Pequot 2019 Book Sale

Old Man and the Sea

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A Moveable Feast

$94

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Publisher: Scribners

Year: 1964

Description: First printing / first edition of Hemingway's memoir of Paris in the 20s ("If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast"). NOT price clipped ($4.95). Original NY Times Book Review laid in 5/10/64.

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Fifth Column

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Nick Adams Stories

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A Farewell to Arms

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Monsieur Martin

$19

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In Cold Blood

Author: Truman Capote

Publisher: Random house

Year: 1966

Description: STATED FIRST PRINTING. This First issue dustjacket has the "1/66" code on the front flap and "Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library" on the rear flap. This ORIGINAL price not clipped dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. A very nice copy.

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Struggles and Triumph

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Reign of Ferdinand & Isabella

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Many Marriages

$88

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Nearer the Grass Roots

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Home Town: The Face of America

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Dark Laughter

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: Boni & Liveright

Year: 1925

Description: Copy no. 87 of 350 copies in the signed limited edition. Bound in publisher's vellum spine and tips and black boards. Front cover joint is split. Novel about "the immediate post-war period in the Middle West, and the effects of the war on a marriage.

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Thousand Cranes

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Three Centuries of New Haven

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Mein Kampf

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Twelve Against the Gods

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Monarch, the Big Bear

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Rufus

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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew...

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Happy Birthday to You

Author: Dr. Seuss

Publisher: Random House

Year: 1959

Description: 1st Ed 1st Printing in dust jacket, has all first issue points (the 6 or 7 white dots to the bottom of "Today is your birthday!" page, "295/295" price to jacket flap, Yertle & Cat in the Hat Comes Back the last listed titles occurring in the 2 lists on rear flap.

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Julius

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Charlie &The Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

Publisher: Knopf

Year: 1964

Description: Full title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 1st edition / second issue. $3.95 on front flap of torn dust jacket, mustard endpapers, chocolate stained top edge, and 5-line colophon are key points of 2nd printing of this book. Previous owner's name on front end paper.

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Birthplace of Vermont

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The Lord Of The Rings

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Year: 1982-3

Description: Subtitle: 3 Volumes: Fellowship Of The Ring; Two Towers, Return Of The King. 2nd edition of the classic Set of the Lord of the Rings. In publisher's slipcase, with unclipped dust jackets on each volume (NOT book club). Copyright dates 1982-1883.

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The Constitution

Author:

Publisher: National Braille Press

Year: 1989

Description: The Constitution of the United States (Braille Edition). Braille edition prepared by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. Printed/ dated (July 1989) letter from Warren Burger (ex-Supreme Court Chief Justice) laid in.

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Memoirs of Montparnasse

Author: John Glassco

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year: 1970

Description: Signed. Glassco was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist. "Memoirs of Montparnasse should be read and at last recognized as the most dramatic of the many narratives dealing with Paris in the 1920's." -- Malcolm Cowley, NY Times.

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Islands in the Stream

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Exile's Return

Author: Malcolm Cowley and Berenice Abbott

Publisher: Limited Editions Club

Year: 1981

Description: Subtitle: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's (signed by author and photographer). #1937 of 2000 copies. Signed by both the author and by the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott who contributed photos and an introduction for this book.

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Manon Lescaut

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Travel Sketches

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History of SpiritLake Massacre

Author: Mrs. Abbie Gardner-Sharp

Publisher: Kenyon Printing (Des Moines)

Year: 1910

Description: Full title: History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner . A scarce Iowa county history, important for its quite detailed account of Indian wars along the northwestern border of Iowa in the 1850s. Includes an autobiographical account of the captivity of Abigail Gardner.

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Thrilling Scenes Among Indians

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7 and 9 years among Camanches

Author: Edward Eastman

Publisher: Clark Johnson, MD

Year: 1874

Description: Full title: Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches, An Autobiography. Fabricated Indian captivity tale (or, in modern parlance, alternative facts) by "Edwin Eastman". Includes a testimonial for advertisement Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup which is hawked several times throughout the book.

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Marvels of the New West

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First Lessons in Nature Study

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Amer. Ephemeris Almanac 1900

Author:

Publisher: Bureau of Equipment (Washington DC)

Year: 1899

Description: Full title: The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for the Year 1900. A book chock full of charts and data about the position of the sun, the moon, planets, and stars, presumably as navigation aids. Of note are 2 color fold out maps of eclipses during the coming year (1900).

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Travels in South Africa..

Author: John Campbell

Publisher: Flagg and Gould

Year: 1816

Description: Full title: Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society. Hinges / binding is tight. With 6 plates, but missing the map and frontispiece. A very good reading copy; attractive on a bookshelf bound in vintage full leather.

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The Hobbit

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Year: 1966

Description: Subtitle: or There and Back Again. A beautiful copy of this Collector's edition in near mint condition. Green faux leather lettered in gilt with ornate gilt with matching publisher's slipcase. 7th printing? As indicated by "10 9 8 7" number line on copyright page.

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The Lord of the Rings

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Year: 1966

Description: A companion to the previous title. "Collector's Edition" in fine condition. Red faux leather lettered in gilt with ornate gilt with matching publisher's slipcase. 4th printing As indicated by "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 " number line on copyright page.

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Loss of American BrigCommerce

Author: James Riley

Publisher: James Riley (the author), New York

Year: 1818

Description: The full title is a mouthful: An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, a mariner's account in the Month of August, 1815 with an Account of the Suffering of her Surviving Officers and Crew, Who Were Enslaved by the Wandering Arabs. A foxed but complete copy having a damaged map, but all other plates present.

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Houses and Gardens

$313

Author: Baillie Scott

Publisher: George Newnes Ltd.

Year: 1906

Description: 1st edition of this influential and handsome volume of designs by renowned British architect, Baillie Scott, known especially for his Arts and Crafts style. Color frontispiece, 16 color plates, 22 other plates, and many other illustrations

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Lawson History -America's Cup

$375

Author: Winfield M. Thompson & Thomas W. Lawson.

