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Boston: L.C. Page & Company Publishers, 1908 Pictorial endpapers; advertisements for new fiction at rear. Moderate cover edgewear, including tiny hole in cloth at front fore edge; spine a little sunned. Few light brown stains to front endpaper; small inkblot and inked-out (?)prior owner information inside rear cover. Interior otherwise clean and tight.

Yarmouth, Maine: Self-published, 1996 Illustrated card covers; 69 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on half-title page. During his 20 years with a Kennebunk, Maine newspaper the author wrote many editorials and personal columns, the latter including the 53 pieces in this collection. Distributor decal inside front cover. Light soil to cover, with rear cover slightly more affected. Interior clean, tight, and unworn.

Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Nova Scotia Museum, 1969 Green cloth; gilt title and spine lettering. Reprinted from The Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Volume 26. Two sections are bound together, divided by an insert which notes that matters pertaining to the business of the Institute are not included. The order of the families, genera and species is that used in Gray's Manual of Botany, 8th edition, Fernald, 1950-a. Botanical illustrations (drawings) throughout. SIGNED by both authors on paper pastedown on title page. Personal additions to the volume were made by last owner Elizabeth Lincoln of Ware, Massachusetts, who attended Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Black-and-white photograph of Dr. Muriel Roscoe (Acadia) and Prof. H.P.Bell, Dalhousie University affixed to inside front cover, with Roscoe's signature above. Lincoln's bookplate and explanation of autographed copy on adjacent endpaper. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Light-to-moderate irregular brownstain… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897 Blindstamped MAROON cloth (other copies bound in green cloth); gilt cover insignia, title, and spine lettering; top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Illustrated with stock black-and-white art plates within text, including tissue-guarded frontis "Marguerite." Narratives of fifteen operas based on the librettos "to enable the spectator to follow every phase of the action on the stage." Includes "Carmen" by Bizet, "Don Giovanni," by Mozart, "Aida" by Verdi, and "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart. Moderate rubbing and scuffing to cover extremities and boards. Three very small ink stains, two on spine title (not obscuring lettering), one at upper front cover near spine. Lower two inches of front hinge paper neatly repaired for stability. Otherwise clean with tight binding.

New York: Yippie Museum Press/BookSurge, LLC, 2005 Glossy illustrated card cover. A new look at the poetryof Bob Dylan, with a vocabulary of about 600 words. "Dylanology. . . is exclusively concerned with digging behind the text of Dylan's poetry to find the subtext." Two Appendices and Endnotes at rear. Light-to-moderate wear along cover edges; light scuffing to rear cover. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

London: Chapman & Hall for The Royal Society, 1994 Laminated boards. A selection of invited review papers presented at a Royal Society Discussion meeting on Thin Film Diamond held in London on 15 and 16 July 1992. "The topic of low pressure synthesis has attracted world wide interest and become increasingly active in recent years due to the possible use of diamond films in commercial applications." Illustrated with figures and diagrams. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Interior text is clean, tight, and unworn, but the book bears internal library marks as follows: inkstamp and library label affixed to inside front cover; small library stamp and pencil notations to copyright page; black marker lines to all page block edges; "date due" slip and pocket affixed to rear endpapers.

New York: Island Press Cooperative, Inc., 1948 . . .[A] dynamic, hard-hitting novel, based on actual facts and incidents, which reveals the true face of Anti-Semitism in America." SIGNED by the author on front endpaper. Moderate wear to cover extremities; bottom corners bumped. Clean and tight in moderately worn and discolored dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930 Ex-Library. Part of The Young People's Shelf of Science series, edited by E.E. Slosson. Original copyright 1923. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Reading copy with very heavily worn exterior, hinge repair cloth, and library marks and bookplate to endpapers. Interior with occasional faint stains; binding intact.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873 Green cloth; gilt title and spine.Early reprint; first published 1872. Part of the "Science for the Young" series. With numerous wonderful vintage engravings depicting forces of nature and tools/machinery. Advertisements for "Interesting Books for the Young" in rear. Cover extremities heavily worn and lightly frayed, with cloth at upper front spine beginning to split; boards moderately scuffed, lightly soiled. Binding tight; one signature becoming detached. Interior clean.

