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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 1 vols. 8vo. Original white canvas cloth, with blue printing and ornaments; slight toning to spine, pencil notes erased from first three pages, else fine and attractive. First edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 1 vols. 8vo. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to "a high rate of water-damaged copies" and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the market. A nice copy of a rare book. This copy has been used and has neat pen entries from 6/6/36-7/16/38. Siegel 75; Frazier D-5-a

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 5 pages completed for August 1933 out of New Haven Yacht Club, Douglas Crocker, Skipper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original white canvas cloth, with blue printing and ornaments. Fine. Bookplate. Laid into a quarter crimson morocco and cloth clamshell box with morocco label on upper panel with Derrydale logo on spine and upper panel. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 5 pages completed for August 1933 out of New Haven Yacht Club, Douglas Crocker, Skipper. 1 vols. 8vo. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to "a high rate of water-damaged copies" and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the market. A nice copy of a rare book. Siegel 75; Frazier D-5-a

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 printed pages, with blank space for recording 70 races; this copy unused. 1 vols. 8vo. Original white canvas cloth, with blue printing and ornaments; slight toning to spine, pencil notes erased from first three pages, else fine and attractive. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 printed pages, with blank space for recording 70 races; this copy unused. 1 vols. 8vo. Derrydale Yachting Log, "Extremely Rare"--Frazier. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to "a high rate of water-damaged copies" and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the market. A nice copy of a rare book. Siegel 75; Frazier D-5-a

[New Haven, CT], 1863. 36 engraved student portraits by A.H. Ritchie with facsimile signatures and 20 albumen print cartes-de-visite window-mounted 4-to-a-page. 4to. Contemporary brown morocco-grained sheep, covers stamped in gilt with "Yale" and school motto, tail of spine with owner's name, "F.F. Harrat," in gilt. Covers worn, foxing to plates. 36 engraved student portraits by A.H. Ritchie with facsimile signatures and 20 albumen print cartes-de-visite window-mounted 4-to-a-page. 4to.

[New Haven], 1869. Engraved title printed in blue, 94 albumen print photographs, comprising 22 views, 2 interiors and 4 class or group shots (all approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) and 66 individual portraits of faculty and students (5-1/2 x 4 inches), each photograph captioned in pen on the mount, several of the faculty and student portraits inscribed by the sitter. Large 4to (12-3/4 x 10 inches). Contemporary full brown morocco, covers with blind-stamped geometric border, central title and school arms stamped in gilt, a.e.g. Rebacked, preserving parts of original spine, new endsheets, covers scuffed, damage, discoloration and stains to some pages, a few photos badly damaged or foxed. Engraved title printed in blue, 94 albumen print photographs, comprising 22 views, 2 interiors and 4 class or group shots (all approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) and 66 individual portraits of faculty and students (5-1/2 x 4 inches), each photograph captioned in pen on the mount, several of the faculty and student portraits… Read More

[New Haven, 1891. Folio 18-3/4 x 12. Old folds else fine. Folio 18-3/4 x 12. Charles A. Gulliver's college book store was on Chapel Street and he was a photographer of Yale and New Haven as well circa 1870-1890.

[New Haven, Ct.]: Yale University Dramatic Club, 1912. Folio (17 x 5-1/2 inches). Old folds. Folio (17 x 5-1/2 inches). Cole Porter '13 plays the Abbess of Kirklee; he is also listed as chairman of the Music Committee. OCLC: 50867224 (Brown)

New Naven: Yale University Press, 1983. The Yale Edition. 43 vols. 4to. Blue cloth. Fine. The Yale Edition. 43 vols. 4to.

New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1784. First edition. 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later blue boards. Fine, pages uncut. Bookplate. First edition. 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Evans 18434; Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 555; III Jenkins 331; Pequot Library 195. BEAL 4808

