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“A Woman’s Counsel is Not Much, but

He Who Despises It is a Fool”

Thiselton-Dyer, T.F. Folk-lore of women as illustrated by legendary and traditionary tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings, superstitions, etc. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.; London: Elliot Stock, 1906. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). xvi, 253, [3 (2 adv.)] pp.
$150.00

Folk-lore of Plants

Folk-lore of Shakespeare

Domestic Folklore

• Publisher’s red cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; binding a bit darkened and faintly spotted, with head of spine chipped. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription. A few pages with short edge tears, not touching text.

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Much to Learn from This
“Coffee Table Book”

Thomas, Alan G. Great books and book collectors. New York: Excalibur Books, 1983. 4to. 280 pp., illus.
$20.00

There is much learning in this text; it is not just a pretty book.

• Publisher's yellow cloth-covered boards with brown spine. Illustrated dust jacket in full color. Fine condition. (22342)

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Privately Printed for the

Philobiblon Club

Thorp, Williard. Lost tradition of American letters. Philadelphia: Privately printed for the Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo. [2], 26, [2] pp.
$35.00

• Quarter cloth and marbled paper sides, spine gilt-stamped with title. Pages crisp and binding clean; the whole very nearly pristine. (4925)

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463 Years of Swedish Chivalry

Tibell, G. W. af. Seraphimer ordens historia. Stockholm: Tryckt i Kongl. Ordens Tryckeriet, 1826. Tall 4to.
$175.00

NUC Pre-1956

• Original stiff green wrappers with paper spine label. A very nice copy.

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WORDS . . .

Town, Salem. An analysis of derivative words the English language [sic]; or, a key to their precise analytic definitions, by prefixes and suffixes...Carefully revised, and adapted to schools of all grades. Boston: Phinney & Co., 1853. 12mo. 168 pp.
$65.00

• This edition not in Vancil or O'Neill. Publisher's quarter black sheep with blue paper covers; front cover printed with replica of title-page and rear cover with ads. Leather pulled at top of spine and front joint opening/fragile. Small amount of rodent activity shows at top of front cover, and first gathering loosening. (8006)

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Kotopitta & Lamb's Feet Soup

Tselementes, Nicholas. Greek cookery. New York: D.C. Divry, Inc., 1967. 8vo. 239, [1] pp.
$30.00

• Publisher's red cloth, spine with title stamped in black, in dust wrapper; binding slightly cocked and dust jacket sunned at fore- and top-edges, with nick to front outer edge. Pages clean. Very good condition. (22496)

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“Lessons from Insect Life”

Tucker, Charlotte Maria (a.k.a., A.L.O.E.). Wings and stings. A tale for the young. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1876. 12mo. Frontis., added title-page, 159 pp., 6 plts.; illus.
$125.00

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Provenance: Maggie Smith. Prize for neatness. June 1877

• Publisher's blue cloth; gilt, black and blind stamped; rubbed and abraded in edges and corners. Front free end-paper has ownership inscription. Pages 14–15 and 48–49 have some minor staining in inner margins due to drying petals. Something fell onto p. 99 a long time ago and stained a number of pages on either side. A complete text with with two very nice colored frontispieces. (21691)

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Turgenev — Love!

Turgenev, Ivan. The torrents of spring. Westport, Conn.: The Limited Editions Club, 1976. Tall 8vo. xiii, [3], 186, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; 8 plts.
$100.00

Binding: Publisher's green calf, done by the Tapley-Rutter Company, with marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra, in original slipcase.

• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 502. Fine, in a near fine slipcase (paper cracked along a small portion of one edge, and carefully laid back down). (21808)

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A Flemish Book of Hours in the “BL”

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• Cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt. In an open-back paper-covered slipcase, with a full-color reproduction of one of the pages of the hours on the front cover. Nearly new condition. (21764)

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