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Hey, Gang! Let's Build a Fountain!
(A DIFFERENT KIND of “Student Social Activism” @ Berkeley). University of California magazine. Under the Berkeley Oaks. Stories by students of the University of California; selected and edited by the editorial staff of the University of California magazine. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1901, ©1900. 12mo (19 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., [2] ff., 227, [1] pp.
$110.00
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Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' “Travis Hallett's Half-back.” Norris (1870–1902) was class of '94.
It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.
Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”
BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good. (34834)
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History “in an Amusing Light” with
Hand-Colored Plates
Abbott à Beckett, Gilbert; John Leech, illus. The comic history of England. With twenty coloured etchings, and two hundred woodcuts. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., [ca. 1855]. 8vo (22 cm, 8.66"). 2 vols. in 1. xviii, 320, [1]–304 pp.; 20 col. plts., illus.
$150.00
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Playfully expounded yet actually generally accurate English history. Written by one of the original staff members of Punch and originally issued serially in parts, this long-popular and much-republished work appears here in a fairly early book-form edition comprising both volumes. John Leech's famous illustrations, including
20 hand-colored plates as well as numerous in-text steel engravings and woodcuts, feature Abbott à Beckett's historic figures portrayed with amusing contemporary touches; e.g., William the Conqueror has a handlebar mustache, a portrait of a medieval king being medically treated features patent medicine placards in the background, and Henry VIII wears an opera hat a'Maying while his queen on the occasion carries a pink parasol. In all, of course, as was to be the case also with this duo's Comic History of Rome, the history/”history” comments on the readers' own time.
Provenance: Front pastedown with plain paper label of Dr. Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882–1966), a prominent physician and historian of medicine. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Publisher's textured green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped vignettes, covers framed in blind; edges rubbed, gilt dimmed, covers unobtrusively reattached with hinges reinforced. All edges gilt. Half-title for vol. I present; half-title and separate title for vol. II removed by binder. Minor foxing, mostly around plates.
Exterior a bit worn, still a very nice exemplar of this popular work in original publisher's binding. (40369)

“Harry of England, Your Career Shall be Stained in
Blood!”
Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An historical romance. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.69"). Add. engr. t.-p., x, [2], 324 pp.; 22 plts., illus.
$350.00
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Dramatically Gothic treatment of the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, enlivened by a supernatural subplot involving Herne the Hunter — along with a non-fictional, illustrated account of the building and history of the castle itself. The text is adorned with
a total of 22 engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, 4 plates by Tony [Antoine] Johannot, and 14 by George Cruikshank, who stepped in to replace Johannot as soon as he had finished illustrating Ainsworth's previous serial, The Miser's Daughter. In addition, W. Alfred Delamotte supplied an abundance of in-text wood engravings.
The work was first serially published in Ainsworth's Magazine in 1842–43, with a three-decker book-form printing following shortly after its completion; the present example (described as a “new edition” on the title-page) follows the story's first appearance in one volume in 1843. This copy is in the publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth binding.
Provenance: Upper outer corner of title-page with inked inscription of Mrs. Jarvis, 1852. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
NCBEL, III, 912; NSTC 2A5904. Publisher's textured red cloth, covers with embossed knotwork frames, front cover with gilt-stamped deer and castle vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title and three scenes; joints and extremities rubbed with cloth starting to peel at back corners, spine and board edges somewhat darkened. Frontispiece portrait with upper outer corner waterstained (not affecting image), added engraved title-page darkened, scattered small spots of foxing to pages and plates.
A delightful Cruikshank item, and thrill-inducing in its own right as an English Gothic historical novel. (39887)

“WONDERFUL is the
Comfort of Words”
Aked, Charles F. Wells and palm trees. Cool water and abundant rest on life's rough way. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., © 1908. 12mo. Frontis., [6], 149, [1] pp.
$75.00
First edition: Inspiring Christian meditations by the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York — a radical English-born nonconformist, reformer, and pacifist known as “the fighting parson.” The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, and the decorative chapter-opening capitals are printed in red and black, as is the title-page.
This is the original first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's light blue straight-grained cloth, front cover and spine with
gilt-stamped title, front cover with desert vignette stamped in black and green.
Binding as above, minimal wear to extremities, spine with small area of light discoloration. Light pencilled underlining and marks of emphasis, including a star and a wing (all removable). A nice copy of an interesting volume. (28604)

Romance in the Bluegrass State
Allen, James Lane, & Hugh Thomson, illus. A Kentucky cardinal; and Aftermath. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1900. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). xxxii, 276, [4] pp.
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First printing of this “new edition,” revised and with a new preface and with
100 charming illustrations by Hugh Thomson, best known for his illustrations of works by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Recluse Adam's lifelong dedication to nature troubles his romance with society girl Georgianna; when she requests the capture of a Kentucky cardinal, Adam struggles between his respect for nature and his love for her. He ultimately chooses Georgianna and their love suffers, but then grows as a result.
James Lane Allen's depiction of Kentucky's people and culture won him the title of
“Kentucky's first important novelist.” A Kentucky Cardinal and its sequel, Aftermath, were his third and fourth novels published.
Binding: Publisher's hunter green cloth with gilt lettering and all-over decoration of foliage and cardinals to front board and spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; top edge gilt.
Bound as above; spine faded and light rubbing to rear board. Very minor crack at front hinge (inside) and another minor crack at gutter, p. 46; interior clean.
A lovingly illustrated tale in a beautiful binding. (37532)