Toronto: John C. Winston Co., 1936 Red cloth; gilt and black title and decoration; gilt spine. Black-and-white photograph plates throughout. Brief bibliography at rear. Minor smudging at title banner. Upper rear cover corner bumped. Moderate, narrow, diagonal scrape to rear board with corresponding small dents to rear gutter and spine edge. Light age-browning to inside covers. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

New York: Acquavella Galleries,Inc., 1966 Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph of author and twenty-eight color reproductions of the works. Upper portion of front cover and spine darkened; light edgewear to cover. Interior clean and intact.

New York: New York University Press, 1963 Cloth. Good+/Good. Ex-Library First Edition. Originally published by Hatier, in Paris, under the title "Verlaine." Translated by Carl Morse. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Prior owner inscription front endpaper. Library marks: pocket-removal remnants rear endpaper; inkstamps to all page blocks; embossed library seal title page; spine label to dust jacket. Otherwsie clean and tight in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888 Illustrated brown cloth, gilt title and spine. Early reprint; copyright 1887. Black-and-white text drawings. Many of these poems, "expressed in homely, Anglo-Teutonic verse," appeared in "Harper's Magazine," "The Detroit Free Press," and other publications. In the preface, the author states that this book was meant to be a companion volume to "Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems." Moderate-to-heavy rubbing of cover extremities; boards moderately scuffed. Occasional light marginal spots, but clean overall.

Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1866 Sixth edition. Brick-red cloth covered boards, gilt spine. Author was Senior Pastor of Union Church, Columbus Avenue, Boston. Some irregular faint staining of cover cloth; spine slightly darkened; light rubbing of extremities. Clean and tight.

Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 The author "looks at the myths of absinthe and examines its influence on the artistic movements of the nineteenth century." With black-and-white and color text plate illustrations. Former library copy with laminated dust jacket attached to inside covers. Library marks limited to inkstamps on blank rear endpaper, dust jacket spine label (underneath laminate), and small rectangular sticker-removal outline to lower front dust jacket panel. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1850 Full leather with gilt and black spine label. Exterior Fair-to-Poor, with front board detached and significant loss to leather portion of spine (label intact). Interior Very Good with solid, tight binding and clean, unworn pages. Tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving on higher quality paper depicts portraits of Madison and Monroe situated above an image of the Capitol building framed between two draped American flags. Engraving by Rice (presumably James R.) and Buttre (J.C) and with engraved signature also by C.L. Derby, brother of the publisher; they were two of the famous four Derby brothers, all 19th century bookmen. Tissue guard and frontispiece age-browned. Two small patches brown paper remnants stuck to inside rear cover. Moderate marginal darkened areas to inside front cover and blank front endpaper. Heavy scuffing and edgewear to boards, along with aforementioned deterioration of spine leather.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1968 Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Translated by Wade Baskin. With an Introduction by Margaret C. O'Riley.

London: Kuwait Research and Advertising Co. Ltd., 1992 Second printing. With numerous black-and-white and color photographs, most by the author, many of which are graphic depictions of torture victims/martyrs [sic]. Very faint price sticker shadow to half-title page.

Prague: Academia, 1975 Forward and Introduction in Czech only. Thereafter contents and all photograph plate captions are in Czech, Russian, and English. Detailed descriptions of geologic features of rocks and particles collected from the moon's surface, accompanied by numerous photograph text plates in black-and-white and color. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Spine moderately sunned. Tiny spot stain to rear cover. Library marks: pencil notations and "withdrawn" sticker on title page; pocket affixed to inside rear cover; bard code sticker affixed to rear endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.

Paris: Les Editions Rieder, 1928 Orange cloth. In French. With 57 pages of text, followed by a one-page Bibliographie, a note regarding "L'oeuvre de Daumier," a "Table des Oeuvres Reproduites," and "60 planches hors-texte en heliogravure" (60 pages of half-tone reproductions). Light soil to cover cloth. Diagonal crease/wrinkle at upper corner page 17-18. Interior clean and tight.