ascribed to James himself in his long-running periodical.
Limited to 56 (unnumbered) copies.
New. Sewn in stiff wrappers with printed label on front wrapper. (41109)
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A Thoughtful Study — A Lovely Book
Pascoe, Juan. An early Mexican typographic ornament / 1554–1686. Santa Rosa, Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico: Taller Martín Pescador, 2019. Small 8vo (23 cnm 9"). 39, [1 (blank)] pp., color illus., facsims.
$37.50
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Pascoe, Mexico's greatest modern hand-printer, has long made a study of early Mexican printing, printers, and typography. Here he traces the use of a fourchée cross designed, cut, and cast by Antonio Espinosa, first used in 1554, that subsequently was part of the typographic repertoire of Pedro Balli, Antonio Ricardo, Pedro Ocharte, Melchor Ocharte, Diego López Dávalos, Enrico Martinez, Cornelio Adrián César, and Juan Ruíz.
In addition to discussion of this ornament's use by those various printers, Pascoe also offers interesting and sometimes new biographical information on the printers based on archival documents. His assessment of each printer's skills is informed by his own eye and decades of experience as a hand-press printer.
His text is illustrated by more than 20 color illustrations and by examples of each printer's signature.
In all, a totally satisfying work on the skills and personalities and, at times, the tribulations of these early New World printers — itself beautifully printed in Pascoe's own unmistakable style.
Issued in a strong soft white cover printed in black and red, within a dove grey typographic over-wrapper printed in darker grey and red. As new. (40046)
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An “American-Mexican”
Printer's Own Story
Pascoe, Juan. A printer's apprentice. Santa Rosa, Las Joyas, Tacámbaro Michoacán: Taller Martín Pescador, 2018. 8vo (9.25"). 208 pp.
$55.00
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“Juan Pascoe’s story begins in the nineteenth century like a novel: 'My English great-grandfather, James Pascoe, was born in Cornwall . . . ' But this is a true, unique story of an American-Mexican fine printer with English ancestry grafted onto a sturdy, Quixotically Protestant Mexican lineage, leaving Juan with two languages and not much other capital. Through the luck of becoming apprenticed to Harry Duncan, one of America’s greatest handpress printers, Juan found his way as a man of books, and of his making of beautiful books (and posters, broadsheets, catalogues, cards, etc.) and jarocho music (as a founding member of Grupo Mono Blanco) there is no end. Great printers were active in Mexico in the sixteenth century long before Anglo-European printing presses had arrived in New England, and Juan’s work continues in that great tradition.
Juan’s narrative quickly establishes him as a master prose stylist, like Duncan, and as printers they are also equals, in my opinion, having worked with both. His dual identity as American and Mexican gives this compelling memoir a topical appeal beyond that of hand-press printing or poetry” (John Ridland).
Hardcover, set in Espinosa Nova and printed digitally in black and red throughout; binding in shades of cream with vintage printshop cover illustration on front and John Ridland's summary on rear. New. (38863)
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A Pretty Way to
Encounter This Tale
Pater, Walter, trans. The story of Cupid and Psyche done out of the Latin of Apuleius. New York: Platt & Peck Co., [ca. 1914]. 12mo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). Frontis., [2], 107, [1] pp.
$50.00
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Uncommon printing of an elegant, much-commended English translation originally included as part of Pater's Marius the Epicurean. The frontispiece is a sepia portrait of Pater, and the text is printed
on rectos only.
Publisher's tan and brown printed paper–covered boards; spine somewhat darkened, paper chipped at spine and cracking along front joint. Front and rear free endpaper with inked presentation inscriptions dated 1914. Pages age-toned; one leaf with short tear from outer margin. (33100)
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A Treasure Trove of Information
Historical *&* Commercial — BATH, 1884
Peach, R. E. Historic houses In Bath and their associations. [Second Series]. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; & Bath: R. E. Peach, 1884. Square 4to (22 cm; 8.75"). Frontis., [2] ff., 158 pp., [11 (ads)] ff.
$45.00
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Brimming with information on literary and other association information. Old Manor House (Claverton) and Kingston House (Bradford-on-Avon) are illustrated, the latter by a
tipped-in photograph. The eleven leaves of advertisements at the rear are entirely for businesses in Bath.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-and black-stamped.
