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[LITERATURE]
1. Ainsworth, W. Harrison.
Guy Fawkes An Historical Romance.
London: Bentley's Miscellany, 1840 [January-June]. 540 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Full page illustrations printed recto only by George Cruikshank. Illustrated book plate of George Cukar, who was an American film director and producer (My Fair Lady). Elegantly bound by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Interior contents clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt, triple gilt cover border panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. OCLC: 1015375537. Full brown morocco. Teg. Near fine. $300.00
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[LITERATURE/POETRY]
2. Andreiyeff, Leonidas.
Silence Translated from the Russian by John Cournos.
Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1908. First edition. 32 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Andreyev, a depressive who attempted suicide more than once, led a tortured yet prolific life. He came into his own around the turn of the century after Gorki gave him some encouragement. Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun was a writer and translator of Russian-Jewish background. Cournos in his Foreword called this work a melancholy poem. This publication from the "Modern Author's Series." Some toning to covers, head corners bumped, interior contents clean. Orig. pale gray boards, front cover paper label printed in red and black. Very good. $150.00
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[CHURCH OF ENGLAND]
2A. Ashbee, Charles Robert.
The Book Of Common Prayer, And Administration Of The Sacraments & Other Rites & Ceremonies Of The Church, According To The Use Of The Church Of England; Together With The Psalter of Psalms Of David, Pointed As They Are To Be Sung or Said In Churches; & The Form And Manner Of Making, Ordaining, And Consecrating Of Bishops, Priests, And Deacons.
Chipping Camden, London & New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. First American edition. 387 pages. Folio, 36 x 28.5 cm. One of a small number of copies printed on vellum for the American market, The Trinity Edition with a hand illuminated presentation leaf to Anna L. Wilson tipped-in. With an eight page Supplement to the American Edition laid-in: "Showing Variants From The Prayer Book Of The American Church," which includes an image of Teddy Roosevelt and a prayer for him. Deluxe binding by the M. Walter Dunne bindery, gilt lettered spine, gilt bordered covers with center Royal crest surrounded by four crown and fleur-de-lis emblems decorated in pink, white and blue with suede doublers, silk moire endpapers, and silk marker ribbon. Proofs were corrected by Dunne and printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. Crushed purple morocco rebacked with most of original spine laid-down. Fine in fine blue cloth clamshell box. $1,950.00
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[ARISTOCRACY]
3. Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates.
Glimpses of Italian Court Life Happy Days in Italia Adorata.
New York: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. Full vellum with gilt lettering and decorations. Teg. Very good.) $150.00
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[POETRY]
4. Baudelaire, Charles .
Les Fleurs Du Mal.
Paris: Editions De La Maison Française, 1947. 225 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 500. Color illustrations by Andre Dignimont and engraved on wood in colors by Gerard Angiolini. Text in French. Andre Dignimont, in a career spanning over four decades, primarily worked in illustrating books and theatre decoration. He formed a distinct personal style using washes of watercolor incorporated into pen and ink. This style perfectly evokes the emotions of this collection of Baudelaire's poetry which expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century and coined the term modernité (modernity) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis. Bookplate. Loose as issued in orig. stiff wrappers front cover lettered in red, housed in fine board chemise in fine matching slipcase. $400.00
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[GIFT BOOK]
5. Beattie, James.
The Minstrel With Thirty-three Designs By Birket Foster, Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel.
London: George Routledge & Co , 1858. First edition. 91 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Lovely gift book with contents clean and very fresh. Small book label of Bone & Son, 76 Fleet St. London. James Beattie was a Scottish philosopher and poet who spent his entire academic career as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College in Aberdeen. Rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Navy decorated blue cloth with elaborate gilt gilt cover border panels and center gilt lettered title with beveled edges. Aeg. Near fine. $120.00
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[LITERARY CRITICISM]
6. Beerbohm, Max.
Rossetti And His Circle.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. VII pages in text. 26 x 19.5 cm. Twenty three tipped-in color plates on card stock with printed tissue guards, including the frontispiece. Beerbohm notes, "Byron, Disraeli, and Rossetti -- these seem to me the three most interesting men that England had in the nineteenth century, England had plenty of greater men." Orig. Navy cloth. Fine in nicked dust wrapper. $115.00
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[NATURAL HISTORY]
7. Bewick, Thomas.
A General History Of Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved On Wood by Thomas Bewick.
