The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 8vo, unpaged; text printed in red and black within decorative borders; contemporary full black blind-tooled morocco, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; extremities and spine bands rather rubbed; Thomas family armorial library bookplate accomplished in manuscript with their motto "Secret et Hardi" on front pastedown; very good... Read More
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La 2e DB (Deuxième Division Blindée) Général Leclerc. Combattants et combats en France. Présentés par un groupe d'officiers et d'hommes de la division
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1946. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 316, [4]; card wrappers bound in; numerous plates from photographs, numerous maps, some in color and some folding; very good in contemporary and likely publisher's three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spine stampted in red, blue and gilt showing a tank, France, and a stylized title.
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[Ephemera.]
Columbus: Logan Elm Press, 1983. Two Ohio State University Press catalogues (listing Logan Elm Books), a chapbook, The Compleat Bookman (1983); Tahgahjut's Chicken Soup (a bifoliate recipe); and, 2 copies of a Letter from the Director [of] The Logan Elm Press & Papermill, with a cover letter, return envelope and 8 postcards, ostensibly seeking donations. Together in a green... Read More
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Collection of 111 prospectuses
Various places and publishers, 1930. Collection of 111 prospectuses and book advertisements, not including a few duplicates, largely from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, and the odd item either later in the 20th, or earlier in the 19th; including literature, many items for educational books, some marketed directly to schools, others for popular non-fiction and... Read More
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Les lettres nouvelles, no. 2
Paris: René Juillard, 1953. 8vo, pp. 256, [8]; original white wrappers printed in red and white; pages uniformly toned, else a fine, unopened copy. Contents include 5 short pieces by Franz Kafka; a newly discovered poem by the Marquis de Sade; and the first appearance of Henry Miller's "The Children of the Earth," here published as "Les enfants de... Read More
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Viet nam. A report on a wingspread briefing
[Racine, Wisconsin]: [The Johnson Foundation], 1964. 4to, unpaginated; faint library stamp on upper cover (dated 1965), covers a bit worn, else very good in dark green pictorial wrappers. "A group of 70 Midwestern communicators in two important fields --the press and college teaching-- met at Wingspread, conference center and home of The Johnson Foundation, on March 7, 1964, for... Read More
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![[Title in Oriya] Marka likhita susamacara = [The Gospel according to St. Mark]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/176/298/676298176.0.m.0.jpg)
[Title in Oriya] Marka likhita susamacara = [The Gospel according to St. Mark]
[Calcutta: Bible Society of India and Ceylon (Calcutta Auxiliary) in association with the British & Foreign Bible Society, 1945. 8vo, pp. [50]; pictorial self wrappers, shallow chips and tears along edges, bottom two inches of spine split; mostly good and sound. Oxford only in OCLC as of October, 2013.
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Five-page A.L.s. to Luella from Ralph
New Shoreham, Block Island: August 19, n.y., 1890. 8vo, 5 neatly written pages on three leaves; light toning, previous folds; very good. "Rough passage ... pulled into harbor ... came within half an inch of running onto the rocks ... nothing there but fish works and a smell ... the bay completely filled with boats ... during the gale... Read More
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Niblo's. Manager ... Mr. John Sefton. Tickets 50 cents ... private boxes, $5.00. John Sefton's benefit. Only appearance of the Ravel family, 26 in number, and Mr. Burton who will sustain his great character of Mr. Fright ... To be followed by the laughable piece Crimson Crimes ... Concluding with, last time but one, the comic pantomime of the Conjurer's Gift! Or, the Magic Pills
[New York: publisher not identified], 1852. Tall narrow broadside approx. 22" x 5½". Display type; some toning and wrinkling, else very good. Not found in OCLC.
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![Ah-San, a Chinese boy [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/306/1626306098.0.m.jpg)
Ah-San, a Chinese boy [cover title]
Cincinnati: Foreign Christian Missionary Society, 1910. 6.75 x 5.25 in., pp. 12, photoreproductive text illustrations; pictorial orange wrappers; some creasing and dogearing, tidestain on upper corner, a string has been sewn through the upper gutter to hang the book (as issued?); very good, sound and clean. A short story about a fictional Chinese child and his eventual conversion to... Read More
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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. 11½" x 15" broadside printed at the Science Museum of Minnesota as part of the exhibition "Printing: From Craft to Technology," and published in the bicentennial year of the U. S. Constitution.
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Political parties and political opposition in Viet Nam
Saigon: The Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations, 1969. 8vo, pp. 18; original white printed wrappers, near fine. "Saigon June 19, 1969. Signed and sealed Nguyen Van Thieu" - p. 18. The unofficial translation of the full text of Law No. 009/69.
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The Rhode-Island almanack, enlarged and improved, for the year 1833..
