![[RELIGION] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BY SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. | THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH METRE, BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, JOHN HOPKINS, AND OTHERS; CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW. (ONE VOLUME)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/451/200/1349200451.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BY SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. | THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH METRE, BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, JOHN HOPKINS, AND OTHERS; CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW. (ONE VOLUME)
by Church of England | Thomas Sternhold; John Hopkins
Oxford | London: Printed by the University-Printers | Printed by J. Heptinstall, for the Company of Stationers, 1707. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The Book of Common Prayer and Book of Psalms for the Church of England, bound together in one volume; both were published in 1707. Complete with 53 numbered plates. Interestingly, three of the plates are... Read More
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![[NEALE IMPRINT] [LITERATURE] SARA: A ROMANCE OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/878/1488878672.0.m.jpg)
[NEALE IMPRINT] [LITERATURE] SARA: A ROMANCE OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
by Frances Stocker Hopkins
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's decorative brown cloth, stamped in red, pale blue, and black; 194 pages; some foxing to the endpapers and the half-title page; there are no ownership marks of any kind in the book.~~We might summarize this... Read More
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QUINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA DENUO EMENDATA
by Horace
Amsterodami: Sumtibus Societates, 1668. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. In a period binding of paneled calf, with decorative roll at the edges of the boards.With engraved title page; 216 pages. The H and I signatures are reversed, the binder noting that they were such in the binding as it came to him. 12.25 cm. x 6.5 cm.... Read More
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THE EDUCATION OF HORACE WILLIAMS
by Henry Horace Williams
Chapel Hill, N. C.: Published by the Author, 1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Sunning and spots of scuffing to the spine. Blue cloth with faded gilt lettering. Very Good binding.
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FOR 1840. BUFFALO CITY DIRECTORY; CONTAINING A LIST OF THE NAMES, RESIDENCE AND OCCUPATION OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES, HOUSEHOLDERS, &c. ON THE FIRST OF MAY, 1840
by Horatio N. Walker, Compiler
Buffalo, [New York]: Faxon & Graves, Printers, 1840. In the publisher's green printed paper-covered boards, backed in black morocco. The front board is printed with the Calendar for 1840. Quite an interesting, if foxed, binder's advertisement for Faxon & Read on the front pastedown. There is dampstain throughout, including the boards.
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[SPECIAL PRESS] Extracts from the Diary of Roger Payne
by Roger Payne | [Thomas] Horne
New York: Harbor Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/no dust jacket. 28 pp. 8vo ; in paper covered board in red with gilt decoration and with borders double-ruled in gitl, housed in a red book slipcase~~Number 3. of 175 numbered copies. First edition 1928. Clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, with spine lightly sunned; with... Read More
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ADENOMYOMA OF THE UTERUS
by Thomas Stephen Cullen | Hermann Becker; August Horn (Illustrators); Illustrated by Hermann Becker & August Horn
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Hermann Becker & August Horn. 270pp. Prospectuses for Saunders's Books for Nurses and Saunders's Hand Atlases laid in. Also laid in is Dr. Cullen's visiting card.Previous owner name; no markings in text; green cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; slightly heavier... Read More
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[HISTORY] A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
by Daniel Defoe | Richard Horton
London: The Folio Society, 2021. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large Octavo; in black cloth over an illustrated paper covered upper board; xi, 244 pages; housed in the publisher’s black paper-covered slipcase. Near Fine binding.
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NOTES OF TRAVEL AND LIFE
by Misses Mendell and Hosmer
New York: Printed for the Authors, 1854. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Good binding. Bound in publisher's blue/green embossed cloth with title blocked in gold on the spine; general shelfwear to the extremities including some fraying at the spine ends; foxing throughout with some occasional pencil marginal brackets. While primarily recording their time in New York State where they... Read More
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[Decorative Binding] Bethlehem a nativity Play
by Laurence Housman
London: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. 8vo; in publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations in gold and green on the upper board and spine; minor darkening to the spine; [iv] (2) 3-76 pages.~~This decorative binding was designed by “C-box-X” it is so listed in The Art of American Book Covers... Read More
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STATE OF MEN AFTER DEATH
by Alvah Hovey
Philadelphia: The American Baptist Publication Society, 1904. Soft Cover. Good binding. The State of Men After Death, by Alvah Hovey, professor of the Newton Theological Seminary, editor of the 1885 "American Commentary on the New Testament," and a prominent nineteenth century American Baptist. With no marks of any kind. Toning to the wrappers and perimeter of the title... Read More
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THE CHILD WIFE OR, MARRIED AT SCHOOL
by The Author of "Adrift on the World" [Adah M. Howard]
New York: Normon L. Munro, Publisher, 1884. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Good binding. An uncommon late Victorian novel, in the publisher's blue cloth blocked in black. There is loss to the extremities of the spine. Good binding.
