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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head.
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A*M*B Some Aspects Of His Life And Times Begun In Playful Mode For His Entertainment On His 75TH Birthday And Now Completed For His Sorrowing Friends As A Token Of Remembrance And Affection
by Lewis, Oscar
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Adams An American Dynasty [with] Jefferson A Revealing Biography
by Russell, Francis
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New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated.
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Alice Freeman Palmer In Memoriam MDCCCLV-MDCCCCII
by Palmer, Alice Farmer
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Np, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and dark gray boards. Fine in tattered original glassine. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career she was a staunch advocate of higher education for women during the late 19th century. Palmer's life was commemorated at a service at Harvard University in 1903 attended by college presidents whom she knew and other notable individuals in higher education. Unopened, printed at the Merrymount Press by D.B. Updike.
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Arnold Bennett A Last Word
by Swinnerton, Frank
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New York: Doubleday, 1978. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Index. Orig. green cloth and pale gray boards. Fine in in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 120 pages.
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The Athenians * Harriet And Mary * Shelly At Oxford
by Scott, Walter Sydney (Editor)
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London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco and blue buckram boards. Near fine. 3 vols. 87, 84 & 79 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm "the complete set of the letters contained in these three books had lain for over a century in a drawer, till Mr. Scott found and collated them. Full titles for each follow: THE ATHENIANS BEING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOMAS HOGG and HIS FRIENDS THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, LEIGH HUNT, PERCY SHELLEY AND OTHERS. One collotype portrait. Limited edition, copy 281 of 350 & HARRIET AND MARY BEING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, HARRIET SHELLEY, MARY SHELLEY, AND THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG, etc. One collotype portrait. Limited edition, copy 367 of 500 & SHELLEY AT OXFORD THE EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF P.B. SHELLEY WITH HIS FRIEND T.J. HOGG, TOGETHER WITH LETTERS OF MARY SHELLEY AND T.L. PEACOCK, etc... Four collotype plates and a Shelley prose fragment. Limited edition, copy 218 of 500. COCKALORUM 158, 161, 163 respectively, A fresh, bright set…
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Atlantic Brief Lives A Biographical Companion to the Arts
by Kronenberger, Louis & Emily Morison Beck (Editors)
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and red cloth. Teg. Fine. 900 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Lovely gift copy of reference classic in a fine binding, or Wikipedia between two covers. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers.
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Autobiography
by Gill, Eric
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London: Cape, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Very good. 283 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Eight full page illustrations. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Early owner inscription free front endpaper.
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The Best of all Good Company: A Series Of Daily Companions For The Pocket And The Pormanteau; Ashore And Afloat; In Town And Out Of Town; At Home And Abroad; Part I. A Day With Charles Dickens
by Jerrold, Blanchard (Editor)
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London: The Useful Knowledge Company, 1871. First edition. leather_bound. Full crushed red morocco. Fine. 62 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Original yellow wrappers in fine condition bound-in, with Knife and Fork Advertisement,[devoted to the art of eating healthily] and sample of Dicken's handwriting. Bound by Birdsall, raised bands, spine richly gilt, triple gilt cover border fillets frame center panel with gilt florets at four corners, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate, front cover rehinged. Interior contents very fresh and clean.
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Cocteau A Biography
by Steegmuller, Francis
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, covers and spine lettered in blue. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 583 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Book label of the Fireside Book Shop.
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Correspondence Of Ernest Caylus 1836-1874
by Caylus, Ernest
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Paris: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards and marbled endpapers.Very good. 107 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Frontispiece of Caylus who was a French journalist during his days in America. Ernest Caylus (1813-1878) was a young Frenchman forced to flee political unrest at home, coming to America in 1835. Most of the letters are to and from New York City. Most of the letters are in French with some in English. Names and places mentioned are frequently identified in footnotes. This volume was printed in cooperation with the American Embassy at Madrid at the behest of his family. Many of the letters deal with political situations in France, and after the death of Therese Caylus (his daughter) his grand daughters wished to have them published for his posterity -- great grand children and their descendants. Some of the letters in English are in the period of the Franco-Prussian War. OCLC notes four titles concerning Caylus but not this title. Joints…
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E.W. Dennison A Memorial
by Dennison, E.W.
