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Reminiscences
Kaye, Barbara. The company we kept. New
Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (1995). 8vo. 10, 224 pp. 
• Fine in original dust jacket.
Minors
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Kendrick, Aschel C. Our poetical favorites. Second series. A selection from the best minor poems of the English language comprising chiefly longer poems. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1876. 12mo. vii, [1], 543, [1] pp.
• Very good; board edges, corners, and spine extremities showing light wear, spine slightly dimmed. (1957)
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Land Possession in Maryland Kilty, John. The land-holder's assistant, and land-office guide;
being an exposition of original titles... Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). viii, [9]–497, [1], xliv, vi, [2] pp. (pagination skips 457/58).
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Parsons 322; Shaw & Shoemaker 15373. Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page, first preface page, and one other institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned, with occasional minor staining. (23905)
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COLORADO!King, Alfred Castner. Mountain idylls and other poems. Chicago/New York/Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Co., (copyright 1901).
8vo. Frontis., [8], [7]-120 pp.; 1 fold. plt., 15 plts. 
16 plates of Colorado mountain scenery, including one oversized, folding panoramic view.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in black, white, and silver, spine with title stamped in silver; binding fresh and clean save for barely noticeable rubbing to corners and spine extremities. A beautiful copy. (16666)
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English Trade BindingsKing, Edmund M.B. Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. A descriptive bibliography. London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. xxiii, [3], 324 pp.; 16 double-sided color plts. 
• Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth with gilt-stamped title on the front cover; as new. (11240)
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Anniversary of His DeathKing,
Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford:
The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
• Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
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Kingsbury, Benjamin. A treatise on razors; in which the weight, shape, and temper of a razor, the means of keeping it in order, and the manner of using it, are particularly considered.... Sixth edition. London: Pr. by E. Blackader, 1810. 8vo signed in fours (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [4], 7–48 pp. (lacking half-title).
• Recent period-style blue paper–covered boards, tan paper spine label. Faded library stamps on title-page and one other page; lacking half-title. Light foxing; page edges embrittled.
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Tales Kingston, May. Cat stories. Boston & Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School & Publishing Society, (copyright 1890). 16mo. Frontis., 46 pp.; 1 plt.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover pictorially printed in red and black.
Provenance: Front pastedown with note, “Robert Wood from the First Reform S.S.”
• Bound as above, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription as above. Good condition. (22197)
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Where Does
Tea Come From? Kirby, Mary. Aunt Martha's corner cupboard. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, ©1899. Square 16mo. Frontis., [3], 8–157, [3] pp. [8] ff.; illus.
Binding: Publisher's black-stamped tan cloth, front cover with a full-color half-tone picture on-lay of two Chinese men painting vases in a porcelain workshop.
Provenance: Gift inscription from Betty Rudolf to Betty Westcott, dated 1924, on the front free endpaper.
• Binding with light scratches on front cover picture, traces of old pencil marks on front, and spots of soiling on back. Light soiling on endpapers; else, clean. Very good. (22194)
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Louis PhilippeKoch, Christopher William. History of the revolutions in Europe.... Middletown [Ct.]: Edwin Hunt, 1833. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). I: 280 (i.e., 276) pp.; 4 plts. II: 393, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.; 8 plts. 
24 wood-engraved illustrations on 12 plates, some of which are signed “JWB” and one of which is signed “B.”
• Contemporary publisher’s mottled sheep; spine gilt extra. Fine abrasions or chipping to leather, especially to head and foot of spine. Offsetting from turn-ins; lightly foxed throughout. A closed tear without loss in pp. 327–28. All edges marbled.
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