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Been Here and Gone
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Been Here and Gone

by Ramsey, Frederic, Jr.

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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 8vo. xiii,(1),177pp. Dark gray cloth, spine printed in white. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A near fine copy with only a trace of war. The dustwrapper is not price clipped and shows the original $5.00 price. It is a little rough along the edges with two tiny closed marginal tears. It is in very good condition, "The folk roots of American jazz are in the deep South, and this is a book about those roots." --- dustwrapper. .
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Great Comets and History
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Great Comets and History

by Ramus, Carl

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np: (not published), 1960. Stiff card wraps. Very good. Unpublished (so far as we can tell) typescript. 8½ by 11 inches, punched into a card binder. 289 pages many of which contain corrections in the author's hand. Laid-in is a letter from the author to Ernest Grant discussing his corrections and enclosing revised pages 2, 3, 5 and 7. The manuscript is inscribed by Ramus to Ernest and Catharine Grant, 1959. A very good copy. Ramus was the author of "The Ephemeris of Great Comets". This typescript purports to be "by far the fullest account of important comets.... Herein we describe more than 90 great and otherwise important naked-eye comets from 1402 to 1948."
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Matrix 19
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Matrix 19

by Randle, John and Rosalind

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Lower Marston Farm, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 245 pp. Quarter oasis turquoise leather, gilt spine title; marbled paper boards by Christopher Rowlatt. Finely printed on various fine papers . Several inserts tipped-in. One of LXXX special copies from a total edition of 950, this copy being no. LX. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. With the winter issue of Matrix 1999 in the rear pocket, and with the engraved images by John DePol in 1991 in the separate binding of heavy art paper. Slipcase. .
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Matrix15
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Matrix15

by Randle, John and Rosalind

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Lower Marston Farm, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1995. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 214pp. Quarter oasis red leather, gilt spine title; marbled paper boards by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Finely printed on various fine papers . Several inserts tipped-in. One of XCV special copies from a total edition of 950, this copy being no. XXXV. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. With the winter issue of Matrix 1995 in the rear pocket, and with the poem and eight copper-engraved images by Brian Hanscomb in the separate binding of heavy art paper, the title printed in red on the supper cover and within an embossed square. Slipcase. .
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Three Works of Engravings
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Three Works of Engravings

by Raphael

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Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1670. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong folio of engravings. The first work has 43 numbered plates beginning with a dedication: "Eminentissimo ac reuerendissimo Principi Camillo Maximo S.R.E. Cardinali amplissimo." The 43 plates were engraved by Pietro Santo Bartoli and are complete. Bound with: "D. Nicolao Simonello picturae omiumq(ue) bonarum artium cultori eximio..." 15 engraved plates, complete. Bound with: "Serenissimo Principi Medices Leonis X admirandae virtutis imagines ab Hetruriae legatione ad Pontificatum a Raphaeli Urbinata ad vivum, et ad miraculum expressas, in Aulaeis Vaticanis." 15 engraved plates, complete. The dedicatee of the first work, Carlo Cardinal Massimo, was created a cardinal in 1670; he died in 1677. This helps date the present work. The engravings are printed on one side only of each leaf. The leaves are bound along the left side in a contemporary or near contemporary binding of quarter leather, gilt spine rules, decorated… Read More
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Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaelis Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xustis
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Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaelis Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xustis

by Raphael

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(Rome): Jo. Jacobus de Rubeis (Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi), 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong folio. 13 by 18 inches. Engraved title/dedication to and with portrait of Queen Christina followed by an engraved depiction of Raphael, who died in 1520. These are followed by 52 etchings which reproduce Raphael's paintings and which were executed by Cesare Fantetti or Pietro Aquila. Page edges are toned with age but the etchings are in fine condition. The title'dedication has a small right margin restoration else it is in near fine condition. Bound to style in quarter morocco, gilt spine title, printed paper boards. Overall a verygood to near fine examplar. Text in Latin. .
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The Twelve Ravens: A Lithuanian Fairy Tale
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The Twelve Ravens: A Lithuanian Fairy Tale

by Ratas, Vaclovas; (Illustrator) Paulius Jurkus and Mary J. Kinney (Editors)