A little spotting, a little shaken; a good++ copy. (34001)
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“It Is NOT Considered Fashionable to Eat Potatoes with Fish”
Peel, Constance Dorothy Evelyn Bayliff. Waiting at
table. A practical guide. London: Frederick Warne & Co. (pr. by William Clowes & Sons), [ca. 1929]. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.44"). viii, 115, [1] pp.
$85.00
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Instructions for servants, by the author of Manners and Rules of Good Society and other works on domestic economy, sometimes known as Dorothy Constance Peel or Mrs. C.S. Peel. These matter-of-fact lessons on upper-class serving techniques, originally published in 1894 under the byline “A Member of the Aristocracy,” include much information on food-related trends and fashions of the day (dining hours, types of glasses and serving pieces in common use, foods appropriate for certain meals rather than others, accompaniments for a variety of dishes, when to offer which wines, etc.); they cover everything from informal “at home” breakfasts to wedding receptions at which members of the Royal Family are expected. The front free endpaper bears an advertisement for Mrs. Hunt's Employment Agency.
Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, front with table setting–vignette and folded napkin decoration; spine dulled, boards slightly sprung with extremities a tad bumped, back cover with small white and other spottings. Pages evenly age-toned, with offsetting to front free endpaper. A solid, internally very clean copy of this influential and oft-cited work, in an elegantly designed early 20th–century publisher's binding. (40869)
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“Number One”
Pegasus Club. The year book of the Pegasus. Number one. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1895. 8vo. 49, [1 (blank)] pp.
$125.00
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A club anthology printing poems by Owen Wister, Solomon Solis-Cohen, J. Chalmers Da Costa, Frank Miles Day, Charles H.A. Esling, Arthur Hale, John H. Ingham, Gilbert P. Knapp, Ernest Lacy, John Kearsley Mitchell, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Leonard Moore, Harrison S. Morris, Oliver Perry-Smith, Charles Pomeroy Sherman, S. Decatur Smith, jr., Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Stewardson, Henry H. Supplee, Henry Maitland Watts, and Frances Howard Williams — SOME CLUB!
It is notable that the Pegasus included Jews and women at a time when Philadelphia was highly segregated by race, ethnicity, and gender.
BAL 18675. Not in Singerman, Judaica Americana. Later brown linen over boards with title in gilt on spine; interior occasionally with a trace of light soil and, throughout, a very light, narrow, and almost decorative(!) sliver of old water intrusion across bottom and lowest fore-edges.
In fact, a nice copy. (41472)
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MYSTIC or Pragmatic Wife?
Pérez Galdós, Benito. La loca de la casa, comedia en cuatro actos. Madrid: Imprenta de la Guirnalda, 1893. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.15"). [8], 294 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: Acclaimed play from a prominent Spanish realist author, addressing issues of class, materialism, and feminism.
Palau 220783. Contemporary quarter maroon sheep and red pebbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spine attractively darkened, edges and extremities rubbed, sides with spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with private shelf-code sticker; title-page with private collector's rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, with some scattered small smudges or spots of light staining. (29936)
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“In the Dew of Time”
Perishable Press. Broadside, begins: “Warning! Oh yes you can too do it & whoumzoevber sed not is full of snot ... ” [Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press], 1980. 8vo (27 x 19 cm.; 10.5" x 7.25"). 1 p.
$125.00
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A type specimen thank-you to Paul Duensing for teaching “an old dog a new trick. At least P[aul] H D[uensing] managed to taught [sic] W[alter] S H[amady] to cast type in the barn! Here is the first attempt at solo experiment & this is Ashely-Crawford 24 point. MFG. Spring 1980.”
Fine copy.
(30791)
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FALLS from
Vermont to Hawaii
Pfahl, John. Waterfall. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, [2000]. Oblong 8vo (12 cm, 4.75"). [36] pp., [1 (laid-in)] f.; illus.
$125.00
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Elegant accordion-pleated presentation of this series of waterfall photographs, taken throughout the United States and offering intriguing urban images in addition to the more typical scenic views. Deborah Tall's accompanying essay on waterfalls and representations thereof is laid in.
