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#005
Desmond Cheadle, I Love You, Great Love Poems of
the World. South Africa; Headway
Books; 1994; 1.375x.875"; Marbled Wraps and Sleeve; Text reads sideways. Bound by the compiler. New.
US$ 5.00 |
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#006. Rebecca Saady
Bingham,, Venus Explor'd, a Study of the Female Form . Rebecca Press; 1980; 3x2.5";
Signed by Author, Photographer; Landscape format, gray cloth,
silver lettering, marbled ends. Photographs by Noel M. Izon, text by
Kathryn Naimo Izon, concept and design by Bingham, bound by John Luca.
#116 of 500.; V. Good
US$ 40.00 |
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#007
Robert Herrick, Hesperides .Buffalo, NY; The Hillside
Press; 1979; 2 7/16x 2"; Full olive green calf, gold floral motif on
upper board, title in gold on spine. Frontispiece is facsimile of 1648 title page. 34pp.
Fine
US$ 35.00 |
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#014.
Msgr. Francis J.Weber, California on United States
Postage Stamps . 1975; 3 5/16 by 2 1/4; The 1969 U.S. postage stamp honoring
California's Bicentennial is tipped-in as a frontispiece. Limited to 1500
copies. Title in gold on upper board and spine, royal blue leather. AEG;
Fine, 65pp.
$ 75.00 |
#015.
Inaugural Address of Richard
Milhous Nixon, President of the United States. 1969; 2 5/8 by 1 13/16;
navy blue leather. 1500 copies
with photo-graph of Nixon as frontispiece.
Title plus seal on upper boards, title on spine, AEG; Fine. 44pp US$ 45.00 |
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#016. The Inaugural Address of Lyndon
Baines Johnson. 1965; 2 11/16 x 1 7/8; Has a photograph of Johnson tipped-in as a frontispiece. Limited to
2500 copies. Title in gold on spine and upper board plus US Seal. Aqua
leather slightly faded on spine and front. AEG.; Very Good 36pp. US$ 35.00 |
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#020. Jane Baird,
Seven Nursery Rhymes, San Rafael, CA; Feathered Serpent Press; 1991; 2 3/4 x 2 5/8";
Printed Paper Over Boards; Signed by author and binder/printer, Susan
Acker.; #70/100. Illustrations
from the McLoughlin Brothers Collection.
Boards bow inwards slightly. VG. 32pp
US$ 40.00 |
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#021. Frank Irwin,
Sound Track. Franklin, NH; The Hillside Press; 1969; 2 3/8 x 2"; Decorative
Cloth; Illus. David Wiggins, signed E Irwin; A brief history of sound; Fine.
82pp
US$ 25.00 |
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#022. G.
H.Petty, Herschel Logan. A Stranger Passed By. Evanston, IL; Schori Press; 1978; 2 11/16 x 2";
Shiny blue cloth, title in gold on spine and haloed head of Christ
on front board. TEG. Bound by Hugo Grummich. Inscribed by Schori to
"Boy" or "Bey"; Fine. 28pp + Colophon
US$ 45.00 |
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#023. Frank Irwin,
For All We Know. Tilton, NH; The Hillside Press; 1976; 2 3/8 x 2";
A booksellers' notes and correspondence. Royal blue with gold title
on spine and floral emblem on front cover.; Fine 64pp US$ 30.00 |
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#024. Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Nature. Frankfort, KY; Whippoorwill Press; 1983; 2 7/8x2 3/8; Signed J.
Hill Hamon; #39/125 Ecru
cloth, printed label on front board. First published anonymously in 1836. Fine. US$ 30.00 |
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#025.
Kristina Feeser. Alles Kann Man Nicht Wissen. Pelikan Tramp; 2 13/16x2"; Printed Wrapper;
Amazing facts from A-Z. A sort of pocket Ripley's. Mass market series for children. No place or date. VG.
144pp. US$ 5.00 |
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#026.
Ute Kutz, Kennst Du Den? Viele, Viele Witze. Pelikan Tramp; 2 13/16x2"; Printed Wrapper;
Jokes, most in cartoon form. Mass market pocket series. No place or date.; Very Good.
US$ 5.00 |
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#027.