“A God-Hero of the Golden Age of Myth” —
The First Original English-Language Poem on the Buddha
Arnold, Edwin. The light of Asia. Being the life and teaching of Gautama prince of India and founder of Buddhism. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. Folio (30 cm, 11.8"). xxiv, 193, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts.
$100.00
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Limited Editions Club edition of Sir Edwin's epic verse retelling of
the life of the Buddha, with an introduction by Melford E. Spiro. Ayres Houghtelling painted eight brightly colored, “highly unconventional” plates, as to which he said that he “allegorically painted by design and symbolism what [he hoped] Sir Edwin Arnold would have liked” (according to the newsletter); he also provided a number of black-and-white and two-color line drawings. The volume was designed by Frank J. Lieberman, and the green, yellow, cream, and tan paisley and floral cotton cloth binding was done by the Tapley-Rutter Co.
This is
numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator. Both the appropriate Club newsletter (in its original envelope) and the prospectus are laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 497. Publisher's fabric-covered binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, in original brown paper–covered slipcase with printed paper label; spine cloth very slightly (and unobtrusively) sunned, slipcase showing only minimal traces of shelfwear.
A nice copy of this handsome piece of LEC exotica. (36838)
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The Joys of:
Good Honest Farming, Living Debt-Free, & Raising Children
Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 12mo (18 cm; 7"). [10], 157, [1] pp.; 12 plts.
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First edition: An old-fashioned lawyer aims (with the aid of the all-important female influence) to restore good Yankee virtues of thrift and domesticity in a Connecticut village gone mad (and sometimes bankrupt or to jail) over automobiles, diamonds, oversized mansions, and Europhilia. The novel is illustrated with a total of 12 halftone plates by German-born, American-raised artist Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner (a.k.a. William Henry Dethlef Koerner); the frontispiece depicts a dramatic “Duel with Automobiles,” while several other plates portray rather sweet scenes featuring children.
Signed binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover pictorially stamped with a young lady in a luxury car in black, white and red, spine with gilt-stamped title. Front cover design with “A” monogram in a half circle. Designer unknown.
Dinkytown, American Decorated Covers, 1890–1930, 13. Binding as above, slightly cocked with very (very) minor rubbing to extremities.
A nice copy of an interesting “period” work. (36774)

Country Comedy — Sacker Binding
Bell, Lilian. At home with the Jardines. New York: A. Wessels Company, 1906. 8vo (19 cm; 7.5"). 322 pp.
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First published in book form in 1904 and here reprinted bearing the original Amy Sacker–designed binding (with her AS monogram), this is the tale of a well to do couple who move from New York City to the country to live close to the earth not as gentlefolk farmers. Much commentary emerges on life both in the city (noise, manners, transportation, customs, etc.) and in the country (hardness of farming and animal husbandry, attitudes of old friends and rural folk).
Bell (1867–1929) was born in Chicago, brought up in Atlanta, and after marriage lived in Tarrytown, NY.
Binding: Blue cloth, front cover stamped in black, very pale green, and rust; at center a young couple arm in arm in formal wear with four small vignettes at the corners of the frame around them. The four offer symbols of love (hearts and an arrow), commitment to honest hard work (a rooster up at dawn), social relaxation (a wine carafe and glass, and study (books and an inkwell and pen). Signed “AS” (Amy Sacker).
Provenance: Private pressure-stamp, “The Blasberg Collection,” to endpaper and title-page.
Evidence of readership: Pencil notes on front free endpaper and on the contents page either tying text to appearances in Harper's Magazine or summarizing events on specific pages of this book.
Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, B-463 (for first book edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed. Old paperclip rust-stains to four leaves, else very good. (37059)
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A Dainty Little Book of Worship
Bible. English. Selections. Daily food for Christians; being a promise, and another scriptural portion, for every day in the year: Together with the verse of a hymn. New York: American Tract Society, [ca. 1850]. Near miniature (8 cm, 3.15"). 192 pp.
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Mid-19th–century American printing: miniature Scripture readings for daily devotions. Each day's entry features four to six lines of a hymn, flanked by two Bible quotations — the latter often but not always from the same book.
The American Antiquarian Society gives the date of publication as “[not before 1847?].
Binding: Publisher's straight-grained green cloth, covers framed in blind-stamped arabesques, front cover with central gilt-stamped bouquet, spine with gilt-stamped title (and “15" at foot). All edges gilt.
Bradbury, Antique United States Miniature Books, 1690-1900, B816. Binding as above, spine and front cover a little sunned, front cover with minute dimple. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A solid, sturdy, pleasing example of the genre. (40720)
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Szyk's LEC Ruth
Bible. O.T. Ruth. English. 1947. Authorized (i.e., “King James Version”). The book of Ruth from the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I with a preface by Mary Ellen Chase and illustrations by Arthur Szyk. New York: [Printed by the Aldus Printers for the] Limited Editions Club, 1947. Small folio (31 cm, 12.2"). 42, [6] double-fold pp.; col. illus.
$250.00


