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THE NORTH PACIFIC - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War

By: Allen, Willis Boyd ; [Coleman Jennings' copy]

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, E P Dutton and Company: 1905

Seller ID: 42379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

ix, (1), 325, (3) pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial dark blue cloth binding with image of a naval vessel at sea on front board and an anchor in seaweed at spine. OCLC 259971708 Owner's brief inscription on ffep: "Merry Xmas to / Coleman / From Cleveland" Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 additional full page plates. Willis Boyd Allen (1855-1938) was born at Kittery Point, Maine in 1855. He graduated from Harvard University in 1878 and from Boston University Law School in 1881. In addition to his law practice, Allen was a prolific writer, particularly of maritime nov...
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NUMBERS - A Coloring Book

By: Anonymous

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Kenosha, Samuel Lowe Company: 1949

Seller ID: 41126

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

32 pages; Clean and tight in original color printed wrappers, but for a phone number written on rear endpaper. None of the printed drawings have been colored in yet. A nice example of this charming children's book from the mid- twentieth century. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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The Book of Good Counsels from the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" with Illustrations by Gordon Browne

By: Arnold, Sir Edward ; Gordon Browne (illustrator)

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners: 1893

Seller ID: 40607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

163 pages; Clean and secure in original red cloth binding with bevelled edges and elaborate decorative stamping in gilt to front cover with images of various wild animals and branches. Minor wear to cloth at spine ends. Fabulous cover design bears monogram HD or possibly HC (with C reversed). Several full page b&w illustrations by Gordon Browne. Frontispiece, 6 full page & 13 b&w text illustrations. Printed at Chiswick Press.
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COOKERY FOR TODAY

By: Batchelder, Ann

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Chicago, Butterick Publishing Co: 1932

Seller ID: 40456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and tight in original pictorial cloth binding depicting a beautifully set table with flowers, china, glassware, and silverware. Cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, faded on rear cover. Nearly 400 recipes from Boston Brown Bread to Martha Washington Fruit Cake to Pigeons in Casserole to Oysters a l'Indienne to Dixie Relish to Hungarian Goulash, plus Ten Exclusive Recipes by Ann Batchelder.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Le Bon Jardinier - Encyclopédie Horticole Avec 6 planches en couleurs d'après des quarellessss exécutées spécialement par A. Millot. 150é édition

By: Bois, D. ; et G. T. Grignan ; eds.

Price: $84.95

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique: 1933

Seller ID: 39188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

2 p.l & 1036 pages; The text of this well-known encyclopedia of gardening, botany and horticulture was prepared under the direction of D. Bois and G. T. Grignan, with texts by a number of experts ("Rédigée par un groupe de savants et de practicines sou la direction de D. Bois et G. T. Grignan" -- a list of the many authors is on the verso of the first leaf, a facsimile of the decorative title page of the earlier editions). This 150th edition is retitled as Le Bon Jardinier: Encyclopédie horticole -- while the older editions had been styled as "Almanach horticole." Undated...
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Le Cabinet secret de l'histoire Quatrieme serie

By: Cabanès, [Augustin] Docteur

Price: $74.95

Publisher: Paris, A. Maloin: 1900

Seller ID: 38613

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Autograph; Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to Georges Cain [1856-1919] artist and author, who wrote a number of histories of Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. Someone has tipped an illustration by Cain and a short biography of the artist to the bottom of the half title page with the inscription, and there is a mark from cellophane tape (removed) to the gutter of this leaf and the original front wrapper. The binding is clean and handsome -- with the bookplate of Catherine Teiton on the front paste-down endpaper...
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Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Oliver Goldsmith

By: Campbell, Thomas ; Oliver Goldsmith

Price: $59.95

Publisher: London, T. Nelson: 1860

Seller ID: 42225

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

xxxv, 7-112; xv, 16-111 pages; Original owner brief inscription "For my dear daughter-in-law / Annie / 1872" otherwise clean and tight in original decorative green leather binding with impression of an elaborate urn at the center of front and rear boards and multiple gilt borders, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative devices at spine. Some minor rubbing at corners and edges of boards. Steel engraved frontispiece titled "The Pleasures of Hope" depicting a shepherd and his dog gazing into a valley with sheep; six additional full page engravings, all with tissue guar...
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THE ROSSETTIS - Dante Gabriel and Christina

