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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. ix, 201 pages, plus 123 full-page plates. Original brick-red cloth. 28 x 20 cm. Heavy speckling to the spine (insect nibbling) and a little to the covers; both hinges cracked and the front just holding; brief ink note on f.f.e.p. Moderate foxing to some plates, mostly marginal but with a slight impact on the images in a few cases; foxing to the margins of text pages facing the glossy plates; mild toning to the matte plates. Good only, but a serviceable reference copy. FIRST EDITION. A significant study of a group of fungi including puffballs, stinkhorns, birds' nest fungi, and false truffles, describing over 150 species in great detail. A concise artificial key is provided. William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) was a widely esteemed authority on mycology and, like his co-author, John N. Couch, a professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. "This is a comprehensive treatment of Gasteromycetes . . . The plates include reproductions…
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THE GASTEROMYCETES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA
by Coker, William Chambers and John Nathaniel Couch
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A GENERAL COLLECTION OF FORMS AND PRECEDENTS IN CONVEYANCING ...
by Getz, George
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Reading: George Getz; Philadelphia: George & Byington, George W. Mentz & Son; printed by John C. Clark, Philadelphia, 1837. 4to. xi, [1], 143, [1] pages. Original quarter calf over paper covered boards, with later typescript paper spine label and new endpapers. [26 cm.] Good plus. A few stains to covers; scattered foxing. SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. The first edition of this form book was issued in 1822, with the title beginning: "Precedents for the Use of Justices of the Peace ... " Later editions had the title: "Getz's Forms ... " George Getz (1789-1853) was also the proprietor of "The Berks and Schuylkill Journal," and served as the mayor of Reading from 1849 until his death. AI 44472.
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GEORGE CLYMER AND THE COLUMBIAN PRESS
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New York: The Typophiles; [designed and printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco]; 1950. viii, [6], 60 pages, plus eight full-page plates, each with a printed tissue guard. Original blue-green cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt on the spine. [18.2 cm.] Spine ends slightly rubbed, some faint soiling to joints, endpapers tanned near hinges, still a very good copy in original glassine dust jacket (spine panel sunned; a few small tears and tiny chips). FIRST EDITION. One of 420 copies printed for the Typophile subscribers, being Typophiles Chap Book #23. (There was also an edition of 350 copies issued simultaneously by the Book Club of California). Preface by James W. Elliott. "Note" on the book's production by Paul A. Bennett (pp. [59]-60). An account of the invention of the Columbian iron press in 1813 by Philadelphian, George Clymer (1754-1834), and Clymer's subsequent success at promoting the press in Europe.
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GERTRUDE STEIN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Sawyer, Julian
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New York: Arrow Editions, [1940]. 162 pages, including index. Original quarter tan cloth and gray paper covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. [25.7 cm.] A good copy. Tiny chip to spine label, not affecting lettering. Boards sunned near top edges and lightly soiled. Minor foxing to endpapers. Text block is clean, but a little age-toned. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It reads: "For Jack, The envelopes are in all the fruit trees. Always, Julian. 5/7/46.
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THE GIRL EVERYBODY KNEW. With Drawings by Eldon Kelley
by Farrell, James; Eldon Kelley, [illus.]
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. [6], 182, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Nine drawings printed with the text. Original patterned paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and tips, lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. 20 x 13.5 cm. Very good in fair to good, price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; a little tanning near the edges of the front board. Minor foxing to frontispiece with negligible impact on the image; foxing to title page as well, but none elsewhere. The jacket has a jagged 3-cm long chip to the center of the spine panel, several other chips with a slight impact on lettering, a long tear along the fold between the front panel and front flap, tissue repairs to verso, and sun-fading to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. The subtitle on the dust jacket reads: "A Story in Jazz." The adventures of a free-spirited young woman, Ruby Burke, late of San Francisco, traveling in America and Europe, with delightful illustrations by Eldon Kelley (b.…
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THE GLORY
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1994]. 685 pages. Original blue cloth stamped in blue. [24 cm.] A fine copy in near fine slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED. No. 151 of 200 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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THE GOLDEN LEGEND OF ETHIOPIA. The Love-Story of Mâqedâ, Virgin Queen of Axum & Shêbâ, & Solomon the Great King
by Wheeler, Post
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New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936. vi, 184, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Near fine in like dust jacket. Corners of book and jacket bumped; jacket a little worn at ends of spine panel and with a tiny tear at head of rear panel and a minuscule chip to upper corner of front panel; still a nice, bright copy. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the verso of the frontispiece. It reads: "To Eleanor Schoberlin -- This, the oldest love tale that has come down to us in our Western literatures (for of Troy's Helen we know only the name, of her love-story nothing) a tale burning with the sun of the desert Mâqedâ crossed to find the King of her Heart, before the oldest tomb was hewn in rose-red Petra. Post Wheeler." Eleanor Jeffrey Schoberlin corresponded with a number of contemporary writers and was married to Melvin Harold Schoberlin (1912-1977), a noted Stephen Crane scholar and collector. George Post Wheeler (1869-1956) was an American…
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GREEN PEAS, PICKED FROM THE PATCH OF INVISIBLE GREEN, ESQ. Illustrated by John McLenan
by [Crippen, William G.], Invisible Green [pseud.]; John McLenan, illus.
