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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.
The United States Border Patrol by Bill Crawford - 1965
by Bill Crawford
The United States Border Patrol
by Bill Crawford
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Good. Most were deemed offensive and destroyed. A unique Collectible! A 1960's Era Biography of the United Stated Border Patrol. An interesting and provocative look back. Emphasis is on the problems with the Border with Mexico and its associated issues and enforcement protocols. 1965 Hardcover, Second Impression, Retired Elementary School Book with Institutional markings, stamped as "Discarded". Most were deemed offensive and destroyed. A unique Collectible! A 1960's Era Biography of the United Stated Border Patrol. No student names or scribbles, Tight Copy, minor reading wear. An interesting and provocative look back. Emphasis is on the problems with the Border with Mexico and its associated issues and enforcement protocols. 158 pages. + 6 1/8" x 8 1/4". In original glued on mylar cover.
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- Date Published 1965
- Keywords United Stated Border Patrol., law , polide,
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Poems
by Wilde, Oscar
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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Poems of Walt Whitman. Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti.
by Whitman, Walt
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- Used - See item description
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.
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A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it absolutely fruitful. Together with New Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England.
by Speechly, William
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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The second edition with additions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London. [1805] G. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster Row to verso of half title. Octavo. Half title, Title, xv, 300, (21), (bl.), (1), (1)pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments, leather label, gilt lettering, rules and embellishment. Minor corner chips to half-title. Short closed fold tear to Plate I. Toned with some light offsetting of plates, foxing/browning to index.This edition has an additional plate to the 1790 edition, plus additional material. The plates are each dated September 1, 1805. Significant to the library of the vine. A handsome volume.
William Speechly (1723 – 1819), gardener to the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. ODNB.
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The locks of the Oxford canal. A journey from Oxford to Coventry. With fifty wood engravings by John Craig
by Craig, John
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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[Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, 1984. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Craig (this, no. 274), 8vo, pp. [12], x, [54]; title page printed in red and black, 50 wood engravings, one folding plate; pictorial endpapers; original full linen boards, spine and front cover paper labels, fine. Contact card for the press laid in.
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In the Night Kitchen. (Signed).
by Sendak, Maurice.
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- Used - Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends.
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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New York.: Harper and Row. , 1970 . 1st Edition.. Ivory cloth, round label with title and illustration on cover, no spine title. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends. . 28.5x22.2 cm. . Signed by the author on the ffep with no names or inscription. Dust jacket has Caldecott sticker on cover, 1070 on front flap and seven titles on rear flap, price has been clipped. Illustrated with Sendak’s fantastic illustrations.
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Poems
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Used - An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.
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Eve's Daughters or Common Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother
by Marion Harland Pen Name Mary Virginia Terhune
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- Used - VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped.
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- New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (18
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1882. New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (1882). Olive Green boards , Black lettering with embossed Gold design to front cover and spine, clean, bright and vibrant. No. VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped. minute shelf wear at top and bottom of spine./DJ. Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 - June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author. She began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel was published in 1854 and would go on to sell over 100,000 copies. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's fiction novels, as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines. After marrying Presbyterian minister Edward Payson Terhune in…
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The Art of Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons.
by Fisher, Edwin, Mort Gerberg, and Ron Wolin, editors.
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- Used - Very good in a very good dustjacket.
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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New York. : Scribner’s. , 1975. . 1st Edition.. Black cloth, gilt spine title. . Very good in a very good dustjacket. . 4to.. Inscribed and signed by Woodman, Gross, Wilson, and Tannenberg with original cartoons on the front endpapers. Numerous illustrations.
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In the Night Kitchen. (Signed).
by Sendak, Maurice.
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- Used - Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends.
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- 1st Edition.
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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New York.: Harper and Row. , 1970 . 1st Edition.. Ivory cloth, round label with title and illustration on cover, no spine title. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends. . 28.5x22.2 cm. . Signed by the author on the ffep with no names or inscription. Dust jacket has Caldecott sticker on cover, 1070 on front flap and seven titles on rear flap, price has been clipped. Illustrated with Sendak’s fantastic illustrations.
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ROM 15 ORIGINAL-LITHOGRAPHIEN
by Pellegrini, Alfred H.
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- Used - Very Good
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Tel-Aviv, Israel
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München: Delphin Verlag, 1913. Limited/Numbered . Hardcover. Very Good. Large Folio. Alfred Pellegrini - ROM. Presented in an original decorative folder with flaps. 4 pages text by Dr. Hans Hildebrandt, Stuttgart. Edition of 120 numbered copies (this copy nr. 100) with 15 signed in pencil by A. Pellegrini. Cover with some light marginal wear and markings. Inner hinges with some minimal rust markings. Inside the plates and text very fresh and clean. VERY RARE AND UNSUSUAL ITEM. Alfred H. Pellegrini -Swiss Painter 1881-1958.
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