Publisher:

Year: 1902

Description: Full title: The Lawson History of the America's Cup. A Record of Fifty Years. #486 of a limited edition of 3,000. An account of the first 50 years of the most famous sailing race. 18 color chromolithographs and 70 other plates with captioned tissue guards. Joints are worn, a few pages in front are loose, and some water staining. Still a rare, highly sought after work.

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All about Dogs

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In Heart of Canadian Rockies

Author: James Outram

Publisher: Macmillan

Year: 1905

Description: Full title: In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies. First edition in fine / bright condition. 3 color maps including a large folding map and 46 plates. Outram was a noted climber who made the first ascents of Mounts Assiniboine, Lyell, Bryce, Columbia, Forbes, and other peaks.

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All Around the World

$313

Author:

Publisher: Selmar Hess

Year: 1890

Description: Full title: All Around the World: an Illustrated Record of Voyages, Travels and Adventures in all Parts of the Globe (4 volumes - complete). Hundreds of illustrations including dozens of b&w full page engravings, with tissue guards. Gilt edges and titles, tightly bound and clean books with only slight wear to edges of boards. A very attractive set.

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Life and Letters

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The Penny Magazine

Author:

Publisher: Charles Knight

Year: 1834

Description: Full title: The Penny Magazine of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (1834). Vintage half-leather binding. The Penny Magazine was published weekly and existed from 1832 to 1845. It was an attempt to supply a cheap and informative periodical for the masses in the wake of the political agitation and demand of the early 1830's. A good way to acquire some useful knowledge...

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The World of Atlanta

Author: Norman Shavin

Publisher: Capricorn

Year: 1986

Description: Full title: The World of Atlanta (signed an dated by Mayor Andrew Young). Signed "Welcome to Atlanta, Peace and Blessings, Andrew Young June 3, 1986." Embossed gilt seal from the Mayor's Office on front free endpaper. Color photographs of life in Atlanta.

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Christmas Eve

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Nicodemus and the Gang

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The Book of Sport

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Sartoris

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Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock

Year: 1939

Description: Presumed First Reynal & Hitchcock Edition, with no later editions indicated on copyright page. Published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. Staining to edge of jacket and text, as well as some crinkling of pages due to water stain.

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Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

Author: Charles Wesley, M.A.

Publisher: E.P. Dutton (NY)

Year: 1890

Description: Full title: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing: with illustrations from the old masters. 15 monochrome engravings of angels, Madonna, Jesus, etc. with 2-3 lines of text opposite each engraving. A lovely book / great gift at Christmas time.

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The Jungle Books

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The Temptation of St. Anthony

Author: Gustave Flaubert (translated by Lafcadio Hearn)

Publisher: Limited Editions Club

Year: 1941

Description: Full title: The Temptation of St. Anthony (signed Limited Editions club). Limited edition, numbered 112 of 1500 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Warren Chappell on limitation page. Slipcase is worn. Book is in fine condition.

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Flowering of New England

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The Civil War-Narrative vol.1

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The Civil War-Narrative vol.2

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The Civil War-Narrative vol.3

92

A Town Like Alice

Author: Neil Shute

Publisher: Heinemann

Year: 1950

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1950 with correct red cloth and vignette to the front board, and with the rich red top stain. Chipped, but unclipped price jacket (10s6d). Listed in BBC's 2003 Big Read of 200 best novels.

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Salt in the Wound

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Poor White

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Horses and Men

$188

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American Country Fair

$188

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Perhaps Women

$188

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: Horace Liveright (NY)

Year: 1931

Description: 1st edition in good dust jacket with chips and one tear. This work "observes how modern industry ... have usurped the strength of man and rendered him impotent. It is to women that he attributes ... The dominating voice in the affairs of the future". Striking thoughts from 87 years ago..

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French Wines & Havana Cigars

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Stephen Hero

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Appointment in Samarra

$19

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What Will He Do With It?

Author: Pisistratus Caxton

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons

Year: 1875

Description: Subtitle: (2 Volumes). Original two volume set in half leather with marbled covers and endpapers, and raised spine. First printing of the Routledge edition of 1875. Frontispiece by Hablot K Browne to both volumes. Internally clean.

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Night & Morning

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Last Days of Pompeii

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My Novel

108

Hebrew and English..Dictionary

Author: W. L. Roy

Publisher: Stanford & Swords

Year: 1855

Description: Full title: A Complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary, On a New and Improved Plan. Half leather with brown cloth boards with raised spine and gilt. A clean and solid copy. An important work "Containing all the words in the Holy Bible, both Hebrew and Chaldee, with the vowel points, prefixes, and affixes, as they stand in the original text; together with their derivation..."

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The Toyland Series

$250

Author: Josephine Lawrence

Publisher: Barse & Co.

Year: 1928

Description: Full title: The Toyland Series - Set number 1: Dollville Railroad, The Policeman Cat, The Unhappy Paper Doll. Scarce, highly sought after, extremely unusual with original dust box and dust jackets. The illustrator, Joseph C. Claghorn, was acclaimed for his work on this popular series.

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Sketches by Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: American Publishing Company

Year: 1875

Description: Original decorative blue cloth with black and gold gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition, second state. Filled with charming illustrations. An early collection of Twain's shorter pieces "Now First Published in Complete Form." A landmark of American literature.

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The Circus

Author: Isaac Greenwood

Publisher: The Dunlap Society

Year: 1898

Description: Full title: The Circus: Its Origin And Growth Prior To 1835. Scarce history of the circus prior to 1835. Contains 12 black & white illustrations, one folding. Binding is tight and all pages are intact and clean. Library binding

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Struggles+Triumphs-Barnum 1869

Author: P.T. Barnum

Publisher: J.B. Burr & Company

Year: 1869

Description: Full title: Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum. First edition of Barnum's chronicles of his early life, start as a showman, foreign travels, and eventual success. Binding is tight and all pages are intact. Brown embossed boards with faded decorative spine, and illustrations throughout.

