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193508546New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Octavo. Bound in original black cloth with red printed title labels spine and front cover and pictorial endpapers. A fine copy in a good dust jacket with small piece missing dust jacket spine tip chips short closed tears. 298 pp. Contributions by Frances Lester Warner Ellen Glasgow Rafael Sabatini Gertrude Atherton Havelock Ellis Mary Agnes Hamilton Jeanette Eaton Harold Nicolson Valentine Williams Phyllis Bottome George Fort Milton Edward J. O'Brien Francis Frost Archibald MacLeish Hebert Agar Margaret Ayer Barnes Esther Forbes E. Arnot Robertson James Norman Hall John Livingston Lowes <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
19971151753London: Jonathan Cape 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in brown cloth with pictorial dust jacket VG/VG dust jacket protected by vinyl cover. Boards show little shelf wearboards are straight binding strong. Text block is age toned text clean. Dust jacket has light shelf wear.A scarce first edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Shelved case 2. 1151753. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1986163250Newark Del: University of Delaware 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- Label & few marks from previous library owner; dj has two white labels at the base of the dustjacket spine. Black cloth black & color illus. dust jacket 344 pp. 28 color 459 bw plates. A comprehensive consideration of the work of American wildlife painter Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait 1819-1905. In addition to the 459 bw plates illustrated in the checklist section there are 40 bw reproductions and illustrations within the eight chapters of biographical text. Includes a select bibliography Index to Tait's Career and Title Index to The Checklist. The checklist includes 1557 paintings recorded by Tait in his own register which he kept from 1850 to 1904. Also includes appx. 229 additional works by or thought to be by him. The first 100 pages of the book contain the well-documented biographical section written by Cadbury the rest of the book is the illustrated checklist compiled by Henry F. Marsh. University of Delaware hardcover books
1996291648Spokane.: The Arthur H. Clark Company for the Sonoma Valley Historical Society. 1996. Blue cloth gilt spine title. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. 26x18.5 cm. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.1 lb. The Arthur H. Clark Company for the Sonoma Valley Historical Society. hardcover books
18897620Rochester N.Y.: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co 1889. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22 x cm. 51 1 pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner's patent medicines with the standard elements - ephemeris glowing testimonials illustrated advertisements for the various cures including Warner's Kidney & Liver Safe Cure Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Benton's Hair Grower. The cooking recipes themselves an advertisement for Warner's Safe Cook Book run along the pages as footers. Some advertisements printed on colored paper; small loop for hanging in the kitchen. In a handsome chromolithographed paper wrapper. Fine. OCLC locates six copies; Hoolihan Atwater Collection S-1419. H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co unknown books
192441348St. Louis: Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co. 1924. 8vo 20 cm 7.87". 2 134 pp.; 8 plts. <br><br>New and improved version updated and retitled from a sold-out 1921 booklet: "A handbook for ice-cream makers sodawater bottlers and students taking short courses in Dairying etc." This combination of culinary and scientific information focuses on the technical aspects of manufacture and promotes Red Seal products including flavors colors stabilizing powders and others. The text is => illustrated with eight photographic plates depicting various facilities as well as several in-text depictions of yeasts bacteria etc. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in Bitting; not in Brown Culinary Americana. Publisher's very dark brown textured cloth cover and spine stamped in red; edges and extremities a little rubbed spine sunned. Endpapers lightly foxed; front pastedown with inked ownership inscription from Pullman WA; pages clean. => A solid and nice copy of this expanded edition the first under this title. Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co. hardcover books
1888SB3786Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good . First printing octavo size 346 pp. Charles Dudley Warner 1829-1900 not only was such a close friend with Mark Twain that Twain served as a pall bearer at Dudley's funeral but he co-authored "The Gilded Age" with Twain in addition to writing numerous works of his own. <br/><br/>This book opens with a humerous story of mounting a horse and continues with an interesting look at the author's adventures travelling in the south of the 1880s and through parts of Mexico and California during that period. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Green cloth over boards title and image of two riders on horseback in black to front board title in gilt on spine; octavo size 7" by 5" pagination: 1-3 4-331 1-15 publishers ads. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Better than very good and could almost be deemed near fine; the binding is clean the hinges are sound and the textblock is square the interior is clean and bright and the only prior owner marking is a tasteful Ex-Libris on the front pastedown; minor overall edgewear the corners are slightly bumped and there are a few light stray marks to the edge of the text block. Even with its few faults still an attractive copy. <br/><br/>___CITATION: BAL 21168. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
193221610New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1932. Reprint. Hardcover. quite a decent copy light foxing to fore-edge spine very slightly turned; jacket has a few tiny chips along top edge minor soiling to rear panel itsy-bitsy hole near right edge of front panel. Gotta Dance!! The story of a child of the tenements a born hoofer who "stepped and stamped her way through the night clubs and the burlesque wheel to Broadway glory" attracting all sorts of men along the way -- the vaudeville small-timer who discovered her the hard-drinking tabloid newspaperman the theatrical impresario the millionaire playboy. Basis for the 1933 MGM film starring Joan Crawford notable for the film debut of both Fred Astaire and early film appearances by both Nelson Eddy and the Three Stooges! Not as a team -- but what an act that would have made eh . A.L. Burt Company hardcover books
1928297458New York: Appleton 1928. hardcover. very good. 259 pages 8vo black cloth in with inlaid front cover illustration and paper spine label; corners bumped spine lightly faded. New York: D. Appleton 1928. First edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
