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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.
Click the image for an enlargement.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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“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.
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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.
• 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 theComfort 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.
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 BookAlbach, 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.
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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)
For BOOKS IN GERMAN, click here. For RELIGION, click here. For CATHOLICA, click here. For ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here. For FINE, ATTRACTIVE, & INTERESTING For Books with SPECIAL100 Years of Book Collecting inPHILADELPHIAAllen, 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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. 1–53 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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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Limited Edition Facsimile Antonozzi, Leopardo. De Caratteri. [Rome 1638]. Nieuwkoop: Miland Publishers, 1971. Oblong 4to. 57 pp.
• Publisher's light boards with printed dust wrapper, in Mylar protective jacket. Nearly new. (23241)
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“A God-Hero of the Golden Age of Myth” —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.
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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 isnumbered 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 byBayntun-RiviereArnold, Matthew. The poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1937. 12mo (18.4 cm; 7.25"). xxvii, 460 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 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.
Click the image for an enlargement. • 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.
Click the image for an enlargement. • 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.
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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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The Wonderful Rescues & Brave Deeds ofTom Thumb Banks, Eulalie, illus. Tom Thumb. [New York]: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., © 1934. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [12 (incl. covers)] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. seven black-and-white and five color-printed illustrations by “Eulalie” — Eulalie Minfred Banks (1895–1999), a beloved English-born artist who spent a number of years living in California.
• Publisher's paper wrappers, very slightly darkened, spine and one corner of cover rubbed. One vertical crease and a few others throughout; pages faintly age-toned. A nice demonstration of Eulalie's appeal. (36533)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements. • 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.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's quarter leather over printed boards, respined with cloth tape; clean, solid copy. (3612)
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Chinese Buddhists in IndiaBeal, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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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Beerbohm's Caricatures ofRossetti & FriendsBeerbohm, Max. Rossetti and his circle. London: William Heinemann, 1922. 4to (26 cm, 10.25"). [x] pp.; 23 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.23 tipped-in photomechanical reproductions of Beerbohm's color drawings/caricatures of individuals of the Rossetti circle, including Rossetti, Benjamin Jowett, Robert Browning, Swinburne, Millais, Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, et al. Each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
This is one of Beerbohm's most prized collections of portraits.
• Gallatin & Oliver 18. Publisher's full blue cloth stamped in gilt, in original dust jacket (shown in photo) with small rent in upper outer corner of front panel. VG/VG; the usual discoloration to the endpapers, platesfresh and charming. (40379)
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Bilingual Stanze inElegant Dos à Dos FormatBembo, 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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.” 
• Publisher's stiff wrappers in the publisher's open-back slipcase. New. (35392)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements.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 withthree 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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Pocket New Testament — New Hampshire, 1831Bible. 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.).
Click the images for enlargements. 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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Biringucci, Vannoccio. The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio. New York: Basic Books, 1959. Small folio. 477 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. 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.
Click the image for an enlargement. 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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Bottomley, Gordon. A vision of Giorgione three variations on Venetian themes. Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1910. 12mo. [8], 45, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargement. 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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Designed by P.J. Conkwright — A Signer's Sad, Sensational End
Boyd, Julian P. The murder of George Wythe. Philadelphia: Privately Printed for The Philobiblon Club, 1949. Small 8vo (20 cm; 7.75"). [2] ff., 45, [3 (last blank) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. murder by poison of Whyte, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and subsequently a judge in Virginia and opponent of slavery, at the hands of Wythe's sister's 17-year-old grandson. The death of a black teen-aged servant of Wythe's in the same atrocity is not glossed over, and one bit of the talk turns on Virginia's admission (or not) of the legal testimony of “Negroes” in a case such as Wythe's became. There is a “Bibliographical note” on p. [47].
The Princeton Library catalogue record for this work states that P.J. Conkwright, the legendary designer and typographer at the Princeton University Press, designed the book. One would suspect that it was printed at the Press as well.
• New. Bound as issued; marbled paper boards, black cloth spine with title stamped in gold. Glassine dust wrapper, chipped and torn over spine but present. (35761)
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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.).
Click the images for enlargements. 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 lithographpulled 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.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's green cloth. As new. (29580)
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These Cooks Really Set TheirHANDS to This ProductionBrooklyn 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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 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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LEC: Burke on the American Controversy — WARD ENGRAVINGSBurke, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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. 
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.
Click the images for enlargements. The Old School Press. Illustrated with onewood engraving by contemporary artist Christopher Wormell (b. 1955), this is copy 46 in a limited edition of 225, printed in Stephenson Blake Caslon Old Face on heavy Zerkall paper, andsigned by the author and the artist below the colophon. It was bound by Rachel James in quarter bright yellow fine-grain cloth with the title gilt-stamped not on the spine but along the line of the its cloth on the handmade grey-blue Larroque paper covering the boards; black Canson Mi-Teintes was used for the endpapers. Copies 186–225 were reserved for binders in sheets.
• Binding as above. Pristine in a mylar wrapper. (30559)
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A Beautiful Country Girl & a Spanish BullfighterBurnett, 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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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A Limited Edition from Thomas Bird MosherBurns, 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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/RiversideByronByron, 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. 
• 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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