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PETERS, HARRY T. CURRIER AND IVES, PRINTMAKERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
New York Doubleday, Doran and Company 1942. Near fine in original pictorial cloth. Endpapers slightly faded at hinges. Dust jacket chipped, darkened at extremities, tape-repaired at spine ends. 41 pages of text followed by 192 plates, many in color. This special edition was set in 12 pt. Caslon monotype, hand-drawn decorative initials. Special edition.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000859   details     inquire
offered by: Glenn Books   (USA)
SKELTON, R.A. DECORATIVE PRINTED MAPS OF THE 15TH TO 18TH CENTURIES.
London Spring Books (1966). Near fine in original blue cloth. Dust jacket soiled, chipped. 80 pagesof text followed by 84 map reproductions, some in color. Reprint edition.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 000860   details     inquire
offered by: Glenn Books   (USA)
LIGER, L(OUIS). LE JARDINIER FLEURISTE, OU LA CULTURE UNIVERSELLE DES FLEURS, ARBRES, ARBUSTES...SERVANT A L'EMBELLISSEMENT DES JARDIN.
Paris Chez Savoye 1787. 1/4 brown cloth over floral paper-covered boards. Edges rubbed and worn. Spine crinkled. Spine label in gilt. Three books in one. With 13 of 14 fold-out plates. Missing Plate XII. Others are in very good condition. Plate VIII has been repaired on the back side. There are additionally several illustrations in the text. Top corner of pp.213-216 missing but without any loss ofletters. Occasional marginal notes in ink in a neat hand. Ink notations on front and back endpapers. Text is clean throughout. This popular gardening manual was first published in 1704, republished many times at a variety of French presses. Text is, of course, in French. Later edition.
Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 000861   details     inquire
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NORTON, CAROLINE E. BINGEN ON THE RHINE.
Philadelphia Porter and Coates (1884). Glazed paper-covered boards. White cloth spine. Boards are bevelled with gilt. All edges gilt. Cover vignette in gilt and silver. Lightly edgeworn and rubbed. 14 black and white illustrations, some full-page, others outlining the poetry text. War poetry regarding German members of the Foreign Legion in northern Africa.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 000862   details     inquire
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ABOUT, EDMOND. TOLLA.
Paris Paris Librairie Hachette et Cie 1889, Limited Edition Bound by Pagnant in 3/4 teal morocco over marbled boards. Limited to 900 copies, this is #675. Issued with a double suite of illustrations by Felicien de Myrbach. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine has five raised bands with elaborate gilt panels. Wide margined text in French. Light overall wear with an occasional nick, else a thoroughly handsome clean, tight volume. 224pp.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 000863   details     inquire
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RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS. MR. COHEN TAKES A WALK.
New York Farrar and Rinehart (1934). Cream cloth lettered in brown, edges lightly soiled. Pictorialdust jacket rubbed and soiled at edges, few chips and closed tears. Ink owner's name on front free endpaper, "Theo Landon", wife of Kansas Governor Alf Landon. First edition.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 000864   details     inquire
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(UNITED STATES SENATE). REPORT: THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.....
(Washington, D.C.) (Government Ptg Office) 1830. Disbound. Modest soiling only. Report from the 21st Congress, 1st Session, concerning the treaties with the Indians, dated February 28, 1830. This is a general report on the state of existing treaties, primarily with the Cherokee Nation. It also contains a proposed bill "to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the States or Territories, and for their removal West of the river Mississippi".
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 000865   details     inquire
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ERSKINE, DAVID, EDITOR. AUGUSTUS HERVEY'S JOURNAL, BEING THE INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY ASHORE AND AFLOAT, 1746-59.
London William Kimber (1953). Bound in 3/4 blue morocco, gilt rules, panelled spine. Marbled endpapers. SIGNED BINDING by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Spine lightly sunned, covers with minimal rubbing. Translated from the original manuscript by Ickworth. Frontispiece portrait, 9 additional full-page black and white illustrations. Six pages of maps and planas. A handsome binding. First edition.
