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NY: John H. Eggers Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Original red box containing six books by Thornton W. Burgess, each approximately 6.5" by 8.5", each with 13 printed pages and each with extremely bright color and B&W illustrations by Harrison Cady. The six books are: Unc' Billy Possum has a Fright; Peter Rabbit Puts on Airs; Jerry Muskrat Wins Respect; Jumper the Hare Cannot Sleep; Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine; and Grandfather Frog Stays in the Smiling Pool. All of the books are illustrated in color and B&W by Harrison Cady. Extremely rare.. Four of the books contain a brief gift inscription (in pencil) on the title page dated Christmas 1925, and one contains the owner's name and date (December 25, 1925) in the "My Book" box on the fep, but all are otherwise unmarked. All text and illustrations are bright and clean. The stapled spines of each of the books are worn, but not separated.… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1926. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full dark green leather, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Inscribed to Mrs. Frank M. Smith by the author on the half-title. . Hinges professionally repaired, covers and spine are sunned, else unmarked and clean. VERY GOOD+. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 279 pp. Signed by Author .

London: Limited Editions Club / Curwen Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited Edition (Copy No. 4 of only 1500), signed by the illustrator on the colophon page. Publisher's full cream/white cloth with a single gilt decoration on cover. In slipcase. Illustrated with 12 watercolor plates by Marie Laurentis. Translated from French with an Introduction by Edmund Grosse. Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.. Spine mildly soiled, cover lightly marked, former owner's name written on ffep. Slip case has light watermarks and soiled, but sturdy, else very good. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . Watercolors. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (xi), 214 pp. Signed by Illustrator .

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1919. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. A heartfelt memorial, this is a collection of letters and poems of Second Lieutenant Dinsmore Ely, written to his family in Winnetka, Illinois, during World War I. At the outbreak of the war, he volunteered in the American Ambulance Field Service so that he might secure immediate passage to France and go at once into active service. Arriving there on the fourth of July, 1917, on the sixth he volunteered and was accepted the same day, in the Lafayette Flying Corps. Shot down while flying in his Spad over France (near Villacoublay) on April 21, 1918, he died in a Paris hospital and was buried in Des Gonard's Cemetery, at Versailles. He was 24 years old, and had already been decorated for valor. Includes a "Prelude" by Dr. James O. Ely, his father. The Lafayette Flying Corps is a… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1875. Reprint. Leather. Beautifully bound in brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, intricate gilt tooling in the remainder , gilt borders on covers, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (1800 – 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history were hailed as literary masterpieces. He held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India. He supported the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers. In his thought… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1868. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Quarter leather over marbled boards, spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on orange and black panels on spines, cream endpapers. B&W frontispiece in each volume. . The label on Volume IV is chipped with loss, the volumes are otherwise fine. NEAR FINE. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Bernard Quaritch, London). Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1884. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Photo-lithograph plates (56) With ornamental Title-page and 56 magnificent full-page Illustrations by Elihu Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Medium brown flat-weave cloth over beveled boards; front cover with gilt-ruled borders, symbolist design of vase, vine, swirl and stars, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' and 'Drawings by Elihu Vedder'; rear cover without decoration; spine with gilt-ruled borders, floral ornaments, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'; illustrator's facsimile signature, gilt, on front cover, lower right "V."; grey coated endpapers with grapevine decoration; t.e.g.. Detailed collation: 2 Frontis; 3 Title; 6 Pictorial Imprint; 7 Pictorial dedication; 10 Pictorial Fly-title; 11-103 Text of Third… Read More

Paris: Assouline. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. 2843230667 . Publisher's full black cloth with blind-stamped title on front cover and spine, black endpapers. Illustrated with astonishing full-page, full-color photographs by Serge Lutens. Photographer, make-up artist, interior and set designer, creator of perfumes, fashion designer and designer of extraordinary objects, autodidact Serge Lutens is an "image maker" of genius. He first began working for French "Vogue" in 1963 where he worked with, among others, Bob Richardson, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdouin and Irving Penn. At the age of only 27, already acclaimed for his inimitable style, he moved to Dior to develop the company's image and create their make-up lines, after which he transferred his talents to Shiseido, where he has been "image creator" for over 15 years. He divides his time between Paris and Ben Youssef, the medina in Marrakech, and his work… Read More

