Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Illustrated in Colour and Line by Robert Anning Bell
by Francis Turner Palgrave [ed.]; Robert Anning Bell [illus.]; Sangorski & Sutcliffe [binding]
London: J.M. Dent, 1927. Very Good +. London: J.M. Dent, 1927. Reprint. Large octavo. 366 pp. Color plates including frontispiece with tissue guard; complete. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full blue calf; five raised bands, leather label, and gilt decoration to spine; all edges gilt; floral endpapers; gilt turn-ins; silk ribbon. Housed in custom made floral slipcase.... Read More
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Posson Jone" and Père Raphaël, With a New Word Setting Forth How and Why the Two Tales Are One [Autograph Note Signed by Cable tipped in]
by George W. Cable; Stanley M. Arthurs [illus.]; Margaret Armstrong [binding]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, green, and white and signed in image "MA" by the designer Margaret Armstrong, top edge gilt; [6],162pp.; eight leaves of color plates, color pictorial title page. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned and... Read More
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The Lady Of The Lake
by Sir Walter Scott; Howard Chandler Christy [illus.]; Bertha Stuart [binding]
[N.p.]: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1910. Very Good +/Very Good. [N.p.]: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1910. First Thus. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Christy throughout. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below). Green cloth stamped in light green, yellow, and gilt, designed by Bertha Stuart with her initials to bottom right. Dust jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up... Read More
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Oriental Tales: A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to the Arabian Nights, Painted by Albert Letchford
by [Bindings] [Sir Richard Francis Burton] Albert Letchford [illus.]
Boston: Printed for Francis A. Niccolls & Co, 1897. Very Good. Boston: Printed for Francis A. Niccolls & Co., [1897]. Edition de Luxe Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 376. Octavo; bound in blue cloth by Leighton Son and Hodge of London, elaborately decorated in gilt to front and rear boards and spine, gilt-lettered spine label, beveled edges, top edge gilt, pale yellow... Read More
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Auguries [Inscribed and Signed]
by Laurence Binyon
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Very Good. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; [8],97pp. Light rubbing to cloth margins, spine a bit sunned and cocked, small dampspot to top textblock edge not bleeding into text, else a Very Good, still quite brilliant copy. Inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication on... Read More
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A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
by Laurence Binyon
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. Good. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x5cm); lii, including intro., chronology, and bibliography + 605pp, including 10pp of artists' signature seals and index. Thirty-seven reproductions on 31 plates; three in color; all present. Plates are printed on solid tissue stock, itself tipped onto leaves of laid... Read More
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![Faces & Facts By and About 26 Contemporary Artists [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Birchman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/401/138/1699138401.0.m.jpg)
Faces & Facts By and About 26 Contemporary Artists [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Birchman]
by James Montgomery Flagg [intro.]; Willis Birchman [biographies]
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1937. Very Good +/Very Good. New Haven: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition, Limited to 526 copies of which this is no. 188. Small quarto (22cm); publisher's linen in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); [118]pp.; illus. throughout. Dust jacket rubbed and quite browned at margins and spine panel, else Very Good and... Read More
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Look Before You Leap Into Another Great Bore
by [Francis William Bird]
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. Very Good-. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to Very... Read More
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The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
by Isabella L. Bird
London: John Murray, 1881. Good. London: John Murray, 1881. Fourth Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, dark blue glazed endpapers; xv,[1],318,[2],32(ads)pp.; half-tone frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged. Cloth rather scuffed and worn at extremities with brief exposure at corners, splitting along both joints, front hinge cracked and textblock significantly shaken in binding; overall a... Read More
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A North Dakota Boy [Signed]
by George A. Birdsall
New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, 1965. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, [1965]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.95); [8],75pp.; illus. Jacket rather cockled and damp stained with a number of tiny closed tears to extremities, verso foxed, textblock only very slightly affected... Read More
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Letter on Colonization Addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, Corresponding Secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society
by [Abolition] James G. Birney
New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. Very Good. New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept... Read More
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Juke Joint: Photographs [Inscribed and Signed by Imes]
by Birney Imes; Richard Ford [intro.]
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 1990. Fine/Very Good. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, [1990]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (26x29cm); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 16pp. + 58 leaves of color photographs. Moderate wear and curling to dust jacket margins, else a Fine example in Very Good jacket. Promotional bookmark laid in. Warmly inscribed and... Read More
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Exercises at the Bi-Centennial Commemoration of the Burning of Medfield by Indians in King Philip's War, February 21, 1876
by [Robert R. Bishop]
Medfield, MA: George H. Ellis, 1876. Good. Medfield, MA: George H. Ellis, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 56pp. Textblock lightly toned, else Good and sound, though apparently lacking wrappers.
