One of a series of books separately published over the course of a number of years; limited to 2000 “Litho-Manuscript-fac-simile” copies of which this is copy # 1117. Inscribed by the author on p. viii.

•  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)

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•  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)

•  Paperback. Fine.  (5324)

This is the original edition andnot 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)

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)

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)

•  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)

This is numbered copy 538 of 1600 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 508.   Publisher's quarter green buckram and cream paper printed in dark gray in a foliage-inspired pattern, spine gilt-stamped with title and vignettes, in matching paper-covered slipcase; slipcase spine and edges sunned, with book fresh inside; a clean, crisp copy.  (32631)

Binding:  Publisher's olive cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, black, and blind, with affixed chromolithographic portrait of O'Malley's lady in a straw(?) hat trimmed with pink feathers and ribbons.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription dated Christmas 1908, to Major Catlett Conway Taliaferro (1847–1916), a prominent Virginia land agent, Democratic supporter, and philanthropist (“from his wife”). Taliaferro had fought under General Lee, and was selected to carry the flag of truce to General Grant.

•  Bound as above; spine darkened, mildly rubbed, text block just starting to pull away from spine. Pages lightly age-toned. Attractive and interesting.  (32704)

•  Folded as issued. Very good condition.  (26013)

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)

•  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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•  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)

six color-printed plates done by Troy and Margaret West Kinney

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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•  Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (31136)

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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)

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)

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)

•  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)

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)