THE QUAKER QUERIES: NEW ENGLAND QUERIES IN PAST AND PRESENT FORMS
(Boston): Penmaen Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in slipcase. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4" handbound with Italian Fabriano over boards at the Stanhope Bindery. The first book of the press. Copy #3 of only 100 numbered copies designed, handset, and printed by Michael McCurdy. In actuality only 91 copies were produced. This copy without the wood-engraved portrait of George Fox. Only subscriber copies contained this engraving. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the publisher McCurdy on the... Read More
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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Spine sunned, as often the case with this title, and a little rubbed; a few nicks to the veneer. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Everett Gee Jackson. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed in either... Read More
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THE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COLONIAL LAWS
[Philadelphia]: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania [J. B. Lippincott Company], 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncut and largely unopened. Near Fine. Pebbled black cloth. Quarto; 298 pages. Contains a biography of Tower as well as a detailed catalog of American Laws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Tower on the front endpaper and scarce as such: "To/D. Mc N. Stauffer Esqre/with the compliments of/Charlemagne Tower [?]/9 January 1891./Philadelphia." With the recipient's (David McNeely Stauffer) bookplate on the front pastedown. David McNeely... Read More
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ORIGINAL ART BY JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDREN
Tokyo, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Front cover and first page detached. Still Near Fine and quite charming. Oblong (9" x 6-1/2") green floral silk cloth over boards with matching box containing handwritten explanations of the contents in English and Japanese as well as a typed statement in English, along with 101 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, most in watercolor, by Japanese schoolchildren of Tokyo's Hongo district ranging in age from 6 to 14, many quite accomplished despite the age of the... Read More
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THE KORAN: SELECTED SURAS
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Very short split to seam of box. Fine in a Near Fine publisher's clamshell box. Valenti Angelo. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the title page and the page facing the opening sura. Translated with notes and an introduction by Arthur Jeffery. Copy #1087 of... Read More
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PICTURE ABC BOOK (Linen No. 865)
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Early owner inscription on front cover; both covers soiled. About Very Good. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts cats and kittens, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color.
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MAGIC QUIZ BOOK
(New York): (Playmore), (1942). First Edition. Pict. boards, spiral bound. Light wear to corners & spine. Very Good. Folio, [16] pages. Unusual book with 9 quizzes & answers on opposing pages, each page with the center cut out to reveal a pictorial pastedown. While the front cover makes a promise with its crystal ball & turban-wearing magician, the contents and rear cover give a technological response with plenty of microphones and a radio tower depicted.
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DOVE AT THE WINDOWS: LAST LETTERS OF FOUR QUAKER MARTYRS
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly toned, Near Fine dustwrapper. Tall quarto (8" x 11-3/4") in original cloth. Foreword by George Selleck. Illustrated with five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. Copy #50 of 200 numbered copies of a total edition of 224 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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PHOTO ALBUM OF AN AUTOMOBILE TOUR OF THE WEST IN 1927 BY A GROUP OF WOMEN
1927. Softcover. Fading to some of the photographs but most are not too bad. Very Good. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing ninety-four 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and six 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near Indiana. Photographs include stops in Kansas, New Mexico (Native Americans at Santa Domingo and... Read More
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THE BRITISH APOLLO, OR, CURIOUS AMUSEMENTS FOR THE INGENIOUS TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE MOST MATERIAL OCCURRENCES FOREIGN AND DOMESTICK. Performed by a Society of Gentlemen
London: J. Mayo, 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. Old, mostly rather faint dampstain at bottom of many pages; binding rather worn but intact with a one-inch chip at the head of the spine. About Very Good. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in 19th century half brown leather with leather corners and marbled boards; [2], [516], 14 pages. The first volume of this scarce periodical containing a title page, 117 four-page issues, 12 supernumerary numbers, and an extensive index covering... Read More
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![CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, ETC](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/388/972/1689972388.0.l.jpg)
CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, ETC
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co., [@1880]. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates clean with a few small closed tears; hinges reinforced with binder's tape. Small losses along spine edges. Very Good. Black pebbled cloth (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") with "No. 3" stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated with a color title page and 55 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only, mostly of fruit.
