BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
Gaboriau & Corelli — Mystery & Romance
Gaboriau, Emile. File no. 113; or, the secret of the plundered safe. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [ca. 1918]. 8vo. [2], [5]-190, 29, [7 (adv.)] pp.
• Uncommon Chicago reprint of this mystery, translated from the French;
the title work is followed by Marie Correlli's short story "The Hired Baby: A
Romance of the London Streets." In a beautifully preserved decorative cloth binding.
(What you may think is a cracked hinge, towards the left of the picture, is actually
a bit of the cream-colored spine decoration, showing. Once you know this, it's
clear! — but until you do, the eye can be well confused.)
• Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, white, and gilt with arabesque designs; binding cocked, otherwise showing next to no wear. Owner's name, partially erased, inked on the front free endpaper. (12602)
The
Plays
Complete & in a Signed BindingGalsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp. 
Signed binding: Contemporary half tan morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands each accented above and below with single gilt rule and single black rule; gilt-stamped title, spine compartments framed in gilt with gilt dots in each corner and each with gilt center device. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.” Top edge gilt; silk ribbon place marker.
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• Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, corners and extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with private collector’s armorial bookplate. Pages clean.
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Verse Long-Loved
by Lovers Gibran, Kahlil. The prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 8vo. [4 (2 blank)], frontis., (iii)-vi, [2 (1 blank)], 96, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; 12 plts.
• Publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind and gold. Fine. (5219)
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“Where the
plantain grows
hot wind blows” Gilbert, James Stanley. Panama patchwork. Poems by James Stanley Gilbert. Illustrated. No place: no publisher, [1906]. 8vo. Frontis. port., x, 166 pp.; 20 plts. (incl. frontis.).
• Publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth. Lightly toned. Small abrasion on two pages, not affecting text. A very good copy. (23652)
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GrammarGORGEOUSLY
Got-UpGirault-Duvivier, Charles Pierre. Grammaire des grammaires ou analyse raisonnée des meilleurs traités sur la langue française ... quatorzième édition entièrement revue et corrigée .... Paris: A. Cotelle, 1851. (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 2 vols. I: [4], xx, 702 pp. II: [2], [703]–1380 pp.
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Bindings: Contemporary black morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet and blind-embossed using a single elaborately worked plaque, spines gilt extra, board edges with gilt rolls surrounding corners. All edges marbled.
• Brunet, II, 1614. Bindings as above, corners and spine extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s bookplate and institutional rubber-stamp, versos of front fly-leaves also rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; a few signatures unopened. Four publisher’s leaflets advertising Greek and Latin classics and other works are laid in. Elegant, and interesting.
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Classic — InvaluableGlaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the book. Second edition with a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle (DE): Oak Knoll Press & the British Library, 2001. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 551, [1] pp.
• Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, and contents as new. (6107)
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Our “Instructively Quaint” Glennie, Isabella E. Pictures and stories for little children.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Pott, Young & Co., [1873]. 16mo (11.2 cm, 4.4"). 64, 16 (adv.) pp.; illus.
The advertising section offers Toy Books (all “ornamental”), Missionary Stories (“ALL TRUE”), etc. — quite interesting.
• NSTC 2G10504 (for first ed.). Publisher's blue cloth, front cover stamped in black and gilt; corners, joints, and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated 1875. Pages age-toned; sewing just starting to loosen. (20840)
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A Classic Presented inClassic FashionGoldsmith, Oliver. The deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)
Thomson's Illustrations — The Vicar Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus. 
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• Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)
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Ah, Southern Cooking! “Gone with the wind” cook book: a gift with your purchase of Pebeco toothpaste. “Inspired by the picture, Gone with the wind.” Bloomfield, N.J.: Lehn & Fink Products Corp., 1939. Small 8vo. 48 pp.; illus.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Cooks and servers shown in the chapter-heading drawings are black, except in one instance, and it is perhaps worth noting that their caricatures are never ugly ones; white hands (a mother and child's?) execute the taffy pull.
• Original illustrated paper wrappers; front cover with a color picture of Scarlett O'Hara at Tara (from the film). Light offsetting on title-page, perhaps from a slip of paper (now absent) laid in. One leaf with light fold-mark at corner. Penciled check-marks in margin of six pages; no other markings. Actually, this is in extremely good condition. (23702)
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Hand-ColoredFloral Frontispiece Goodrich, Samuel G., ed. The token, or affection's gift, a Christmas and New-Year's present. Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis., 312 pp.; 4 plts.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.
• Faxon 786. Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120. One signature extruded. (12944)
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Ars
TypographicaGoudy, Frederick W., ed. Ars Typographica. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Autumn, 1934. Folio. [1] f., 50 pp., [1] f.
• Cary 216. Printed wrappers. Collotype plates and illustrations. A fine copy. (17734)
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• Publisher’s quarter tan cloth over black paper–covered sides, front cover with black- and red-printed paper label, in original glassine dustwrapper; clean and unworn. An elegant book.
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AMHERST
Graves, Henry Clinton. History of the class of 1856 of Amherst college 1852–1896. Boston: C.H. Simonds & Co., 1896. 8vo. [6], 4–59, [6] pp.
• Publisher's cloth, issued without dust jacket. Dust soiling and one spot of discoloration on the binding. Very good condition.
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