![[DANCE] SOL HUROK PRESENTS ORIGINAL BALLET RUSSE. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE SEASON AND COAST TO COAST TOUR 1946-1947](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/010/363/1668363010.0.m.jpg)
[DANCE] SOL HUROK PRESENTS ORIGINAL BALLET RUSSE. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE SEASON AND COAST TO COAST TOUR 1946-1947
by Col. W. de Basil
New York: Program Publications, Inc, 1947. This 12 ¼”x 9 ¼; the original wrappers are rebound in green hardcover binding with gilttitle “Original Ballet Russe”. 1946-1947 Metropolitan Opera House Season and Coast to Coast Tour, presented by S. Hurok, with Director Col. Wassily de Basil; with black and white photograph of the dancers, most of which are signed.~~Founded in... Read More
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TITI LUCRETII CARI | DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX
by Titus Lucretius Carus; John Baskerville
Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1773. Half Leather. Very Good binding. A later binding of the second Baskerville edition. Half bound in calf with a morocco label, over marbled paper covered boards. Marbled endpapers, with a small bibliographical cutout pasted on the front pastedown. Chipping to the morocco label, wear to the joints and extremities of the spine. Very... Read More
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ROMEYN DE HOOGHE TO THE BURGERMASTERS OF HAARLEM
by Romeyn de Hooghe | Leonard Baskin
Northampton, Mass: Gehenna Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. "One hundred copies printed at the Gehenna Press during the summer of 1971...The great R was made by John E. Benson of Newport. The portrait of Romeyn de Hooghe was engraved by Leonard Baskin & printed from the block. All copies carry a signed additional... Read More
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MARTIAL DEEDS OF PENNSYLVANIA
by Samuel P. Bates
Philadelphia: T. H. Davis & Co, 1876. Second Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. First published in 1875. "Divided into historical and biographical sections; thorough in its coverage but largely uncritical." (Nevins II, 142). Portrait plates throughout, with full page and folding maps. Scattered and minor foxing, mostly to the plates. Surface wear to the spine and corners... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] THE EARLY HISTORY OF RALEIGH, THE CAPITAL CITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. A CENTENNIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY INVITATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY, OCTOBER 18, 1892. AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, PREPARED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, AT THE REQUEST OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/418/973/1680973418.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] THE EARLY HISTORY OF RALEIGH, THE CAPITAL CITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. A CENTENNIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY INVITATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY, OCTOBER 18, 1892. AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, PREPARED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, AT THE REQUEST OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
by Kemp P. Battle
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, Printers and Binders, 1893. Soft Cover. Good binding. 8vo.; in flexible textured tan wrappers, lacking the original spine but reinforced with three homemade leather strips; [6], 7- 144 pages, including the Index.~~Kemp Battle was a sometime President of the University of North Carolina and was the author of a two volume history of that... Read More
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HOW THE ART OF PRINTING WAS INVENTED: A BIBLIOFANTASY
by Bauer, Herrmann
New Britain, Connecticut: Robert E. Massmann, 1964. Limited, numbered edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. 2-1/4" x 1-3/4" miniature in pictorial paper wrapper; hand-numbered 276/400; foreward and epilogue by Robert E. Massmann; very slight edgewear and rubbing to the wrapper;. Very Good+ binding.