By: Cary, Elisabeth Luther ; Margaret Armstrong

Price: $64.95

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam: 1900

Seller ID: 42430

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi, (1), 310, (2) pages; Original owner's name on ffep "Edith G. Jennings" clean and secure in original navy blue cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, decoratively stamped at spine and front board with elaborate gilt images of clusters of grapes and grape vines on a trellis and bearing her designer's monogram of an intertwined "MA". Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and thirty additional illustrated plates (black and white, sepia tones and single color) with tissue guards. Cary's study covers both Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and poet Christina Georgina Rosse...
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ROMANCE OF THE BOURBON CHATEAUX

By: Champney, Elizabeth W

Price: $15.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1905

Seller ID: 40388

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

460 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial cloth binding with lovely image of a chateaux on front cover. xviii p., 1 l., 460 p., 34 pl., 6 port. Color frontispiece, 7 photogravures, 38 additional illustrations. OCLC: 35560315 A beautiful book combining history & travel literature with royal biography and architectural history. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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BRITISH VEGETABLE GALLS in attractive leather binding

By: Connold, Edward T

Price: $74.95

Publisher: London, Hutchison: 1901

Seller ID: 39022

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Fine

xii, 312 pages; Very handsome green half morocco leather binding over cloth covered boards. Near Fine, light foxing to endpapers. Bookplate. Gilt coat-of-arms on binding. Illustrated by 130 photographic plates. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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LIFE AT THE ZOO Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park Gardens

By: Cornish, C. J

Price: $19.95

Publisher: London, Seeley & Company: 1896

Seller ID: 40529

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

viii, 340, (4) pages; With illustrations from photographs by Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. and from Japanese drawings. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering & gilt figure of two monkeys and an attractive blind-stamped pattern at left edge of front cover. A lovely, clean, bright book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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GREAT MUSICIANS - ART AND GLORY told in Picture and in Story

By: Crawford, Rebekah ; [SIGNED] ; Elizabeth Tousey

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Donald W. Newton: 1910

Seller ID: 40237

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good+

Autograph; Oblong quarto (10 3/4" by 12 1/4"). Inscribed and Signed by the author (Crawford) on the ffep - "To A. Edward Davis, Jr. / The life that is in time with the / melodies of Heaven cannot fail of / being happy. / Rebekah Crawford / Aug. 4th 1925." Otherwise clean and tight in original dark blue cloth binding with decorative stamping in red and green and gilt lettering on front cover. Beautifully illustrated book with full page plates on the left and poetic text about specific musicians on the right, each page in a wonderful decorative graphic border, many incorporating ...
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Image for Children's Stories from Dickens, Re-told By His Grand-Daughter and Others Illustrated by: [Frances Brundage], Harold Copping, The Baroness Orezy, Willis Grey, Edith Scannell & Major Giles; edited by Edric Vredenburg

Children's Stories from Dickens, Re-told By His Grand-Daughter and Others Illustrated by: [Frances Brundage], Harold Copping, The Baroness Orezy, Willis Grey, Edith Scannell & Major Giles; edited by Edric Vredenburg

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $34.95

Publisher: London, Raphael Tuck & Sons: 1907

Seller ID: 39747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

104 pages; Publisher's green cloth, pictorial decoration in gilt on the front cover and spine, beveled edges to the boards. Date is approximate. Minor wear to the binding, with a short, trifling tear at the edge of the rear free endpaper, some tanning to the first and last leaves (transfer from the paper of the endpapers), and a black ink rectangle to a small portion of the title page (effectively obscuring a single name). The first Tuck-published text with this title was issued about 1890, with 48 pages of letterpress text, and 12 chromolithographed illustrations by Frances Brundage. By th...
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ST. NICHOLAS An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Vol. XVI Part II, May 1889 to October 1889

By: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Joel Chandler Harris; Palmer Cox; E.W. Kemble; Celia Thaxter