187610900Hartford CT: American Publishing Company 1876. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. A solid very well-preserved copy of the 1876 1st edition. Clean and VG in its decorative chocolate boards with bright gilt-lettering and blindstamped flourishes to the panels. Very light foxing at the endsheets and pastedowns otherwise clean as could be. Thick octavo 477 pgs. "Issued by subscription only and not for sale in bookstores" from the title page. <br/><br/> American Publishing Company hardcover books
1916145184New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. G- Binding is significantly soiled with a few white spots on front cover some foxing along edges of book block hinges are loosening page surfaces are clean. Blue decorated cloth gilt letters on spine & front cover illus. flyleaves gilt top edges 213 pp. BW illus. A series of 12 night-time stories penned by Marian Warner Wildman Fenner 1876-1956 enhanced by drawings by Clara M. Burd. Rare. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1997287401Gerrards Cross 1997. Quarter Leather. Near Fine binding. Signed limited edition of Francis Warner's Nightingales; Poems: 1985-1996. Numbered 146 of 500 copies. From the colophon: "This book is set in Lutetia italic printed in Great Britain for Colin Smythe Ltd on mould-made Velin Arches rag paper at Libanus Press Marlborough during the Spring of 1997 bound by Brian Settle of Smith Settle Otley in quarter vellum with boards covered with paste paper made by Victoria Hall Norwich in a signed limited edition." With the publisher's advertising leaf laid in. Quarter vellum with gilt lettering over blue patterned paper covered boards. Near Fine. Near Fine binding. unknown books
1979125879West Kingston R. I.: Donald M. Grant 1979. Octavo illustrations by J. K. Potter cloth. First edition. Signed by Munn and artist J. K. Potter. Limited to 1000 copies. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-181. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #125879 Donald M. Grant unknown books
197981709West Kingston R. I.: Donald M. Grant 1979. Octavo illustrations by J. K. Potter cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Munn. Limited to 1000 copies. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-181. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #81709 Donald M. Grant unknown books
1958151132Providence Rhode Island: The Grandon Company 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. One of 350 copies. Signed by Munn. The title story first published in WEIRD TALES July 1925 was inspired by and dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft. Also collected here is the sequel "The Werewolf's Daughter" first published as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES October-December 1928. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-151. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1214. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of dust soiling a hint of tanning to spine panel and a short closed tear at upper edge of rear panel with small internal tape mend. #151132 The Grandon Company unknown books
1958138769Providence Rhode Island: The Grandon Company 1958. Octavo boards. First edition. One of 350 copies. Signed by Munn. The title story first published in WEIRD TALES July 1925 was inspired by and dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft. Also collected here is the sequel "The Werewolf's Daughter" first published as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES October-December 1928. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-151. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1214. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with small circular closed tear in rear panel near spine panel light wear at upper spine end tanning to spine panel and a touch of dust soiling. #138769 The Grandon Company unknown books
1998915673London: Cape. 1998. The hardcover issue. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Cape hardcover books
1893WRCLIT69820Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co. 1893. Two volumes. Gilt red and green three-piece cloth bindings t.e.g. Frontispieces and photogravure plates. About fine in very good gilt lettered red linen wrappers a bit foxed on versos and with paper shelf labels on spines without the slipcase. First illustrated edition trade issue of the account of the second portion of the author's 1875 tour of Egypt and the Levant first published in 1877. Includes a new Preface by the author concerning subsequent developments in the region. 150 additional copies were printed on large paper. BAL 21185. Houghton Mifflin and Co. hardcover books
1886006941Boston: Lee and Shepard 1886. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 452 pages of text followed by viii pages of publisher's advertisement. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Previous owner's bookplate neatly on front paste-down endpaper "Judson S. Bemis." Bemis was a bag manufacturer. Lee and Shepard Hardcover books
1876Embry 195426American Publishing Company 1876. First edition first printing. Owner's Penciled gift inscription light wear to spine tips overall near fine and bright in custom mylar cover. B&W illustrations. Brown cloth titled in gilt and decoratively stamped in black. American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
198420784Dracut/ SF: The Antiquarian Scientist/ Jeremy Norman and Company 1984. Hardcover. Very good. ix 389pp; 287pp; 66pp index. Very good hardback in a publisher's blue cloth; no jacket as issued. Prelims foxed otherwise internally fine. <br/><br/> The Antiquarian Scientist/ Jeremy Norman and Company hardcover books
2007188565Schiffer Pub Ltd 2007-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Volume 2. Schiffer Pub Ltd hardcover books
1856203826New York: Ackerman Lith 1856. unbound. very good. Map. Uncolored lithograph. Image measures 17.25" x 21".<br/><br/> Nice map of Wisconsin and Minnesota illustrating the progress of public surveys. Denotes waterways Indian reservations and townships. Left margin cropped minor toning along folds and light scattered foxing.<br/><br/> Ackerman Lith unknown books
1951WALTER-FILM000383Set of eight 8 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. sepia-toned photos USA. Frank Lovejoy Dorothy Hart Philip Carey dir: Gordon Douglas; Warner Brothers. <br /><br />A quintessential piece of Cold War propaganda. Notice the Yiddish-language newspaper at the bottom left of one photo there was always an intimation that Jewish people were ""oustsiders"" and hence potential traitors NEAR FINE. Warner Brothers books
186742760London: James Nisbet & Co. 1867. Twenty-Sixth Thousand cf. BAL 21266. Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Shaken with a few loose gatherings & rear hinge cracked. Poi to ffep with abrasion mark underneath. Occasional spot & smudge. A Good copy of an uncommon title. vii 1 blank 479 1 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue concludes volume. Frontis & 7 inserted chromolithographed plates by Evans. 12mo. <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co. hardcover books