Publisher's midnight blue cloth–covered boards, spine with blind-stamped title, in original cream and blue cloth–covered slipcase; binding and case in beautiful condition. An attractive volume. (30642)
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Pleasant Thoughts on
Congenial Spirits
The Philipena, or friendship's token: A present for all seasons. Boston: G.W. Cottrell & Co.; New York: T.W. Strong, [1848]. 16mo. Col. frontis., 126 pp.
$75.00
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Petite, pretty gift book: stories and poems dedicated to the happy rewards of virtuous domestic life. The volume opens with an
illuminated color-printed frontispiece; present here are “Social Life, or the Plains of Matrimony,” “The Heart That's True,” “Marrying for Money,” “A Good Daughter,” “Worth and Wealth,” “Congenial Spirits,” etc.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped urn of flowers, back cover with same design in blind. All edges gilt.
Faxon 655. Bound as above, corners bumped/rubbed and base of rear joint and spine a little rubbed; gilt bright. Endpapers with early pencilled inscriptions, frontispiece with adhesion of a sliver of paper from title-page along inner margin, title-page with brown spot in lower margin offset onto lower edge of frontispiece. Sewing loosening with some early and final leaves starting to separate, title-page all but separated. Pages generally clean, with a few scattered spots; one upper margin with pencilled inscription mostly erased. A read and cherished copy, still sweetly sentimental and interesting to look at. (30368)

“A is for Axe” . . .
The picture alphabet; or child's A, B, C. Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, [not before 1860?]. 16mo (10.5 cm, 4.1"). 16 pp.; illus.
$150.00
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“Seventh series — No. 1" from Bailey & Noyes, publishers of numerous children's toy- and chapbooks, this example featuring
a small wood engraving and couplet for each letter of the alphabet. The firm was listed in extant Portland, ME, directories between 1860 and 1875.
Not in Bloch, not in Osborne. Publisher's blue-green printed paper wrappers, sewn as issued, in excellent condition save for very slight fading at lower and outer edges. Pages clean and fresh.
Axe, Bat, and, Comb through Xerxes, Youth, and Zebra. (41516)
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Philadelphia
Poets, Playwrights, & Publishers BEWARE
Pindar, Jr., Peter [pseud. of Nathaniel Chapman Freeman]. Parnassus in Philadelphia. A satire by Peter Pindar, Jr. Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1854. 12mo. 58 pp.
$250.00
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A well-done poetic skewering of prominent literary Philadelphians (poets, playwrights, journalists, periodical editors and publishers) of the mid–19th century as well as fulmination on some practices and events. Uncommon, as one would expect, as
privately printed.
Sabin 62915. Publisher's plain dark gray boards, front cover with “Parnass” etched in an early hand; rubbed overall with front joint carefully repaired, spine and edges subtly restored with toned repair tissue. Ex-library, spine with remnants of paper shelving label, front pastedown with faint traces of now-absent bookplate, pencilled annotation along inner margin of first text page. Front pastedown with early pencilled note regarding contents. Light foxing, a bit of soiling. (24837)
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Two Seasonal Spectacles at the Theatre Royal
SPECIAL EFFECTS 1829
Playbill. Broadside. Begins: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. This evening, Monday, December 28, 1829, His Majesty's Servants will act the tragedy of King Richard III. [London]: Pr. by J. Tabby, [1829]. Folio (34.5 cm, 13.5"). [2] ff.
$125.00
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Unusual theatrical bifolium: two attached playbills from 1829. The first sheet advertises a Shakespeare production starring Mr. Aitken, Mr. Kean, Mrs. Faucit, and Miss Faucit, along with
“a Splendid Comic Christmas Pantomime” called Jack in the Box; or, Harlequin and the Princess of the Hidden Island. The latter includes a descriptive list of the scenes as painted by Clarkson Stanfield (“The Giant's Dining Parlour,” “Lime-Kilns, near Gravesend,” “Cheesemonger's Shop and Wine Vaults,” etc.).
The second sheet is for Stanfield's “Grand Local Diorama,” the grand finale of which involved the “magnificent display of the Falls of the Virginia Waters, seen through the Fairy Temple of Luminaria” — facilitated by a hydraulic apparatus capable of discharging 39 tons of water, “forming a coup d'oeil never before witnessed on any stage.”
A contemporary of Stanfield's once called him “the prince of scene-painters,” and his dioramas were legendary for their beauty and immersive effects.