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![[FINE BINDINGS] THE ILLUSTRATED SCRIPTURE HISTORY, FOR THE YOUNG. EMBELLISHED WITH NEARLY 300 ENGRAVINGS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/485/441/1576441485.0.m.jpg)
[FINE BINDINGS] THE ILLUSTRATED SCRIPTURE HISTORY, FOR THE YOUNG. EMBELLISHED WITH NEARLY 300 ENGRAVINGS
by The Rev. John Howard
New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1867. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two 12mo. volumes; in full black morocco bindings, with double rules and elaborate borders in gilt, with raised bands, and decorations and lettering in compatrments; dentelle turnins; all edges gilt; the upper board of both volume with gift inscriptions stamped in gilt ("Grace H. Laflin from Her... Read More
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THE BARD AND SEA. THEIR VOICE, WHAT MAY IT BE? REFLECTIONS ON THE HIGH TIDES AT ASBURY PARK
by ‘Lewoh [George Howell]
1891. Very Good binding. An obscure, and nearly unreadable epic poem. Deservedly uncommon (we find no copies on OCLC). In coated white pebbled wrappers, with a chip to the bottom corner, and loss at the spine. With a half-tone frontistpiece, "An Angry Sea Along the Coast". 40 pp.; bound with "Sunset Lake",... Read More
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THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND. WRITERS AND THE TOTALITARIAN EXPERIENCE, 1900-1950
by John Hoyles
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A clean copy. Dustjacket is clean and bright. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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![[NEW AGE AND OCCULT] SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL: SIMPLIFIED, FASTER DIANETIC TECHNIQUES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/791/896/988896791.0.m.jpg)
[NEW AGE AND OCCULT] SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL: SIMPLIFIED, FASTER DIANETIC TECHNIQUES
by L. Ron Hubbard
Wichita, Kansas: The Hubbard Dianetic Foundation, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. The first trade edition, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page.. Typed slip on the front endpaper: "This book should contain two charts eight inches by twenty-four inches in length. If these charts are not in back of the book, please... Read More
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THE UNITED STATES IN THE FAR EAST; or, Modern Japan and the Orient
by Richard B. Hubbard
Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co, 1899. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Compliments of the Publishers" stamped on front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings in text. Blue decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Light to moderate edgewear. Boards are cocked. Very Good binding.
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[HISTORY] THE UNITED STATES IN THE FAR EAST; or, Modern Japan and the Orient
by Richard B. Hubbard
Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co, 1899. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; publisher’s blue decorated cloth boards with titling in gilt; 384 pages including the Index; complete with 42 lback and white photographic illustrations; boards are cocked; some minor edgewear; "Compliments of the Publishers" stamped on front paste-down. No pencil or ink markings in text.... Read More
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![[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] THE LIVES OF FRANKLIN PLATO ELLER AND JOHN CARLTON ELLER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/420/676/944676420.0.m.jpg)
[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] THE LIVES OF FRANKLIN PLATO ELLER AND JOHN CARLTON ELLER
by J. B. Hubbell
Durham, North Carolina: The Seaman Printery, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Memorializing the two sons of James Eller and his wife Mary Ann Carlton. The boys died of typhoid after graduating from the University of North Carolina. Very Good binding.
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SO THIS IS AMERICA!
by John Clarence Funk; Illustrated by Walter R. Huber
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Walter R. Huber. Signed and Inscribed by Funk on the front free endpaper. 204pp. Publishers red cloth binding with light edgewear to extremities; spine a bit sunned; small closed tear to the foredge of the rear free endpaper and the preceding leaf; contents clean and binding sound;.... Read More
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FANTASTICS AND OTHER FICTION
by Lafcadio Hearn; edited by Charles Woodward Hudson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Edition, Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A most attractive First Edition copy of this collection of stories and essays by the writer best known for his travel writings and his ghost stories. Some of the tales in this volume are of both genres -- e.g., "The Vision of the Dead Creole".... Read More
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![[MANUSCRIPT LETTER] LETTER FROM THOMAS HUGHES TO HIS SISTER FRANCES, IN RICHMOND. 1813](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/050/1555050397.0.m.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT LETTER] LETTER FROM THOMAS HUGHES TO HIS SISTER FRANCES, IN RICHMOND. 1813
by [Thomas Hughes]
Halifax Town, N. C., 1813. Folded leaf;, 12 1/4 x 15"; 4 pages; with loss affecting a word where the seal was broken;. there is some separation at a fold; this manuscript letter from Thomas Hughes to his sister in Richmond, Frances T. Hughes, is dated "Halifax Town, N. C., May 14, 1813".~~Thomas Hughes was apparently filling in for... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] THE QUEST OF HERACLES
by Hugh McCulloch, Jr. | [Pierre la Rose]
Cambridge & Chicago: Stone & Kimball | Printed at the DeVinne Press, 1894. Near Fine binding. The handsome large-paper edition in full vellum lettered in gilt at the spine and limited to 60 copies; with yapp edges; top edge gilt; and with the title and cover designed by Pierre la Rose. ~~The publisher's marbled paper slipcase while present,... Read More
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![[FINE BINDINGS] WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO. BESANCON EDITION. (Complete in 24 Volumes)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/989/1511989310.0.m.jpg)
[FINE BINDINGS] WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO. BESANCON EDITION. (Complete in 24 Volumes)
by Victor Hugo
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1909. Limited Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. Twenty-four 8vo. volumes, in three-quarter brown levant morocco over marbled boards, with matching marbled endpapers; with gilt raised bands, gilt tops; some leaves unopened; each volume with a frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue-guard, and additional illustrations throughout, the set is limited to 1000... Read More
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![[RELIGION] DIRECTIONS TO CHURCH-WARDENS FOR THE FAITHFUL DISCHARGE OF THEIR OFFICE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/643/071/1618071643.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] DIRECTIONS TO CHURCH-WARDENS FOR THE FAITHFUL DISCHARGE OF THEIR OFFICE
by Humphrey Prideaux, D.D.
London: R. Knaplock & J. Tonson, 1730. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo; in calf, with borders rolled in blind; 179 pages followed by [11] pages of Index; rebacked in leather, with the original blank spine laid down; there are new endpapers; on the title page is penned "Thomas Oldfield, May 7th, 1789"; the title page states: "To... Read More
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