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Struggles+Triumphs-Barnum 1870

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Struggles+Triumphs-Barnum 1875

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Microbes of Merit

Author: Otto Rahn

Publisher: Jacques Cattell Press

Year: 1945

Description: Who says that scientists can't have a sense of humor? We loved this title, with chapters including: Bacteria Among Themselves; 1941 Census of Bacteria; When Bacteria Blunder. The icing on the cake is that our copy is signed by the author.

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A Nest of Simple Folk

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Giants in the Earth

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Famine

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The Bells

Author: Edgar Allen Poe

Publisher: Porter & Coates (Phila.)

Year: 1881

Description: 1st edition of this Edgar A. Poe poem, which was not published until after his death. Lovely beveled boards with gold and silver stamped flowers framing an angel underneath a bell. Illustrated with 22 b/w engravings. Fine condition.

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Old Oaken Bucket

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Young Lonigan (signed)

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The Story of King Arthur..

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The story of the Grail..

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The Chapman Report

Author: Irving Wallace

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Year: 1960

Description: Stated First edition / First Printing. Wallace's 5th published work. We are also offering a large selection of other First Printing editions by Wallace and other mid/late 20th century at $3-4 each (can be found in "old and interesting" section of sale in auditorium.

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A season in Hell

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Barrack-Room Ballads

129

Scribner's Magazine

130

Medical+Topographical...

Author: G.R.B. Horner, M.D., U.S.N.

Publisher: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell

Year: 1839

Description: Full title: Medical and Topographical Observations Upon the Mediterranean; and Upon Portugal, Spain, and Other Countries. A surgeon's account of his travels through Europe, and the medical institutions, diseases, and curiosities which he observed there. Heavy foxing

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3 Dissertations-Boylston Prize

Author: George Cheyne Shattuck, M.D.

Publisher: Farrand, Mallory, & Co

Year: 1808

Description: Full title: Three Dissertations on Boylston Prize Questions for the Years 1806 and 1807. Contains 3 prestigious Boylston Prize-winning dissertations by Shattuck (1784-1854). Shattuck was a co-founder of 'New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery" and also helped finance printing of Audubon's "Birds of America". A reading copy with boards detached.

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Conversations on Chemistry

Author: J.L. Comstock

Publisher: Oliver D. Cooke (Hartford)

Year: 1822

Description: Full title: Conversations on Chemistry; in Which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments. Full calf leather with red leather spine label. Moderate foxing and toning. With 16 copper plate engravings.

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Leopold Auenbruggers ...

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The Winged Horse

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The Trees

Author: Conrad Richter

Publisher: Knopf

Year: 1940

Description: Full title: The Trees (limited edition of 255 copies). First installment in Richter's The Awakening Land trilogy, set in the wilderness of central Ohio, ca.1795. Advance Issue, #108 of 255 copies numbered on slipcase and in book, "made by Alfred A. Knopf for his Bookseller Friends" .

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Kneel to the Rising Sun

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Marching Men

138

TAR, A Midwest Childhood

139

Sherwood Anderson's Plays

$19

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The Furys

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Gas-House McGinty

$313

Author: James T. Farrell

Publisher: Vanguard Press

Year: 1933

Description: Farrell's second novel. Inscribed by the author "To Cap Pearce Jim Farrell", in price unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. Working-class life in Chicago gets a gritty, hardboiled treatment from the author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy.

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Rosebud Annual (1922)

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Rosebud Annual (1924)

147

Rosebud Annual (1925)

148

Dona Perfecta

150

A Hoosier Holiday

$250

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Publisher: John Lane

Year: 1916

Description: First Edition, FIRST PRINTING with "The War! The War" on page 173. 32 pencil and charcoal sketches by Franklin Booth who accompanied Dreiser on the automobile trip to the author's first home in Indiana that is described here. With scarce dust jacket. Previous owner's name appears on end page and title page.

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Valley Of Squinting Windows

Author: Brinsley MacNamara

Publisher: Brentano's

Year: 1919

Description: Full title: The Valley Of The Squinting Windows. First US edition of Brinsley MacNamara's first published novel. A very controversial story of an Irish priest that enraged his local community that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile.

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The Lake

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Two Years Before the Mast

Author: Henry Dana Dana, Jr.

Publisher: James R. Osgood

Year: 1876

Description: Full title: Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative. Personal narrative of life at sea, orig pub anonymously in 1840, which Melville indicated was an inspiration for his "Moby Dick". This edition includes author's addition of "24 Years After," describing his "nostalgic return to California in 1859." Remnants of period newspaper clippings laid in.

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Hidden Phase of Amer. History

Author: Michael O'Brien

Publisher: Dodd Mead

Year: 1920

Description: Full title: A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland's Part in America's struggle for Liberty. An account with great detail, letters and statistics of Irish troops fighting in Washington's army. The author was an Itish historian with Separatist sentiments, Front and rear inner hinges beginning to separate but still firm.

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Our National Parks

Author: John Muir

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Year: 1902

Description: Presumed second edition. Forest green cloth-backed boards with gilt-stamped and illustrated front. Contains numerous illustrations first published in the Atlantic Monthly. Oddly, the presumed second edition is much scarcer than the first edition.

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Jungle Book

157

Second Jungle Book

158

Poetical Works of Whitter

$35

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Year: 1891

Description: Full title: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. A beautiful volume of the complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier, the influential American Quaker poet. Half leather with marbled boards and endpapers, top gilt, and red spine label and 5 raised bands.

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Legend of Camelot

Author: George Du Maurier

Publisher: Harper and Brothers

Year: 1898

Description: Full title: Legend of Camelot, Pictures and Poems, Etc.. Interesting period poems and illustrations in an folio sized book, mostly taken from the pages of "punch". Ex-Library with vintage library label on front board and check-out pouch rear board. Text is unmarked and very clean.

