Le Morte Darthur: The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table; Written by Sir Thomas Malory; First Printed by William Caxton, Now Modernised, as to Spelling and Punctuation, by A. W. Pollard; Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings, & Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, London by Malory, Thomas - 1936

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good -. DePol, John. [16] p.: wood engravings by John DePol; 27 cm. Brown paper wrappers printed in red and stitched. Includes 2-page title page printed in red and black for a proposed book on barns that would have contained 12 engravings by DePol. The title of this small work featuring the 4 existing beautiful engravings of barns by DePol (Not Barn Again) is a reference to an organization, Barn Again, that works to save and find new uses for old barns. Text by Neil Shaver. This is one of a limited edition of 150 copies hand-printed by Neil Shaver and Joe Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press. With a small errata slip tipped in on the colophon page. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: front cover is soiled; internally crisp and bright.

New York: S. Campbell, 1794. Hardcover. Good. 237, [3], 98 p.: frontispiece; 14 cm. Signatures: A-U6; A-H6 I6(-I2-6) (12mo). Contemporary calf with modern archival spine and hinge repair. Remains of gilt-tooled spine label with title: Cain and Abel. Two unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans), 27049; Rosenbach, Children's Books, 174. Bound with: Mary Collyer's The Death of Cain: in Five Books; After the Manner of The Death of Abel by a Lady (New York: S. Campbell, 1794). Published anonymously; attributed to Mary Collyer by Halkett & Laing. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans) 26858. Former owners' inscriptions on front endpapers and title page of The Death of Cain for Samuel Worrall (1806) and Lydia Worrall (1809). Extremely scarce. The Death of Cain lacks final 20 pages (pp. 99-119); otherwise in Good Condition: cover is worn; lacking 3x2 cm. of frontispiece; pp. xi-xii is detached but present; lower corner of pp.… Read More

Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Co, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. lxxv, [1], 956 p.; 26 cm. Contemporary full sheep with five spine compartments between slightly raised bands. Black leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Worcester's Dictionary. Marbled endpapers. Walker's Key has special title page; continuously paginated. Copyrighted 1846. Former owner's name on blank leaf following front free endpaper: Ellen M. Bullen. In Very Good Condition: leather is somewhat rubbed with minor scrapes; chipping to edges of leather spine label; scattered foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1829. Hardcover. Very Good. The Ninth Edition, Revised and Improved. viii, 184 p.; 18 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine label. Inclues index. The author, James Ross (1743-1827), was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He headed a grammar school in Carlisle, Pa., from 1780 to 1784, when he became the first faculty member of the newly founded Dickinson College. In 1792 he left Dickinson to established a school for classical learning in Chambersburg, Pa., where he wrote his popular Latin Grammar. He was professor of languages at Franklin College in Lancaster, Pa. from 18081 to 1809, when he moved to Philadelphia, where he continued to tutor students for the rest of his life. In Very Good Condition: lacking front free endpaper; closed 4-cm. tear from fore-edge of pp. 21-22; occasional soiling; light foxing; occasional marginal pencil mark; otherwise, clean and tight.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Anglais, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Nouvelle Edition. [24], 264 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. 19th-century repair of joints with dark brown linen; later repair of front joint with white linen. Small bookplate of the Lynn Public Library on front fixed endpaper; "Rules and Regulations" of the Lynn Free Public Library on front free endpaper. Embossed stamp of the Lynn Free Public Library on the French title page, which has on its verso a small label reading "Lynn Library Association, No. 224." A very scarce edition (3 copies on WorldCat) of this popular advice book by John Gregory (1724-1773), with parallel English and French texts. Much of Gregory's advice to his daughters paints a vivid picture of the lives of girls and women in comfortable circumstances in late 18th-century England; some advice is just as accurate today: "Do not marry a Fool." In Good Condition: loss of most leather over spine; old… Read More

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good -. DePol, John. [16] p.: wood engravings by John DePol; 27 cm. Brown paper wrappers printed in red and stitched. Includes 2-page title page printed in red and black for a proposed book on barns that would have contained 12 engravings by DePol. The title of this small work featuring the 4 existing beautiful engravings of barns by DePol (Not Barn Again) is a reference to an organization, Barn Again, that works to save and find new uses for old barns. Text by Neil Shaver. This is one of a limited edition of 150 copies hand-printed by Neil Shaver and Joe Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press. With a small errata slip tipped in on the colophon page. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: front cover is soiled; internally crisp and bright.

New York: S. Campbell, 1794. Hardcover. Good. 237, [3], 98 p.: frontispiece; 14 cm. Signatures: A-U6; A-H6 I6(-I2-6) (12mo). Contemporary calf with modern archival spine and hinge repair. Remains of gilt-tooled spine label with title: Cain and Abel. Two unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans), 27049; Rosenbach, Children's Books, 174. Bound with: Mary Collyer's The Death of Cain: in Five Books; After the Manner of The Death of Abel by a Lady (New York: S. Campbell, 1794). Published anonymously; attributed to Mary Collyer by Halkett & Laing. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans) 26858. Former owners' inscriptions on front endpapers and title page of The Death of Cain for Samuel Worrall (1806) and Lydia Worrall (1809). Extremely scarce. The Death of Cain lacks final 20 pages (pp. 99-119); otherwise in Good Condition: cover is worn; lacking 3x2 cm. of frontispiece; pp. xi-xii is detached but present; lower corner of pp.… Read More

Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Co, 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. lxxv, [1], 956 p.; 26 cm. Contemporary full sheep with five spine compartments between slightly raised bands. Black leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Worcester's Dictionary. Marbled endpapers. Walker's Key has special title page; continuously paginated. Copyrighted 1846. Former owner's name on blank leaf following front free endpaper: Ellen M. Bullen. In Very Good Condition: leather is somewhat rubbed with minor scrapes; chipping to edges of leather spine label; scattered foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1829. Hardcover. Very Good. The Ninth Edition, Revised and Improved. viii, 184 p.; 18 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine label. Inclues index. The author, James Ross (1743-1827), was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He headed a grammar school in Carlisle, Pa., from 1780 to 1784, when he became the first faculty member of the newly founded Dickinson College. In 1792 he left Dickinson to established a school for classical learning in Chambersburg, Pa., where he wrote his popular Latin Grammar. He was professor of languages at Franklin College in Lancaster, Pa. from 18081 to 1809, when he moved to Philadelphia, where he continued to tutor students for the rest of his life. In Very Good Condition: lacking front free endpaper; closed 4-cm. tear from fore-edge of pp. 21-22; occasional soiling; light foxing; occasional marginal pencil mark; otherwise, clean and tight.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Anglais, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Nouvelle Edition. [24], 264 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. 19th-century repair of joints with dark brown linen; later repair of front joint with white linen. Small bookplate of the Lynn Public Library on front fixed endpaper; "Rules and Regulations" of the Lynn Free Public Library on front free endpaper. Embossed stamp of the Lynn Free Public Library on the French title page, which has on its verso a small label reading "Lynn Library Association, No. 224." A very scarce edition (3 copies on WorldCat) of this popular advice book by John Gregory (1724-1773), with parallel English and French texts. Much of Gregory's advice to his daughters paints a vivid picture of the lives of girls and women in comfortable circumstances in late 18th-century England; some advice is just as accurate today: "Do not marry a Fool." In Good Condition: loss of most leather over spine; old… Read More