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1937. First edition, Number 181 of 310 copies, signed by the author. With Many Illustrations. 325 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson leather spine and blue buckram,, in red paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label with number of this copy on it. Book fine slipcase rubbed. With prospectus. First edition, Number 181 of 310 copies, signed by the author. With Many Illustrations. 325 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Annapolis, Md: The Unied States Naval Institute, 1920. First edition. Illus. 110pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine. First edition. Illus. 110pp. 8vo. Inscribed on ffep: "Christmas 1958. To my grandson John Walton Curley from John F. Walton Jr Ensign U.S.N.R.F. U.S.S. Canandaigua of the Yankee Mining Squadron World War I.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in publisher's zigzag textured green cloth. Ex-libris of J.A. Perkins Jr., Montreal. Front inner hinge tender, light rubbing to spine ends. Very good. First edition. [iv], 286 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes the first appearance in a volume of Thoreau's writings of "Civil Disodedience," which, "through its impact on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., the anti-Nazi movement in Europe in the 1940s, and anti-Vietnam War protesters in the 1970s, has had a wider political influence than any other American literary document" (ANB). BAL 20117; Borst A 7.1.a; Allen, 22-23; Downs, Books That Changed America 8

New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by James Merrill. 16 pages. Oblong 12mo. blue decorated wrappers, Small chip at back flap, else fine. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by James Merrill. 16 pages. Oblong 12mo.

London: Longman, Rees , Orme, Brown, Green and Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition. [xvi], 349, [1, blank], [4, ads] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation binding of red morocco gilt, edges gilt (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: William Lowther (1787-1872), second Earl of Lonsdale (bookplate); William W. Gay (bookplate, note laid-in). First edition. [xvi], 349, [1, blank], [4, ads] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation Copy to the Earl of Lonsdale. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publishers "From the Author" on the half-title and in a presentation binding. A fine provenance: sonnets XLII and XLIII (pp. 228-9) are addressed to the book's recipient: "Lowther! in thy majestic pile are seen Cathedral pomp and grace ..." "Wordsworth dedicated his 'Excursion' to the second earl in 1814, subsequently inscribed to him a sonnet upon the Lowther motto 'magistratus indicat virum' and constantly wrote of him to Samuel Rogers and other friends in terms of the highest regard" (DNB).… Read More

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926. New Edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author in Persian dress, folding map at end. 650pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half rmaroon modern morocco, orange title label and maroon cloth sides. Fine. New Edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author in Persian dress, folding map at end. 650pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Geelong & Melbourne, 1873. First Edition. 4 parts in one. 8vo. Cloth. Fine. First Edition. 4 parts in one. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To Samuel E.[dson] Cassino (Boston Publisher)/ regardfully offered/ by/ Baron von Mueller." Ferguson 7884

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. One of 770 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrator, with facsimile letter and 2 extra illustrations for this limited edition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 400 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Fine copy in publisher's full blue cloth, in the original cardboard sleeve and slipcase (slipcase broken). Wyeth, N.C. One of 770 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrator, with facsimile letter and 2 extra illustrations for this limited edition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 400 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition. [4], 469 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good, some foxing. Without the dust jacket. First edition. [4], 469 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. David Garnett's Copy. Signed "David Garnett/March 9, 1937." on flyleaf. This was 6 days prior to publication. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, intimately involved with a number of their personal and artistic lives, Garnett was the only child of Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, the great translator from the Russian. His novel Lady Into Fox won the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, he founded the Nonesuch Press, and ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell in the 1920s. Woolmer 423

London: Methuen & Co, 1919. First edition, one of 30 printed on Japan vellum. Title printed in red and black. xiii, 159 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in white linen boards and a vellum spine, gilt stamped, t.e.g.Moderate soiling to vellum, a few spots along top edges, otherwise fine. First edition, one of 30 printed on Japan vellum. Title printed in red and black. xiii, 159 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 30 copies. Deluxe limited issue of the first edition, one of 30 copies on Japanese vellum. The title refers to the period between the South African War and the Armistice in 1918. The book's forty-five poems and series of epitaphs is considered by some Kipling scholars as his darkest work. The trade edition was printed in an enormous run of 10,000 copies, and there were 200 copies on hand-made paper. This very limited issue of 30 copies on Japanese vellum is scarce in the market. Richards A320; Stewart 434; Livingston 442; Martindell 164; Grolier 502; Ballard CXCII; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 957;… Read More

London: Methuen & Co, 1919. First edition. xiii, 159 pp, 32 pp. of adds. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson cloth, t.e.g., rest uncut. Tan dust jacket printed in blue. Spine of dust jacket slightly faded, minor wear, else fine. First edition. xiii, 159 pp, 32 pp. of adds. 1 vols. 8vo. Stewart 434; Livingston 442