The sheets are printed on Plover Fineweave paper with the text set in Sabon Antiqua. At the head of each is a print of a nicely rendered pen-and-ink drawing of the Hamady farm (where “Mother Father & Daughter are well and thriving”), done by Jack Beal (“Laura's Uncle Jack”).

•  Not in Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press.   Sheets laid into a manila envelope labelled in Hamady's handwriting. Clean and crisp; some pages with markings as above.  (31364)

•  Publisher's color-printed cloth; creased across middle, sewing starting from extremities. Upper and lower edges slightly frayed. A few small smudges, mostly confined to lower portion of front cover and one other page. An unusual survivor in pleasing condition.  (30310)

The work is illustrated witheight wood-engraved vignettes, including on the front and back wrappers. The elegant and charmingcrab on the front wrapper is at first a bit of a puzzle, but then the crab is sometimes seen as a Christian symbol of resurrection because it sheds its shell; or, perhaps, the printer simply found his crab elegant and charming and wanted to use it!

This printing is uncommon; WorldCat locates only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Publisher's printed blue-green paper wrappers; light, unobtrusive crease to front wrapper, carrying through to first leaf. A very few light spots, pages otherwise clean. Showing little to no wear overall — unusually so for this genre.  (31451)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 396.   Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; volume clean and fresh, wrapper with small chips to spine extremities, slipcase gently sunned and with a little soiling, one corner bumped.  (30120)

Signed binding: Publisher's mushroom-colored cloth, front cover with jungle vignette stamped in blue and title in green, spine with green-stamped title. Binding signed with “H”: Frank Hazenplug (1874–1931).

•  Binding as above, minor wear to edges and extremities. Front pastedown with inked gift inscription dated 1927. Pages age-toned with occasional smudges, endpapers spotted.  (28932)

These examples are numbered copy 238 of either 2000 or 2500 printed depending on the set (except for one trio out of the five, which is numbered 236); the appropriate LEC newsletter is present.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 193^1-3, 202^4-6, 203^7-9, 222^10-13, 228^12-15.   Publisher's cloth of various colors, eight volumes in the original glassine dust wrappers, all in publisher's red paper–covered slipcases with printed paper spine labels; some wrappers with tears or chips, slipcase spines gently sunned, slipcases showing light shelfwear overall with Aladdin set case dust-soiled, Emperor's New Clothes spine lettering rubbed. Ali Baba and a few other volumes with scattered spots of light foxing, overall most pages clean. Newsletter moderately worn. Complete sets are uncommon; this one shows no signs of having been in the hands of any actual child.  (30766)

•  Publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, corners the slightest bit rubbed; original slipcase, this sunned and abraded with “spine” broken. Danish copyright information lined through, volume otherwise clean and quite nice internally.  (24517)

•  Tan cloth over boards, red and black stamped, with vignettes of a biplane, a roadster, a motorbike, and a speedboat in the corners and the author/title in a large oval center medallion. A little rubbed, a little “used,” one page dog-eared; gift inscription dated 1931 on front free endpaper.  (32710)

Atmore acknowledges, in the preface, his indebtedness to William Penn for some of the phrases and advice found here.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 47024. Not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books; out of scope of Welch, Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821.   Publisher's grey-blue paper wrappers printed with duplicate of title-page on front cover (within a border) and with advertisement for Cunningham's juvenile books on back cover; front wrapper with small edge nick, back wrapper with rubbed spot over part of stitching, spine chipped. Pages age-toned with mild to moderate foxing.  (31353)

The author was a dedicated observer of meteors and comets and published several well-received works on those subjects in addition to his religious and philosophical treatises.

Rare: OCLC and ESTC locate only one U.S. holding, since deaccessioned; there are only two holdings found in the U.K.

•  ESTC T68482.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; yellow wrapper with early hand-inked title bound in. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped and a five-digit number inked twice to the first page of the preface; no other markings. First and last few leaves with minor foxing; other scattered spots mostly confined to margins. Occasional pencillled annotations.  (25768)

intended as a Christmas gift

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt, front cover with full color illustration on paper laid on, and back cover pictorially blind-stamped.

•  Binding showing some darkening and wear; hinges cracked and shaky. Priced to reflect not-quite-glorious condition, and still a charming, attractive volume with much interesting content and many quaint illustrations.  (22212)

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•  NSTC B758. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with later gilt-stamped leather labels; spines slightly darkened, corners and spine extremities rubbed. Pencilled bracketing and marks of emphasis; some light to moderate foxing.

Uncommon: WorldCat and American Imprints locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.

•  American Imprints 36168. This ed. not in NSTC.   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards; extremities rubbed, spine paper chipped, front cover with a few spots of discoloration. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. An exceptionally good, solid representation of the genre.  (31710)

•  Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A90.   Period-style speckled calf, spine with two raised bands and gilt-stamped title. One leaf with most of lower half torn away, resulting in partial loss of image on one side and loss of roughly 20 words on the other; otherwise, pages slightly age-toned only, with occasional faint spotting.  (25202)

The wrappers are illustrated on the front with vignettes of children playing various games and on the back with a fancy border framing a publisher's advertisement interesting in itself.

•  Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 1945(a); Carstens, Babcocks, 788.   Publisher's pale pink wrappers (now faded) printed in black. Small hole from natural flaw in lower corner of front wrapper; rear wrapper partially detached; foxing, sometimes heavy, throughout.  (31237)

Provenance:  Front inside wrapper with inked gift inscription: “Presented to Miss Janette C. Browning by her friend S.W. Welbe [/] South Kingston 1859.”

