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London: John Sharpe , 1817. Rebacked with original paper label. Hinges and pastedowns repaired. Engraved frontispiece and six other engravings by Westfall and Finden. Moderate foxing to the plates, text generally clean. "Table Talk" was first published in 1776, after the poet's long bout with mental illness. This edition was printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. 204pp.. Later Edition. Blue Paper-Ccovered Boards. Edges Worn./No Jacket.. Duodecimo.

Paris: Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, 1788. Cover has been rebacked, new paper spine label. Hinges reinforced. Evidence of old light water-staining at bottom of plates, never obtrusive. This is the plate volume for Bonnaterre's "Tableau....." . There are a total of 102 copper-engraved plates, COLLATED COMPLETE. The first two plates are marked Plate A and B. Following are an additional 100 plates. Two plates are misbound, plate 23 bound adjacent to plate 18 and plate 100 bound adjacent to plate 87. There is no title-page or text. The "Tableau...." was a successor to Denis Diderot's "Encyclopedie". Bonnaterre (1747-1804) was a French priest and naturalist. The plates are in very nice condition, occasional light toning at periphery. Please see photos. First Edition. Blue Paper-covered Boards. General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto. `.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1921. "Linentex" pictorial covers in color. Small chip missing from rear cover lower corner. Illustrated by Florence White Williams, 4 full-page in color, others in shades of blue in the text. Lovely color plates. Seldom found in such good condition. 10pp.. Color Illustrated Wrappers.. Light Edge Wear and Soiling. Small Thin Quarto.

London: John Warren, G. And W.B. Whittaker, 1821. Marbled boards with matching endpaper. Panelled spine. Spine sunned to brown as is usually seen with green bindings. Evidence of old removal of a label from front preliminary. Catalogue slip laid-in. Twenty-six full-page hand-colored plates all beginning with the word "Taking". All plates in excellent condition. Lovely typography of the lengthy poem by Thomas Gaspey. Signed binding by Riviere and Sons. 184pp.. First Edition. 3/4 Dark Green Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Tall Octavo.

London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1895. Brown cloth spine. One minor rub on rear cover. A beautiful, well-preserved example of finely-illustrated children's literature. Four full-page color lithographs and four sepia tone text illustrations. Number 866 at bottom of concluding page. Designed at the Studios of the publisher in England and printed at the Fine Art Works in Germany. Inscription on front free endpaper, "Leslie is my Valentine. Feb. 14th, 1895". . First Edition. Glazed Color Pictorial Boards.. Essentially No Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

London, New York: Frederick Warne and Company, 1956. Lettered in green. Front cover color illustrated onlay. 3/6 net on front blurb along with 1956 code on copyright page.59pp.. Later Edition.. Grey Paper-Covered Boards.. Nearly Fine./Lightly Soiled.. 5 5/8" x 4 1/4".

Wichita, Kansas: Burt Comer, 1936. Caricature of Mr. Landon on front cover with sunflower and oil derrick. A slanted look at the record and history of the man from Kansas who was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in 1936. From the foreward, "If the Cleveland Convention had nominated a Republican candidate for President whom I could conscientiously support, this tale would have remained untold. I honestly and sincerely believe that to elect this man to the exalted office of President would result in writing "Finis" to the Grand Old Party". 119pp.. First Edition. Red Wrappers. Moderate General Wear. Octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1917. Front cover illustration, lettering in red and black. From the Grosset and Dunlap series, "Tuck-Me-In Tales". Color frontispiece illustration by Harry L. Smith. A clean and crisp copy. 120pp.. First Edition. Ivory Cloth. Nearly Fine/Lightly Chipped. Small Octavo.

London Bickers and Son 1880. Brown cloth, yerllow endpapers. All edges gilt. Lovely front cover and spine illustrations of fairies in gilt and black. Modest edge wear, spine lightly rubbed. Twelve plates in "permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery", each mounted on heavy card stock. Frontispiece, tissue guard, and title page show peripheral foxing. The tissue guard appears to be the culprit. Plates and text are clean. 16 pages of advertisements at the end dated July, 1880. Printed at the Chiswick Press..

