Heart and Head Together
by MacDonald (George) and HUGHES (Arthur)
HUGHES (Arthur): "Heart and Head Together." ca. 1870. Original pen-and-ink illustration for the book "At The Back of the North Wind" by George Macdonald (p. 151; London: Strahan & Co., 1871). Measures 3-1/8 x 2-1/4 inches. Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Accompanied with a copy of the First American edition of the book (New York: Routledge, 1871), published after the British original.
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ROBIN HOOD's GARLAND being a complete history of all the Notable and Merry Exploits
by Ballads
ROBIN HOOD's GARLAND being a complete history of all the Notable and Merry Exploits performed by Him and his Men on many Occasions to which is added a Preface giving more full and particular account of his Birth, &c. London: printed and sold, circa 1780. With title vignette + 27 narrow rectangular woodcut illustrations. 8vo, 96pp with first and final page dust-soiled, top numeral on last page clipped (also affecting a few letters in top headline); 3/4 leather with gilt... Read More
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MAGAZINE: Blood and Sweat Weekly-Cultural Suppress Bandits Special Issue《汗血》文化剿匪专号
by Cultural Suppress Bandits
MAGAZINE: Blood and Sweat Weekly-Cultural Suppress Bandits Special Issue《汗血》文化剿匪专号 Shanghai: Published by Blood and Sweat Press, January 1, 1934, Volume 2, Issue 1, Special Issue for Cultural Suppress Bandits, weekly magazine. 16 pages, large 8vo, printed pictorial wrappers, library sealed on the frontcover, slight tears to the edge, else fine condition. Slogan: to make a living with your sweat, to save our country with our blood on the cover, articles about the culture background and the author's opinions about the current situation.... Read More
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Dear Ivy, Dear June
by POTTER (Beatrix)
POTTER (Beatrix)Dear Ivy, Dear June; Letters from Beatrix PotterToronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H Smith Collections, 1977.Illustrated, including many facsimile sketches taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's original picture-letters, here transcribed. 8vo., x 166 pp.; brown cloth with gilt title on spine and pictorial design gilt-stamped on upper cover, orange pictorial board slip-case. As New. First and only edition of these fifty-four letters written from 1924 to 1943 to Ivy Hunt Steel and her daughter Jane. The elder recipient... Read More
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A Happy Pair
by POTTER (Beatrix):
Beatrix Potter's first book POTTER (Beatrix): A Happy Pair. Verses by F E Weatherley [London:] Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Illustrated with six chromolithographs by Potter (one duplicated as the front cover design). 12mo., [7] ff.; pictorial card wrappers (slight staining, but an exceptionally clean copy), with original silk ties and tassels, all edges gilt. Protective clamshell cloth box. First edition. Beatrix Potter's FIRST Book, most likely published without her knowledge, based upon her contribution towards creating Christmas Card designs. Precedes "Peter Rabbit" by nearly 10 years.
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Autograph postcard "GENIUS IN A FAMILY IS A NUISANCE."
by Shaw (George Bernard)
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph postcard with printed letterhead, signed with initials "GBS" to Alfred Feuer Jr (USA) discussing children and the transmissibility of genius. 1 page, 12mo; slight creasing to lower right corner, addressed in holograph on verso. Welwyn, dated 11 March 1947. A brilliant example of Shaw's wit and analysis: "The fathers and sons of geniuses are mostly nobodies. Human stock, like agricultural, needs fallow as well as foison. Adopted children are always available; and they... Read More
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Mechanisms of Locomotive Machines (translated)
by CHARLES (Bertrand)
LOCOMOTIVES. Damage and Mechanism of Locomotive Machines (translated) by Bertrand Charles. Aillevillers, 1908. Colored map of the French railway network mounted inside front cover, also captioned photographs of 2 French steam locomotives: # 3109 from 1907 and # 3728 from 1908, both with 4 cylandars. Square 4to, 67pp holograph manuscript (in French); original cloth-backed marbled boards, edges rubbed. In 1907, the French railway companies were busy modernizing their fleets for faster and heavier trains. Around 1908, French steam traction underwent an... Read More
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Le Prométhée Mal Enchaine by ANDRÉ GIDE.
by (BONNARD, Pierre)
(BONNARD, Pierre) Le Prométhée Mal Enchaine by André Gide. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1920. With 30 illusttrations by Pierre Bonnard. Square 4to, [112]pp; pictorial printed wrappers, with tissue wrappes as issued. LIMITED TO 765 copies (# 336), from the library of American artist MAURICE SENDAK with his Jennie bookplate and his signature on front free endpaper: "Maurice Sendak / Paris - July '62". A German version translated by Franz Blei was published in the same year containing... Read More
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"Unknown Country". The Story of Czechoslovakia by Preston Benson.
by (MINIATURE BOOK)
(MINIATURE BOOK) "Unknown Country", the Story of Czechoslovakia by Preston Benson. London: Lincolns-Prager, 1942. With diagram map inside front cover + 16pp photographs. 32mo, 95pp; pictorial printed wrappers. Fine copy. First edition. On the history and anti-Nazi resistance of Czechoslovakia. Measures 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 inches. No other copy in commerce besides a 1943 revised version printed in the USA.