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München: T. J. Vizgirda, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. 4to. 28pp. Cream-colored textured paper over boards blocked with title on the upper board. Artist book illustrated with nine original woodcuts by Vaclovas Ratas, initials in plates, hand-set letterpress text. Volume XXVII of "Lithuania - Country and Nation." Light age-toning else a fine copy. The scarce illustrated dustwrapper is present. The spine has largely perished and has been professionally mended and stabilized with archival tissue; there are several small closed marginal tears, and some browning of the paper around the edges. Overall a very good copy. One of 560 signed and numbered copies. This is number 154, and signed by the artist. .
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Official Program and Sterling Bookmark from the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Ronald Reagan...

Official Program and Sterling Bookmark from the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

by (Reagan, Ronald)

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1988. Fine. Two items relating to the groundbreaking of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, California, on November 21, 1988. The items are: 1. Official progam for the ceremony of blue card cover, 4pp., and 2.Gorham Sterling bookmark given to the invited guests, in its box with a seal embossed with Mr. Reagan's signature. The gro undbreaking was limited to 300 invitees.
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Handbook of Telephones of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army
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Handbook of Telephones of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army

by Reber, Major Samuel

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Washington: GOvernment Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Thin 8vo. 76pp. Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Red pebble-grain cloth, gilt title on the upper board. The cloth is well worn else this is a very good copy. With a bookplate of the War Department assigning this copy to Geo. Van Orden, Captain, USMC, and with Capt. Van Orden's rubber-stamped name in blue on the endpapers as well as page 19. .
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Men with the Bark On
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Men with the Bark On

by Remington, Frederic

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Brown cloth blocked in red and black on the upper board and with gilt title on the spine. . Illustrated by the author a frontispiece and 12 full page plates. Some old tape marks on the endpapers, hinges and spine tips worn, else this is a very good copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Remington to his first cousin, Henry (Harlan) Sackrider (1838-1902) in the year of publication. .
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Gammer Gurton's Garland
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Gammer Gurton's Garland

by (Nursery Rhymes)

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Stiff card wraps. Fine. (iv), 16pp. Slim 8vo. Stiff wraps. Illustration by T. E. Webster as a frontispiece, repeated in part on the upper wrap. Tissue guard protects the frontispiece. Rare edition of Gammer Gurton, which was first published in 1784 by Joseph Ritson. This edition features not only much of Mother Goose, but other rhymes as well, and include two about King Arthur. And some rhymes have words that vary from the accepted norm. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Threescore men, and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. OCLC dates this edition as of about 1846, and credits Walter and George Mason as the wood engravers for Webster's drawing. This copy is one of the many variants, being bound in cream colored wrappers, black and white illustrations and no publisher's ads. This copy comports to variants A - J in the Renier collection. A fine copy in publisher's stiff wraps. .
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Costumes Suisses
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Costumes Suisses

by (Richard, T.)

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Zurich: Attenhofer & Cie, 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Twenty-two carte-de-vista style albumen hand-colored photographs bound accordion style in a red cloth folder, gilt. The photographs depict ladies in traditional Swiss dress from various Cantons: Geneva, Neuchatel, Valais, Vaud, Schaffhouse, Bale, Soleure, Frybourg, Zouc, Glaris, Berne-Brienz, Thourgovie, St. Gall, Appenzell, Argovie, Grisons, NIdwalden, Schwyz, Uri, Lucedrne, Tessin and Zurich. The hinges of the folder has been neatly repaired, the cloth is worn, the photographs are near fine and mounted on stff cards, most of which have the photographer's name on the reverse. Each photograph is approximately 2½ by 4 inches. This item is undated. Source materials give dates between 1870 and 1890 for their production. Rare--OCLC lists only 2 complete copies. .
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Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus: Being a British, or Welsh-English Dictionary....
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Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus: Being a British, or Welsh-English Dictionary....

