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VG/G+ name ffep, dj edgewear w/ several small chips, G dj photos Dial Press NY 1950 1st hardcover 8vo, 192pp, Amusing and thought provoking book examines various animals and just how smart and "human" they are. Great photos!

Good+ Rosenmeyer&Gale illus JF Taylor & Co NY 1901 1st hardcover 8vo, 327 pages + ads, b+w illustrations, decorated cover, top edge gilt. Decorated pictorial cover rubbed at extremities. Spine titling and decoration worn. Name inked on front endpaper. Light foxing inside covers. Solid and otherwise clean.

VG, no dj William van Dresser illus Fiction Harper New York 1913 1st Hardbound 8vo, 70 pp, b+w frontis illus, paste on pictorial cover Name inked inside front cover. A few spots to interior. Solid.

VG/G, Good dj Sammie A Abbott illus Humor Dragon Press Ithaca, NY 1932 Limited Ed. Hardbound 8vo, 70 pp, b+w illustrations "A humorous novel in the best surrealiste tradition." Limited to 500 copies. Private bookplate inside front cover. Browning/light soiling inside covers and to endpapers. Dustjacket with shallow edge chipping and a small internal chip to the spine. Clean and solid with dj in protective cover.

Near Fine/VG+ Crescent Books NY 1977 reprint hardcover 8vo, 252 pages + index, selected bibliography, 165 illustrations. Clean solid bright copy.

VG+/VG+ condition Gambit Inc Boston 1971 1st printing hardcover 8vo, 196 pages, bibliography, b+w photos. Nice bright tight clean copy.

VG+/VG-condition Delacorte Press NY (1992) reprint hardcover 8vo, 370 pages. A V.I. Warshawski novel. Light edgewear to dustjacket with faint remains of price erasure on front free endpaper.

Good Samuel T Armstrong Boston 1813 1st hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, foldout map, subscriber list, leather binding. A geographical description of all the countries, kingdoms, nations and tribes with villages, towns, cities, provinces, hills, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas and islands mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures, or Apochrypha including an account of the religion, government, population, fulfillment of prophicies and conditions of the most important places. Leather binding.Foldout map. Binding is rubbed; pages foxed. The front endpaper is pulling away at the bottom half and there is old dampstaining at the outside bottom corner of the preliminary pages inlcuding map reverse and title page. Spine label chipped at right edge. There are 2 dime sized chips in spine leather. Names inside front cover and name pencilled on front endpaper. Map has 2 short closed tears; otherwise it's Very Good. Front hinge is tender, but solid.

Good American Geographical Societ NY 1930 2nd ptg hardcover Large 8vo, 289 pages, b+w illustrations, maps inlcuding foldouts, index, appendices. Special publication #10 of AGS edited with an introduction by James A Williamson. Private bookplate inside front cover. Name and 1937 date inked on front endpaper. Light extremity wear and rear cover soiling; inside covers foxed. Spine darkened. Solid.

VG just some soiling at top page edge George A Dowling illus Metropolitan Press Portland 1931 1st hardcover 8vo, 292pp, 300 years of the history of the north Pacific coast from 1543 to passage of the 1st wagon train through to the Colum On the old Oregon Trail in 1843. Nice black and white illustrations and decorations.

Good+/no dustjacket Edwin Valentine Mitchell Hartford 1922 1st hardcover 8vo, 223 pages, b+w illustrations. A collection of essays mostly first appearing in the Hartford Courant. Light cover soiling and light random foxing. Private bookplate inside front cover. Name and 1922 date inked on front endpaper.

Very Good plus book; Very Good minus dustjacket Gambit Boston 1973 1st printing hardcover 8vo, 348 pages, b+w photos, index, chapter notes. "...the ideas and assumptions that governed six major novelists in the period between 1870 and 1940 when novelists were disposed to approach their work consciously and conscientiously. " Previous owner's bookseal impressed on title page. DJ with some light rubbing and light edgewear.

VG various photographers Donald Wright Patterson, jr. Oberlin 1962 softcover 8vo, unpaginated, b+w photos. Content includes an editorial on the future of photographic books; socialist realism in photography by Sergei Morozov and Whitney Smith jr.; Africa by Robert Simmons; "The New York I Know" by Marya Mannes with photos by Herb Snitzer; book reviews including Railroad Men by Simpson Kalisher; Steichen the Photographer and The Day Books of Edward Weston: Volume One, Mexico reviewed by Ansel Adams. Rear cover is an Ansel Adams photo. Light cover wear; otherwise solid and clean.

Good condition Thomas Whittaker NY 1894 1st assumed hardcover 8vo, 63 pages, b+w illustrations. Religious story of a young girl. Christmas 1894 gift inscription front free endpaper. Some soiling and foxing to covers.

VG/no dustjacket Stanley Paul & Co London no date early hardcover 8vo, 314 pages, frontis and 16 b+w illustrations, index, appendix. Biography of the beautiful 19th century diva and actress. Light foxing to endpapers and light spotting/rubbing to covers. Undated, circa 1920.

Good/Good Harper & Bros NY (1950) early reprint hardcover 8vo, 84 pages, index, photos references. Great personalities of the stage including Forbes-Robertson, the Irvings, Granville-Barker, etc. with photos from the Mander & Mitchenson Theatre collection. Faint old dampstain binding extremities, no interior evidence. Dustjacket with browning and edgewear. Protected in Brodart.

VG/G illus by author Junior Literary/McBride NY 1934 1st hardcover 8vo, 270 pages, b+w illustrations, pictorial endpapers, foldout map. 1935 gift inscription pencilled on half title page. Dustjacket worn at extremities with a 1" chip at spinehead and several small chips at extremities. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

G+ some shelf wear and light fading b+w plates Fleming H. Revell NY (1914) hardcover 8vo, 306pp. Solid and clean with small cover and spine decorations.

VG/ no dj's Houghton Mifflin Boston 1927 1st hardcover 8vo, 532 + 490 pp, color frontis, b+w illustrations, index, appendices, top edge gilt. Vol I has light cover rubbing and a 1/4" ding mid spine; Vol II has light cover rubbing. Clean and solid.

Good+/Good+, Good+ dj Fiction Grosset & Dunlap New York (1919) Reprint Hardbound 8vo, 331 pp + ads circa 1920s reprint. Light extremity wear and foxing at fore edge. Dustjacket has shallow chipping at spine head and 1 1/2" chip at spine base. Solid with dj bright in protective cover.