Priapeia; or the Sportive Epigrams of Divers Poets on Priapus Now First Completely Done Into English Prose From the Original Latin with Introduction Notes Explanatory and Illustrative and Excurs s; to Which is Appended the Latin Text
Athens: Erotika Biblion Society, 1888 (1889). 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Translated and with notes by Richard Francis Burton and Leonard Smithers. One of 250 numbered copies, published for members of the Erotika Biblion Society, Victorian imprint of Harry Sidney Nichols and Smithers, publishers and supporters of Decadent writers including Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Note to text explains... Read More
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Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; 1905-1906
Washington, D. C.: GPO, 1911. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Submitted by W.H. Holmes, Chief, and Richard Rathbun, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Front cover illustrated in gilt and ruled in blind. Back cover stamped and ruled in blind. Profusely illustrated. Includes one large fold-out map.... Read More
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Arguments of the Defendants' Counsel, and Judgement of the Supreme Court U. S. in the Case of Vidal and Another, Complainants and Appellants, Versus The Mayor, Etc. of Philadelphia, the Executors of Stephen Girard, and Others, Defendants and Appellees. January Term, 1844. To Which is Added The Will of Stephen Girard.
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers, 1854. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine stamped in gilt and with covers elaborately stamped and ruled in blind. Head and heel of spine chipped with light wear to extremities. Text block is tight and pages are clean, and hinges are in very good condition. 348 pages. Printed... Read More
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Tiffany & Other Art Glass
New York, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, 1967. Softcover. VG- (Ex-gallery lib., label at front cover, ink stamp at title page). Blue stapled wraps; 37 pp.; 17 bw photos. Accompanied sale number 2529, held March 15, which included Tiffany Favrile table glass, a paperweight, a gilded and silvered chess set, and a rug; Peachblow glass; and more. 156... Read More
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Save And Invest ... (poster).
U. S. Government Printing Office. poster. U.S. Treasury Department poster promises War Savings Stamps are the safest investment. Printed in black and blue on a white background. Sheet measures 17 x 24 inches (43 x 61 cm). Fine condition.
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A Testament of Freedom; Ideas Worth Fighting For
Madison, NJ: Golden Hind Press, 1942. Softcover. Fine. One of 300 copies printed by hand and distributed to friends of Golden Hind Press on the eve of the United States' entry into World War II. A compilation of quotations, from Shakespeare to Bakunin, expressing a fighting spirit. Bound in publisher's original blue paper wrappers with french folds. 4... Read More
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The Kingsport Book of Type Faces. In two volumes complete.
Kingsport: Kingsport Press, n. d.. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt, grey endpapers and edges. Illustrated book of type faces available from Kingsport Press. Vol 1: Linotype; Vol. 2: Monotype Display. Both volumes in original slipcases.5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches. 1,267 pages.
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The Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art 20
Madison: Guild, 2005. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's orignal illustrated wraps. Lighlty bumped extremities, else fine.
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How to Win Compliments For Your Cooking
LA: The Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Cook Book, 1948. Softcover. Very Good. Very good paperback. Staple binding. Text clean. Illustrated. Small stain on title page. Rubbing to edges of cover.
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The Grolier Club Tour In Italy: May 1962
Venice: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1962. Very Good. Very good. In clean condition.
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Rays of Sunshine; Sunshine Story Book
New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated story book produced by the McLoughlin Bros., the famous New York publishing house which pioneered the use of color printing technologies in children's books. Bound in publisher's original gray cloth with spine stamped in black and cover stamped in illustrated black, yellow, green, and red. The title page reads... Read More
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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1908. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in original cloth with rules stamped in blind on the covers and the spine stamped in gilt. Gilt on spine is faded. Previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown endpaper. Minor chips to the head and heel of the spine and to... Read More
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The Cathedral of Cremona. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of this thirteenth century cathedral from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 10 5/8 x 15 1/4 inches. Sheet size is 14 1/2 x 21 1//2... Read More
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Arts Canada (Periodical run, 1974-1979)
Toronto, Ont: Society for Arts Publications, 1979. Hardbound. VG. CAVE. 6 bound volumes (in red library buckram). Formerly "Canadian Art," this periodical was published from 1967-1983. This lot contains all of its issues from Vols. 31-36 (1974-1979), or individual numbers 188/189 to 232/233.
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Am I My Brother's Keeper?; A Compilation Of Psychic Information On World Affairs
Virginia Beach: Association For Research and Enlightenment, 1945. 1st. Softcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original yellow wrappers, cover stamped in black. Very minimal wear to spine. 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. 80 pages.
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Lithograph: "Green River - The Whiskey Without Regrets
Unbound. Near Fine. Framed lithograph. Image size approximately 13.5" x 19". Foxing to the margins, the image is fine. Depicts a cheerful old black man with a horse, unto which is strapped a large jug of Green River Whiskey.
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Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics:1902-1952: An Album of American progress containing the most fasicnating articles, predictions , pictures and inventions that have appeared since the first issue o.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dust jacket. Book general wear, dust jacket torn edges.
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1957 Evergreen: Maryland State Teachers College, Salisbury, MD
Salisbury, MD: Maryland State Teachers College, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover First Edition. No marks or writing inside.
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Jahrbuch fur Photographie und Reproduktionstechnik fur das Jahr 1911
Halle: Wilhelm Knapp, 1911. Softcover. Good+ (light shelfwear to wraps, expected age toning but pages are otherwise clean and clear). Gray paper wraps with black lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece; 784 pp with bw illustrations throughout; 14 plates in bw and color. Text is in German. Yearbook for Photography and Reproduction Technology for 1911. A photography periodical that ran... Read More
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Notnoaya Kuvyrkollegiya [Note Tumblers]
[No place: no publisher, 1900. Softcover. Very Good. Square octavo. [8]pp., illustrations in color. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Wrappers quiet soiled, else near very good. A whimsical pre-Revolutionary introduction to musical notation.
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Tangletown Tale
Kenosha, Wisconsin: Samuel Lowe Company, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated by Francis Kirn. Paper over die-cut boards. Pages modestly age-toned, else a nice and fresh, near fine copy of this Bonnie Book.
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Theatre Arts
MD: Stage, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. Oct. Very good in wrappers. paperback Includes Barefoot in Athens by Maxwell Anderson. Yuriko.
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Inside Sports: June 30, 1981
Softcover. Fine. A fine copy in wrappers.
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31st Annual Exhibition of The Allied Artists of America Incorporated
New York, NY: Allied Artists of America Inc, 1944. Softcover. Good (Cover torn at spine; Library stamp inside back cover; Library plate inside front cover; Pen markings on back cover). Blue paper illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 65 pp.; 15 bw plates. Includes works by Sidney E. Dickinson, Peter Bela Mayer, Arnold Hoffmann, Ward Mount, Marion Sanford, and... Read More
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Essentials of the Neurological Examination
PA: Smith Kline & French, no date. Softcover. Good. Good softcover with staple binding is rubbed at the spine ends and corners, cover is lightly stained and soiled, text is clean.
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