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Szyk's eight full-page, full-color “Oriental Realism” illustrations, in the style and tradition of Oriental miniatures, are dramatically eye-filling in this Limited Editions Club production. The edition is limited to 1950 copies (this is no. 230, with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in), each signed by the illustrator. The volume is set in intertype Weiss, with six large initials in gold; “Ruth” on the half-title and title-page are also printed in gold; and the paper is Worthy special.
Binding: Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half white leather with slightly raised bands a gilt-background title label; smooth vellum-paper sides, gold-stamped with a large image of Ruth holding a sheaf of grain and a scythe. Top edge gilt.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 184. Binding as above, in the original gold foil-covered slipcase; volume with spine and corners moderately darkened and rubbed, slipcase foil with expectable rubbing and spine chipped. LEC newsletter creased, with small stains. In spite of these flaws, still a sturdy case and a pleasing book, internally bright and lovely. (36857)
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus.
$150.00
Early English edition (1st was New York, 1886) of this American author's most famous novel, wildly popular well into the 20th century and memorably made into a film starring Freddy Bartholomew. This edition is amply illustrated with plates (integral to pagination) and in-text pictures also.
Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.
Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)
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A Beautiful Country Girl & a Spanish Bullfighter
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The pretty sister of José. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 12mo (19.1 cm; 7.5"). iv, 127, [8] pp (publisher's
catalogue), [12] leaves of plates.
$35.00
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First edition, second state. A “tale of Spanish love and romance” by the author of children's classics such as The Secret Garden and The Little Princess.
Twelve beautiful plates illustrated by C.S. Reinhart accompany Burnett's tender story, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.Binding: Publisher's green decorative cloth printed on front cover with a guitar and lady's fan in gilt and with a flowering vine design in dark green and gold; spine lettered in gold.
BAL 2073, state 2; Wright, III, 814. Bound as above, slightly cocked; top and bottom of spine rubbed with loss of green coloring of cloth, now a bit frayed, and spots of discoloration on rear cover. Interior lightly age-toned, overall unmarked and readable.
A nice copy. (35454)

WILL CARLTON

One
could build a very interesting little collection of bindings and illustration,
using his books!
They were SO popular, and oft-produced . . .
(Ditto, of course, Burns, Cowper, Scott, or
Mrs. Hemans for example.)
Quaint Customs
Carleton, Will. Farm festivals. New York: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1881. 8vo. 167, [1], 6 (adv.)] pp. ; 18 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
$50.00
First edition of this “Farm” volume by a successful and beloved poet. A copy of Carleton's poem "Captain Young's Thanksgiving," including illustration, has been affixed to the back fly-leaf and free endpaper.
BAL 2482 (second printing state, with plates included in pagination). Publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and green, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover lightly scuffed, with corners rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription "to My Daughter," dated 1890; newspaper clipping about Carleton affixed to front fly-leaf, poem affixed to back fly-leaf as described above. Several insurance advertisements, religious leaflets, and other ephemera laid in. (14367)

“The
Little Sleeper”
& “Paul's
Run Off with the Show”
ILLUSTRATED
Carleton, Will. Farm legends. New York: Harper & Brothers, c. 1887. 8vo. 187, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 17 plts., illus.
$50.00
With engraved plates and in-text illustrations by various hands.
Very good; traces of wear to corners and spine extremities, one small spot to front cover. Slightly cocked. Front flyleaf with gift inscription. (1250)



A Woman
KNOW NOTHING Author
Carroll, Anna Ella. The great American battle; or, the contest between Christianity and political Romanism. New York & Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. Small 8vo (20 cm, 7.5"). xii, 365, [1] pp.; 10 leaves of portraits.
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832) was the only Catholic Signer of the Declaration of Independence. His great-granddaughter Anna Ella Carroll (1815–94) was virulently anti-Catholic; she was also a politician, pamphleteer, lobbyist, and an early, ardent supporter of the American Party, a.k.a., the Know Nothing Party.
The present work is totally anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant (i.e., Irish and German), pro-American Party, and nasty. The portraits, engraved by J.C. Buttre, are all of men, except one of the author: Millard Filmore, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George D. Prentice, E. B. Bartlett, Kenneth Rayner, Erastus Brooks, Jacob Broom, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Edwin O. Perrin.
The symbolism on the binding portends the rhetoric of the volume. The large gilt-stamped vignette in the center of the front cover has the image of a hat-waving man holding hands with a woman personification of the American Constitution, and she holding the American flag. Above them, the American Eagle holds a ribbon with the words, “Americans Should Rule America.” On the spine there is a small gilt-stamped vignette of the American Eagle defending the ballot box and Declaration of Independence from a serpent.
Provenance: 1856 ownership signature of J.H. Chase on front free endpaper.
Sole edition of this disturbing work of nativism.
Sabin 11063. Publisher's binding of fine-ribbed charcoal cloth over boards; corners and spine extremities mildly rubbed. Blind-stamped double-ruled border and ornamental spandrels on front cover and gilt vignette as above; spine with author, title, and publisher stamped in gilt and with the above-mentioned vignette at base just above the publisher's name; front cover's stamping repeated in blind on back cover. Light foxing to a few plates and surrounding leaves. (40293)