Price: USD 135.00 other currencies   order no. 000866   details     inquire
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MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. TWO SLATTERNS AND A KING.
Cincinnati Stewart Kidd (9121). Buff card wrappers, front cover designed in green and black. Light soiling, lower 1" of spine slit. Evidenve of tape removal from top 1/4" of front cover. From the Stewart Kidd Modern Plays, editied by Frank Shay. Quite a nicely preserved copy of this fragile work. First edition.
Price: USD 90.00 other currencies   order no. 000867   details     inquire
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BATES, KATHERINE LEE. FROM GRETNA GREEN TO LAND'S END. A LITERARY JOURNEY IN ENGLAND.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell (1909). 1/2 blue morocco over floral pattern boards, matching endpapers.Gilt spine panels. TEG. Light to moderate edge wear. Illustrations from photographs by Katherine Coman. Fold-out map. Chapters on the Border, Lake Country, Cotswolds, Oxford, Severn Valley, Cornwall, Devonshire. The author relates various authors and pieces of English literature to the area in which she visits. Third edition.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 000868   details     inquire
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THE SEASONS OF THE YEAR.
London, Edinburgh, New York T. Nelson and Sons 1858. Purple cloth decorated in blind stamp and gilt. Edges a little worn, spine and front cover faded to brown. Gilt bright. Essays on each season of the year. Pages bordered in lines and gilt. Frontispiece and four full-page illustrations of the seasons in purple hue, bordered in gilt. Titlepage cameo illustration. Inscription in ink on front pastedown dated May 23, 1864. A nice example of Victorian gift book in original cloth.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 000869   details     inquire
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WARREN, RAYMOND. THE PRAIRIE PRESIDENT, LIVING THROUGH THE YEARS WITH LINCOLN, 1809-1861.
Chicago Reilly and Lee (1930). Cover shows moderate edge wear, gold relief bust on front cover. Evidence of book plate removal front free end paper. First edition.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 000870   details     inquire
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MCCLINTON, KATHARINE MORRISON. TH CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF LOUIS PRANG.
New York Clarkson N. Potter (1973). Cloth-backed boards, fine in moderately worn dust wrapper. Considered one of the best reference works on the American color printer. First edition.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000871   details     inquire
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WATSON, DON. CLIFF PALACE, THE STORY OF AN ANCIENT CITY.
(Ann Arbor, MI) (Edwards Brothers) (1948). Grat wrappers, slightly darkened at edges. Light edgewear. Photographic reproductions from the National Park Service. A thorough treatise on the Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. First edition.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 000872   details     inquire
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CLARK, ALLEN C. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Washington, D.C. W. F Roberts Co. 1925. A near fine copy in a soiled dust wrapper. Laid in is a copy of Lincoln's "Farewell to Springfield" speech. Profusely illustrated. First edition.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 000873   details     inquire
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AUDSLEY, A. AND G. HANDBOOK OF CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM.
London Day and Son, Ltd (1865). Green cloth, bevelled edges, all edges gilt. Ornate cover design with cross in red and gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Back cover blind-stamp of front cover design. Front cover rubbed and a bit stained affecting some of the gilt, corners and spine extremities just lightly worn. Seven chromolithographs and one black and white plate, as well as decorative head pieces and initial letters. Plates show modest foxing and remain quite vivid. There are also text wood-engravings throughout. Front hinge is starting to weaken. Free edge of title page has several small chips. Contents include symbols and emblems of God the Son, the Holy Trinity, varieties and symbolism of the Cross, emblems of the Resurrection, the Saints and Apostles. A scarce title by the Audsleys, architects from Liverpool. "A shot but valuable little book". (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.133). First edition.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 000874   details     inquire
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DAVIS, LLOYD AND IRWIN, ROBERT. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY: A CHECKLIST.
Metuchen, NJ The Scarecrow Press 1975. Near fine, original purple cloth. A rather comprehensive guide to American poetry of the 1950-60 era. First edition.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 000875   details     inquire
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LEIGHTON, CLARE. WOOD-ENGRAVING AND WOODCUTS.
