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BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
The Height of REGENCY
Reading & Fashion 
The lady's magazine; or entertaining companion for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement. Vol. XLVII for the year 1816. London: G. & S. Robinson, 1816. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.4"). [2], 634 pp.; 32 plts. (11 fold., 6 col.).
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scandalous tribulations along the way.
32 plates is a frontispiece engraving of Napoleon's surrender; each issue then opens with a steel-engraved portrait or image and includes anembroidery pattern (12 total, 11 of which are oversized and folding) along with 6 hand-colored fashion plates representing “novelties in dress . . . most in request among belles of taste” (p. 531).
• Contemporary half treed calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped date and leather title-label; binding rubbed and scuffed overall, front joint cracked, leather lost at corners. Four fashion plates lacking; two embroidery patterns with outer edges slightly ragged, two separated and laid in. Pages generally clean with occasional offsetting or small spots of staining. Not pristine, but offering a wealth of fashionable imagery and social commentary; frankly, this is
just wonderful. (29950)
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“Hai-Kai”Lafferty, Robert C. (Bob). Scores of cheerful epigrams in hai-kai form and with sketches. New York: The Culture Press, 1929. 8vo. [4 (blank)], v–xi, [1 (blank)], 17–123, [13 (1 blank)] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's green cloth, with an attractive design on the front cover. Very light rubbing over joints, and soiling to front cover. Pages clean. Very good. (5895)
A Morality Tale with an Encouraging Ending, Lamb, Ruth Buck. It isn't right. Or, Frank Johnson's reason. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, © 1867. 12mo. Frontis., 280 pp.; 2 plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Good; spine gently faded with gilt dulled, corners and extremities lightly worn. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated 1868. Plates somewhat darkened. (1916)
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“America Underfoot” Landreau, Anthony N. America underfoot: A history of floor coverings from colonial times to the present. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1976. Small 4to. ix, [1 (blank)], 76, [2 (blank)] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Paperback. Fine. (5324)
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Silver Egg Cutters, Linen Doilies, & Frappé Tables: Necessary Items Lansdown, Lillian B. How to prepare and serve a meal. Interior decoration. New York: Social Culture Publications, © 1922. 8vo. 64 pp.
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not a modern reprint.
• Bitting 273; Brown, Culinary Americana, 2914. Publisher's textured paper wrappers, front wrapper with printed title; extremities rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.A delightfully aspirational read. (29727)
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Selling Hair Tonic in Spain Lanman & Kemp. Tónico Oriental para el cabello. [Barcelona?]: Lanman & Kemp, [1864]. 8vo. 4 pp.; illus.
The front page bears two vignettes of brunette beauties, one in the process of applying tonic and one with an impeccably arranged hairstyle.
• Folded as issued, back page with upper outer corner bent and small nick to upper edge. Gently age-toned. (29194)
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Public
or Private Property?
Larrabee, William. The railroad question[:] a historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses. Chicago: Schulte Publishing Co., 1895. 8vo. Frontis., 457, [1], xvii, [2], 478–88, [4] pp.; 1 facs.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and train vignette stamped in black and gilt, vignette extending onto spine.
• Binding as above, extremities very slightly rubbed, spine dimmed. Light waterstaining to inner margins of front fly-leaf and half-title, otherwise clean. A volume “got up,” given its content, with remarkable style and charm! (29124)
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Sensational Story — Appropriate Illustrations Lawrence, George A. Breaking a butterfly or Blanche Ellerslie's ending. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. 12mo. [2 (1 blank)], v–viii, 395, [1 (blank)] pp.; 7 plts. (lacks ads).
Click the images for enlargements. • Library quarter sheep over marbled paper boards, spine with paper shelving label, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; rubbed/abraded, chipped, joints starting, title-page and several others rubber-stamped. Fly-leaf and title-leaf among a number of others loose and chipped, one chip barely touching one letter of the title; tears, mostly marginal but occasionally into text not taking any; a few creased corners and occasional light spots and stains. Front pastedown with bookbinder's label, back free endpaper with library charge pocket. Lacks four pages of advertisements at end; pp. 87–90 misbound between pp. 154 and 155! 
