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Hardcover, octavo, pp. 218 plus index. Black and white illustrations. This copy with the scarce fold-out chart: "National and State D.A.R. Officers." Pledge of Allegiance before "under God" was inserted. Previous owner's name in a small hand on front pastedown. Foxing on page edges, prelims, and terminals, thus GOOD only in the publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Gilt especially bright.

Publisher's red cloth with spine lettering and ruling gilt, octavo, pp. xxxvii, 247 plus [1] page ads. Black and white illustrations. Old diagonal crease on blank front endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket FAIR with a good deal of shelf rubbing and wear. Chipping at spine ends and flap fold tips. Tears with slight loss of paper at bottom edge of front panel and rear panel. The jacket is now in a removable sheet of protective mylar.

Circa 1980 advertising lot requested by a New Jersey customer. Lot includes: (1) 1979-1980 Perkins Catalog Price List, 24 pages in stapled pale blue wrappers; (2) Instructions in methods of Seat Weaving booklet, 20 pages in stapled beige wrappers; (3) Order sheet with shipping calculation table; (4) Pre-printed return envelope for order. Shipping envelope from Perkins measures 10 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. GOOD condition.

Limited to 200 copies in blue wrappers, of which this is number 99, small quarto, pp. 38 plus colophon.  Memento from Memorial Services for the poet and editor of The Outlook magazine. Includes prayers, poems, tributes, reminiscences.  Printed at the Bradford Press, Portland, Maine.  GOOD condition with light shelf and handling wear.  Front wrapper nicked at foot of spine. Pinhead sized white spot near top edge.   Some leaves have just light foxing at top edges.  A scarce item, both in trade and institutional holdings, with an April 2023 OCLC search returning Brown University only.

Publisher's printed wrappers, octavo, pp. xx, 274. Many pages unopened. Shelf wear, short tears, & erosion at spine ends and wrapper tips, but a somewhat fragile affair to begin with. Withal, a GOOD sound ensample of an uncommon title.

Limited to 200 copies in blue wrappers, of which this is number 128, small quarto, pp. 38 plus colophon. Letters eulogizing Pulsifer on the occasion of his death. No location or publisher noted, but Portland, Maine, Bradford Press. A photo of Pulsifer is mounted on title page. Laid in is a copy of a typed sheet of correspondents, including Ethel Roosevelt Derby (Daughter of Teddy Roosevelt) and Katherine S. White (Mrs. E. B. White). We noted that there are more letters in the text than writers listed on the sheet, which caused us to wonder if there were perhaps a second sheet of correspondents originally, but now missing. A search of OCLC returned copies at Brown, Colby, Columbia, and University of Virginia. The copy at Columbia notes there are two sheets, but the copy at Brown states that it "lacks the (single) leaf identifying the correspondents." University of Virginia's copy also notes a single "leaf identifying the correspondents is inserted." Glued to the final page of the volume at… Read More

Publisher's burnt orange stapled wrappers, creased, octavo, pp. 18. Laid in is a Rate Sheet, Series XLIII. No. 933, dated Boston, September 16, 1925, with a correction to page 9 of the parent pamphlet involving Maine and the other New England states. Additionally laid in is Series XLVI No. 658, a brief stapled pamphlet dated Boston, June 1, 1928, with further corrections. The whole with just light wear, as with age and careful handling, but GOOD and sound and ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board. For more, see Caverly, Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States, Hartford, 1915, pp. 163-4.

Very good in fair dust jacket. Hardcover, octavo, pp. 31. Black & white illustrations throughout. Limited to 1, 000 copies case bound. Book is near fine; fragile original opaque dust wrapper with the usual nicking & chipping along edges, thus Fair-only.

Publisher's original printed blue wrappers over card-stock boards, 12mo (7 1/4 inches in height x 5 1/4 inches in width), pp. 28. A publication made possible by the Class of 1936. Just very light wear, as with age and careful handling. GOOD and sound with one small spot on upper wrap at fore-edge. Ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board. A scarce volume, with OCLC locating only one copy, at Yale, in an April 2019 search.

Publisher's stapled blue wrappers, small quarto, paginated serially [145] - 184. Contains Reminiscences of Hergesheimer, Van Vechten, and Mencken; Random Notes on Mr. Mencken of Baltimore; Picasso at Yale; Recent Acquisitions; more. An Index to Volume 24 is laid in. GOOD condition with edge wear and toning to the wrappers. Ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve.

Publisher's stapled blue wrappers, small quarto, paginated [1] - 45. Contains Washington Irving's Notebook of 1810 ("Introduction" on pp. [1] - 16; "Conclusion" in Gazette's Volume 24, Number 2, October 1949); Coleridge's Ballad of the Dark Ladie; Illustrating Kenneth Grahame; Recent Acquisitions; more. A little shelf and handling wear to the beveled edges of the wrappers. Ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.

Publisher's stapled blue wrappers, small quarto, paginated [47] - 100. Contains "John Jacob Aster Relative to His Settlement on Columbia River"; Washington Irving's Notebook of 1810, Conclusion (Introduction is in the July Gazette of 1949, pp. [1] - 16); Recent Acquisitions; more. A nick or two on the beveled edges of the wrappers. Small spot on rear panel near bottom edge. GOOD withal. Ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve.

Publisher's stapled blue wrappers, small quarto, paginated [132] - 157. Contains Seventeenth-Century English Books; Arthur Davison Ficke and His Friends; Recent Acquisitions; more. Light shelf wear to wrapper bottom edges. A few random small spots (fountain pen ink possibly) near bottom edge of rear panel. Ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.

Publisher's stapled blue wrappers, small quarto, paginated [57] - 76. Contains English Voyages; Washington Irving and Andrew Jackson; Notes on New Acquisitions; more. An Index to Volume 19 is laid in. Previous owner has made a note about the English Voyages section on the front cover. About Very Good with light shelf and consultation wear. Ensconced in a clear archival display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.