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Camping and Woodcraft

161

The Story of a Trooper

162

The Land of Gold

163

Cavalleria Rusticana

Author: Giovanni Verga

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Year: 1928

Description: Full title: Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (intro by D.H. Lawrence). First edition in original dustjacket with chips on edge of jacket, and tear along spine. Nine short stories including the most well known title story, which was used as the basis for Mascagni's opera. Translated by with introduction from D.H.Lawrence.

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Harriett Martineau Biography

Author: Harriett Martineau

Publisher: James R. Osgood

Year: 1877

Description: Full title: Harriett Martineau's Autobiography. Two volume set. Marbled paper-covered boards and endpapers in half leather. Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.

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Brambletye House & Anne Grey

Author: Horace, Henry Thomas Smith

Publisher: Wallis & Newell

Year: 1835

Description: Full title: Brambletye House and Anne Grey. 2 volumes bound in one -- "Franklin Library", likely privately bound near time of publication. Marbled paper covered boards with half leather. Significant foxing and wear.

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Marvels of the New West

168

The Religion of Israel

169

The Negro In America

Author: T.J. Morgan

Publisher: American Baptist Public Society

Year: 1898

Description: Full title: The Negro In America And The Ideal American Republic. A collection of 7 essays including "Negroes in the Civil War, The Higher Education of Negro Women, and Negrophobia". Morgan was a minister whose father was an abolitionist and whose grandfather was a slaveholder.

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Real Story Book

171

Threshold of Fear

172

Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

174

Les Miserables

175

Education of a Poker Player

Author: Herbert O. Yardley

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Year: 1957

Description: Full title: The Education of a Poker Player. Stated first printing. An instructional guide to the game of poker, told through stories of the author's best poker stories Yardley founded the cryptographic organization the Black Chamber, which cracked the Japanese Diplomatic Code prior to WW2.

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Cowboys North and South

177

Trout, Deluxe Edition

Author: Ernest Schwiebert

Publisher: E.P. Dutton

Year: 1978

Description: Full title: Trout, Deluxe Edition (signed / numbered). Signed by author and numbered (#140/750) with actual fly boxed in by the publisher. 2 volumes set on trout and fly fishing. Illustrated by the author with line drawings and colored plates. With worn but original slipcase.

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Blackboard Jungle

180

Stanley in Africa

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African Game Trails-1910

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher: Syndicate Publishing Company

Year: 1910

Description: Cover features a dramatic bold and color embossed scene of Roosevelt shooting a lion. Illustrated with color plates and over two hundred photographs. An early decorative edition of this popular title in very good condition.

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African Game Trails-1926

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Esther Waters

184

Feeling is the Secret

185

The Bridge

188

The Summing Up

189

The Council of Egypt

191

Two By Two

$18

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Men Without Women

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In Our Time

194

Winner Take Nothing

195

Cathedral Stories

196

Outlines of Economics

Author: Richard Ely

Publisher: Flood & Vincent (NY)

Year: 1893

Description: The state of economics 125 years ago. Ely was Founder of the American Economic Association and one of the most influential economists of his time. The way it was before Keynes, Friedman, and Kudlow(?!) advanced this field.

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Wayside Blossoms: Poems

198

American Bastile

200

Examen historico-criticum ..

$200

Author: P. Paulino, A S. Bartholomaeo.

Publisher: Ex Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, Romae

Year: 1792

Description: Full title: Examen historico-criticum codicum Indicorum. Very early catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts. Printed on fine laid paper, with custom cloth binding. Philip Wesdin ("Paulino Batholomaeo") was a missionary who spent 15 years in the Far East from 1774-1789.

201

Chess Openings-1901: copy 1

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Chess Openings-1901: Copy 2

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Chess Player's Compendium

$8

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Chess Openings -1896

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Chess Openings - 1900

206

Our Islands and Their People

Author: Major-General Joseph Wheeler

Publisher: Thompson Publishing

Year: 1905

Description: Full title: Our Islands and Their People as Seen with Camera and Pencil: 2 Volumes. Folio Sized (16 x 11") hard-cover 2-volume set. Each page with black and white and/or color photos and accounts of Hawaii, Philippines, Cuba, and others. Boards and bindings are heavily worn but volumes are complete.

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The Glory of the Pharaohs

209

Social Diagnosis

Author: Mary Richmond

Publisher: Russell Sage

Year: 1921

Description: This work is considered the classic in social work literature. Miss Richmond, described as the mother of social casework, first established the scientific methodology of professional social work. First edition (1917), 7th printing.

210

The Saga of King Olaf

Author: John Sephton, Translator

Publisher: David Nutt (London)

Year: 1895

Description: Full title: The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason Who Reigned Over Norway A. D. 995 to A. D. 1000. Everything you wanted to know about King Olaf from a millennium ago. Unlike translations of many Nordic sagas, this is quite readable and a gripping story.

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Boston and the Boston Legend

212

Structure of Politics-George 3

214

Unsafe at Any Speed

Author: Ralph Nader

Publisher: Grossman

Year: 1965

Description: A book which resulted in monumental changes for the automobile industry. Nader's groundbreaking work was considered among the top 50 journalistic efforts of the 20th century. 1st edition / 2nd printing in worn but complete dust jacket.

215

Historic Gardens of Virginia

216

Our Gardens

217

Ten Years on Wall Street

Author: Wm. Worthington Fowler

Publisher: Washington, Dustin (Hartford)

Year: 1870

Description: Full title: Ten Years on Wall Street; or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on Change. First edition of the author's memoir of Wall Street. Includes the "histories, mysteries, and men of the 'Street'". Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page, and 15 similar plates. Very good copy with tight binding.

218

Farthest North

$150

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1897

Description: Full tite: Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram" 1893-96 and of a 15 Months' Sleigh Journey. First edition - nice copy. COMPLETE with 4 maps in 2 pockets of the first volume. 16 colored plates, and more than 100 b/w photos and plates. A history of the Norwegian Polar Expedition which reached the highest latitude of all explorations to date.