Newcastle Upon Tyne: S. Hodgson et al, 1792. Third edition. 483 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. First published 1790, GORDON RAY 49 notes, "Bewick faithfully depicted each quadruped in proper sequence. Exotic animals like the lion and the hippopotamus, which he drew from books, may be unconvincing, but he never fails with dogs, sheep, and cats, which he drew from life." Original price six shillings in boards. Index. Mild scattered toning, generally clean, corners rubbed. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. $850.00
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[PORTRATURE]
8. Bitterlin, A.
L'Art du Maquillage Avec 80 figures dans la texte dont 16 colories.
Paris: Editions Ulusse Boucoiran, 1925. First edition. 123 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. 16 hand-colored mounted lithograph plates with 80 text figures. The art of make-up with numerous examples, an historic overview of techniques and uses -- last chapter on cinema cosmetics. 10 pages of adverts at rear unopened -- purveyors of beauty products. Text in French. Nicks to backstrip extremities. Orig. striated buff wrappers. Very good in worn original glassine overwrapper. $220.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
9. Blake, William.
Auguries Of Innocence Wood Engravings By Leonard Baskin.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First edition. Unpaginated [five leaves]. 24 x 16 cm. Limited editio 87 of 100 on Rives French mold-made paper with a wood engraving printed from the block, signed and numbered Leonard Baskin, also signed on the colophon by Baskin. As new copy. Quarter brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt and brown boards. Fine in fine matching brown board slipcase. $520.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
10. _____.
Songs of Experience.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. Unpaginated. 25 x 18 cm. Reproduced in color from a copy in the British Museum. There are twenty seven pastel colored illustrations printed recto only. Bright, very fresh copy. Orig. black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Fine. $150.00
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[MILITARY]
11. Bristol & London. W.D. & H.O. Wills. British Tobacco Cards: Complete Set of 50 Cards Depicting Allied Army Leaders WWI.
London: W.D. & H.O. Wills, ca 1919. 50 color lithograph portraits, each 7 x 3.5 cm presenting a variety of Allied military personnel of the Allied side during World War I: Russian, French, English, Romanian, Belgian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Etc. Reverse of card provides biographical details. All cards bright, clean and fresh housed in clear plastic compartments and housed in loose leaf black folder. Loose leaf binder and cards. Fine. $250.00
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[MORE ALICE]
12. Carroll, Lewis.
Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Illustrations By Franklin Hughes.
New York: Cheshire House, 1931. 129 pages. 28.5 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 324 of 1200 printed for Richard Ellis. Seven full page color lithographs by Hughes. Bright, very fresh copy, owner signature free front endpaper. Backstrip darkened. White silked boards with silver decoration front and back cover and silked top edge. Near fine. $150.00
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[BRUCE ROGERS]
13. Cavendish, George.
The Life And Death Of Cardinal Wolsey Illustrated With Portraits By Holbein.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. 182 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1030 copies printed at the Riverside Press, designed by Bruce Rogers. Title page printed in red and black, ten photogravure full page plates with tissue guards. Orig. brown cloth spine, decorated boards, front cover with gilt design, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. $120.00
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[CIVIL WAR REUNION]
14. Cincinnati. Society of the Army of Tennessee.
Report Of The Proceedings Of The 42nd And 43rd Reunions Of The Society Of The Army Of The Tennessee Meetings Held At Peoria, Illinois October 3-3, 1912 * Chicago, Illinois September 30 and October 1, 1914.
