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(A!B!C!)! Carter, John; & Nicolas Barker & Simran Thadani. ABC for book collectors. Ninth edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8vo. 264 pp.
$30.00
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Are you a novice reader of rare book cataloguing who is just beginning to realize that there might be a difference between a “joint” and a “hinge”? Would you rather be asked for the proof of “E=MC2” than for the meaning of “ *6a-z6A-R6S2**6)(6)()(4T6V-X4 ”? Or are you on the other hand a connoisseur of the bibliographer's terms of art who savors the very sound and cadence as well as the exact and enticing images that the words and sentences raise in a description like the following: “18th-century olive morocco; round gilt spines extra without bands; gilt triple-line fillet frames on covers with gilt corner devices; single gilt rule on board edges; gilt inner dentelles. Dutch-style printed endpapers with gilt and green stars and dots on a white field. All edges gilt; all pages ruled in red in the 17th-century style”?
AT ONCE a great basic resource and a rewarding volume for browsing or bibliophilic pleasure-reading, this classic work by John Carter contains over 490 alphabetical entries offering definitions and analysis of technical terms as well as the jargon of book collecting and bibliography with ample
examples now including illustrations and much enhanced coverage of the implications of the internet. Carter's ABC, first printed in 1952, was last revised, expanded, and given a new introduction by Nicolas Barker, his friend and the respected editor of The Book Collector, in 2004. This new, 9th edition co-revised by Barker and Simran Thadani is
a book that no purchasing collector or cataloguer should think of as a frivolous expense, and a book that as a gift to a collector or cataloguer cannot fail to please.
Complete with printed dust-jacket; new. (39930)
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Fiji Isles Paradise
(A Gift of . . . “Far Away”). Van Sandwyk, Charles. Sketches from a tropic isle. [North Vancouver?]: Published by the artist, 1997. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.81"). 28 pp.; col. illus.
$150.00
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Drawn and annotated in the Fiji Islands: a stunning booklet of color-printed watercolor illustrations by Canadian-born artist Van Sandwyk, accompanied by his calligraphed meditations and signed by him on the dedication page.
This present example features the parrot-variant front cover illustration and, according to the artist's website, is one of 1500 copies.
The gilt-stamped matching bookmark and a card with information on purchasing prints are laid in.
Binding: Publisher's gilt-stamped olive green paper wrappers with color-printed parrot portrait onlay on front wrapper.
Searches of WorldCat locate
no copies in the U.S., with two found in Canada and one at the National Library in New Zealand, which last library supplies the “[North Vancouver?]“ attribution for this production without internal assertion of imprint place. Another online source gives “Tavewa Island,” with we know not what evidence.
Wrappers crisp and fresh, showing virtually no wear save for a small area of faint discoloration from now-absent label; booklet pristine and lay-ins present.
A lovely copy of a scarce and attractive item. (41361)
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“Harry of England, Your Career Shall be Stained in
Blood!”
Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An historical romance. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.69"). Add. engr. t.-p., x, [2], 324 pp.; 22 plts., illus.
$350.00
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Dramatically Gothic treatment of the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, enlivened by a supernatural subplot involving Herne the Hunter — along with a non-fictional, illustrated account of the building and history of the castle itself. The text is adorned with
a total of 22 engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, 4 plates by Tony [Antoine] Johannot, and 14 by George Cruikshank, who stepped in to replace Johannot as soon as he had finished illustrating Ainsworth's previous serial, The Miser's Daughter. In addition, W. Alfred Delamotte supplied an abundance of in-text wood engravings.
The work was first serially published in Ainsworth's Magazine in 1842–43, with a three-decker book-form printing following shortly after its completion; the present example (described as a “new edition” on the title-page) follows the story's first appearance in one volume in 1843. This copy is in the publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth binding.
Provenance: Upper outer corner of title-page with inked inscription of Mrs. Jarvis, 1852. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 912; NSTC 2A5904. Publisher's textured red cloth, covers with embossed knotwork frames, front cover with gilt-stamped deer and castle vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title and three scenes; joints and extremities rubbed with cloth starting to peel at back corners, spine and board edges somewhat darkened. Frontispiece portrait with upper outer corner waterstained (not affecting image), added engraved title-page darkened, scattered small spots of foxing to pages and plates.
A delightful Cruikshank item, and thrill-inducing in its own right as an English Gothic historical novel. (39887)
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“WONDERFUL is the
Comfort of Words”
Aked, Charles F. Wells and palm trees. Cool water and abundant rest on life's rough way. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., © 1908. 12mo. Frontis., [6], 149, [1] pp.
$75.00
First edition: Inspiring Christian meditations by the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York — a radical English-born nonconformist, reformer, and pacifist known as “the fighting parson.” The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, and the decorative chapter-opening capitals are printed in red and black, as is the title-page.