219

Sermons and Soda-Water

Author: John O'Hara

Publisher: Random House

Year: 1960

Description: (3 volume set / signed). A collection of short stories in three volumes in a slipcase. Individual volumes are: "The Girl on the Baggage Trunk," "Imagine Kissing Peter," and "We're Friends Again." Signed on a tipped-in sheet in the first volume.

220

Beyond the Bund

221

...The Great Rebellion..

Author: Horace Greeley

Publisher: O.D. Case & Company, Hartford

Year: 1866

Description: Full title: The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion : 1860-'65 (2 vols.). A detailed account of the Civil War with 10 steel engravings and more than 45 plates. A reading copy in original leather binding, but lack the spine. Text is clean and complete.

222

A record of War Activities

223

Some Apostles of Physiology

224

Treatise on Therapeutics...

Author: George B. Wood

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott

Year: 1868

Description: Full title: Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology or Materia Medica, in 2 Volumes (complete). 2 volume original leather-bound medical / pharmaceutical set in very good condition. An important reference on the state of medicine 150 years ago.

225

Treatise on Human Anatomy

$94

226

Bo-Peep Story Books

Author:

Publisher: Leavitt & Allen, NY

Year: c 1870

Description: 6 classic stories bound in one including Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Rosetta, and the Fair one and Gold Locks. Part of Leavitt's "The Little Books" series, with embossed cloth books.

227

Little House on the Prairie

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1935 (1945)

Description: Stated 16th edition of the 1935 original publication, also illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. This copy was printed in July 1945 as indicated by Harper's code "G-U". Crayon marking on one illustration.

228

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1937 (1945)

Description: Stated 11th edition of the 1937 original publication, also illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. This copy was printed in January 1945 as indicated by Harper's code "A-U". Crayon marking on one illustration.

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Publisher: Harper & Bros.

Year: 1939

Description: First edition, 1st printing? with Harper code I-O on copyright page (October 1939). Illustrated by Helen Sewell & Mildred Boyle. 5th fifth in the Little House series; this won the Newbery Honor award in 1940. A worn copy.

230

The Long Winter

231

Meridiana

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong

Year: 1874

Description: Full title: Meridiana, or adventures in South Africa. First American edition. First state showing only two other titles by Verne on verso of title page: "Journey to the Moon" and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". Binding is tight.

233

Animal and Bird in Picture

234

Across Arctic America

Author: Knud Rasmussen

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's

Year: 1927

Description: Full title: Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition. First edition. Numerous plates, 4 maps (one folding), mapped endpapers. An account of an important Danish ethnological expedition (1921-1924) through Greenland, Northern Canada, and Alaska.

235

41st Report - CT Railroad

$94

Author:

Publisher: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford

Year: 1893

Description: Full title: 41st Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of Connecticut, to which are added statistical tables... for the year ending June 30, 1893. 362 pages with financial tables for the various railroads. Also bound in are 101 pages of Laws Related Specially to Railroads. Large folded color map of Connecticut and its railroads attached to end page by publisher.

236

Puppy and Pussy Book

237

Byron Gallery of Engravings

Author: Robert B. McGregor

Publisher: Martin

Year: 1849

Description: Full title: The Byron Gallery of Highly Finished Engravings, Illustrating Lord Byron's Works. With Selected Beauties from His Poems. Highly decorated green tooled leather cover with gilt fantasy forest scene. Remarkably clean pages with many tissue guarded plates. Spine detached and binding is loose.

238

The Works of Cornelius Tacitus

239

Gems by the Wayside

Author: Mrs. L. G. Abell

Publisher: Holdredge

Year: 1850

Description: Full title: Gems by the Wayside or an Offering of Purity and Truth. Full leather with gilt decoration on both boards and spine. Portrait of Abell as frontispiece and many plates throughout. Binding is tight but spine is heavily worn.

240

Travels / Discoveries - Africa

Author: Henry Barth

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1857

Description: Full title: Travels & Discoveries in North & Central Africa. Being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1850 Vol. 1. Profusely illustrated with African plates in a handsome chocolate brown leather tooled cover. Some splitting at the spine but otherwise tight and all intact and includes a fold-out colorized map of the Barth's travel route through Africa. Vol. 1 of a 3 vol set.

241

Pastoral - Disney's Fantasia

242

Leaves of Grass

Author: Walt Whitman

Publisher: Collectors Reprints

Year: 1992

Description: Limited edition. One of 2500 copies. Bound in green cloth boards with gilt title and decoration to spine and front cover. Letterpress printed from plates made directly from a copy of the first issue of the first edition on acid free paper.

243

Token: Gift for all Seasons

244

Ninety-Three

245

Ben-Hur

246

Memoirs of Court of King James

Author: Lucy Aiken

Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London

Year: 1822

Description: Full title: Memoirs of the Court of King James the First. Two Volume Set in quarter leather with marbled covers and end papers. Raised spine with gilt title and top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece in each volume.

247

The Wayward Bus

248

This is My God

$23

249

The Modern House

250

On The Margin

251

Paintings of Audubon...

Author: John James Audubon

Publisher: American Heritage

Year: 1966

Description: Full title: The Original Water-Color Paintings of John James Audubon for the Birds of America.(2 vol set). Color reproductions from the Collection at the New-York Historical Society. 2 volume set in worn slipcase. Books are clean and fresh.

252

Turner Gallery-120 engravings

$375

Author: J.M.W. Turner

Publisher: Appleton

Year: 1880

Description: Full title: Turner Gallery, a series of 120 engravings (2 volumes). A 2 volume set of the superb engravings after Turner, and among the finest work of the finest of British steel engravers of the period. Text is sound, but the boards of volume 1 are detached. Still a lovely set .