London and New York The Studio 1932, First Edition Cloth-backed patterned paper over boards.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 000877   details     inquire
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PEACHAM, HENRY. COACH AND SEDAN, PLEASANTLY DISPUTING FOR PLACE AND PRECEDENCE; THE BREWERS-CART BEING THE MODERATOR.
London Etchells and Macdonald 1925. Tan linen spine over blue boards. Lightly worn at extremities. Reprint of the 1636 edition, this being #200/625. A nice copy of this rather scarce work. Reprint edition.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 000880   details     inquire
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THE HISTORY OF THE 375 FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION.
Stuttgart Stahle and Friedel (1945). Blue cloth with insignia on front cover, gilt spine letters. Corners lightly rubbed and soiled. Endpapers darkened. Inscribed to Governor Alf Landon by W.A. Burris, Maj. Gen. USA on front free endpaper. General Burress was commander of the 100th Infantry Division. Endpapers browned. Replete with photographic reproductions, maps, rosters.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 000882   details     inquire
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STEVENS, WALTER B. THE BROWN-REYNOLDS DUEL.
St. Louis The Franklin Club 1911. Original quarter vellum over boards, light soiling, staining. Oneof 150 copies, illustrated frontispiece and 2 other mezzotints by Dawson Watson, 7 text facsimiles of letters. A documentary chronicle of the last bloodshed under the code between St. Louisans, from the manuscript collection of William K. Bixby. Ink inscription to Paul J. Leidigh on front free endpaper dated Christmas 1911. Bookplate. A finely printed book by the book club of St. Louis that documents a unique event in local history. First edition.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 000884   details     inquire
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CHARTERIS, LESLIE. FEATURING THE SAINT.
(London) Hodder and Stoughton (1940's). Red cloth lightly faded at top of spine. One of the "YellowJacket" series. This is the 18th edition of the 4th book in the "Saint Saga", first published in 1931. Reprint edition.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 000885   details     inquire
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O'NEILL, EUGENE. DYNAMO.
New York Horace Liveright (1929). Nearly fine, bound in gray-green cloth. Light edge wear only. Pictorial endpapers. (See Atkinson A31, Sanborn and Chase 71.). First edition.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 000886   details     inquire
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O'NEILL, EUGENE. AH, WILDERNESS.
New York Random House (1933). Nearly fine, bound in blue cloth. Very light edge wear. The first issue, with top edge stained dark blue. Pictorial endpapers. First edition.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000887   details     inquire
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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE. TWO TALES BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE, "THE SECRET" AND "LILY HART".
Columbia, London University of Missouri Press 1978. Quarter fawn leather over blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Transcribed from the original manuscript and edited by William Holtz. #169/300 copies signed by the editor. Nearly fine in like slipcase. All edges stained blue. Contains facsimiles of the text material, two appendices. Quite a nice addition to a Bronte collection in a lovely binding. Limited.
Price: USD 95.00 other currencies   order no. 000888   details     inquire
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WAR DEPARTMENT. BASIC FIELD MANUAL, MOTOR TRANSPORT. FM 25-10.
Washington Government Ptg Office 1939. Tan wrappers. Minor soiling. Numerous diagrams, charts, and drawings.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 000889   details     inquire
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BELL, CATHERINE D. THE CHILDREN'S MIRROR; OR, WHICH IS MY LIKENESS?
London T. Nelson and Sons 1859. Burnt umber pebble-grained coth. Elaborately stamped in blind with gilt central panel on front and spine. Nine leaves feature poems by JANE TAYLOR on versoes and laid-on color illustrations on the rectoes, each bordered in gilt. Lacks front free endpaper and several pages heavily foxed. Still, a nice copy of a most unusual item.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 000890   details     inquire
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CUSHMAN, CHARLES ROWLEY. MEMORIAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LINCOLN, GARFIELD, MCKINLEY.