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![[CHILDREN] THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE SCARECROW AND TIN WOODMAN AND ALSO THE STRANGE EXPERIENCES OF THE HIGHLY MAGNIFIED WOGGLE-BUG, JACK PUMPKINHEAD, THE SNIMATED SAW-HORSE AND THE GUMP; THE STORY BEING THE SEQUEL TO THE WIZARD OF OZ](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/207/689/1582689207.0.m.0.jpg)
[CHILDREN] THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE SCARECROW AND TIN WOODMAN AND ALSO THE STRANGE EXPERIENCES OF THE HIGHLY MAGNIFIED WOGGLE-BUG, JACK PUMPKINHEAD, THE SNIMATED SAW-HORSE AND THE GUMP; THE STORY BEING THE SEQUEL TO THE WIZARD OF OZ
by L. Frank Baum
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s red cloth, binding D, with the title shortened on the upper board and the spine to “The Land of Oz” printed in deep navy blue with metallic-silver outlining and with the author’s name moved to the lower right corner; the spine... Read More
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![[HISTORY] SAINTS, GODDESSES AND KINGS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH INDIAN SOCIETY, 1700-1900](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/906/1686906492.0.m.jpg)
[HISTORY] SAINTS, GODDESSES AND KINGS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH INDIAN SOCIETY, 1700-1900
by Bayly, Susan
West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1990. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; vii 504 pages including the Index; complete with maps and photographic plates; pencil notes in the margins otherwise a fine copy; dust jacket is protected with... Read More
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THE WOOD FAMILY OF FLUVANNA COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1795 - 1969
by Margaret Williams Bayne
Norfolk: Self Published, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Light blue cloth binding with gilt lettering; there are no ownership marks of any kind.. A fair amount on the Civil War. The dustjacket shows trivial wear and fading/toning and is now protected in a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Very Good... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] [SIGNED] THE WILDER SHORE
by David Rains Wallace; foreword by Wallace Stegner; Illustrated by Morley Bear
San Francisco: Sierra Club/The Yolla Bolly Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Morley Bear. Signed by David Wallace and Morley Baer. Folio; in the publisher’s gray cloth binding with photographic pastedown; xii, 162 including the Index; with 75 photographic plates; spine is very lightly sunned; housed in a paper covered slipcase.~~Signed original photograph, Ranchland, Big... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT: THE AMERICAN BOYS [BOY’S] HANDY BOOK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/445/1655445113.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT: THE AMERICAN BOYS [BOY’S] HANDY BOOK
by Daniel Carter Beard
NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. in tan pictorial boards with decorations in brown and titling in black; preliminary leaf, xiv, 441 pages including the Index; with many illustrations and some double page plates.~~With a charming pencilled boy’s name and address on the front endpaper.~~Early printings of this enduring classic title... Read More
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THE FABLES OF JOHN DRYDEN, ORNAMENTED WITH ENGRAVINGS FROM THE PENCIL OF THE RIGHT HON. LADY DIANA BEAUCLERC
by John Dryden | Lady Diana Beauclerc
London: T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. Harding, 1797. Full Leather. Very Good binding. (ESTC T128162). Very Good binding.
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[ARCHAEOLOGY THOMAS JEFFERSON AND AMERICAN VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. (VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 61)
by Silvio A. Bedini
Charlottesville, VA: Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources, 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Silvio A. Bedini's Thomas Jefferson and American Vertebrate Paleontology. Presented by the author as the keynote address for the Symposium on the Quaternary of Virginia held at Charlottesville in September 1984, with bibliographical references at the rear.... Read More
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CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL COMPANION TO INDEX ISLAMICUS: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT TO INDEX ISLAMICUS, 1665-1980 (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, VOLUME TWO H-M
by Wolfgang Behn
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The binding would be fine but there is a small amount of surface loss to the bottom of the pastedown and the front endpaper. There are no ownership or other marks in this copy of the Second Volume of the three volumes of the Concise Biographical Companion to... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] UEBER DAS ERHABENE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/741/1610741325.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] UEBER DAS ERHABENE
by Friedrich Schiller | Karl Klingspor | Peter Behrens
Offenbach am Main: Klingspor Press, 1918. Quarto; n black paper-covered boards with vellum spine and tips; titling in gilt on the upper board and the spine; 27 pages; there is a very faint stain to the upper board from a round sticker, now removed. ~~With the splendid type of Karl Klingspor, and two attractively subtle decorations in gilt; designed... Read More
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![[DUTCH] [FOOD] BOOKS AND PRINTS ON FOOD AND DRINK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/347/501/1699501347.0.m.jpg)
[DUTCH] [FOOD] BOOKS AND PRINTS ON FOOD AND DRINK
by J.L. Beijers
Utrecht: Drukkerij Vonk Zeist B.V., 1975. 9 1/4” 16pp circular softcover catalog booklet listing publications and prints on the subject of food and drink. The cover of “Catalogue 158” is shaped and decorated to mimic a ceramic dining plate. Contains an index and numerous illustrations. English title and instructions direct the reader to make orders from “The Culinary Bookcase”.... Read More
