Partially Printed Document between Macmillan & Co., Publishers and Mr. H. Burgess, High Street, Northwich, Cheshire, Bookseller, dated 27 April 1883, regarding the supply and stocking of Macmillan publications, signed by Macmillan and Co
Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Printed letterpress form completed in holograph, Folded, near fine. Macmillan supplied the books and the bookcases, and the bookseller took a 5% cut on each book sold.
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One Moment...Clever Cooks!
New York: Charles Gulden, Inc, 1930. Softcover. Fine. Presumed first edition. 16mo. 21pp. Stapled illustrated illustrated yellow wrappers. Near fine copy. Recipes from Gulden's Mustard.
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UK Anarchist and Anti-Civilization publication collection [7 volumes]
[London] United Kingdom, 1990. Staplebound. Very Good+ in Wraps. Staplebound. Titles include: Paris: May 1986. Dark Star and Rebel Press [reprint from 1968]. The Rebel's New Clothes by Claudia, 1992. Also wrote Claudia-Feminism Unveiled, Love Lies Bleeding. MayDay Monopoly: Game Guide, Anti-Capitalist Actions Across London..., 2001. [Anti-Apartheid] Nelson Mandela: I Am Prepared to Die by International Defence &... Read More
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![[Broadside]: Theatre Royal, Dewsbury For Six Nights Only, Mr. Henry C. Arnold's Company, in the Up-to-Date Drury Lane Sporting Drama The Prodigal Daughter](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/582/200/739200582.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside]: Theatre Royal, Dewsbury For Six Nights Only, Mr. Henry C. Arnold's Company, in the Up-to-Date Drury Lane Sporting Drama The Prodigal Daughter
Dewsbury: Dawson & Son, Printers, 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large broadside. Approximately 9.75" x 30" (25x76cm). Printed in blue ink in several type sizes. Several old horizontal folds, many small chips and tears at the margins, some soiling, a good. Lists the entire cast, as well as a Christmas pantomime. Dewsbury is in Yorkshire.
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Life: Vol. 58, #24, June 18, 1965: The Space Walk
IL: Time, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Pages slightly brown.
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Riquet With the Tuft. A Fairy Tale
London: Dean & Munday, 1820. Softcover. vg to near fine. 24mo. 4.5x3". 30pp. Yellow printed wrappers with black lettering on the front and back covers. Decorative border on the front cover. Woodcut frontispiece. This is a pocket-size illustrated English-language version of the French fairy tale "Riquet With the Tuft", the first known version of which was published by... Read More
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Johnny Blackwell's Poor Man's Catalog
New York: St Martins, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback About very good in wrappers. Light yellowing. Cover rubbed with slight warp to front cover.
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The London Mystery Selection: Number Sixty-Eight, Vol. 16, March 1966
London: The Norman Kark Publications, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers lightly soiled, pages age-toned, else very good. Stories by: Robert Cheetham, F.J. Park, and more.
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The Month at Goodspeed's Apr-May 1943 Vol XIV #7-8
Boston: Goodspeed, 1943. Softcover. Fine. Fine in wrappers.
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John Burroughs Photograph and ALS
Photograph measuring 8 3/4" x 11 3/8". Lightly curled; one small crease to the top left corner; 1/4" closed tear to the right edge; two short pieces of tape to the reverse. With an ALS on John Burroughs' letterhead [5 3/8" x8 2/8"]. Three short pieces of tape to reverse. The note is written on Burroughs' Riverby, West... Read More
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THE BOOK OF RUTH. Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with Former Translations diligently compared and revised by HIS MAJESTY'S special command
London Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo., publisher's batik paper covered flexible boards; in a paper-covered slipcase with the publisher's label echoing the title-page text. Case a little worn and a bit soiled having performed its job. One of just 250 copies printed in modified Caslon type on handmade laid paper; the text is set within a series of borders, "enlarged from... Read More
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THE SOUVENIR: A TOKEN OF REMEMBRANCE
London T. Nelson and Sons, 1859. 8vo., publisher's patterned purple cloth, faded, with elaborate gilt and blind decoration; a.e.g. The book consists of 280 pages of short prose and poetry, illustrated by eight full-page color plates, printed by the innovative firm, Thomas Nelson and Sons, in Edinburgh, who, according to Joan Friedman (Color Printing in England 1486-1870): "began producing... Read More
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From the OPUS PASCHALE of C. SEDULIUS (Patrologiæ/Tomus xix/ edited by J.-P. Migne)
Lexington The Anvil Press, 1955. Sm. 4to., decorated paper over boards with a printed paper label extending onto both covers. One of just 250 COPIES printed in black and brick red in Hammer's American Uncial type on handmade paper by Carolyn Reading Hammer. There are eight woodcuts of the Evangelists & their symbols, also used in the Press's edition... Read More
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CHANTS ET CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA FRANCE. Nouvelle Edition Illustrée d'Apres les Dessins de MM. E. de Beaumont, Daubigny, Dubouloz, E. Giraud, Meissonier, Pascal, Staal, Steinheil et Trimolet
