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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![[SIGNED] THE A.E.F. OF A CONSCIENTIOUS SUBALTERN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/809/178/1665178809.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] THE A.E.F. OF A CONSCIENTIOUS SUBALTERN
by Hanford MacNider | C. LeRoy Baldridge [Illustrator]
Mason City, Iowa: Klipto, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto, in pictorial boards; [6], 7-62 pages; this copy with a nice personal inscription by the author: “To Colonel Bob Barton. Who could probably tell better tales. Harold MacNider. March 30, 1956.”~~Hanford MacNider saw action on both World Wars I and II. Near Fine binding.... Read More
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[SIGNED] [YOUNG ADULT] DEAR MR. HENSHAW
by Beverly Cleary | Paul O. Zelinsky [Illustrator]
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1983. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo,; in the publisher's white cloth over blue paper-covered boards with dustjacket; there is some spotting to the front endpaper; this copy of the Newbery Medal-winning young adult novel is signed by Beverly Cleary "For Sarah, Beverly Cleary" on... Read More
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[PRESENTATION COPY] [SPECIAL PRESS] PANNYCHIS
by Eleanor Farjeon | Clare Leighton [Illustrator]
Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. 8vo.; in marbled paper boards backed in parchment, lettered in black to the spine; with the publisher's somewhat torn and darkened glassine wrapper present; 14 pages on hand-made paper, followed by the colophon; the edition limited to 225 copies of which this is number 93;... Read More
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FRITIOFS SAGA
by Esaias Tegner | Knut Ekwall (Illustrator)
[Sweden]: Allhems Forlag, 1959. Full Leather. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Fritiof's Saga in Swedish, with 12 illustrations in black and white by Knut Ekwall, and translated by Esaias Tegner. The Tegner translation, and the accompanying Ekwall illustrations, is a prominent Swedish translation, first published in partial form in 1820 and complete in 1825. Full blue calf with lettering... 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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[CHILDREN] STORIES OF ROBIN HOOD. TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
by H. E. Marshall; A. S Forrest [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; 122 pages; there is a previous owner gift inscription on the front endpaper, dated Dec. 31st, 1907; the endpapers have toning; with eight unnumbered leaves of plates, including the frontispiece. Very Good binding.... Read More
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[CHILDREN] STORIES OF WILLIAM TELL AND HIS FRIENDS.. TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
by H. E. Marshall; L. L. Gloag [Illustrator]
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo; in grey paper covered boards with titling in black, and a pictorial pastedown; 112 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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[CHILDREN] [WOMEN] THE KEWPIE PRIMER
by Elisabeth V. Quinn [Text and Music] | Rose O’Neill [Illustrations]
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in publisher’s grey pictorial boards with decoration and titling in purple; viii, [2], 118 pages, with illustrations in color and with music; there is a previous owner name in childish handwriting on the front endpaper, which has a couple of light creases.~~The creator... Read More
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[CHILDREN] MISS MINERVA GOIN' PLACES
by Emma Speed Sampson | William Donahey (Illustrator)
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5"); in the publisher's burgundy cloth with pictorial stamping in black; [10], 11-327 pages; in a bright dustjacket with modest shelfwear; there is a previous owner children's bookplate on the pastedown; a bit of toning to the endpapers; no... Read More
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[SIGNED] [POETRY] UNTUNE THE SKY. POEMS OF MUSIC AND DANCE
by Helen Plotz | Clare Leighton [Illustrator]
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in tan boards, with dustjacket; xv, [xxvii], [2], 3-162 pages, including the Index of First Lines; this copy is signed with an inscription by Helen Plotz on the front endpaper, and is signed on the title page as well; it is... Read More
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BELGIUM, THE RHINE, ITALY, GREECE, AND THE SHORES AND ISLANDS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED ENGRAVINGS. VOL. I & II. (TWO VOLUMES IN ONE)
by G. N. Wright; L. F. A. Buckingham | Thomas Allom; Cockburn; Irton; Grenville T. Temple; Allen; Bartlett; Leitch; Wolfensberger (Illustrator)
London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. | The Caxton Press, 1850. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Wright and Buckingham's historical descriptions of various places in Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, with engraved illustrations by various artists. Complete with two volumes bound in one. Vol. I is complete with... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] [ILLUSTRATED] THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. DUPLICATE SET OF PLATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/598/372/1594372598.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] [ILLUSTRATED] THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. DUPLICATE SET OF PLATES
by Geoffrey Chaucer | W. Russell Flint [Illustrator]
[London]: Riccardi Press, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; gray cloth portfolio with titling in gilt to the cover, with silk tie; with 36 mounted color plate by W. Russell Flint, all with captioned tissue guards; the plates are a duplicate set produced for the original limited edition.~~With two bookplates for Willis Vickery, an Ohio jurist and... Read More
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SOUVENIRS D'UN VIEUX PECHEUR