A Southern Hero Enters the “Brawl with Boston” — Illustrated by Christy
Girl Heroes, Prominent!
Chambers, Robert W. The maid-at-arms. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. Frontis., vi, [6], 342, [6] pp.; 7 plts.
$75.00
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First edition of this novel from the “Cardigan” series, set in New York state during the American Revolution and written by an author best known for his important supernatural work The King in Yellow. The plot here stars George Ormond, a Southerner of good family; it also features a character named Catrine Montour, based in part on the half-French, half-Native American “Queen” Catherine Montour (1710–1804), while the climactic rescue involves two maidens riding to the aid of an officer captured by Senecas. The
eight halftone plates were done by Howard Chandler Christy, and the belles are much in the style of his famed Christy Girls.
This is the genuine first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover with Art Nouveau water lily design and gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title.
Binding as above, minor rubbing at extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled Christmas gift inscription dated 1902; back free endpaper with rubber-stamped numeral (no other markings). Pages and plates clean. A very nice copy. (28585)
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“Waes Hael” Indeed In a Nicely “Thematic” Binding by Amy Richards
Chase, Edithe Lea, & W.E.P. French. Waes Hael, the book of toasts; being, for the most part, bubbles gathered from the wine of others' wit, with here and there, an occasional humbler globule believed to be more or less original. New York: Grafton Press, 1904. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 303, [1] pp.
$30.00
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“And, lo, sweet friend! behold this cup, / Round which the garlands intertwine; / With Massic it is foaming up, / And we would drink to thee and thine. / And of the draft thou shalt partake.”
A book of toasts and quotations for all occasions organized by categories (love, the army, colleges, sports, particular quaffs, life's joys, etc.) presented in a merry, decorative (and signed) binding.
Binding: Publisher's yellow/tan cloth with yellow-stamped lettering to spine, purple and yellow-stamped lettering bordered by black on front board with purple grapes, green leaves and yellow tankards and goblets surrounding a giant steaming punchbowl as decoration. Top edge gilt, black ribbon bookmark included. Signed “AR” (i.e., Amy Richards).
Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, parts of text on spine rubbed, faint spots of soiling to front board. Light spotting to fore-edge, a few random finger smudges, soiling to gutter of p. 98.
Wassail in a fitting decorative binding! (38318)
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“A Story of Modern American Life”
Colton, Arthur. The debatable land. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [10], 312, [8] pp.
$65.00
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First edition of this novel in Harper's “Stories of Modern American Life” series: an interestingly divided romance, partly dedicated to aesthetically pleasing flights of fancy regarding music, the nature of women, and philosophy, and partly dedicated to two of the male protagonists' experiences as soldiers in the Civil War.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription: “John H. White Merry Christmas from Mabel 1903.”
Binding: Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and decorative red-stamped frame surrounding an affixed, color-printed illustration of a broken cannon in a cloudy landscape.
Binding as above, very slightly cocked, extremities very lightly rubbed. Inscription as above; pages clean and crisp.
A lovely thing. (35256)
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19th-Century Ontario Childhood Stories — An Arts & Crafts Binding
Connor, Ralph. Glengarry school days: a story of early days in Glengarry. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell & Co., 1902. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.375"). [8], 13–340 pp.; 3 plts.
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First U.S. edition. From the prolific Canadian novelist Ralph Connor — otherwise a prominent Presbyterian and later United leader, the Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon — come these tales of days in a rural Ontario schoolhouse, illustrated with
three halftone plates by American painter Edgar Samuel Paxson.
Binding: Publisher’s green cloth with white lettering to front board and spine, front cover with dark green and white scene of a log cabin in the woods. Unsigned (and notably fine).
Provenance: On front free endpaper, signature of Frank U. Burden, “Christmas, 1902.”
Not in Minsky. Bound as above; mild rubbing to edges and spine-head, wrinkle to cloth at top outside corner of front board. Light offsetting from something once laid in to inner margins of two facing pages.
A charming binding, a clean handsome book. (37533)
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Years & Years' Worth of
Self-Sacrifice — On Both the Man's & the Woman's Part
Crawford, F. Marion. A rose of yesterday. New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1897. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [4], 218, [10 (adv.)] pp.
$75.00
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A seemingly impossible romance between two mature individuals, one unhappily married; Crawford, a prolific and best-selling author, includes
extended meditations on divorce and on women's rights, with the latter focusing on the perceived undesirability of trading the right to vote for the privilege of being supported by a man. This is an early reissue, marked “tenth thousand,” of the first edition of the same year.
Binding: Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, front cover stamped with gilt rose and ribbon design, spine with similar motifs; front cover
signed “G.W.E.” — George Wharton Edwards.
BAL 4200. Binding as above, gently faded overall, slightly cocked, edges and extremities rubbed. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. A few scattered faint spots, pages overall clean. (35835)

