Cats of Destiny
by DOWNEY, Fairfax
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Paul BROWN. EDITORIAL COPY. 8vo; 170pp; blue glazed buckram over board; gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; owner's bookplate on front pastedown; 39 full page b&w illustrations; unclipped green pictorial dust jacket, "Editorial Copy" slip laid onto rear panel, light age toning of top edge, a few small chips; fine in near fine dj. Stories about cats and their famous owners from history and literature. Lovely pen and ink... Read More
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Dust and Cobwebs
by DREW, Iva H.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1929. Boards. Very good +. [POETRY] [SIGNED] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. SIGNED by the Author. 12mo; 81pp; white boards, onlay of a cobweb with title and author in black, black cloth shelf-back; deckle fore edge and bottom edge; signed by the author and dated "Most Sincerely Iva H. Drew 1929" on ffep, gift inscription under the signature; b&w line-drawn fp of an attic space; light hand-soiling of boards, scuffed corners, lightly age toned paper; very... Read More
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Fifteen, A Story for Girls
by DRINKWATER, Jennie M.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publisher, 1882. Cloth. Very good +. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Copyright 1882 by Bradley & Woodruff. 12mo; 368pp; green pictorial cloth over board, lettering stamped in black on front, illustration of a girl wearing a red dress and hat riding a horse stamped on front; silver gilt title stamped on spine; ownership and "Christmas 1908" on ffep; fp; sunning of spine, light foxing of edges; very good plus. OCLC locates only 3 copies. A book... Read More
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But Charlie wasn't listening
by DROWNE, Tatiana Balkoff
New York: Pantheon Books, 1960. Helen MEREDITH. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Helen MEREDITH, illustrator. First edition. 8vo oblong; 30pp; tan linen over board, dog portrait on front board in brown; brown spine lettering; brown eps; bookseller's ticket on front pastedown; lettering printed in brown and black, and a vignette of a dog chasing a ball on the title page; illustrations every page in black and brown; light foxing to bottom of boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, closed... Read More
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Italian Head
by DRURY, Paul
No place noted: No printer noted, 1928. Ephemera no binding. Fine. [ENGRAVING] [FRAMED PRINT]. 13 3/8" x 11 ¾" framed, mat opening 7 1/8" x 5 5/8"; etching signed with the artist's name and "first impression," dated lower right margin; new archival mat and backing, original framer's label replaced on backing paper: "From Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., Rare Engravings and Etchings, No. 16 East 57th Street, New York."; light paint wear to frame; fine etching in near... Read More
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Let's Play Circus! Another Peek-A-Boo Book by Carrie Dudley, Performers-Us Kids. Ringmaster-Gordon Volland, Jr.
by DUDLEY, Carrie
Minneapolis: A Gordon Volland Production presented by The Buzza Co., Craftacres, 1928. Boards. Very good. [TOY BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [RACIST CARICATURE] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. 8vo oblong (9 ¾" x 13"); [8] illustrated stiff board leaves with peep-holes bound on cloth hinges to the left, and [6] illustrated leaves and a title page bound to the right on the rear board fore-edge; color pictorial boards with cut-out peep holes; blue cloth shelf-back; color pictorial endpapers; scuffing to edges and bumping... Read More
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Bill Dugan's Busy Town
by DUGAN, Bill
New York: Golden Press, 1969. Pictorial boards. Very good +. 4to; [60pp]; color pictorial glazed paper over board; color pictorial dust jackets; ownership to ffep; color illustrations every page with text; anthropomorphic animals; light scuffing to corners, head and tail of spine; very good plus. Fifty occupations illustrated by anthropomorphic animals doing work. Simple text describing the action illustrations.
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The Maine Book
by DUNNACK, Henry E., Librarian of Maine State Library
Augusta, Maine: [Maine State Library], 1920. Cloth. Very good +. 4to; xiii, [ii], 338pp; dark green cloth over board, blind-stamped with pinecones, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; b&w fp and illustrations; light shelf-wear to boards, sunned spine and lettering, scattered light foxing; b&w illustrations; very good plus. Part I of the book contains historical and literary information about the state of Maine, Part II the social and industrial history.