by H. de Chavannes de la Giraudiere | Victor Adam (Illustrator)
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs - libraires, 1853. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good binding. A juvenile work about fishermen, illustrated by Victor Adam, a 19c Parisian painter and lithographer. With seven unnumbered, hand colored, lithographic plates, of the original eight. A few extruding signatures; surface loss to the front endpaper and recto of the frontispiece, likely removing... 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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[SPECIAL PRESS] MORAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SHORT LIFE OF THE EPHEMERON
by Thomas Boreman | Lance Hidy [Illustrator]
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in tan linen with printed paper label, housed in a matching linen box; 17 unnumbered pages with color illustrations by Lance Hidy; the bottom corner of the frontispiece is lightly wrinkled; one of one hundred copies signed by the illustrator Lance Hidy and the printer David... Read More
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[FINE BINDINGS] THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN (IN TEN VOLUMES)
by Jane Austen | C. E. Brock (Illustrator)
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1908. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good binding. Ten 16mo. volumes; in three quarter blue morocco double ruled at the edges, over marbled paper boards with matching endpaper; top edges gilt; the spines with raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornaments in the Egyptian style; some edgewear; foxing and fading to the marbled... Read More
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[PRESENTATION BY THE ILLUSTRATOR] RETURN OF THE NATIVE
by Thomas Hardy | Clare Leighton (Illustrator)
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo; in the publisher's blue paper-covered boards, backed in linen; with paper spine lable, with dustjacket, and with the original glassine wrapper; x, xi-xiii; [2], 3-484, [485]; with 12 tipped in woodcuts and with numerous textual illustrations; the... Read More
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[SIGNED] CHRISTMAS A STORY
by Eleanor Roosevelt | Fritz Kredel [Illustrator]
New York: Alfred A. Knopd, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Sigend. 12mo.; pictorial boards with dustjacket; the dustjacket has minor wear and has not been price-clipped; 42 pages; with illustrations by Fritz Kredel throughout.~~Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half title page. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[RICHMOND] PHOTOGRAPHIC MONTAGE; RICHMOND] IMPERIAL TOBACCO BUILDING FOR SALE
by Matt Wiltshire Inc
A montage of 14 photographs showing the exterior as well as a number of interior views of the Imperial Tobacco Company building at the corner of Fifth and Franklin Streets in Richmond. The three-story Federal style office building was built to house the American branch of the London tobacco company; it was sold, we believe, in the late 1960's.... Read More
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[CINEMA] [POSTER] THE COBWEB
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc
National Screen Service Corp, 1961. 11”X14” monochromatic poster for the 1955 MGM drama film, The Cobweb. The film is based on a novel by William Gibson, surrounding various conflicts at a psychiatric institution. The poster is copyrighted 1961 and was licensed for display at a movie theater, to be returned. Excellent.
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![[GENEALOGY] THE REGISTERS OF DALTON-LE-DALE, IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. BAPTISMS, 1635-1812;. MARRIAGES, 1653=1812. BURIALS, 1653-1812](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/330/1686330115.0.m.jpg)
[GENEALOGY] THE REGISTERS OF DALTON-LE-DALE, IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. BAPTISMS, 1635-1812;. MARRIAGES, 1653=1812. BURIALS, 1653-1812
by Rev. G. W. Anson Firth; Wilrid Leighton {Indexed)
Sunderland: Privately printed for the Durham and Northumberland Parish Register Society, 1910. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; in black half-morocco over blue cloth, textblock with rough-cut edges; viii, 91 pages, including the Index; viii, 77 pages, including the Index viii, 38 pages, including the Index. the first and last pages of the book have... Read More
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ILLUSTRATED RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA, 1904. RALEIGH OF TODAY. THE CAPITAL CITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATION CENTER OF THE STATE
by Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Kinderhook, N. Y.: W. S. Kline & Company, 1904. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. An illustrated guide to the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1904, depicting various landscapes, monuments, and local businesses. With photographic illustrations of such places as the local pharmacist, birthplace of President Johnson, numerous banks and schools, and others. Short closed tears to the edges... Read More
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WRITING FOR THE PEDAL HARP (NEW INSTRUMENTATION)
by Ruth Inglefield
Univ of California Pr, 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. Flexible record in pocket in the back of the book. Very Good binding.
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PICTURESQUE HOLY LAND; ITS PEOPLE AND HISTORY, WITH SCENES AND EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF JESUS AND HIS APOSTLES; THE HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, AND EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY
by G. H. Ingraham
New Haven, Conn: University Publishing Company, 1879. In the publisher's green cloth binding, stamped in black and in gilt; there is some wear to the bottom of the spine, and the bottom edge of the boards. Boards have beveled edges, and all edges of the textblock are gilt. With a splendid chromolithographed half-title page. Illustrated with... Read More
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