253

Sherman and His Campaigns

254

East Of Sun & West of Moon

Author: Kay Nielsen, illus.

Publisher: George H. Doran

Year: c 1925

Description: Full title: East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon: Old Tales From The North. Collection of Northern European fairy tales with b&w illustrations and beautiful color plates by Kay Nielsen. Heavily worn, hinges split, some pages loose, but still a complete copy.

256

The Golden Days Of '49

257

Hobby Horse Hill

Author: Lavinia R. Davis

Publisher: Doubleday

Year: 1947

Description: (Signed). Junior Books (1947) edition. Good and bad aspects of this book: Bad: Dust jacket has several tears, and is missing a 2 x 0.5" section on rear; Several illustrations colored by previous owner. Good: Scarce still attractive dust jacket; inscribed by author.; reasonably priced(?!)

258

Black Stallion and Satan

259

Dr. Morton, Pioneer in Ether

260

Our Virgin Island

261

Tarzan's Quest

262

Kit Brandon: A Portrait

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: Scribners

Year: 1936

Description: First printing with Scribners "A" and seal. A later but important work for Anderson, a Depression novel firmly in the proletarian mode. Set in the mountains of Tennessee among textile workers and moonshiners. Chips along edges of dust jacket.

265

Boys Scout Tests ..

Author: Robert E. Young

Publisher: James Brown & Son (Glasgow)

Year: 1913

Description: Full title: Boys Scout Tests and How to Pass Them ; Complete Instructions in All the Tests. Worn but complete early guide for Boy Scouts with 10 pages of ads at the start of the book. Printed in Scotland for UK scouts.

267

Recollections of the Civil War

268

Chancellorsville & Gettysburg

269

Boots and Saddles

$60

Author: Elizabeth B. Custer

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1885

Description: Libby Custer was a strong advocate for her deceased husband, but her works are also a goldmine of information on daily military life in the Dakota Territory. Front cover features a gilt sunrise over the Black Hills, gilt titling with a bugle and musical score. This is the more desirable 2nd printing with frontispiece of George Armstrong Custer and map of Montana & Dakota and chocolate color endpapers.

270

Polaris Expedition

Author: Rear Admiral C.H., edited by Davis

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Year: 1876

Description: The official U.S. Naval account of the Polaris Expedition from 1871-73. Frontispiece miniature steel engraved portrait of Captain Hall and a steel engraved illustration of the U.S.S. Polaris. Illustrated with 6 maps, woodcuts, tailpieces, and 2 photolithographs. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt illustrated dog sledding team on front cover.

271

Beautiful Thoughts - Carlyle

272

Fate of Sir John Franklin

$55

Author: Captain McClintock

Publisher: Ticknor and Fields

Year: 1860

Description: Full title: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. Author's Edition as stated. Covers boards badly faded and binding starting to separate. Book all intact including five appendices, sixteen black and white illustrations, two fold-out maps including Arrowsmith's 1859 pull-out map at rear, and two sketch maps.

273

Tony Sarg's Surprise Book

274

The Greene Murder Case

$113

Author: S.S. Van Dine

Publisher: Scribners

Year: 1928

Description: A mystery only solvable by the skillful detective, Philo Vance, and his "unique psychological methods of deduction." Basis for the Paramount Picture starring William Powell. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1st state, with 1928 in Roman numerals on title page (MCMXXVIII) and "copyright 1928" on copyright page with Scribner's seal.

275

The Pilgrim's Progress

276

Recollections of Auton House

277

My Uncle the Clockmaker

278

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

279

Pride and Prejudice

280

Effects of Nuclear Weapons

Author: Samuel Glasstone, ed.

Publisher: US Atomic Energy Commission

Year: 1962

Description: Full title: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Prepared by the U.S. Dep't of Defense. Illustrated with color frontis charts, diagrams, and b/w photos. Rear pocket holds the scarce plastic wheel calculator called "Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer", which was sold separately for $1 at that time. Ex-library copy.

281

Life of Major-General Harrison

Author: H. Montgomery

Publisher: Porter & Coates

Year: c 1885

Description: Full title: The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison. Spectacular period binding heavily decorated with gilt title on front board and spine. Frontis portrait of the 9th president, whose term lasted only 31 days. Tight binding and clean pages.

282

Life of James Abram Garfield

Author: William Ralston Balch

Publisher: Hubbard Bros.

Year: 1881

Description: Full title: The Life of James Abram Garfield. Salesman sample. Abridged. These books were carried door to door to sell the book. Frontis of Garfield and numerous illustrations, along with sample of spine affixed to back of front board. Partially tallied record of pre-sales bound in rear of book.

283

Life of Gen. Ben Harrison

Author: George Alfred Townsend and Gen. Lew Wallace

Publisher: S.S. Scranton

Year: 1888

Description: Full title: Life of Gen. Ben Harrison. Also, Life of Hon. Levi P. Morton. Decorated gray cloth with gilt and black lettering on the front cover and spine. This is a campaign biography prepared to introduce the men to the 1888 presidential campaign electorate.

284

Famous American Duels

285

Savannah Duels and Duellists

286

Lake Regions of Central Africa

287

Europa & Other Poems & Sonnets

288

Strand Magazine - vol 6 1893

Author:

Publisher: George Newnes, Limited

Year: 1893

Description: Full title: The Strand Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly - Vol. VI. July to December 1893. A very good copy in its sought-after original blue cloth decorated boards. One of the first popular illustrated monthlies, best known for introducing Sherlock Holmes to the public. Contains July - Dec 1893 issues, with the 20th-24th stories of A Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

289

Strand Magazine - vol 5 1893

Author:

Publisher: George Newnes, Limited

Year: 1893

Description: Full title: The Strand Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly - Vol. V January to June 1893. An early rebound version. One of the first popular illustrated monthlies, best known for introducing Sherlock Holmes to the public. Contains July - Dec 1892 issues, with the 14th-19th stories of A Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

290

The White Hills

291

War-Path:Adventures Wilderness

Author: J.B. Jones

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott

Year: 1856

Description: Full title: The War-Path: a Narrative of Adventures in the Wilderness. First edition narrative "with minute details of the captivity of sundry persons; amusing and perilous incidents udring their abode in the wild woods, fearful battles with the Indians". Wonderful use of adjectives in the title page alone!!

