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THE GIRL PROPOSITION: A BUNCH OF HE AND SHE FABLES.

By: Ade, George.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York:, R.H. Russell,: 1902.

Seller ID: 49

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

16mo. 192 pages. Tan cloth with pastedown of a woman playing tennis on front board. Boards rubbed and somewhat faded. Spine very slightly cocked. Previous owner's name on ffep. One page (112) torn due to careless opening, but does not affect text or illustration. The illustrations are an imitation of old-style woodcuts with a decidely modern, witty twist. Simply put, they are delightful in embellishing the author's tales of his challenges with the opposite sex.

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THE SPINNERS' BOOK OF FICTION.

By: Atherton, Gertrude et al. The Spinners' Club.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: San Francisco and New York:, Paul Elder and Co.,: 1907.

Seller ID: 155

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 367 pages. Bound in burlap, titles and scrolls stamped in green on front cover. Front cover also features a pictorial pastedown portrait of a young woman. Some foxing to burlap. Typeset by John Henry Nash and printed at the Tomoye Press. Collection of short stories by California writers compiled by the Book Committee of the Spinners' Club for the Spinners' Benefit Fund, of which Ina Coolbrith was the first beneficiary. Authors include Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Jack London, Frank Norris and others. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon, Lillie V. O'Ryan and others.

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THE ARCHITECT OF COLOGNE AND OTHER POEMS.

By: Atkinson, Mary Ellen.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston:, D. Lothrop and Company,: 1873.

Seller ID: 366

1st Edition. Tissue-guarded frontis. Brown chalky end-pages with some wear and spotting. 101 pages, [2] pages publisher's advertising at rear. Publishers green cloth with mild wear and scuffing. Title in gilt at backstrip remains bright and fresh. Some minor wear and rubbing to the head and toe of spine. Uncommon. As of this listing we have been unable to locate another copy of this title listed via the internet at any price. OCLC(WorldCat) Number: 11263929, locates 5 copies worldwide.

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POPULAR RECITATIONS.

By: Authors American and Foreign.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago:, Regan Publishing Corporation,: 1925.

Seller ID: 53

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Fair

Green wraps with black and red titling. Tightly bound. A lot of soiling, discoloration and browning to front and back cover and edges of pages. Previous owner's name written in ink across top of front cover, as well as inside front cover and top of title page. Small black check marks marked next to several selections in the table of contents. Still, an unusual little book. Contents include favorites such as Casey at the Bat, The Girl with the Blue Velvet Band, and The Face on the Bar-room Floor.

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SELF-MADE WOMAN.

By: Baldwin, Faith.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, Triangle Books ,: 1941 (1932).

Seller ID: 327

VG red cloth book in a VG, lightly chipped dustjacket.From the inside flap of the dustjacket: ÒCathleen was thirty, unmarried, and one of the most successful business women in New York City. She didn't consider herself a freak of nature. Her success was extremely gratifying to her. ÒWas it worth it,Ó her mother asked her, Òworth it to go without your own man and your own children in your arms?Ó I love how the dustjacket copy goes on to describe the man who may may make Cathleen choose to give it all up for love: ÒPerry Spencer, more expert at holding a woman than a job, a b...
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FIOR DA FIORE DALLE OPERE DI DANTE.

By: Biagi, Lodovico.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Firenze:, G. Barbera,: 1892.

Seller ID: 252

Sm. 8vo. 300+ un-numbered pp. Parchment colored leather exquisitely stamped with scarlet and gilt fleur-de-lys and scrolls. In original scarlet cloth dustjacket and slipcase. Gilt floral endpapers and original red silk bookmark. Features a quote from the works of Dante for every day of the year, each page with elaborate floral borders. Color title page and prelim. in the style of an illuminated manuscript. Bound by G. Giannini. Highly attractive book in fine condition with a fine dustjacket in a near fine slipcase.

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THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI, TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY HIS FRIEND AND PUPIL F.B.

By: Burton, Richard F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Portland, Maine:, Thomas B. Mosher ,: 1911.

Seller ID: 40

Condition: Else very good.

16mo. 124 pages. Eighth edition, one of 925 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Bound in limp brown leather with gilt titling and design on spine and gilt device (crescent moon) on front cover. Leather faded, fraying at spine, and a few small chips. Previous owner name on ffep. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece features a picture of Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) with a facsimile of his signature underneath. Includes four uncut pages of bibliography at the end of the poetry. About very good.

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CHILDE HAROLD, A ROMAUNT.

By: Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824).

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London:, J.M. Dent and Co.,: November, 1902.

Seller ID: 470

24mo. 4" x 6 1/2". [i-vi], vii-xii, [1-2] 310 pp. Although this book is a not uncommon third edition from the well-known Temple Classics Series, it is housed in a beautiful binding. Majestic full parchment covers, hand-painted in a colorful medieval style with elaborate floral borders, rubricated initial letters in the title, gothic lettering. Two metal clasps shaped like the heads of cherubs hold the book closed. The binding also has five raised bands. Vellum cords with fleur-de-lis shaped raised device and yapp edges give a medieval style to the binding. The upper board features ...
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THE PALACE THIEF.

By: Canin, Ethan.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York:, Random House,: 1994.

Seller ID: 345

Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

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BLUE RIVER.

By: Canin, Ethan.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston:, Houghton Mifflin Company,: 1991.