Bite-Sized
Theatrical Morsels
in
Fancy
Dress — Signed
Bindings
Cruz, Ramón de la. Sainetes de D. Ramón de la Cruz. Barcelona: Biblioteca “Arte y Letras” E. Domenech y Ca., 1882. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). 2 vols. I: [4], xliii, [1], 338, [2] pp.; 16 plts. (some incl. in pagination). II: [4], 343, [5] pp.; 5 plts.
$275.00
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Resplendent
collection of
clever, satiric 18th-century theatrical vignettes, originally intended to be
performed as intermedios during longer plays. The pieces, which include
“La Comedia de Maravillas,” “El Café de Máscaras,”
“La Duda Satisfecha,” “Manolo,” and many others, appear
here illustrated with
21
plates and numerous in-text engravings by José Llovera
and A. Lizcano, most depicting lively social scenes, musicians, dancers, and
flirtatious maidens. Although the second volume contains fewer plates than the
first, it makes up for the difference with extra in-text images.
Signed Binding: Publisher's teal pebbled cloth, front covers with striking chariot and armorial scene in light blue, tan, and gilt. The “Cibeles” statue found in Madrid's Cibeles Plaza and the coat of arms (and gilt monogram) of the city of Madrid appear with de la Cruz's name stamped in gilt below; spines offer gilt-stamped title and black-stamped griffin decoration. Cover of vol. II is signed “J. Orba.” All page edges are stamped in a Greek key pattern in blue and gilt.
Provenance:
Half-titles each with old-fashioned rubber-stamp of José Carmona y
Ramos.
Palau 65340. Bindings as above, edges and extremities
showing minor shelfwear, back cover of vol. I with small spots of faint discoloration,
front joint of vol. II rubbed. Collector's stamp as above, each front pastedown
with small paper label bearing hand-inked numeral. Pages age-toned; edges
slightly embrittled, occasionally with small chips or short tears. Scattered
light smudges in vol. I; vol. II with mild to moderate foxing.
A
peacocky set. (29262)
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“You Can't Keep a Squirrel on the Ground”
Cullen, Clarence Louis. Tales of the ex-tanks: A book of hard-luck stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.25"). 392 pp.
$35.00
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A series of fictional “hard-luck” stories about the goings-on of the Harlem Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates, originally written by Cullen — a “restless newspaper man” — for the New York Sun. The so-called “Ex-Tanks” tell tales of their less sober days with reference to
gambling/sporting adventures involving boxing, horse racing, cards, etc., and a Stradivarius found in a hock shop in quite a range of American cities. Cullen's stories are here gathered and presented in this handsome, decorated cloth binding.
Binding: Publisher's light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. The front board is divided into four compartments by single-ruled black borders; a scene of a man walking along a railroad track stamped in blue, black, and gilt decorates the top section.
Wright, III, 1331. Binding as above; extremities a bit rubbed, spine faded not unattractively. Small waterstain to top edge of about a dozen leaves, minor dirtying and finger-smudges to a handful of pages; overall very nice. (37534)
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A Celebration of Fine Education — Inscribed by the Author
Cunningham, Frank H. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.1 cm; 7.875"). xiv, 360 pp. illus.
$200.00
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First edition and inscribed by the author. One of the oldest secondary schools in the United States is celebrated in this handsome, illustrated volume; first established in 1781 in New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy is known for its conference-style classes and professed tradition of diversity.
Over 20 illustrations of buildings, interiors, and portraits illustrate the beauty of the campus and its history, many offering two images (or more) per plate leaf (with a tissue guard). A fold-out “Table of Athletic Tournaments” listing events from 1874 to 1881 is also included.
Binding: Original brown cloth with beveled edges, stamped in gilt and black with gilt lettering to front board and spine; gilt vignette of the Academy to front board.
Provenance: Cunningham, an affectionate and appreciative graduate of the Academy, has inscribed the front free endpaper
“With the compliments of the author, 6/22, '83.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Extremities lightly rubbed, minor bumping; gilt bright on spine and brighter on cover.
Very nice, clean copy “personalized” by the author. (37760)
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“The Fourteenth of August was the Day Fixed Upon for the Sailing of the Brig Pilgrim”
Dana, Richard Henry; Arthur Rackham, illus. Two years before the mast. London: Collins' Clear-type Press, [1904]. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.375"). Col. frontis., 304 pp.; 7 col. plts.
$400.00
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A memoir offering a look at the common seaman's life and the hardships sailors endure, presented in a striking decorated cloth binding. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–82), an American lawyer and politician, embarked on a voyage from Boston to California as a merchant seaman and recorded his experiences in a journal which eventually became an American classic. Dana did not intend the memoir to be an adventure story, but rather an earnest argument for improved conditions for seamen; still, it has lived on as the former.
The story is illustrated with
eight color plates (including the frontispiece) by legendary artist Arthur Rackham. This is a later issue of the first edition, in the original red cloth, with Rackham's name not given on the title-page and no page numbers on the illustrations.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-lettered, gilt-stamped label and Native American vignette, front cover with three men on a whaling ship with the name “Scud” on the side, watching two Native Americans rowing a canoe; main design stamped in black and white with accents of blue and brown.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, the bookplate of B. George Ulizio, an avid bibliophile and collector. Kent State University holds much of his British and American literature collection.
BAL 4434 (for the 1840 first edition). Binding as above, boards slightly bowed, dark spotting to top and fore-edge, scrape to fore-edge; in a brown cloth clamshell case, black label with gilt lettering, overall rubbing, the brown ribbon book-pull within now in two pieces. Frontispiece beginning to pull away, but still attached at the top; interior age-toned with occasional foxing. A fascinating journey in a striking cloth binding, with illustrations from
early in Rackham's career. (38624)