Cincinnati: The Bachrach Press, 1915. First edition. 240 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Frontispiece, a color lithograph of the Badge of the Army of Tennessee. Laid-in a one page announcement to the Members, and a one page announcement of the death of General John C. Black. The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River. Portrait of Major General James P. McPherson. Text very bright and clean. Orig. dark gray cloth, front cover decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. $150.00
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[AMERICANA]
15. Crayon, Porte.
Virginia Illustrated Containing A Visit To The Virginian Canaan. And The Adventures Of Porte Crayon And His Cousins.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First edition. 300 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. 188 black and white illustrations. Four pages of adverts at rear. David Hunter Strother, an American journalist, artist, brevet Brigadier General, innkeeper, politician and diplomat from West Virginia during before and after the American Civil War. He was a successful 19th-century American magazine illustrator and writer, popularly known by his pseudonym, "Porte Crayon." Interior contents exceptionally clean, Unsigned brilliant binding, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, backstrip lettered in gilt. Three quarter light brown calf and marbled boards with matching endpapers. All edges marbled. Fine. $295.00
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[LITERARY LADY]
16. Dane, Clemence.
Will Shakespeare An Invention The Play was first Acted by the Reandean Company at the Shaftesbury Theater London, November 1921.
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. 131 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 101 of 250 signed by Dane. Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and artist Clemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton. Between the First and Second World Wars, she was Britains most influential, versatile and successful female writer and arguably the most complete and versatile female creative force. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities. Quarter black cloth, spine paper label and decorated boards. Very good. $125.00
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17. Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.
A Biographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour In France And Germany.
London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two double-page, engraved vignettes (many on India paper), woodcuts within text. Index bound in Vol. I with printed ticket, and Supplement at end of Vol. III. Dibdin's most extravagant work which went a long way toward ruining him, plates alone purported to cost 5000 pounds. This copy with the rare "Diane of Poictiers" plate inserted, which was supposedly destroyed after only 50 copies were printed (LOWNDES II, p. 641). With manuscript letter in ink, signed by Bernard Quaritch, June 17, 1890 attesting to the genuineness of the Poicters engraving, with another Quaritch letter dated Jan. 28, 1881 letter attesting to the collation, noting where three plates were misplaced by the binder. Text very clean, plate offsetting to text with marginal toning to some plates, bookplates of Charles Williston McAlpin, joints repaired, lacks black leather spine label Vol. II. DIBDIN Vol. II, p. 682. "De toutes les productions de Dibdin, celle-ci nous parait etre le plus origninale...." (calling it his most original work). Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, raised bands, black leather backstrip title and volume labels lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down. Aeg gilt. 3 Vols. Very good. $3,200.00
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[LOVE & FAMILY]
18. Dubos, Andre.
Blessings.
Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1987. First edition. 32 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 60 hand bound, signed by Dubos in black ink. Edition designed and printed letterpress at Warwick Press by Carol J. Blum who also made the decorated paste paper. The latter and leather bindings by Sarah Creighton. Laid-in the original publisher prospectus. This previously uncollected story speaks to love and family. As new copy. Orig. green striated boards with white spine lettered title. Fine. $195.00
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[TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC]
19. Duncan, Isadora.
The Art Of The Dance Edited With An Introduction By Sheldon Cheney.
New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1928. First edition. 147 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Forwards by a host of contributors including Eva LaGallienne. Numerous full page reproductions (black and white photographs) on glossy stock by Edward Steichen, Arnold Genthe, Leon Bakst, Antoine Bournelle, Maurice Denis, Auguste Rodin, Abraham Walkowitz an others. Owner inscriptions of front and back cover pastedowns. Orig. gray boards, beige basket weave spine, front cover and spine paper labels. Fine. $170.00
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AMERICANA/THEATER HISTORY]
20. Dunlap, William.
History Of The American Theatre.
