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Paris: Librairie L. Hachette, 1862 - 1868. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � cxvi, 502 pgs Vol 2 � 530 pgs. Vol 3 � 572 pgs. Vol 4 � 514 pgs. Vol 5 � 596 pgs. Vol 6 � 660 pgs. Vol 7 � 538 pgs. Vol 8 � 695 pgs. Vol 9 � 644 pgs. Vol 10 � 583 pgs. Vol 11 � 488 pgs. Vol 12 � 572 pgs. Album � Unpaginated. Text in French.5 x 9 in. Album 7 x 10 in. Album has B&W and color illustrations.Chocolate-brown half morocco with shiny marbled boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. 5 raised bars on spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt upper text block. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; Very tight, clean copies, leather, gilding and boards remarkably like new, clean and bright. Small David B. Ogden book plate on front paste down. Foxing to side and bottom of text block. Not all pages cut. Slight foxing to title pages and frontis. A few corners bumped, but most remarkably clean. Album has small faded spot to boards on cover, and slight wear to edges.

England: Thomas Farmer at Strawberry Hill, 1763-1771. First edition, second state. Hardcover. Very Good +. 7 x 9 in. Contemporary red morocco with gilt titles and spine decorations. Marbled endpapers. First edition, second state, with numerous engraved plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; all hinges are solid with no tenderness. Covers have some wear to edges, vol. 4 has some more wear to the lower corners. Spine labels have some chips, loss to lower part of vol. 3, loss to all of vol. 4. Bindings tight and text very clean and bright. All have the engraved bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp on the front pastedown. A very nice set. Art. RGR.

Pekin [Beijing] China: Jung Pao Chai Hsin Chi, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. Accordion-fold binding. With original printed sheet in French. Condition is Very Good; Covers and illustrations are very clean, one fold is cleanly split, so book is in 2 pieces, easy repair. RRGR

New York: Cramps, 1976. First Edition. Very good. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Original carbon-copy on translucent onion-skin paper watermarked "Esleeck Clearcopy Onion Skin 25% cotton". Not a Xerox or print. Total text reads " This will certify that at today's date the following people have formed a rock band and have exclusive rights to the name: "The Cramps" Gregory Beckerleg (Bryan Gregory) 177 East 90th Street Apartment #3 New York N.Y. 10028 - Erick Purkhiser (Lux Interior) 322 East 73rd Street Apartment 12 New York, N.Y. 10021 - Kristy Wallace (Poison Ivy) 322 East 73rd Street Apartment 12 New York, N.Y. 10021 - Dated in New York, this 15th day of April, 1976. Mailed by registered mail to: 322 East 73rd Street Apartment 12 New York, N.Y. 10021. Condition is Very Good; light horizontal crease where it was once folded, one corner dog-eared, tiny tan spot at top edge. No holes, tears etc. RRGR

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 7 x 10 in. 400 pp. Green cloth boards. Limited edition of 770 copies, signed by both Rawlings and Wyeth on the limitation pg. In the original chemise and partial slipcase. Condition of the book is NEAR FINE ; covers extremely bright, clean and fresh. No shelf wear. Binding tight. Color pictoral endpapers and text are spotless. The chemise and slipcase are sunned and worn with a bit of the spine label gone on one side. Both are mildly toned. Very nice copy. NCW. RGR. ETS.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields., 1864. first edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 8 vo. Octavo. 328 pp. First edition. Original publisher's plum PD cloth. List of Thoreau's books with prices, 22 pp publisher's catalog dated April 1864, last leaf advertising the Thirteenth Volume. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden...." Brown coated endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers extremely clean. Edges and spine moderately sunned. Minimal wear to corners, spine ends have some slight wear with a few teensy chips. Binding tight. Text extremely bright, clean and unmarked. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown, printed with a scene of a woman on a porch, a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20113. Phil. Rare. RGR.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields., 1865. first edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8 vo. Octavo. 252 pp. First edition. Original publisher's green BD cloth. BAL binding A. Publisher's 22 pp catalog dated December 1864. List of Thoreau's books with prices facing the title pg. Blindstamped wreaths on covers with borders. Gilt spine titles with "Author of Walden...." Brown coated endpapers. Condition is NEAR FINE ; covers extremely clean and bright, spine not sunned. Minimal wear to corners, spine ends have some tiny worn spots, spine head has a tiny clean tear. Binding tight. Text extremely bright, clean and unmarked. Bookplate of an earlier collector on front pastedown, printed with a scene of a woman on a porch, a book on her lap and sailboats in the distance. BAL 20115. Phil. Rare. RGR.