Washington Government Ptg Office 1903. Original pebbled cloth, worn at corners, rubbed. Gilt titles. Portrait frontispieces. Lincoln's memorial delivered by George Bancroft February 12, 1866. Garfield's memorial delivered by James G. Blaine on February 27, 1882. John Hay gave the McKinley memorial address on February 27, 1902. Owner's name in ink on the front fly leaf.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000891   details     inquire
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WILDER, THORNTON. THE WOMAN OF ANDROS.
New York Albert and Charles Boni 1930. Covers lightly soiled. Dust jacket chipped. 1/2" piece missing from bottom of dust jacket spine. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. First edition.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 000892   details     inquire
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HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER. UNCLE REMUS, OR MR. FOX, MR. RABBIT, AND MR. TERRAPIN.
London Chatto and Windus (1921). Lime green cloth. Lettered in black. Front cover color vignette. Minor soiling and edge wear. Cover illustration bright. Small neat ink name at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by J.A. Shepherd. A number of full-page color plates. Many other illustrations in black and white. Quite clean internally. Eighth edition.
Price: USD 90.00 other currencies   order no. 000894   details     inquire
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THE FOUR SEASONS.
(London) Soc.Christian Knowledge (1865). Light blue cloth decorated in red, black, and gilt. AEG. Corners rubbed. Front cover bright. Front hinge weakening. Frontispiece and its tissue guard loosened. A pretty border book with sections of poetry arranged into the four seasons. Many full-page plates illustrating the verse of English poets, each bordered with color floral designs.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000896   details     inquire
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KIPLING, RUDYARD. THE DAY'S WORK.
New York Doubleday & McClure Co. 1898. Original green pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. Endleaves brownd and hinges starting, OTHERWISE a very good copy. First American edition.
Price: USD 130.00 other currencies   order no. 000897   details     inquire
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MOORE, C.L. DOOMSDAY MORNING.
Garden City, NY Doubleday and Company 1957. Near fine in edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket design by Ruth Ray. This is the fifth novel to be published under Catherine Kuttner's C.L. Moore byline. A nice piece of science fiction about rebellion in California. First edition.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 000898   details     inquire
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THE SILHOUETTE TRANSFER BOOK. TO KEEP BUSY THE LITTLE HANDS AND LITTLE HEAD.
New York Samuel Gabriel Sons (circa 1920). Stiff pictorial wrappers, very lightly soiled. Cover in color shows 3 children busily amusing themselves cutting out silhouettes. Four full pages of transfers, with blank pages in various colors on which to place them. The book is ENTIRELY INTACT. Few pages chipped at bottom of free edge. Printed in Germany. A charming item seldom found in this condition.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 000900   details     inquire
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(UNITES STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES). SPEECH OF MR. EVANS, OF MAINE, IN RELATION TO THE FAILURE OF A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FORTIFICATIONS...
Washington Gales and Seaton 1836. Disbound, edges browned and worn, moderate foxing. Delivered January 28, 1836. A rather lengthy report on why a $3 million appropriations bill failed.
Price: USD 10.00 other currencies   order no. 000901   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. LEGENDS.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1921. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. Spine worn and hinges cracked, else a very good copy. First edition.
Price: USD 175.00 other currencies   order no. 000902   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. BALLADS FOR SALE.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1927. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. Spine label browned, else a fine copy. First edition.
Price: USD 80.00 other currencies   order no. 000903   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. CAN GRANDE'S CASTLE.
New York Macmillan Comapny 1919. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. A very good copy, signed and dated by Ada Dwyer Russell, comapanion and friend of Amy Lowell. Later edition.
Price: USD 80.00 other currencies   order no. 000904   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. POETRY AND POETS.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1930. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. A near fine copy. First edition.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 000905   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. BALLADS FOR SALE.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company (1927). Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. Wear to corners and lower edge. Later edition.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000906   details     inquire
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PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE.
London T. Cadell 1786. Full brown morocco, rebacked with black leather spine label. Corners worn. Occasional light staining and foxing, but, in general rather clean. Worm hole bottom of last two pages. Has half-title page and postscript page. Ink inscription on front pastedown. Fourth edition.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 000907   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. EAST WIND.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1926. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. Boards lightly soiled and spine label badly rubbed, esle very good. First edition.