This is the original first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's light blue straight-grained cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, front cover with desert vignette stamped in black and green.
Binding as above, minimal wear to extremities, spine with small area of light discoloration. Light pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis, including a star and a wing (all removable). A nice copy of an interesting volume. (28604)
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Elegantly Bound Prayer Book
Albach, J. S. Heilige Anklänge. Gebete für katholische Christen. Pesth: Julius Müller, 1850. 16mo (16 cm; 6.25"). Engr. frontis., engr. t.-p., 474 pp., 4 plts.; illus.
$500.00
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A collection of Catholic prayers printed in Fraktur with
an engraved title-page and six religious steel engravings based on paintings by Italian painter Tintoretto (1518–94) and Austrian painter Johann Ender (1793–1854), among others. The compiler Albach was a Franciscan friar.
Binding: Dark blue-purple velvet with silver fittings including a clasp, four arabesque corner bosses surrounding a central decoration of Mary holding baby Jesus on front, and four neat pyramidal corner bosses on back; spine entirely plain. White moiré paper endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: 20th-century signature of Franz Joseph Faveaux on front endpaper.
Bound as above, light rubbing to edges and more at corners; light age-toning and some very light foxing variably; some sections with other light to moderate spotting.
A “luxury” production as to both its binding and its handsome plates. (36125)
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Burd's Festive Little Women
Alcott, Louisa M.; Clara M. Burd, illus. Little women. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1926. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.25"). Col. frontis., xiii, [1], 496, [2] pp.; 4 col. plts., illus.
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Delightful edition of the beloved classic: Clara Miller Burd — noted as both an illustrator and a stained glass artist who worked for Tiffany — supplied the illustrations, including a color-printed frontispiece and four color plates, a number of full-page stipple engravings, and a rendition of the Alcott home in Concord, MA for the endpapers. This is
the first edition to feature Burd's art, and also offers an introduction by Albert Lindsay Rowland. This copy has an inked inscription reading “Marjorie [/] From 'Lookie' Christmas 1930.”
Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover with foliate frame stamped in gilt and light green surrounding a chromolithographed paper onlay depicting the March girls peacefully at work in the woods, spine with foliate motifs repeated.
Binding as above; gently rubbed, spine slightly darkened, lower corners bumped. Inscription on front fly-leaf as above. Pages faintly age-toned, with foxing surrounding plates (plates themselves unaffected).
Loved and still lovely, with an appealingly sentimental inscription. (41375)
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100 Years of Book Collecting in
PHILADELPHIA
Allen, George Rankin. The Centennial of the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 1893–1993. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1993. 12mo (19 cm; 7.5"). [3], [1] ff., 53, [3] pp.
$15.00
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Philobiblon is one of the oldest clubs in America for book collectors. In 1993 it celebrated its centennial with a banquet, an exhibition, and this small volume bearing an introduction by the club's longtime president, George Allen.
The booklet includes on its final three pages “A short-title list of items exhibited in Some of Our Best Friends: Books Selected from Collections of Members of the Philobiblon Club, at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, 12 February – 9 May 1993,” and that is preceded on pp. 153 by a reprint of “A loan collection of decorative bindings, rare books, manuscripts, and other bibliographical specimens from the libraries of Philadelphia,” being the catalogue of an 1893 book exhibit at Philadelphia's Academy of the Fine Arts that partly led to the Club's formation.
This is not a social history of the Club, but rather an excellent snapshot of its founding and centennial members' leading book interests.
New. Original tan wrappers. Saddle-stitched. (35805)
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Pre-Civil War Kentucky — Particularly Its Birds — But Also Those Lovely Dresses!
Allen, James Lane; & Hugh Thomson, illus. A Kentucky cardinal and Aftermath. New York & London: The Macmillan Co. (pr. by Norwood Press), 1900. 12mo (20.9 cm, 8.22"). [2], xxxii, [2], 276, [4 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Two connected novels from an acclaimed Kentucky author, here in a newly combined and revised edition with
a new preface by the author and 100 drawings by Hugh Thomson. Set in a Kentucky village, the two pieces recount from beginning to end — in a fashion reminiscent of a natural history — the relationship between a serious-minded naturalist and the young lady who moves next door. The stories' focus on native plants and and birds was informed by the author's own experiences growing up near Lexington as one of the last of several generations of gentleman farmers. Cardinal, which opens in 1850, was first published in 1894 and Aftermath in 1895, with both stories making references to the coming war and to the question of Kentucky's honor; the publisher's advertisements at the back of this edition quote contemporary praise for their simplicity, gentleness of spirit, and “old-time courtesy.”