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1932. First edition. 420 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Eva La Gallienne's copy with her bookplate front paste-down. Inscribed presentation copy from Harold Moulton, a member of the Civic Repertory Company, dated Oct. 6, 1930. Eva La Gallienne founded the Civic Repertory Theatre in the former Fourteenth Street Theatre in Manhattan, being disillusioned by the commercial theatre in the 1920's. One of her lovers, Alice DeLamar, a gold mine heiress not only backed this project, but was instrumental in the advent of the repertory movement in the US. La Galleinne's successful performance in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" in 1928 won great acclaim. The Civic Repertory Company disbanded at the height of the the Depression in 1934. BAL 5025. Scattered, intermittent toning. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Modern three quarter dark brown morocco and green cloth. Teg. Near fine. $250.00
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[LITERATURE]
21. Fielding, Henry.
Amelia.
London: A. Millar, 1751. First edition. xii, 285; viii, 262, ad leaf; ix, 323; vii, 296 pages.16.5 x 9.5 cm. His last novel. Fielding began writing the novel soon after he began his magistracy, and it took a markedly different approach to his comic works Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. He declared in the dedication that this work was “sincerely designed to promote the Cause of Virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring Evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the Country.” It may be seen as the first novel of social protest and reform in English, though it is also the sentimental story of its long-suffering heroine’s marriage. Although there were two impressions of the edition a month apart, there are no recorded distinguishing characteristics between them. ESTC T89846. ROTHSCHILD 853. With final blank in vol.1 and with the 'Universal-Register Office' leaf at end of vol. 2 (often lacking). Bookplates of John Nolty, elaborately decorated, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt arabesques, front and back covers with gilt decorated corners and center motifs. Minor toning and text spotting. Later full brown morocco. Teg. Near fine. 4 Vols. $1,595.00
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[NAVAL SAFETY & PRESERVATION]
22. Finlayson, Robert, M.D.
An Essay Addressed To Captains Of The Royal Navy, And Those Of The Merchant Service; On The Means Of Preserving The Health Of Their Crews: With Directions For The Prevention Of Dry Rot In Ships.
London: Printed For Thomas and George Underwood, 1824. First edition. ii,ii, 85 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Two page dedication to Lord Viscount Melville (First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty). Frontispiece diagram, and last page advert for the author's, "Treatise On The Gulf Stream," etc. Finlayson outlines the importance of maintaining a safe and healthy ship environment, discussing, cleaning, bilge water, wet hempen cables, drunkenness, humidity, sick-lists. The dry rot section details methods of preserving ship-timbers, moisture, seeds and distribution of fungi, dry and wet-rot, ship ventilation, topical applications for preserving timber, including the use of moss and smoking. Book owned by George R. Brush, M.D., US Navy who served as a surgeon and medical inspector from 1861-1894, with his small margin pencil "x" noting commentary he deemed relevant. Slight text toning, raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt. Dr. Brush's stamp half title and title page. Tight and firm binding, half centimeter loss at lower spine. Three quarter black morocco, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers and edges. Near fine. $625.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
23. Flaubert, Gustave.
A Letter From Gustave Flaubert.
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1960. First edition. 5 leaves. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300, a keepsake printed by Esther & Leonard Baskin & Richard Warren. The translation is by Francis Steegmuller. A letter from Gustave Flaubert to Maxime du Camp dated June 19, 1852. The wood engraving by Baskin printed from the block. OCLC does not list this English edition, only the French edition dated 1987. Orig. gray stiff wrappers with front cover paper label. Fine. $195.00
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[MODERN ART]
24. Forge, Andrew.
Rauschenberg.
