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LIFE OF PAUL THE FIRST; G.V Tannenberg. Published by Johann Daniel Simon. 414 pp. Sm - 8 °. Red Label. This extremely rare book is one of the earliest biographies of the Russian Tsar Paul I (1754-1801) written by the Russian officer Georg Tannenberg only a few years after Paul's death. The Emperor and ruler of all the Russians, an authentic history of the campaigns of the Russians in Italy, in the Helvetic and Batavian Republic against the French 1804

THE WORKS OF BOOTH TARKINGTON
Seawood Edition Complete set 27 vols
Tarkington, Booth
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York (1922-1932)
Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1922. Hardcover. top page edges gilt, others not trimmed; each volume numbered 254 of 1075; Vol. I signed by the publisher on limitation page, and signed by Tarkington under the portrait frontispiece.
A very handsome set in ½ Maroon Morocco maroon cloth side with richly gilt spines certainly a nice display of a large set.
The Works of Booth Tarkington, Seawood Edition, 27 volumes (1922-1932), contains no first printings. This Seawood Edition was limited to 1,075 numbered and registered copies. Vol. I bears a portrait signed by the author. The volumes were issued originally in blue boards with tan grained linen back with tan paper labels on spine. Both the Autograph Edition and the Seawood Edition were initiated by Doubleday, Page and completed by Doubleday, Doran.
Ref, A Bibliography Of Booth… Read More

QUEEN MARY
Tennyson, Alfred
London, Henry S King & Son.
1875 1st ed
[BINDING] GRABAU Tennyson, Alfred., QUEEN MARY., London, Henry S King & Son. 8vo viii, 278pp [9] Full blue morocco, front cover with elegant on-laid and gilt interlacing floral designs of green leaves and cherries accenting with a Jade cabochon as a center piece, spine gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt titles and date, gilt turn-ins. TEG. Signed [John F] Grabau. in fine condition.
John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul's bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau, Harry Avery, and Charles Youngers. The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted books, furniture, lamps and metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Grabau left Roycroft in… Read More