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Achilles the Donkey; [together with] Achilles and Diana; [and with] Achilles and the Twins [All...
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Achilles the Donkey; [together with] Achilles and Diana; [and with] Achilles and the Twins [All Signed]

by BATES, H. E. (Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974); Carol Barker {illustrates]

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London: Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285 x 216mm): unpaginated, with full-color illustrations on almost every page. Publisher's pictorial boards, titles to spines in black, illustrated end papers and title pages; wraparound illustrated dust jackets identical to covers, all priced 18s. Exceptionally fresh copies, a virtually pristine, superlative set. Eads A 93a, 96a, and 101a. Unusually, the artwork for the installment in this trilogy of children's picture books came first. Barker painted the pictures after a visit to Greece, and Bates agreed to write the text to accompany them. For the second and third books in the series, the collaboration was more orthodox, with Bates writing the story, which Barker then… Read More
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[African Americana] The Conjure Woman
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[African Americana] The Conjure Woman

by CHESNUTT, Charles W. (Waddell, 1858-1932)

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Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1899. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine+. First Printing of the author's first book, seven interrelated folk tales set in antebellum North Carolina and told "in Negro dialect" by an old gardener. Crown 8vo (175 x 110mm): [4],229,[3]pp. Publisher's finely woven brown pictorial cloth, front cover lettered in gilt, with trio of vignettes stamped in orange, black, and off-white; spine lettered in gilt, title-page vignette. Contemporary calligraphic gift inscription to front fly leaf. An excellent example, securely bound (spine darkened, lettering legible but dulled) and clean throughout (page margins lightly toned). Wright 1017. Powell 91 (One of the first books by a Negro author to receive critical approval."). Blockson (101 Influential Books) 49. First Printings of American Authors III, p. 47. Blockson (Damn Rare), p. 79 (calling The Conjure Woman "rare" and Chesnutt's "first great literary success"). Whiteman,… Read More
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[American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthaltes...
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[American Indians] Die Indianer Nord-Amerikas und die während eines achtjährigen Aufenthaltes unter den wildesten ihrer Stämme erlebten Abenteuer und Schicksale . . . mit 24 vom Verfaffer nach der Natur entworfenen Gemälden [Hand-Colored] [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians]

by CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

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Brussels and Leipzig: Carl Muquardt, 1848. First Edition thus. Near Fine. Translated into German by Dr. Heinrich Berghous. Imperial 8vo: x,[2],382pp, with 24 tissue-guarded hand-colored plates. Contemporary quarter calf, flat spine in five compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, stamped in blind; marbled covers, edges and end papers. An excellent copy, binding tight and unmarred, moderate foxing (mostly marginal) to about half of text leaves but plates completely clean and richly colored. Continental editions of Catlin are quite scarce, and this offers reduced-scale versions of the plates in the North American Indian Portfolio at a fraction of the cost. Howes C 243b. Sabin 11539. Pilling 684. Graff 630. First German Edition (published originally in different form, in London, 1841), a hybrid of Catlin's two best known works, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841) and North American Indian Portfolio (1844). The text of this edition is an… Read More
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[American Revolution] The centennial: Battle of Bunker Hill ; with a view of Charlestown in 1775,...
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[American Revolution] The centennial: Battle of Bunker Hill ; with a view of Charlestown in 1775, Page's plan of the action, Romane's exact view of the battle, and other illustrations

by FROTHINGHAM, Richard (1812-1880)

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1875. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine-. Scarce printing of Frothingham's final publication. ABPC lists no copies at auction, Rare Book Hub lists 14, most recently in 1915. Small 8vo (176 x 118 mm): [8],136pp. with half-title, 15 panel-map (and 2-panel overlay) frontispiece, six-panel view of Charlestown in 1775 ("An Exact View of The Late Battle at Charlestown"), full-page plan, and diagram of a redoubt. Publisher's original blue-threaded drab wrappers printed in black. Firmly bound example of this fragile item, clean and fresh throughout. Map and view properly folded and free of tears. Not in Sabin, Howes, or Church. Frothingham, for many years managing editor of the Boston Post, dedicated untold hours to the study of history, centered especially on the American revolution as it unfolded in and around his birthplace of Charleston, Mass. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable… Read More
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[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of...
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[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; [offered with:] A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

by WILLARD, S. (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885)

