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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Jacket has 2" piece missing from top of rear panel with loss of one word. Map endpapers. Seventy-two pages of illustrations. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on half title. Wrinkle of front free end paper. Indexed. Length section on sources and notes. A scholarly addition to any Western Americana library. 400pp.. First Edition. Brick Cloth. Light Edge Wear./Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London: Wells-Gardner-Darton (Circa 1920). Lettered in gilt. Spine faded to green with fraying of extremities. Frontispiece and title page in color, other full-page illustrations in black and white by F.D. Bedford. This edition was editied by E.V. Lucas. Front cover illustration of a boy and girl sitting on the lip of a fountain with toy hoops on their knees. These poems were written by the young sisters and Miss O'Keefe in the closing years of the 1790's and early in the 19th century. 411pp.. Later Edition.. Blue Pictorial Cloth. General Moderate Wear.. Octavo.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER TO MORT SAHL. :For Mort Sahl...one of our favorite humorists. Connie Taylor, Fern Mosh". Some brown spotting at folds of the dust jacket, spine extremities chipped. Drawings by Paul Bacon. "A novel about sports car people". Mort Sahl (1927--) is a Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist who was greatly influenced by Will Rogers. An unusual association copy. 115pp. . Signed by Author. First Edition. 1/4 Red Cloth Over Boards. Lioght Edge Wear/Lightly Chipped. Thin Octavo.

Edinburgh, New York: Phil Harris Publishing, Taplinger Publishing, 1979. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Chapters on the Victorian book, Arts and Crafts, Art in the nineties, among others. A very crisp copy. First published in 1966. 176pp.. Reprint Edition. Lime Green Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

Georgetown, SC Small Arms Tech Pub Co (1995). Fine in full green leather. Reprint of the 1948 classic on big-game rifles and ammunition. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Special edition..

Chicago: At The Sign Of The Gargoyle, 1945. One of 450 copies. This is Gargoyle Chapbook Two. Cover design engraved on wood by Philip Reed. Sheets are printed in the French-fold method. . Limited Edition. 1/4 Brown Cloth Over Boards. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Small Thin Octavo..

Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Typis Academicis Wxcudit Joannes Smith, 1829. Marbled boards and endpapers. Panelled spine with gilt letters. Joints and raised bands are rubbed, binding is quite firm. Small owner's name on tag at top of front pastedown. The poem is included in "Prolusiones Academicae Praemis Annuis Dignatae et In Curia Cantibrigiensi recitatae comitiis Maximis". The first publication of Tennyson's second published work, the FIRST under his own name. Accredited to A. Tennyson, of Trinity College. The poem is printed on nine pages, with the preferred ":cones" on p.10. Other poems by C.R. Kennedy in Greek and by Charles Merivale. 41pp. in all. See CBEL lll, pp. 253-255.. First Edition. 1/2 Emerald Morooco. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thin Octavo.

London: Edward Moxon, 1860. All edges gilt. Covers and spine with elaborate gilt Victorian book designs. See photos. Panelled spine. Half-title. Twenty-six illustrations engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, Thomas, and E. Williams from drawings by Daniel Maclise. General mild to moderate foxing throughout, frequently peripheral. Heavier foxing on some early and late pages. Pleasing typography with wide margins. Binding tag of Leighton and Son, Hodge on rear pastedown. A very good example of fine Victorian book cover design. 188pp.. First Edition. Full Emerald Green Morocco. Light Edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Illus. by Maclise. Octavo.

London: Henry S. King and Company, 1876. Eleven volumes in original box. Essentially no wear to the volumes. Elaborate gilt work on front cover and spine with blind-stamp on rear cover. Cloth is age spotted and spines very slightly darkened. Green endpapers with green silk book-marks. Box is cloth-covered, with some wear and fading of the pink cloth to tan. Front flap corners torn but intact. Original red silk pulls to extract the books from the box. The books have been well-protected by the box. Three volumes of "Poems", four volumes of "Idylls of the King", single volumes of "In Memorium", "Maud", "The Princess" and "Enoch Arden". . Later Edition.. White Cloth. Minor Soiling. 5 1/4"x 3 1/4".

Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark, 1968. Jacket has one or two small closed tears, no paper loss. Color map endpapers. This is Volume VIII in the Clark "Western Lands and Waters Series". A look at the three decades following the Louisiana Purchase in the trans-Mississippi West. 250pp.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Nearly Fine/Light Edge Wear. Octavo.