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De Gjouwer,
by BYRON (Lord George Noël Gordon, Baron
BYRON (Lord George Noël Gordon, Baron), 1788–1824 De Gjouwer, Fragment eener Turksche Vertelling. Naar het Engelsch van Lord Byron door J J L Ten Kate. Dordrecht: van Houtryve en Bredius, 1840. 8vo., viii 127 pp.; original cloth-backed printed decorated blue-grey boards (soiled, printed spine label rubbed, spine ends chipped). Dutch edition of "The Giaour" (1813).
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Het Beleg van Corinthe
by BYRON (Lord George Noël Gordon, Baron)
BYRON (Lord George Noël Gordon, Baron), 1788–1824 Het Beleg van Corinthe. Uit het Engelsch van Lord Byron. Door Mr. J. van Lennep. Amsterdam: P Meijer Warnars, 1831. 8vo., 59 pp.; original grey-green printed boards (spine darkened, minor rubbing to spine ends) Dutch edition of "The Siege of Corinth" (1816)
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The Passions, Humourously Delineated; Containing Twenty-Five Plates, With His Portrait, Title Plate, and Poetical Descriptions
by (CARICATURE) BOBBIN (Timothy), aka John Collier (1708-1786)
(CARICATURE) BOBBIN (Timothy), aka John Collier (1708-1786): THE PASSIONS, Humourishly Delineated, containing 25 plates with his portrait, title-page and poetical descriptions. London: J Hayes for Edward Orme, 1810 (several plates watermarked 1825). With 26 hand-colored plates + uncolored portrait of Tim Bobbin. Folio, [xxxiii] + plates; gilt titled leather-backed marbled boards, edges lightly rubbed. Collier was the Lancashire Hogarth, and celebrated both for his illustrations and his writings. These illustrations evoke the saucy genre paintings of earlier Dutch artwork as well... Read More
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The Treasury of Ornamental Art
by (COLOR-PRINTING) ROBINSON (J C):
TREASURY OF ORNAMENTAL ART: illustrations of Choice Objects of Art and Virtu [sic], selected from the Museum of Ornamental Art, at Marlborough House. With descriptive notices by J C Robinson. London: Day & Son, also Thompson & Co., 1857. Complete with 71 full-page chromolithographs of textiles, statues, silver, Wedgewood, furniture, pewter, &c &c. Royal 4to, [vii] unpaginated, all edges gilt; 3/4 vintage red leather gilt (dulled), slight chip at top of spine, marbled endpapers. A... Read More
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UNCLE REMUS
by HARRIS (Joel Chandler):
HARRIS (Joel Chandler): Uncle Remus or Mr Fox, Mr Rabbit and Mr Terrapin. London: George Routledge (1881, re-issued 1893). With 50 illustrations by A T Elwes. 8vo, xxxi 248pp + (8) adverts; pictorial dark lavender cloth (spine ends, edges and corners rubbed). Overall, a very good copy. British edition of this American classic with book reviews verso the title-page reprinted from the New York Times, New York World, Philadelphia Telegraph, Boston Courier, Boston Journal, and Punch, also including an introduction by... Read More
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Group of 16 titles collectively called BUDS & BLOSSOMS.
by (CHAPBOOKS)
(CHAPBOOKS) Buds & Blossoms. London: Groomsbridge, 1870s. Sixteen separately paginated titles bound as one: Percy Gimson the Happy Orchard, Katey's Voyage, Buttercups and Daisies, Alice and her Bird, Twelfth Night, Sandy the Catm How to Catch a Butterfly, New Ascent of Mont Blanc, Parrots and Nightingales, Visit to Queen Victoria, Busy Bees, Children's Visit to the Sea, Hero without Courage, Spring and Summer, Faithful Dog, A Doll's Story, each 24pp illustrated; blue binder's cloth, gilt-titled spine.
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OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois
by BAUDELAIRE (Charles):
BAUDELAIRE (Charles): OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908. Large 8vo., 416 pp. (untrimmed); maroon half-leather, spine gilt lettered, original full yellow printed wrappers bound in place. Portrait frontispiece (in two states: wood engraved and monochrome/bistre) from a photograph taken in 1865 by Charles Neyt. Deluxe edition, including for the first time the articles of "Corsaire-Satan" and "Paris-Journal". ONE of 87 COPIES (# 22) on Hollande papier, printed specially for Mm. Cumin & Masson. Reference: Carteret, Trésor du bibliophile, 131;... Read More
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The Bronté Birthday Book.
