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[SPECIAL PRESS] VIER JAHRESZEITEN (THE FOUR SEASONS)
by Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe | Heinrich Holz [Illustrator]
Offenbach am Main: Ernst Engel, 1922. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo, consisting of five folded leaves, housed in a bespoke drop back box; according to Klingspor, one of four copies, each with four different original watercolors by Heinrich Holz, which were included print edition.~~Of the artist Heinrich Holz, Heinz H. Schmiedt writes in monograph Heinrich Holz:... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX ET DE MANON LESCAUT
by Abbe Prevost | T. M. Cleland [Illustrator}
Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1958. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in full brown calf with label stamped in gilt to the spine; 207 pages; housed in the published brown cloth covered slipcase with ends tipped in calf; one of 200 copies; there are no ownership marks in the book; prospectus is laid in; the... Read More
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![[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. | THE SECOND TOUR IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION. | THE THIRD TOUR ... IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. (THREE VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/881/418/1128418881.0.m.jpg)
[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. | THE SECOND TOUR IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION. | THE THIRD TOUR ... IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. (THREE VOLUMES)
by [William Combe] | Thomas Rowlandson (Illustrator)
London, 1821. Third Edition. Half Leather. Near Fine binding. A satire, by William Combe, of William Gilpin's notion of the 'Picturesque,' who famously said that Tintern Abbey might be improved with "a mallet judiciously used." Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, the famous English caricaturist at the height of his work, who often would engrave as well as illustrate the... Read More
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![[VIRGINIANA] A DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA, AND ITS HISTORY 1889](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/108/1684108251.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] A DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA, AND ITS HISTORY 1889
by ; Illustrated by 1889
Philadelphia: Billstein & Son. Soft Cover. Fair binding. 1889. Oblong 12mo; in the publisher’s printed wrappers; 61 pages, with 3 pages of advertisements in the rear; with folding map and folded plate; with illustrations throughout; the wrappers are a bit soiled and the upper wrapper has detached; there is a small bit of loss to the corner; it... Read More
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ZOO DOINGS
by Jack Prelutsky | Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1983. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Signed with a punny inscription by the author on the dedication page. Text illustrations throughout. Quarter black cloth over blue paper boards, with an exceptional, Very Good dustjacket. Uncommon thus. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[CHILDREN] MARIGOLD GARDEN PICTURES AND RHYMES
by Kate Greenaway (Author) Edmund Evans (Illustrator)
London: George Routledge And Sons, 1885. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto; in burgundy cloth over glazed pictorial boards; (6) 7-60 pages; with some scrapes to the boards; a bit of wear to the top and bottom off the spine; some surface loss to the top of the lower board; small cracks to the hinges but the binding... Read More
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[GARDENING] EUROPEAN FERNS
by James Britten | David Blair [Illustrations]
London | Paris | New York: Cassell, Petter, Gilpin, 1880. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in publisher’s bright green cloth with elaborate decorations and titling in black and in gilt; vii, [i] xliv; 196 pages, followed by [8] page of publisher’s ads; with [30] leaves of brilliant chromolithographic plates; patterned papers endpapers; the front hinge has been... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] ONCE UPON A TIME BOOK SIX
by Frieda Firtzmeyer | Carol Blinn [Illustrations]
Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. White paper-covered boards, issued in an edition limited to 125 copies; with hand-colored labels to the upper board and the spine; signed by Frieda and Carol (what’s the difference?); [21] pages with color illustrations; with a hand-colored prospectus laid in. Near Fine binding.