The Declaration of Independence. Worcester; Achille St Onge;
1976; 2 1/2x 1 7/8"; Full-Leather; Miniature; Title in gold on spine
and front cover as well as seal of the USA. AEG. Edition of 1000. ; Fine.US$ 50.00 |
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#030. Tram Combs,
D.Clark, Briefs. Franklin, NH; The Hillside Press;
1966; 2 3/8 x 2"; Printed Cloth; #141/425 ; Fine, 86pp.
US$ 30.00 |
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#033. Eleanor Irwin,
Victor Karl Hammer. Buffalo, NY; The Hillside Press; 1982; 2 3/8 x 2"; Signed by
author. Centennial edition
celebrating Hammer's life: painter, sculptor, calligrapher, musical
instrument maker etc. Full red leather. Title on spine, monogram on front board.
VG 52pp
US$ 30.00 |
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#035. Dean Berens.
Remme's Great Ride. Sacramento, CA; Press of
Arden Park; 1983; 2 3/4" x 2"; Signed by Budd Westreich;
Three
colors with linoleum block cuts by author. Brown cloth with title stamped in gold on the spine. White dust jacket with
title in purple. #65/125; V Good; 75pp.
US$ 35.00 |
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#037.
The Inaugural Address of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy. Worcester; Achille St Onge; 1961; 2 5/8 by 1 7/8";
32pp. AEG. Navy blue leather, title inside border of stars in gold
on front board, red printed endpapers. One copy, with slight wear to
extremities, from the collection of Doris Walsh/Kathryn Rickard
(bookplate); Fine. US$ 55.00 |
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38. The Sermon on the Mount.
Worcester; Achille St Onge; 1973; 2 5/8 by 1 7/8"; Full red
morocco stamped in gold, gold
title on spine and front board. AEG. Decorative red initials throughout.
56pp 1500 copies. US$ 65.00 |
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#039. Robert L
Merriam, Melinda Merriam, Lucy Terry Prince. Conway, MA; 1983; 2 7/8x 2
1/16"; Brown cloth with
printed oval label. Green ends with silhouette in oval cutout. Biography
of an 18th century slave turned
activist 350 copies,
Bound by Linda Lembke. Fine
US$ 35.00 |
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#040.
Robert L Merriam, Helen Childs Boyden 1883-1973. Conway, MA; 1988; 2 7/8x 2 1/16";
Green cloth, printed paper label, floral endpapers. 300 copies. Biography of legendary math/ science teacher at
Deerfield Academy. Fine.
US$ 35.00 |
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#048. Chinese Poems, with Five
Illustrations from Ancient Paintings. Tilton, NH; The Hillside
Press; 1971; 2 1/2 x 2"; Printed Cloth; Fine. US$ 35.00 |
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#050. Parrot English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionary.
Tokyo; Japan Travel
Bureau; 1970; 17th Printing; 2 3/4 x 2 "; Limp Cloth; Very Good
US$ 15.00 |
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Another
copy: #052. Parrot English-Japanese,
Japanese-English Dictionary. Very Good US$
30.00 |
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#053. Robert Pollok,
The Course of Time, A Poem. Portland; Sanborn and
Carter; 1844; 3 7/16x 2 1/4"; Full-Leather; Title page and one other
cropped at foredge, text unaffected. Minor foxing, some soil. Belonged to
Clara Turner, nee Hurlburt who seems to have read it often.; Good +
US$ 45.00 |
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Two more Achille St.
Onge:
#054. McCord, David
,Notes from Four Cities
1927-1953. 1969;
2 5/8 by 1 7/8"; Rich brown leather, gold titles on spine, front board, AEG.
Extracts from writings about Paris, Fribourg, Geneva, Quebec; US$ 45.00 |
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#055. The Addresses of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1977; 2 3/4 x 1
7/8"; Full aqua leather, title "Royal Jubilee Addresses" in
gold on spine. Lion on the front board, unicorn on the back. Marbled ends.
AEG. These addresses were delivered at Westminster Hall and Guildhall on
the occasion of Her (Majesty's) Silver Jubilee 1952-1977. Fine.
