Lithuania A Drama In One Act
by Brooke, Rupert
Chicago: The Chicago Little Theatre, 1915. First edition. Wraps. Orig. illustrated gray wrappers front cover bordered in brown. Near fine. 41 (4) pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. The Chicago Theatre was a repertory, and experimental art-theatre producing modern and classical plays, both tragedy and comedy at popular prices. It was located on Michigan Avenue in the Fine Arts Building. The play takes place in rural Lithuania, a impoverished family is visited by a wealthy stranger. Brooke never anticipated... Read More
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Fragments
by Brooke, Rupert
Hartford: Finlay Brothers (printers), 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards. Very good. 23 pages. 19.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 51 of 99. Foreword by R.M.G.P. [Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter]. A collection of his fragmentary works, some from his copy of Horace, used by him while at Rugby. "The verses from his copy of Horace, now in my possession, are here first printed." Mauve endpapers. Small bookseller label of Dartmouth Bookstall, Inc. Boston. Spine abraded. ... Read More
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The Collected Poems Of Rupert Brooke; The Title-Page And Portrait Cut On The Wood by C. Raverat
by Brooke, Rupert
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher To The Medici Society, Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth and boards, front cover paper label. Very good. Raverat, C.. 156 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 811 of 1000, printed in the Ricciardi fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. Interior contents clean and bright, slight toning to front cover, backstrip darkened.
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Fragments
by Brooke, Rupert
Hartford: Finlay Brothers (printers), 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine lettered in gilt and brown boards. Fine in creased original glassine wrapper. 23 pages. 19.5 x 15.5 cm. Copy "A" of 99 "To Aid Britain" and signed R.M.G.P. [Richard Montgomery Gilchrist Potter]. A collection of his fragmentary works, some from his copy of Horace, used by him while at Rugby. "The verses from his copy of Horace, now in my possession, are here first printed." Laid-in what... Read More
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Mother Goose In A New Dress 86 Designs By Walter Satterlee, In Colors
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated and illustrated boards front and back covers, maroon cloth spine. Upper cover has pictorial vignette captions: Curly Locks and other rhymes, The man in the moon and other rhymes, Bramble bush and other rhymes, Little Miss Muffet and other rhymes./ "Copyrighted 1882 by McLoughlin Bros"--Verso of title leaf/ Publisher's pictorial binding: chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards, red stained edges; illustrations in text chromolithographed./ Title page printed in gilt,... Read More
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Little Folks' Colored Picture Book
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt, front cover pictorial inset. Yellow endpapers. Very good. 64 unnumbered pages. 26 x 18 cm. Nine full page chromolithographs. Interior contents clean. Owner inscription front free endpaper and owner book label bottom back cover pastedown. Rubbing to corners, nicks to backstrip head and foot. OCLC: 24104347.
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The Little Farmer Girl And Other Stories, Illustrated
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: Mcloughlin Bros, 1800. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards with white borders. Very good. 32 pages. 28 x 23.5. Four chromolithograph full page plates and black and white illustrations in the text. Publisher "Office Sample - Not to be taken Away" noted at head of front cover. Never touched by little hands with interior pristine. Little workers series. The little hen-wife -- Feeding the chickens -- A hen and chickens -- The clucking hen -- The little hay-maker... Read More
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Autumn Sports
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick illustrated boards in a variety of colors. Very good. Leporello style with text in verse. Each sheet of 10 panels, glazed paper over boards, each connected at the side by tape; Total is 20 x 620 cm, folded to 20 x 31 cm. Sheet folded to make [10] leaves, the first of which has a recto title page and the last of which has a verso title page.... Read More
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By Land & Sea ; A Trip Personally Conducted by McLoughlin Bros
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick boards, illustrated front cover, red cloth backstrip.. 18 unnumbered pages. 31 x 29.5 cm. All plates are chromolithographs. Nineteenth-century children's book which shows the fascination of the time with travel, particularly in the new and exotic conveyances. The world tour begins in England on horse-back, and ends in America on the most contemporary pedal contraptions. The tour takes in Australia for a trip on the Blue Mountains zig-zag... Read More
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The LIttle Housekeepers And Other Stories Illustrated
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated chromolithograph cover bordered in white. Very good. [2 blank], 32 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Four full page chromolithograph plates printed one side only. Eleven lines of contents below the tittle. These titles were advertised as comprising the Little worker's series in the Catalogue of McLoughlin Bros. toy books (1886), p. 19./ In paper-covered boards with chromolithograph picture affixed to upper cover./ Plates chromolithographed. OCLC: 635982863.Spine abraded, light... Read More
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Dolly's Ride And Other Stories, Illustrated
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated chromolithograph cover bordered in white. Very good. [2 blank], 32 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Four full page chromolithograph plates printed one side only. Additional black and white illustrations in the text. Dolly's ride - My dog Shag - A race with Rover - Doggie and Dollie - The tea party noted at bottom front cover. OCLC: 990085632. Note at head of front cover "Office Sample Not to... Read More
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Reason In Rhyme For Little Children. One Hundred Choice Moral Rhymes; Embellished With Fifty Illustrations In Oil Colors
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover image on paper with gilt lettering above and below in gilt. Very good. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 14 cm. The supposed oil colors appear to be cromolithographs, usually with one or more images per page. Interior clean and fresh. Inscription front free endpaper datee December 25 1877.
