The Tragic Muse
by James, Henry
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 619 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. This his definitive edition, revised from the first edition published 1890. Small book label of The Holiday Bookshop, New York.
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The Portrait Of A Lady; Illustrated By Colleen Browning
by James, Henry
New York: Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth with decorated spine. Fine in very good slipcase. (xi) 516 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Sixteen full page color plates Sandglass laid-in. As new copy.
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Splendid Century A Centennial History of The Union Central Life Insurance Company ofCincinnati, Ohio 1867-1967
by James, Ollie M.
Cincinnati: Union Central Life Insurance, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in black and white. Orig. blue cloth. Fine in rubbed dustwrapper.. 161 pp.
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Chroniques Et Legendes; Livre Orne De Douze Vignettes
by Paris. L. Janet
Paris: L. Janet, 1800. First edition. leather_bound. Full black calf, gilt arabesque border panels, spine and covers. Aeg. Near fine. 271 pages. 20 x 13 cm. All plates with tissue guards. From the Library of Betsy Flagg Melcher, American miniature portraitist, daughter of Ernest Flagg, noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts Style. The book is from the Studio... Read More
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Almanach Des Spectacles for the Year 1818
by Paris. Chez Janet
Paris: Chez Janet, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. Modern green cloth faded to brown. Very good. 144 pages. 13.5 x 8.5 cm. 11 engraved color fashion plates, plus color title page. Eight page events calendar for the year 1818 at rear. Interior contents generally clean. Where to go and what to see in France for the year. Text in... Read More
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Stairs
by Jansma, Rein
Amsterdam: Production Joost Elffers, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth decorated in blind. Fine in publisher's shipping case with front cover printed label. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. No text. Pop-up accordion book of ten variations of stairs by noted Dutch architect Rein Ransma. Clean, fresh copy.
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Le XV Siecle
by Jaulme, Andre
Paris: Henry Babou, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. board portfolio printed in red and black with cloth ties. Very good. 26 x 20 cm, 36 pages in text, forty plates. Preface by Louis Barthou. A review of early printing and the great books produced with movable type. Limited edition, copy 858 of 1150. Contents loose as issued and... Read More
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Meadow Thoughts
by Jefferies, Richard
Market Drayton, Salop: Tern Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf spine and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Fine. Parry, Nicholas. Unpaginated. 14 leaves. 24 x 16 cm. "Meadow Thoughts was first printed in Graphic and included in The Life of the fields in 1884." "Printed in 12 pt. Centaur on Maidstone paper and bound by Nicholas and... Read More
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Apology For Bad Dreams
by Jeffers, Robinson
San Francisco: James Linden, 1986. Hardcover. Orig. preliminaries and plates loose issued. Fine in fine blue clamshell box with front cover paper label. Folio, 36 x 36 cm. Limited edition, copy 38 of 50 with four photographs titled and signed by Michael Mundy, taken during a trip along the Big Sur River. All negatives were made using roll... Read More
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Description D'Une oreille de charrue, offrant le moins de resistance possible, et dont l'execution est aussi facile que certaine
by Jefferson, Thomas (president des Etats-Unis d'Amerique)
Paris: Chez Les Freres Levrault, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon library cloth, Very good. Pages 322 - 329 with a full page plate bearing ten figures (illustrations) for the construction D'une oreille de Charrue -- Jefferson's new design for a plough-ear which he tested in Monticello. This article appeared in "Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" -- Tome... Read More
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Some English Gardens
by Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood
London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens,... Read More
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The Guide Book to Historic Germantown, Prepared for the Site & Relic Society
by Jenkins, Charles F.
Germantown: Site & Relic Society, 1926. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Very good.. 167 pages. 12mo, maps and drawings. Index. More than thirty-six historic buildings are discussed, twenty-four are illustrated in line drawings. Bookplate.
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The Guide Book To Historic Germantown Prepared For The Site & Relic Society
by Jenkins, Charles F.
Germantown: Site and Relic Society, 1926. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine, brown boards, front cover paper label. Very good. 15.5 x 12.4 cm. Discusses the history of the settlement of Germantown with 36 individual historic buildings of which 24 are illustrated with charming line drawings. A number of sites presented have since been razed. Title printed in red... Read More
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Three Men In a Boat; To say nothing of the Dog!
by Jerome, Jerome K.