This edition was the first to feature Thomson's charming illustrations, depicting both indoor and outdoor scenes while notably prioritizing well-dressed human figures over Allen's lovingly described gardens and woods.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped branch and bird designs (unsigned).
BAL 468; Wright, III, 76 & 80 (for first eds.). Binding as above, spine and board edges sunned. Page edges untrimmed; one signature carelessly opened.
Aesthetically pleasing, culturally intriguing, and sure to be of interest to both birders and gardeners. (37531)
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“Susan Knew . . . the Value of What She Learned at the Sunday School”
American Sunday-School Union. Little Susan and her lamb. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [between 1827 and 1853]. 32mo (10.5 cm, 4.125"). Frontis.,15 pp.
$45.00
Thanks to Sunday school, Susan learns to be kind to others and is able to
protectively raise a flock of lambs to provide wool for her family to sell.This text was stereotyped by L. Johnson with an unsigned wood-engraved frontispiece and a wood-engraved vignette on the front wrapper. Publication date is from the American Antiquarian Society OPAC.
Provenance: On front cover, an inscription naming “Oliver Glick.”
Shoemaker 29513. Original tan printed wrappers with inscription as above; extremities lightly rubbed, small chip at lower inner corner of back wrapper. Pages foxed, with one bent corner. (41327)
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“A God-Hero of the Golden Age of Myth” —
The First Original English-Language Poem on the Buddha
Arnold, Edwin. The light of Asia. Being the life and teaching of Gautama prince of India and founder of Buddhism. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. Folio (30 cm, 11.8"). xxiv, 193, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts.
$100.00
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Limited Editions Club edition of Sir Edwin's epic verse retelling of
the life of the Buddha, with an introduction by Melford E. Spiro. Ayres Houghtelling painted eight brightly colored, “highly unconventional” plates, as to which he said that he “allegorically painted by design and symbolism what [he hoped] Sir Edwin Arnold would have liked” (according to the newsletter); he also provided a number of black-and-white and two-color line drawings. The volume was designed by Frank J. Lieberman, and the green, yellow, cream, and tan paisley and floral cotton cloth binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Co.
This is
numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator. Both the appropriate Club newsletter (in its original envelope) and the prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 497. Publisher's fabric-covered binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in original brown paper–covered slipcase with printed paper label; spine cloth very slightly (and unobtrusively) sunned, slipcase showing only minimal traces of shelfwear.
A nice copy of this handsome piece of LEC exotica. (36838)
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A “Gift Copy” — Textured Olive Green Calf by
Bayntun-Riviere
Arnold, Matthew. The poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1937. 12mo (18.4 cm; 7.25"). xxvii, 460 pp.
$250.00
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A later printing from the Oxford University Press of a collection of poems by Matthew Arnold, the poet and cultural critic; A.T. Quiller-Couch, a novelist and literary critic who often published using the pseudonym “Q,” here provides an introduction.
A gift inscription tipped to the front fly-leaf reads, “From the Wardroom Officers of the Joint A/S [i.e., Anti-Submarine] School & Barracks, Londonderry — with their congratulations and best wishes for a long & happy married life,” signed E. Hart Dyke, Commander, and dated 31 August 1946.
Binding: Full olive green textured calf, spine gilt extra, boards with simple gilt double-rule borders and zig-zag gilt decoration along their edges; gilt floral roll to generous turn-ins and marbled paper pastedowns. All edges gilt. A tiny stamp on a front endpaper indicates this copy was bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, England.
Bound as above, mild rubbing to rear board only and light soiling along edge of tipped-in inscription (perhaps from the glue). Binding and interior very clean.
A lovely copy with a pleasing provenance. (37324)
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Women's Lives . . .
Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.
$87.50
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Later edition of these accounts of the lives of Eliza Astor Rumpff and Albertine Ida Gustavine de Stael-Holstein, Duchess de Broglie, preceded by an engraved portrait of the former and by Lydia Sigourney's poem "Transplanted Flowers." Memorialized more briefly are Mrs. Grandpierre and Mrs. Monod. Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages; internally mostly clean. (8958)

Milkmaids, Bathing Beauties, Muses, Etc.
Bamlach, Christian. Pudelnakerd erotische Szenen aus der Gründerzeit. Dortmund: Harenberg, © 1981. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). 155, [5] pp.; illus.
$45.00
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Early edition: Remarkable collection of female nude photographs dating from the turn of the (20th) century, with an afterword by Bamlach. This is no. 246 in the series Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher, “pocket books for bibliophiles.”
Publisher's yellow bookcloth wrappers, front wrapper with affixed photographic label. Very clean and crisp. (30630)
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A Different Take on Cromwell vs. the King
[Bancks, John]. The life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Containing particularly his decent, his first advances to popularity, his wonderful success in the civil wars, Battle of Worcester, &c. &c. Stourbridge: Heming & Tallis, [ca. 1815]. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], [7]–28 pp.
