The Negro in Early American Songsters, "Reprinted for private circulation from The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. XXVIII, Part 2. 1934.
by DAMON, S. Foster
1934. Wraps. Near fine. [AFRICAN AMERICAN SONGS]. 8vo; 132-163pp [31pp]; stiff light brown wrapper, title printed on the front within a border; 2 staple binding; light shelf wear to wrapper; near fine. An article in praise of American-born music and an examination of the roots of much of this music, especially that which originated in the Black community of enslaved peoples. "The most vigorous American arts are democratic, and have risen from the soil, often against the disapproval... Read More
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Memoires d'une Poupee, Contes Dedies aux Petites Filles par Mlle. Louise D'Aulnay, Cinquieme edition (5th edition); English translation: Memories of a Doll, Stories dedicated to Little Girls
by D'AULNAY, Mlle. Louise [pseud. Julie GOURAUD]
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, 1850. Cloth. Very good +. Small 8vo; 188pp; gilt stamped dark brown, blind stamped borders, red and green accents to gilt frame around title on front cover, gilt stamped pictorial to rear cover, spine gilt stamped in elaborate decoration with red and green accents; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt; 12 hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards including frontispiece, small uncolored engraved illustrations; a few small page spots, back hinge paper cracked but firm, rear free... Read More
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French Country Cooking
by DAVID, Elizabeth
London: Macdonald & Co, 1958. John MINTON. [COOKERY]. John MINTON, illustrator. Second edition with revisions. 8vo; 207 + [1] pp publisher's ad; pale green cloth over board, brown decoration on spine with gilt lettering; fp and pictorial title page; 9 full page b&w illustrations; acidic browning of eps, light foxing to edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; very good plus in near fine dj. The first edition of this excellent book on French cooking was published in 1951, by... Read More
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The Twenty-Third Psalm
by [PSALM OF DAVID]
Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1965. Full leather. Fine/fine. Tasha TUDOR. [MINIATURE] [POETRY]. Tasha TUDOR, illustrator. Joh. Enschede' en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, printer. Miniature ( 3 11/16" x 2 11/16"); [36]pp including endpapers; grass green lightly pebbled leather, gilt-stamped title surrounded by a gilt twig oval; all edges gilt; light yellow endpapers with vignette of a rabbit encircled by a twig on the left, and a gopher vignette on the right; half-title followed by a color... Read More
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The Instructor Book of the Circus for Hectograph
by DAWSON, Mildred, editor
Dansville, N.Y.: F.A. Owen Company, 1946. Priscilla PERLEY, Bess Bruce CLEAVELAND, Mabel Betsy HILL. [EPHEMERA] [JUVENILE] [ACTIVITY BOOK] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Priscilla PERLEY, Bess Bruce CLEAVELAND, Mabel Betsy HILL, illustrators. 4to (10 ¾" x 8 ½"); 24pp printed recto only; stiff yellow wrapper printed in bright blue on front, rear panel has a stamp from the press "Please Order From Continental Press, Harrisburg, Pa."; line drawings in b&w each page; fine. Not recorded. A bright and very scarce children's... Read More
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Skippack School, Being the Story of Eli Schrawder and of one Christopher Dock, schoolmaster about the year 1750
by DE ANGELI, Marguerite
[Garden City, New York]: Junior Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Marguerite DE ANGELI. Marguerite DE ANGELI, illustrator. First edition. 8vo square; [88]pp; glazed brown buckram over board, stamped line drawing of a young boy with a book to front, title and author to spine; yellow pictorial endpapers; pictorial title page; color and b&w illustrations throughout; small crease to bottom corner title page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of... Read More
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Turkey for Christmas
by De ANGELI, Marguerite
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1944. Boards. Very good/very good. [HOLIDAY] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. First edition. 16mo (6 5/8" x 5 1/8"); [39]pp; peach colored decorated boards, portrait vignette of a woman and child on front, black lettering; color pictorial endpapers; vignette of a turkey on title page; decorative letters and small vignette illustrations in peach; scuffed corners; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, price of 75 cents on front flap, scuffing to edges, small split at spine head... Read More
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Up the Hill
by De ANGELI, Marguerite
Garden City, New York: Junior Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1942. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Marguerite De ANGELI. [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Later printing. 8vo square; 88pp; pale green cloth over board, green-stamped vining design with birds on front; color pictorial endpapers; ownership in childish pencil on verso ffep; color portrait of a girl on title page; pronunciation page before first chapter; 9 color and 11 black and white full-page illustrations, other illustrations in text; one page upper... Read More
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Snow Squall, The Last American Clipper Ship
by DEAN, Nicholas