Ipswitch: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Beige linen spine lettered in gilt, linen decorated boards in vertical colored stripes. Fine in fine yellow slipcase lettered in gilt. John Griffiths. 234 pages. 23.5 x 28.4 cm. Introduction by Stella Gibbons, drawings by John Griffiths, 12 full page, two double page color drawings are color lithographs, numerous black and white... Read More
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The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
by Jerrold, Blanchard
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth spines and front covers decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. 2 Vols. Cruickshank, George. 284 & 280 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, very bright copy partly unopened. Bookplates free front endpapers of both volumes.
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The Best of all Good Company: A Series Of Daily Companions For The Pocket And The Pormanteau; Ashore And Afloat; In Town And Out Of Town; At Home And Abroad; Part I. A Day With Charles Dickens
by Jerrold, Blanchard (Editor)
London: The Useful Knowledge Company, 1871. First edition. leather_bound. Full crushed red morocco. Fine. 62 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Original yellow wrappers in fine condition bound-in, with Knife and Fork Advertisement,[devoted to the art of eating healthily] and sample of Dicken's handwriting. Bound by Birdsall, raised bands, spine richly gilt, triple gilt cover border fillets frame center... Read More
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The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs
by Jerrold, Blanchard
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full tan calf. Teg. 2 vols. Near fine. Cruikshank, George. 284 & 280 pages.19 x 13.5 cm. Extra-illustrated, 55 plates from other works, some tinted, most inlaid to size. This, in addition to the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, bright set... Read More
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High Victorian Design
by Jervis, Simon
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 300 pages. 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and... Read More
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Deephaven
by Jewett, Sara Orne
Boston: James S. Osgood And Company, 1877. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth, spine and front cover decorated in gilt. All edges red. Very good in fine beige and brown folding case. 255 pages. 15 x 11 cm. Born in Maine this was Orne's first novel written when she was nineteen years old in the... Read More
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Le Grand Livre De La Tapisserie
by Jobe, Joseph
Lausanne: Edita Lausanne, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth decorated in gilt. Near fine. 278 pages. Folio, 33 x 28 cm. Profusely illustrated: tipped-in and full page color plates, and black and white illustrations. Preface by Jean Lurcat. Articles by Pierre Verlet, Michel Florisooone, Adolf Hoffmeister and Francois Tabard. Indices.
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Extended Travel in Romantic America; Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed from Accounts by European Visitors; the Whole Embellished with Watercolour Drawings and Engravings of the Period
by Jobe, Joseph
Lausanne: Edita Lausanne, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated red leatherette. Fine in fine slipcase.. 221 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Lovely, as new copy.
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The Swiss Family Robinson; Illustrated with Engravings by David Gentleman and Introduced by Robert Cushman Murphy
by Wyss. Johann
New York: Heritage Press, 1964. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. (xiii) 354 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Full page black and white and text illustrations. As new copy.
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The Revelation Of Saint John The Divine
by Saint John
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. leather_bound. Orig. full red calf by the Gregynog Bindery. Very good. Blair Hughes-Stanton. Unpaginated. 35 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 26 of 250 with wood engravings and title page designed and engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton, hand set in Bembo and Perpetua type. More than 40 wood engravings, several are full paged. This... Read More
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Volpone or The Fox
by Johnson, Ben
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Boards. Patterned boards and brown spine. Near fine in matching patterned, near fine slipcase. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. With a new introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Limited edition,copy 1000 of 1500. Signed by Ben Sussan. NEWMAN & WICHE 236. Modest fading at backstrip foot.
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Chrysal: Or, The Adventures of a Guinea: By An Adept; A New Edition, To Which Is Now Prefixed A Sketch Of The Author's Life Embellished With Plates
by Johnstone, Charles
London: Printed For Hector M'Lean, 1821. New Edition. leather_bound. Bound in contemporary brown full diced calf, boards decoratively ruled in gilt, spines ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, plain blue endleaves. Near fine. 3 Vols. viii, 319; [iv], 321; [iv], 326 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 15 hand-colored plates engraved by Maddocks, E. F. Burney, and... Read More
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