Split halfway up center fold and neatly repaired from rear; one untrimmed outer edge slightly ragged. Gently age-toned.
Delightful (and very displayable) piece of theatrical ephemera. (36575)
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An
Imaginary & Inward Voyage from E.A.P.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Portland, ME: Pr. by the Southworth Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1930. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.25"). 267, [1] pp., [1 (ad] f.
$90.00
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This edition of Poe's imaginary voyage, a
very early production from the Limited Editions Club, was designed by Fred Anthoensen; the introduction is by Joseph Wood Krutch and the black and white illustrations are by Rene Clarke, who signed the colophon. This is copy 1178 of 1500 printed.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 5. Publisher's quarter vellum with black leather-covered sides; vellum of spine darkened to light “tobacco” with age, lacking the glassine dust jacket and slipcase.
In itself and by itself, an attractive book. (40703)
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FANCY!
Pope, Alexander. The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with memoir, explanatory notes, etc. New York: Hurst & Co., [1890]. 8vo (19 cm, 7.48"). Frontis., 550 pp.
$75.00
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Handsome gift book presentation of Pope's works, with supplementary material including helpful annotations. The volume opens with an engraved portrait of the poet, done by H.W. Burns; subsequent pages are framed in red rules.
Binding: Publisher's olive green cloth, front cover and spine with flaming torch and floral garland designs stamped in black, white, and gilt (unsigned).
All edges gilt.
Binding as above, extremities showing minor rubbing, each cover with one small spot of faint discoloration; front hinge (inside) slightly tender but holding. Inscription on recto of frontispiece has been erased. Offsetting from frontispiece to title-page; pages age-toned with a few scattered small, faint pencilled marks of emphasis.
Very attractive. (37530)
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“Mini” Natural History Chapbook
Pretty rhymes about birds and animals for little boys and girls. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [ca. 1860]. Miniature (7.8 cm, 3"). 8 pp.; illus.
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Five charming wood engravings of an owl, pony, and other birds and animals mentioned in the text of these short rhymes illustrate this miniature chapbook. It is a later, very good edition from the years when this firm was at 123 & 125 William Street (i.e, 1858–1866).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Original green wrappers with bird illustration on front wrapper and advertisement on rear. Minor soiling to two pages and small crease in upper corner of rear wrapper, else fine.
A very attractive little “toy.” (38780)
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Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. The Church almanac for the year of our Lord 1854. New York: The Protestant Episcopal Tract Society (Van Norden & Amerman, printers), [1853]. 12mo. 48 pp., plus wrappers.
$27.50
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Includes a list of clergy, and general and diocesan institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Also includes a list of bishops in the other reformed branches of the Church and the succession of bishops in the American Church.
Original printed wrappers, with a faint fold mark across width of wrappers. Three small punch holes penetrating inner margins, from front to back, without touching text.
Mild foxing in margins. Overall, a very good copy. (9984)
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Enchanting
19th-Century Reminiscences of the ROSE
The Queen of flowers: or, Memoirs of the rose. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. 24mo (14.2 cm, 5.6"). viii, [13]–219 pp., 3 col. plts. Lacks frontis.
$60.00
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Epistolary musings on roses originally published as Memoirs of the Rose in 1824, here in their second edition. This version contains
three striking hand-colored lithographs of different rose species, including the Cabbage, Common Dog, and Damask.
Binding: Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-stamped title on spine; each cover framed in blind rules, with foliate and drawer-handle motifs surrounding a gilt leaf device at center. All edges gilt.
Bound as above, almost entirely sunned to brown and with a very little rubbing. Light to moderate age-toning and foxing throughout; lacks frontispiece, other three plates present and brightly colored.
Overall a handsomely done collection of letters about roses (and life). (35940)
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Keepsake Poem from the Curwen Press
Quennell, Peter; Albert Rutherston, illus. Inscription on a fountain-head. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd. (pr. by the Curwen Press), 1929. 12mo (18.4 cm, 7.24"). [4] pp.; col. illus.
$25.00
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No. 24 of the Ariel Poems series, featuring two illustrations by Rutherston — one on the front wrapper and one color-printed in green and brown inside.
Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; minimal shelfwear. Light offsetting from wrapper turn-in to outer portion of first page (illustration), otherwise clean and fresh. (41526)
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“Oh, C'mon . . . ”
(As He Might Have Put It)
Quincy, Josiah. [drop-title] Speech of Josiah Quincey [sic], Representative in Congress for the state of Massachusetts, on the joint resolution approving of the conduct of the executive of the United States, in relation to the refusal to receive any farther communication from the British Minister, 28th December, 1809. No place, [1810?]. 12mo. 24 pp.
$97.50
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He feels the House has gone overboard in the language used in the censure of the British ambassador in his discussions with the president.
A very uncommon Quincy item.
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume; stapled and respined with archival tissue. Six-digit number stamped on title-page. (198)
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A Review for
Printers & Bibliophiles
Randle, John & Rosalind, eds. Matrix 7. Number seven, winter 1987. Gloucestershire:
The Whittington Press, 1987. Imperial 8vo (28.7 cm, 11.3"). [6], 166, [2] pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Another volume of worthwhile and aesthetically pleasing reading for book arts enthusiasts, including “A Moroccan Diary” by Edwina Ellis, “Ornamented Types: the Making of the Edition” by Ian Mortimer, “On the Shape of Books” by Brooke Crutchley, “A Medley of Printers Past” by Ward Ritchie, “Letters from a Papermaker's Husband” by Brian Richardson, and a variety of other essays and reviews pertaining to typography, fine printing, and illustration, as well as two poems by Philip Gallo. This is
one of 960 copies printed, illustrated with an assortment of photographic plates, an oversized folding plate reproducing illustrations by Annie Newnham, tipped-in examples of printing, etc. The prospectus for Matrix 8 is laid in.
Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers over printed paper–covered stiff boards; wrappers with spine sunned, minor edge wear. Contents clean and crisp. Very good. (34969)
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The Baron with
Hand-Colored Plates
[Raspe, Rudolf Erich]; Alfred Crowquill [pseud. of Alfred Henry Forrester], illus. The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen. New York: James Miller, 1864. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). Col. frontis., col. t.-p., 251, [1] pp.; 8 col. plts., illus.
[SOLD]
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Rudolph Erich Raspe's dauntless Baron is presented here with
ten vibrant, hand-colored plates by English artist Alfred Henry Forrester (1804–72), credited under his pseudonym, “Alfred Crowquill.” The plates, which include a frontispiece and title-page, bring to life some of the Baron's most well-known adventures, such as confronting lions, falling from the moon, and riding a half-horse. The text is also embellished with in-text illustrations and decorative initials.
The German writer anonymously introduced the nobleman, Baron Munchausen, in 1785 based on a real-life baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, who was known for telling inflated versions of his exploits. His fictional Baron also entertains by narrating his implausible adventures.
Binding: Textured blue cloth, front board with corner maple leaves in blind and elaborate gilt center medallion with lettering. On the spine, the Baron appears to be cutting the rope he's hanging onto that dangles from the Moon, with a lion and alligator waiting underneath him. Undoubtedly he'll come out alive!
Bound as above; mild rubbing to extremities and rear board, spine cocked very slightly. Some occasional light foxing and general age-toning to interior.
Fantastic fun for lovers of adventure and art. (39527)
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Sentimental Stories An Elegant Margaret Armstrong Binding
Reed, Myrtle. The white shield. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). Col. frontis., [2], xi, [1], 343, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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Posthumously printed short stories from a popular author, with
music figuring prominently in several of the pieces. This is the stated fourth printing of the first edition, with a color-printed frontispiece and four additional plates done by Dalton Stevens.
Binding: Publisher's lavender cloth, front cover with lily design stamped in gilt, white, and purple, spine with decorative gilt-stamped title. Top edges gilt, others deckle.
Signed “MA,” Margaret Armstrong.
This is one of a series of twelve of Reed's books for which Armstrong did the designs, all on the same lavender cloth. The Reed covers are among her best-known, and this one is quite pleasing with its lily-petal mosaic effect.
Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, R-122; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 182. Bound as above, minimal rubbing to extremities and stamped lilies, minor sunning to spine; front cover clean and bright. Plates with small areas of spotting to upper edges, apparently from printer.
A very nice copy. (41298)
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CASANOVA Beyond His Exploitatious Exploits
Ricci, Seymour de. Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: An address to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 24 May, 1923. Philadelphia: Privately Printed [for The Philobiblon Club], 1923. 8vo (22 cm; 8.5"). 24 pp.