Popular Author — Decorative Designers Binding
Deland, Margaret. Dr. Lavendar's people. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [viii], 369, [7 (adv.)] pp.; 12 plts.
$45.00
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First edition, illustrated with
twelve plates by Lucius Hitchcock: loosely interconnected tales of Deland's beloved “Old Chester” setting. One story features four snippets of printed music.
Signed binding: Teal cloth, front cover with village scene stamped in dark green, terra cotta, and white, marked with the distinctive intertwined capital Ds of Decorative Designers (Henry and Lee Thayer).
Binding as above, slightly cocked, spine dimmed, front panel lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription of Lottie Ellis. One piece of dried plant matter laid in. (35665)

“The Average Burkite Looked with Disapproval upon the Little 'Toy Church' . . . ”
An Easter Tale in a BRILLIANT Binding of
Lovely Design
Dickinson, Mary Lowe. Spring blossoms an Easter story. Philadelphia: Charles H. Banes, (1895). 8vo (19.1 cm, 7.55"). Frontis., 54 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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First edition: A sweet children's story about a young Baptist teacher, a Puritan spinster, and the two “volatile little Hibernians” whose quest for Easter flowers brings them all together. Massachusetts-born author Dickinson, née Mary Caroline Underwood (1839–1914), was an educator, social activist, and founding member of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, a Christian service group. Here, she offers hope for reconciliation among members of different American religious denominations.
The text is printed in an unusual, elegant late-19th-century font on china paper and decorated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, and seven in-text vignettes; the frontispiece is signed “J.W.S.”
Binding: Publisher's cream cloth, front cover stamped in gilt, white, tan, yellow, red, and shades of green in a delicately stunning japonesque, Eastlake'y style that we find
easier to appreciate than to describe.
Provenance: Front pastedown inscribed in ink “Esther Le Fevre [/] Sunday School.”
Wright, III, 1529. Binding as above, housed in half of publisher's original matching cloth-covered box; box half with small splits to edges and corners, volume cloth with spots of light foxing (on the front cover, almost entirely confined to edges). Inscription as above. Pages clean; two pages with small traces of paper adhesion in outer margins.
Very, very, very attractive. (39420)
Dobson, Austin. The ballad of Beau Brocade and other poems of the XVIIIth century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xiii, [3], 89, [3] pp.; 25 plts., illus.
$90.00
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Second edition, with numerous illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine decoratively gilt-stamped; spine, lower edges, and corners a touch rubbed. Top edge gilt. A few leaves and plates with waterstaining to lower outer corners, scattered spots of light foxing. (18409)

New
Homes, NEW
HEARTS
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition: Two intertwined stories of learning to love
again after loss, set at
Christmas-time aboard the westbound express train from
Winnipeg. Written by a Canadian-born journalist, this sentimental tale (meant
for grownups who love children rather than the children themselves) is here
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green,
mounted on green paper, with additional in-text decorations done by Harold J.
Turner and printed in green.
Binding:
Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback,
front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt
and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)