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Kindness To Animals A Picture Gift Book For The Young
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1890. Hardcover. Red cloth spine intact. Gilt decorated colored cover. All edges red. Very good. 12 unnumbered leaves. 26.5 x 23 cm. Six full page chromolithographs. Faithful friends -- The dog -- The doe -- The sparrows' morning visit -- The pet lamb -- The pony. Back cover list of Publisher children's books. Some cover rubbing and nicks and light soil. Interior generally clean. OCLC: 905333786.
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Mother Goose In A New Dress; Bramble Bush And Other Rhymes
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated chromolitho covers in a variety of colors. Very good. 14 unnumbered pages. 34.4 x 28.5 cm. 4 full page chromolithograph plates, and smaller chromos within the text. An oversized edition, smaller size edition published 1882. OCLC: 179284789. Interior contents clean and bright. Rubbing and nicks to corners and spine.
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Oft Told, Never-Old Stories Alladin, Children-in-the-Wood Blue Beard
by New York. McLoughlin Bros
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 13 text pages. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Title page printed in a variety of colors. "Babes in the wood" is written in verse. The latter represents title page notation [Children-in-the-Wood]. Illustrations are chromolithographs with with original tissue guards. OCLC: 232570037. Interior contents very clean and fresh -- text and images. Spine abraded, binding tight and firm.
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Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect of Kurlsruhe A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
by Brownlee, David B (Ed)
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 163 pages. 246 illustrations some in color. Catalogue of Selected Drawings. Checklist of the Weinbrenner Collection at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.Bibliography. Concordance of Inventory Numbers. Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the 19th Century.
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Sonnets From The Portuguese
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
London: Riccardi Press, 1914. Hardcover. Quarter crimson morocco lettered in gilt and marbled covers. Near fine. 27 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition copy 206 of 1000 on handmade Riccardi Paper. "Three Hundred and Fifty of these copies have been specially bound in leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of which this is Number 206." Fresh, bright copy with water marked paper, flaw is stain at lower corner foot at fore-edge.
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Paved With Gold Or The Romance & Reality of The London Streets
by Mayhew. The Brothers Augustus and Henry (Illustrated by H.K. Browne)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Printed tan paper wrappers. Very good in very good in clam shell box. H.K. Browne. 22 x 14 cm. Each part of 32 pages and two engraved plates by H.K. Brown. The publisher's 32 page "Catalogue Of Books" bound in Vol. I. And with numerous other ads and slips inserted throughout. A complete run in thirteen monthly installments, a novel concerning Victorian London's underclass. Henry is best known for his noted... Read More
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English Art Series. London Buildings. London Paintings. London Sculpture
by Brown, Frank P.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head.
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Murillo & His Drawings
by Brown, Jonathan
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1976. First edition. Orig. cloth and boards. Fine in very good dust wrapper. Murillo, Bartolome Estaban. 200 pages. 22 x 26.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with nearly 100 black and white reproductions, over one-third of which have not previously been studied or published, as well as seventy-one comparative illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings by Murillo. Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 6916 . "Published in conjunction with an exhibition of drawings by Murillo held at the Art Museum,... Read More
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The Builders Of Florence; With Seventy-Four Illustrations By Herbert Railton
by Brown, J. Wood
New York: E.P. Dutton And Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. heavily gilt decorated front cover and spine. Teg. Very good. 431 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Index. Clean very fresh copy with wide text margins. Images are full page printed recto only on glossy stock. Railton trained as an architect and was one of the leading black and white illustrators of his day. Spine sunned.
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Block Printing & Book Illustration In Japan; With Forty-Three Plates (Eighteen In Colours), And Copious Indexes Of Titles And Artists
by Brown, Louise Norton
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd / E.P. Dutton & Co, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter beige spine and green boards with leather backstrip label printed in gilt. Fine in worn dust wrapper. 261 pages. Folio, 39 x 26 cm. Title page in red and black. Contents include Old-Book Shops In Japan, Glossary, Bibliography and Index. Wide text margins, all color plates with tissue guards. Interior fresh, bright and sharp. Chapters on Ukiyo-Ye Illustrators... Read More
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Piper's Pony; The Story of Patchwork
by Brown, Paul
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green illustrated boards spine lettered in white. Very good. Unpaginated. 22 x 28 cm. Signed presentation copy signed in pencil to John Lowry, Jr "with lots of luck Paul Brown 37." American illustrator of equestrian subjects although he was never formally trained as an artist. Profusely illustrated in black and white, Book-label of Bridget Ariel Lowry free front endpaper. Interior contents clean. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities.... Read More
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Domestic Architecture: Containing A History Of The Science, And The Principles Of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-Houses, Country Mansions, and Suburban Villas, With Practical Dissertations On Every Branch Of Building, etc..
by Brown, Richard
London: George Virtue, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth with front cover illustration in gilt, recased with a portion of original spine laid-down. Very good.. 342 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Engraved frontispiece of the author, and sixty-three plates containing perspective views and ground plans, and elevations drawn to scale. Also includes garden and landscape designs, ice house and dog house designs. Glossary of Landscape-Gardening Terms. HITCHCOCK," Early Victorian Architecture," notes "Brown's book is typical of... Read More
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Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
by Brown, Robert
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1971. Third edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine. 401 pages. Copiously illustrated with photographs. Index.
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