US$
80.00 |
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#056. Devenyi,
Mary E, Graphics . Toronto; Beaux Arts
Publishing; 1995; 2 7/8 x 2 7/16"; Cloth Spine, Paper Sides; Signed
by Author; #133/150. Selected
drawings, etchings and aquatints by an artist who is also a passionate
collector of miniature books.; Fine
US$ 75.00 |
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#057. Jane Baird, Bombe Surprise a La Virgil
Thompson. Sausalito; Castle Baird; 1992; 2
15/16 x 2 1/4"; Printed Paper Over Boards; Signed. One of 75 copies
designed, printed/bound by Susan Acker, hand-colored drawings and a tipped in photograph of the bombe.
Musings by Baird on nasturtiums, the potato and this two-line recipe.
Small stain . Good+
US$ 40.00 |
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#058. (Cowper); Robert
Seaver, Diverting History of John Gilpin with 21 Woodcuts. Franklin, NH; The Hillside Press;
1970; 2 3/8 x 2"; Full-Leather; #232/250.
Gold on spine, rocking horse on front board. VG. US$ 30.00 |
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#059. George Ade, Mrs. Peckham's Carouse, A One
Act Play. Evanston, IL; The Schori
Press; 1978; 2 3/4 x 1 7/8"; Cloth; A photographic reduction of the
1961 private press 5 1/2x 8 1/4" book version of this much performed
play. Both editions limited to 250. Magnifying glass useful!; Fine.
US$ 50.00 |
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#060. Robert F, Hansen, Russ Kingman: Jack London
Collector. Venice, FL; Opuscula
Press; 1982; 2 5/8 x 1 13/16"; Gray paper over boards; black title on spine, baying wolf on
front cover. #74/250;
US$ 35.00 |
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#065. Cecil C.
Carpenter, The Baby's Bible and Prayer Book. Peoria, Ill; G. C. Lippard; 1932;
1 7/8 x 1 1/2"; Leather-look paper, most of surface off front board, and places of
the back.. Rounded corners, original Yapp binding, squares are lost.
Interior undamaged, but well thumbed. Full page photographic
illustrations, 124pp Good.
US$
25.00 |
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#068.
Four Authentic Reproductions of Children's Books. Cooperstown, NY ;
Farmers Museum; 2 7/8" by 1 7/8",; Pamphlet; Line drawings.Four
8 page hand- sewn pamphlets in printed card slipcase. Works originally printed in 1820 by H. & E. Phinney of
Cooperstown. Titles are Book
of Animals, Mary and her Little Kid, The Two Cocks and The Faithful Dog.
VG.
US$ 15.00 |
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#069. Eastern Fables with Vignette Illustrations.
Tilton, NH; The Hillside Press; 1973; 2 7/16x 2"; Printed
Cloth; 50pp, #222/250. Taken
from 1819 translation of the
Panchtantra, from Kashmir about 200BC. Fine. US$ 25.00 |
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#070. Elizabeth
C. Shannon, The Darling Twins, or a Tribute to Their Teacher. Conway, MA; Merriam, Robert L.;
1976; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8"; Yellow wraps, blue card sleeve; 28pp stapled.
Nice illustrations/ typography.
US$ 5.00 |
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#073. Harrods London in Your Pocket .
London; 1912; 3 1/2 x 2 3/8"; A guide book to London, seemingly a promotional item for Harrods
and Cunard. Includes maps, prices & other information. Navy blue
morocco, gold title. Wear to board edges, spine, front board sunned.
Interior VG.
US$ 40.00 |
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#077. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard. Worcester; Achille St Onge; 1960; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8"; 48pp, AEG.
One of 1000 copies. Tan calf worn on spine (a small piece is missing from
the head) and corners. title in gold on front board. Woodcut illustrations
printed in green.
US$60.00 |
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#079. C.N. Earl, An Open Letter to the Republican
City Central Committee. Los Angeles; Peggy Christian;
1971; 1 5/8 x 1 1/4"; Originally
published, November 29, 1887 to protest being asked to pay $150 in order
to run for an unpaid position on the school board. 14pp, Tan wraps lettered in
black. slipcase; Title page in rust and black, large initial letter also
in rust. Plain white card slipcase with ribbon. One of "Ca. 200
copies at the Press in the Gatehouse". VG.
