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Birmingham AL: Legal Classics Library, 1982. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, handsomely bound in crimson red cowhide leather lettered and decorated in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmarks, marbled endpapers. A facsimile of the original 1904 edition published in Edinburgh. Bright, clean copy. Record # 371605

NY: Macmillan, 1941. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. C.W. Anderson. Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in white. No dust jacket. 124 pages illustrated in b&w by Anderson. From the time she was a tiny girl, Patsy loved horses. A groom named Holley is her good friend, and when as a young woman she wants to train the difficult horse Bobcat, he helps her. A horse story set in Maryland. Clean copy. Record # 382372

Harper & Brothers: Harper's Weekly, 1911. Very Good/None. E.W. Kemble. Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer waiting to tee off One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Record # 382422

Harper & Brothers: Harper's Weekly. Very Good/None. E.W. Kemble. Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer putting ball. One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Record # 382406

Harper & Brothers: Harper's Weekly. Very Good/None. E.W. Kemble. Full-page pen and ink drawing of a golfer (Sherman) cleaning dirt from club, standing in the rough. One in a series by E.W. Kemble, himself a golf enthusiast. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Record # 382421

Hartford CT: F.A. Brown, 1856. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, gray cloth, covers embossed with floral designs in blind-stamp. Gilt medallion front cover, gilt lettering and Hale Monument on spine, 230 pages, errata page at conclusion. Gutter crack at page 60, but not bad, binding solid. Eight b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's signature (dated 1856) on blank pelim page. A biography of the soldier in the Continental Army and member of Knowlton's Rangers, the first organized intelligence service organization of the United States of America. Hale spied on the British, and was captured and executed during a mission in New York City. His service earned him the title of state hero of Connecticut. Record # 373727

US: R W Elliott, 1987-01-01. limited. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 174 pages. Edition limited to 2500 copies. Light edgewear and rubbing to brown covers. Internally very good. Record # 463605

Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bernard Waber. 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469974

Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bernard Waber. 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy. Record # 602788

New York: Viking Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 231 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED on title page, also INSCRIBED on half-title by Wachtel. Record # 13595

NY: Harper & Row, 1983. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Philippe Dupasquier. Hardcover.Color pictures by Philippe Dupasquier. Light edgewear to illustrated laminated paper covered boards. Bubbling to some areas of front cover. A little girl chronicles the hardships encountered during her family's journey west by wagon train. Record # 503339

London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1966. 2nd Ed.. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 26 pages, stapled wraps, illustrated with b&w drawings. Clean copy. Record # 359824

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Illustrated cardboard covers, 64 pages, color art by Clarence Biers. Clean, bright copy. Record # 370354

NY: Praeger Publishers, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Wilfrid Sheed. IIlustrated with photographs. Statistics. 274 pages. Biography of one of the greatest baseball player in the game. Roberto Clemente was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. Clean copy. Record # 381789

NY: Crown Publishers, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 276 pages with over 400 b&w photographs. Foreword by Lillian Gish. A definitive pictorial and critical account of all the features, with a comprehensive illustrated general survey of the Biographs with a foreword by Lillian Gish. The book provides credits, plot summaries, and rare illustrations for every film he made; it is outstanding for its thoughtful and penetrating critical evaluation of each film. Clean copy. Record # 382200

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 1st. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 264 pages, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition. In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers the first comprehensive account of Carroll as a photographer of modern childhood, exploring how his photographs of children gave visual form to emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age. Situating Carroll's photography within the broader context of Victorian visual and social culture, Waggoner shows how he drew on images of childhood in painting and other media, and engaged with the visual language of the Victorian theater, fancy dress, and Pre-Raphaelitism. She provides the first in-depth analysis of Carroll's photographing of boys, which she examines in the context of boys'… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, red cloth stamped in silver gilt, 289 pages. Clean copy. Record # 411787

Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 150 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Biography of the American Southern novelist which includes study of her later novels, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Record # 462597

Berkeley CA: Ten Speed Press, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jeff Grove. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color, b&w by Jeff Grove. Record # 1065

NY: Delacorte Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Uri Shulevitz. Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped. Record # 368789