Paris Garnier Frères, 1848. Three vols. tall 8vo., publisher's black grained cloth with blind decorative borders and elaborate mosaic gilt stamped designs in the center of both covers; spines elaborately gilt decorated and titled; a.e.g. One volume with wear to the front joint, the others well preserved. There is an engraved full-page portrait of P. J. de Bérenger added at... Read More
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19th Century Photo Album with American Flag
N.p. , N.d. (19th cent). 16mo. (6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches) bound in elaborate brown leather with brass clasps, gilt decorated spine with 4 raised bands and “Album” in gilt in second compartment. All edges gilt and gauffered with paintings: American flag to fore edge, and sailing ships to bottom and top edges. Multicolored title page with... Read More
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![THE HOLY BIBLE...[AND] THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS: Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/594/827/258827594.0.m.jpg)
THE HOLY BIBLE...[AND] THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS: Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others
London John Bill & Christopher Barker and J. M., 1673. Thick 8vo., full dark red turkey morocco with an all-over design. Slight repairs to the corners and lower joints. A.e.g.; on the fore-edge there is a painted heart and a now indistinct owner's name and the date 1674. The binding was once thought to be by Samuel Mearne, but... Read More
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TODTENTANZ DER STADT BASEL
Basel C. F. Beck, 1852. Sm. 4to. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), quarter brown morocco over marbled sides; spine with four raised bands and gilt titling. Publisher's original front and rear wrapper bound in (short tear in the rear wrapper mended; small light tide line in the upper margin of the first seven leaves and occasional minor offsetting).... Read More
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CONDUITE POUR LA BEINSEANCE CIVILE ET CHRETIENNE
8vo.,A wonderful example of the use of "Civilité" types from the collection of Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, dating back to the 16th century. The first printer to make use of a character of this style was the type founder and printer Robert Granjon of Lyons. Granjon received a Royal Patent of ten years for his "lettre françoyse d'art de main."... Read More
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Steinlen and His Art: Twenty-Four Cartoons with a critical introduction and descriptive notes
Folio (15¼ x 11¼"). Yellow linen with colored decoration to top board. 1¾" fraying to tail of spine. Slight wear to head of spine and corners. 24 plates in color and black and white, some tipped in. Theophile Alexandre Steinlen was a Swiss-born leading poster artist.
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A BOOK OF SHAKESPEARE’S SONGS WITH MUSICAL SETTINGS BY VARIOUS COMPOSERS THE WHOLE ARRANGED AND DECORATED BY EDWARD EDWARDS.
4to. (12 3⁄4 x 9 1⁄2 inches), 3⁄4 blue paper over vellum with gilt decoration and leering to spine; tips modestly worn; slight soiling to covers; untrimmed. Endpapers decorated in Arts & Crafts style with medallion on each together with the name of the publisher, Schirmer, and the Latin expression Labrorum Dulce Lenimen (work sweetly soothing.) (100) pp., profusely decorated... Read More
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The Countryman Comes from the Country: a Quarterly Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work for the English-Speaking World
Oxfordshire: Burford. Fine. 1960. Original Wraps. A very nice Winter 1960, Volume 57 Number 4 issue in Fine condition. Original green paper wrappers show a little rubbing and bending at edges. Overall a bright clean copy; ; 12mo .
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Cato's Moral Distichs Reproduced from the Edition Printed in Philadelphia in 1735 by Benjamin Franklin, Together with a Foreword by Carl Van Doren
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939 Book. Fine. Hardcover. One of 250 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Pp. 11, [7], iii-vi, 7-23, [1]. Original leaf tipped-in from an original Franklin publication. Gilt-lettered green cloth. Engraved bookplate on inside cover, else a very fine copy. The original Cato text from which the facsimile pages were made is... Read More
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An Anecdote Concerning a Cherry-Tree and George Washington, General and Commander of the Armies of America
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1932 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 65 copies presented to the Roxburghe Club by members of the Stanford University Press at a meeting commemorating George Washington's Bi-centenary. With a Prefatory Note by Nathan Van Patten Esq. [4], 8, [4]pp. Frontis portrait. Gray boards, printed paper label on front cover, paper parchment spine. Wear to... Read More
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Early West Coast Lighthouses. Eight Drawings and Paintings by Major Hartman Bache (1855-1859).
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964 Book. Illus. by Bache, Hartman. Fine. Soft cover. First edition. A limited printing issued only to members of the Book Club of California as a keepsake. Printed by Arlen H. Philpott at the Tamal Land Press. Small quarto. Edited by John A. Hussey. 8 tipped in plates (2 in color). 9 folders... Read More
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The History of Susanna
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [n.d.] Book. Illus. by Dean, Mallette. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 400 copies. 12mo. Includes color engravings by Mallette Dean. Cloth backed printed boards. A very fine, uncut copy. An excerpt taken from the King James Version of the holy Bible..
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