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Cagle, William R., & Lisa Killion Stafford, comps. American books on food and drink: A bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in The Lilly Library at the [sic] Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 8vo. xviii, 794 pp., illus.
• New, in dust jacket.
The California Poets California Writers Club. Poems. 1933. Berkeley: Pr. by The Professional Press, 1933. 8vo. 67, [1] pp.
Provenance: Bookplate inside front wrapper of Lorraine & Horace Haynes.
• Publisher's light-blue wrappers. Bookplate as above. Near fine. (23669)
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The Whale in EnglandCarey, Melbert B., Jr. Digressions for the traveller in England. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. 12mo. 28 pp.; illus. 
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• Publisher's printed paper-covered boards. Fine in tissue wrapper. (24125)
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— The First RevisedCarleton, Will. Farm ballads. New York: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1882. 8vo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.; 16 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
• BAL 2485 (state 2, with contents page corrected). Publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in black and gilt with central gilt-stamped vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; board edges and spine extremities showing minor rubbing, with spine gilt slightly dimmed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription "to My Wife," dated 1890; newspaper clippings about Carleton and poems by him affixed to front pastedown, front and back fly-leaves, half-title, end of illustrations list, and reverse of one plate. Some instances of offsetting from clippings. A pleasing, interesting example. (14366)
“The
Little Sleeper”
& “Paul's
Run Off with the Show”
ILLUSTRATED
Carleton, Will. Farm legends. New York: Harper
& Brothers, c. 1887. 8vo. 187, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 17 plts., illus. 
• With engraved plates and in-text illustrations by various hands.
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Armistice Day Remembered — By Smacking the Wehrmacht
Again Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff. Willi’s wishful thinking issued in commemoration of Armistice Day.... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938 (copyright 1939). 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). 34 pp.; illus.
• Publisher’s red cloth, without the original glassine dustwrapper and so with (at some angles) the thumb-oil prints of a reader visible; therefore not absolutely pristine but quite nice.
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WHISTCavendish. The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system by means of hands played completely through. American edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, & London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., 1895. 8vo. Frontis., x, 318 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, spine darkened with gilt dimmed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated [18]96. Pages clean, two with lower corners dog-eared. All edges gilt. (13988)
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The Luthers
@ HomeCharles, Elizabeth Rundle. Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta family. By two of themselves. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [ca. 1870–79]. 12mo. Frontis., [4], 606 pp. 
• Publisher's cloth. Spine somewhat faded. Very good. (19494)
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ChaucerChaucer, Geoffrey. Complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (pr. by the Riverside Press, Cambridge), (copyright 1933). 8vo. Frontis., [2], xl, 1133, [1] pp. 
• Binding as above, gently sunned overall, with a few tiny scuffs along joints. Front (inner) hinge cracked, but holding. Front pastedown with private collector's armorial bookplate. Pages clean; one leaf with short tear to lower margin. (19632)
“Without SorrowsNo One Becomes A Saint” Chinese proverbs from olden times. Mount Vernon, N. Y.: Peter Pauper Press, ©1956. 8vo. [62] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's illustrated paper boards. Pages clean. Near fine. Without the d/j. (23663)
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Mrs. Clark's Q&A Clark, M.B. Sterling, Mrs. Questions and answers on the sermon on the mount. New York: Pott & Amery, 1867. 16mo. 57 pp.
NOT just “the sermon on the mount” — this also addresses (for example) discipleship, divorce, and false prophets.
• Publisher's quarter red cloth with printed paper covers. Very nice condition. (21630)
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ThePhotographic
Illustrations Do Not much NOW
Impress.
That
They DID, Is the Food for Thought!Clarke, Helen Archibald. Ancient myths in modern poets. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910. 8vo. [8], 360 pp.; 12 plts.
• Analysis of mythic motifs in Keats, Shelley, and other poets, issued
in asigned
pictorial binding done by "B.S." The 12 plates are reproductions
of various paintings and sculptures of deities and Titans.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in black, white, and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; spinal extremities and one bit of stamping very slightly rubbed, else clean and nice. (12247)
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