TENTING AT STONY BEACH
by Pool, Marie Loise. (Austin, Harriet N.)
Bostob: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good or better copy of Pool's rare second book, inscribed to "Harrie Austin with the complements of the Author, June 1888". The book is an account of a vacation spent in Wrentham Massachusetts. Maria Louise Pool (1841- 1898) was a well-known regional author in her day. Her... Read More
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The Rhetorical Reader; Consisting of Instructionf for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation; and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises Designed for the Use of Academies and High-Schools
by Porter, Ebenezer
Andover, MA: Gould and Newman, 1840. Fifty-third Edition. Calf. Very Good -. Spine, cover corners worn, cover edges rubbed, mild scuffing to covers, black leather label at spine chipped, light foxing throughout, bookplate at front pastedown. Binding tight and firm.
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Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Change
by Post, Emily
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1947. 69th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine -. A fine clean copy - no owner names, inscr or bkplts in original sl chipped dw. Gift quality!
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Eight Potter titles, uniform editions: THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING, GINGER & PICKLES, THE TALE OF MR> JEREMY FISHEr, THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE, THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY, THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE, THE TALE OF JOHNNY TOWN-MOUSE, and THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE
by Potter, Beatrix
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Very Good. Eight titles all uiniform in edition and condition. Undated, likely 1950s. Dusty green covers, with pastedown pictoirials of various shapes. with light green titles. Covers lightly soiled, internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
by Potter, Beatrix
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, likely 1950s, light green covers with titles in dark green. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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THE STORY OF A FIERCE BAD RABBIT
by Potter, Beatrix
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, likely 1950s, tan covers with titles and pictorial curcular surround in dark brown. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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Five Potter titles, uniform editions: THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON, THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT, THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN, THE TALE OF SAMUEL WHISKERS OR THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING
by Potter, Beatrix
London and New York: Frederick Warne 0. Hardcover. Very Good. Five titles all uniform in edition and condition. Undated, in uncommon, red rough-weave cloth with pastedown pictorials of various shapes, with black titles to front cover, but gilt titles to spine, and rounded corners, both covers and leaves. Covers a wee rubbed, internals near fine. No names, inscriptions... Read More
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PATRIA MIA and THE TREATISE ON HARMONY
by Pound, Ezra
London: Peter Owen, 1962. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/VG+. 8vo, pub green cloth. Upper corners bumped, else a fine copy in slightly soiled dw.
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A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS
by Pound, Ezra
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited edition, numbered 178 of 200 copies on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil velin M. R. V. paper. Published in August 1930 by The Hours Press in Paris, established by American ex-pat Nancy Cunard. who had long dreamed of having her own printing house, Cunard purchased the presses from her neighbor... Read More
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PAIDEUMA (Vols. 1 -19)
by (Pound, Ezra). Hugh Kenner, Eva Hesse (senior editors)
Augusta, ME: University of Maine, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Continuous run (46 issues) of Paideuma from Vol 1. No. 1 (Spring and Summer 1972) through Vol. 19 Nos. 1 &2 (Spring & Fall 1990). The subtitle of the original journal, "A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship" was changed in 2002 to "Modern and Contemporary... Read More
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WOLF SOLENT
by Powys, John Cooper
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Braun, Andor (book design). First US edition, two volumes issued without dustjackets in publisher's black slipcase with pastedown with author photo printed in silver and white. Black cloth green spine labels. 966 pp in 2 volumes. Books are about very good, clean and solidly bound but spines... Read More
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Typographica
by Poyner, Rick. (Spencer, Herbert)
NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Splendid graphic and textual review by Poyner of the work of graphic designer Herbert Spencer and his groundbreaking magazine Typographica published in London from 1949 -1967. Closed tear rear j panel, otherwise fine all around.
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THE IRON DOOR (AN ODE)
by Pratt, E. J.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy, #8 of 100, signed by the author on the limitation page, in fine dustjacket in slipcase, which is toned about edges. Uncommon, especially in limited edition as nice as this. Newfoundland poetry.