Price: USD 80.00 other currencies   order no. 000908   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. WHAT'S O'CLOCK.
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1926. Original cloth-backed boards with paper cover and spine labels. Spine label browned and rubbed, else a fine copy of one of the poet's most widely known works. First edition.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 000909   details     inquire
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LOWELL, AMY. SIX FRENCH POETS.
New York Macmillan Company 1915. Bound in navy blue cloth with gilt titling. Light wear to binding,else a very good copy. Lorna Russell Amussen's copy, daughter of Amy Lowell's companion, Ada Russell. First edition.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 000910   details     inquire
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SOTHERAN, HENRY, LTD. PICCADILLY NOTES.
London Henry Sotheran, Ltd 1935. Green buckram, front cover water-stained extending to spine. Hinges weak. Individual catalogues for the year bound for A.O. Knoll, Bookseller, Chicago. Numbers 14-17.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 000911   details     inquire
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GRAHAME, KENNETH. THE GOLDEN AGE.
London, New York John Lane, The Bodley Head 1900. Deep red cloth, lettering and front cover designsin gilt. Top edge gilt. Cover extremities rubbed, top of spine frayed. Spine is sunned. Hinges are starting to weaken. This edition was illustrated by MAXFIELD PARRISH. Eighteen full-page plates in black and white.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 000913   details     inquire
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KOLB, E. L. THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO. With a foreword by Owen Wister.
New York Macmillan Co. 1938. A very good copy with a few speckles to spine. With a signed inscription from Ellsworth and Emery Kolb. Illustrated with 76 photographs. New edition.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 000914   details     inquire
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CHRISTIE, AGATHA. A POCKET FULL OF RYE.
London Collins, Crime Club (1953). Dust wrapper very lightly edge worn, price-clipped. Original redcloth in near fine condition. A Miss Marple mystery. First English edition.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 000916   details     inquire
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LEFEVRE, ANDRE. LES MERVEILLES DE L'ARCHITECTURE.
Paris Librairie Hachette Et 1874. Quarter calf over marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear. A brief survey of architecture from Ancient Greece to 19th century France. Line drawings. Text in French. Fourth edition.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 000917   details     inquire
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LE PILEUR, A. BIBLIOTHEQUE DES MERVEILLES LE CORPS HUMAIN.
Paris Librairie Hachette Et 1877. Quarter calf over marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear. Color frontispiece and line drawings. An introduction to human anatomy. Text in French. Fourth edition.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 000918   details     inquire
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BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. AURORA LEIGH, AND OTHER POEMS.
New York James Miller 1872. Purple cloth lettered and designed in gilt. Bevelled boards. Spine faded, top and bottom edges worn. Covers rubbed, rear hinge weak. Pencil and ink inscriptions on front prelims. All edges gilt. Text lined in red. Twelve full-page illustrations including frontispiece portrait of the author, most by C.G. Bush. In spite of the mentioned faults, as well as foxing of many pages, this is still a charming collection of Browning poetry. Later edition.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 000919   details     inquire
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NEIHARDT, JOHN G. THE STRANGER AT THE GATE.
New York Mitchell Kennerly 1912. Bound in sienna cloth. Trace of wear to corners, spine ends. A series of 21 lyric poems celebrating the impending miracle of birth. First edition.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 000921   details     inquire
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WARWICK, F.J. AND TUNSTALL, A.C. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED AND SICK; AN ADVANCED AMBULANCE HANDBOOK.
Bristol John Wright and Sons 1911. Purple smooth calf, spine lettered in gilt. Spine sunned to brown. Wrappers bound in. Illustrated throughout in black and white, some plates with red. Covers just a bit scuffed. Several pages of advertisements for medical products at the end. Large sections on bandaging, splints, and proper transport of the wounded or injured, some with military personnel. Several drawings of litters, carriers, and stretchers, one of a "motor ambulance". Seventh edition.
Price: USD 80.00 other currencies   order no. 000922   details     inquire
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. THE MAN WITH TWO LEFT FEET.