$175.00
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Rare version of Cromwell's life and military successes: WorldCat and Copac find
no institutional holdings of this sole, separately-printed edition. The biography is attributed to “A Gentleman of the Middle Temple,” but the text is for the most part adapted from of A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell by John Bancks (or Banks, 1709–51), a bookseller, poet, and biographer; there seems to have been some confusion with the Restoration-era playwright John Banks (d. 1706).
The present rendition was excerpted from the first eight chapters of the Critical Review, and closes with a discussion of Cromwell's burial; much of Bancks's editorializing regarding the conduct of the king and other political matters has been removed, providing an interesting contrast to the original work.
According to the DNB, the work in its first state earned Bancks accusations of being an enemy of the monarchy due to its sympathetic tone towards Cromwell — a major difference from all previous biographies.
This edition features a wood-engraved frontispiece done by Turnbull after Harper.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Not in NSTC (CD version). On Bancks, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent light blue paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Frontispiece recto (back) with rubber-stamped numeral and pencilled annotation, no other markings. Pages age-toned with spots of minor staining, edges slightly ragged, corners bumped. An intriguing oddity. (38654)
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Just a Bit HEAVY for Taking with You to
“the New Barnes” . . .
Barnes, Albert C. The art in painting. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., © 1937. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.25"). xx, 522 pp.; illus.
$95.00
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Third edition, revised and enlarged: the central text of Dr. Barnes's art education curriculum, featuring 122 illustrations.
Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket; jacket with spine sunned, spine and extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: Front pastedown with bookplate and evidence that jacket was once taped down, dedication page with inked numeral in lower margin, spine with inked shelving number. Title-page with inked private ownership inscription dated 1942.
Laid in, an amusing newspaper snippet. Outer edges (closed) with small area of staining; otherwise, internally clean and nice.
(33133)
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“Come, Let Us March”
Bascom, E.H. The school harp: a collection of pleasing and instructive songs. Music and words, original and selected. Designed for the use of schools and singing classes. Oblong. Boston: Morris Cotton, (Stereotyped by A.B. Kidder), 1855. 12mo. viii, 96 pp., [2] ff.
$30.00
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Sole edition. A fine school music text, with several pages of instruction; some of the music is simple but a good deal is moderately complicated, in three or four parts and in keys like E flat.
Publisher's quarter leather over printed boards, respined with cloth tape; clean, solid copy. (3612)
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Chinese Buddhists in India
Beal, Samuel. Chinese accounts of India. Calcutta: S. Gupta for Susil Gupta, 1957–58. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). 3 vols. (of 4) I: [8], 127, [1] pp. II: vi, [2], [129]–258 pp. III: [8], [259]–396 pp.
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New editions: Three volumes of Samuel Beal's translations from the original Chinese. Beal (1825–89), a scholar and the first Englishman to translate early texts of Buddhism from the original Chinese, is well known for these renditions of travelogues by various Chinese Buddhist pilgrims to India, including Hiuen Tsiang (c. 602–664, also known as “Xuanzang”), providing
firsthand accounts of their voyages and their interactions with Indian Buddhists.Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original yellow dust jackets printed in black and white; extremities bumped, boards lightly soiled, jackets price-clipped, edgeworn, and faintly soiled. This very good set includes volumes 1–3 of 4. (38055)
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Bilingual Stanze in
Elegant Dos à Dos Format
New Translation, Limited Edition
Bembo, Pieto. Stanze composte ... in occasione delle festivita da carnevale alla corte d'Urbino nell' anno ... [di] mille cinquencento sette ... Austin: Pr. by Bradley Hutchinson for Michele Miracolo, 2015.
$165.00
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The inaugural publication of the Michele Miracolo Press is the Stanze by Pietro Bembo, the famed Venetian poet and humanist who composed this 50 stanza poem as part of the Carnival festivities for the court of Urbino in 1507. The text has been
newly translated into English by David Slavitt and printed by Bradley Hutchinson from Blado types cast at his letterpress workshop in Austin, Texas. Approximately 100 copies of this bilingual edition were printed and bound in an unusual “tête bêche” [a.k.a., dos a dos ] style, with each language having its own front cover but meeting in the middle, one text upside down in relation to the other.”
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Curry & Meynell Reimagine
John Brown for the LEC
Benét, Stephen Vincent; John Steuart Curry, illus. John Brown's body: A poem. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Folio (29.5 cm, 11.6"). xvi, [2], 454, [2] pp.; 14 col. plts. (some double-spread).
