•  Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper sides, leather edges tooled in gilt; binding moderately rubbed, most notably over extremities. Pages with a very few small spots, otherwise clean.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers with moderate spotting. A few pages lightly stained, not obscuring text. (16656)

With the expected cake and pickle recipes are some surprises, showing newly-introduced possibilities brought about by the innovations of the 20th century: peanut croquettes, brownies, and chocolate cakes made using cocoa powder are good examples.

•  A stock copy book, each page ruled in blue; flexible covers. Very good condition with the expectable amount of dark offsetting from the pasted-in newspaper articles.

•  Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped spine; edges rubbed, spine darkened. Pages clean. (20711)

•  Publisher’s cloth, front cover with title stamped in brown, spine with title stamped in gilt; binding faded, cloth rubbed at corners, edges, and extremities. Ex-library: Spine with call number label, front pastedown with small institutional bookplate; half-title and title-page pressure-stamped, preface with inked numeral in lower margin, back pastedown with slip; priced accordingly. Pages clean.

“Personal” this is, both in construction and in style; it is written in accessible language and with wonder given full rein. But it is real science.  (Robertson-Miller published in agricultural and other scientific journals.)

Binding:  Publisher's sage green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in olive, black, and pale green.

•  Bound as above with lower edge of front cover darkened, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed. Front hinge slightly tender. Pages clean.  (22214)

Copies in condition as close to original as exhibited in this one are increasingly difficult to obtain.

•  Shoemaker 3035; Sabin 72202; this edition not in Palau. Contemporary boards, rebacked with paper in the style of the era; original paper label reapplied. Uncut copy with edges untrimmed. Library bookplate with stamps on it, but no other institutional markings.

•  Sewn in publisher’s printed paper wrappers; clean and all but unworn, with the lower outer corners just slightly bumped.

•  Arbour 1384. Publisher's red cloth, front cover stamped in white, black, and gilt in pictorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, with cloth rubbed over corners and spine extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled owner's name (Mr. Theodore Kenyon). Some leaves lightly age-toned. (15155)

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Provenance: Inscribed in 1891 to W.D. Lighthall, prominent citizen of and author of Hochelagans and Mohawks: A Link in Iroquois History, by George S. Wilson.

•  TPL 9325; Banks, 109; Pilling, Iroquian, 50; Calderisi, 16. Contemporary roan, rebacked; abrasions along edges. Half-title with short tear at binding and with pencilled inscription as above. Tear at foremargin of one blank leaf; pp. 274–75 with small area of adhesion.

•  Sewn as issued. Once folded in six parts. Long 2 1/2 inch tears extending from fore-edges, to first three leaves. Two dog-eared corners, a few short tears to final leaf, two small holes with loss of a few words of text. (557)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, apparently removed from a nonce volume, with sewing holes; paper split over spine, with edges chipped and corners creased. Pages showing light foxing.  (15359)

The work is illustrated with a number of wood engravings done after designs by Westall. The front pastedown of this copy bears an early inked inscription reading “Presented to Mary Esther By Imogine.”

•  Publisher’s textured cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative motifs; cloth rubbed over edges and extremities. Light to moderate foxing throughout.

This is a very scarce book. Palau did not know of this English translation, and fewer than eight U.S. libraries report owning a copy of it.

•  Palau 286648 (for the Spanish-language edition); Sabin 75576; Shoemaker 35093a. Recent quarter dark green morocco with marbled paper sides. Pages 3 through 6 are supplied in xerographic facsimile. Browning and foxing.

The outer binding is red textured cloth with the front cover stamped in black and gilt, and the interior front cover sample for the children’s version is a different red textured cloth stamped in black. The leaves for subscribers’information are unused.

•  Not in Arbour. Publisher’s cloth as described above, gently worn with corners rubbed and small scrape to front cover. Interior clean.

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•  Shoemaker 6710. Publisher's sheep. Abrasions to covers and spine, with pieces of leather flaked off; joints abraded. Foxing. Tear to rear free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown. (1078)

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•  Publisher’s brown cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding faded, cloth partially split along joints and rubbed at corners and edges, spine gilt almost entirely faded. Hinges (inside) starting. Front pastedown with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.

Sarles's biography of his much-mourned wife incorporates her poetry, prose, and letters.

Binding: Presentation binding of full maroon morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine gilt extra; front cover gilt-stamped “Jennie W. Smalley.” This book is generally seen in the publisher’s green cloth binding.

•  Sabin 77060. Binding as above; leather lightly discolored in patches on both covers, with corners, spine extremities, and joints a bit rubbed. All edges gilt; turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean, with a few small spots of foxing to frontispiece portrait.