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The Big Book for Peace
by DURELL, Ann and Marilyn SACHS, editor. Jane Byers BIERHORST, design
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1990. First Edition. Boards. Fine/Fine. Maurice SENDAK, jacket illustration. First edition. 4to; 120pp; color illustrated glazed boards; green endpapers; color illustrated throughout; unclipped color illustrated glazed dust jacket, lacking price on the front flap, rear flap states "Reinforced for Library Use"; fine in fine dj. Hanrahan A134. ISBN: 0-590-45394-7. A collection of stories and poems about peace, to help children understand the concept of the different kinds of peace. An anthology of writers:... Read More
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Gardens In and About Town
by DURYEA, Minga Pope
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; xvi, 183pp; red cloth over board, label with title and author on front cover and spine; untrimmed bottom and fore edge; illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches; chipping to label on spine, bumping to cover lower edge and spine tail, age toning of paper, light foxing to back endpapers, back hinge paper cracked but holding strong; very good minus. Interesting book on gardens, mostly... Read More
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Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Seventh Edition, A Textbook on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Prepared for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, Revisions by the Department of Seamanship and Navigation United States Naval Academy
by DUTTON, Commander Benjamin, U.S. Navy
Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1942. Cloth. Good +. 4to; 509pp; gilt-stamped black cloth over board; ownership to endpapers; illustrated within text; scuffed cloth, small tears to cloth on front joint, wear to edges, light stain to bottom edge; foxing to endpapers; good plus. Seventh edition, published in 1942, as a textbook for the United States Naval Academy.
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The Teddy Bears Baking School, Compliments of The Fleischmann Co
by EATON, Seymour
Seymour Eaton and Edward Stern & Co. Inc, 1907. Wraps. Very good +. Seymour EATON. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 16mo (6 3/8" x 5"); 12pp; glazed color pictorial wrapper, two bears baking on front, and two bears presenting their baked goods to Mother Goose characters on rear wrapper; 2 staple binding; small b&w vignettes in text; chip to front and rear bottom corner, light age toning; very good plus. A small advertising premium from The Fleischmann Co., a baking yeast... Read More
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The Traveling Bears Across the Sea, Their Travels and Adventures
by EATON, Seymour
New York: Barse and Hopkins, Publishers, 1916. Later printing. Boards. Very good +/very good. V. Floyd CAMPBELL. [POETRY] [RHYMING VERSE]. V. Floyd CAMPBELL, illustrator. Presumed first edition, later printing [1917]. The Traveling Bears Series of books #7. 4to; 58 [2]pp + [4pp] publisher's ads; color pictorial boards, grey cloth back-strip; b&w pictorial title-page; color fp; b&w illustrations in text; upper rear pastedown publisher's ad; corner of fp clipped; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, list of The Traveling Bears... Read More
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Minstrelsy of Maine
by ECKSTORM, Fannie Hardy and Mary Winslow SMYTH, editors
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1927. [STATE OF MAINE] [MUSIC] [WOMEN AUTHORS]. 8vo (8 3/8" x 6"); xvi, [1-3], 390pp; olive cloth over board, title and vignette of a pine stamped in black on the front, lettering in black on spine; a few pages unopened at bottom; small spot on front board, light sunning to top edge, wear to corners; binding tight; very good plus. A wonderful collection of over 100 original ballads... Read More
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Frank and the Cousin., The Edgeworth Toys
by [EDGEWORTH, Maria]
Troy, N.Y.: Merriam & Moore, 1858. Alexander ANDERSON. [JUVENILE] [CHAPBOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Alexander ANDERSON, frontispiece engraver. 24mo (5 11/16" x 3 ¾"); 12pp; yellow wrapper, the front printed with an elaborate wood engraving of a woman with a book, a small child by her side, roses hand-colored in red and green within the wood print; the rear a publisher's ad for "The Milner Toys" within elaborate printed borders; publisher's string binding; three stab holes on fold side; pictorial... Read More
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Smith's Collection of Mountain Ballads and Cowboy Songs arranged for Uke, Voice, Piano, Guitar Acc., and Hawaiian Guitar
by [Wm. J. SMITH MUSIC CO.] editors
New York: Wm. J. Smith Music Co., Inc., 254-256 West 31st St, 1932. [MUSIC] [WESTERN AMERICANA] [NON-FICTION] [FOLKLORE]. Also, Canada: Peate Musical Co., Ltd, England: John E. Dallas & Sons, Ltd., Australia and New Zealand: J. Albert & Son. 4to; 59pp + [5] publisher's ads; salmon colored stiff wrapper, pictorial front, publisher's ads to rear; musical notation with words; two letters on front wrapper colored in with pen, light wear; near fine. Thirty (30) favorite camp-style songs with... Read More