$22.50
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The great bibliographer and friend of Dr. Rosenbach (and of many American, British, and French bibliophiles and booksellers) entertained the gentlemen of the Philobiblon Club with a good and sympathetic account of Count Casanova, the publishing history of his memoirs, and the fate of the manuscript of the same.
New. Publisher's blue cloth shelfback and French swirl marbled paper over boards; white paper label on front cover. (35760)
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“The Then of Changeless Sunny Days — The Now of Shower & Shine —
— But Love Forever Smiling — As That Old Sweetheart of Mine”
Riley, James Whitcomb. An old sweetheart of mine. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1902. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.89"). [62] pp; 18 plts.
$120.00
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A charming, heart-warming gem by the well-known Hoosier poet,
featuring 18 plates of drawings by famed American illustrator Howard Chandler Christy and numerous pink-printed decorations by Virginia Keep. This testimony to love's endurance from the earliest blush of youth “till the golden hair was gray” is “an extended version . . . the short version first appeared in Old-Fashioned Roses, 1888" (BAL).
Binding: Publisher's blue-green cloth binding with front cover and spine stamped in gilt, burnt sienna, and green (we have seen a variant in a wine colored cloth). Front cover with a paper portrait onlay signed by Christy.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription “From the Hedding girls, Mar. 12, 1905.”
BAL 16657. Binding as above, slight rubbing to extremities, dust jacket and box not present.
A clean, fresh, very giftable copy — particularly for childhood sweethearts! (41260)
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“Jes' Looky Hyonder, Hey?”
Riley, James Whitcomb. Riley songs o'cheer. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1905]. 8vo (20 cm, 7.8"). 195, [1] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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First edition, first issue of this compendium bringing together poems previously published and these new elements: “Songs O'Cheer,” “Dedication to Bliss Carman,” “A Christmas Carol,” and “Her Smile of Cheer and Voice of Song.” The “Hoosier Poet” presents some verses in his classic midwestern dialect and some in more elegant verbiage, while
Will Vawter provided numerous full-page and in-text illustrations nicely evoking a nostalgic, mostly rural America to match.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth with a young farmer's vignette stamped in white, black, and gilt on the cover, spine with gilt-stamped title and bird vignette.
BAL 16671. Binding as above, dust jacket lacking, very minor rubbing to extremities and front cover vignette. Front pastedown with ownership inscription of Alice Grace Stone. Clean and fresh. (35049)
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LEC: 50 Rilke Poems
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. 8vo (24.2 cm, 9.5"). xxxiii, [1], 129, [3] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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The Limited Editions Club takes on “Germany's greatest modern poet”: 50 poems from Rilke's early career, selected, translated, and annotated by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre, with a preface by Harry T. Moore. The poems are
printed in English and German on facing pages, with mutedly melancholy, gray-toned, stippled full-page and in-text illustrations (four of the former, six of the latter) done by Robert Kipniss and lithographed by George C. Miller & Son. Katy Homans designed the volume; the text was printed in Dante type (both roman and italic) on Mohawk eggshell wove paper, and the binding was done by A. Horowitz & Son.
This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 518. Publisher's quarter navy buckram and light blue paper–covered boards, spine with author stamped in silver, in original matching slipcase; slipcase showing minor shelfwear with spine and edges gently sunned, volume spine likewise gently sunned, otherwise crisp and solid. (37247)
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Classic
Collection / Uncommon
Illustrated Variant
[Roach, John, ed.]. The beauties of the poets of Great Britain,
carefully selected from the works of the best authors. Embellished with engravings on wood. London:
Sherwin & Co., 1821–22. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). 2 vols. I: [4], ii, 360 pp.; 9 plts. II: [2], iii, [1], 360 pp.;
9 plts.
$250.00
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Scarce-to-say-the-least illustrated variant of a long-popular anthology first published
in 1793. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 fail to find any holdings of this edition, which is also not listed
by NSTC; from this time period, most catalogues and bibliographies find only the three-volume 1826
printing.
