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pp. viii, 213 +Plus marginal illustrations printed in black and red. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's beige cloth binding lettered in black and decorated with red hearts and a green crest. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Cover is clean and colors are bright. Spine soiled slightly. Corners bumped. Titled page printed in black and red. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very good. NW60
pp. 330 +Plus 4 leaves of plates including frontis. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full green cloth binding decorated in white, dark green and gilt. Spine lettered a decorated similarly. Color on cover is slightly rubbed. Spine soiled. Corners frayed and bumped slightly. Contents clean and binding tight. Hardbound. Very Good. Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) was a British born novelist and teacher, who moved to the U.S. shortly after her marriage in 1850. NW59
pp. iv, 393 +plus color frontis. 8vo. 210mm. Striking lavender cloth binding with cover design stamped in silver gilt and white with a S.H. Monogram. Spine also stamped in gold gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine very lightly faded. Pages uncut and text within a typographic frame. Heads and notes in red. Front flyleaf excised. Slight soiling to front cover. A clean, tight binding. Hardbound. Very Good. NW68
pp. 256. 12mo. 190mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding decorated with dark green, red and color illustration. Illustration by T.E. Christy depicts two women looking serenely at a ring on one lady's finger. Cover colors are crisp. Spine lettered and decorated in dark green and red with rose design. Corners bumped. Paper browned and brittle. Gift inscription 'A Merry Christmas to Melvina from Lena Dec. 25, 1918' Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. NW58
pp. 120 +Plus 4 plates of color illustrations and marginal illustrations in blue-green. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full yellow cloth binding with black lettering and green, white, and gilt candle decoration. Spine lettered in black. Cover color is good. Gilt is bright. Spine mildly faded. Corners slightly bumped. Manuscript ownership on inside flyleaf of 'Alexander Hamilton'(?) Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and author who excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance. NW60
pp. 382. 8vo. 200 mm. Original publishers pictorial cloth binding in red, brown, black, white green and gilt. The English Edition. All plates present. Some pages missing chucks from margin. Hardbound. Very good. NW65
128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
pp. 339. 12mo. 180mm. Publisher's green cloth binding with cover stamped in white and black decorated with a woman standing in front a table with the items spilling off of it. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Color bright on cover. Spine color rubbed some. Corners bumped. Hardbound. Very Good. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857-1948) was a prominent and prolific American author. NW59
pp. 328 +Plus 8 leaves of plates. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's pictorial full red cloth binding lettered in white and decorated with a white and black illustration of an Indian pipe. Front cover brilliant. Spine ruled in black lettered in blind. Corners mildly bumped. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Charles King (1844-1933) was an American soldier and a distinguished writer. Born in Albany, NY King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson of Columbia University president Charles King, and great grandson of Rufus King, who was one the signers of the United States Constitution. He graduated from West Point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He was wounded in the arm and head during the Battle of Sunset Pass forcing his retirement from the regular army as a captain in 1879. During this time he became acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody. King would later write scripts for several of Cody's silent films. He also served in the Wisconsin National Guard from 1882 until 1897, becoming Adjutant General in 1895. Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the American Old West, specifically concentrating on scenes from the last quarter of the 19th century, and featuring images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry. Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942) was a painter and a sculptor. His active career of painting and illustrating took him repeatedly to the lands of the Blackfoot, Crow, and Sioux, as well as to Arizona and New Mexico. After the turn of the century, Deming devoted more time to sculpture but also began work on a series of romantic murals of Indian life, which were subsequently installed in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian in New York. First edition. NW62