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Boston: [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street, 1861. Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce. Royal 8vo (340 x 253 mm): [5],6-31,[1]pp, with 14 inserted leaves (including frontispiece) of plates (one folding). Original drab boards, brown muslin spine, upper cover with publisher's paper title label ruled and printed in black. Inscribed on front fly-leaf in pencil: "Charles W. Pearson, August 13, 185?" A handsome survival, tightly bound (hinges neatly reinforced with Japanese tissue), pages and plates generally clean and free of foxing, with occasional smudges and stains. American Imprints 43-5291; Hitchcock 1409. The second work, by Smillie: Slim demy 8vo (223 x 175mm): 16pp, with frontispiece view of the monument, engraved by E. A. Fowle from a drawing by R. P. Mallory, seven-part accordion-fold panoramic view… Read More
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The American grape grower's guide : intended especially for the American climate. Being a...
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New York: C. M. Saxton, 25 Park Row, 1862. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Early printing of this detailed guide to cultivating grapes in the New World. Crown 8vo (182 x 114mm): xii,[1],12-204pp, with frontispiece and 32 illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately blind-stamped with grape-and-vine motif, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Light occasional spotting, but an excellent example in original cloth (and scarce thus), tightly bound and generally clean throughout. Noling, p.105. Amerine & Borg 887 (first edition). Gabler G16220 (Orange Judd edition). Originally published in 1852 (also published in New York the same year by Orange Judd & Company), followed by second edition in 1860, with many subsequent and revised editions attesting to its popularity. Includes list of European grapes suitable for indoor cultivation and discusses such American varieties as isabella, catawba, diana, and concord for outdoor planting; with plans for construction of hot houses and greenhouses and… Read More
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American Notes for General Circulation
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American Notes for General Circulation

by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)

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New York: D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary Encyclopedia) Crown 8vo (188 x 122mm): 104,[4]pp, text printed in double columns. Publisher's peach pictorial wrappers printed in brown, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, publisher's advertisement for the works of Louisa Mühlbach printed on deep pink stock and tipped to title page. A tad worn and slightly soiled, occasional light creasing and foxing, but securely bound and generally clean throughout. A collectible copy of this fragile production. This edition not in Gimbel, Eckel, or Smith, but see Howes D-316, Sabin 19996, and Wilkins, pp. 22-24 for other American printings. Dickens sailed from Liverpool on January 3, 1842, and visited… Read More
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American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
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American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States

by WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813); Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte (1803-1857)

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London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus], 1877. First Edition thus [from 1808]. Half-Morocco. Fine. A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book, the "first major scientific work published in the United States" (Burtt and Davis, p. 333), here in its final state (with notes and Life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine) and with the largest number of plates. Demy 8vo (211 x 140mm): cv,[1],408,[8,Cassell catalogue]; vii,[1],495,[1]; vii,[1],540pp, with tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in shooting attire and 103 chromolithographed plates, featuring Lizar's attractive re-engravings of Wilson's originals. Publisher's dark green morocco-backed red cloth, spines richly gilt with hawk vignette, top edge gilt, black coated end papers. Pages and plates virtually pristine (light foxing to opening leaves of each volume; label blacked out on fly leaves). Nissen 996 (Chatto & Windus imprint). Anker 533. Sitwell, p. 155-57. Reese 3 ("the first… Read More
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[Angling] The Rod and the Line : Or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of...
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[Angling] The Rod and the Line : Or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc. [Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr.'s copy]

by WHEATLEY, Hewett

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London: Published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1849. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Scarce First (and only) Edition of "one of the most original books in the bibliography of angling." (AnAnglersBookcase online) Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 157,[2],32[ad]pp, with nine bright, detailed hand-colored plates of flies. Original sage-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, pale yellow end papers. Armorial book plate to front paste-down of angling author Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr. (1903-1988), whose works include the modern classic Fishing Atlantic Salmon: The Flies and the Patterns. An exceptional example with excellent provenance, tightly bound in original cloth and clean throughout, with richly colored plates. Westwood & Satchell p. 239 ("Characterised by a mixture of caustic humour and sound practical knowledge"). Smith, p. 46. Bartlett, p. 74. Hoe Library III, p. 199. Wheatley was the "first to recommend eyed hooks for trout-flies. He fished many of his artificial… Read More
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[Angling] A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England
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[Angling] A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England

by CARTER, Robert (1819-1879)

