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London: Charles J. Skeet, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (6),384,(2)pp. Red cloth embossed in blind and in gilt on the spine and upper board. Nicely rebacked with most of the original spine laid on. A very good appearance with the gilt bright. With the bookplate of the Reginald George Hennessey Chess Library on the front pastedown. .
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Chess & Chess-Players: Consisting of Original Stories and Sketches
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Campaigns of General Custer in the North-West and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull
by Walker, Judson Elliott
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New York: Jenkins & Thomas, Printers, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 8vo. 139pp followed by ads. Printed wraps. 7 plates as called for. The rear wrap repeats the plate of Sitting Bull. Wraps somewhat soiled and with old tape reinforcement within and without, else this is a very good copy. Owner's name in pencil. Howes W40, Luther High Spot 138, Graff 4513.
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Printers on Morris
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Beaverton, Oregon: Beaverdam Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Woodcut Frontispiece by Barry Moser.. Miniature Book, 2¼ by 3 inches. From of total edition of 326 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies finely printed letterpress on handmade paper and bound in full leather. Morris designed "Brother Rabbit" endpapers. It is signed by the editor, printer, and artist, and is accompanied by an extra copy of the frontispiece signed by Moser. This is letter M. A fine copy. .
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The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne; Wooton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson..
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Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist.. 8vo. (6),x,631,(5) pp. plus 6 inserts. Full morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Gilt "I.W." within oval frame on the upper board. Inner dentelles wit simple gilt lines, Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt in the rough, Six copperplate engravings and ten line block drawings. One of 1600 numbered copies, This is no. 667. This is a near fine copy, with only traces of wear. While most copies of this title exhibit a sunned and/or darkened spine, this copy is neither sunned nor darkened. Bookplate of Carlos Nestler on the front pastedown. In publisher's marbled paper slipcase which exhibits wear at the corner and edges. Nonesuch Bibliography,. 61.
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Design and Construction of Pan American Highway Historical Monograph Volume II: Plates and Appendices
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Los Angeles, CA: U. S. Engineer Office, 1946. Wraps. Good. Oblong folio. 37 black and white maps and charts showing sections of the propsed and existing sections of the highway through Guatemala to Panama. This is the plate volume only, no text. Printed paper wraps bound with rivets. The item has been folded once vertically with wear and loss to the covers. The maps have age toning but are mostly in very good condition, the vertical crease being more a bend on the maps than a crease. The size is 10 by 15 inches; some maps are larger and are folded at the right edges to fit. Only a good copy, but very scarce.
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Italy, in its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival, Being an Exact Survey of the Whole Geography and History of That Famous Country ...
by Warcupp, Richard
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London: Printed by S. Griffin, et al., 1660. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. (vi), (328), (8)pp. Engraved frontispiece and two double page spreads of maps and vignettes. Lacks leaf B2, the Preface to the Reader, and one page misbound, else this is a very good copy in a fine later full crimson leather binding, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers. Includes not only Italy but also Sicily and Malta, and with a special section on Rome. A translation of Franciscus Schottus, "Itinerarum Nobiliorum Italiae Regionum". ESTC R14486.
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The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, Compleat; Or, The Republican Unmask'd ...
by Ward, Edward, attrib
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London: B. Bragge, 1707. Hardcover. Very good. Sixth edition. (ii),i-x,11-104;(iv);55pp. Engraved frontispiece of a Description of the Calves-Head Club. Contemporary full leather in a Cambridge-style binding tooled on the boards in panels. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands. Black leather lettering label, gilt. Old, neat hinge repairs, light wear to corners and spine tips, some old marginal notes, else a very good copy. Also includes 'A Vindication of the Royal Martyr, King Charles I' by Samuel Butler, and 'The True Presbyterian Without Disguise' by Sir John Denham, Knight. ETSC T2721. The Calves Head Club was formed in derision of the memory of King Charles I. It fell out of favor after the Restoration. ESTC T2721.
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Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum
by Warner, George F., and Henry J. Ellis, eds.
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London: James Maclehose & Sons, Publishers to the University, 1903. Only edition. Hardcover. Very good. Vol. I: William I - Richard I. All published. Folio. 50 full page plates of charters, with 77 pp. of text. Original cloth, well worn at the head and tail of the spine and at the corners, else a very good copy with fine plates.
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The History of English Poetry from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century
by Warton, Thomas;, Richard Price
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London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1824. Hardcover. Very good. This is the second edition of Warton, considerably enlarged and annotated by Richard Price. 4 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary hald red leather, spines in six compartments, gilt titles, marbled sides and endpapers in a stone pattern. Top edges gilt. The leather is rubbed, worn at the edges and corners, and unevenly sunned, but still very good textblocks in a good and pleasant binding. Frontispiece engraving of Warton is present, offset to the title page of Volume I. An academically noteworthy edition of Warton's worn, because the editor, Richard Price, makes the first mention of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight then recently discovered in the Cotton Nero manuscript. IN addition, this edition contains a significant number of Arthurian Romances, also discussed by Price in his substantial Preface, his three Dissertations, and in his copious Notes. AS tantalizing as rthe mention of Gawain and the Green Knight is, Green was not able to manage…
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Taliesin and the Mockers
by Watkins, Vernon
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Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2004. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Glenys Cour.. Square folio. Unpaginated. Blue and white covers incorporating imagery by the artist. Black endpapers. Finely printed on Fabriano Tiziano with Omega typeface. Illustrated with collage images made from blocks made at the press. With a dedication by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and an afterword by Gwen Watkins. A fine copy in a find clamshell case. The prospectus is laid-in. The main edition is 225 copies, but this is one of 26 special copies signed by Gwen Watkins and Glenys Cour. It is also a unique copy inscribed: "a copy for Gwen Watkins of a special edition of 26 copies for sale in which the artist has added painted gold to all the images. " .