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CUMBERLAND PARISH. LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1746-1816. VESTRY BOOK 1746-1816
by Landon C. Bell
Richmond, Virginia: The William Byrd Press, 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Signed. Landon C. Bell's Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816. Signed by the author on the front endpaper, with a personal inscription to his nephew. Publisher's advertising and errata leaves laid in, leaving scotch tape stains to a few pages. Folding... Read More
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![[DENTISTRY] THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DISEASES OF THE TEETH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/399/1693399022.0.m.jpg)
[DENTISTRY] THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND DISEASES OF THE TEETH
by Thomas Bell
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. Third American Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in full contemporary calf, with morocco label; [v], vi-xiii; [2], 3-330; followed by 11 plates with descriptions; Garrison-Morton, regarding the 1829 English Edition, notes that “Bell distinguished himself in both zoology and dentistry” [Garrison-Morton 12864]; the boards are a bit bowed but overall... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] QUITO EXPRESS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/482/1639482397.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] QUITO EXPRESS
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto; in publisher’s pictorial boards; 47 pages with illustrations throughout.~~There is wear to the corner sand a light but unobtrusive stain to the upper board; the hinges have darkened from the binder’s glue and there is a “ghost” of an old pencilled price on... Read More
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MADELINE'S RETTUNG
by Ludwig Bemelmans
Stuttgart, Germany: Bluchert Verlag. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. 56pp. German text version of "Madeline's Rescue". Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Very Good+ binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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![[CUSTOMS] LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE AND DIRECTION OF THE SURVEYOR OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/501/524/1582524501.0.m.jpg)
[CUSTOMS] LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF OFFICERS OF CUSTOMS, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE AND DIRECTION OF THE SURVEYOR OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK
by James L. Benedict
Washington [D. C.]: Government Printing Office, 1875. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 24mo.; in brown morocco with boards triple ruled in gilt to the perimeters with raised band and titling lettered in gilt; dentelle turn-ins; all edges gilt; 218 pages which are interleaved with unnumbered ruled leaves (all of which are blank).~~The Collector in New York... Read More
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![[ARCHITECTURE] PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. CONTAINING THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE, AND AN ADDITIONAL COLUMN AND ENTABLATURE, WITH ALL THEIR ELEMENTS AND DETAILS EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED, FOR THE USE OF CARPENTERS AND PRACTICAL MEN. WITH SIXTY PLATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/757/719/1569719757.0.m.jpg)
[ARCHITECTURE] PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. CONTAINING THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE, AND AN ADDITIONAL COLUMN AND ENTABLATURE, WITH ALL THEIR ELEMENTS AND DETAILS EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED, FOR THE USE OF CARPENTERS AND PRACTICAL MEN. WITH SIXTY PLATES
by Asher Benjamin
Boston: Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co, 1833. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; nicely rebound in the period style in dark blue half-morocco over marbled boards with red morocco title label lettered in gilt and with new endsheets; vii, {1]. [9]-116 pages; with 60 plates, one of which (plate 55) is bound... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [LIMITED] THE UNCOMMON READER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/088/1611088415.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [LIMITED] THE UNCOMMON READER
by Alan Bennett
London: London Review Bookshop, 2007. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Large 8vo.; in quarter-bound blue morocco over tan paper-covered boards, housed in a slipcase; spine is titled in gilt; [8], 9-99 pages; this special edition is limited to 100 signed copies, of which this is number 77; it is signed by Mr. Bennett on the... Read More
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BLONDE PERIL
by Bennett, Hall
New York: Phoenix Press, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good+ dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Blue cloth binding. Shelf-wear to lower extremities. Light wear to top of spine. Chips at top and bottom of dj spine. Chips at top and bottom of front dj cover. Small closed tears at top and bottom... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] ELMER ADLER IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS (4 VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/082/076/1690076082.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] ELMER ADLER IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS (4 VOLUMES)
by Paul A. Bennet~
San Juan: The Typophiles, 1964. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 12mo; ix, 114 pages; in their original glassine wrappers; each with a different color cloth spine [burgundy, brown, white, grey]; a small one inch tear with loss to one of the glassine wrappers.~~A collection of one of each of 4 volumes designed by P. J. Conkwright, limited to... Read More
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