by Richards, Thomas

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Britsol: Printed and Sold by Felix Farley in Small-Street, et al., 1753. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. except for the Prefaces, unpaginated. Contemporary full leather, old reback, black leather lettering label, gilt. Final advertising leaf present. Light wear to the hinges and edges and occasional soiling to the pages, but a very good copy. Contemporary signature of Edw. Leroy. Extensive annotations, additions and corrections throughout in the same hand. ESTC T66971. A second edition was printed in 1759. The British Language was an ancestral Celtic tongue spoken across what is now England and Wales until the Roman invasion, when it vied with Latin. It survived until the Arthurian era and has largely become modern Welsh and Breton. .
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Dead Friends Society

Dead Friends Society

by Ridland, John

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Tacámbaro: Taller Martín Pescador, 2016. Limited edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 8½ by 11½ inches, finely printed by Juan Pascoe in black and red on thick stock. Ridland's poetry is reprinted by permission of the author at the Taller Martín Pescador in remembrance of Harry Duncan. With a woodcut illustration of the press' namesake Kingfisher. Limitation unspecified. A fine copy, suitable for framing. .
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Training Regulations No. 425-25, The Cavalry Rifle Squad

Training Regulations No. 425-25, The Cavalry Rifle Squad

by (Cavalry Rifle Squad)

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Fort Riley, KS: Academic Division, The Cavalry School, 1928. First edition. Stapled wraps. Very good. 8vo. 82pp. Stapled printed wraps. Illustrated. A very good copy. Laid in is an explanatory sheet describing this to be the first printed edition of a mimeographed publication used at the school for the previous four years. It was issued in this form until the publication of the official edition by the War Department. It contains the latest information on Cavalry defense against hostile aircraft. Rare. Not found in OCLC, which lists only four copies of other items by this publisher. .
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The Mule. A Treatise on the Breeding, Training and Uses to which he may be Put
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The Mule. A Treatise on the Breeding, Training and Uses to which he may be Put

by Riley, Harvey

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Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 107pp. purple textured cloth with the title and a vignette on the upper board in gilt. Fourteen plates. Spine sunned, plate edges have some foxing, else this is a very good, bright copy. .
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All the Year Round
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All the Year Round

by Riley, James Whitcomb

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Illustrated by Gustave Baumann.. Thin 4to. Unpaginated; (10) plus twelve full page illustrations in colors, cut on wood by Gustave Baumann on rectos with Riley's poems on the opposing pages. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold on the upper board. A fine, bright copy. The dustwrapper lacks small pieces at the head and tail of the spine else is in very good condition. This is the limited printing for the Rotary Club in blue cloth with the gilt device of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis on the upper board and printed in blue on the dustwrapper. .
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The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents
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The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents

by Ritson, Joseph

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London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Contemporary half leather in a dark green color. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Light foxing but with a few pages with moderate foxing, light wear to the binding else a very good copy Scarce scholarly treatise on the life of King Arthur from early, and notably Welsh, sources. Lowndes, p. 2100. New Arthurian Encyclopedia, pp. 404 and 409.
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The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents
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by Ritson, Joseph

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London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Early cloth in a drab green, blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. Trace of soil and wear to the edges, neat ownership stamp on the front free endpaper else a near fine copy. Scarce scholarly treatise on the life of King Arthur from early, and notably Welsh, sources. Lowndes, p. 2100. New Arthurian Encyclopedia, pp. 404 and 409. The binding is contemporary or near contemporary and could be a publisher's cloth binding; if so, it is a very early instance of such.
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The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents
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by Ritson, Joseph

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London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Contemporary half leather, spine tooled in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. The upper board has been neatly but noticeably mended, the last three leaves are lightly foxed, and there is some underlining in test else this is a very good copy. Scarce scholarly treatise on the life of King Arthur from early, and notably Welsh, sources. Lowndes, p. 2100. New Arthurian Encyclopedia, pp. 404 and 409.
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