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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, 1920. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated. [viii], 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Vellum spine and blue boards. About fine. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated. [viii], 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Anne du Pont Peyton with the writer's love September 1920

Munchen: Prestel-Verlag, 1980. Second edition, and first edition thus, expanded edition, with new material, text in German [first published in 1967]. pp. 172, 296, illustrated (reproducing art work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner). Both volumes are in fine condition, housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase box, with printed paper label (also fine). Second edition, and first edition thus, expanded edition, with new material, text in German [first published in 1967]. pp. 172, 296, illustrated (reproducing art work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner).

London: Bell and Daldy, 1869. First edition. 4to. Leather is moderately rubbed and darkened on spine and both covers, with light wear to extremities, small tri-angular chip at crown of spine, few small soil marks, else a very good copy, with the text and plates very bright and fresh. First edition. 4to. ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTEEN ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS. Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of animals and sporting scenes. Frederic George Stephens (1828-1907) was a noted English painter and art critic, and was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Nicely printed at the Chiswick Press, by Wittingham and Wilkins. Scarce [OCLC locates only five copies; no copies have appeared at auction (ABPC) in last twenty-five years].

London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1867. First edition. pp. vi, [2], 72, illustrated with 15 original full-page mounted albumen print photographs (reproducing paintings, of children, by Joshua Reynolds) by A. and E. SELLEY. 4to. Owner's (1923) pencil inscription on front flyleaf (erasable). Rebacked with contemporary quarter-leather spine stamped in gilt and tastefully matching endpapers. Covers are rubbed and lightly faded at extremities, binding is quite worn at tips of corners (with loss to cloth and tips of boards), else a very good copy; text has slight foxing, else the text and plates bright and clean. First edition. pp. vi, [2], 72, illustrated with 15 original full-page mounted albumen print photographs (reproducing paintings, of children, by Joshua Reynolds) by A. and E. SELLEY. 4to. ILLUSTRATED WITH 15 FULL-PAGE MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS. An early title with photographic images of children. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875, No. 402

Amsterdam: Apud Ioanne Ianssonium, 1634. Engraved title page with bottom missing 1/2 inch. 191 pp. 1 vols. 106 x 55 mm. Bound in full later (Nineteenth-century) mottled calf. Bookplate of John Marshall Gest. Engraved title page with bottom missing 1/2 inch. 191 pp. 1 vols. 106 x 55 mm. Owen was a Welsh writer whose Epigrammata came out in 1606, 1607 and 1612.

[Milano-Roma: Grafitalia gia Pizzi & Pizio], 1941. First edition; promotional publication for Italian shoe designers. [20] pages, illustrated throughout, in color and black-and-white (with drawings, and reproducing photographs of shoe designs); also illustrated with four mounted, sample, fabric swatches; and three mounted, sample, leather swatches [as issued]. Folio. White covers lightly dust soiled, one inch closed tear on rear cover, spine has one-inch tear at crown; a very good copy, with the text and illustrations fresh and clean. First edition; promotional publication for Italian shoe designers. [20] pages, illustrated throughout, in color and black-and-white (with drawings, and reproducing photographs of shoe designs); also illustrated with four mounted, sample, fabric swatches; and three mounted, sample, leather swatches [as issued]. Folio. A promotional publication for Italian shoe designers, including designs by Salvatore Ferragamo, B. Cavallera, E. Albertini et al.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First edition. pp. xii, 427. Red cloth.Spine and top edge are moderately faded, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; light wear and fading on jacket spine, and a few short creased tears to extremities. First edition. pp. xii, 427. INSCRIBED BY EDMUND WILSON TO LONGTIME FRIEND HELEN MUCHNIC, IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to close friend, Helen Muchnic, in year of publication: "To Helen, with love from E.W. Oct. 8, 1947. New York" (on front flyleaf). [Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years].

[London]: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1920. First edition. 8vo. Moderate wear and browning on spine label, slight fraying to cloth at tips of spine, few small soil marks to covers, else a good to very good copy. First edition. 8vo. INSCRIBED BY JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY TO IRVING BABBITT. Inscribed by John Middleton Murry, to noted critic and author, Irving Babbitt, on the front flyleaf: "To Professor Irving Babbitt in gratitude for his 'Rousseau & Romanticism,' from the author in the hope that these pages will interest as they certainly will amuse him." Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), noted American critic and author, was the leader of the movement in literary criticism known as New Humanism. He was the author of a number of books, including, Rousseau & Romanticism, published in 1924.