by BRONTE (Charlotte)
(BRONTE FAMILY) The Bronté Birthday Book containing extracts for every day in the year from the works of the sisters Bronté. Selected and arranged by M. E. Bradshaw Isherwood. London: Henry J Drane, circa 1902. 16mo, 246pp + [10] blanks at the end' padded blue leather gilt-titled on upper cover, spine ends lightly scuffed. Undated, while OCLC records copies at the British Library and Cambridge imprinted 1899 and 1900. Very scarce, unused, no other copy currently listed in antiquarian search engines.... Read More
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THE COMMON ACCIDENCE Examined and Explained by Short Questions and Answers
by HOOLE (Charles):
HOOLE (Charles): THE COMMON ACCIDENCE Examined and Explained by Short Questions and Answers according to the very words of the Book. London: Thomas Longman, 1738. Small 8vo, 141pp + [xix] index ** Bound With: Terminationes et Exempla. 1739, 20pp + Propria Quæ Maribus ... for the use of Young Grammarians, nd, [i] 122pp, both sections by Charles Hoole; early sheep scuffed, outer hinges partly cracked but intact. Lower damage to blank front free endpaper,... Read More
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The Communistic Societies Of The United States: From Personal Visit And Observation:
by NORDHOFF (Charles)
First edition of this influential and extensive study of the communitarian ideal in the United States. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) emigrated to the United States as a child, and went on to have a varied career as sailor, journalist and writer. His grandson Charles Bernard Nordhoff is the famous historian of the Bounty. In The Communistic Societies of the United States, Nordhoff recounts his travels to many of the socialistic societies which became popular in the nineteenth century, most famously the... Read More
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Mémoires de Charles Perrault, de l’Académie Françoise
by PERRAULT (Charles);
PERRAULT (Charles): Mémoires de Charles Perrault, de l'Académie Françoise et Premier Commis des batimens du Roi. Contenant beaucoup de particularités & d'Anecdotes intéressantes du ministère de M. Colbert. Avignon: {Pierre Patte,] 1759. First edition of the Memoirs by the author of Mother Goose's Tales, very rare when preserved in an elegant ancient binding as our copy. Tchemerzine, V, 188 The Memoirs stop after the break with Colbert and were published by the architect Pierre Patte. Originally coming from the region of Tours,... Read More
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L'Ille Rose
by VILDRAC (Charles)
VILDRAC (Charles), 1882–1971 and EDY-LEGRAND [Édouard Warschawsky], illus. L'Ile Rose. Paris: Tolmer éditeur, (1924). Sq. 8vo., [2]ff. map [endpapers], [iii]147[2] pp., [1]colophon + [2]ff. map [meant as endpapers if rebound]; printed pictorial wrappers (some minor soiling, wear). Illustrated with pochoir text illustrations by Edy-Legrand (1892–1970). Considered the First Modern Children's Novel.
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32 titles (see below)
by CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications.
CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications. London: S Hazard for J Marshall, circa 1795. 12mo, [xxiv] including 22 pages of Subscriber's names + History of Tom White the Postilion, Way to Plenty, Two Shoemaker, Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain (two parts), Book of Martyrs, Two Soldiers, Plague in London 1665, Execution of Maclean (Gentleman Highwayman), Divine Songs by Isaac Watts, Life of William Baker, Lancashire Collier Girl, Beggerly Boy, Good Mother's Legacy, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Noah's Flood, Hints to... Read More
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BOOK OF THE LANTERN (The) being a Practical Guide to the working of the Optical (or Magic) Lantern
by HEPWORTH (T C):
HEPWORTH (T C): BOOK OF THE LANTERN (The) being a Practical Guide to the working of the Optical (or Magic) Lantern with full and precise directions for making and colouring lantern pictures. London: azell, Watson and Viney, , 1890. With 75 text illustrations. 8vo, xii 278pp + xxv adverts; grey cloth with gilt-titled spine (dulled), spine ends and corners a bit worn, overall a very good copy. Third edition with 19 chapters on construction of the lantern, optical system, screens, lantern... Read More
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Today's Children, Tomorrow's Hope The Story of Children in the Occupied Lands.
by (World War II - Children)
(WORLD WAR II - Children) Today's Children, Tomorrow's Hope The Story of Children in the Occupied Lands. [New York:] United Nations Information Office, [circa 1946]. Illustrated. 8vo, 52pp; photographic pictorial wrappers. Fine copy overall.First edition thus, an earlier version with only 40pp appeared about 1945. Promoting children's well-being worldwide, UNICEF works in various areas including fighting poverty, violence, disease and discrimination at the grass-roots as well as through work on policies, programmes and advocacy.... Read More
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PANORAMA OF PEKING during the Celebrations of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Emperor Kang-He's birthday.
by (CHINA)
(CHINA)PANORAMA OF PEKING during the Celebrations of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Emperor Kang-He's birthday.Shanghai: Tien-Shin-Chai, 1879.Profusely illustrated throughout with 292 pages lithographed with images, mostly captioned below in English script and on the sideSmall 8vo, measures: 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches (155 x 96 mm), original gilt pictorial purple silk wrappers (front cover dulled).First edition thus.With 6 page Introduction in English, explaining that the festivities being described date back to the western calendar year 1721. Six pages... Read More
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