In many respects a “poor soul” of a book; in others, a very good representative of what it is. (8337)
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The
World in Miniature —
Map & Two
Plates
Legrand,
Augustin. Geographie universelle. Paris: 1823. 16mo (6.5 cm,
2.55"). 48 pp.; 1 fold. map, 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. folding
map of the globe (“oversized” would not be the correct
term, here!); also present are two plates representing natives in indigenous
dress of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
WorldCat
locates only one U.S. institutional holding.
• Publisher's printed pink wrappers; binding slightly cocked,
gently worn, spine faded. Front endpapers with pencilled annotations. Pages
slightly age-toned, map and plates lightly foxed, plates trimmed just to touch
the heads of the tallest costumed figures. 
A
nice example of an uncommon item. (30252)
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Ladies, Get Spry! Lever
Bros., Cambridge, Mass. Easy to be a good cook now! No place:
No publisher/printer, [ca. 1950]. 12mo (12.5 cm; 5"). [1] leaf.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Folded as issued. Very good condition. (26013)
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POEMS
by the Influential“Monk” of GOTHIC Literature Lewis, Matthew Gregory (“Monk Lewis”). Tales of wonder...the second edition. London: Pr. by W. Bulmer & Co. for J. Bell, 1801. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). [4], 251 (pp. 138–39 numbered 134–35), [1 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. This author enjoyed great success among feminine (and young) audiences with his gothic tales of horror and woe, most notably with his one novel, The Monk, a youthful production that earned him his nickname. Shelley was especially fond of Lewis's work, although Byron mocked the author's “gibb'ring spectres” and “infernal brain” in the poem “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.”
• NCBEL, III, 743 (first ed.). Later 19th-century half sheep in imitation of morocco over marbled paper sides, worn and abraded; leather chipping over head of spine, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped; endpaper and final blank separated but present (former with date slip); many pages, not unexpectedly, show light to moderate spots of foxing, and there is some staining. Last leaf torn across outer corner taking top author's name in ads on verso (it was John Beckmann) and most of three words of the last poem's last verse (“herte should breke”). (5414)
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A Book Lover's Tour ofEngland, Scotland, & Wales Lewis, Roy Harley. The book browser's guide: Britain's secondhand and antiquarian bookshops. Newton Abbot & North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles, © 1975. 8vo. 184 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's cream-colored boards in original dust wrapper, cream-colored portions of jacket slightly darkened, otherwise showing only minimal shelfwear. A clean, solid copy. (30365)
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Amazing & Instructive toBrowse Through Libreria l'Amateur, firm, of Buenos Aires. Libros Argentinos e Impresos Rioplatenses. (Catálogo Nº 26). [with others, as below]. Buenos Aires: Librería L'Amateur, 1953. 8vo. 139 pp. illus.
Click the images for enlargement.Each catalogue limited to 550 or fewer copies. Price lists at end.
Very amazing books in great condition and of considerable rarity. The shop too was impressive.
• Contemporary quarter vellum with paper sides: Paper loosening at juncture with the vellum, tears repaired.
Original wrappers bound in. (21550)
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Illustrated Admiration Life of General Scott. [New York?: 1852?]. 8vo. 32 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sabin 78417. Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping. (26006)
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Down with Thor, Victory for Leif & the Cross!Liljencrantz, Ottilie Adelina. The thrall of Leif the Lucky a story of Viking days. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1902. 8vo. 354, [2] pp.; 6 col. plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. six color-printed plates done by Troy and Margaret West Kinney, who also designed the binding (see below).
The 1928 full-color, silent film “The Viking” (MGM, script by Robert Tonsing) was based on Ms. Liljencrantz's novel!