Seller ID: 346

Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

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FARM LEGENDS.

By: Carleton, Will.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers,: 1876.

Seller ID: 87

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 130 pages plus four pages of advertisments for other Harper titles. Dark green boards stamped with bright gilt borders, gilt titles, and a gilt portrait of a farmer, sitting at his hearth (with gun and powder horn) and speaking to his wife, who is knitting and his children . Also blind stamped with farm scenes in black. 20 black and white, tissue-guarded illustrations including frontispiece. Head and tail of spine beginning to fray. Bumping to corners. Small (1") ink scribble on top left corner of rear board. We also have another title by Carleton, "City Ballads". These two b...
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IN PRAISE OF SHAKESPEARE, AN ANTHOLOGY FOR FRIENDS.

By: Clarke, Waldo, Compiler.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London:, Frederick Muller Ltd.,: 1951 (1949).

Seller ID: 538

4 1/2" x 5 1/2". 11cm/ x 14cm. 55pp. Navy blue boards illustrated with elaborate red, white, and yellow design. Corners, head and tail of spine very gently rubbed. Very good. Compilation of what others, such as Milton, Swinburne, Dryden, Pope, and Hazlit had to say on the topic of The Bard.

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NATURE.

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York:, Duffield and Company,: 1909.

Seller ID: 48

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good DJ

12mo. 53 pages. In very good transparent cellophane (?) vellum (?) dustjacket with some small creases and closed tears at the top and small chips out of head and tail of spine. Black spine with brown boards. Edges of boards have a trace of fading. Titles stamped on boards in bright gilt, black and red. Gilt and red stamped leaves and a large (almost 2" )bright gilt square outlined in black. Inside the square are stamped the initials R.S. Each printed page in a decorative red border.

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POPULAR TALES. Hand colored plates.

By: Guizot, Madame, translated by Mrs. L. Burke.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston:, Crosby, Nichols and Company,: 1854.

Seller ID: 45

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

16mo. 404 pages. Navy blue, blindstamped cloth boards. Titles and decoration on spine in still bright gilt. Fraying to head and tail of spine. Rubbing to boards. Text block tightly bound. Light foxing throughout. Six hand-colored plates.

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A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

By: Hale, Edward Everett.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York:, Barse and Hopkins,: No date..

Seller ID: 41

Binding: Stiff Boards

Condition: Else very good.

12 mo. 46 pages. No date. Appears to be early 20th Century. Stiff board binding. Marbled paper wraps with gilt title bound by string tied through two holes. Some dampstains to edges. Rough-cut edges. Tissue guarded portrait of Hale is frontispiece. Decorative title page. Appears to be a gift edition.

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TRANSFORMATION: OR THE ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI, IN TWO VOLUMES [THE MARBLE FAUN] Extra-illustrated with 80 mounted albumen photographs

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Leipzig:, Bernard Tauchnitz,: 1860.

Seller ID: 475

Two volumes. 16mo. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2". Vol. 1 -- [i-v]vi-xii, 292 pp. Vol. 2 ---280 pp. The Copyright Edition. All edges stained red. Red silk ribbon bookmarks. Bound in full parchment (lightly soiled) stamped with gilt and scarlet. Though the title page reads TRANSFORMATION: OR THE ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI, the spine of both volumes reads, MARBLE FAUN, as the title was known in America. Rich chocolate colored endpapers embellished with gilt. This set retains its original red cloth dustjackets and is housed in a matching red cloth slipcase. Both volumes are extra-illustrated with 80 mounte...
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HAROLD AND MAUDE.

By: Higgins, Colin.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York:, J.B. Lippincott Company,: 1971.

Seller ID: 165

Fine in a bright dustjacket with 1/2" chip at top of spine and 1" closed tear on top left corner of front panel.

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YANKEE SHIPS IN PIRATE WATERS.

By: Holland, Rupert S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co.,: 1931.

Seller ID: 16

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: About Very Good

Tight, bright 8vo, bound in blue boards with a pictorial pastedown on the front cover. Sea stories featuring a double-page, full-color illustration on the title page and four color plates illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. Many black and white line drawings at the beginning of each chapter and each part of the book. Pictorial endpapers. Vivid pictorial pastedown on front cover has letters "s" and "p" missing from the word "Ships". Rear board has three dark spots near spine. Small gift inscription on half-title page. About very good.

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THE WHEEL OF TIME, COLLABORATION, OWEN WINGRAVE.

By: James, Henry.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York:, Harper and Brothers Publishers,: 1893.

Seller ID: 46

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

12mo. 220 pages. In the first issue dark green linen-grain cloth. Lettering in gilt and triple-rule border and grillework design in silver on front cover and spine, publisher's device in gilt on front cover; white endpapers; top-edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed (Edel, Leon A Bibliography of Henry James, A41). Some age toning to endpapers. Else fine. This edition contains the second, fifth, and sixth tales included in the English edition of The Private Life.

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A LITTLE BOOK OF NECESSARY NONSENSE.

By: Johnson, Burges.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York:, Harper and Brothers,: 1929.

Seller ID: 50

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Red boards with gilt titles. Spine soiled. Pictorial endpapers, slightly age-toned. Previous owner's name written in pencil on ffep. Cute black and white illustrations throughout. A collection of poems by the likes of William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bret Harte, A. T. Quiller-Couch, and Lewis Carroll.

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Category: Literature & Classics