London Methuen and Company (1934). Blue cloth in soiled dust jacket with small burn hole at rear. First edition was published in 1917. A nice reprint in a well-preserved colorful dust jacket. Later edition.
Price: USD 70.00 other currencies   order no. 000923   details     inquire
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QUENEAU, RAYMOND. ZAZIE.
London The Bodley Head (1959). A nearly fine copy in a spine soiled dust wrapper. Previous owner's ink inscription on endpaper. Published in France under the title Zazie dans le Metro. First English edition. Binding is First.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 000924   details     inquire
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MAN, LOST AND SAVED.
Philadelphia American Sunday-School Union (1852). Quarter leather over marbled boards. Spine title in gilt. Covers rubbed, edgeworn. General foxing throughout, light-to-moderate. Twenty-four pages of scriptural passages, each page with a specific topical heading and a woodcut illustration.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 000925   details     inquire
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CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH. THE HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE PICTURE BOOK.
London and New York Frederick Warne & Co. nd (ca 1950). A fine copy bound in tan pictorial cloth. Contains "The Milkmaid", "Hey Diddle Diddle, And Baby Bunting", "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go", and "The Fox Jumps Over The Parson's Gate.".
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 000926   details     inquire
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VARDON, HARRY; DUNCAN, GEORGE; ET AL. SUCCESS AT GOLF, HINTS FOR THE PLAYER OF MODERATE ABILITY.
(London) Fry's Magazine, Ltd n.d.(c.1914). Green cloth with colorful paper onlays front and back covers. Covers rubbed, spine extremities frayed. Cover illustrations remain very bright. Illustrated in black and white photographic reproductions. Chapters on such topics as "the art of driving", "on spoon and iron shots", "the push shot", "use of the mashie", "short approaches", and "the art of putting". Advertisements for various golfing apparel and other needs are interspersed. Occasional pencil annotations in margins. Name in ink on title-page dated 1914. Quite a nice piece of golfing history, small enough to fit into any golfer's library. 143pp.
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(DEALER'S CATALOGUE). MAGGS BROTHERS. FOOD AND DRINK THROUGH THE AGES, 2500 B.C. TO 1937 A.D. A CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUITIES, MANUSCRIPTS, BOOKS ..OF COOKERY.
London Maggs Brothers 1937. Original wrappers, edges worn, spine ends chipped. Catalogue number 645. Covers stained. 767 entries followed by subject and author indices. Frontispiece and 60 illustrations. Including books from the library of Robert Viel, the famous Paris restaurateur.
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COMSTOCK, J.L., M.D. A SYSTEM OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: IN WHICH ARE EXPLAINED THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS.
New York Pratt, Woodford, and Company 1849. Full brown calf, worn. Leather spine label. Ink owner'sinscription with flourishes on front free endpaper, dated June 2, '53. Text illustrations throughout. Chapters on hydrostatics, hydraulics, acoustics, optics, astronomy, electricity, magnetism, steam-engines, photography and daguerrotype. Designed for use of schools and academies, with added questions for the examination of pupils. Mild foxing, but generally quite clean.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. STIFF UPPER LIP, JEEVES.
London Herbert Jenkins (1963). Lightly Rubbed, Minor Chipping Original red cloth. Nearly fine, verytop of spine lightened. Jeeves calms the tempest wrought by Bertie, a predatory female named Madeleine and her fiance, Gussie Fink-Nottle. See Jasen 85a. First British edition.
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GOLDING, WILLIAM. RITES OF PASSAGE.
New York Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1980. Fine in like dust jacket. A novel of a sea-crossing in Napoleonic times, involving the stratified society-in-miniature on board the ship. First American edition.
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CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH. THE PANJANDRUM PICTURE BOOK.
London and New York Frederick Warne & Co. nd (ca 1950). A fine copy bound in tan pictorial cloth. Contains "Come Lasses And Lads", "Ride A Cock-Horse To Banbury Cross", "A farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare", "Mrs. Mary Blaize", and "The Great Panjandrum Himself".
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PRENTIS, NOBLE. A KANSAN ABROAD.