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[POETRY] [SPECIAL PRESS] IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON: A POEM
by John Updike | Barry Moser (Illustrator)
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewart, Publisher, 1995. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4"); in printed blue laid-paper covered boards, backed in navy blue cloth; [16] pages, with illustrations by Barry Moser; with title page printed in blue and in black: limited to 50 copies, signed by Mr. Updike and illustrator Barry... Read More
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![[JAPAN PAPER] HORACE WALPOLE. A MEMOIR WITH AN APPENDIX OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/486/018/1563018486.0.m.jpg)
[JAPAN PAPER] HORACE WALPOLE. A MEMOIR WITH AN APPENDIX OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS
by Austin Dobson | Percy and Leon Moran (Illustrations)
New-York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890. Limited Edition. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in three-quarter blue morocco over marbled boards; spine in six compartments lettered in gilt; ix, 370 pages including the Appendix and Index, with engraved frontispiece and illustrations, including engraved chapter headpieces; the marbled paper of the upper board has a couple of small... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] THE LAST RECORDS OF A COTSWOLD COMMUNITY: BEING THE WESTON SUBEDGE FIELD ACCOUNT BOOK FOR THE FINAL TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF THE FAMOUS COTSWORLD GAMES HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED AND NOW EDITED WITH A STUDY ON THE OLD TIME SPORTS OF CAMPDEN AND THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF WESTON](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/762/719/1569719762.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] THE LAST RECORDS OF A COTSWOLD COMMUNITY: BEING THE WESTON SUBEDGE FIELD ACCOUNT BOOK FOR THE FINAL TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF THE FAMOUS COTSWORLD GAMES HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED AND NOW EDITED WITH A STUDY ON THE OLD TIME SPORTS OF CAMPDEN AND THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF WESTON
by C[harles] R[oberts] Ashbee | E[dmund] H[ort] New (Illustrations)
[Chipping Camden]: [The Essex House Press], 1904. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in white buckram lettered in gilt to the spine; 4 preliminary leaves; [iii]-lvi, 59, [1] page, with illustrations including map; the edition limited to 75 copies issued on the Essex House paper, of which this is number 45; there is a previous... Read More
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CALINDAR DE NOAPTE. [CALENDAR OF THE NIGHT]
by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu | Ion Barbu (Illustrator)
Bucuresti: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2003. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. This "Calendar of the Night" has aphorisms by the Romanian author and professor Calin-Andrei Mihailescu as well as twelve black and white line drawings by Ion Barbu, a Romanian caricaturist. The aptly named "Calendar of Night" contains sections to inscribe one's dreams and the happenings that... Read More
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SKETCHES BY BOZ: ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE, AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE. THE SECOND SERIES. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
by [Charles Dickens] | George Cruikshank (Illustrator)
London: John Macrone, 1837. Second Series. Quarter Leather. Good binding. First Edition, Second Issue of Charles Dickens' first published book. Lacking the half title, 'Contents' leaf, and publisher's advertisement at the rear. With frontispiece; additional title page, engraved; and eight additional plates. Foxing to the plates and opposite pages. Rubbing to the boards; loss to the top edge... Read More
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![[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] SUNDAY IN LONDON. ILLUSTRATED IN SIXTEEN CUTS, BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, AND A FEW WORDS BY A FRIEND OF HIS; WITH A COPY OF SIR ANDREW AGNEW'S BILL](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/118/409/1579409118.0.m.jpg)
[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] SUNDAY IN LONDON. ILLUSTRATED IN SIXTEEN CUTS, BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, AND A FEW WORDS BY A FRIEND OF HIS; WITH A COPY OF SIR ANDREW AGNEW'S BILL
by George Cruikshank [Illustrator]
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in half-crimson morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands and title lettered in gilt to the spine; there is 1" x 2" place of surface loss to the marbled paper at the center of the upper board; illustrated in fourteen cuts, eleven of which are. Very Good binding.... Read More
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SEA AND SUSSEX, FROM RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE
by Rudyard Kipling | Donald Maxwell (Illustrator)
Garden City | New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. The Sea and Sussex, with illustrations by Donald Maxwell, and verses by Rudyard Kipling, complete with 24 plates. Verse and illustration on opposite pages. No marks of any kind. Three quarters polished navy calf over blue cloth; gilt lettering and decoration on... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] [RELIGION] THE BOOK OF JOB
by Robert T Rose [Illustrator]
Edinburgh: The Abbey Press, 1902. Limited Edition. Good binding. Large 8vo; bound in vellum; with decorations and titling on upper board and spine in gilt; 97 pages; the vellum has stains particularly to the spine; lacking the silk ties to the upper board; the boards are a bit bowed. Limited to 750 copies printed on handmade paper of... Read More
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[CHILDREN] THE BEAR KING
