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NY: Scribner's Sons, 1892. New and enlarged edn. 8vo, pp 274 Printed at the Chiswick Press A nice copy. A collection of poetry and songs.

Osgood McIlvaine, 1892. First edn. 8vo, Pp 130, With THE BARD OF THE DIBOVITZA, second series London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894 Pp 130. A nice set.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1958. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 256. Name on end paper, a very good copy in little worn dj. Vaizey is an economist andreviews the education expenditure in the UK from 1920-1955.

London: Faber, 1967. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 165. Name on end paper, a very good copy in little worn dj. Vaizey is an economist and seeks to "consider whether education is "an investment in human beings" and what its returns are.

Firenze, Italy: Libreria Salesiana, 1903. Narrow 8vo, pp. 165. Cover worn, one hinge tender, o/w VG. Valdambra's autobiography. Preface by Tommaso Nediani. In Italian.

NY: Brentano's, 1900. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 276. Green cloth, stamped in black and yellow. Uncut. VG.

NY: Macmillan, 1912. Reprint of 1910 edn. 8vo, pp. 298. Illustrated. Frontis picture loose, owner's bookplate on pastedown,slight foxing in front, o/w VG. Especially discusses the various breeds common in the U.S. at the time, with photos of many of them. covers raising chicks, and various types of housing.

NY: Wittenborn, 1946. First Edition. 4to, pp. 180. Index. Illustrated with photographs. VG.

Paris, 1930. 10 issues: 7, 10, 11, 13, 15 (covers worn), 16, 19 (covers worn), 24, 25 + the index volumes from 1924-1928 (covers worn). Except for the two with worn covers, the other eight are fine in original tissue. Issues were limited to 3000 numbered copies. Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valery (1871-1945) was a French poet, editor and critic. While studying for his law degree, Valery met Pierre Louys and Andre Gide and with them began attending Mallarme's salons. He was interested in the processes of the creative mind and created sketches that became his important Monsieur Teste. He was elected to the French Academy in 1925. This includes work by a wide variety of progressive poets of the time. Besides the editors included are: Antoine Artaud, Vitrac, Edith Sitwell, Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Neitzsche, Andre Breton, Liam O'Flaherty, T.S.Eliot, T-F Powys, Jean Giono, Ossipe Mandelstam, Andre Gide, Henri Michaux, William Faulkner and others.

New Haven: Yale, 1992. First printing. 8vo, pp. xviii, 269. Notes, index. A nice copy in lightly scuffed dj. A reexamination of d'Annunzio's philosophical and poetic thought.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edn. 8vo,pp. 180. Some pencil marginalia, fine in dj. A study based on interviews with women members of the European Parliament.

NY: Dutton. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 262. Illustrated with photos. VG with most of the dj. An autobiography.

NY: Dutton, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. 262pp, 8 illustrations. Large paper edition, Limited to 299 copies, signed by the famous crooner. Laid in is camera portrait by Hal Phyte for the frontispiece. Boards, cloth spine. Small corner bumps, o/w a nice copy.

NY: Dutton. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 262. Illustrated with photos. VG copy insribed by the author: "To Harry Chaffin | in appreciation for the work at Dutton" ... " also inscribed: "likewise I say how do you do Harry. Elliott B Macrae" (President of Dutton). An autobiography.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. 8vo, pp. 312. Illustrated with photographs.VG in worn dj. An admiring biography.

NY: Viking, 1948. First American edn. 8vo, pp. vi, 542. Bibliography, index. Illustrated. Translated by E. W. Dickes. A VG tight copy in chipped dj.

NY: Orion, 1970. First American edn. 8vo, pp. viii, 342. Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. Chronology, bibliography, index. With more than 200 illustrations, including a few in color. Corners of cover slightly bumped, o/w a nice copy in chipped and scuffed dj.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First printing. Large 4to, pp. not numbered. Paper over boards, with cloth spine. Illustrated by the author. A nice copy in slightly scuffed double dj. A widow's broom is bewitched, and although the neighbors seem to destroy it, it comes back to help the widow. For children.

Boston: Hourghton Mifflin, 2002. Fourth printing. Van Allsburg. 4to, pp. not numbered. Illustrated by the author. Paper over boards with a cloth spine. About as new in dj. A story book with large black-and-white illustrations.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Fourth printing. Horizontal 8vo, pp. not numbered. Illustrated by the author. A VG tight copy in somewhat chipped and scuffed dj. A story about a boy who sails his boat in the sky. Basically a picture book.