Topeka, KS Geo. W. Martin 1878. Salmon cloth, lettered and blocked in black. Vignette of ship and train in gilt on front cover. Edges worn, spine rubbed and lightly faded. A series of three sketches, "A Kansan Abroad", "Pike of Pike's Peak", and "The World a School". Second edition.
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FULTON, JOHN F. THE GREAT MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHERS, A STUDY IN HUMANISM.
Philadelphia University of Penn Press 1951. Near fine in lightly chipped, rubbed dust jacket. Divided into three chapters; The Beginning, The 17-18th Centuries, and Medical Subject Indices. Appendices and index. Illustrated with 37 plates, frontispiece photographic reproduction of John Shaw Billings. First edition.
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(UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES). CHOCTAW RESERVATIONS. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...
(Washington) (Government Ptg Office) 1832. Disbound. Several closed tears left margin without loss of text. Document No.76 from the 22nd Congress, 1st Session. Dated January 24, 1832. Number in ink at top of title. A message from President Andrew Jackson, requested by the House, regarding the status of treaties with the Choctaw Indians. Contains transcripts from letters by the Department of War, tribal council of the Choctaws at Dancing Rabbit Creek. The document was referred to the Committee of the Public Lands.
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MACINNES, COLIN. ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS.
New York The Macmillan Company 1960. Near fine in lightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. A novel of London teenagers in the Fabulous Fifties. The language is a mix of jazz, beat, Yiddish, underworld jargon. The author received great critical acclaim for his "City of Spades" published in 1958. First American edition.
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BENTLEY, RENSSELAER. THE ENGLISH SPELLING BOOK; CONTAINING THE RUDIMENTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
New York William Wilson 1843. Recently and nicely rebound in half-calf over marbled boards. There is general overall soiling and wear, but it does not diminish the charm of this American grammar book. Sixth, revised.
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IBSEN, HENRIK. PEER GYNT.
Garden City, NY Doubleday, Doran and Company 1929. Cloth-backed green boards, paper labels on spine, front cover. Covers sunned, rubbed. Spine cloth a bit spotted. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in full-page color and black and white plates by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Head and tail pieces in black and white.
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DE MILLE, JAMES. THE DODGE CLUB; OR, ITALY IN MDCCCLIX.
New York Harper and Brothers (1869). Green cloth lettered in gilt. Edges worn. Front free endpaper loose and chipped at bottom edge. 100 illustrations in black and white. A novel by the 19th century Canadian writer who has been largely forgotten. First edition.
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LINCOLN, ALMIRA H. FAMILIAR LECTURES ON BOTANY...WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND EXOTICS.
New York Huntington and Savage 1844, Recently rebound in half-calf over marbled boards. Illustrated with engraved vignettes. Moderate foxing throughout, sometimes a bit heavy. Illustrated with plates and text drawings, some of which have been hand-colored by the book's former owner. Ink owner's inscription on front preliminary page, has bled through slightly onto title page. Twentieth edition. 246+186pp.
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PETERS, ELLIS. THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST.
(London) Headline (1987). Corners lightly bumped, else a very good copy. The 14th Brother Cadfael chronicle, pitting the monk's desire to spend time in his garden against his taste for solving crime. First edition.
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PETERS, ELLIS. AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY.
New York William Morrow and Company (1985). Front and back endpapers stained with glue residue. Thebook and dust jacket are otherwise in near fine condition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The eleventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael. First American edition.
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CHRISTMAS TIME IN ACTION.
1949 All Occasion Book Publications First Edition Original spiral-bound pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by William Kemp Tilley. Five multi-level pop-up illustrations in full color, each capturing one of the cozy delights of the holiday season. Santa, children, elves and reindeer prance over the pages of this yuletide delight. Moderate soiling and wear to wrappers.
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KROCH, ADOLPH. A GREAT BOOKSTORE IN ACTION.
(Chicago) University of Chicago Press 1940. Light tan buckram, paper spine and front cover labels. Covers darkened at the edges. A reprint, SIGNED by the author, of a paper presented a few months earlier to the Library Institute at the University of Chicago. Autographed.
