Derrydale Press Books, Catalogue K-4

Long Valley, NJ: Calderwoods Books, 1984. Soft cover. Fine -. B&w photographs. Laid in ALS by Don Frazier and Jo Koch, publishers.

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THE AMERICAN CHAUFFEUR: AN AUTOMBILE DIGEST (4 issues)

Cincinnati: American Chauffeur Publishing Co, 1915. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 4 copies of the magazine for automobile owners and chauffeurs. Each copy uniform in format and graphic design, each around 40 pages, with lots of technical information, articles and illustrations about specific models. mechanicals and motoring in general. The issues are: Feb 1915 (vol III no... Read More

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The benefits and privileges of cuckolds shewing the little disgrace there is in being one, and the obligations men sometimes have to their wives, for conferring that honour upon them, in what manner soever it is done, either as Prudes, Coquettes, Domines

1885. Reprint Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. An 1885 reprint of the 1728 curio printed by A. Moore of London. 12mo, brown cloth boards, leather label, vii + 38p. Some spotting, largely confned to blank prelims and rears.

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Officium B. M. Virginis: S. PII V. Pontificis Mas. Jussu Editum, et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate Recognitum. Con l'Uffizio de'Morti, Sette Salmi, Vesperi, e Compiete Per Tutto L'anno, Ed Altre Divote Orazioni

Patavii: Typis Seminarii, 1780. Leather. Very Good. Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Apud Joannem Manfrè. Printed in small format for private prayer. Text in Latin, with Italian section titles. Spine cracked at right edge, causing front cover to be loose but attached. Very small holes at spine. Gilt decorated double ruling and decorations at covers. Ffe loose,... Read More

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MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODIES

NY: James Miller, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. With a Christmas gift inscription in old-fashioned handscript:"Merrie Christmas from Santa Claus. New York 1863." Original patterned brown cloth stamped in gilt on front and blind on rear, rebacked with brown cloth. Some spotting to front cover, corners worn. 96 pages of beloved rhymes, loads of engravings that are hand colored.... Read More

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CATULI, TIBULI ET PROPERTII OPERA

Birmingham: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. Hardcover. Very Good. 1772 edition by famous printer Baskerville. 8vo, old (perhaps original) binding of mottled calf and delicately designed compartments in gilt to spine, marbleized endpapers. Front hinge revealed but holding. Numeral 6 indelicately written in purple marker on fly. Engraved frontispiece. (6) 276 (2).

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AFS LETTERS. AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE LETTERS (WWII) - lot of 11 newsletters

NY: American Field Service. Soft cover. Very Good. AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE LETTERS. Eleven copies of the AFS (news)letters variously dated between 1943-1945: Nov 1943 No. 19, Dec 1943 No. 20, Oct 1944 No 30, Dec 1944 No 32, Jan 1945 No 33, Feb 1945 No 34, Mar 1945 No 35, Apr 1945 No 36, May 1945 No 37,... Read More

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Memoires de Madame la Duchesse de Nemours: Contenant Ce Qui S'eft paffé de Plus Particulier en France Pendant la Guerre de Paris, jusqu'à la Prison du Cardinal de Retz en 1652. Avec les Differens Caracteres des Personnes de la Cour

Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1718. Green Calf. Good+. Gilt triple-ruling at front and rear covers. Cover and spine edges rubbed, mild chipping to top spine end. Spine darkened with faded gilt title and decorations. Minor foxing to free endpapers, title page slightly toned. Text clean, binding tight. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Text in French.

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THE PLANNING OF A NEW TOWN Data and Design Based on a Study for a New Town of 100,000 at Hook, Hampshire

London: London City Council, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon urban planning title, incorporating a "modernized" view of a the "garden city". Quartro format, 182 pages, amply illustrtaed. Covers a tad soiled, internals very nice. Architect owner name dated 1962 ffe.

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An Illustrated History of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (with a Directory of Members Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 [from] 1771 - 1935

Cambridge MA: The Hasty Pudding Club, 1932. First Edition. Black Cloth. Near Fine. Scarce history of the famous hasty Pudding Club. This edition incorporates material from the first edition of the clubs history published in 1897 and the second edition published in 1899. The entry for each year includes the poster for that year's production plus in facsimile... Read More

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S. Isidori Pelvsiotae epistolae Hactnsu Inedite. Notisque & Argumentis Illustrat a R. P. And. Schotto

Antwerp: Martini Nutii, 1623. Old Calf. Good -. Small 8vo, old calf, spine perished, boards holding loose, 332p + (8). Uniformly toned throughout.

