BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
Historical Fiction — Romance, War
Bacheller, Irving. D'ri and I. A tale of daring deeds in the second war with the British. Being the memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., (copyright 1901). 8vo. [4 (3 blank)], frontis., [4 (1 blank)], [8 (2 (blank)], 15–362, [4 (2 blank)] pp.; 7 plts. 
• Publisher's dark red cloth, stamped in gilt; front cover with a long oval illustration on-lay of a young woman. Covers soiled, front cover illustration lightly scratched. Christmas gift inscription (unsigned) on front free endpaper, dated Dec. 25, 1901. Endpapers soiled, final four pages chipped. Occasional spots of soil inside. Paper tops gilt, other edges deckle. Very good. (5851)
Women's Lives . . .Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.
• Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages; internally mostly clean. (8958)
PHOTOPLAY EDITIONBarrie, J.M. The little minister. New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., (copyright 1898). 8vo. ix, [3] 454 pp.; 16 plts. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; spine with stamping a bit dimmed and extremities lightly rubbed, binding otherwise clean and handsome. Very appealing copy. (16731)
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CRIME Barzun, Jacques; & Wendell Hertig Taylor. A catalogue of crime. Being a reader's guide to the literature of mystery, detection, & related genres. New York: Harper & Brothers, (copyright 1971). 8vo. xxxi, [1
(blank)], 831, [1 (blank)] pp. 
• Publisher's cloth, with dust jacket. Lower outer corners of a few pages creased. Otherwise, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (4537)
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Hand-Colored
(Beginners' Reader).
[front wrapper serves as title-page] The child's coloured easy
lesson book. With many coloured illustrations. London: Dean and Son, [ca.
1855–60]. 12mo. [6] ff. 
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• Publisher's yellow printed and illustrated wrappers; spine oversewn. First and last leaves at one time minorly adhered to the wrappers with tears resulting. Dog-ears and some staining. A reader that was definitely used by a child (but not one that was used up).
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CanTeenage Girls Be Taught SELFLESSNESS? Bell, Catherine D. Hope Campbell; or, know thyself. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1884?]. 8vo. [8], 331, [13 (adv.)] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt with the cover incorporating an elegant emblematic device featuring Apollo/Hyperion and his horses, and the spine an angel holding a small child; the number 18 can be seen in the right raking light, stamped in blind, within the bottom element of the front cover.
• Binding cocked, corners and spine extremities a touch rubbed. Page edges age-spotted; pages faintly and evenly age-toned. In fact a bright, handsome copy. (23190)
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Real . . . REVELATIONS!Bennett, Stuart. Trade bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2004. Folio. 176 pp. 
• New, publisher's cloth, in dust jacket. (10888)
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Opinionated Critic . . .Bensusan, S. L. Holbein. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1909]. 8vo. Frontis., ix, [1 (blank)], 11–80 pp.; 8 plts. (incl. frontis.). 
• Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in black on the front and spine. Front cover bears a full-color on-lay of Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves. Clean. Very good. (9875)
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Besozzo, Michelino Molinari da. The Prayer Book of
Michelino da Besozzo. New York: George Braziller, © 1981. 12mo. 29 pp., [59] pp. of plates.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Gilt-stamped imitation green suede–covered boards. In a pictorial slipcase that is lightly soiled (still lovely). Very good+ condition. (21765)
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