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Maine
by EDMONDS, Barbara
No place, 1935. String Binding. Very good +. [SCHOOLGIRL MANUSCRIPT]. 4to; [115 leaves]; black construction paper cover decorated with the outline of the state of Maine in white ink; 2 brass grommets through punched holes and blue & white twisted silk cord binding; blue printed lined paper; neat small handwriting in ink; illustrated with small line drawings, pressed plant leaves, clipped souvenir travel brochures, and postcards; laid in folded English III assignment from same schoolgirl dated 1935; light... Read More
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State of Maine, My State of Maine, Quartet for Mixed Voices
by EDWARDS, George Thornton
Portland, Maine: The Underwood Music Company, 1913. Wraps. Near fine. 10 1/2" z 7"; [4pp]; light soiling to front and back; near fine. None found in WorldCat libraries. Scarce. Music and words written in anticipation of Maine's Centennial in 1920. Edwards, the State Musical Director, wrote on p. 4 of "A Great Centennial Chorus", "It is planned to have a chorus of at least 1000 singers in each of the choruses...and it is expected that the chorus which... Read More
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The Golden-crowned Wren, and the Ruby-Crowned Wren, Plate 254, Gleanings of Natural History
by EDWARDS, George
London, 1758. Ephemera no binding. Fine. George EDWARDS. [PRINT] 9 7/8" x 7 3/8" print; 11" x 8 7/8" mat opening; 16" x 14" mat size; hand-colored copperplate engraving on hand-laid paper, custom matted with acid-free materials, descriptive text included.
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[PRINT]. The Pig-Tailed Monkey, from the Island of Sumatra, in the Indian Sea
by EDWARDS, George
London, 1758. George EDWARDS. Plate 214 from Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards. Hand-colored copperplate engraving on hand-laid paper. Matted in a museum archival bevel-cut mat, double gilt decoration, archival foamboard backing. Mat and backing are hinged. Mat measures 16" x 14"; beveled mat opening measures 11" x 8 7/8
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[BIRD PRINT]. The Golden-crowned Wren, and The Ruby-crowned Wren
by EDWARDS, George
London, 1758. George EDWARDS. Plate 254 from Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards. Hand-colored copperplate engraving on hand-laid paper. Matted in a museum archival bevel-cut mat, double gilt decoration, archival foamboard backing. Mat and backing are hinged. Mat measures 16" x 14"; beveled mat opening measures 9 7/8" x 7 3/8
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Jerry Todd, Editor-in-Grief
by EDWARDS, Leo
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930. Later printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Bert SALG. Later printing, c.1936. 12mo; xx [ii], 246pp, [4]; bright red buckram stamped in black with title, author, and vignette of a fish wearing a top hat to the front board; map endpapers in red ink; illustrated frontispiece and 3 additional plates in b&w; three small white spots to rear board, light glue burn to eps; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to spine... Read More
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Poppy Ott and the Prancing Pancake
by EDWARDS, Leo [Pseudonym for Edward Edson LEE]
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. Bert SALG. First edition. 12mo; xxi [i], 298pp; red cloth over board, title in black-outlined orange letters; 4 b&w illustrated plates on glazed paper including frontispiece; light age-toning of paper, on page with a black smudge; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket without a price, verso jacket printed with other publisher's books, two old tape repairs to head and tail of spine on verso, light... Read More
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Wings of Flame, Everyday Fables
by EGAN, Joseph Burke
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Edwin J. PRITTIE. First edition. 8vo; xv, 365pp; gilt stamped decorative border to royal blue cloth over board, color illustrated paper onlay of a sailboat; blue stained top edge; illustrated endpapers, pencil ownership and inscription to front pastedown; 4 color plates including frontispiece; 25 black and white illustrations; rear pastedown has bookseller's ticket "Hudson's Bookshop Detroit" and two stamped prices, $1.00 and 25 cents; pg 46... Read More
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Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs Set to Music
by ELLIOTT, J.W.
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1910. Boards. Good. [JUVENILE]. Cover title: Mother Goose's Melodies Set to Music 8vo; [iii],111pp; color pictorial boards, red cloth shelf-back; embossed title on spine; b&w vignette of an owl on title page; b&w lithograph illustration as head-piece to each song; gift inscription dated 1922 on ffep; bumping to cover corners with loss, light soiling to cover, child's writing on rear board, rubbing to spine, deterioration of the stapled binding with some gatherings starting to... Read More
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