London: F. And C. Rivington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1803. Early Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Complete in 16 Volumes. Publisher's half dark green leather with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, 5 gilt decorated raised bands on spine, gilt lettering in two of the compartments on the spine, gilt decoration in the remaining four. The first eight volumes are dated 1803, with the remaining eight volumes dating from1812 to 1827. . Leather spines are brittle and chipped with some loss at the heads of the spine on about five of the volumes, rubbing but no loss at the bottom of the spines and the tips, hinges are rubbed, but holding, former owner's name in elegant cursive at top of title page, else unmarked, square and clean. GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1932. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing ("A" and colophon on copyright page). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, Hemingway's facsimile signature in gilt on front cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected color frontispiece of "The Bullfighter" by Juan Gris and numerous (81) B&W photographs. Includes "An Explanatory Glossary," "Some Reactions of a Few Individuals to the Integral Spanish Bullfight," "A Short Estimate of the American, Sidney Franklin, as a Matador;" "Date on Which Bullfights will Ordinarily be held in Spain, France, Mexico, and Central and South America;" and a "Bibliographical Note." . Gilt on spine mildly faded, head and heel of spine show very light wear, minor spotting on rear cover, small bookshop label on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY… Read More

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1870. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, double frontispieces. Illustrated with 234 B&W reproductions of prints, drawings, etchings qand engravings, many full-page. First edition, third printing: Pages xvii and xviii have their page numbers; the last entry on page xviii ends with the word "conclusion"; the engraved portrait of Napoleon III appears at page129; the heading on page 643 is "CHAPTER LXI"; the third page of the printed ads begins with "Illustrated History of the Bible." [McBride pg. 8]. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of… Read More

NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1878. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth decorated in gilt and black, beveled edges, t.e.g. Profusely illustrated with maps, four color Chromolithograph plates, over 500 full page and in-text illustrations, 21 glossy monochrome plates, and eight plans (including three fold-out). Includes Index and Appendices. Preface by W. E. Gladstone, M.P. This is the first American edition. "Mycenae" was first published in Germany (in German) in 1877. Following the publication of his findings from the spectacular excavations at Hisarlik, the Turkish government revoked Schliemann's permission to dig, and sued him for a share of the treasure trove Schlieman had uncovered. He was thus obliged to establish a new dig, which he did at Mycenae in the Peloponnese, and which was attended by similarly remarkable results, culminating in the uncovering of the famous… Read More

Chicago: My Book House for Children. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. c. 1937. Reprint. Reprint. Hard Cover. All of the volumes are bound in decorative blue cloth, with color pictorial paste-downs on covers, colored decorative endpapers, color title pages, and are illustrated in color. All of the volumes have a copyright date of 1937. The volumes are: (1) In the Nursery; (2) Story Time; (3) Up One Pair of Stairs; (4) Through the Gate; (5) Over the Hills; (6) Through Fairy Halls; (7) The Magic Garden; (8) Flying Sails; (9) The Treasure Chest (10) From the Tower Window; (11) In Shining Armor, (12) Halls of Fame. Each volume contains numerous stories edited by Olive Beaupre Miller and are illustrated in color. . All of the volumes contain a brief gift inscription on the first blank preliminary page (To / Florence and Bill / From Daddy and Mother / Xmas 1943); some of the covers are very mildly rubbed, all of the volumes are otherwise unmarked, tight, and square. A large, heavy… Read More

NY: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated first printing. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on black label on spine, author's initials in gilt medallion on cover, top edge blue, cream endpapers, fore-edge deckle. . Hinges just starting, small spot on top edge, else as new; unmarked, unmarked, tight, square and clean. A very fresh and clean copy. VERY GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 1168 pp .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394800796 . Publisher's printed boards, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color drawings by Dr. Seuss. First edition, first printing, with all first issue points present: (1) Cat in the Hat advertisement on rear panel of dust jacket with a price of $2.00; (2) 14 titles (up to now) listed on the rear flap; (3) list of 13 books printed under Other Books by Dr. Seuss on the last page of the book; (4) Dust jacket code is "250/250." [Younger & Hirsch 33].. The volume is in excellent condition, showing only light shelf-wear at heel of spine, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) is mildly worn at the corners and at the head and heel of the spine, else fine. An extremely nice copy. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. . Color Drawings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated pp .