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From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
by Tom Bishop
New York: New York University Press, 1997. Very Good/Very Good. New York: New York University Press, 1997. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to writer and columnist William Safire and his wife with inscription "For Bill and Helene, these Paris pages in all friendship - Tom. NY 3/97." Octavo; 298pp.... Read More
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A Stretch of the River
by Richard Bissell
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); [6], 242pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.75). Boards full bound in peachy-beige cloth with maroon stamping on spine. Dust jacket lightly soiled and toned with minor scuffs, one minor tear to joint, and bumping to... Read More
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I Hate the Yankees [Signed]
by John R. Bizzelle
New York: Vantage Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Vantage Press, 1971. First Edition. Signed by John Bizzelle with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 230 pp. Frontis. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in silver; light green endpapers. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with some mild wrinkling. Boards with mild... Read More
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Day and Night Stories
by Algernon Blackwood
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1917. Very Good. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 332pp. Original blue cloth; front stamped in blind; spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light wear and bumping to edges; spine a touch faded; a couple minor stains. Binding sound. Armorial bookplate of Lily Antrobus to front pastedown; foxing to... Read More
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Nothing But the Night
by John Blackburn
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's boards, black topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket by Colin Andrews retaining original price (21s.); 191pp. Light wear to jacket and board margins with tiny piece of tape repair to jacket spine foot verso, spine a bit cocked and jacket panel toned,... Read More
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The Gaunt Woman
by John Blackburn
New York: M.S. Mill and William Morrow & Company, 1962. Very Good/Good. New York: M.S. Mill and William Morrow & Company, 1962. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket by Lydia Fruhauf retaining original price ($3.50); 191pp. Several long closed tears to jacket margins with subsequent creasing touching text without loss of... Read More
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Two-page ALS from former Senator Henry W. Blair to Washington Times Editor Arthur Brisbane regarding Suffrage for Washington, DC
by [Arthur Brisbane] Henry W. Blair
Washington, DC: [n.p.], 1917. Very Good. Washington, DC: [n.p.], 1917. Two-page autographed letter signed on single sheet of Henry P. Blair's (son of the letter's author) office stationery. Light edgewear and toning; mail folds. Very Good. Henry W. Blair served as Senator from New Hampshire and here urges Brisbane to come interview him regarding Suffrage for the District... Read More
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric
by Hugh Blair
New-York: Richard Scott, 1814. Very Good. New-York: Richard Scott, 1814. 12mo (15cm); publisher's full sheep, black gilt-lettered spine label; 214pp. Leather a bit scuffed, scratched and dried, brief flaking of spine gilt, two redacted contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown and free endpaper, textblock uniformly browned, else a Very Good, sound example. Uncommon edition of this oft-reprinted... Read More
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Trouble on Thunder Mountain [Signed by Hoban and Blake]
by Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. Fine/Near Fine. [London]: Faber and Faber, [1999]. First Edition Stated. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's glossy paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket; 40pp.; full color illus. throughout. Just a hint of wear to jacket margins, else a Fine copy. Signed by both Hoban and Blake at head of title page.
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Documentary History of the Cession of Louisiana to the United States till It Became an American Province
by Rufus Blanchard
Chicago: R. Blanchard, 1903. Very Good. Chicago: R. Blanchard, 1903. First Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); 68p. Illustrated, with full-color fold-out map at back. Pebbled black/gray cloth with blindstamped border, beveled edges, and gilt lettering. Covers dusty and faded along edges, with fading to spine and some general scuffing and smudging. Front hinge cracked to about halfway down... Read More
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! [Signed]
by William Peter Blatty
Doubleday & Company: Garden City, NY, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); [8],158pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears not approaching text, spine rather sunned as usual, else Very Good and sound overall. Signed... Read More
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The Angelic Avengers
by Pierre Andrezel [pseud. of Karen Blixen]
London: Putnam & Co Ltd, 1946. Very Good +/Good. London: Putnam & Co Ltd, 1946. First English Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 303pp. Boards in red cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket (10s. 6d.). Jacket generally rubbed, creased, and chipped at margins with toning and fading overall. Verso toned. Board corners and spine... Read More
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