THE ENGRAVER AND PRINTER
Boston: The Engraver and Printer Co., (August 1895). First Edition. Softcover. Library blindstamp on the corners of some pages; rear cover detached. Very Good. Decorated wraps; 116 pages plus ads. Includes articles on lettering and job estimates as well as an illustrated section on the origin and growth of the Roman letter.
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF PAUL BUNYAN
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Very Good chemise and slipcase. Uncommon in this condition. Everett Gee Jackson. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with a foreword by him. Copy #1420... Read More
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BEOWULF
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs drawn on... Read More
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GILGAMESH
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white... Read More
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THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF PAUL BUNYAN
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Some rubbing to the spine head. About Fine in glassine, chemise, and a Near Fine slipcase. Uncommon in this condition. Everett Gee Jackson. Octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in half brown morocco and gold-stamped, wood-grain paper sides. Illustrated with color plates by Everett Gee Jackson. Retold by Louis Untermeyer and with... Read More
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PHOTO ALBUM OF AN AUTOMOBILE TOUR OF THE WEST IN 1927 BY A GROUP OF WOMEN
1927. Softcover. Fading to some of the photographs but most are not too bad. Very Good. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing ninety-four 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and six 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip... Read More
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FAVORITE MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., (1937). First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Eulalie. Illustrated covers, printed on linen; 12 pages all in color illustrated by Eulalie. The hardcover edition seems to be much more common.
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THEODORE LOW DE VINNE. PRINTER
New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. One page, mostly blank, with a long horizontal tear. Very Good. Cloth-backed boards; [vi] 111 pages. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of De Vinne with his signature below, possibly printed, and a gravure... Read More
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REPORT OF THE FISH COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF PENNYSLVANIA FOR THE YEAR 1903
[Harrisburg, PA]: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents quite clean with some smudges here and there; covers rubbed with wear and tear to the spine. Very Good. Publisher's red cloth (6" x 9-1/4"); 124 pages. Illustrated with 18 color plates and numerous B&W plates. Sticker of an assemblyman of the PA House of Representatives on the... Read More
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MAGIC QUIZ BOOK
(New York): (Playmore), (1942). First Edition. Pict. boards, spiral bound. Light wear to corners & spine. Very Good. Folio, [16] pages. Unusual book with 9 quizzes & answers on opposing pages, each page with the center cut out to reveal a pictorial pastedown. While the front cover makes a promise with its crystal ball & turban-wearing magician, the... Read More
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TOYLAND ABC (Linen No. 866)
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Early owner inscription on front cover; both covers soiled. About Very Good. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts a rooster, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color. A few images are negative stereotyped depictions of African-Americans including a Golliwog and a... Read More
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![CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, ETC](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/388/972/1689972388.0.m.jpg)
CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, ETC
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co., [@1880]. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates clean with a few small closed tears; hinges reinforced with binder's tape. Small losses along spine edges. Very Good. Black pebbled cloth (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") with "No. 3" stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated with a color title page and 55 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only,... Read More
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good, white slipcase with minor wear and light soiling . Quarto (8-3/4" x 12") bound in quarter black cowhide and boards covered with Cockerel handmade marbled paper; 98 pages folded double in the Japanese style. Printed on Abbey Mills paper made by Grosvenor Chater at their mill in... Read More
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THE HARMONY OF BIRDS. A Poem Printed By John Wight In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century And Now Reprinted By James E.Masters
Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; soiling and small stains to cover. Very Good. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cloth-backed blue boards with paper labels on the spine and front cover, extra labels tipped in at rear. One of 1000 copies printed on pure rag paper. Volume IV translated... Read More
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A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN OF THE LORD AMBASSADOR HOWARD'S RETINUE, TO HIS FRIEND IN LONDON: DATED AT FEZ, NOV. 1. 1669 Wherein He Gives a Full Relation of the Most Remarkable passages in Their Voyage Thither, and of the Present State of the Countries Under the power of Taffaletta, Emperour Of Morocco; with a Brief Account f the Merchandizing Commodities of Africa; as also the Manners and Customs of the People There
London: Moses Pitt, 1670. First Edition. Hardcover. Small stains to title page; spine lightly chipped at tips, front joint partly split but covers tight. Very Good. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7") bound in 19th Century 3/4 calf leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spine, housed in a modern cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered spine label; 36 pages. WING... Read More
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![[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK FOR NORTH JERSEY NURSERIES. Millburn, NJ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/386/430/1324430386.0.m.jpg)
[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK FOR NORTH JERSEY NURSERIES. Millburn, NJ]
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates bright and clean. Slight looseness of covers. A Near Fine example of an attractive nursery specimen book. Oblong octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4") in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit.... Read More
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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Spine sunned, as often the case with this title, and a little rubbed; a few nicks to the veneer. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Everett Gee Jackson. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and... Read More
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PICTURE ABC BOOK (Linen No. 865)
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Early owner inscription on front cover; both covers soiled. About Very Good. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts cats and kittens, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color.
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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Spine sunned and rubbed. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Everett Gee Jackson. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them... Read More
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THE EDINBURGH SYREN; OR, MUSICAL BOUQUET; Being a New Selection of Modern Songs, Sung at the Various Places of Amusement in Great Britain and Ireland
Edinburgh: Thomas Brown, 1792. New Edition. Hardcover. Front cover with some splitting at joint; covers tight and contents clean. Very Good. Nineteenth Century 3/4 black morocco and cloth (3-1/2" x 5-3/8"); 216 pages with an engraved title page and frontispiece.
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ORIGINAL ART BY JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDREN
Tokyo, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Front cover and first page detached. Still Near Fine and quite charming. Oblong (9" x 6-1/2") green floral silk cloth over boards with matching box containing handwritten explanations of the contents in English and Japanese as well as a typed statement in English, along with 101 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, most in watercolor, by Japanese... Read More
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THE KORAN: SELECTED SURAS
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Very short split to seam of box. Fine in a Near Fine publisher's clamshell box. Valenti Angelo. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the title... Read More
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GABERBOCCHUS BLACK SERIES 1 - 7
(London): Gaberbocchus, (1954-55). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Franciszka Themerson. The first seven titles of the short-lived Gaberbocchus Black Series in publisher's wraps (4-1/2" x 6-1/2") with printed tape spines and a window opening on the front covers. Housed in likely publisher's multi-colored paper slipcase. Several titles illustrated. Includes 1. ABANDON SPA HOT... Read More
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THE DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER 1827
Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name in ink of the Commercial Insurance Company on the front page of each issue. A large, heavy volume in Near Fine condition in a sturdy binding. Scarce. Large folio (19" x 23") bound in modern buckram containing a complete year of this important publication. THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER... Read More
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THE KORAN: SELECTED SURAS
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a close to Fine publisher's clamshell box. Valenti Angelo. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the... Read More
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