•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper wrappers; wrappers showing only very minor wear, pages a bit age-toned but otherwise clean. (16647)

Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers and spine gilt extra in foliate designs with cherubim at play. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 457a.   Binding as above, front joint just starting at top and bottom, edges and extremities showing very slight wear, gilt slightest bit rubbed in spots; overall bright and handsome. Light age-toning and spotting throughout.In remarkably good condition, unusually bright.  (20886)

•  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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•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 10.   Binding as above; a clean, fresh copy showing next to no wear, in a rubbed slipcase with the spine reinforced some time ago with tape.  (11241)

•    Later 19th-century half toffee-brown calf over salmon cloth boards; gilt-lettered red leather spine-labels (title, volume, editor); gilt-accented raised bands, date in gilt at base. Slight rubbing to joints and extremities, one label with a streak of discoloration, vol. II with small chip at head of spine and lower corners rubbed. Pages toned. One leaf with edge nicks. Lower outer portion of pp. 211/212 chipped, with loss of outermost letters of bottom four lines and detached piece laid in; aforesaid pages also creased down the middle, brittle, and all but separated in two (still, present). Top edge gilt, others deckle. A pleasing and attractive binding; a volume internally clean. (21256)

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Provenance:  Old signatures of Eustace Barron and Louis Despres, fils.

•  Publisher's blue diced paper–covered boards, worn and partly discolored; foxing. Signatures as above. Housed in a cloth clamshell case.  (20508)

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•  Bitting 285; Lowenstein, American Cookery Books, 637 (for first ed.); see Cagle & Stafford for earlier editions.   Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, front joint cracked and reinforced with tape, cloth rubbed at edges and extremities, sides with spots of faint discoloration. Pp. 259–62 excised (being from the “household helps” section, not the cookery). One pencilled annotation. A very few light spots, otherwise clean. Not a great copy, but plenty of great reading and browsing.  (23548)

•  Sabin 78417. Stitched as issued. Little dusty. Five-digit number faintly stamped near the cut. Margin of first leaf slightly torn. (1012)

•  Sabin 78417. Stitched as issued. Little dusty. Five-digit number faintly stamped near the cut. Lower margin of first leaf slightly torn; some foxing/staining. (2322)

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•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's quarter cloth and color-printed paper–covered sides, corners and edges lightly scuffed. Sewing starting to loosen. Light offsetting to pastedowns, title-page, and last page of contents; short tear from bottom edge of one page, just touching but not affecting text.  (22185)

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•  Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label; clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper a little chipped at edges. (22940)

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•  NSTC 2M14137. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16756)

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Lockwood, a patent lawyer for the American Bell Company, held his own patents for automated call switching — technology that helped bring about the end of the very operators for whom he wrote Practical Information. The work was first printed in 1882, with the present example being the fifth edition.

•  Publisher’s dark green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding very slightly cocked, with cloth a bit worn at corners and spine extremities. Pages faintly age-toned, else clean.

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•  Wright, American Fiction, II, 781. Ex-Library: Quarter faux pebbled leather over marbled paper: spine rebacked with masking tape partially covering library label on front cover; edges of covers chipped. Title-page detached and chipped with paper repairs on edges of verso; interior generally spotted and stained with some dog-earing and shallow chipping—all with no apparent loss or obscuring of impression. Final leaf (pp. 63–64) lacking. Charge pocket on rear pastedown. (9500)

•  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: With the handsome Victorian-era book label and comments of Frank Parson, who hasrated each hymn “fair, very good, etc.”

•  Publisher's quarter cloth with illustrated and printed paper sides. Ownership label of Frank Parson on front cover and his signature on front pastedown. (3193)

•  Tan publisher's cloth over boards, title stamped on spine. In dust jacket (chipped and slightly soiled). A clean, good copy.  (22691)