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HORGAN, PAUL. THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR.
New York Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux (1977). Near fine in like dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORon front free endpaper. The third in his "Richard" novel series, set in the early 1920's. First edition.
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SHAPIRO, KARL. ESSAY ON RIME.
New York Reynal and Hitchcock (1945). Near fine in chipped dust jacket. Slight soiling foot of spine. The poet wrote the lines while on active duty in the Pacific during the Second World War. The is the second printing. First edition.
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AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. ILLUSTRATED PRIMER ON FRACTURES.
Chicago American Medical Association (1935). Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Light edge wear. Ex-libris copy. Several medical library stamps, ink call letters base of spine. Prepared by the Cooperative Committee on Fractures. Illustrated throughout on the recto of the page with area for notes on adjacent page, actual notes on only one page. An excellent look at Orthopaedic Surgery pre-World War Two. Many drawings of traction apparatus, methods of closed reduction of fractures and dislocations. Third edition.
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MARCOU, JULLES. AMERICAN GEOLOGY. LETTER ON SOME POINTS OF THE GEOLOGY OF TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, KANSAS AND NEBRASKA...
Zurich Zurcher and Furrer 1858. In wrappers. Edges worn. Light soil. Creased in middle. "Addressed to Messrs. F.B. Meek and F.V. Hayden." Paper a bit foxed. Pencil notation front cover,"Wagner 302 note". Marcou, a protege of Louiss Aggasiz, was one of a number of European scientists to be invited to assist in the Pacific Railroad Surveys. This letter is in response to letters from Meek and Hayden desputing some of his conclusions. He makes 10 points followed by a summary. Housed in a folding box and slipcase with leather spine label. With the bookplate of Alfred Mossman Landon, Governor of Kansas and the Republican nominee for President in 1934. Holliday Sale Item #747. (See Wagner-Camp 302 for note on the author).
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CATHER, WILLA. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK.
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1931. Near fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket. One closed tear, tape-repaired, no chipping. Spine only lightly sunned remaining green color, slightly faded. First edition.
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WHITE, E.E. EXPERIENCES OF A SPECIAL INDIAN AGENT.
Norman University of Oklahoma Press (1965). Fine in lightly worn dust jacket with closed tear frontcover. Part of the Western Frontier Library. First published in 1893. Introduction by Edward Everett Dale. The author served as special agent to reservations in the West and Southwest, whose tribes included the Utes, Osages, Kaws, Comanches, Kiowas, and others. Reprint edition.
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WOMEN, FIVE CENTURIES OF MASTER DRAWINGS.
New York Harper and Brothers (1951). Nearly fine in lightly worn dust jacket. Introduction and notes by Jacques Mathey. 57 illustrations with notes on each plate. Drawings by Durer, Holbein, Rubens, Titian, Bosch, Renoir and many others. First edition.
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BOHMER, HEINRICH. LUTHER IN LIGHT OF RECENT RESEARCH.
New York The Christian Herald 1916. Green cloth, lettered and designed in gilt and orange. Cloth rubbed, spotted. Front cover bright. Translated by Carl Huth, Jr. Following the text is "A Pictorial Life of Luther". The first publication of the collection of Rev. William Koepchen, 83 pages with black and white plates, indexed. First American edition.
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(JACOBS, JOSEPH). THE BOOK OF WONDER VOYAGES.
London David Nutt 1896. Illustrated by J. D. Batten. Hinges cracked and occasional foxing throughout, heaviest on endleaves. Joseph Jacobs based these stories upon tales of voyages in classic legend and mythology which he told his own children.one every Friday night. First edition.
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THOMAS, LEWIS. LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY.
New York The Viking Press (1983). Near fine in lightly-soiled dust jacket. Thomas' third set of essays on medicine and science. First edition.
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KELLY, ROBERT. FLESH DREAM BOOK.
Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press 1971. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies, this being #x. SIGNED by theauthor and handbound in boards by Earle Gray. INSCRIBED with a poem and drawing by the poet. Limited.
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