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Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, brown coated end papers. Lightly rubbed, but a handsome copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Bruns C66 ("Salt water fishing on the New England Coast from sand dabs to pollack"). Bartlett, p. 16. First published the previous year. According to the preface, Carter's narrative originally appeared in the form of letters to the New York Tribune. His account was immensely popular, going through subsequent editions in 1870, 1888, and 1889. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are… Read More
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[Architecture] The dwellings of the labouring classes, their arrangement and construction,...
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London: The Society for Improving the Condition of the laboring Classes, at No. 21, Exeter Hall, Strand, 1850. Half-Calf. Fine. First Edition of Roberts's "most important" publication, advocating philanthropic housing for the working classes. (ODNB) Royal 8vo (257 x 167mm): [8],34pp,35-47,[2]ff,2pp, with 12 unnumbered lithographic plates printed on one side only and illustrations in the text depicting floor plans, architectural plans, and elevations of actual and proposed buildings, principally dwellings, including workers' cottages and lodgings for unmarried labourers. Handsome recent half-leather and beige cloth, spine gilt, end papers renewed. Pages gently and evenly toned, else pristine in beautiful bespoke binding. Goldsmiths' 37127. Not in Archer. Subsequent editions appeared, including that of 1867, and were translated into French. Among the scaled floor plans and handsome engraved elevations are those for the block of self-contained flats in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury, Roberts's most… Read More
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[Architecture: Church] Illustrative Views of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury;...
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[Architecture: Church] Illustrative Views of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury; Exhibiting the Most Interesting Points of its Architecture and Antiquities, in Nineteen Highly-Finished Line Engravings, from Drawings by Hastings, with Historical Descriptions of its Structure, Antiquities, and Present State

by WOOLNOTH, William [Thomas Hastings]

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Canterbury / London: Henry Ward, No. 14, Sun Street / Whittaker & Co, 1836. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine. First (and only) Edition, containing the plates and an abridgment of the text of Woolnoth's A graphic illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury, published in 1816. Oblong 4to: 58pp, with 19 leaves of engravings after drawings by Thomas Hastings. Recent marbled paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, printed paper title label to upper cover, endpapers renewed. Beautifully rebound copy of this rare title in very sound condition. Text pages very lightly foxed (more so to ground plan of the Cathedral) with some offsetting from the engravings. Plates are remarkably clean. Founded in 597, the cathedral was completely rebuilt from 1070 to 1077. The east end was greatly enlarged at the beginning of the twelfth century, and largely rebuilt in the Gothic style following a fire in 1174, with significant eastward extensions to accommodate the flow of pilgrims visiting… Read More
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[Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World Society
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[Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-The-World Society

by RAYMOND, Elmer D.

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[various places], [925]. Near Fine+. Travelogue in the form of subscription letters written by Elmer D. Raymond, founder and president of the Round-the-World Society. Demy 8vo (232 x 160mm): frontispiece of clipper ship from sketch by Raymond and title page in red and black, folding map of the world, two-page forward (printed rectos only), and 53 mimeographed stamped and postmarked letter sheets (each folded twice, creating an address panel and three stenciled pages), addressed to Mrs. David R Doru of Coopers Town, N.Y.; with sixteen black-and-white plates from photographs of various locations Raymond visited ("From the mighty metropolises of European civilization, from the squalid villages of African savagery, from the icy waters of the Arctic, from the barren sands of the deserts"), and an original radiogram announcing Raymond's approach to the North Pole. The first twenty-seven letters are unnumbered, followed by numbers XXVII [sic] through LII. Bound in pebbled black limp leatherette fastened… Read More
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[Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16
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[Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16