$60.00
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A dignified yet intense Limited Editions Club production of Benét's Pulitzer Prize–winning historical poem, with an introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman, decorative panels and initials done by Elizabeth Friedlander, and
14 oil-painted illustrations by John Steuart Curry, who passed away before the edition was printed; the colophon describes these illustrations as his final work. The volume was designed by
Francis Maynell (who set the text in black and red, and supplied a note explaining all typographical choices), and bound by the Russell-Rutter Company in full rough scarlet linen with gilt-stamped blue leather labels.
This is numbered copy 1157 of 1500 printed.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 192. Bound as above; slipcase lacking, spine sunned (as usually seen) and with spots of staining. Pages and plates crisp and fresh. (41403)
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“Ae-hy Ae-hy, Kih She”: Geordie Tales “Related by the Late Thomas Bewick”
Bewick, Thomas. The howdy and the upgetting. Two tales of sixty years sin seyne ... in the Tyne side dialect. London: Admirers of Native Merit, 1850. 12mo (22 cm, 8.75"). [2] ff., 9-16 pp.; frontis. port.
$225.00
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Two Tyneside stories recounted by the great wood engraver, in
an edition limited to just 60 copies, “imprinted by Samuel Bird . . . for John Gray Bell” (verso of title-page). An addition to the literature on English dialects, this little booklet is illustrated with
three wood engravings by Bewick and a portrait of the artist by John Jackson, one of his former pupils. Bewick's illustrations “were cut . . . for the Newcastle Chronicle Newspaper, and headed the Local and London News in that Paper for above twenty years” (note, p. [9]).
Provenance: Presentation copy from the publisher: “C.S. Bell, Esq. with J.G.B.'s compts.” (i.e., John G. Bell). This copy came from the Bewick collection of S. Roscoe, with his cataloguing slip tipped in and his pencilled note “one of 18 on large paper” (which we believe is erroneous). Described on Roscoe's slip as “on blue” paper: if so, it is very, very pale blue.
Hugo, Bewick Collector, 466. Fine copy in later marbled light boards, edges lightly rubbed; provenance/presentation indicia as above. (38856)
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Bewick: Befores & Afters from a
MODERN Fine Press
Bewick, Thomas, illus. Thomas Bewick: Ten working drawing reproductions shown with impressions of the corresponding engravings. Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. Oblong 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.79"). Frontis, [14] pp.; 10 double-spread matted plates.
$125.00
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One of only 160 copies printed: an elegantly designed portfolio presentation of ten of Bewick's preliminary drawings (reproduced from the originals by the Meriden Gravure Company) alongside reprintings
from the original blocks of their final engraved forms. (One engraving only is done from a later plate, which provides instructive contrast of effect.)
The introduction was signed by the printer, Robert Hunter Middleton, a Bewick aficionado who expertly reproduced his work.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Publisher's case of tan buckram and textured grey paper–covered sides, front cover and spine with red paper labels, in matching slipcase; slipcase rubbed but solid with spine cloth slightly foxed, case otherwise showing virtually no wear.
The enclosed portolio, pristine. (41304)
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Birds & Beasts from
Bewick's Blocks
Bewick, Thomas, illus.; Edna W. Ferriss, ed. 21 engravings. St. Charles, IL: Privately Printed (at the Printing Office of Philip Reed), 1951. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). 2 vols. I: [44] pp.; illus. II: [40] pp.; illus.
$150.00
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One of 500 copies printed — with the two volumes, despite the title, actually comprising
42 illustrations, all printed from Bewick's original woodblocks.
Binding: Publisher's Bewick design–printed paper–covered boards with morocco shelfbacks (one green, one red); spines with gilt-stamped title, in original matching slipcase.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above, spines sunned as is often seen with these volumes; slipcase somewhat darkened with spine and edges showing this more notably. Books crisp and clean.
A nice set. (41317)
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Pocket New Testament — New Hampshire, 1831
Bible. N.T. English. 1831. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.... Exeter, N.H.: James Derby, 1831. 32mo (11.1 cm, 4.375"). 259, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacks the frontis.).
$150.00
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“Stereotyped by the publisher,” this 32mo pocket New Testament is printed in two
columns in small type set 16 lines to the inch.Binding: Straight-grained roan, covers gilt-ruled and spine gilt extra.
O'Callaghan 213; Hills 765 (not calling for a frontis.); not in Herbert. Binding rubbed, with corners bumped and spine-gilt faded but still softly pretty; lacking the frontispiece (which Hills does not call for) and title-page partially detached at gutter. Pp. 5–6 and 229–30 chipped on lower outer corner, with loss of part of page number from the former; free endpapers chipped; some old dog-ears; light foxing and occasional spots, and occasional light waterstaining.
An attractive, solid small American Testament. (7513)
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Interesting
& Illustrated — Metallurgy
/ FIREWORKS!
Biringucci, Vannoccio. The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio. New York: Basic Books, 1959. Small folio. 477 pp.