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New York: Livermore & Rudd; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [printed by William Overend, Cincinnati, c.r. 1856]. 12mo. 311 pages. [10] pages publisher's illustrated ads (Livermore & Rudd) including a full-page ad for the present work. Illustrated with title page vignette and woodcuts in the text. Original embossed red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. 20 x 14 cm. Tiny tears to head of spine, the base of spine chipped to the text block, shallow gouge to the bottom edge of front board, tiny hole on the rear joint, but sound. A few stains to cloth including dark spotting along the joints. Sporadic moderate foxing; occasional, mostly marginal stains with a few spots to the text not affecting legiblity; light tanning to several pages due to prior enclosures. Thus good only, but scarce in any condition. FIRST EDITION, New York issue. Perhaps preceded by a Cincinnati issue with Moore, et al. listed first in the imprint, although we can find no direct evidence as to priority.…
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GREEN PEAS, PICKED FROM THE PATCH OF INVISIBLE GREEN, ESQ. Illustrated by John McLenan
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New York and Cincinnati: Livermore & Rudd; Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [1856]. First edition. New York: Livermore & Rudd; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Overend, [printed by William Overend, Cincinnati, c.r. 1856]. 12mo. 311 pages. [10] pages publisher's illustrated ads (Livermore & Rudd) including a full-page ad for the present work. Illustrated with title page vignette and woodcuts in the text. Original embossed dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. 20 x 14 cm. Extremities worn, moderate soiling to the cloth, spine cocked, but sound and with hinges intact. Scattered foxing, heavy in a few places; several leaves with shallow chips to fore-edge; one closed marginal tear; several corners creased. Good only, but scarce in any condition. FIRST EDITION, New York issue. Perhaps preceded by a Cincinnati issue with Moore, et al. listed first in the imprint, although we can find no direct evidence as to priority. Binding variants of red and black cloth are also…
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THE GREYSON LETTERS: Selections from the Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson, Esq. Edited by Henry Rogers ...
by Rogers, Henry; [R.E.H. Greyson, pseud.]
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Boston, [etc.]: Gould and Lincoln, [etc.], 1857. 12mo (in sixes). 518 pages, plus [2] pages ads. Original dark brown cloth decorated in blind, with gilt spine lettering; yellow endpapers. Gould & Lincoln imprint at base of spine. [20.1 cm.] Head of spine chipped, base of spine and corners worn, some rubbing and light spotting to cloth. Title page foxed; rather light scattered foxing elsewhere. Early penciled ownership inscriptions on front endpapers. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the London edition of the same year (2 vols., titled: "Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq.") Although Rogers gives himself as the editor in the title, Greyson was an imagined correspondent and these epistles consist of reflections and advice by Rogers on various subjects. Rogers (1806-1877) was an English author and Christian apologist best known for "The Eclipse of Faith, or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic" (1852).
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THE GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS: A HISTORY
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Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, [1991]. xi, 288 pages, plus [30] pages of illustrations (photographs and three maps). Original dark blue cloth with silver spine lettering. 23.5 x 16 cm. A fine copy in very nearly fine dust jacket (minor rubbing to the jacket). FIRST EDITION. The first chapter discusses private academies in the 18th and 19th centuries and the first efforts to establish public schools. The remainder of the book is an account of the growth and administration of the public school system from 1885 to the time of publication. John E. Batchelor was himself a teacher and administrator in the Guilford County Schools. He has since worked as a consultant on school improvement and written several books including: "Race and Education in North Carolina: From Segregation to Desegregation" (2015).
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