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New York: Viking, 1931 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Endpaper maps, folding map (with a split along the fold), and numerous plates with photographic reproductions of the Djuka. Very good in chipped d.j.

London: The Primrose Academy, 1994 First edition. One of 135 copies designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Signed by the illustrator, and by W.E. Butler. Quarter burgundy cloth over decorative boards, in handmade slipcase. . Quarto. Introductory material in English and Russian, ten color wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall wove paper. Fine in fine slipcase.

De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, [1968] First edition, inscribed: "For Jack Everett, from Horace Kallen, with best wishes for a life free in happy laughter and no tears save tears of mirth and gladness. Yom Kippur. 5729. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket. Spine of jacket lightly faded.

Berlin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1800 First edition. Contemporary half calf. Octavo. A few leaves slightly foxed, but a very good copy.

[New York]: Macmillan, [1970] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in lightly soiled d.j.

Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1982] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

[Newark, Vermont: ] Janus Press, 1995 One of 100 copies signed by the author, book designer and publisher Claire Van Vliet, Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson, and the other contributors. . Multi-patterned, cotton cloth over boards in an accordion style binding with variously shaped pages cut and sewed by Audrey Holden. Praise Basted-In has nine squares from family and friends, each with its own greeting card and Sallie's comments. Square octavo. With an eight-page pamphlet bound in at the end with an embossed quilt-design card cover in which is printed information about the book's production and contributors. Title page basted in with lavender crochet thread by Tamar Thorne. Floral card frontispiece tipped in. The patterns on many of the quilt squares are of printers' flowers and borders received from John Anderson of the Pickering Press. The designs within the book were laser printed and some were hand-colored. Praise Basted In has nine squares from family and friends, each with its own greeting cards… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, [1993] First edition, inscribed by the illustrator, with a pen and ink illustration of a shaggy dogg, with a food bowl labeled "Dogg. Pictorial boards. Quarto. Color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

Victoria, Australia: Images, 1996 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations, black and white plans. Light wear at bottom edge. Very good in fine dust jacket. Signed by Richard Keating on the half-title. Edited by Stephen Dobney.

New York: Grolier Club, 1995 One of 225 copies printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The first book in the new Grolier Fine Printing Series. This copy unnumbered.. Bound by Judy Conant in dark blue cloth with light brown morocco spine label titled in gilt. . Octavo. With a mounted frontisportrait of Keats and two other mounted plates (a facsimile of a Keats letter and a map of Keat's tour). Map, calligraphic title, and book design by Jerry Kelly. Printed in Eric Gill's Joanna set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Title-page printed in red and black. A fine copy with the marbled paper and beige cloth slipcase. Prospectus laid in.

London: Thos. Harrild, 1863 First edition. We could not locate much information on Charlotte Elizabeth Keddle (1833 – ?). She helped run a girls' Sunday school in Beaminster, Dorset and used her art sales to raise money for the church, including for the building of St. Peter's Church in Eype. White Apparel seems to be her only published book. . Publisher's white cloth stamped in gilt. Quarto. With a chromolithographed floral title-page and ten chromolithographs of white flowers. Each floral plate is accompanied by a leaf of text from the Bible printed in black and red with gold accents. Foxing to cloth and some rubbing to head of spine. All edges gilt. Some foxing and toning to leaves. One leaf loose (laid in at original position). A good copy of a scarce work. Thomas Harrild (1822 – 1867) was the son of Robert Harrild, co-inventor (with John Baxter) of the composition roller. Thomas, who began his career as a chromolithographer for Joseph Cundall with books like The Two Doves (1845), was a… Read More

London: Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, 1919 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Spine slightly faded, former owner's ink signature. A very good copy.

London: William Pickering, 1852 First edition. Full tan smooth calf, gilt double-ruled covers, gilt-decorated spine with black morocco label, marbled edges. . Small octavo. Spine a bit rubbed, a few light spots on front cover. A very good copy. Mary Kelty (1789-1873) was the daughter of an Irish surgeon. Influenced by the novels of Jane Austen, she published her novel The Favourite of Nature (1821) anonymously, dedicating it to Joanna Baillie. It was favorably received by Harriet Martineau. She followed it with several other novels, but then, after the sudden deaths of her parents, turned to religious pursuits, trying out several sects and going to faith healers. She wrote on Quaker themes in Early Days in the Society of Friends (1840) and Memoirs of the Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Quakers (1844), and explored the workings of religion in individual lives in Facts and Feelings (1841). The present work, her autobiography, was highly regarded.

London: Harvill Press, [1997] First edition in English. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Henry Holt, 1884 First American edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine ends and corners a bit worn, front hinge starting to crack, but cords sound. Old signature on a preliminary blank. A good, clean copy.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863, First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. OCLC records no physical copies of the present edition and seven copies of the London (four in North America). Publisher's light brown cloth titled in gilt. . Spine sunned. Spot of soiling to front board. Contemporary ink gift inscription to front pastedown. Minor occasional foxing. A very good copy of this important anti-slavery memoir. Frances Anne Kemble (1809 – 1893) was an actress, writer, and abolitionist. She was a successful Shakespearean actress before marrying the heir to multiple lucrative plantations (whom she would divorce in 1848). Kemble and her husband moved to Georgia to live on one of the plantations, where Kemble was appalled by the treatment of the enslaved people who worked there. She wrote the present work during the year she lived on the plantation and circulated it informally in abolitionist circles at the time, but protests from her abusive husband prevented her… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, [1979] First edition. Cllothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Hodder and Stoughton [1987] First U.K. edition. Boards. Octavo. Pages beginning to yellow, as usual. Otherwise fine in fine d.j. Inscribed by the author: "Dear Lana--Always--T. Keneally.

[New York: New Directions, 1948] Second edition, with one added poem. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good d.j. Jacket has one neat internal tape repair and some light toning.

New York: HarperCollins, [2001] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.