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The Historic King Arthur and the Arthurian Romances
by Webb, Albert E.
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Glastonbury: n.p., 1955. Unpublished manuscript. Fine. Unpublished manuscript. 200pp. written in ink on one side only, bound with cord into a light board cover. 7-1/2 x 9'. The manuscript, entirely in Webb's legible hand, contains a preface 'To the Critic'; a foreword by Albert C. R. Carter, King Arthur's Champion, Knights of the Round Table Club (est. 1720); the main textual sections divided into The Historic King Arthur and The Arthurian Romance; and four appendices: King Arthur's Grave at Glastonbury; Royal Pilgrimages to King Arthur's Tomb; Tintagel and Camelot; and King Arthur and Glastonbury. Laid in are three letters by Webb dated April, 1955, and addressed to Gerald Henderson, Deputy Knight Remembrancer of the Knights of the Round Table Club. In the letters, Webb transmits the manuscript, indicating that he has kept a copy and hoping that it might be published. Albert E. Webb was a printer and longtime resident of Glastonbury, whose published works include 'Glastonbury in Ynyswytryn (Isle of…
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Fore-Edge Painting: A Historical Survey of a Curious Art in Book Decoration
by Weber, Carl J.
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Irvington-on-Hudson: Harvey House, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Tan cloth, gilt opine. 4to. 223pp. Illustrated and with tipped-in color plates, all of fore-edge paintings. In fine condition. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a couple of tape remnants on the flaps, else is in near fine condition. One of the definitive works on the subject. Laid-in is a prospectus for the Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting as well as Jeff Webber's 2006 catalog devoted to fore-edge paintings. .
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Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, In the Years 1828, 29, 30, Performed in H. M Sloop Chanticleer, Under the Command of the Late Captain Henry Foster
by Webster, W. H. B.
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London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 2 volumes. 8vo. xi,(1)399,(1); v-viii,398. Five engraved plates: Teneriffe, Port Cook, South Shetland, Cape Horn and Ascension. Two maps. The map in volume I shows the track of HMS Chanticleer; the folding map in Volume II shows The Isthmus of Darien, now Panama. Contemporary half calf by W. Adams. Spines in six compartments, gilt, with red and green lettering labels, gilt; Marbled paper bnoard and endpapers. Top edges gilt. A fine set with only traces of rubbing and aging. Hill II, 612; Sabin 102429. .
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The Land of Long Ago: A Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty
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London: Ernest Nister, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. Red cloth spine, paper over boards, the rear boards plain but the upper board with a chromolithograph of Humpty Dumpty and the nursery rhyme characters portrayed as children. Patterned endpapers. Six large chromolithographed full page pull-down pop-up scenes in tiers and delicately die-cut, depicting Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss-in-Boots, The Old Woman in the Shoe and Beauty and the Beast. Edges worn and covers rubbed, some fingering soil to the text, a couple of corners creases to the pop-ups but a very nice copy. Neat gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1899.
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Washington as a Child. A Picture-Book for American Boys
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Philadelphia: John Weik, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 8vo. Printed pictorial boards. 4, 16pp plus 6 unnumbered leaves of plates. The illustrations are printed in black and ochre and then hand-colored. Spine nearly perished else a very good copy. Ownership inscription dated 1860. The date of publication is taken from the Preface. .
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Penny Decalomanias and Other Transfer-Picture Lithographs for the Amusement of Children
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Trenton, NJ: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Stapled wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Green stiff printed wraps. 11pp plus (9)pp. with tipped-in 'decalomanias'. Also laid in are two additional decal sheets titled 'Novelty! Transfer Picture-Album' One of 50 copies; probable only edition. Inscribed by the author on the inside of the front cover: "Presented to Oliver Westling. 1936." Small closed repaired marginal tear to the front wrapper else in fine condition with fine examples of the decalomanias. The laid-in Novelty sheet is in good condition only.
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The Illustrated Book
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 31400. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and both upper and lower boards; upper edge gilt. Illustrated and with a full color frontispiece. Limited edition; 210 copies of which 200 were for sale. This is copy No. 208 and is a Review Copy with slip laid-in and also the card of Karl Küp from the Spencer Collection. A fine copy. The slipcase is lightly worn at edges and the lettering label is chipped else it is in very good condition.
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I Left My Grandfather's House
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London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Leslie Jones. Folio. Unpaginated. Suede spine, cover of offset printing on linen after a watercolor by Denton Welch, with gilt title. Pictorial endpapers .Illustrations in both black and white and color. Frontispiece portrait. One of 200 numbered copies of which this is No. 113. Light foxing to the foredge and first two pages else near fine.In publisher's double slipcase (light abrasion from removal of a sticker on the rear).
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An Outline of Humor
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New York and London: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1932. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo., 782pp. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Fore edge has a couple of spots, else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is darkened along the spine with chipping along the top and bottom. It is price-clipped. Alberto Vargas' copy with h is signature on the title page, and again on the dedication poage (with place and date) and finally again on the rear free endpaper. Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, and became the noted painter of pin-up girls. His early career in New York included being the artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and achieving fame as the creator of the Vargas Girls. He later worked for Esquire Magazine and finally for Playboy. A chronicle of humor from the prehistoric times to the twentieth century. .
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Tales of Space and Time
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London: Harper and Brothers, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Beige cloth printedin gilt and deep red on the spine and upper board. Spine a little darkened, light wear to the tips and edges, else this is a very good copy. There are reports that this title was actually printed in 1899, in spite of the 1900 imprint. Two page publisher's catalogue in the rear. Bookplates on the front free endpaper and on the front pastedown. Wells BIbliography #16. .
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