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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 543, [1]; iv, 492; engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I, folding facsimile frontispiece in vol. II; full recent gilt-ruled cat's paw calf by Bayntun, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, new endpapers; ex-Duluth Library with usual interior markings, recent owner has taped bookseller's description and magazine cutting to Vol. I front free endpaper and frontispiece verso, his ballpoint notes on front flyleaves; else a very good, nicely bound set. NCBEL III 266.
Chinese bamboo papermaking. With a preface by Henry Morris. A companion to Chinese Hand Made Paper, 1986 by McClure, Floyd Alonzo - 2011
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Chinese bamboo papermaking. With a preface by Henry Morris. A companion to Chinese Hand Made Paper, 1986
by McClure, Floyd Alonzo
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Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2011. Edition limited to 120 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. 92, [2]; 24 full-page facsimiles of paintings illustrating the papermaking process, photographs, linoleum block prints by McClure; original brown morocco-backed green cloth boards, black morocco label on spine; publisher's slipcase; fine.
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Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Moore, Thomas
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. ... Also, the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill-fowls, turkies, geese, ducks, pigeons... Collected from the best authors, with very considerable additions and improvements, experienced gentlemen
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London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm. D. Tarrant, almost certainly the same Tarrant as the mayor of Wichita 1965-67, and the Gun Dog Editor for Field & Stream, and twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo).
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John Mulholland's story of magic. Illustrated with photographs and old prints
by Mulholland, John
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New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935. First edition, small 4to, pp. 79, [1]; illustrated throughout; a near fine copy in a very slightly chipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Mulholland to Carl Jones, the Minneapolis magician on the half-title: "For Carl W. Jones, this account of a few of his friends, Cordially, John Mulholland." Newspaper shadow over all the inscription except the signature.
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Andromache: a tragedy freely translated into English in 1674 from Jean Racine's "Andromaque" by a young gentleman & John Crowne. Foreword by Desmond Flower
by Racine, Jean
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Lexington: Anvil Press, 1986. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 44), printed in red and black in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque uncial types; 4to, pp. 10, [2], iv, vii, [1], 51, [7]; text printed in red and black throughout; with 21 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel; fine. Original prospectus, order form, extra label, and an autograph note signed by Carolyn Hammer all laid in.
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The life of Samuel Johnson. LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain..
by Boswell, James
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London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds, and with the Round Robin plate, and the plate showing facsimile signatures of Johnson; nice copy in contemporary full calf neatly and pleasingly rebacked sometime in the 20th century, preserving the old red and black morocco labels on spine; all the standard cancels are present, per Pottle. Regarding the "give" (versus "gve") reading, Pottle notes that the "booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves." Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness, Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of the heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of the…
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Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 543, [1]; iv, 492; engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I, folding facsimile frontispiece in vol. II; full recent gilt-ruled cat's paw calf by Bayntun, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, new endpapers; ex-Duluth Library with usual interior markings, recent owner has taped bookseller's description and magazine cutting to Vol. I front free endpaper and frontispiece verso, his ballpoint notes on front flyleaves; else a very good, nicely bound set. NCBEL III 266.
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. ... Also, the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill-fowls, turkies, geese, ducks, pigeons... Collected from the best authors, with very considerable additions and improvements, experienced gentlemen
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London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm. D. Tarrant, almost certainly the same Tarrant as the mayor of Wichita 1965-67, and the Gun Dog Editor for Field & Stream, and twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo).
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John Mulholland's story of magic. Illustrated with photographs and old prints
by Mulholland, John
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New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935. First edition, small 4to, pp. 79, [1]; illustrated throughout; a near fine copy in a very slightly chipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Mulholland to Carl Jones, the Minneapolis magician on the half-title: "For Carl W. Jones, this account of a few of his friends, Cordially, John Mulholland." Newspaper shadow over all the inscription except the signature.
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Andromache: a tragedy freely translated into English in 1674 from Jean Racine's "Andromaque" by a young gentleman & John Crowne. Foreword by Desmond Flower
by Racine, Jean
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Lexington: Anvil Press, 1986. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 44), printed in red and black in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque uncial types; 4to, pp. 10, [2], iv, vii, [1], 51, [7]; text printed in red and black throughout; with 21 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel; fine. Original prospectus, order form, extra label, and an autograph note signed by Carolyn Hammer all laid in.
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The life of Samuel Johnson. LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain..
by Boswell, James
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London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, the so-called second state with "give" reading on p. 135 in vol. I, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588; engraved portrait frontispiece by Heath after Joshua Reynolds, and with the Round Robin plate, and the plate showing facsimile signatures of Johnson; nice copy in contemporary full calf neatly and pleasingly rebacked sometime in the 20th century, preserving the old red and black morocco labels on spine; all the standard cancels are present, per Pottle. Regarding the "give" (versus "gve") reading, Pottle notes that the "booksellers have given this rather uninteresting 'point' more attention than it deserves." Celebrated for its intimacy and vividness, Boswell's Life of Johnson "is one of the best books in the world. It is assuredly a great, very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of the heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of the…
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