THE POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING (2 volumes)
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
NY: C.S. Francis & Co, 1854. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. VG+. Stated New Edition on title page, after the first in 1850. Two uniform volumes; narrow ribbed brown cloth, blind pressed front and back, gilt to spine. Some loss spine ends. Solid, clean pair.
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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Mott, A. S. (introduction)
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, matching endpapers, gte, gilt to spine, (xii), 26. Errata statement printed at bottom of xii. Top edge slightly darkened/soiled, and marbled boards a wee dulled. Internals fine. No names or bookplates and desirable thus.
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THE UNKNOWN INDIAN
by Browne, Gertrude Bell. Vernon, David Thomas (illustrated by)
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. A near fine copy in uncommon pictorial dustjacket (by David Thomas Vernon) that is worn, chipped about edges but still presentable.
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Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, By Which All, or Most, of the Principal Texts of Scripture May Be Easily Found Out
by Brown, John
New-York: Whiting and Watson, Theological and Classical Booksellers, 1812. Revised and Corrected Edition. Leather Spine/Paper Boards. Good+. Leather spine cracked with signatures barely visible at top end. Corners and edges rubbed, minor darkenings and fadings to covers. Foxing at pastedowns, modest foxing throughout, not affecting readability. Previous owner signatures at free endpapers. Binding firm.
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BATTLE OF THE FROGS: A DISCOERY OF THE RARE & SINGULAR DISTURBANCES OF AN HISTORIC NIGHT: WITH OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF MOMENT COMPRISING THE EPIC OF WINDHAM BY THERON BROWN
by Brown, Theron
Windham CT: Hawthorn House, 1934. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. Holden, Ray (decorations by). Limited to 260 copies. Small 8vo, striped green paperbacked boards over rough linen spine, sides untrimmed. Tiny ownership initials front pastedown. A lovely production. Scarce.
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The Family Prayer Book, or the Book of Common Prayer
by BROWNELL, Thomas Church
NY: Stanford and Swords, 1849. Full Leather. VG+. Cook & Somerville, Binders. Large 8vo, 788 pages. Brown pebbled leather, elaborately gilt pressed front, back and spine, raised bands, gte, bound by Cook & Somerville. Ownership copy of Cornelia R. Rhoades, with her name gilt pressed on front cover in multi-ruled surround, and 1849 Christmas gift inscription to her front fly.
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PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA: Or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
by Browne, Thomas
London: Printed by T. H. for Edward Dod, 1646. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio, [xx] + 386, with decorated letters and head pieces. First edition, probable second state with the publisher's line reading in full "Printed by T.H. for Edward Dod, and are to be sold in Ivie Lane." (The probable first state, reads"Printed by Tho. Harper for Edvvard Dod."). With the license leaf in front and a blank in rear. Contemporary (likey original) full calf,... Read More
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Retriever Gun Dogs: History, Breed Standards and Training--Upland Game and Waterfowl Specialists
by Brown, William F.
West Hartford, VT: The Countryman Press, 1945. Limited. Cloth Spine, Paper Boards. Near Fine +. Megargee, Edwin. 334 of 375 copies. Color illustrated frontispiece, b&w photographs throughout. Edges and corners sharp. In VG publisher's paper-board slipcase with minor scuffing and wear to corners and edges.
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The Crucial Race Question: Or Where and How Shall the Color Line Be Drawn
by Brown, William Montgomery
Little Rock: The Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. An as new copy in as new dustjacket remarkably preserved in publisher's wrap-around cardboard folder. RELIGION CHRISTIANITY RACE POLITICS.
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Morris Ketchum Jesup: A Character Sketch
by Brown, William Adams
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo, green buckram cloth, gte, 247p, slip laid-in "With the compliments of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup". Includes chapter on the North Pole discovery. Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830 - 1908) was an American banker and philanthropist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History and was known as a leading patron of scientific research and an eminent art collector, particularly towards his support for Frederic... Read More
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Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success
by Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine.
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VIA 1, ECOLOGY IN DESIGN
by Bruce Davidson, Luis Barragan, Louis Kahn, Armando Salas Portugal et al (contributors)
(Philadelphia): Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvanai, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Scarce 1968 student publication of the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania from a diverse group of contributors - designers, architects and photographers - who had influential careers in their fileds. Photographer Bruce Davidson contributes 16 b& photos, two years before he published East 100th Street, which put him on the map. Photographer Armando Salas Portugal has 14 pages of... Read More
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SELF-CONTROL A NOVEL (3 volumes)
by Brunton, Mary. (Austen, Jane)
Edinburgh: George Ramsay & Co, 1811. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Mary Brunton (1778-1818) was a Scottish novelist, whose work has been seen as redefining femininity. Self-Control was her first novel, followed by Discipline in 1814. Brunton was a direct contemporary of Jane Austen; Austen and her family read and enjoyed Self-Control, though she was bemused by some of its narrative extravagance. In three volumes, a popular format for British novels at the time, here bound in mustard-colored half... Read More
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Children of Ol' Man River
by Bryant, Billy; Ridge, Martin (ed.)