by James Greenwood | Ernest Griset [Illustrator]
Edinburgh: Griffith & Farran, 1868. First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. 8vo; handsomely rebound in full calf, triple ruled in gilt with stops on the boards; 5 raised bands double ruled in gilt and a burgundy morocco label with gilt tilting and decoration; there is a burgundy paste-down under turn-ins elaborately decorated in gilt; 98 pages with... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] STORIES OF KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS. TOLD TO THE CHILDREN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/611/495/1700495611.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] STORIES OF KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS. TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
by Mary Macgregor | Katharine Cameron [Illustrator]
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo; in green paper covered boards with titling in black, and a pictorial pastedown; 115 pages, followed by a page of publisher’s ads for the “Told to the Children” series; there is a previous owner gift inscription on the front endpaper, dated Dec. 31st, 1906; the endpapers... Read More
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[ILLUSTRATED] THE BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
by Walter Jerrold (Editor) | Charles Robinson (Illustrator)
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, nd. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Thick quarto; in the publisher's red cloth with elaborate gilt pictorial spine and upper board; all edges gilt; trace of wear at the spine; with illustrations by Charles Robinsons with 15 color plates (the frontispiece in full color and 14 additional plates in... Read More
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THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS (70 PARTS IN 38 VOLUMES) | THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB; THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY; DOMBEY AND SON; THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP; THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD; THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT; LITTLE DORRIT; BLEAK HOUSE; THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST; BARNABY RUDGE; A TALE OF TWO CITIES
by Charles Dickens | Thomas Nast; C. S. Reinhart; W. L. Sheppard; Thomas Worth; J. Barnard; J. Mahoney (Illustrator)
New York: New York Book Concern, 1875. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Thomas Nast; C. S. Reinhart; W. L. Sheppard; Thoma. The Harper & Brothers editions of most of the major works of Charles Dickens, from the Pickwick Papers to A Tale of Two Cities. Issued with 70 parts in 38 fascicles by the New York Book Concern.... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] [FRENCH] [SAUCY ILLUSTRATIONS] MONSIEUR NICOLAS OU LE COEUR HUMAIN DEVOILE. MEMOIRES INTIMES DE RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. [COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/047/1428047178.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] [FRENCH] [SAUCY ILLUSTRATIONS] MONSIEUR NICOLAS OU LE COEUR HUMAIN DEVOILE. MEMOIRES INTIMES DE RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. [COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES]
by Restif de la Bretonne | Sylvain Sauvage (Illustrator)
Paris: Chez Henri Jonquieres & Cie, 1924. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Four large 8vo. volumes; in the publisher's quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, with green leather tips; with raised bands and lettering in gilt; marbled endpapers; [9], 10-385 pages; [7], 8-441; [7], 8-414; [7], 8-620 pages, including Index; followed by [621] Table for the four volumes;... Read More
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[SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] GODS AND GENERALS
by Jeff Shaara | Mort Kunstler [Illustrator
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Full Leather. Fine binding. Signed. Large 8vo; in midnight blue leather with titling and elaborate decorations in gold; all edges gilt; silk ribbon marker; silk moire endpapers; with the Easton Press Notes certificate and the Certificate of Authenticity signed by both Jeff Shaara and Mort Kunstler.~~Please note that this copy is essentially... Read More
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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] THE FIRST EDITOR: ALDUS PIUS MANUTIUS
by Theodore Low De Vinne | Antonio Frasconi [Illustrations]
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in terra-cotta paper-colored boards, emobrssed with the Aldus imprint; in cream colored linen with vertical titling in gold; the linen is foxed; 39 pages; with 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates, and other illustrations, some in color.; the book is housed in a matching... Read More
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NOBODY'S DOLL
by Adele de Leeuw | Anne Vaughan (Illustrator)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. Full page illustrations, some in color. Short tear to the front endpaper. Chipping and tears to the dustjacket, and section of loss to the rear cover of the dustjacket. Clay colored cloth with blue lettering, and a Fair dustjacket. Very Good binding /... Read More
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[STUDENT MEMORY BOOK] [VIRGINIA] [NORTH CAROLINA] MY SCHOOL DAYS
by Faye Savage [Student] | Florence White Williams [Illustrator]
Akron, Ohil: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1920. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo,; in pink cloth binding with decoration and titling in gilt; pages printed in pink and grey; truly chock full of information and charm -- over 60 pages have writing on them, or letters or invitations attached.~~The owner was Faye Savage who graduated from high school... Read More
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