London: (London Limited Editions) Hutchinson, 1993. First edition, signed; signed issue, limited to 150 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by William Trevor. pp. xviii, 202, illustrated. 8vo. A fine copy in unprinted glassine dust jacket [this signed issue was not published with a printed dust jacket]. First edition, signed; signed issue, limited to 150 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by William Trevor. pp. xviii, 202, illustrated. 8vo.

New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1835. First (American) edition. pp. 192, 164 (followed by 30 pages of ads). Publisher's green cloth with publisher's printed label on spine. Both volumes have private lending-library labels Palmer & Washburn's Circulating Library Gardiner, dated 1836) on front covers, bindings are worn and frayed, texts are quite foxed, else a very good set; uncommon. First (American) edition. pp. 192, 164 (followed by 30 pages of ads).

Charcoal and pencil drawing. 22 x 15 inches. Fine. Framed and glazed. Charcoal and pencil drawing. 22 x 15 inches. "And now for Eagle Hill Camp. It is pitched in one of the most romantic bits of wilderness in eastern Massachusetts, a real wilderness of its kind, not far from old Maggot Island ... on the west side of Eagle Hill Brook along the Plymouth-Wareham line ...".

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First edition, first issue (with frontispiece figure seated and the dedication M.L.P.B.). Illustrated by Will Grefé. Decorated by Blanche Ostertag. Prelims. printed in green. xi, [1], 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt stamped red cloth. Some light wear to extremities, else very good. First edition, first issue (with frontispiece figure seated and the dedication M.L.P.B.). Illustrated by Will Grefé. Decorated by Blanche Ostertag. Prelims. printed in green. xi, [1], 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book.

London: A. Brown and Sons, Limited 5 Farrington Avenue, E.C. and at Hull and York, 1915. First edition. Containing upwards of 270 half-tone Reproductions in sepia and 10 full-page plates in Colour. xlvi, 240, (2) pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown cloth, t.e.g., rest uncut. Nice copy. First edition. Containing upwards of 270 half-tone Reproductions in sepia and 10 full-page plates in Colour. xlvi, 240, (2) pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1904. Illustrated monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society No. XIII. 28 plates. Uncut. 1 vols. 4to. Later half calf and cloth boards. Renderia bookplate. Illustrated monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society No. XIII. 28 plates. Uncut. 1 vols. 4to.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First Edition. One of 50 copies specially bound, with a double-page frontispiece color reproduction of a trade card for a Mitchell & Crosdale Philadelphia dealer in Sperm, Whale, Lard & Tanners Oils, Candes, Rice & c. of Whale killing. XLIV plates, uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in quarter vellum and patterned boards. Very Fine in remains of original glassine. First Edition. One of 50 copies specially bound, with a double-page frontispiece color reproduction of a trade card for a Mitchell & Crosdale Philadelphia dealer in Sperm, Whale, Lard & Tanners Oils, Candes, Rice & c. of Whale killing. XLIV plates, uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. XLIV plates, uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in brown cloth. Fine in chipped dj, offesetting on Preface page. XLIV plates, uncut. 25 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to.

New York: William Helburn Inc. 418 Madison Avenue, 1924. First edition. 25 plates. 1 vols. Folio. Portfolio, worn, ex-library, some wear to edges of plates, t.p. taped. First edition. 25 plates. 1 vols. Folio.

Santee, Nebraska: Santee N.T.S. Press, 1928. First edition. Illustrations, including several after drawings by Santee student Reuben Dorian. 70pp. 12mo. Original tan wrappers. First edition. Illustrations, including several after drawings by Santee student Reuben Dorian. 70pp. 12mo. "Mother planned to publish this booklet several years befiore her death. The publication was postponed with the expectation of making it more pretentious. It would have been a great pleasure to her to have seen her interesting story of the beginning of our Santee Indian mission school in print. Tho it is not now done as well as she would have it, we are sending it our from our school press prematurely because we feel that for her sake it should bot be longer delayed" (printed note by Frederick B. Riggs following the title). Founded in 1870 by Congregational minister Alfred Riggs and his wife Mary Riggs (the author), the primary purpose of the school was to provide training and education to members of the Santee Sioux… Read More

New York: Charles Reznikoff Thirt-Six Street, 1936. First Edition. 19pp. 12mo. Publisher's blue cloth, white paper spine label. Fine in unclippedfine dj. First Edition. 19pp. 12mo. SIGNED. Signed by the author on the ffep.

[Preston, Lanchashire]: Akros Publications, 1968. First edition. Number 40 of 50 copies, signed by the Author and Editor. 28 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustrated green pictorial printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Number 40 of 50 copies, signed by the Author and Editor. 28 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.