[SOLD]
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Reprinting of the 1942 edition produced by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, which was a complete translation of Biringuccio's Venice,1540 work on metallurgy and fireworks. The translation is by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi and includes copies of the original woodcut illustrations. Smith and Gnudi added historical notes, bibliography, and an introduction. This edition contains a new introduction by Smith.
One of the “Collector's Series in Science” publications.
Publisher's quarter cloth. In original slipcase, which is sunned
(and pictured above). Very Good condition. (22449)
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Everything You Need to
“Negotiate” 1857
Blackie's literary and commercial almanac. 1857. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, [1856]. 16mo (8.1 cm; 3.25"). 95, [1] pp.
[SOLD]
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This very pocket-sized almanac manages to stuff into its miniature pages a calendar, a list of the chief European sovereigns and their birthdays and accession days, a summary of postage and tax costs, a foreign currency exchange table, and railway statistics as the “commercial” aspect, before moving on to the “literary” with assorted amusing and enlightening sayings; the booklet closes with
40 pages of advertising for other works from this eminent Scottish publishing firm.
Publisher's printed salmon-colored paper wrappers, front and back wrappers with engraved vignettes; spine and edges mildly rubbed, back wrapper with small scuffs. All edges gilt. First and last few leaves lightly foxed. (29059)
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A “Bibliomania” Printed for Grolier Members
(A Delightful Emblematic Cover Design)
Bollioud-Mermet, Louis. Crazy book-collecting or bibliomania, showing the great folly of collecting rare and curious books, first editions, unique and large paper copies, in costly bindings, etc. New York: Duprat & Co., 1894. 12mo. x, 60 pp.
[SOLD]
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An attractive English version of this 18th-century French text
printed for Grolier Club members, and with an introduction by Alphonse Duprat.
Laid in is a printed promotional slip of pale green paper noting that “At the Chicago Exhibition Duprat & Co. received a medal and award” for a book NOT this one!
Binding: Flexible dark green cloth, cover with elegant gilt lettering and a charmingly, delicately embellished design featuring one man seated at right, fishing for a book, and another man at top left dancing to have found one. Rose-colored endpapers, cream paper wrappers bound in.
Provenance: Bookplate of Howard Ingram Dohrman (“Coconut Grove / Canaan”) now laid in, having sometime detached itself from front pastedown.
Bound as above, in excellent condition.
A keepsake. (41332)
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A
PIRATED Mosher Press Book
Bottomley, Gordon. A vision of Giorgione three variations on Venetian themes. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1910. 12mo. [8], 45, [3] pp.
$45.00
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First American edition and a pirated edition at that: Poetic meditations on the mysterious Italian Renaissance artist, taken in part from The Gate of Smaragdus, with “A Concert of Giorgione” and “Gemma's Song on the Water” that appeared for the first time in an edition of 50 from Constable in 1910, from which edition this edition of 500 was pirated.
Binding: Publisher's mauve paper–covered boards, front cover with decorative rose-printed paper label, spine with printed paper label; edges uncut. Present are both the original dust wrapper, plain save for spine note of author, title, and date, and the publisher's box with the same information on its spine and the title repeated on its cover.
Box sunned with edges shelfworn, dust wrapper darkened with closed tear from lower front edge. Spine of volume gently sunned with head smudged; book otherwise clean and beautiful, fresh inside. (29726)
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A NOVEL “Which Proves That War is Solving Civilization's Problems
& Has Made Love Again Triumphant”
(Margaret Armstrong Binding)
Bradley, Mary Hastings. The wine of astonishment. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.56"). 312, [2] pp.
$75.00
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Romance set at the start of WWI, with the main difficulty separating the two lovers being at first financial issues and then her subsequent “marriage of friendship.” Stamped in purple and green with a grapevine and heart design, the
binding is signed MA, for Margaret Armstrong: the dust jacket is in the style of Maxfield Parrish, although unsigned. This is the second printing.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription of Harry E. Young, dated 1921.
American Fiction, 1901-1925, B-858; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 38. Publisher's tan paper–covered sides with title stamped in black and grapevine design in green and purple, light green cloth shelfback with matching grape motif, in original color-printed dust jacket; jacket, with spine and back panel slightly dust-soiled, front joint rubbed, three short edge tears and a few tiny edge nicks, in overall very good, attractive condition. The volume itself, in its Armstrong binding, shows a faint narrow band of offsetting across its back cover (only) from “protective” plastic wrapping the dust jacket; otherwise, very clean and fresh.
A nice copy of the now-uncommon first edition of a socially interesting novel in an “MA” binding. (37550)
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Mr. Brecht, Bring Down This “Fourth Wall”
Brecht, Bertolt; Jack Levine, illus.; Eric Bentley, intro. The threepenny opera. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. 4to (29.3 cm, 11.5"). 155, [3] pp.; 12 plts. (incl. in pagination, incl. frontis.).
