Chip The Chipmunk, VERY RARE !!! by Jesse Brown Marsh - 1962

Avec notes et éclaircissements sur les sciences, les arts, l'industrie et le commerce des anciens, par Émile Bères. Chamerot, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1845.
--- Edges untrimmed. Uncut copy. Foxing on pages. Some wear at covers.

Vintage Set of 4 E. P. Roe works. Includes: "He Fell in Love with His Wife" (1886); "The Earth Trembled" (1892); "Near to Nature's Heart" (1876), and "Miss Lou" (1888). Books are similarly bound to use as a set. In good condition overall. SLSetof4

Boston: William Wells and T.B. Watt ancd Co, 1802. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 828pp. First Edition, First Issue. Quarter bound, marbled boards, calf spine. red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Wear and scuffing to boards, 1 1/2 inch piece chipped from head of spine, contents age-toned and partially foxed, binding is tight and sound, inscription and pencilled poem on front free endpaper, 1/2 inch strip excised form top of front endpaper. This rare volume includes all 12 months of the 1802 year, which was it's very first year of the publication of The Christian Observer.

Brown and black swirl patterned calf binding. Black title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine. Gilt decorative edging on both boards. Plates by Robert Branston.

Red leather spine with green title plate, gilt banding, decoration and lettering. Red marbled boards.

London: Virture & Co., 1872. Comprised in Four Papers by: F.E. Hulme; S. J. Mackie, J. Glaisher and Robert Hunt Reprinted from the Art-Journal Virture & Company; London; 1872 Contents are: The Adapability of our Native Plants to the Purposes of Ornamental Art by F. Edward Hulme, F.L.S, F.S.A. (The author is also contemporarily credited as Frederick Edward Hulme.) Mr. Hulme is also the author of the Preface. Sea-Weeds as Objects of Design by S.J. Mackie, F.G.S, F.S.A. The Crystals of Snow as Applied to the Purposes of Design by James Glaisher, F.R.S. The Symmetrical and Ornamental Forms of Organic Remains by Robert Hunt, F.R.S. (Think sea shells as "organic remains." 8vo sized decorative brown cloth boards with black and gilt designs and titles and bevelled edges. Sewn binding. Gilt edges all around. 212 toned pages with numerous black and white woodcut illustrations. A several-pge publisher's catalogue of other works follows. Dark green endpapers and rare… Read More

Slight losses to edges of Mylar protected dust jacket. Otherwise, a very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 89 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

"Speeches and Forensic Arguments" by DANIEL WEBSTER, complete in 3 volumes. 1846; Charles Tappan, Publisher; Boston. Affixed to the frontispiece portrait of Webster in Volume I is the stem of a flower taken from Webster's grave in 1891. Additionally, a remark has been made in pencil below his portrait stating that "The above picture does not bear the slightest resemblance to Mr. Webster - it is a libel." Volume I contains 26 speeches; Volume II contains 22 speeches; Volume III contains 39 speeches.From the Preface:"...several of the speeches and addresses contained in this volume, possessing a character of more permanent and general interest, have been translated and published in most of the languages of Europe. And we are not without authority for saying, that they have been regarded, by men of elightened judgments and cultivated taste, as fine examples of forensic and popular eloquence. In the language of one of the most eminent statesmen of England, some of these speeches have been read in that… Read More

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1917. Hardcover. Condition: very good- First Edition. 227 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated front board. Pages have no marks or tears, Spine worn no dust jacket