Frankfurt am Main/ Dresden und Leipzig/ Frankfurt und Leipzig, Chemnitz: Georg Heinrich Oehrling/ Johann Christoph Mieth/ August Boetius, Bey Conrad Stosseln, 1693, 1701, 1712, 1706. Hardcover. Very good. 4 x 6 3/4 inches. Four occult books bound in one early 18th c. full calf binding. All 4 texts are in German. Ingebern [1701] 2 facing engraved frontis, title page, 208 pages, includes 22 engraved plates of palms - von May [1712], engraved frontis facing title page, 197 pages + Register (8 pages), includes 15 engraved palates of palms and faces - Math [1693], Title page, 12 page foreword, 144 pages, 3 plates and several charts - Schmidt [1706], engraved frontis, title page, 3 page introduction signed J.G.S., one page 'explanation', 8 page Foreword, 144 pages of text, 10 x 12 inch folded woodcut at page 124. Condition is Very Good; old ink list on ffep, binding is tight, leather scuffer on covers. Ingebern; light to moderate toning to text pages, light toning to plates, von May; text pages very… Read More

Vienna / Wien: Musicalische-Typographische Gesellschaft, 1793. Hardcover. Very good. 7 x 9 inches. [6], 88 pages of text, followed by 'Noten-Beispeile zu Kirnberger's Grundsatze des General Basses in Drei Abtheilungen - three sections of music 13, 18 & 15 pages in length, [2]. Text in german. No date, circa 1793. Period binding, half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt decoration on spine, red leather spine label. Condition is Very Good; moderate wear to spine edges and corners, boards rubbed, it looks like someone has gone over some of the printed title page in black ink, text pages have light to moderate toning, pencil underlining and marginal lines on about a dozen pages of text, music pages are not toned and are unmarked, but have light water-stains on upper 1/3 of pages, binding is tight. RRGR

Washington DC: United Staes Government Printing office, 1880-1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Each volume 6 x 9 inches. Half red morocco binding over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges of text blocks also marbled. Series II is complete in 8 volumes, series III is complete in 5 volumes and series IV is complete in 3 volumes + Index volume for the whole opus. Series I is missing the following volumes: Vol. 11, part 2, Vol. 17, part 1, Vols. 21, 33, 46, 53, no volumes present, Vol. 37, part 2, Vol. 38, parts 2, 3, + 4, Vol. 40, part 1, Vol. 41, part 1, Vol. 45, part 2, Vol. 47, parts 1 + 2. Condition is Very Good; most of the books are very good with mild edge wear, bindings are all tight, text pages are all very clean and unmarked, 12 volumes have water damage with darked areas of leather and rippled boards, text pages are not affected, 2 volumes are missing small pieces of leather at top of spine. This is obviously a very heavy set of books which would incur additional shipping… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 6 x 9 in. 422 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt Harper's symbol. Stated first edition in first state jacket. Copyright pg has the date and first edition, with no number line. First state jacket with the exclamation point after Latin America. Not price-clipped, $7.95. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean. Corners and spine ends bumped with minor wear. Spine is moderately cocked. Binding tight. Text very clean with no markings of any kind. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped, very clean. Spine mildly sunned. Edges have wear and chips, small closed tear at front spine head. Slight loss to rear lower corner. In a new Mylar wrapper. Fic. RGR.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920. first edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 8 in. 180 pp. Orange cloth boards with blue tiles and color plate. Color endpapers. Inscribed by Lofting on the half title pg, in black ink, dated 1921, Westport. Condition of book is GOOD ; both hinges are started, with muslin exposed but holding. Covers have wear and some surface loss to the blue. Corners and spine ends worn. Small tear ar rear spine head. PO's small stamp on front pastedown, Gift inscription on 2nd blank endpaper. 14 pgs of early text have some mild spots. Chil. RGR.

Paris: Fernand Mourlot, 1964. limited edition. Paperback. Very good +. 8 x 10 in. Paper wraps. Original litho dust wrapper by Marc Chagall. Original lithos by Picasso, Matisse, Calder, Miro and many more. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Limited edition of 2000. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, spine moderately toned, minor edge wear, a touch more to spine head. Binding tight. Gift message dated 1966 on second blank, text and plates very clean with no markings. Art. RGR.

Pittsburgh PA: Privately printed, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 X 9 inches. 390 pages. Green cloth with bevelled edges. With the original blueprint map of the route at rear. Tipped-in on rear endpaper is is a mimeographed typed transcription of a letter from Johnston to Col. Thomas B. Kennedy dated Nov. 6, 1904. In it he recounts the several episodes in the book where they had encountered each other in California, at the end of the letter he says he printed 217 copies to give to friends and that this copy to Kennedy would be one of his last. Tipped into the rear pastedown is another typed transcription of a letter dated May 15 '49, from W.T. Kennedy to E. Wilkins Davidson Philadelphia, it recounts his journey from Missouri to California as he set out to catch up with Joseph and Thomas Kennedy (presumed relatives) and ends as the finally meet up in California. The book was kept in the family- it has the bookplate of Moorhead C. Kenndy III on front pastedown. He is the great grandson of… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. first edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 8 vo. xl, 647 pp. First edition, second issue with hand-colored plates and the omitted index on female circumcision. Rebound c. 1900 in crimson morocco with red cloth, marbled endpapers and matching marbled text edges. All plates, maps present. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; joints excellent, leather has some mild toning at edges and spine, surface wear at edges. Mild wear to corners, some mild chips at spine tail. Binding tight. Plates all extrenmely clean and bright, frontis retains the tissue, which is in perfect state. Text very clean and bright with no markings. Exploration. RGR.