US$ 85.00 |
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#080. Thomas a Kempis, Imitacion De Christo . Madrid; Editorial Coculsa; 3 3/8 x
2 1/2"; Brown mottled calf, AEG, titled simply Kempis in gold on
spine and front board, with silk marker, in unusual slipcase with cloth
spine and edges, obviously intended to be flattened when not in use.
340pp. Spanish translation by
P. Juan Nieremberg, S.J. Purple and gold end papers with JHS monogram in
medallions as well as other Jesuit symbols.; VG.
US$ 45.00 |
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#081. Elizabeth C.
Shannon, Pleasant Beth, or a Good Girl Receives an Award. Conway, MA; Merriam, Robert L.; 1975; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8";
28pp stapled in cream card wrapper. Yellow card sleeve. Nice
illustrations. Fine typography. One of a series of retellings of old New
England tales. Fine;
US$
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#082. John Prusinski, J. Hamilton Rose, or the Evils of Wealth. Conway, MA; Merriam, Robert L.; 1979; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8"; 32pp
stapled in tan card wrapper. Orange card sleeve. Nice illustrations. Neat
binding. Fine typography. One of a series of retellings of old New England
tales. Fine;
US$
5.00 |
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#083. Melinda Merriam, Moses Washington or, a Man and His Decision .
Conway, MA; Merriam, Robert L.; 1978; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8"; 32pp
stapled in brown card wrapper. Yellow card sleeve. Neat binding. Fine typography. One of a series of retellings of old
New England tales.; Fine;
US$ 5.00 |
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#084. Ronald
Evans, John Carson,or the Stranger in Their Midst . Conway, MA; Robert L Merriam, 1977; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8";
24pp stapled in blue card wrapper. Yellow card sleeve. Nice
illustrations. Neat binding. Fine typography. One of a series of
retellings of old New England tales. Fine;
US$ 5.00 |
#085.
Robert L.Merriam, Janek Prusinski, Curious Emily. Conway, MA; Merriam,
Robert L.; 1980; 2 3/8 x 1 5/8"; 32pp stapled in gray card wrapper.
Black card sleeve. Nice illustrations. One of a series of retellings of
old New England tales. Fine;
US$ 5.00 |
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#086. Paul Devenyi, MD;
Mary Devenyi. History of Medicine. Toronto; Beaux Arts Publishing; 1996; 2 3/4 x 2 5/16";
#43/100. 88pp, Dark green cloth, gold title on spine, caduceus on
front board. Signed author
and illustrator.
US$70.00 |
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#087. Grey, Zane. The Lord of Lackawaxen Creek. Salisbury, CT; Lime Rock Press,; 1981; 3x2 1/2"; Marbled
Wraps; A Christmas keepsake in 1981. 1001 copies. Whimsical illustrations; text in the body of a
fish. Very early article by Grey,
set where he and his wife chose to be buried.
US$65.00 |
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#088. Robert L.Merriam,
Martha Sawyer, Eunice Williams. Conway, MA; 1984; 2 7/8 x 2 7/16"; #61/350, signed by binder
Linda Lemke. Red cloth, printed label on
front board, pale apricot ends with decorative border along length of
pastedowns. Biography of the woman who was captured by Indians in 1704, at
the age of 8, and stayed.; Fine.
US$ 35.00 |
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#089. Katherine Thompson
Elkins, A Tale from Horseford. Portsmouth, OH; Gilguy Press; 1982; 2 1/4x 1 5/16"; Cloth;
#134 of 200. Printed and bound by Linda Donaldson. Grandma Kate's
recollection of Kentucky in the early 19th century was transcribed by
Alberta Elkins US$ 30.00 |
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#091. E. Helene Sherman, Historic Boston, Lexington,
Concord in Pen Drawings. New Britain, CT; Robert E. Massman; 1975; 1 1/2x 17/8"; Cloth; 20pp, + fold-out map of Paul
Revere's ride. Blue ink throughout, Japanese fold. Exquisite drawings of
local landmarks. No text. Fine.