Biblical Law, Debated
Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques. The trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate. Being a refutation of Mr. Salvador's chapter entitled “The Trial and Condemnation of Jesus.” Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1839. 16mo (18 cm, 7.1"). viii, 88, [2 (blank)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, translated from the original French “by a member of the American Bar”: John Pickering (1777–1846), a lawyer and philologist. Salvador's Histoire des Institutions de Moise et du Peuple Hebreu included a chapter in which he concluded that as a court proceeding, the trial of Jesus was in accordance with Jewish law; Dupin here rebuts that chapter's arguments, while continuing to express admiration for Salvador as a scholar and author — and while focusing on legal issues rather than theological ones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Cloth is ribbed and fits Krupp's Rb3 pattern.
Evidence of readership: One pencilled footnote, arguing that capital punishment is the will of the divine.
American Imprints 55455. On the binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 40. Binding as above; spine and board edges gently faded, extremities rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. An interesting book in a good example of an early American cloth binding. (34765)
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CRANBERRIES
Eastwood, B. A complete
manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties.
New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts.
$125.00
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Early reprint, following the first edition of 1856.
Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches.
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)
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Lannigan & O'Shay at Sea
“Decorative
Designers” Binding
Fernald, Chester Bailey. Under the jack-staff. New York: Century Co., 1903. 8vo. [6], 262 pp.
$75.00
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First edition of these entertaining (and occasionally tragic) adventures of a pair of Irish-American sailors: “The Lights of Sitka,” “The Spirit in the Pipe,” “The Yellow Burgee,” “The Transit of Gloria Mundy,” “A Hard Road to Andy Coggin's,” “Clarence's Mind,” “The Proving of Lannigan,” “Help from the Hopeless,” “Clarence at the Ball,” “The Lannigan System with Girls,” and “A Yarn of the Pea-Soup Sea.”
Signed binding: Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped stylized double fish design, signed with the double D monogram of Decorative Designers; spine with gilt-stamped title and scallop shell. Top edge gilt.
Binding as above, corners and spine a bit rubbed. Front pastedown with private owner's bookplate. A clean, attractive copy. (28862)
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Opposing Satan's Servants with
a Lot of Slogging
Fernald, Mark. Life of Elder Mark Fernald, written by himself. Newburyport: Geo. Moore Payne & D.B. Pike; Philadelphia: Christian General Book Concern (pr. by William H. Huse), 1852. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., 405, [1] pp.
$150.00
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First edition: Composed in diary-like fashion by a Free Will Baptist (1784–1851) who proselytized throughout New England, this autobiography largely focuses on where, when, and how Fernald's preaching was conducted. The determined, hardworking author was particularly opposed to drinking and dancing, and returns frequently to those subjects.
The work opens with an introduction from the publishers, who dedicated the Life to the members of the First Christian Church and Society of Kittery, ME.
The frontispiece portrait of Fernald was engraved by John Sartain, after a daguerrotype.
Binding: Publisher's textured black cloth, covers framed in blind rules and with foliate designs surrounding central gilt-stamped floral motifs on both boards. Spine gilt extra, all edges gilt.
Bound as above; spine extremities and corners rubbed, cloth showing small split starting at foot of front joint (hinge holding). Mild foxing to margins of frontispiece, with offsetting to title-page from guard leaf; two pages with small section of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages otherwise clean.
A solid, worthwhile copy with its gilt shining bright and crisp. (38618)
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“May Not a POET Now & Then / Reveal These Lives of Average Men?”
Foss, Sam Walter. Whiffs from wild meadows. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., copyright 1895. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., [2], ix, [1], 272 pp.; illus.
$50.00
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First edition: Humorous verse, often in assorted American dialects, with small in-text illustrations by various hands.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, gilt, and yellow, with a frame of apples and greenery surrounding a decorative title and small gilt motifs.
Binding as above, corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed, dust jacket lacking. Endpapers and a few pages sprinkled with spots of faint staining, pages generally clean
A popular and entertaining author, in an attractive and well-preserved binding. (35257)
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Who Are Your Real Friends? What is REAL Love?
Garland, Hamlin. Money magic. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 8vo. [8], 354, [2] pp.; 8 plts.
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First edition, illustrated by J.N. Marchand.
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, black, orange, and gilt; lacking the dust jacket, with binding slightly cocked, spine stamping a bit dimmed. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription. (13027)
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Gilt
MOSAIC Binding
[Gavard, Charles]. Souvenir d'une promenade a Versailles. Paris: au Bureau des Galeries Historiques de Versailles, [ca. 1850–55]. Folio (36.5 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 50 leaves of plates.
$600.00
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One of several works with the identical title but from different publishers and with different contents! The present volume contains engravings after paintings in the palace's “Galeries Historiques”: the engravers include Leroux, Masson, Thomas, Nargoot, Rebel, Frilley, and many others. Curiously, many engravings bear a faint line of identification reading “Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard” and they have non-sequential numbering, meaning the images from this source could be and were recombined to form a wide variety of souvenir albums.
In this copy all plates are guarded by sheets of heavy paper stock.
Binding: In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.
On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97. Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding. (30464)
This English
Classic
Presented in
Classic
Fashion
Goldsmith, Oliver. The deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus.
$49.50
Attractive Boston printing of Goldsmith's popular poem, here illustrated with a number of engravings
Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)
Thomson's Illustrations The Vicar
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
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With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

Hand-Colored
Floral Frontispiece
Goodrich, Samuel G., ed. The token, or affection's gift,
a Christmas and New-Year's present. Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis., 312 pp.; 4 plts.
$112.50
Reprint of the 1838 “Token” gift book, with different plates and a hand-colored floral frontispiece offering pink roses. One of the four uncolored plates is of a “Young American in the Alps,” by Healey and engraved by Cushman; another and this cataloguer's favorite, “Sun Set on the Hudson,” is by Weir, engraved by J.A. Ralph.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.
Faxon 786. Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with good portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120 and some soiling. One signature extruded and others heading for that; one plate shaved very very close to image at top but image itself not quite touched! Not a fresh copy, still, an interesting one. (12944)

“In the reign of good King René . . . ”
Guiney, Louise Imogen. The secret of Fougereuse: A romance of the fifteenth century; from the French. Boston: Marlier, Callanan & Co., 1898. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.375"). Frontis., 347, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition. Louise Imogen Guiney was an American Catholic poet and essayist active in the Boston literary circle of the late 19th century. This is her translation of Louis Morvan's Jehan de Fougereuse from the original French. The text is
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates in black and white.
Binding: Decorated publisher's binding: blue cloth with “silver”-stamped lettering and fleur-de-lis decorations to front board and spine, front cover with large “silver”-stamped vignette of a medieval gentleman holding a cage with two owls. “Silver” work actually aluminum and very bright!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
BAL 6747 (state A imprint, state A binding). Bound as above; spine cocked and extremities and joints lightly rubbed. Stamps as above. Crease to p. 42; interior otherwise unspoiled.
A handsomely medieval-esque production. (37506)