pp. 58 unnumbered pages +Plus 19 pages of color plates and marginal decorations in pink. 12mo. 230mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding lettered in gilt and decorated in light green, red, and color illustration of a woman. Spine lettered in gilt and decorated similarly. Cover is clean and color is rubbed and faded. Spine rubbed. Corners bumped. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the 'Hoosier Poet' and 'Children's Poet' for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include 'Little Orphan Annie' and 'The Raggedy Man'. Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952)was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the 'Christy Girl' -a colorful and illustrious successor to the 'Gibson Girl' -who became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age era. NW60
pp. 68. 12mo. 150mm. Original publisher's pictorial paper covered boards lettered in red and decorated with a holly design. Cover designed by Edward Stratton Holloway with his monogram. Spine blank. Cover gilt. Spine worn. Some wear to bottom edge of cover board. Original glassine dust jacket present but torn with some loss. Title page printed in green and red. Corners worn. Contents clean but coming away from the binding. Hardbound. Very Good. Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. NW63
Hardcover with dusjacket, 220 pages, Size:175 x 260 mm, Illustrations:94 b/w, 62 col. fine!. ISBN 9780905203805. The central theme of Rubens?s paintings is the human figure, often represented nude or partially clothed and involved in dramatic action. As a history painter, Rubens?s acclaimed skill in rendering the human body whether male or female, lean or fleshy, mature in years or young, animated or lifeless, vigorous or diseased, heroic or cowering, sensuous or decrepit, idealised or blemished and imperfect enabled him to vie with the greatest artists ever known, while creating increasing demand for his work among Europe?s intellectual, cultural, religious and political lite. His mastery in depicting human figures and their dynamic movements suggests that he followed the example of Leonardo da Vinci (1452?1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475?1564) and other Italian artists he admired, who made extensive studies of human anatomy. As pointed out by two recent perceptive scholars, however, the robust, muscular male nudes in action who appear in so many of Rubens?s narrative paintings are often anatomically inaccurate. Moreover, and as will become clear in this volume, Rubens?s approach to anatomical study was not closely similar to that of any of his forbears. In many respects his ways of working are comparable to those of Michelangelo, who used the knowledge he acquired through dissection not to pursue verisimilitude but to invent the anatomy of his figures according to his own idea of physical beauty, strength and expression. Yet unlike Italian Renaissance artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Alessandro Allori (1535?1607), Rubens did not perform or witness dissections and seems to have rarely studied from the live nude model. What, then, was the nature and extent of Rubens?s study of human anatomy? The present volume will offer an answer to that question, while also establishing when and where most of his anatomical works were made and reassessing the issue of their intended purpose.
377 p. Plus frontis. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped in gilt with color illustration, gilt on spine. Slight fading of spine. A clean and tight example. 8vo. 200mm. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
pp. 283 +Plus 1 frontis and head/tailpiece decorations. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's pictorial full green cloth binding lettered in cream and decorated in brown, black, and peach. Cover has floral decorations framing an older woman sitting working on a piece of fabric. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Cover colors are bright but board lightly faded. Spine faded. Some wear to base and head of spine. Corners bumped. Slight Fading to rear board near top edge. Manuscript ownership of 'W.T. Llehuff, Glen Rock PA' on inside pastedown. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Eliza Caroline 'Lida' Obenchain, (1856-1935) was an American author, women's rights advocate, and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, 'Aunt Jane', who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south. Beulah Strong (1866-1951) was an artist and illustrator. She Studied at the Academie Julien France from 1887-1892 where she was the classmate of Cincinnati artist Elizabeth Nourseand. She taught art at Potter College in Bowling Green Ky, from 1892-1901 and Smith College as an associate professor of art from 1907-1923. She lived in Italy after she retired, until WWII broke out. She is known for her work on Hall's novels, 'Aunt Jane of Kentucky' and 'Land of Long Ago.' NW62
[ix], 298 +Plus 1 Color Frontispiece. 8vo. 200mm. Handsome publisher's light green full cloth binding with cover design stamped in gilt, green, and white, in a floral pattern. Spine also lettered in gold. Pages uncut and text within an ornate floral typographic frame in green. Corners slightly bumped. Some soiling on cover and spine. Hardbound. Good. NW68
365 pages. Reprint of the 1902 first edition. Black and white illustrations. Above-average wear and soiling with numerous defects and school markings. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this old-time favorite. Book
333p. 8vo. 200mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped in tan, black and red. Spine in black. Clean and tight example. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