Bath, Maine: Maine Maritime Museum, 2001. First printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by author. First printing. 8vo; xvi, [ii], 301pp; navy cloth over board, white stamped title to spine; grey mottled endpapers; pictorial title page, inscribed to "fellow author Lea Waite [Wait]" by Dean; b&w drawings & photographic illustrations; binding tight; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-88448-231-6. The history and rescue of the clipper ship, Snow Squall, from the Falkland Islands in the 1980s.... Read More
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Alphabet de la Brodeuse, Lettres Chiffres, Monogrammes et Ornements a points comptes suivis d'une série de modèles avec calques pour broderie de blanc, Bibliothèque D.M.C.; English: Embroidery Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, monograms and Ornaments with counted stitches followed by a series of examples with transfers for white embroidery, D.M.C. Library
by De DILLMONT, Th. [Thérèse], editor
Dornach (Alsace, France): Dollfus-Mieg & Co., Société Anonyme, 1890. Wraps. Very good +. [EMBROIDERY] [HOME ARTS]. English: Embroidery Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, monograms and Ornaments with counted stitches followed by a series of examples with transfers for white embroidery, D.M.C. Library. 24mo oblong (5 ½" x 8"); 92 + [25]pp publisher's advertisements; tan textured boards, lettering and border design in red; text in sepia, patterns in color and b&w; 82pp needlework charts followed by 10pp of transfer patterns printed... Read More
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Chickery Chick
by DEE, Sylvia
New York: Santly-Joy Inc, 1945. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. Sidney LIPPMAN, music.. 12" x 9"; 3, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for 15 Outstanding Hit Songs on rear wrapper; very good plus.
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Adapted from the Original in Words of One Syllable, Illustrated
by [DeFOE, Daniel]
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1910. Cloth. Very good +. Cover title: Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable 8vo; 96pp; illustrated red cloth over board in black and tan; book plateto front paste-down without ownership; printer's stamp to verso title page "Made by the Werner Company, Akron, Ohio"; full page b&w illustrations; binding tight; spine sunned, light shelf wear, age toning of paper; very good plus. The classic Daniel De Foe tale adapted as an... Read More
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The Care and Handling of Sails
by DeFONTAINE, W.H. [Wade Hampton]
City Island, New York: Ratest & Lapthorn Inc, 1950. Second Printing. Staplebound. Very good. W.H. deFontaine. Second Printing. 12mo (7 1/8" X 3 5/8"); 30pp; navy printed wrapper with a vignette of a sailboat to the front; 2 staple binding; vignette of a sailmaker to title page; text and illustrations in navy ink; rubbing of spine, small chip to tail, light soiling to front wrapper; interior clean and binding tight; very good. Recorded but not found in any... Read More
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Nursery Rhymes from Japan, The Prancing Pony
by DE FOREST, Charlotte B., translator
New York and Tokyo: Walker/Weatherhill, 1968. First American Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine/very good +. Keiko HIDA. First American edition. 4to; 63pp; color pictorial paper over board, yellow cloth spine; gold endpapers; text with color illustrations; clipped pictorial dust jacket, light chipping at spine; fine in very good plus dj. Lively color reproductions of paper collage-style illustrations with children's rhyming poetry, translated from the Japanese by DeForest.
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History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Published with the sanction of the Connecticut Historical Society; Map: Connecticut in 1630
by De FOREST, John W.
Hartford: Wm. Jas. Hamersley, 1851. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY. First edition. 8vo; xxvi, 509pp; blind-stamped border to brown cloth over board, gilt stamped spine; frontispiece is fold-out map; 5 engraved plates; owner's name to front pastedown; scuffing to cover with loss at corners, small splits to cloth at gutters but holding, darkening top edge, 2" split to bottom of one map fold, small hole and creasing to front fly-leaf, a few small spots... Read More
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Nobody's Doll
by DeLEEUW, Adele
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Anne VAUGHAN, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; 85, [2]pp; rust colored cloth over board, blue stamped pictorial of a doll and dog enclosed in a ribbon frame on front, lettering on spine; color pictorial endpapers; bookseller's label on front pastedown; color fp; b&w vignette of a doll on title page; 7 color plates, 8 full-page b&w illustrations, and b&w illustrations in text; unclipped color... Read More
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Pratique de l'Amour envers Jésus-Christ; English translation: The Practice of Love for Jesus Christ
by DE LIGUORY, S. Alphonse-Marie
Paris: Martial Ardant Frères, Hautefeuille, 14, and Limoges : Martial Ardant Frères, rue des Taules, 1844. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. [RELIGION] [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [BINDING]. First edition. (4 5/8" x 3 1/8") ; 287pp ; green Morocco, gilt-ruled blind-stamped double border, scrolling gilt frame to front and rear boards; gilt decorated spine with title in frame; all edges gilt; white moiré doublures; 4 engraved plates with tissue guard, including frontispiece; tailpieces; silk ribbon marker; light scuffing of... Read More
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Maine Made Guns & Their Makers, New and Enlarged Edition
by DEMERITT, JR., Dwight B.
