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New York, New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845-1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 3 volumes bound as one. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, vol. 1: 193 pages; vol. 2: 169; vol. 3: 269 pages; three-quarter leather over marbled boards. A good copy overall, interior generally clean, internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with little foxing overall, BUT a damp stain to the fore-edge margin of one 20-page section, and hinges badly cracked, the exterior is generally worn and rubbed, fore-corners through and many edges through to boards, back strip chipped at all edges with hinges split and loosened. Sold as a good original reading copy only.

Seed Corn, House Organ of the Molehill Press; Chicago, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Small octavo, 7 1/3" tall, approx 64 pages (unpaginated), illustrated red cloth. A very good clean sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear or rubbing at the corners, binding tight. paper cxream white.,

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press/Center for Advance Studies, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Without dust jacket as issued. 18 pamphlets of various lengths + one 8-page explanation signed by Paul Horgan and Phillip Paul Hallie, the set contained in clam-shell red and gray cloth two-part slipcase. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 18 parts, approx 400 pages total, each pamphlet wire saddle stitched, stiff gray wraps. A near fine, clean, neat complete set with little wear, paper cream white, slight oxidation begun to some of the wire stitches. The cloth clamshell case is lightly foxed.

New York, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Good. Limited edition of 1550 copies. Originally published in 1897 by Stone. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 214 pages, top edge gilt. A good+, clean hard cover over all, but with moderate shelf wear and rubbing, paper spine label on quarter cloth rubbed, boards worn through at fore-corners, hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket.

Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, c. 1924. Early Reprint; Special Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A gift edition. A handsome single volume, complete in decorative three-quarter leather, gilt top fore-edge; decorative 5-banded spine, three-quarter dark leather over marbled boards, undated, but apparently issued in the same format for decades. 16mo, 6 1/2" tall; 303 pages; endpapers marbled, fore-edge deckled. In very good clean, neat condition overall with moderate shelf wear (several small edge nicks to the top cover edges; hinges and binding tight, paper clean and light to moderately yellowed, with a previous owner's gift inscript on the front flyleaf, and a touch of foxing to the fore-edge. Shipping overseas will require significant additional postage.