•  Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 1960c. Not in American Imprints.   Publisher's printed creamy tan paper wrappers, very faintly discolored but otherwise showing virtually no wear; pages with faintest foxing only, very clean. A remarkably nice specimen of its ilk.  (31389)

Bishop's collected poems were first published in 1796.

Searches of ESTC, WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, and COPAC findno copies.

•  As issued. Old stitching holes in inner margin, one corner turned in, clean.  (32757)

This birthday poem is signed by Bishop, his sister (Mary), and his wife (Mary Palmer). Bishop's collected poems were first published in 1796.

Searches of ESTC, WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, and COPAC findno copies.

•  As issued. Old stitching holes and uneven edge to inner margin, top cornertip lost. Clean and nice.  (32758)

The prospectus includes the names of the instructors, information about examinations, and specifics of costs.

Prospectuses for schools in 19th-century Latin America are rare.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate absolutely no copies.

•  Not in Valenzuela.   Never bound; as issued. Faint waterstaining in upper margin, corners bumped slightly; a very good copy.  (31055)

Scarce: Searches of WorldCat, the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, REBIUN, and the OPAC of the Spanish National Library fail to locate any institutional holdings of this periodical.

•  Contemporary plain paper wrappers, spine with inked title-label; wrappers worn and chipped with small area of insect damage, spine extremities reinforced with cellophane tape. First page with two examples of same old oval institutional rubber-stamp; mild to moderate spotting and staining scattered throughout with very faint waterstaining to upper and outer areas of some plates and pages. A complete set of this scarce and interesting periodical and an artifact in good, studyable, displayable condition.  (32029)

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, front cover with gilt-framed title and chromolithographic illustration of a fetching young girl in cap and cape.

•  Binding as above, corners rubbed, spine darkened; frontispiece separated. Frontispiece and title-page with light spotting, offsetting to pp. 5 (blank) and 6 from a now-absent laid-in slip, pages otherwise generally clean.  (28434)

Provenance:  Signature in early ink of Mary Elizabeth Williams on title-page.

•  Shoemaker 1597.   Original printed paper boards with title-page reproduced on the front board and a publishers' advertisement on the rear, stained and dust-soiled. Foxing and dampstaining throughout, generally light and marginal but severe on final verso; deckle preserved at fore-edge of one leaf; small closed tear in one outer margin. A less than ideal but still decent copy and a very uncommon title in the marketplace.  (31401)

Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.

•  Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)

•  NCBEL, III, 977; NSTC 2C96885.   Later quarter red morocco with red and gold marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information, outer board edges trimmed in morocco; spine slightly darkened. Frontispiece recto with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1866; half-title with pencilled “No. 1" annotation. Pages very gently age-toned with scattered incidences of spotting; a few leaves with short tear from lower inner margin, touching text without loss; one lower outer corner torn away. Some illustrations hand-colored as above; a solid and charming copy ofan indubitable high spot.  (32292)

The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical was an assemblage of rulings given equal force with the canon law, although the rulings themselves were not based on canon law.

•  STC (rev. ed.) 10076; ESTC S101555.   Removed from a nonce volume. A very nice, clean copy with an array of marginal markings — Xs, asterisks, “vid.,” and the odd hand-with-pointing-finger. (21226)

Dame Shirley subsequently divorced and taught at the Denman Grammar School in San Francisco for 20 years — also givingwell-attended evening classes in both art and LITERATURE — before returning to her native New Jersey in 1878, where she lived on to the age of 87 and died 11 February 1906. Though most items offered here are undated, and some clearly were written during her later, eastern years, many others evidently represent her San Francisco teaching and lecture work, these sometimes perhaps expanded, edited, and/or “worked over” after she left California. The personal style of her lectures is glimpsed as in one instance she has fully written out her talk including its acknowledgments and touches of humor; and there are perhaps hints of a non-stop, even distracted private life in our finding jotted, between two paragraphs on Dutch painting in a study guide, a soothing “Receipt for Granulated Eyelids,” involving egg yolks and nitrate of zinc!

 California dates or content can be established for about half of the Clappe archive — and, for the most substantial and significant parts of it.

Charles Warren Stoddard, who spoke highly of the letters to Overland Monthly editor John Carmany, was a student of Clappe’s at Denman, and several of his letters to her are also present in this collection.

This is an extensive, interesting, and largely unpublished archive of works from the pen of a lively-minded woman who did not flinch at hard work, new challenges, or the firm expression of her opinions.

Provenance: Carl I. Wheat, noted collector of Californiana and the editor of the Grabhorn and Knopf (third and fourth) editions of The Shirley Letters, formed this collection.

The manuscripts are in notebooks and on loose sheets. Following is a list of the items with signatures or other identification noted. Unsigned items are attributed by the handwriting. Unless otherwise stated, all items are written in Clappe’s hand.

48 plates

•  NSTC 0155519.   Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with pictorial onlay; lower outer front corner bumped, spine sunned with extremities a bit rubbed and corners less so. Last two leaves opened roughly, with chips to outer edges; otherwise, pages age-toned but very clean. A comprehensive and entertaining illustrated guide to seafaring for juveniles.  (30296)

This is numbered copy 113 of 350 printed; it issigned at the colophon by both author and artist, with an inscription noting that this is “the first copy personally inscribed in America.”

•  Publisher's terra-cotta paste paper–covered boards, front cover with black-stamped vignette by Lawrence, spine with gilt-stamped author and illustrator information, in blue cloth and paper–covered slipcase; spine extremities slightly rubbed, front gutter of spine with small area of indentation, slipcase with extremities rubbed. A solid, clean copy.  (31556)