292

Writings of Mark Twain

293

Booklover's Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: University Society

Year: 1901

Description: Full title: Booklover's Edition of Shakepseare (39 volumes). Lovely set in fine condition, bound in 1/4 red leather with red cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spines and edges. 38 volumes plus topical index referencing geographical names, historical incidents, characters,etc. and providing explanation of allusions and obscure/ obsolete words/ phrases.

294

Roosevelt Versus Recovery

Author: Ralph Robey

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Year: 1934

Description: First edition of harsh critique of Roosevelt's New Deal by a contributor to the Washington Post. As noted on the scarce jacket "Recovery was under way before Roosevelt started… More billions of public money cnnot prime the recovery pump." Thankfully Rovey was not an economic advisor to FDR..

296

Lotos Leaves

Author: John Brougham, ed.

Publisher: William F. Gill

Year: 1875

Description: Original stories, essays, and poems of various period authors, including Tennyson, Twain, Collins. Spectacular Victorian original binding - gilt-blocked and elaborately tooled cloth over bevelled boards. This book, a product of the literary Lotos Club. took its name from Tennyson's poem "The Lotos Eaters".

297

Piero della Francesca Didera

Author: Roberto Longhi

Publisher: Edizioni D'arte Sidera, Milan

Year: 1951

Description: (#396/500). FRENCH EDITION. Piero della Francesca's Legend of the Cross (Frescoes in Arezzo, Italy). Includes an essay about Piero in Arezzo and a list of the 39 color plates depciting the frescoes. With original numbered cardboard slipcase.

298

Piero della Francesca Didera

$44

Author: Roberto Longhi

Publisher: Edizioni D'arte Sidera, Milan

Year: 1951

Description: ((#427/500)). FRENCH EDITION. Piero della Francesca's Legend of the Cross (Frescoes in Arezzo, Italy). Includes an essay about Piero in Arezzo and a list of the 39 color plates depciting the frescoes. With original numbered cardboard slipcase.

300

Little Women (Part 1)

$8

301

My Polar Flight

302

Our Polar Flight

303

Nearest the Pole

304

The North Pole

305

Wilderness of the Upper Yukon

Author: Charles Sheldon

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Year: 1911

Description: Full title: The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon. Travelogue on the Alaska and British Columbia region by the noted conservationist nicknamed the "Father of Denali National Park." Dark green boards with gilt lettering and graphic of Dall Sheep. Colored frontis from a painting by Carl Rungius, tissue-guarded.

306

Three Years of Arctic Service

Author: Adolphus W. Greely

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Year: 1886

Description: (2 volumes). "Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84. The commander, Greely, provides vivid accounts of camp life, geography, and their explorations which left all but 6 of the team dead from starvation. Rebound. Heavily illustrated and large folding map included.

307

Yellowstone National Park

308

Skyline Camps

309

Story of San Francisco Horror

Author: Rev. Samuel Fallows (intro.)

Publisher: Hubert D. Russell

Year: 1906

Description: Full title: Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror. A very good copy of an account of the 1906 SF Earthquake and its aftermath. Published very shortly after the disaster. Interestingly, as if that disaster wasn't enough of a selling point, this book "also comprises a vivid portrayal of the recent death-dealing Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius"

310

The Little White Bird

Author: J.M. Barrie

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Year: 1902

Description: Full title: The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens. Peter Pan's first appearance. First US edition in very good condition. Dark green cloth binding, ruled and titled in gilt, with a gilt illustration of an English garden on the front board.

311

Corvette Guide

312

A History of the Destruction..

313

A Maggot

314

Hand-Book of Saratoga

Author: R.L. Allen

Publisher: W. H. Arthur & Co.

Year: 1859

Description: Full title: Hand-Book of Saratoga, and Strangers' Guide. Rare. History of the origins of Saratoga and its mineral springs. Attractive embossed purple boards with gilt lettering and decoration with illustrations. Binding still tight and some foxing.

315

Pictorial History of the War

316

House of the Sleeping Beauties

Author: Yasunari Kawabata

Publisher: Kodansha

Year: 1969

Description: Full title: House of the Sleeping Beauties and other stories. Scarce stated first edition and "First translation of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest work." Kawabata was the first Japanese author to win the nobel Prize. 2nd printing in unclipped jacket with price Y1300 / $5.95

317

Translations

Author: John M. Synge

Publisher: Dolmen Press (Dublin)

Year: 1961

Description: Full title: Translations, edited from the Original Manuscripts by Robin Skelton (#158/750). Translations by Synge of manuscripts authored by Petrarch, Villon, and others. Limited edition, #158 of 750. In its original cardboard slipcase.

320

Country of the Pointed Firs

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Boston)

Year: 1896

Description: 1st edition, 2nd printing, of the author's most widely-known work, with the extra blank following the ad leaf and date in roman numerals on title page) . After the October 1st printing of 2524 copies had been exhausted, the publisher printed an additional 984 copies from Dec 5-11, just in time for Christmas.

321

Shakespeare's Songs & Sonnets

325

Valentine's Manual Old NewYork

327

Far Out

328

Far from the Madding Crowd

329

Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk

Author: Sir Walter Scott (name not given)

Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co.

Year: 1816

Description: Being one of the first British civilians to view the battlefield at Waterloo, Scott provides a close account of the conflict. Gilt title and decorations embossed on spine. Marbled boards in half leather. Moderate foxing.