Augusta, Maine: Friends of the Maine State Museum, 1997. Second Edition. 1/4 cloth. Fine/very good +. Second edition. 4to; x, 438pp; quarter-bound black cloth with yellow boards, gilt-stamped title on spine; glazed stock; b&w illustrations; unclipped b&w pictorial dust jacket without price; offset yellow patch to rear dj, light soiling; fine in very good plus dj. Contents cover the history of the firearms from colonial times through twentieth century firearm technology in Maine.
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Moncrif's Cats, Les Chats de Francois
by de MONCRIF, Augustin Paradis. Reginald BRETNOR, translator
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good. Poetry. [POETRY] [LETTERS]. Limited edition, number 232 of 400. 4to; 187pp; publisher's alternative half-binding of royal blue cloth with a red overlay; gilt-stamped roundel with the portrait of a cat on front, gilt lettering on front and spine; bottom edge untrimmed; title page printed in black and red; 9 plates and one fold-out historical genealogy reproduced by collotype; publisher's glassine dust jacket, creases and a chip to... Read More
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La Civilité, Puérile et Honnête expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène
by De Monvel, M.B. [Maurice Boutet]
Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1887. [JUVENILE] [ETIQUETTE] [ILLUSTRATED] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. Small 4to oblong (9 x 10 5/8 ); 47, [1]pp; gold cloth over board, lettering stamped in black on front, color vignette of a man in 18thc. dress kissing the hand of a woman; edges stained red; pale blue eps; illustrated page before the fp has a label instructing a price increase; color fp; two vignettes of children on the title page; color illustrations with text every page;... Read More
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The Story of the Three Wise Kings
by DePAOLA, Tomie
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. [SIGNED] [JUVENILE] [RELIGION] [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/artist on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas Nicholas." First edition, third impression. 4to; [28]pp; quarter bound in teal cloth with navy paper, blind-stamped star design to front, silver stamped title on spine; color fp and pictorial title page; color illustrations with text throughout; small ink spot on rear board; unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear; fine in near fine dj. The Biblical... Read More
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Maine's King Lobster
by [Dept. of Sea and Shore Fisheries], Foreward by Roland W. GREEN, Commissioner
State House, Augusta, Maine: Dept. of Sea and Shore Fisheries [Maine], 1958. Wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 43pp; ivory color illustrated wrappers with title and publisher on front cover, State of Maine seal to back cover; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings; scattered foxing to top of title page and light stain to inside back wrapper, a few spots to front cover; very good plus.
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Fiddleheads and Mustard Blossoms, A Guide to Edible Plants of the Forest and Meadow
by DEREVITZKY, Catherine
Morrill, Maine: Catherine Derevitzky, 1977. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good. First edition. 8vo oblong; [44pp]; color pictorial wrapper with title and author to front; color illustrations every page with text; text is in manuscript style; index on last page; light soiling and shelf wear to wrapper; very good. Guide to the "edible wild plants of North Eastern United States". Charming illustrations of anthropomorphic furry mice (?) accompany illustrations of plants with their names, instructions on harvesting and... Read More
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Paul and Virginia, Altemus Edition
by De SAINT-PIERRE, Bernardin
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 28 S. Fourth Street, 1891. Boards. Very good +. Maurice LELOIR. 8vo; 296pp; dark green cloth over board; stamped pictorial, gilt figures and silver flowers on front, decorative spine; all edges gilt; gift inscription to ffep dated 1892; engraved frontispiece and vignette on title page, 11 additional full-page engravings and small illustrations in the text; rubbing to head and tail of spine, and corners; very good plus. Written on the eve of the French Revolution... Read More
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[MATTED PRINT]. Le Dogue de Forte Race. (The Strong Mastiff), Pl. XLV
by DeSÈVE, Jacques, illustrator and George-Louis LeCLERC, Comte de Buffon
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1771. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Jacques DeSÈVE. [EPHEMERA] [MATTED PRINT]. C. BAQUOY, engraver. 4to plate size; hand-colored copper plate engraving; 7 " X 5 7/8" within the print borders, plate line visible; 2 light spots under the title; 14" x 11" custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied gilt striping. Fine. From George-Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1778), in 36 volumes, a fine copper-plate engraving featuring a regal... Read More
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