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THEODORE LOW DE VINNE. PRINTER
New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. One page, mostly blank, with a long horizontal tear. Very Good. Cloth-backed boards; [vi] 111 pages. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of De Vinne with his signature below, possibly printed, and a gravure of a bronze bust by Chester Beach. Laid down on the pastedown above a bookplate is a compliments card from... Read More
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THE BALLADS OF ROBIN HOOD
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with minor soiling. David Gentleman. Tall octavo (6-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound with a green buckram spine stamped in gold with a design created by David Gentleman who has also drawn a design of foliage printed on the paper covering the boards; 232 pages. Edited with an introduction by Jim Lees. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the Cambridge University Press under the direction of Harry... Read More
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THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1985
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in orange wraps. Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel. SIGNED on the title page by one contributor, Sharon Sheehe Stark, and by Charles Baxter who is not a contributor.
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THE EDINBURGH SYREN; OR, MUSICAL BOUQUET; Being a New Selection of Modern Songs, Sung at the Various Places of Amusement in Great Britain and Ireland
Edinburgh: Thomas Brown, 1792. New Edition. Hardcover. Front cover with some splitting at joint; covers tight and contents clean. Very Good. Nineteenth Century 3/4 black morocco and cloth (3-1/2" x 5-3/8"); 216 pages with an engraved title page and frontispiece.
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AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Spine sunned and rubbed. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Everett Gee Jackson. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them printed in either three or four colors. Copy #842 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon... Read More
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION as published in THE ANNUAL REGISTER ... FOR THE YEAR 1776
London: J. Dodsley, 1779. Second Edition. Hardcover. Early ink name crossed out on the title page, light to moderate foxing; pages 255 to 258 in the second section lacking, otherwise complete with the entire text of the Declaration and the Articles present. Binding tight with some wear but easily Very Good. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards. Though not a First Edition, still an early eighteenth-century printing of one of the most desirable volumes of this prestigious series as... Read More
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FAVORITE MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., (1937). First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Eulalie. Illustrated covers, printed on linen; 12 pages all in color illustrated by Eulalie. The hardcover edition seems to be much more common.
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THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Ben-Zion. Small folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half natural-grain goatskin vellum and black cloth stamped in genuine gold, top edge gilt with pure gold leaf; 226 pages. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Judah Goldin. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press with the classical commentaries printed in both English in black ink and Hebrew in red ink. Illustrated... Read More
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![[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK FOR NORTH JERSEY NURSERIES. Millburn, NJ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/386/430/1324430386.0.l.jpg)
[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK FOR NORTH JERSEY NURSERIES. Millburn, NJ]
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates bright and clean. Slight looseness of covers. A Near Fine example of an attractive nursery specimen book. Oblong octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4") in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit.
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MAGAZINE OF THE FINE ARTS AND JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Vol. IV, #7-#9; May-July 1834
London: M. Arnold. Cloth. Spine chipped. Probably lacking a plate or two. VG. Octavo, 256 pages. Articles on the death of Thomas Stothard and the present state of sculpture, among others.
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GILGAMESH
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. A few light spots to covers; spine a tad sunned. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen.... Read More
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GILGAMESH
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen. Copy #751 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the... Read More
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DOVE AT THE WINDOWS: LAST LETTERS OF FOUR QUAKER MARTYRS
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall quarto (8" x 11-3/4") in original cloth. Illustrated with five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. One of 24 copies of a total edition of 224 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. This copy is marked "GS" at the colophon and belonged to George Selleck who wrote the foreword to the book. With the four-page prospectus.
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IL GAZZETTIERE AMERICANO CONTENENTE UN DISTINTO RAGGUAGLIO DI TUTTE LE PARTI DEL NUOVO MONDO DELLA LORO SITUAZIONE, CLIMA, TERRENO, PRODOTTI, STATO ANTICO E MODERNO, MERCI, MANIFATTURE, E COMMERCIO CON UNA ESATTA DESCRIZIONE DELLE CITTÀ, PIAZZE, PORTI, BAJE, FIUMI, LAGHI, MONTAGNE, PASSI, E FORTIFICAZIONI IL TUTTO DESTINATO AD ESPORRE LO STATO PRESENTE DELLE COSE IN QUELLA PARTE DI GLOBO, E LE MIRE, E INTERESSI DELLE DIVERSE POTENZE, CHE HANNO DEGLI STABILIMENTI IN AMERICA
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-title with marginal repair, one leaf (Ll1) with a small repaired hole affecting text, first folding map with repair to verso, some light staining, mostly marginal; binding close to Fine with a little spotting to the leather. Overall Near Fine. Three folio (9-1/2" x 12") volumes bound in twentieth century half green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers and matching morocco corners. First Italian Edition of THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER,... Read More
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