330

Autobiography-Peter Cartwright

Author: Peter Cartwright

Publisher: Carlton and Porter

Year: 1856

Description: Full title: Autobiography of Peter Cartwright. Early printing of classic frontier life of a Methodist circuit rider. Cartwright, a Methodist missionary, helped start America's Second Great Awakening. Lincoln defeated Cartrwright in 1846 for a US Congressional seat. 1/4 leather binding with marbled endpapers, and gilt title on raised spine.

331

Dutch New York

332

Works of Laurence Sterne

Author: Laurence Sterne

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons

Year: c 1890

Description: Full title: Works of Laurence Sterne-- Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c.. Hand tooled quarter leather marbled boards with marbling on all edges. Binding is tight and pages are all clean with no foxing. Gilt decoration on raised spine. An exquisite specimen.

333

The Albert Nyanza / Nile

Author: Samuel White Baker

Publisher: Macmillan and Co; J.B. Lippincott and Co.

Year: 1866

Description: Full title: The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources. First single volume edition of this classic tale of African exploration. Rebound. Two colored maps at rear, one of which is missing a significant portion. Engraved frontis and numerous illustrations throughout.

334

Indian Horrors

335

Gold Fields of the Klondike

336

A Summer in Alaska

Author: Frederick Schwatka

Publisher: J.W. Henry

Year: 1893

Description: Beautifully illustrated account of an 1883 US military and geographical expedition through Alaska, traversing the Inland Passage. Numerous engravings taken from photographs & sketches. Rebound but original red leather embossed boards retained.

337

The Forget-Me-Not for 1848

339

Arctic Explorations

Author: Elisha Kent Kane

Publisher: Childs & Peterson

Year: 1856

Description: Full title: Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Brown embossed cloth, beautifully illustrated with steel plates. Binding is tight but pages are heavily foxed. Fold out map torn but intact. Volume 2 only.

340

The Voyage of the Jeannette

341

Stanley's Adventures -Africa

342

In Darkest Africa

$28

343

Livingstone & Africa...

$43

Author: S.O.; Smith, Ronald Beeton

Publisher: Adams, Victor & Co.

Year: 1872

Description: Full title: Livingstone and his African Explorations. Scarce title. Brown cloth with gilt title and cover decorations. Frontis of Livingstone. An account of various exploratory expeditions through equatorial Africa, focusing primarily on the exploits of Henry Stanley, who is arguably the most notable 19th century explorer of the Dark Continent.

344

Alice's Adventures Wonderland

345

Death Stalk

346

A Theological Dictionary

$35

347

The History of the Civil War

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Publisher: Gurdon Bill

Year: 1863-66

Description: Full title: The History of the Civil War in America (2 volumes, complete). Original hand tooled full leather boardswith marbled endpapers. Stunning steel engravings of battle scenes and portaits including a frontis of a very young Lincoln in Volume 1. Volume I was published mid-Civil War (1863); Volume 2 was cpmpleted post-war (1866). Foxing throughout but a magnificant set.

348

Recollections-Picture Dealer

349

Sir John Franklin & Companions

Author: Captain McClintock

Publisher: John Murray

Year: 1859

Description: Full title: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. The subject of the recent tv series "The Terror." This is the story of Franklin's lost expedition to explore the Arctic aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. An important book with an extensive geological account. Worn copy with boards separated and missing frontis.

350

A Sportsman's Sketches

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: The MacMillan Company

Year: 1906

Description: Full title: A Sportsman's Sketches: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev (2 volumes). In 2 Volumes. Half leather with blue cloth and raised spine. Collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev translated from Russian which was his first major writing to gain him recognition. A handsome set.

351

The Sun Also Rises

352

Life of Gen. George A Custer

Author: Frederick Whittaker

Publisher: Sheldon & Company

Date: 1876

Description: Full title: A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer. The first edition of this work, published three months after Battle of Little Big Horn. In original red cloth binding with pictorial boards. Frontis of Custer. Total of 17 plates including Native American portraits. Tight binding and clean pages. Some foxing.

353

Hunting with the Eskimos

399

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601

Apollo 11: Flight to the Moon

602

Car of Croesus

Author: Ernest Poole

Publisher: Macmillan

Year: 1930

Description: First printing identified "Published March, 1930" on copyright page. Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for The Family in 1918. Extremely scarce in the original dustjacket printed on metallic silver coated paper, with classic Art Deco design.

603

Mid-American Chants (signed)

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: John Lane Company

Year: 1918

Description: The first edition of Anderson's poetry collection. Signed by author. Scarce in dust jacket. Textured yellow boards with the title, author, and an ear of corn in gilt embossed in a dark framed background on the front cover. A clean and tight copy.

604

Sherwood Anderson's Notebook

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Publisher: Boni and liveright

Year: 1926

Description: Limited to 225 copies of which this is no. 106. Signed by author. Publisher's green cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label, green paper-covered slipcase in worn condition with printed label mounted to upper panel.

605

Think Like a Billionaire

Author: Donald J. Trump

Publisher: Random House

Year: 2004

Description: Whether or not you want to learn to think like this billionaire, the Trump family crest affixed to the first end page should provide some amusement to the owner of this book. This crest was copied from an identical registered coat of arms -- replacing the word "integritas" (integrity) with "Trump". Go figure.

606

Few and Chosen Dodgers

Author: Duke Snider & Phil Pepe

Publisher: Triumph Books

Year: 2006

Description: Signed on title page by Hall-of-Famer Duke Snider and co-author Phil Pepe (noted sports journalist for more than 50 years). Duke Snider, former Brooklyn Dodgers and LA Dodgers Hall of Famer recounts his 5 top Dodger players at each position.

607

The Closer: Mariano Rivera

608

The Giver (Signed)

609

The Good Life (signed)

610

Adrift on an Ice Pan (signed)

Author: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Year: 1926

Description: Canadian medical missionary's best-known work, an often anthologized, harrowing, incredible, but true anecdote of being trapped on a drifting ice-pan off the Newfoundland coast with only his sled dogs. Inscribed with an original pen drawing.

611

Chihuly: An Artist Collects

612

To the Moon