London, New York: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton All edges gilt. Front cover and spine vignettes quite bright and vivid. Illustrated by W. Paget with six full-page colour plates and seventy half-tones. Printed in Bavaria. 319pp.. Pale Blue Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Topeka, Kansas: Crane and Company, 1917. Lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Front cover vignette of wagon train in green, brown, and white. Several illustrations as chapter heads and tail pieces. Quite a clean copy. Material on Kit Carson, Indian War, passing of the buffalo, Custer, Santa Fe Trail among others. 280pp.. Fifth Edition. White Cloth. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket. Octavo.

London, Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1935. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt with vignettes. Top and bottom of spine slightly discolored, no fraying. Dust jacket has several chips, top and bottom of spine and top of rear panel, price-clipped. Gift inscription dated 1937 at top of front free endpaper. Half-title and title-page show light foxing as does final page of text. Seven full-page color illustrations including the frontispiece, , an additonal seven in half-tone. Numerous text drawings. A very clean copy throughout with the rather scarce dust jacket. Unpaginated. . First Edition. Blue Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/Chipped Dust Jacket. Quarto.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1973. All edges gilt. Covers and spine designed and titled in gilt. Silk bookmark sewn-in. A copy of Notes From The Archives laid-in. An introduction by Bernard Bergonzi and eight color illustrations by Charles Raymond. A collection of 23 short stories from the master storyteller. Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, poet, journalist. He was born in India and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. 375pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Green Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Medium Demi Octavo.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899. Spine a bit darkened. Cover designs and gilt lettering bright. Ink inscription on front endpapers. An early reprint of BAL 7041. first published the year before. 417pp.. Early Reprint. Yellow Cloth. Minor Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. Illustrations by Federico Castellon. From the Easton series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Frontispiece portrait of the author. First published anonymously in 1825. 369pp.. Collector's Edition. Full Brown Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Imperial Octavo.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1979. Mylar jacket lightly frayed at top. LIMITED, SIGNED EDITION, this copy being #244/300. A clean, crisp copy throughout. 63pp.. Signed by Author. Limited, Signed Edition. 1/4 Purple Cloth Over Boards. Nearly Fine/Mylar Jacket as Issued.. Thin Octavo.

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1956. This is Sinica Leidensia Edidit Institutum Sinologicum Lugduno-Batavum Volume X. "A 13th century manual of jurisprudence and detection". Translated from the original Chinese with an introduction and notes by Mr. Van Gulik. One crease at bottom of front cover, minor fraying at spine extremities. Internally clean throughout. Some pages unopened at the top. Written in the 13th century by a Chinese magistrate named Kuei Wan-jung. He had served as a police inspector and "thus had ample knowledge of police methods and crime detection". This complete translation was written for Sinologues, but "it should prove of interest to all serious students of the history of crime and detection". Also issued in hardback with dust jacket. We have not seen the copy in original wrappers listed for sale in recent years. 198pp.+ errata page. . First Edition.. Tan Wrappers. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket.. Octavo.

Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1935. Front cover and spine lettered in blue. Frontispiece illustration by J. Allen Sy. John, "The high priest seizes her". This is a very clean copy throughout. Gift inscription front free endpaper. First edition was produced in a blue cloth with red lettering. The 18th book in the Tarzan series. 332pp.. Reprint Edition. Gray Cloth. Minor Cover Wear Only/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1930. Front cover and spine lettered in blue. Frontispiece illustration, "Lifting her to his shoulder, he leaped to the low branch of a nearby tree". Light water-stain top corner of frontispiece page. Quite a clean copy of this thirteenth Tarzan book, the fourth in the "Pellucidar series". 301pp.. Reprint Edition. Gray Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by J. Allen St. John. Octavo.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. Spine and front cover lettered in gilt.Rubbing both joints and corners. See photos. "Published, June, 1914" on copyright page. First issue cover without the acorn at foot of spine. "W.F. Hall Printing Co." at foot of copyright page in Old English type-face. A single illustration on title-page. Supplied with a FACSIMILE first edition dust jacket. This is the author's first novel published in a hard cover, AND it is the first book in the Tarzan series. McClurg published a total of 10,000 copies of the three issues of the first edition. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author in the genres of adveenture, science fiction, and fantasy, best-known for his characters Tarzan and John Carter. Tarzana's name was derived from the ape-words "Tar" and "Zan" meaning white skin, the name bestowed on him by his foster mother Kala, the great she-ape. 401pp.. First Edition, First Issue. Maroon Cloth. General Moderate Cover… Read More