Taking the Fad TOO Far?
Harsha, D.A. The Heavenly token a gift book for Christians. New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis: Asher & Co., 1859. 12mo (18.6 cm; 7.625"). Engr. frontis., 491 pp.
$125.00
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Religious “gift book” in name only, here reissued from the 1856 edition, with an engraved frontispiece of a throne under a rainbow overlooking people praying on earth by S.A. Schoff after Hammatt Billings. Tepper aptly notes about a similar edition that “it is 500 pages of exhaustive sermonizing on the love of Christ. . . . this is an interesting example of the lengths publishers would go to in
riding the coattails of the gift book fad.”
Binding: Blue publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt with fancified title and partly arabesque design, covers decoratively framed in blind.
Not in Faxon, nor Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books; for another year, see Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 100. Bound as above, recently well rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers, gently rubbed, small sticker on spine. Light age-toning and foxing (especially around the frontispiece as usual), with occasional other spotting or staining (some perhaps in press); a sound copy representing
an interesting phenomenon in marketing. (37262)
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He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)
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“Know Thyself” — And FEAR Thy Sex Life
Hayes, Albert H. The science of life; or, self-preservation. A medical treatise on nervous and physical debility, spermatorrhoea, impotence, and sterility, with practical observations on the treatment of diseases of the generative organs. Boston: Peabody Medical Institute, © 1881. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). xviii, 286 pp.; 4 plts. (1 fold.).
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Stern warnings regarding venereal disease, masturbation, premature sexual activity, and other sex-related issues — with much of the book making dire insinuations regarding the reader's potential ill-health, as well as the likelihood that any practitioner other than Dr. Hayes will make the reader's woes even worse. The volume opens with a folding reproduction of a certificate commemorating the alleged presentation of “the most beautiful and expensive gold and jewelled medal ever conferred upon any one, be he prince or potentate” (p. xii) to Hayes by three (seemingly nonexistent) officers of the National Medical Association; the three other plates depict two views of the medal itself, and “Victims of Self-Abuse, and Their Offspring.” At the back are a list of medicines and how to formulate them, as well as testimonials to Hayes's miraculous curative abilities. First published in 1868, this popular treatise appears here in a surprisingly flashy binding for its subject.
Binding: Publisher's very bright blue cloth, front cover with overall oak-and-acorn and geometric pattern stamped in gilt and black, with decorative title and sun vignette, spine similar. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, slightly cocked, extremities lightly rubbed; sewing of first signature loosening. Four leaves with short tear in upper margin, not touching text; several more creased across one corner; one page with light smudges, pages otherwise clean.
A simultaneously disturbing and amusing look at quack medicine of the 19th century. (35120)
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Washington, D.C. — Life & Society, 1895
Hinman, Ida. The Washington sketch book. A society souvenir. Containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people, and fifty views of public buildings and statues. Washington, DC: Hartman & Cadick, 1895. 4to (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 112 pp., [2 (ads) ff.
[SOLD]
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A guidebook and social life manual aimed very much at the female audience. Illustrated with numerous black and white halftone illustrations throughout, including many views of the city and its important buildings both exterior and interior, this includes an extended section of profiles of “Some Prominent Women of Washington.”
Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Mollie, with Ada's love. 898.”
Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in silver with images of the Washington Monument and the Capitol; author's name and title of work stamped in in gold within silver cartouches. Light wear to edges of boards and a little spotting; a Very Good copy. (37010)
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College Sermons — Presentation Copy
Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
$100.00
Sole edition: Sermons delivered at Hobart College, 1893, Geneva, NY, and S. Stephen's College, Annandale, NY.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)
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Something
Different from
the
Creator of Ruritania
Hope,
Anthony, pseud. Helena's path. New York: McClure Co.,
1907. 8vo. Frontis., [6], 241, [1] pp.
$40.00
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First edition of this romance from the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, Sir
Anthony Hope Hawkins. The volume opens with an unsigned, color-printed plate; the sprightly,
chivalrous tale features two strong-willed protagonists and their cast of entertaining friends —
including a barrister who must bear the brunt of Lord Lynborough's amused disdain for the law.Despite Hope's having been English and even knighted, this work was apparently never
printed in England.
Binding: Publisher's red
cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped garden design,
spine with gilt-stamped title. Signed binding:
Front cover with monogram of a J crowned with E (unidentified designer).
Binding as above,
cocked, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription
dated Christmas 1904. A few corners bumped, one torn away. Pages very clean. A bright,
pretty copy. (29132)
Dartmouth's Laureate
Hovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp.
$65.00
First edition. Poems by “Dartmouth's Laureate," edited by Edwin Osgood Grover.
BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)
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Attractive Little Book!
Howells, William Dean. Criticism and fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 12mo. Frontis., title-leaf, 188 pp., [2] ff.
$25.00
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Second edition.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front cover with an overall pattern of torches with bows, surrounding a central cartouche with the title and author in gilt.
BAL 9577 (for first edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed at base of spine, small area of minor discoloration on spine. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (26805)

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