New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1875. Light red silk-covered boards. Panelled spine with gilt title and designs. Top edge gilt. Original cloth cover and spine bound-in a rear. Half-title present. Color frontispiece with tissue-guard. Slight brown discoloration top of frontispiece and title-page. See photo. "Depicting humorous incidents in his school life, and favourite scenes and characters in the books of his every-day reading". Illustrated throughout in black and white. Several full-page color illustrations as well. Quite a clean copy. 494pp. . First American Edition. 3/4 Crimson Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo.

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1869. TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES uniformly bound. Signed bindings by ZAEHNSDORF. Marbled boards and matching endpapers. The first 22 books are dated 1869, the final 2 are dated 1886. Spines are decorated with intricate gilt designs, black leather label. Top edges gilt. Front joint of Volume 1 is a bit weak, but remains attached. All other volumes are tight. Several volumes with very minor wear at spine extremities. Full-page illustrated plates and text illustrations by the author, Richard Doyle, and others. All-in-all, quite a lovely set, finely-bound by a well-respected bindery. Cited in CBEL lll, p.429. Postage will be extra for this large set. . Collected Edition. 3/4 Buttercalf Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Demy Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. Illustrated with 200 drawings made by the author. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Color frontispiece portrait of the author. First published in book form in 1848. William Thackeray (1811-1863) was a promint and prolific novelist and writer in the English Victorian era. 759pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Deep Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1856. Original front wrapper, yellow paper lettered in black. Rear cover and spine paper have been replaced. Contents a bit soiled and foxed as is front cover. Name in ink at top of cover. This is one of the so-called "Miscellanies", first published in Punch in 1847, "Character Sketches" first appeared in "Heads of the People" in 1840. Van Duzer 155.. First Edition. Yellow Wrappers.. Edgeworn and Soiled.. Small Octavo.

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1869. Covers tooled in blind and gilt. Illustrated by the author. Front hinge starting. First edition was published in 1863. IThis was Amy Lowell's copy with the ink signature of "Amy Lowell, Boston" at top of title page. 428pp. See Van Duzer 189.;. Later Edition. Green Cloth. Light Wear./No.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Cover and spine designs in blind-stamp. Finely rebacked with original spine laid-down. Spine gilt title bright. Several small pieces of old spine are missing.. Covers rubbed with several spots on rear cover. Yellow endpapers have been repaired at the hinges front and back. Green notice tipped-in at front advertising the new work by Thackeray, "Pendennis". The "Great Hoggarty Diamond" page is present preceding the engraved frontispiece and title-page. The date 1848 is on both title-pages. Some peripheral browning and foxing to plates, off-setting onto adjacent pages. Forty plates including the frontispiece. Numerous text illustrations, and chapter first-letter embellishments, done on steel and wood by the author. This copy is an early issue of the first edition. It does not have the rustic type on p.1 nor the suppressed plate at p.336. "Mr. Pitt" is present at p.453. See Van Duzer 231. 624pp.. First Edition, Early Issue. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thick Octavo.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. Two volumes uniformly bound. Marbled boards, matching endpapers. Panelled spines with floral designs and titles in gilt. Illustrated in steel and wood by Richard Doyle. Many full-page plates as well as chapter heads and text drawings, all in black and white. Some foxing of frontispieces and illustrated title pages, remainder of plates generally quite clean. CBEL, III, p.40. 380-375pp.. First Edition. 1/2 Green Morocco. Moderate Cover Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859. Gilt spine titles remain bright. Hinges weak. Illustrated by the author with steel and wood engravings. Originally issued in 24 parts from 1857-59. Ink inscription on half-title page of Volume I, dated 1 Jan., 1860. Internally quite sound and clean. Van Duzer 232. 382-376pp.. First Book Edition.. Blue Blind-stamped Cloth.. Moderate Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York The Limited Editions Club 1942. Green cloth, vignette on front cover. Designed by George Mason for Christmas 1942. Illustrations redrawn by Fritz Kredel, from the first edition of 1854. #700/1500 copies. Text composed at the press of A. Colish. The full-page illustrations were hand-colored, under the supervision of Mr. Kredel, at the studio of Charlize Brakely. In lightly sunned chemise and rather shabby, but intact slipcase.(See Newman and Wiche #142). Limited..

Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. TWO VOMUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Volume Two is without the dust jacket. This is a limited edition, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR JOHN AUSTEN, this being #733/1500 copies. Twenty full-page illustrations by Austen. Housed in elusive custom slipocase with paper label, with same designs as the covers. Box has one small area of old tape repair at top open edge. Total of 772pp. in the two volumes. First published in 1848, it is a novel following the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, their friends and families, during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The author (1811-1863) was a noted British author and illustrator. . Signed by Illustrator. Limited, Signed Edition. Tan Decorated Cloth. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Illus. by John Austern. Quarto.