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HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE]
by Juliet [Bromer] | Anne and David Bromer
The Rara Avis Press, 1980. Fine binding. To welcome the new decade this edition of 150 was designed and printed for Anne and David Bromer at The Rara Avis Press in Madison, Wisconsin. This is copy 75. The symbols by Marta Anderson and Palatino and ornaments from the Pickering Press are printed on leaves of Roma, bound... Read More
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[EDUCATION] UNION PRIMER
by Joseph H. Dulles et al. | [Philip H. Brooke]
Philadelphia, PA, 1875. 6 ½” x 4 ½” pale blue wrappers, “Union Primer” for the American Sunday School Union in Philadelphia, PA. The cover is worn, with loss on the reverse at the bottom of the spine; With a foreward to the Sunday School teachers by Joseph H. Dulles. and numerous short stories with illustrations to aid in literacy... Read More
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![[ENGLAND] THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS [5 VOLUMES]. 1715-1754 [2 VOLUMES]: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, APPENDICES, CONTITUENCIES, MEMBER A-D, MEMBERS E-Y; 1754-1790 [3 VOLUMES] : INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, CONSTITUENCIES, APPENDICES; MEMBERS A-J; MEMBERS K-Y. COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/654/926/1574926654.0.m.jpg)
[ENGLAND] THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS [5 VOLUMES]. 1715-1754 [2 VOLUMES]: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, APPENDICES, CONTITUENCIES, MEMBER A-D, MEMBERS E-Y; 1754-1790 [3 VOLUMES] : INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, CONSTITUENCIES, APPENDICES; MEMBERS A-J; MEMBERS K-Y. COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES
by Romney Sedgwick | Sir Lewis Namier & John Brooke
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Five quarto volumes in The History of Parliament series; there is a previous owner name either stamped or penned in each volume; otherwise a clean set.~~Uncommon to have all 5 volumes of The History of the House of Commons together. Near Fine binding /... Read More
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THE COLLECTED POEMS. WITH A MEMOIR
by Rupert Brooke
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. Second Edition, Revised and Reset. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The first printing of the Revised Second Edition of Brooke's Poems, finely bound in a handsome but unsigned binding of full crimson calf. With twin rules to the perimeters of the boards, raised bands with decorations in gold, morocco label, dentelles at... Read More
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MANUAL OF DEVOTION, OR RELIGIOUS EXERCISES FOR THE MORNING AND EVENING OF EACH DAY IN THE MONTH FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE FAMILIES
by N[athan] C[ovington] Brooks
New York | Baltimore: A. S. Barnes | J. W. Bond & co, 1859. Early Printing. Embossed Cloth. Very Good binding. An early printing of this daily devotional manual, compiled by Nathan Brooks, who as not only a clergyman and education but also the founder, with J. E. Snograss, of the American Museum, which evolved from The... Read More
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THE LITERARY AMARANTH. OR, PROSE AND POETRY
by Nathan C. Brooks
Philadelphia: Kay and Brother, 1840. Half Leather. Very Good binding. An attractive copy in black straight-grained morocco over glazed emborssed cloth boards. The spine with gilt titling and decorations. A rather charming prize "To Shubael Bartlett for scholarship from his teacher L. M. Smith". Also the name Harry Bartlett, Petersburg. Toning and foxing throughout. Very... Read More
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LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA
by Lady Barker [Mary Anne Broome; Lady Broome]
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1877. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Novelist and journalist Mary Anne Barker and her second husband Frederick Napier Broome traveled extensively, and both became journalists, Lady Barker becoming a correspondent for The Times. Life in South Africa consists of her chatty, anecdotal and illuminating letters. This the... Read More
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WEHMAN BROS.' IRISH JOKES No. 1
by Wehman Bros
New York: Weyman Bros, 1906. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Containing a collection of new and original Irish jokes, stories, and rare gems of wit and humor. Pulp joke book from the early years of the last century, with a quite remarkable caricature of a pair of Irishm3n on the front colored wrapper. 64 pp. with... Read More
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HINDI GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION for Anglo-Indian Schools
by The Christian Brothers
India: Allied Publishers Private Limited, 1972. Reprinted. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name written at top of ffep. Scant underlining in text. Red library cloth spine and stiff paper boards. Very Good binding.