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Boston: Merrymount Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. striated navy cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 103 pages. 24. x 15.5 cm. 10 photographic plates with tissue guards, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, another tribute to an industrialist which later became Avery-Dennison, a major paper product company.
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Empire
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New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 486 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 250, signed by Gore Vidal in black ink.
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The Environs of London: Being An Historical Account Of The Towns, Villages, And Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of that Capital: Interspersed With Biographical Anecdotes
by Lysons, Daniel
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London: A. Strahan, For T. Cadell, 1811. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards rebacked, matching marbled endpapers with matching edges. Very good. 6 vols. 28 x 23 cm. Vol. I, 593 pp. [Index of Names. General Index]. Vol. II, 598 pp. [Index of Arms]. Vol. III, 706 pp. [General Index]. Vol. IV, 724 pp. [General Table of Errata]. Vol. V, 316 pp. [Index of Arms, Index of Names]. With the Supplement & The Account of Middlesex (493 pages) with nine plates, some folding. Index Names & Titles. General Index. Engraved vignette title in all volumes, engraved dedication leaf to the Earl of Oxford in Vol. I, engraved frontispiece map in Vols. I,II, and IV: 68 plates (3 colored), 5 folding plates, 2 folding tables, 1 folding plan: 94 plates in total. Horace Wolpole, Earl of Oxford, appointed him chaplain and encouraged him in this design. "Many of the illustrations accompanying the book were drawn and etched by the author. The whole forms a work of permanent value; the…
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Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott
by Scott, Sir Walter
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. Hardcover. Small gauge backcover of Vol. II. Ex-library. Navy buckram. 2 vols. Very good. 445 & 442 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Frontispieces, text clean, extensive index, map of Abbotsford (repaired).
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Farmington
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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green pictorial front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 277 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Signed presentation copy. "In remembrance of my one night stand in Yoho Valley" from Clarence S. Darrow to my friends JW Barker/Gladys Barker. Yoho Valley situated in British Columbia, Canada. In a later biography Darrow confesses that the misery of lives he touched made him wish he were never born. This work written in mid life reflects on his rural upbringing and childhood in Ohio with Darrow's inimitable and incisive humor. Two pages of reviews of this title at rear. Laid-in, a portrait of Darrow and commentary on his early life. Clean, bright copy.
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Four Score Years Of Sport
by Kendall, Walter G.
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Boston: The Stratford Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy nubby cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. 201 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Dr. Kendall. A compendium of Kendall's sports interests including Dogs and Self Defense.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
by Farr, Finis
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New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 293 pages. 21 x 14 cm. 49 Illustrations. Index. Clean, fresh copy.
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Frank Lloyd Wright An Interpretive Biography
by Twombly, Robert C.
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New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 373 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Illustrated. Index. Clean, fresh copy.
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The History, Antiquities And Topography Of The County Of Sussex
by Horsfield, Thomas Walker
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Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown leather and marbled boards. Very good. 2 vols. 592 [15] & 274 [90] [XV] [VIII]. 33 x 26 cm. The Subscriber's Copy with label, priced at 4 pounds, 4 shillings, inside front cover paste down of Vol.I. Profusely illustrated: fifty-six copperplate engravings with tissue guards, eighty wood engravings, plus two folding maps. List of Subscribers, Indices and publisher adverts. Comprehensive review of the history of Sussex: presenting towns, parishes, manor houses and biographies. Text generally clean, toning to plates mostly in the margins, moderate wear tips and edges.
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John Henry Nash The Biography of a Career
by Harlan, Robert D.
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Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth embossed and lettered in silver. Fine in near fine original mylar dust wrapper. 167 pages. illustrated. Bibliography.Index. University of California Publications in Librarianship: 7. Lovely, crisp copy.
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