$125.00
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This edition of Bertolt Brecht's script for one of the 20th century's most innovative and political musicals is limited to 2,000 copies, of which this is no. 1496. The translation is that of Desmond Vesey, with lyrics rendered in English by Eric Bentley, who also wrote the introduction. The
12 full-page illustrations are reproductions of Jack Levine's etchings of scenes from G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of The Threepenny Opera, and one three-color lithograph
pulled by Emiliano Sorini specially for this edition. Howard I. Gralla designed the book choosing a 12-point Walbaum font with two points leading-space between the lines.
This is numbered copy 1063 of the 2000 printed, signed by both Levine and Bentley at the colophon. The monthly newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Full black linen, stamped in gold on the front cover from a design by Levine, with gilt lettering to spine.
Binding, slipcase, and illustrations all properly evoke the grittiness of the London underworld.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 529. Bound as above, in original black slipcase with gilt lettering to spine; minor rubbing to slipcase. A highly enjoyable copy of a fine production. (39034)
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A Fine, Substantial,
BOTANICAL Bibliography
Bridson, Gavin D.R. BPH-2, periodicals with botanical content. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. Stout 4to. 2 vols. I: xx, 819, [1] pp. II: [iv],821-1470 pp.
$95.00
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These Cooks Really Set Their
HANDS to This Production
Brooklyn Methodist Home.
Brooklyn Methodist Home cook book. [Brooklyn, NY]: Brooklyn M.E. Church Home, (copyright 1939). 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.33"). 320 pp.; illus.
$65.00
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“A cook book sponsored by the managers of the Methodist Home,” a shelter for the elderly, in tribute to the Home's 56th anniversary. Unlike some generically mass-produced charity cookbooks of the era, this delightful spiral-bound volume successfully reproduces
the feel of a cherished handwritten collection: Each page offers a copy of a manuscript or typed recipe (sometimes two), many with small accompanying doodles. Some items are much more legible than others, but all were clearly loved by the contributors, all of whom — including the current chef at the home — provided their names and in some cases their addresses, the latter including Scranton, PA; Ridgewood, Maplewood, and Midland Park, NJ; Lynbrook, Hempstead, and Albany, NY; Mansfield, MA; North Scituate, RI; Des Moines, IA; Thorburn, Nova Scotia; and the Canal Zone, as well as Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Original spiral-bound printed textured paper wrappers, front cover printed in black; wrappers slightly dust-soiled with extremities showing minor wear. First and last leaf with light offsetting and last few leaves with light waterstaining to lower margins, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
Not just a nice example of early 20th-century American cookery, but also a glimpse into the personalities of these charitable-minded ladies of New York, New Jersey, and beyond. (40941)
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Evocative Character Studies from “Phiz”
Browne, Hablot Knight, illus., & Charles Dickens. Dombey & Son. The four portraits of Edith, Florence, Alice, and little Paul. London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 4 plts.
$300.00
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First standalone printing: Four striking steel-engraved plates by the ever-popular “Phiz,” created for Dickens's seventh novel. “Engraved under the superintendence of R. Young and H.K. Browne” and published with the author's sanction as per the front wrapper, the portraits are
printed on two bifolia and laid into the publisher's wrappers as issued.
NCBEL, III, 798 (for main Dombey & Son info.). Publisher's printed light blue-green paper wrappers; wrapper edges sunned and lightly worn. Very slightly and evenly age-toned with small spots of faint foxing mostly confined to margins; light offsetting from images, primarily affecting (blank) reverses save in Little Paul's case, where a ghostly Edith is faintly visible over his head.
An attractive set. (41239)
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LEC: Burke on the American Controversy WARD ENGRAVINGS
Burke, Edmund, Lynd Ward, illus. On conciliation with the colonies and other papers on the American Revolution. Lunenberg, VT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. 8vo (26 cm, 10.25"). Frontis., xxix, [1], 267, [3] pp.; 11 col. plts., illus.
$125.00
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Edited by Peter J. Stanlis and illustrated with
wood engravings by Lynd Ward — marking the first LEC production for which Ward did wood engravings, according to the newsletter. Ward provided 12 full-page two-color engravings, six roundels for sectional title-pages, and eight “scutiform tailpiece decorations”; the volume was designed and printed by Roderick Stinehour at the Stinehour Press.
Numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, this is
signed at the colophon by the artist. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Binding: Bound by the Tapley-Rutter Company in “full Schumacher cloth with an all over multicolor Colonial pattern.” On the spine, a burgundy leather label with gilt lettering.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 491. Binding as above, in original brown paper–covered slipcase; slipcase showing minimal shelfwear, volume fresh and clean.