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FEDERICO URIBE
by Dona Pablo (preface)
Miami: NOW Contemporary Art, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. An "in-depth analytical study" of the work of artist Uribe, sculpture and paintings since 1995, through the lens of his unique "relationship with Mother Nature." 394 pages, lavishly illustrated.
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History of the Conquest of Peru with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas
by Prescott, William H.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First Edition, First State. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, pub blind-stamped olive/brown cloth, gilt to spine. A solid unsophistiacted copy of this classic expedition narrative. Spine moderatley browned. Incidental spotting, mostly confiend to prelims and rears. Yellow coated endpapers, with bookstore stamp from its original sale upper corner fffe - "SOLD BY /... Read More
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Building Options selected by the editorial department of China Architecture and Building Press
by (China Construction Industry Press)
Baiwan Village (Beijing): China Architecture & Building Press, 1979. Presumed First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Stiff, glossy paper covers, measures 10.25 inches (26 cm) x 14.5 inches (37 cm), with 22 architectural drawings, almost all full page and mainly in full color. We could find no record of this publication outside of China. The text is entirely... Read More
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A TYPE MISCELLANY, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BROADSIDE PORTFOLIO
by Henry Morris et al (Bird & Bull Press)
American Printing History Association, 1994. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. Near Fine. 200 copies, 29 loose broadsides with 4 page preface in fine clamshell box. A few broadsides have rough edges as having benn hastily returned to box by a previous owner (certainly NOT this bookseller!) but the collection does contain the often elusive Henry Norris Bird &... Read More
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Schnitzelbank
by Wooly Whale Press
NY: Wooly Whale Press, 1938. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/Issued Without Dj. Kredel, Fritz.. Red cloth, silver titles front and spine. Lacking slipcase, and tiny loss and splity cloth head of spine. Printed insert from publishers Mary and Melbert Cary laid-in, explaing how they missed sending a 1937 Christmas book because they spent Christmas Day that... Read More
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Elements of Christian Theology: Containing, Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History of the Jews; a Brief Statement of the Contents of the Several books of the Old and New Testaments; and a Short Account of English Translations of the Bible and of the Church of England; and a Scriptural Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion
by Pretyman, George
London: Cadell and Davies, 1800. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 19thC full calf, red leather label and gilt to spine. With the bookplate of Rev. G. Nowell Watkins with his signature with a note in his hand on the ffe "Given my by the President of the GLL" (or GCC?) Dr. Cook". Dedication... Read More
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MANON LESCAUT (extra-illustrated edition)
by Prevost (Abbe). Johannot, Tony (illustrated by). Popelin (bound by)
London: Joseph Thomas, 1841. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Royal 8vo, full olive French levant morocco, wide gilt line border on sides, gilt panelled back, inner gilt borders, teg, sides uncut, bound by Popelin. Leather has faded to brownish-olive at spine. Internals fine. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a number of full-page viognettes on India paper by... Read More
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THE ENCHANTED ADMIRAL
by Price, Edith Ballinger (story and illustrations). Dutch, C. I. (decorations by)
NY: The Century Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon title by Edith Ballinger Price (, 1897 - 1997), American writer and illustrator of eighteen children's books, who studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and later at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. A... Read More
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The Etchings & Lithographs of Arthur B Davies
by Price, Frederic Newlin
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Slight scratch on spine. Contains 205 b&w reproductions of lithographs and etchings.
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PRAYER AND ITS ANSWERS Illustrtated in the First Twenty-Five Years of the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting
by Prime, S(amuel) Irenaeus
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, 171 p. Inscribed by author Prime underneath the statement printed on the verso of the ffe for the subscribers of The New York Observor with the compliments of the publishers and the senior editor. Samuel Irenæus Prime (1812-1885)... Read More
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HERMES, LORD OF ROBBERS
by Proddow, Penelope (translated and adapted by )
NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Cooney, Barbara (illustrtated by). First edition (stated bottom of title page). Pictorial boards. UNclipped dw, slightlly worn at spine ends and corners, panels slightly rubbed. Internals fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN
by Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. Baines, Thomas (revised by)
London: Cassell, Peter, Galpin, 1882. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes in one. Stout 4to. Contemporary green leather binding, gilt titles spine. Light foxing to prelims/title and rears, and running on top of some leaves in central signatures. 108 colored plates.
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