Providence: published and sold by H. H. Brown, 1832. 12mo, pp. 24; some toning, a few ink annotations in the lower margins; good. American Imprints 14515; Drake 13039.
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Spelling and thinking combined; or, the spelling-book made a medium of thought: the sequal to "My first school book
Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1861. 12mo, pp. 124; original orange printed paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine; a very good example of a Civil War-era American spelling book, each page bearing a title such as "A good boy is a public good," "Beware of bad books," and "Is Heaven to be your home?" Only Harvard located in OCLC.
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An assortment of 5 antiquarian book catalogues as below
New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, 1937. Small 4to; facsimiles; bound in blue cloth, hand lettered paper spine label; very good. The five sales include, Rare Americana from the Library of the Late Levi Z. Leiter, 1933; The Library of the Late Ogden Goelet of New York, parts I & II, 1935; Romances of Chivalry, European Literature, French... Read More
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January, 1846. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Providence, within and for said state, on the first Monday of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and of independence the seventieth
[Providence: publisher not identified], 1846. 8vo, pp. 70, [2]; uncut and largely unopened; signed at the end by Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, and R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849; self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; lightly foxed. Laws, allotments, and other enactments passed at the General Assembly of Rhode Island since the previous meeting in... Read More
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How it's done. A complete expose of tested formulas for card men, how they are made and how they are applied
[n.p.]: AEW, 1940. 6.75" x 5", pp. [64]; text illustrations; staple bound with pictorial paper wrapper; closed tear to bottom of spine, bookseller's ticket on upper cover for "Phil Thomas' Yogi Magic Mart," text clean, good and sound. How to mark with ink, block out, rough up, cut out, detect, etc.
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![Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited. Eastern Newfoundland area code 709. Effective June 28, 1970. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/411/433/1489433411.0.m.jpg)
Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited. Eastern Newfoundland area code 709. Effective June 28, 1970. [cover title]
Newfoundland: Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited, 1970. 4to, pp. 184, [4], 3, [1], 80, [4]; original pictorial paper wrappers; lightly toned; near fine. The white and yellow pages / telephone directory for Eastern Newfoundland including St. John's, Bay Roberts, Bell Island, Grand Bank and other exchanges.
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The Harvey Lectures - 1936-1937, Series XXXII
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1937. 8vo, pp. 245; illustrations and tables in the text; small spot on front cover else very good in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Contributions by Doctors Wilder Penfield, Eugene M. Landis, S. Walter Ranson, R. Schoenheimer, Thorvald Madsen, Herbert S. Gasser, C. N. H. Long, and Sir Henry Dale.
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Annual of the Grand National Curling Club of the United States
Buffalo: printed for the Grand National Club, by Haas & Kelly, 1869. 12mo, pp. [4], iii, [2], 6-160; original albumen frontispiece portrait of the club's president; 3 plates (1 folding); original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; extremities rubbed; very good. This is the second year of the Annuals, containing rules of the game, accounts of... Read More
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The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in Bengali. With references. Translated from the original Greek by the Calcutta Baptist missionaries
Calcutta: printed and published by J.W. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, for the Bible Translation Society, 1880. 16mo, pp. 604; original brown cloth (dampstaining), printed paper spine label; bottom of upper joint cracked, front hinge weak; contemporary signature to front free endpaper; textblock very good and sound. Not in Darlow & Moule. Cambridge and Aukland (N.Z.) in OCLC.... Read More
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Album von Berlin : 3 grosse Panoramen und 49 Ansichten nach Momentaufnahmen in Photographiedruck
Berlin: Globus Verlag, 1904. Oblong 4to, pp. [56]; photographs with caption in Germans, some photos collaged; illustrated cloth boards, light rubbing, very good.
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The New York Herald. Whole No. 9568
New York: Monday, November 24, 1862. 22¼" x 15¾", pp. [8]; 6 columns per page; removed from binding. Arrival of reinforements for the rebels, the rumored movements of Stonewall Jackson on Washington, the rebel military preparations in Virginia, news from Burnside's army, opening the Mississippi in a rebel point of view, financial and commercial news, city commercial news, the... Read More
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Bound collection of 39 offprints [see below]
V.p., 1900. Bound in order by size together in early 20th-century tan cloth (a bit dampstained), "Orthopedics" printed on spine; spine head cracked, gift bookplate of the Library of the Bridgeport Medical Association on front pastedown, hinges reinforced, top inner corner of front free endpaper torn; not the most attractive item, but a valuable collection nonetheless. Illustrated broadsheet, "The... Read More
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Fine handmade & mouldmade papers
New York: New York Central Supply Co, 1978. Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; three swatches (23 paper samples in all) stapled to pamphlet interior; inoffensive soiling to front, else fine. Names of papers either rubber-stamped or handwritten on sample sheets. Not in OCLC.
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