New York: Abrams, 1969. First edition. 231 pages. 27 x 29 cm. With 153 illustrations, the 47 in color are printed on glossy stock, some are foldouts. For reasons unknown, perhaps the attribution of being a pop art movement presentation, the text of the work printed on many of the interior photographs are mostly illegible. Interior contents clean. Book printed with no dust wrapper. Front top corner cover lacks three centimeters, rubbing to extremities, binding is solid. List of Plates. FREITAG 7928, KARPEL. J794 "the most comprehensive chronicle of his life." Orig. illustrated and printed boards. Very good. $150.00
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[COLOR BY EDMUND EVANS]
25. Foster, Birket (Illustrator).
Sabbath Bells Chimed By The Poets.
London: Bell And Daldy, 1856. First edition. 112 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Revised by Joseph Cundall with his monogram. Text by Charles Willingham at the Chiswick Press with Birket's illustrations (engravings) printed in colors by Edmund Evans. Initial letters also colored by hand. Binding designed by H. Rogers with his initials noted at front cover at bottom of gilt design. Interior contents clean and bright. Backstrip nicked head and foot. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. $120.00
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[VICTORIAN PRUDERY]
26. Frith, William Powell.
John Leech His Life and Work.
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1891. First edition. 268, 306 pages. 22 x 24 cm. Illustrated with portraits, black and white full page and numerous hors texte illustrations. Frith was a traditional painter and raconteur who had 12 children with his wife and seven more with his mistress. He eclipsed George Cruikshank, who always had his pencil at the ready. So much for Victorian prudery. Text and plates fresh and clean. Raised bands, gilt spine panels in arabesque motifs. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Near fine. 2 Vols. $250.00
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[LONG OUT OF FAVOR?]
27. Galsworthy, John.
The Forsyte Saga.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922. First edition. 1104 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, 120 of 275 copies signed by Galsworthy. Galsworthy's most well-known work consisting of three novels and two interludes that trace three generations of the Forsyte family. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Galsworthy and fold-out Forsyte family tree. Front cover gilt stamped, Backstrip extremities worn, front free endpaper dated 14.8.22, Orig. dark green limp calf. Teg. Very good. $190.00
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[MODERN ART]
28. Guberman, Sidney.
Frank Stella An Illustrated Biography Foreword by William Rubin & Afterword by Richard Meier.
New York: Rizzoli, 1995. First edition. 247 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. The author investigates the technical complexity of his work. There are nearly 100 of Stella's paintings and prints illustrated, most are colored. Notes. Bibliography and Index, orig. black cloth lettered in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. $100.00
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[BRITISH ROYALTY & COSTUME]
29. Hall, Mrs. S.C. [Anna Maria].
The Book Of Royalty. Characteristics Of British Palaces The Drawings By W. Perring And J. Brown.
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate 4 (The Summons) lacks one meter at lower corner, affecting neither text or image. ABBEY LIFE 297. TOOLEY 242. Orig. publisher's crimson russia, sides elaborately gilt with armorial and floral ornaments, front cover center piece inlaid with blue morocco. Aeg. Near fine. $425.00
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[GAMBLING HISTORY]
30. Hargrave, Catherine Perry.
A History of Playing Cards And A Bibliography Of Cards and Gaming.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First edition. 468 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Thirty-one color plates with lettered tissue guards and approximately 500 black and white illustrations. Extensive Bibliography. Index. Compiled and Illustrated from the old cards and books in the collection of the United States Playing Card Co. in Cincinnati. An authoritative and detailed history elegantly presented, visually attractive. Bright, clean copy. Minor rubbing to corners and backstrip extremities. Orig. red cloth. Very good/Near fine. $170.00
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[MARY & PERCY BYSSHE]
31. Harper, Henry H.
Letters Of Mary W. Shelley (Mostly Unpublished) With Introduction And Notes.
Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1918. First edition. 191 pages. Limited edition, one of 150 copies. Mostly unopened. "Printed by the Bibliophile Society for the owner of the originial manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members." The first few letters in this collection were written after after Mary's marriage to Shelley. The first one to Mrs. Hunt dated Mar. 2, 1817. Spine darkened. Orig. tan boards rubbed at extremities. Very good. $110.00
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[LITERATURE]
32. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance Of Monte Beni.
Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1860. First American edition. 283, 284. 18 x 12. First issue with 16 pps. of adverts dated March 1860. An unsigned elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, cover border panels in interlocking floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The London and Boston editions were supposed to be issued simultaneously. "Contemporary notices indicate that the London edition was issued prior to the Boston edition, but simultaneous publication may have occurred." [see:BLANCK 7621] Full crimson calf. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. $290.00
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[HELP!]
33. Hubbard, Elbert.
A Message To Garcia And Thirteen Other Things.
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1901. First edition. (8), iv, (9)-166, (3) pages. 22x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 50 on Japan vellum signed by Hubbard and the illuminator, Lily Ess. Portrait frontispiece of Elbert Hubbard. Raised bands, spine with gilt arabesques in floral motifs lettered in gilt. Small paper title label at bottom of clamshell box. Initial letters and upper page designs in myriad colors by Lilly Ess. MCKENNA 70. Bright, very fresh copy. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine in near fine publisher original fleece-lined clamshell box. $1,595.00
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[COLONIAL AMERICA]
34. Irving, Washington.
Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
London: John Murray, 1822. First English Edition. 393, 404 pages. 22 x 23.5 cm. Second printing Vol. II ending on p.404. A series of character sketches by Irving related to members of the Bracebridge family whom Washington once visited -- basically, character sketches of family members. Bound by Carss of Glasgow with bookplates of Robert Day, Myrtle House Cork. Text fresh, clean and bright. Raised bands, spine labels in red and black printed in gilt, and all the edges have been glazed. Contemporary polished brown calf. Near fine. 2 Vols. $495.00
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[ESSAYS]
35 _____.
Wolfert's Roost And Other Papers, Now First Collected
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. First American edition. 383 pages. 19x 13 cm. Twelve pages of Publisher ads at rear dated February 1855. Essays include The Birds of Spring, The Creole Village, The Bermudas, Sketches in Paris, The Seminoles, Don Juan et al. Engraved frontispiece and additional title page. With U.S. one cent postage stamp of Washington Irving pasted at front free endpaper. First printing with correct pagination and the frontispiece and title page pasted to the stub of excised leaf. Spine foot nicked, interior contents clean. BAL 10108. Orig. green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine in maroon cloth chemise, housed in fine three quarter brown morocco slipcase. $150.00
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][LITERATURE]
36. Lane, William Edward (Translator & Editor).
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation From The Arabic, With Copious Notes.
London: Charles Knight, 1839-1841. First edition thus. (XXXII) 618, 643, 763 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Hundreds of engravings on wood by William Harvey. Index. Lane, a noted Oriental scholar resided many years in Egypt in the early 19th century also authored a valuable Arabic lexicon. "William Harvey (1796-1866) was Bewick's favorite pupil, and by all accounts, a most amiable man, one who reached the top of the tree as both engraver and artist." Lane added abundant and scholarly notes, elucidating terms, explaining customs and illustrating points of Islamic faith, which were later assembled to form a book entitled Arabian Society in the Middle Ages. The translation was almost entirely from the Arabic edition of the text published at Bulaq in Cairo in 1835. He was unquestionably the most eminent English Arabist of his time. Raised bands, panels elaborately decorated in gold motifs with a center oval in brown, matching the spine labels also in brown and gilt lettered. Triple gilt border panels, inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. First few leaves of Vol.1 very lightly toned. Black polished calf. Teg. Fine. 3 Vols. $2,450.00aradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books & Paradise
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[ROYAL ROMANCE]
37. Langdale, Charles.
Memoirs Of Mrs. Fitzherbert With An Account Of Her Marriage With H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales Afterwards King George The Fourth.
