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BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
Mystery — Scandal? 
In memoriam Elliott Speer, 1898–1934. East Northfield, Mass.: 1935. Small 8vo. 36 pp.; illus.
He was shot to death in his study on 14 September by a still unknown gunman using a shotgun! The Northfield Schools Bulletin. Vol. XXIII, January 1935, no. 1.
Craig Walley's relatively recent Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer has resurrected interest in the mystery.
• Original wrappers. Fine. (17126)
Rules of the Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
Mount Herman Lodge. Constitution, by-laws and order of business of Mount Herman Lodge, no. 38, I. O. O. F. of northern New York. Albany: E. H. Bender, 1858. 16mo. 32 pp.
Rare: Not in OCLC, not in NSTC.
Binding/Provenance: Contemporary sheep, covers with decorative gilt borders and the gilt-stamped name “H. Schutter” on the front cover.
• Binding rubbed and abraded; light crease-marks down center of pages and front and back covers. Lacks free endpapers and fly-leaves, four ruled leaves excised, some dog-ears. Penciled signatures on pastedowns. Waterstains throughout. 
One senses that Mr. Schutter was an active Odd Fellow! (23617)
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Popular — PrettyIngelow, Jean. Poetical works of Jean Ingelow. Including The shepherd lady and other poems. New York: John W. Lovell Co., [1880]. 8vo. Frontis., 520, [2] pp.; 4 plts. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; extremities showing a touch of rubbing, with small scuff to spine. Front fly-leaf with inked owner's name, dated 1884; title-page with another inscription using the same last name. Pages slightly age-toned, clean; all edges gilt. (14705)
“Cupid Befriend Me!” Ingraham, Joseph Holt. American lounger. Or, tales, sketches, and legends gathered in sundry journeyings by the author of “Lafitte,” &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 12mo. [10], 15-41, [5], 59-273 pp.
a story about General Washington entering a leaping contest and another involving the love affair between an illegitimate son of Charles I and a young maiden from a Native American tribe in Maine. 
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“The FATTENING Regimen”?Jackson, Robert G. The fattening regimen a manual for the too-thin. Toronto: Print-Craft Ltd., 1928. 8vo. 119, [1] pp.; 4 plts. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in black; binding cocked, otherwise showing little to no wear. Minor foxing to and around plates. (19681)
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The Months in Verse Jerningham, Matilda. Random rhymes from January to December. By Mrs. Jerningham. Baltimore: The Authoress (Pr. by Sherwood & Co.), 1873. 8vo. viii, 192 pp.
• Publisher's light-blue cloth, spine and front cover with gilt title, and front with black-stamped tree branch. Binding has small spots of discoloration, small ink stain on front, and patches of soiling and rubbing; spine with small chips at base, minor loss of cloth at tips. (23494)
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A Quaker Catechism Johnson, Jane. Talks with the children; or, questions and answers for family use or first-day schools. Part first. Philadelphia: Pr. by T. Ellwood Zel for The book Association of Friends, 1868. 16mo. 71 pp.
• Publisher's charcoal colored cloth, title in gilt on front cover; lower inch of front joint with cloth split though cover quite firm. Some light waterstaining to lower margins of early leaves and some other spotting/staining/foxing. (21628)
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Marriage Counsel
[Johnson, John]. The advantages and disadvantages of the marriage state: An allegory. Springfield: G. & C. Merriam, 1837 (date from t-p.; cover reading 1842). 16mo (10.7 cm, 4.2"). 60 pp.
The much-reprinted allegory, which originally appeared some time prior to 1757, is followed here by two brief essays on marriage. The first comes from "James’ Family Monitor" and the second from Taylor’s "Marriage Ring."
Provenance: Merriam Co. archive, with publisher’s shelf label on the cover and ink-stamp on the verso of the title-page.
• Cloth spine over printed paper–covered boards, edges a bit abraded and spine fraying at top; shelf labels as above. Pencilled ownership inscription on front fly-leaf; small tear and dog-ears to two blank fly-leaves. Light waterstaining and foxing.
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the Widow VandenhoeckJuvenalis, Decimus Junius; & Aulus Persius Flaccus. D. Iunii Iuvenalis et Auli Persii Satyrae ad fidem optimorum librorum accurate recensitae. Gottingae: Viduae Abr. Vandenhoeck, 1769. 12mo (13.9 cm, 5.5"). [2], 178 pp.
• Schweiger, II, 513; this ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary half vellum over paste paper covers, spine with early inked title; sides and edges lightly scuffed, spine with vellum darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription dated 1775, lined through; front free endpaper with 19th-century (?) inked inscription; title-page with early inked inscription reading “Carolus Comes a Wartensleben.” Back free endpaper excised. Title-page torn along inner margin and with short tear from outer edge, just touching one letter. One leaf with small ink blots and several leaves with small nicks to outer edges; scattered light foxing. A few small early inked annotations.
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