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Monte Carlo: : Editions du Livre, , 1945. . Limited to 1000 numbered copies. . 8vo, . Illustrated with 9 lithographs by Marius Petit. red roan and boards, t.e.g. Extremities lightly rubbed, else fine.

[London]: : Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., , 1930. Limited to 600 numbered copies. 8vo, boards and jacket with printed label, jacket dusty with a few short tears, else very good.

8vo, original purple cloth with gilt vignette, spine faded, spine ends and corners rubbed, names and inscriptions on ffep, sporadic light spotting else very good. Currier p. 126-127. Whittier was a New England Quaker poet who drew early inspiration from Scottish poet Robert Burns. He worked as an editor for the American Manufacturer in Boston and then the New England Weekly Review. A dedicated abolitionist, he spent much of his working life as an activist and champion to the anti-slavery cause. He contributed many works to the Atlantic Monthly (a publication he helped to found). This group of poems include works by his sister Elizabeth H. Whittier.

London: , 1753.. Upper cover detached, label missing to spine, hinges dry and rear hinge starting, previous owners name to title page otherwise a clean copy.. 12mo (14 cm.). ESTC T133931 Separate titles for Samson Agonistes Poems Upon Several Occasions, Londinensis Poemata and A Small Tractate of Education to Mr. Hartlib

Newcastle-upon-Tyne:: Stevenson and Dryden:, 1875-86. 8vo,. Half maroon calf and boards, gilt spine lettering Offsetting to endpapers, first signature loose, generally very good. A series of bound pamphlets: "Some Old Forms of Law: An Historical Sketch";"The Bishop's Raid. With Other Poems" [For Private Distribution]; "Anne Brougham The Centenarian"; "Memoir of Mr. Robert White"; "The Story of Stockton Bridge; with Also, the Canal and the Railroad (Stockton and Darlington); and The Steamboat on the Tyne"; "Abigail l& Timothy Tyzack, and Old Gateshead"; "The Manufacture of Glass in England. Rise of Art on the Tyne"; "John Widdrington of "The Old Bank" and Carlyle of Inveresk"; "The Painter Heugh, Newcastle; and the Wind-Mill"; "William Hutchinson, Merchant Adverntureer"; "William London, Newcastle Bookseller". Many are reprinted from the "Archaeologia Aeliana" of… Read More

San Francisco: American Russian Institute,, 1944.. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes by Giacomo Patri. 81 pp. 4to, boards and printed dust jacket, splitting to jacket at spine ends else very good. Limited to 1500 copies. Compilation of short stories by Dovzhenko, Gorbatov, Tolstoi amongst others.

4to, pictorial cloth and mylar jacket, endpapers alittle spotted, else very good. Inscribed and dated by the author on thefront free endpaper.

Toronto:: The Musson Book Company,, 1910. First Canadian edition. 8vo,. brown pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Spine ends rubbed, endpapers foxed, p. 17. torn, otherwise bright. Cover design by Will Bradley. A scarce Canadian imprint.