London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition. 202 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic widow secretly married the Prince of Wales in 1785. George later denied it and married Princess Christina prompting something of a scandal and a good deal of "blimey". Mrs. Fitzpatrick buried two husbands who succumbed to illness before she reached the age of twenty five. Interior contents pristine. Bound by Zaensdorf, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt floral motifs. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Fine. $225.00
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[LITERATURE]
38. Le Sage (Alain Rene).
The Adventures Of Gil Blas De Santillane Translated by Tobias Smollett.
London: Thomas M'Lean, John Bumpas et al, 1819. 384, 378, 392 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. With half titles and 15 hand-colored engravings. Though not signed the plates are by J. Clarke and all bear imprint. TOOLEY 139. Bound for William Brown, Edinburgh, small bookplates, offsetting of plates to text, but plates are clean as is the text. Raised bands, spine panels lettered in gilt, light rubbing to joints. Bookplates pastedown front endpapers. Three quarter red morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. $350.00
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[TRADE CARDS/AMERICANA]
39. Lindauer, Bella C.
Early American Trade Cards From The Collection of Bella C. Landauer.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. 25 pages in text. 28.5 x 22 cm. Critical Notes by Adele Jenny. Forty-four plates. Double-page fold-out frontispiece in color, a lithograph of a sperm whale. Descriptive Catalogue of the Plates. The earliest trade cards here date from 1730, or thereabouts, as six decades earlier the Crown forbade printing presses in New York. Limited edition, one of 500 copies on rag paper. Orig. tan cloth basket weave cloth. Fine in nicked plain dust wrapper. $150.00
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[VICTORIAN TOPICS OF THE DAY]
40. London. Punch Office.
Punch's Pocket-Book For 1876, Containing A Calendar, Cash Account, Diary And Memoranda For Every Day In The Year, And A Variety Of Useful Business Information Illustrated By John Tenniel, Charles Keene, and Linley Sambourne.
London: Punch Office, 1876. First edition. 192 pages. 12 x 9 cm. Frontispiece, a large, color lithograph fold-out entitled "The Modern Babylonian Marriage Mart, plus full color title. Profusely illustrated with wood-cuts in the text. Note(s): Single issue of an annual which was published 1844-1881 (NUC pre-56 NP0646834) -- Added illus. t.p. and frontis., hand colored. Part I (p. [1-122] includes lists of headed State (e.g. Royal family, ministers, ambassadors), Legislature (Peers, Commons), Commerce (Corp. of London, bankers, army agents), Law (English, Scottish, Irish courts), Public Offices, Theaters, Exhibitions, Calendar, Cash account, Diary and memoranda; pt. II (p. [123]-192) is 30 humorous anecdotes and poems. Wallet binding in navy leather with pocket. Orig. navy morocco covers with tab insertion flap at rear cover. Aeg. Very good. $200.00
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41. London. Ward, Lock & Tyler.
A Book Of Favourite Modern Ballads: The Illustrated Poetical Gift Book Illustrated with Engravings From Drawings by J.C. Horsley, Edward Duncan, G.H. Thomas, Edwin H. Corbould, Birket Foster, C.W. Cope & Harrison Weir.
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, (1860). First edition. 84 pages. 22.5 x 17 cm. Twenty seven numbered leaves of plates, engravings in color by Edmund Evans, plus uncolored designs in the text within a bordered page. Interior clean and fresh. Nicks to backstrip extremities. Orig. brown decorated cloth, front cover in gilt and blind design, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. $150.00
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42. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
The Courtship of Miles Standish And with pictures by N.C. Wyeth.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. 148 pages. 24 x 17.5 cm. With an Introduction by Ernest W. Longfellow. Full page illustrations titled and printed recto only. Wide text margins, an almost as new copy with pictorial inset front cover, title printed in a gilt frame. Decorated endpapers, book label of Chas. E. Lauriat Co. Boston. Orig. olive illustrated cloth. Fine. $125.00
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