The contents of these two volumes appear to be based almost entirely on John Roach's Beauties of the
Poets of Great Britain, although Roach is not cited as the editor, the pieces are in a different order than
originally presented, and there are a few minor changes: “The Negro Boy” is not included here, while
several “runic odes” by Mathias and Penrose have been added. The expected highlights of Pope, Gray,
Cowper, Burns, Chatterton, Goldsmith, etc. are present, as well as lesser-known pieces such as Mrs.
Carter's “Address to Meditation,” Mary Darby Robinson's “Trumpeter,” and Helen Maria Williams's
“Sonnet to Twilight” and “Sonnet to Hope” (the latter memorized by Wordsworth, whose first
published poem was “Sonnet, on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress”).
The volumes are illustrated with 18 wood-engraved plates signed by Sears, Willis, and others — not
the 1793 originals.
Provenance:
Ownership note of “Adams Jewett, M.D.” to top of title-page.
This ed.
not in NSTC, Lowndes, or Allibone. Not in British Library OPAC, not in NUC Pre-1956, not in
OCLC, not in COPAC. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spines with printed
paper labels. Each title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin as above. Some
pages with offsetting; spots of light to moderate staining; one page with pencilled annotation.
(25339)
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Love & Honor in the REVOLUTION
Roe, Edward Payson. Near to nature's heart. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., © 1876. 12mo. [4], [7]–556, [4 (adv.)] pp.
$75.00
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First edition. Presbyterian minister and popular novelist Edward Payson Roe wrote this romance with strong Christian themes, set in New York state during the Revolutionary War — mixing in real people such as “Captain Molly” Corbin and George Washington.
Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover and spine with flowering branches stamped in black, spine with gilt-stamped title.
BAL 16902 (not matching either described binding); Wright, III, 4619. Bound as above, extremities rubbed not too roughly; front cover with small areas of faint discoloration. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription (S.M. Woodburn) dated [18]81 and tear with a bit of loss from upper margin. Generally clean and nice with occasional light spots; ads at the back giving extra pleasure and interest. (28406)
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A Happy Ending for Two Starving Wanderers
(AND for the People Who Help Them)
Roe, Nora A.M.; Davidson, Bertha G., illus. Two little street singers. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1900. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.44"). v, [1], 182 pp.; 8 plts.
$100.00
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Uncommon first edition: Set in and around Boston, this is an edifyingly heartwarming tale of two lost children — having been taken and trained as performers by a pair of Italian tramps — found, with the action opening just before Thanksgiving and the planned holiday meal providing a minor plot point. Among their saviors, most of whom receive various blessings in return, are a generous doctor, a protective Newfoundland dog (depicted in one of the plates), and most importantly an impoverished but kindly woman and her elderly mother suffering from dementia.
This appears to be not only the first but the only 20th-century edition of the only work published by Roe, whose name is also given as Mrs. Alfred S. Roe on the title-page; the eight plates were done by
popular children's illustrator Bertha G. Davidson.
A search of WorldCat finds this two-woman collaboration physically in only two U.S. institutions (Harvard and the University of Chicago).
Binding: Publisher's sage green cloth (unsigned) stamped in black, white, and gilt, with the two children dancing and playing their tambourines on the front cover, and good dog Napoleon on the spine.
Not in Wright. Publisher's cloth as above, spine very slightly darkened, minimal wear to extremities. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled ownership inscription. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A solid, pleasing copy of this scarce New Englandflavored item; a tale offering much sentimentality, but also plenty of realism. (41370)
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Poems for a “Much Loved Daughter” — Ticketed Binding
Rogers, Samuel. Poems. London: Edward Moxon [colophon: Chiswick Press: Pr. by C. Whittingham], 1839. 16mo (16.7 cm, 6.625"). viii, 311, [1] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Nicely bound selection of poems from the celebrated Romantic-era English poet and member of the Dickens circle, with many charming vignettes (head- and tailpieces), mostly of women, scattered throughout the work. The vignettes were done by Thomas Stothard, with some bearing his logo.Binding: 19th-century black pebbled calf, spine with gilt title surrounded by various double gilt rules and arabesque stamps, covers framed with double fillets in blind around two drawer pulls connected by a rule of dots surrounding a mostly oval gilt foliate design. All edges gilt; original brown silk ribbon placeholder present. Front pastedown with binder's ticket of T. Edmondson, 38 Marketplace, Lancaster.
