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San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xx, 399; frontispiece in color, 34 collotype plates and 54 text illustrations in black & white. Bound in red leatherette, gilt-stamped spine, decorated dust wrapper. 12.5" X 9

NY: Cherry Lane Theatre, 1994. Original edition. not bound. Fine. Printed in full color on white card stock, with inset photos of the four female vocalists. Musical direction by Rick Lewis. Staged and choreographed by Tina Paul. Directed by Stephen Harris. 22" x 14" A tribute to the girl groups of the 1950's, "THE TAFFETAS" salute the sounds of The McGuire Sisters, The Fontane Sisters and The Chordettes.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Six volumes, including index. pp: xi, 444; 430; 432; 512; 515; 258. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spines. 10.25" x 7

Washington DC: s.n., 1842. First Edition. Printed self-wraps. Good. 8pp. Sewn gathering, edges untrimmed; light dusting, edges furled. 9.5" x 6" Adams headed the Select Committee appointed on the subject. The Committee are highly critical of the actions of President John Tyler, bemoaning the death-in-office of President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) who favored the import tariff. [American Imprints 42-27 locates holdings at Yale, Harvard, and MCM(?).].

Cleveland: John T. Zubal, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xix, 463 with index. Bound in green cloth, gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6" First published in 1959 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Cleveland: John T. Zubal, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xxv, 808 with index. Bound in brown cloth, copper lettering on spine, orange endpapers, pictorial dust wrapper. 9.5" x 6.25" First published in 1969 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

London & NY: Macmillan, 1892. Third Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: ix, 110; 50 illustrations. Bound in green cloth, with gilt cover and spine decorations of a rising sun, sunflower, pensive man within a stylized A, and man with walking stick; all edges gilt. 7.25" x 4.75" Binding designed by Hugh Thomson as identified by the online Victorian Web.

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 20pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

London: Macmillan, 1901. Third Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 158pp; frontispiece and 58 illustrations, some full-page. Bound by James Galt of Manchester, in burnt-orange calf gilt-decorated spine and borders of covers, dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, cover stamped "Cargilfield School." 7.25" x 4.75" School Prize binding, with label inside the cover accomplished by hand: "Cargilfield School, July 1906, W.F. Scott-Kerr. Prize for Form VII, General Prize," signed by two faculty members.

Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy, 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains three verses, in part: "I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide, / The ocean's my home and my bark is my bride....Our flag of defiance still waves o'er the sea...." Typographic ornamental border. 8.5" x 4.5" [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1014c.].

Philadelphia: Thomas M.Scroggy, 1860. Early edition. Very Good. Three verses, in part: "I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide, The ocean's my home and my bark is my bride .... Hurrah! my brave crew, ye may drink, ye may sleep, The storm fiend has hushed, we're along on the deep...." Typographic ornamental border. 8.5" x 4.5" Sealed in archival mylar. [Wolf, American Song Sheets, 1014c.].

Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio: Thomas & Nast / Republic Printing Co, 1868. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 24pp; several woodcut illustrations in the text. A two-page promotional address to patrons precedes detailed descriptions and testimonials to the excellence of the Buckeye Grain Drill and Grass Seed Sower, the Buckeye Cider Mill and Press, and the Improved Buckeye Sulky Cultivator. Bound in pictorial wrappers, showing a Buckeye Cider Mill on the front cover and a horse-drawn Buckeye Drill on the back. 9" x 6" [Not recorded in Romaine, American Trade Catalogs.].

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1900. Limited Edition. Morocco & Boards. Very Good. 371pp; color-vignette on half-title, frontispiece etching in 3 states, 8 plates of engravings--all with tissue guards. Bound in 3/4 dark-red morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and art nouveau floral design from head to tail, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 9.5" x 7.25" This is #17 of 250 copies, Large-paper Japan Edition, printed for subscribers.

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1900. Limited Edition. Morocco & Boards. Very Good. 475pp; color-vignette on half-title, frontispiece etching in 3 states, 8 plates of engravings (some in two states)--all with tissue guards. Bound in 3/4 dark-red morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and art nouveau floral design from head to tail, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 9.5" x 7.25" This is #17 of 250 copies, Large-paper Japan Edition, printed for subscribers.

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1900. Limited Edition. Morocco & Boards. Very Good. pp: 247-517; 12 plates of etchnigs with tissue guards. Bound in 3/4 dark-red morocco and marbled boards, spine with raised bands and art nouveau floral design from head to tail, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 9.5" x 7.25" This is #17 of 250 copies, Large-paper Japan Edition, printed for subscribers.

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Map in color, opens to 21" x 28". Folded into gray stiff wrappers, 9.25" x 4.25" Inset of the Aleutian Islands.

Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xvii, 739 with index. Bound in red buckram over heavy boards, gilt lettering on spine. 10.25" x 7". Deaccessioned from a southern collegiate library: stamp on upper and lower edges, shadow of pocket removed from rear pastedown, slight trace of shelf label, otherwise clean and sound. Contains 5,040 entries.

London: A. Maron, Son & Co, 1870. Original document. Good. Sepiatone image of the family group. Below the image is printed "Prince & Princess of Wales & Prince Victor." Image from the ca. 1865 original is lightly foxed. On the verso: "Photographers to Her Majesty the Queen - H.R.H. the Prince of Wales / Hills & Saunders / Eton & Oxford," and the publisher's imprint. 4" x 2.5

Vancouver, British Columbia: The Cave, 1978. First Edition. Fine. Broadside, 14" x 8.5", printed on blue stock. The group are dressed in high-style mod leisure suits and sport big hair, typical of the mid-1970s. Members of The Aliis included: Bobby King, Joe Mundo, Danny Couch, Carlos Barboza, and Benny Chung.

Philadelphia: J.J. Allen's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 24pp; three engraved illustrations. "Composed of bones, blood & meat, rendered highly soluble." Bound in pictorial wrappers. 5.75" x 3.5" This booklet tells us why Quaker City Phosphate is the best and the cheapest, how to use it on various farm crops, the reports of leading chemists, and dozens of testimonials from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.