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Colton's Township Map of Pennsylvania and the Southern Counties of New York

NY: G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Large fold-out map, printed in tissue-grade paper, and thus fragile, separating here and there along folds. Still pasted into cloth backed covers, brown cloth, gilt titles, where the cloth over spine has seen some loss but still holding. Sounds worse than it is. beaitifully... Read More

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Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage (3 issues)

NY: E A Buck, 1883. Soft cover. Very Good. Three discontiguous issues: Vol 105 No 12 (April 21, 1883), Vol 106 No 24 (Janueary 12, 1884), and the issue for December 26, 1885, which is lacking title page and the first page or 2.

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REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY to the Second Session of the Fiftieth Congress. Volume 1

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, half pebbled leather over marbelized boards, gilt titles spine, 338 9. Solid copy.

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Almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1921. Dédié aux vrais gourmands et aux Francs-Buveurs

Paris: Editions a la Sirène, 1921. Preinted. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed covers in original glassine. An apparently unused copy, 12mo, 232p with text contributions by Jean Cocteau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Max Jacob, Darius Milhaud, André Salmon, Erik Satie, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Fernand Fleuret, et al. With woodcut illustrations and text decorations by Raoul Dufy, Chas Laborde, Paul Signac,... Read More

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TIBETAN PRAYER BOOK

Tibet: handmade 0. No Binding. Very Good. Prayer book in Sanskrit acquired by an American traveler in Tibet late1960s/ early 1970s. Hand-carved, and hand-written but no illustrations. Perhaps a Buddhist sutra. Sold as is.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis et al.

by Form in Lawn Tennis" and "Tarpon Fishing in Florida" SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE August 1899

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Vol VI No 2. Two interesting articles on lawn tennis and fishing in Florida, plus an installment of Stevenson's "Master of Ballantrae" and other articles.

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1934 HARVARD CLASS ALBUM (VOLUME XLV)

by 1934 Senior Album Committee, David Weld,. Chairman et al (editors)

Cambridge MA: Harvard University (printed by The Andover Press), 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. All men, all white, to a person. As new copy still in a tattered brown paper dustwrapper issued by The Andover Press, the printer, with a statement about the yearbook's private nature, its limited printing and its proper care and use of. ... Read More

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Mitchell, Thomas

by A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture Being A History and Explanation of the Principal Styles of European Architecture Ancient, Mediaeval and Renaissance

London: Longmans, Green, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+`. 8vo, pub brown cloth, blind rules, gilt tites spine, coated endpapers, xiv + 304p, illustrated. Slightest wear to spine ends nd corners, some light fozxing largely confined to prelims and rears, solidly bound. uncommon Mitchell title.

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THE PAJAMA GAME

by Abbott, George and Richard Bissell

NY: Random House, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good +. Inscribed by legendary writer/director/ producer George Abbott to Jane and Bob Emerson who managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years on the ffe: "To Bob and Jane Regards George Abbott". Book's leaves are toned. Dustjacket is toned, more to rear panel, which is missing... Read More

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NEW GIRL IN TOWN

by Abbott, George (book by). Merrill, Bob ( music and lyrics)

NY: Random House, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Inscribed by legendary writer/director/ producer George Abbott to Jane and Bob Emerson who managed the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years on the ffe. Review slip laid-in. One of George Abbott's least successful musicals in a legendary career which included hits like "Damn Yankees" and... Read More

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FIRE-SIDE PIETY, or the Duties and Enjoyments of Family Religion: Containing Part I Come to Prayer, Part II Home Made Happy

by Abbott, JAck

NY: Leavitt, Lord & Co, 1834. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12 mo, blind-stamped salmon cloth with gilt to spine, 237p. The book is blind-stamped Abbott series front and back. Lacking ffe and rear free endpaper, too. Moderately foxed throughout. Cloth covers unevenly sunfaded. Reference copy.

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The Comic History of Rome

by a Beckett, Gilbert Alber

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated. 8vo, green pebbled-cloth, blind stamped with gilt-pressed vignette front cover and three figures and titles to spine, aeg, xii, 308, ten colored, full page steel engravings ( frontispiece and title page) plus numerous wood engravings throughout text. Bookplate front pastedown. An exemplar of mid-19thC publishers binding... Read More

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MY DOG TULIP

by Ackerley, J. R.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An apparently unread copy in price-clipped dustjacket very lightly soiled and a wee tanned to spine. Sharp copy.

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American Pictures by Richard B. Adam, with an introduction by Richard Braungart, translated by A.M. McCaig

by Adam, Richard Benno (art of)

Munich: F. Bruckmann AG, 1930. Soft cover. Good. Booklet, stiff brown printed covers, unpaginated, in two parts a collection of b&w reproductions of portraits of American bluebloods, mostly of the equestrian set, but also a portrait of Admiral Richard E. Byrd of polar expeditionary fame.  The second part is a gallery of American sportsmen, portraits that were originally... Read More

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