pp. 560. 12mo. 210mm. Original publisher's full blue-green cloth binding decorated with dark blue, white, and gilt. Cover illustration is sharp and has a floral pattern in a diamond pattern. Spine lettered in gilt and decorated with similar pattern. Cover clean with good color. Spine rubbed and faded. Corners sharp. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. General Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called 'the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.' NW59
552p. 47 plates. 8vo. 220mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped in orange, light green, and gitl with black and white photograph. Spine in gilt, orange and light green. Top edge gilt also. Clean and tight. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
579p. With 87 plates of illustrations. Czech language edition of Ben Hur. 4to. 270mm. Original publisher's full beige cloth pictorial binding. Cover stamped in blue, black, red, cream, white and gilt. Spine in gilt, white and blue. Publisher's insignia stamped in blind on back cover. Very rare slovak edition from early 20th century. Binding shows a gypsy like woman getting water from a forest fountain. Manuscrpit ownership from 1914. Pages somewhat brittle. Some rubbing on spine, but still an attractive example. Hardbound. Very Good. NW66
100 pages. Features: Possibilities for planting wall gardens - rock walls; Showing civic pride with trees; The proper way to remove branches - photo-illustrated article on pruning trees; The third season in my garden; How shingles help in remodeling; Homes of famous Americans - part XLVI - Lockerbie Street, the home of James Whitcomb Riley; Let's have a fireplace; Nice one-page Johnson's Polishing Was ad features illustration of mother and child waxing floor; Preparing for your garden next year; Nice one-page color ad for Johns-Manville asbestos shingles features illustration of castle under attack; Nice one-page color Congoleum ad; Reader's letters; How proper insulation will help improve the home; Nice one-page ad for the Louisiana Red Cypress Bureau features the birth of New Orleans; A garden for a playmate; Nice one-page ad for 'Say it With Flowers' features George Washington and his mother; Poet Lew Sarrett's prescription for a tired world - with photo of Sarrett; Nice 2/3-page ad for True Temper yard tools; Nice vintage 2/3-page ad for Stanley Tools shows man installing bookrack; Nice 2/3-page ad for Yale door lock hardware; Poultry - a profitable hobby; Nice one-page Montgomery Ward & Co ad for their catalog; Nice 2/3-page ad for Sargent locks and hardware; Budgets for couples; Charming 2/3-page ad for the Wurlitzer Studio Grand piano; Beware of fake music publishers; Building healthy bodies - trees in the yard allow kids to exercise; One-page illustrated ad for the Kalamazoo Stove company; Attractive color ad for Sun-Maid raisins inside back cover; Soiled color ad for Mohawk Rugs on back cover. Above-average wear and soiling. Nibbling to upper corners. Covers detached but present. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
softcover, VI 319 p., 74 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm,Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503529844. In 2006, 500 years after his death, the Royal Library of Belgium organised an exhibition revealing treasures from the era of Philip the Fair (1478-1506), last duke of Burgundy. This volume reunites most of the papers delivered at a conference held during the exhibition, increased with four new chapters. Ten specialists from Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States discuss the book market and its place in society in this transitional period when manuscripts and printed books were produced and used next to one another. The contributions are organised in pairs around five topics, whereby in each case one author treats manuscripts and the other printed books: Philip the Fair and his books, art in books, music in books, politics in books, the book market. Contributions by: Renaud Adam, Jean-Marie Cauchies, Marieke van Delft, Lieve De Kesel, Samuel Mareel, Zoe Saunders, Susie Speakman Sutch, Herman Pleij, Rob Wegman, and Hanno Wijsman.
pp. 99. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full red cloth binding decorated with gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Cover rubbed in places. Spine slightly faded. Corners slightly frayed and spine warn on the top and bottom. This Copy inscribed by the author: To Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin with the author's best Wishes, Robert Bridges'. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. Bookplate of Bernard Conwell Carlitz, with intricate initial letter illustration on the front pastedown. Carlitz was an interesting mid-Century antiquarian bookseller in Philadelphia. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. NW58
267 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "...Gray has described (his family's) wildly differing enterprises with never-failing enthusiasm, good humour and high spirits." - from back cover. Prior owner's name atop title page. Lean to spine. Average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book
pp. 323. 8vo. 190 mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding decorated in yellow, red, black and white. Binding with the monogram of the artist/designer George H. Wood on cover. Hardbound. Very good. The binding is extremely well-preserved and bright. NW65