US$ 35.00 |
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#092. Unknown But
Suspected; C. Ernest Massman, Win, Place, and Show or, the Fund Raising Jack. New Britain, CT; Robert E. Massman;
1967; 1 7/8 x 1 3/4"; Wraps and Sleeve; Gift edition, 2 sepia drawings of donkey tipped in, several ambiguous newspaper
headlines illustrated.; Fine;
US$ 25.00 |
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#093. Andrew Lang,
Hokusai et al, Japanese Bogies. Tilton, NH; The Hillside Press;
1974; 2 1/16 x 2"; Printed Cloth; #212 of 250, 56pp. "..slightly
zany descriptions of a number of Japanese ghosts" published in The
Magazine for Art, 1884.
US$ 30.00 |
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#094.
Dr. Gerhard Jacob, , The Little Webster. New York; Miniature
Dictionary Publishers; 1 7/8 x 1 5/8"; Red wraps, page edges colored red. Title on front board.
18,000 words. Lilliput Dictionary #119. VGood US$ 7.50 |
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#095.
Wershoven, F.J., Francais-Anglais. Leipzig; Schmidt &
Gunther; 1 7/8 x 1 5/8"; Wraps; 12,000
words, Dictionnaire Lilliput, 7. Red cover and page edges.; Very Good.
US$ 7.50 |
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#096.
The Golden Treasury of English
Songs. New York; Miniature Dictionary
Publishers; 1 7/8 x 1 5/8"; "The best songs and lyrical poems in
the English language." Identical to Lilliput dictionaries: red wraps,
red page edges. 761 pp plus advertisements. This copy has two bookplates,
Kathryn Rickard and, earlier, Raymond A. Shite which in turn covers a
minute bookplate with the initials RAS; V Good.
SOLD
US$ 25.00 |
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#097.
Aldo Leopold, Sawdust. Frankfort, KY;
Whippoorwill Press; 1983; 2 7/8 x 2 5/16"; Cloth; Signed By
Publisher; 24pp + 8blank.
#33/125, Handset, printed and bound by J. HIll Hamon. Small anthology
from the writings of the "father of the American conservation
movement." Fine.
US$ 35.00 |
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#098.
Henry Thoreau, Soundings, Selections Form the Journals and Other Works. Franklin, NH; The Hillside
Press; 1964; 2 7/16x 2"; Printed light brown cloth; #306 of 375,
62pp, black lettering,
photographic portrait as frontispiece. Preface by F.E.I. (publisher Frank
Irwin); Fine
US$ 30.00 |
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#106.
TWO
Miniature Name Books: Phoebe, Birthday and Memorandum Book with a History of the Name. Also
Maggie. London, Swan Sonnenschein &
Co.; 2 1/2x 2 1/8"; AEG. Dark maroon leather, gilt title. Three
volumes in a modern maroon cloth slipcase. Pages 1 to 20 (p.22 in Phoebe)
contain the name history. Remainder of pages are diary pages, two days per
page with a quotation at the top of each page. 300 + pages. Phoebe has 5/6
names inked in. Both have a Kathryn Rickard bookplate and her annotation "rare". Very
good
US$ 125.00 each |
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#107. Set: London; Anthony Trehearne; 2 11/16 x 2 1/16";
Three superb little books in marble-lined, calf-skin slipcase
Book One: Dante
Gabriel Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel., 1903. Full scarlet calf, filleted boards, five panel gilt spine
(somewhat darkened) AEG, silk marker, headbands, decorated turn-ins.
Inscribed M. Saxton, with love from F.S. 30 November, 1905.
Book Two: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets From the Portuguese. 1904. Dark maroon, long grain morocco. Decoration and inscription
as above.
Book Three: The Marcus Aurelius Yearbook, complied from the writings of Marcus Aurelius by Joan Barrett., 1905. Forest green long
grain morocco, similar to others but this one has elaborate gold tooling
on both boards. All three have slightly darkened spines and minor wear to
hinges, slipcase has wear to two corners. Given the dates of publication
and the date of the inscription, probably F.S. had the slipcase made to
present the three volumes together. The set is from the Doris Varner Walsh
collection inherited by Kathryn Rickard and each volume has the D.V.W.
1992 K.I.R blue bookplate.
An exceptional set.
US$ 600.00 |
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