A handsome, crisp copy. (39040)
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“A World Where Nothing Stands or Stays”
Burnett, David. Chesil beach. Bath, UK: The Old School Press, 2001. 4to (27 cm, 10.6"). [8] ff.
$50.00
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A Beautiful Country Girl & a Spanish Bullfighter
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The pretty sister of José. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 12mo (19.1 cm; 7.5"). iv, 127, [8] pp (publisher's
catalogue), [12] leaves of plates.
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First edition, second state. A “tale of Spanish love and romance” by the author of children's classics such as The Secret Garden and The Little Princess.
Twelve beautiful plates illustrated by C.S. Reinhart accompany Burnett's tender story, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.Binding: Publisher's green decorative cloth printed on front cover with a guitar and lady's fan in gilt and with a flowering vine design in dark green and gold; spine lettered in gold.
BAL 2073, state 2; Wright, III, 814. Bound as above, slightly cocked; top and bottom of spine rubbed with loss of green coloring of cloth, now a bit frayed, and spots of discoloration on rear cover. Interior lightly age-toned, overall unmarked and readable.
A nice copy. (35454)
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Decorative (American) Burns
Burns, Robert; F.A. Chapman, illus. The cotter's Saturday night. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. (pr. by John Mooney), 1867. 4to (21.3 cm, 8.38"). [2], 47, [1] pp.; 4 plts., illus.
$125.00
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First edition of this heavily illustrated presentation of one of Burns's most influential pieces — notable (according to the publisher) for “the cordial enthusiasm with which artist, engraver, printer, and binder have lent their happiest skill to present [the poem] in attire harmonious with its spiritual beauty, and worthy of its essential preciousness” (p. 5). John Filmer engraved the
four plates and numerous in-text vignettes after designs by Frederic Augustus Chapman.
Binding: Publisher's dark brown pebbled leather, covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind with embossed corner fleurons, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; turn-ins with gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Bound as above, corners and edges showing moderate rubbing, spine slightly more; a very good example, being in significantly better condition that usually is found. Printed on heavy stock, really almost light cardboard, with sewing loosening as such production inevitably encourages; final plate fully separated. Occasional instances of foxing or minor soil.
Inherently both fragile and attractive. (41399)
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A Limited Edition from Thomas Bird Mosher
Burns, Robert; William Marion Reedy, intro. The jolly beggars: A cantata. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1914. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., xxiii, [1], 106, [2] pp.; facsims.
$50.00
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Burns' cantata gets the Thomas Bird Mosher treatment in this attractive limited edition with an introduction from American editor William Marion Reedy, followed by short selections from Matthew Arnold, James Douglas, William Scott Douglas, and James Sime. Originally published after Burns' death in 1799, the song tells of a group of six beggars' drunken reveling in a Scottish pub. Mosher's rendition includes a facsimile of the 1799 title-page, a facsimile of the last page of Burns' manuscript from the 1823 lithographed edition, and a facsimile of “the original air” of the final song; a black and white portrait of Burns stands as the frontispiece.
The colophon notes that this is one of 750 unnumbered copies “printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of December MDCCCCXIV.”
Bishop, Mosher, 180; Hatch, Mosher, 610. Green paper shelfback with pictorial blue and white paper–covered boards, white printed paper labels with green and red lettering to spine and front board; minor darkening to board edges; signatures unopened. In original white paper dust jacket; age-toned and edgeworn with chipping to extremities.
A truly handsome edition in a nice copy. (38900)
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Burton's Philosophical Poetry
Burton, Richard F. The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A lay of the higher law. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.7"). vii, [3], 52, [2] pp.
$100.00
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Burton's Sufi-inspired poem, with an introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt and extensive endnotes. The work was printed by John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California (this being only their ninth publication), with title-page decoration and headpieces by Dan Sweeney. This is numbered copy 254 of 500 printed.
Uncut and unopened copy of a beautifully accomplished volume.
Not in Penzer, Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Burton. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; vellum darkened, corners bumped. Pages clean. (28273)
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Cambridge/Riverside
Byron
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron.
Complete poetical works of Lord Byron. Boston & New York: Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. (pr. by the Riverside Press, Cambridge), (copyright 1905). 8vo.
Frontis., xxi, [1], 1055, [1] pp.
$90.00
“Cambridge Edition,” printed and bound at the Riverside Press. Binding: Publisher's half navy morocco with light blue cloth-covered sides, leather edges ruled in gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title, spine compartments ruled in triple gilt fillets with gilt-stamped dotted rules on raised bands. Top edge gilt. Silk ribbon placemarker.
Binding as above, very gently sunned, upper outer corners slightly bumped. Front pastedown with private collector's armorial bookplate. Pages clean. (19634)
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