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[CHILDREN] [EDUCATION] LITTLE ABC BOOK
by McLoughlin Brothers
New York, 1884. McLoughlin Brothers, New York, 1884. 5 ¾” x 4” full color primer printed on linen. 1”x1/2” patch to front cover; fraying around edges esp. at top right. Slight fading to covers and some foxing to inside pages. Overall good.~~Pages contain the letters of the alphabet in capital and lower-case, pictorial examples for each letter, and the... Read More
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LOTOS LEAVES: ORIGINAL STORIES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS
by John Brougham
Boston: William F. Gill and Company, 1875. First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. The leatherbound edition, containing the first appearance of Mark Twain’s story “An Encounter with the Interviewer” [BAL 3363]. This printing is the Welch, Bigelow with the printer’s device on the copyright page; it is the first of two printings noted in the BAL. A... Read More
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THE DANISH ANCESTORS AND AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF ANTHON PETER MIKKELSON & GITHE JENSEN
by R. Clayton Brough; Ethel Mickelson Brough
Grace, Idaho: The Mickelson & Mickelson Genealogical Organization, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A substantial family genealogical work, at 253 pages. With a number of black and white photographs reproduced. In a faux leather binding with titling in gold. There is a previous owner gift inscription on the front endpaper. Very Good binding. ... Read More
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![[SALESMANSHIP] THE "MORNIN'S MORNIN'" A SHOT IN THE ARM FOR MEN WHO KNOW THE RULES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/000/607/1588607000.0.m.jpg)
[SALESMANSHIP] THE "MORNIN'S MORNIN'" A SHOT IN THE ARM FOR MEN WHO KNOW THE RULES
by Ray U. Brouillet
San Francisco: Ray U. Brouillet, 1925. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. 16mo [6 5/8" x 5"]; stapled pamphlet in printed cardstock wrappers; 24 pages with a couple of line drawings; there are a few marks in the book, both in pen and pencil.~~This is a true period piece on salesmanship.~~Here is a sample: "Your business is like your... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] [NATIVE AMERICANS] CAPTIVES OF ABB’S VALLEY, A LEGEND OF FRONTIER LIFE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/875/962/1639962875.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [NATIVE AMERICANS] CAPTIVES OF ABB’S VALLEY, A LEGEND OF FRONTIER LIFE
by “A Son of Mary Moore” [James Moore Brown]
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1854. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 24mo., in the publisher’s blue cloth binding with titling in gilt at the spine; [vii], [8] 9-168 pages; frontispiece and a couple of additional plates; there is a previous owner presentation: “Presented to Miss Annie E. Scogin by a Grandson of “Mary Moore” Marlin Texas, Nov.... Read More
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GRIERSON'S RAID. A CAVALRY ADVENTURE OF THE CIVIL WAR
by D. Alexander Brown
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. A thorough and interestingly written study of the 1863 raid through Mississippi to Baton Rouge; well illustrated, though needing more maps." (Nevins I, 24). Text illustrations. A few scotch tape repairs to the verso of the dustjacket, and a few spots of loss... Read More
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[PORTFOLIO] THE OCTAGON: DR. WILLIAM THORNTON, ARCHITECTURE
by Glenn Brown
[Washington, D. C.]: [Not indicated], 1917. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Elephant folio; green paper-covered portfolio, backed in buckarm; 25, [1] pages; xxx leaves of plates, with illustrations -- some in color -- plates and portraits.~~Contains 1 the Octagon -- an historical sketch -- 2. Dr. William Thornton -- a biographical sketch; Plate I with two... Read More
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LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING TO MISS ISA BLAGDEN
by A. Joseph Armstrong | [Robert Browning]
Waco: Baylor University Press, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Browning's letters to Miss Blagden , expatriate novelist living in Florence. Printed in a limited edition for private circulation, at the Baylor University Press. A clean and fresh copy, with the publisher maroon cloth boards showing a little spotting. There is a previous... Read More
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![[AFRICAN AMERICAN] [RICHMOND] TWO BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROSA BOWSER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/661/776/1684776661.0.m.jpg)
[AFRICAN AMERICAN] [RICHMOND] TWO BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROSA BOWSER