Price: $44.95

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 41049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean and tight in beautiful Victorian pictorial red cloth binding with decorative stamping in gilt and black. A really lovely book with some mionor wear at spine ends. Quarto (9 3/4" by 7 1/2"). Six monthly issues bound together. Contents include: A Skilled Chinese Youth by Charles Howard Johnson; The Brownies' Garden by Palmer Cox; Among Dogs of High Degree by Noah Brooks; The Bunny Stories by John H. Jewett and illustrated by Culmer Barnes; Captain Duck by Joaquin Miller; The Runaway Daddy Jake by Joel Chandler Harris illustrated by E. W. Kemble (Part 3); Cuff The Orphan Bear Cub...
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN (5 Volumes Complete)

By: Dryden, John

Price: $224.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co.: 1859

Seller ID: 41614

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good

Complete five volume set bound in olive green half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands at spines, red leather title labels with gilt lettering, extensive decorative stamping in gilt in the five other compartments. Endpapers and all edges marbled; engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume 1. An attractive set with some rubbing at extremities, some very slight chipping at head of Volume 2 and a small bump to outer edge of rear board of Volume 1. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a characte...
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Hirzepinzchen: Ein Märchen Mit Buchschmuck von Robert Weise

By: Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Stuttgart - Berlin - Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft: 1890

Seller ID: 41590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

2 p.l. & 24 pages; Publisher's coral-colored linen, with lettering in gilt on the spine and front cover, and a figured design on the front cover in green, beige and brown, beveled edges to the boards, striking Jugendstil patterned endpapers, edges of the text block decoratively stained green. An excellent copy, with just a bit of minor soilig to the covers, the gilt on the spine is toned brown, and there is just a touch of light rubbing to the spine ends, tips of the corners and the upper edge of the rear cover. The German text is set within a striking colored floral design surrounding on thre...
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ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS - WITH A PASSING GLIMPSE OF CUBA

By: Edwards, William S

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Cincinnati, Press of Jennings and Graham: 1906

Seller ID: 38854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Pictorial red cloth binding, lettered in white with silohuettes in black against a white background. White has flaked from lettering at spine. Fabulous photographs of sites and scenes from cotton pickers in Mississippi to the corner market in Havana, with dozens of Mexican and Cuban images in between. Clean, tight attractive book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Form og farge i moderne norsk broderi

By: Eines, Ruth Linnerud

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Osla, H. Aschehoug: 1956

Seller ID: 39618

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

48 pages; Former owner's blindstamp at bottom corner of title page, small faint stain at lower corner of front wrapper and endpaper, otherwise clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Small stamp on rear cover "Craft and Hobby Book Service" Monterey, California. Decorative embroidery designs with photographs of work displaying the patterns.
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NATIONAL NURSERY RHYMES AND NURSERY SONGS Set to Original Music

By: Elliott, J. W.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: London, Novello and Co.: 1871

Seller ID: 42443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

111 pages; Contents clean and secure in original red cloth pictorial binding with decorative stamping in bright gilt and black at spine and front board and in black at rear board with bevelled edges, AEG. Though outwardly a lovely book, this has some internal flaws -- rear free endpaper is lacking, lower corner of ffep is clipped, the titlepage was at some point clipped, then the title/author portion was mounted on a blank with the frontispiece mounted on the verso. The songs with music and illustrations are complete and bright. Splendid illustrations engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, the mo...
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SQUIB AND HIS FRIENDS - A Story for Children

By: Everett-Green, Evelyn

Price: $14.95

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 40252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

288 pages; Former owner's name and date (Xmas, 1900) on first blank after floral patterned endpapers, otherwise clean and tight in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, blue and brown on the spine and front board. Illustrated with frontispiece and 4 (of 5) full-page plates. OCLC: 38612186 "Squib" is a little boy who has earned this nickname by a way he has of exploding, so to speak, in a rapid gush of impul- sive talk after long periods of silence and inaction. The scene is laid chiefly in Switzerland, where the boy makes a very valuable acquaintance in the person of one Se...
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