Signed binding: Publisher's khaki cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black, cream, and gilt; back cover stamped with a device in black; spine stamped in black and gilt. Front cover signed “K”: Troy and Margaret West Kinney.
• Binding as above, light wear to extremities. Frontispiece recto with inked ownership inscription. A few scattered faint smudges; almost entirely clean. A nice copy of an attractive production. (28609)
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THE American “Address” — A Polyglot Homage Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln's Gettysburg address in translation. Washington: Library of Congress, 1972. 12mo. [32] pp.
• Publisher's wrappers. A clean nice copy. (22363)
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Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
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the image to the left for an enlargement.
• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (29077)
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Not
All Humor“Wears”
Real Well . . .
Lochore, Robert. Margaret and the minister, a true tale. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2M14137. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16756)
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“You
Must Do It
Yourself, You Must
Not Leave It
to Others!” The
Classic Pilgrim Love
Triangle
Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth. The courtship of Miles Standish. Chicago:
M.A. Donohue & Co., [ca. 1910–20?]. 8vo. [2], 152, [86] pp.; 12 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine elegantly stamped in gilt, cream, and black, front cover with central medallion bearing ship (surely the Mayflower) vignette.
• BAL 12122 (for first U.S. ed.). Binding as above,
traces of minimal rubbing. Pages extremely clean. A
beautiful, very giftable copy. (29032)
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A Book Collector/Mixologist/Designer's Copy Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The sonnets of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Arranged with an introduction by Ferris Greenslet. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1907. 8vo. xviii, 82, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargement.designed by Bruce Rogers with wide margins and uncut page edges. This is numbered copy 34 of 275 printed at the Riverside Press, with an additional spine label tipped in at the back.
Provenance: Front pastedown with simple, nicely lettered bookplate of Broadway producer, printer, publisher, author of a famous mixological work, and collector Crosby Gaige (born Roscoe Conkling Gaige).
• BAL12788. Publisher's blue-gray paper–covered sides; spine with (chipped) printed paper label darkened and rubbed at tips, small areas of insect damage to front joint (showing more extensively inside at front hinge), and paper across back hinge (inside) partially cracked. Pastedown with bookplate as above. Uncut pages very faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. The extra spine label tipped to rear free endpaper. (29723)
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Slightly Random Reading . . . A Striking, Unusual Cover Treatment Lord, John. Beacon lights of history. New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., © 1921. 12mo. 2 vols. (of 4). I: Frontis., [16], [9]–453, [1] pp. IV: 404 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Bindings: Publisher's textured dark brown cloth, covers with globe and torch design stamped in rich shades yellow, red, green, and black; spines embossed with modest "ruling" and author, title, publisher, volume numbers.
• Vols. I and IV only. Bindings as above, slightly shaken, extremities rubbed. Pages clean. (29812)
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It's a MysteryLove, William F. The chartreuse clue: A novel. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1990. 8vo. 284, [4 (blank)] pp. 
• Publisher's cloth, in a dust jacket. Crisp and tight. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket; price on dust jacket crossed out in black ink. In a mylar cover. (5561)
ILLUSTRATED
ALMANAC
Low, Nathanael. Low's almanack, and astronomical and agricultural register; for the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1819. Boston: Munroe & Francis, [1818]. 12mo. [36] pp.; illus.
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the images for enlargement.
“Balloon
Voyage across the Irish Channel” supposedly by “Windham
Sadler, jun.” — a near-reference to the aeronaut who in 1812 attempted
a cross of the Irish Channel.
Provenance: Inscription of “Henry M. Pierce / Jersey City / NJ.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 44628; Drake, Almanacs, 3826. Recent limp navy cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and date; extremities very slightly rubbed, otherwise very clean and fresh. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription as above. Pages age-toned with a few scattered spots; some pages trimmed closely, with headers occasionally touched but not taken. Nice! (29641)
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