CATALOGUE OF THE EGYPTOLOGICAL LIBRARY OF THE LATE CHARLES EDWIN WILBOUR
by COOK
(Staten Island): M. Martino, [1997]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. vi, 795 pages. First published in 1924 and reprinted here in a limitation of 150 copies, this catalogue gives detailed information, often including the entire table of contents of a book, for one of the finest collections of books on Egyptology.
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AROMAS AND FLAVORS OF PAST AND PRESENT Inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt
by [COOKERY] [ROOSEVELT, Eleanor] TOKLAS, Alice B
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Glue stain to the top of the stationery as well as to the top of the endpaper and less so to the facing pastedown. Small dampstain to the heel of the spine which has "841 ER" written in ink as does the spine of the dustwrapper which is dampstained,... Read More
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MODERN AND AUTHENTIC SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY
by COOKE, George Alexander
London: Evans & Bourne, 1817 & 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing, mostly to the text, the maps largely clean and fresh. Some wear to the binding, the covers strong. Near Fine. Two folio (8-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in contemporary tree calf leather with contrasting maroon and black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces, 52... Read More
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LE GLACIER CLASSIQUE ET ARTISTIQUE EN FRANCE ET EN ITALIE
by [COOKERY] LACAM, Pierre & CHARABOT, Antoine
Paris & Vincennes: Chez Les Auteurs, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Toning to text, some leaves a bit soiled or loose with one repaired at gutter with tape and frayed a bit at edges. Binding sound. Good to Very Good and quite scarce. Contemporary red morocco leather and marbled boards (5-1/4" x 8-1/2"); (iv), 374 pages with 28 illustrations... Read More
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NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, OR FEMALE COMPANION. CONTAINING FULL AND AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ROASTING, BROILING, STEWING, HASHING, BOILING, PRESERVING, PICKLING, POTTING, FRICASEES, SOUPS, PUFF-PASTES, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, PIES, TARTS, & C. ALSO, THE MAKING OF WINES AND CHEESE. PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING
by [COOKERY]
New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book. Bound in original full sheep leather (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") with gilt rules on the spine; 180 pages. The second American cookbook, preceded by Amelia... Read More
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FOOD AND DRINK THROUGH THE AGES 2500 B. C. to 1937 A. D.
by [COOKERY]
London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Covers a little soiled. Very Good. Pictorial wraps (7" x 9-1/2"); more than 200 pages including Language, Subject, and Author indexes. Illustrated.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
by COOLIDGE, Calvin
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked, small stains on the spine. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #148 of 1000 SIGNED by the author. Owner inscription on the front endpaper dated 1929 mentioning a "letter of sympathy when the President's son Calvin Coolidge died," which was once glued to the... Read More
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ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGE TO THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE AT THE WHITE HOUSE DECEMBER 6, 1927
by COOLIDGE, Calvin
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine and exceptionally scarce item with a superb association. Small octavo (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in flexible blue morocco leather lettered in gilt (including Coolidge's name at the bottom right) and decorated in gilt with stars in the corners and the Presidential coat-of-arms in the center. With a printed... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by COOLIDGE, Calvin
Boston, 5 November 1920. Letter. Folds from mailing, otherwise Fine. SIGNED letter to Sterling R. Whitbeck of Northampton's Nonotuck Savings Bank, on official Massachusetts Governor's stationery, composed three days after being elected Vice-President, thanking him for his gracious message.