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1988. Reprint. Cloth. Almost As New/No Jacket, as Issued. in marvelous condition, gilt lettering front panel and spine, clean copy.
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What I Saw in California, Being the Journal of a Tour.in the Years 1846,1847. (Volume One of the Calafia Series)
by Bryant, Edwin. Sides, Dorothy Smith (illustrator). Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer (notes, index and bibliography by)
Santa Ana: The Fine Arts Press, 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xxiv (1) 481 (1), tan, pebbled half-leather, faux leather covers with wagon-wheels blind-pressed front cover. Some loss to leather at spine ends and at lower corners. Internals near fine - apparently unread. Layout and design by Thomas E. Williams.
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The Ghost in the Attic
by Bryan, George S.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Cloth Spine/Paper Boards. Near Fine/Very Good -. Green plaid boards with very gently rubbed corners. Christmas bookplate "To Florence Mansfield" pasted in above author's signature at ffe. Rough-cut pages, clean text. Dj with minor chipping at corners and spine ends, very small piece missing top spine end, slightly faded spine. Binding tight and firm.
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Georgia O'Keefe In The West
by Bry, Doris and Nicholas Gallaway (edited by)
NY: Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. As new copy still in publisher's (soiled) printed cardboard box as shipped to bookstores. As new dustjacket with clear printed acetate band.
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Nobody Lives Forever
by Buchanan, Edna R.
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Excellent copy.
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THE GOOD EARTH
by Buck, Pearl S.
NY: The John Day Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. Very nice copy lacking dustjacket. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck (Author of Theological Dictionary) Containing the Young Christian's Guide: A Treatise on Religious Experience; togetehr with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral and Entertaining
by Buck, Rev. Charles
Hartford: Andrus Starr & Co, 1814. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Early printing after its first publication in 1808 from publisher Starr in Hartford, printed by Hart & Lincoln. Original or old, full calf, red spine label, covers worn, still solidly bound, 8vo, 354pages. Free front endpaper and flyleaf ripped.
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NINA, AN ICELANDIC TALE
by (Budden, Maria Elizabeth)
London: Printed for Harris and Son, 1819. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon juvenile chapbook, one of publisher Harris' Little Books, 9 x13.5 cm, red leather spine, gilt title, (vi),128,(8) (list of 27 other Little Book titles in rear). With frontispiece of erupting hot springs. Covers worn, binding solid, and particularly bright interior. Presumed first edition, OCLC identifies only 1 edition of 1819 in 2 libraries; all other editions are dated after 1819. Contemporary gift inscription in... Read More
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Buffon's Natural History, Abridged. Including the History of the Elements, The Earth, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shellfish, Lizards, Serpents, Insects & Vegetables. Illustrated with Great Vareity of Copper Plates Elegantly Engraved
by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc
London: Published for C.& G. Kearsley, 1792. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Abridged, two volume edition and first thus. Contemporary tree calf. marbleized endpapers. Labels on spine partially missing, and spines heavily worn. xxxviii (1) 353, with plates I - XL. with errata leaf and directions to binder for both volumes; 494, with plates XLI - CVIL. Joints partially revealed, but holding. Firm binding. All plates extant. Some episodic spotting. Plates quite nice.
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WHITE SAILS TO CHINA
by Bulla, Clyde Robert. Henneberger, Robert G. (illustrations)
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine -/Very Good +. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Yellow cloth a bit spotted. Unclipped dustjacket modest wear along folds and spine tips. A collectibel copy. A seafaring childrens/ juvenile title.
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DENIZENS OF THE DEEP
by Bullen, Frank T. Charles Livingston Bull and Theodore Carreras (illustrations)
NY: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Publsher's green cloth with titles in gilt and pictoirial stamped in green, white and black. Owner inscription dated 1904, year of publication, on the ffe. Solid copy of the first edition.
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The Pilgrims of the Rhine. By the author of "Pelham", "Eugene Aram", &c
by (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward)
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Solid, unsophisticated copy of the American first edition of Lytton's famous work. 8vo, brown linen-backed covers, paper label spine (typical period binding), (xiii). 239, (1), 9 (3). Cloth faded a bit, more so at spine. Small corner of fly torn away. Slightly cocked spine.
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