by {Rosa D. Bowser] Longfellow; Robert Browning
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1895. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two copies of the Cambridge Editions by Houghton Mifflin, one being The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, each with an engraved vigrnette on the title page.~~The two volumes are from the personal library of Rose... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE AND OTHER POEMS | ONE WORD MORE AND OTHER POEMS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/368/783/1685783368.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE AND OTHER POEMS | ONE WORD MORE AND OTHER POEMS
by Elizabeth Barret Browning | Robert Browning
New York: Century Company, 1907. Good+ binding. 24mo; in elaborately decorated leather; edged in gilt; xlix, 136 pages; with marbled end papers; wear to the edges; small amount of loss to the bottom of the spine; the hinges are cracked but holding well.~~Signed on the front end paper by the previous owner Margaret Waller Freeman, wife of Author... Read More
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REPORTS OF CASES, Upon Appeals and Writs of Error, in the High Court of Parliament; From the Year 1701, to the Year 1779 with Tables, Notes, and References. (7 Volume Set); Vol I; Vol II; Vol III; Vol IV; Vol V; Vol VI; Vol VII
by Brown, Josiah, Esq. (Barrister At Law)
Dublin: E. Lynch, 1784. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Sold as a 7 volume set. No pencil or ink markings in text of the 7 volumes. All volumes full brown leather bindings with red and black spine labels present. NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding.
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THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' LIBRARY
by Mrs. [Pamela Chandler] Colman | [Jacob Abbot; T. S. Arthur; Mrs. F. S. Osgood; Mrs. L. H. Sigourney; Mrs. Caroline Gilman; O. G. Warren; Miss C. M. Sedgwick; Miss. A. A. Gray; Mrs. L. J. Hall; Mrs. A. J. Graves; C. D. Macleod; S. Brown]
Boston | Cincinnati: T. H. Carter | U. P. James, 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Collection of children's stories by noted authors of the genre. With hand-colored frontispiece of a flower, and five inserted plates. Numerous in-text wood engravings, and head- and tail-pieces. With initials surrounded by borders composed of printer's flowers.... Read More
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[CHILDREN] MERRYLEGS THE ROCKING PONY
by Paul Brown
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Small Octavo; in the publisher’s grey cloth binding; with illustrations and titling red; unpaginated; fully of colorful illustrations throughout; a bit of soiling and a culaccino (a circular water mark} to the boards; in a chipped and unclipped jacket with an internal tape... Read More
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EXTRACTS FROM PART ONE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR 1904. EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH OF CARLISLE. EARLY FOOTPRINTS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
by Theodore B. Klein; Isaac B. Brown
Pennsylvania: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition of Theodore Klein and Isaac Brown's EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH OF CARLISLE. and EARLY FOOTPRINTS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Signed by Klein on the front endpaper. With twenty eight maps and surveys, some colored or folding.... Read More
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EXTRACTS FROM PART ONE OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR 1904. | EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH OF CARLISLE. | EARLY FOOTPRINTS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
by Theodore B. Klein; Isaac B. Brown
Pennsylvania: Wm. Stanley Ray, 1905. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The Extracts from Part One of the Annual Report on the Department of Internal Affairs for 1904, Early History and Growth of Carlisle, [and] Early Footprints of Developments and Improvements in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Color cartographical frontispiece; nine folding maps; one additional color map; two plans; sixteen single page... Read More
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THIS WAS MY HOME..
by Tokaniya (Howard Clark Brown)
[Iowa?], 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Uncommon title by American naturalist, poet and Native American cultural enthusiast Tokaniya, or Howard Clark Brown. This is the hardcover edition of This was my Home... bound in green cloth with titling in gilt to the front board. There is a small stain on the board, and a previous... Read More
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