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Paris: Maeght Editeur [through 1992], 1986. Three issues of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, outsized contemporary art and literary journal, Noise, all Fine and profusely illustrated in color. Crown Folio (368 x 268mm): 56; 56; 80pp, with numerous reproductions of original lithographs (mostly double-page, on card and included in pagination). Publisher's wraparound pictorial stiff-card perfect bindings. Text in French. One of 2000 standard copies (120 were issued on vellum). No. 5, with contributions by Mattia Bonetti, Werner Büttner, Graziella da Gioz, André Derain, Barry Flanagan, Elizabeth Garouste, Witold Gombrowicz, Philippe Lacque-Labarthe, Françoise Martin, Pierre Moignard, Frederic Paul, Jacques Perry, François Martin, and Andrea Zanzotto. No. 6, with contributions by Edouard Pignon, Stefano Benni, Vincent Corpet, Luis Mizón, Antonio Saura, Marc Le Bot, Peter Chevalier, Pascal Bonafoux, Hélène Delprat, and Juan Manuel Bonet. No. 15/16 (double issue), with contributions by Tristan… Read More
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[Auction Catalog] The Ducal Estate of Stowe, Near Buckingham. The Historical Seat of the Dukes of...
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Northampton and Towcester Buckingham; London: Messrs. Jackson Stops [and others], 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine+. Catalog of the auctioneer Jackson Stops announcing the sale of the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, the "most magnificent of [Britain's] private estates" and the "most celebrated English landscape of the day," (Jellicoe) No. 769, Colonel Seton of Mounie's copy, with his armorial book plate to front paste-down and letters relating to the sale tipped in. Royal 8vo (374 x 249mm): 232,[2]pp, extensively illustrated with map, four colored plans (two folding), and 59 full-page plates from photographs on glossy stock inserted. Original cloth-backed buff boards printed in black, upper cover inset with armorial coat of arms, stamped with copy number, and signed by Seton. Green broadsheet sale advertisement printed in black laid in; one of two permits to view estate removed from rear (presumably by Seton). Some prices realized neatly noted (generally… Read More
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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

by WILSON, Edmund (1895-1972)

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First printing (with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page) of Wilson's first collection of critical essays, charting the influence of the French Symbolist poets on such revolutionary twentieth-century texts as Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Crown 8vo (203 x 136mm): [12],319,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven navy blue cloth, paper spine label printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed; putty grey typographic dust jacket printed in black and priced $2.50. Clamshell case. A truly spectacular example, tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and spotless throughout. Jacket spine panel darkened a degree or two, else virtually pristine. Modern Movement 71 ("ends with a capital and little known account of the Dada movement by Tristan Tzara"). The introductory essay on Symbolism (tracing its origins in the works of Poe, first translated into French by Baudelaire) is followed by chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul… Read More
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[Baseball] The American game of base ball, how it is played; a manual [Chadwick's Baseball Manual]
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[Baseball] The American game of base ball, how it is played; a manual [Chadwick's Baseball Manual]

by CHADWICK, Henry (1824-1908)

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Philadelphia: [Theodore Holland], 1888. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine+. First edition of this manual, including playing instructions, rules interpretations, and history. (Cover title: Chadwick's baseball manual). Foolscap 8vo (160 x 113mm): 64pp. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers with wraparound color image of a player attempting to steal second base as the catcher attempts to throw him out. Near Fine or better, with slight waviness to wrappers, thin vertical crease to text block, and mild wear at the corners, else a bright copy of this elusive baseball text. Not in Walker or Smith. Grobani 2-6. A revised edition, retitled The American game—Base-ball, according to the national playing rules of 1889 : how it is played, appeared in 1889. Chadwick has been called the "father of baseball," and his guides were aimed at both players and fans. They included lists of players averages, detailed explanations of the rules of the game, and advice for athletes on how best to prepare for the sport. He… Read More
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[Baseball] The Fairport Nine
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[Baseball] The Fairport Nine

by BROOKS, Noah (1830-1903)

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880], 1887. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fine-. Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages vs. six in first printing). Crown 8vo (178 x 112mm): viii,[2],188,[8]pp, with tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and black with gilt vignette of pitcher framed by baseball diamond, spine lettered and decorated with crossed bats in black and gilt vignette of hitter at bat. An excellent example, securely bound (lightly shelf-rubbed) and clean throughout. Grobani 12-2A and McCue, p. 24 (for first edition and 1889 revised edition only). Not in Smith. Originally serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine, from May to October, 1880, then published in book form that same year. Sometimes credited as the first baseball novel, but according to… Read More
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Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg; Handbook for Travellers

Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg; Handbook for Travellers

by BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Fine. Fourteenth Edition, revised and augmented. lxx, 474pp, with 15 maps and 30 plans. A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and 2 ribbon page-makers (one loose and laid in); the red flexible cloth covers clean, unfaded, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E193. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference… Read More
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Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg ; Handbook for Travellers

Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg ; Handbook for Travellers

by BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1894. Cloth. Fine+. Eleventh Edition, Revised and Augmented. lxii, 423pp, with 13 maps and 21 plans. An exceptionally Fine, virtually pristine, copy, with brilliant gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-makers, and unfaded, richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, bright, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E190. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . . . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was… Read More
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