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THE PATHFINDER
by COOPER, James Fenimore
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Richard Powers. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in black buckram and forest-green boards. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by Richard Powers and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid... Read More
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THE DEERSLAYER OR: THE FIRST WAR-PATH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a short split. Edward Wilson. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/8") bound with an authentic deerskin leather spine with a paper label and boards covered with a lovely paper hand-marbled by Cockerell and Sons in England; 544 pages. Introduction by John F. Winterich. Copy #1110... Read More
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THE SPY. A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Henry C. Pitz. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in a luxurious fabric with an all-over pattern of bald eagles and arabesques derived from a Duncan Phyfe sideboard. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with monochrome line drawings and with wash drawings by Henry C. Pitz hand-colored... Read More
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THE PILOT
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[Baltimore]: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Front hinge with some splitting. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with mild sunning. Robert Quackenbush. Large octavo (8" x 10-1/2") bound in black buckram with an inlaid vertical strip of natural sailcloth. Copy #894 of 1500 illustrated with 14 full-page ORIGINAL COLOR WOODCUTS and 39 smaller B&W woodcuts by Robert... Read More
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THE DEERSLAYER OR: THE FIRST WAR-PATH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in torn glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with light wear. Edward Wilson. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/8") bound with an authentic deerskin leather spine with a paper label and boards covered with a lovely paper hand-marbled by Cockerell and Sons in England; 544 pages. Introduction by John F. Winterich. Copy... Read More
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THE DEERSLAYER OR: THE FIRST WAR-PATH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to heel of spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/8") bound with an authentic deerskin leather spine with a paper label and boards covered with a lovely paper hand-marbled by Cockerell and Sons in England; 544 pages. Introduction by John F. Winterich.... Read More
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PAGES AND PICTURES FROM THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER With Notes by Susan Fenimore Cooper
by COOPER, James Fenimore
New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First Edition. A gorgeous book in Fine condition. F. O. C. Darley and others. Quarto (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") bound in modern 3/4 bright red morocco leather with a heavily gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt. Excerpts from Cooper's major novels, each with an introduction by... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): "I regard New York as the most remarkable town in the world"
by COOPER, James Fenimore
Cooperstown, 23 October 1850. Letter. Fine condition with dark ink in a Fine folder of this exceptional letter. An incredible three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two sheets of 8-1/2" x 6-7/8" paper by the author of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS written on behalf of James Henry Hackett (1800-1871) to his old friend Charles Augustus Murray (1806-1895) who... Read More
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THE DEERSLAYER OR: THE FIRST WAR-PATH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with light wear. Edward Wilson. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/8") bound with an authentic deerskin leather spine with a paper label and boards covered with a lovely paper hand-marbled by Cockerell and Sons in England; 544 pages. Introduction by John F. Winterich. Copy #887 of 1500... Read More
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THE PATHFINDER; OR, THE INLAND SEA...
by [COOPER, James Fenimore]
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bound without original endpapers and blanks. Light, even foxing throughout with an occasional small stain. Early and unidentified owner name at the top of each title page. Near Fine, nicely bound. First issue without the copyright notice in the first volume. Two volumes bound in modern 1/2 smooth brown... Read More
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THE PATHFINDER
by COOPER, James Fenimore
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Fine in torn glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Richard Powers. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in black buckram and forest-green boards. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by Richard Powers and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE SPY. A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. About Fine, lacking the slipcase. Henry C. Pitz. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in a luxurious fabric with an all-over pattern of bald eagles and arabesques derived from a Duncan Phyfe sideboard. Copy #894 of 1500 illustrated with monochrome line drawings and with wash drawings by Henry C. Pitz hand-colored... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AMs) From THE WATER WITCH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[1828]. Manuscript. A few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very Good. Unsigned handwritten fragment of his working draft of this novel about the abduction of a woman by a pirate. Two pages in dark ink in his small hand, approximately 600 words, on both sides of an 8" x 3-1/4" sheet.... Read More
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THE PILOT
by COOPER, James Fenimore
[Baltimore]: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase with mild sunning to back edge. Robert Quackenbush. Large octavo (8" x 10-1/2") bound in black buckram with an inlaid vertical strip of natural sailcloth. Copy #624 of 1500 illustrated with 14 full-page ORIGINAL COLOR WOODCUTS and 39 smaller B&W woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush. SIGNED... Read More
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THE WEATHER OF SIX MORNINGS. POEMS
by COOPER, Jane
(New York) London: The Macmillan Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine. Poet's first book. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "for William Meredith/with affection + admiration,/for a long time/Jane Cooper." A Lamont Poetry Selection.
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CHARLIE IN THE HOUSE OF RUE
by COOVER, Robert
Penmaen Press, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Jerome Kaplan. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with wood engravings by Jerome Kaplan. Number 1 in the Penmaen Fiction Series and one of 300 numbered copies (of a total edition of 1000) SIGNED by the author and by the artist. Laid in is a leaflet "News from Penmaen."
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