Provenance: With gift inscription “Elisabeth Sophia Jameson to her much Loved Daughter Maryanne Jameson Lancaster July the 7 1848" on front fly-leaf in ink and a pencilled note “C.S.F. July 10 1915" immediately below. A small rubber-stamp green monogram, possibly C.S.F.'s, appears at the bottom of the title-page. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding as above, very gently rubbed at corners and joints, top back joint (outside) just starting, front cover very slightly splayed. Light age-toning throughout, a handful of specks, one small marginal spot. Provenance markings as above, binder's ticket offsetting to front endpaper. Despite the sound of the necessarily recited faults, this is
a strong, lovely copy of this handsome production. (38254)
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“True Poetry Forever Lasts”
Ronsard, Pierre de. Songs & sonnets ... Selected & translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, [May] 1903. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.6"). xxxvi, 137, [2] pp.
$125.00
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This collection of poems on love, nature, and poetry itself begins with biographical notes. The Renaissance “Prince of Poets,” Ronsard (1524–85) was the “favorite and friend of six successive [French] kings,” with patronage from queens and princesses to match. Many editions of his works appeared before 1623, and one in 1629, however none came forth again until 200 years later, when interest in 16th-century poetry was revived by Sainte-Beuve, Blanchemain, et al.
This edition was designed by the great American typographer (or “typster,” as he labeled himself) Bruce Rogers, and he left his mark on its final page; it was limited to 425 copies printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, MA. Bound in maroon paper–covered boards with a white paper spine label printed in black, this is copy 405 and is in its original dust wrapper and with its box, being
rare thus. The spare label is tipped in at the back.
Work of Bruce Rogers, 101. Bound and in its box as above; dust jacket and box label sunned, box edges rubbed. The pristine text is, which can be read with enjoyment by peeping, is
unopened and uncut. (30539)
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Perishable Press: Marking the Occasion
Rothenberg, Jerome. B • R • M • TZ • V • H. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1979. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [8] pp.
$75.00
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First edition of this poem in honor of Matthew Rothenberg's bar mitzvah,
signed by the author. This is one of 225 copies printed in black and gray on Umbria paper and pamphlet-sewn in a single, four-folded sheet of Raffaello Roma. Walter Hamady's usual colophonic flair is showcased here: the edition statement is composed
acrostically.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 90. Publisher's paper wrappers, front wrapper with title printed in off-white. Crisp and clean. (30903)
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With One Large “JOLLY” Cut
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch. To which is added, the Highland plaid, Neil Gow's fareweel, John Anderson, my Jo, Maria. Glasgow: R. Hutchison, 1823. 12mo (15.4 cm, 6"). 8 pp.
$95.00
The woodcut title-page vignette shows three men sitting around a table, smoking pipes and partaking of a punchbowl.
This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, else clean. (38501)
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Three Plates with Cottage Designs
(Rural
Housing Issues). Third annual report of the directors
of the Association for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Domestic Condition
of Agricultural Labourers in Scotland. Edinburgh: Pr. for the Association by
William Blackwood & Sons, 1857.
$139.50
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Uncommon pamphlet, detail-packed as to both present housing realities and desirable changes, illustrated with three plates containing plans and elevations for cottage designs
by architect William Fowler.
NSTC 2A17980 (for all years 1855–61). Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner, otherwise clean. (17033)
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EXHUMATION!
Rush, Benjamin. William B. Reed, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Expert in the art of exhumation of the dead. [London]: 1867. 8vo. 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
$47.50
Re-printed from the London edition.” Reed attempted to resurrect an old unpleasantness and is rebuffed.
Sewn; wrappers chipped, front separating near spine; author's name pencilled on front. Ex-historical society copy with stamp on title-page. Some page edges irregular and with short tears. (650)
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“My dearest John,” “My dear Girl,” “My dearest Boy,” “My dear Father” . . .
Ruskin, John James; Van Akin Burd, ed. The Ruskin family letters. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, © 1973. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., lviii, 417, [1] pp. II: Frontis., [418]–792, [2] pp.
$45.00
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First edition: the correspondence of John James Ruskin, his wife, and their son John, from 1801 through 1843 — an important body of material for scholars of the great art critic.
Publisher's red cloth, spines gilt-stamped, in matching slipcase; volume spines sunned, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear. Overall very clean and crisp. (33160)
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