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Complete in eighteen volumes. Octavo. Tan calf over boards with double gilt ruled covers. Ornate gilt tooled spines with five raised bands and two contrasting labels. Marbled end papers and page edges. Volume I with portrait frontispiece of Dryden engraved by W.H. Lizars. Volume VI includes a fold out plate "The Solemn Mock Procession of the POPE Cardinals, Jesuits, Friars Etc. Through the CITY OF LONDON November 17th 1679." with a half width separation along one of the folds. Each volume with the bookplate of Florence de Wolfe Sampson by E.D. French, who also engraved the Grolier Club's own bookplate as well as bookplates for many of its members. Some foxing to frontispiece and title page, Vol I, otherwise very good.John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the…
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The WORKS of JOHN DRYDEN: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated With Note, Historical, Critical, And Explanatory, And A Life Of The Author, By SIR WALTER SCOTT, Bart.
by Dryden, John
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Walking the Dog: Poems
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First edition. One of 100 copies. Soft cover. Small octavo. 86 pages. Cover art by Roger Langton. SIGNED by author with a six line inscription to Roger Langton.Ann Menebroker was an American poet, recognized as one of the leading women writers of the no apologies offered and none needed male dominated "Meat Poets".
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West Made East With The Loss Of A Day: A Chronicle Of The First Circumnavigation Of The Globe Under The United States Naval Reserve Yacht PENNANT July 7, 1931 to March 4, 1932.
by Vanderbilt, William K.
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New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. William E. Belanske. Folio. [xx] 377pp with 7 color plates being reproductions of watercolors by William E. Belanske, staff artist at the American Museum of Natural History . One of 800 copies on Archer paper, bound in buckram. A further 200 numbered copies bound in half levant, of which fifty were for sale.An account of adventure in navigation, diversions, picturesque scenes, the everyday life of remote places, and the taking of specimens for the Vanderbilt Marine Museum by William K. Vanderbilt. Slight fading to spine else fine in original slip case.
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The Western Style Colour Prints in Japan: A Catalogue on Retrospective Works of the Exhibition in Foreign Country Organised by Nippon Hanga Kyokai
by Toyama, Usaburo
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Blue cloth over limp boards, 9 1/4" by 7 3/4". 305 pp. Paper label to front cover has slight loss. Both free end papers creased otherwise very good.Starts with a preface by Yone Noguchi and a 27 page essay on "The Origin of the Western Style Landscape Painting in Japan" followed by "A Retrospective Catalogue of Western Style Colour Prints in Japan" comprising of a short biography of 42 Japanese artists and 255 b/w plates.
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When I Grow Up
by Denslow W.W.
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First edition, September 1909. Hard cover. Large octavo, 9 7/8" by 7 3/8". Tan cloth with cover and spine decorated in black, white and orange. Unpaginated but 104pp. 24 full page color drawings and 24 full page monochrome drawings by Denslow. Short handwritten inscription to front free and paper dated 1914. Light rubbing to covers with some marks, heavier to spine. Illustrations sharp and bright.The book comprises 24 different types of people a child could be when they grow up, with a poem and illustrations for each by W.W. Denslow, who is best remembered as the original illustrator of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum.
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White House Physician
by McIntire, Ross T.
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Inscribed and signed by the author on the front fixed end paper in the year of publication. Hard cover. Octavo. [vi] 244 pages. Publisher's blue cloth over boards. Price clipped dust jacket shows Fairly heavy shelf wear with rubbing to edges and is protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire was an American physician and United States Navy officer. An otolaryngologist, he was appointed physician to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, becoming the first Physician to the President with a board-certified specialty. In 1938, he became the Surgeon General of the United States Navy, overseeing a major expansion of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery during World War II.- Wikipedia.
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Who's Who in the Western Livestock Industry: A Collection of Biographies of the Current Leaders in the Western Livestock Industry
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Hard cover. Octavo. [vi] 446pp. Each biography is approximately half a page long. Fine with a very tight binding.
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William Nicholson's An Alphabet: An Introduction to the Reprint from the Original Woodblocks
by Craig, Edward
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Number 207 of a signed limited edition of 300. Soft cover. Small folio. Mustard yellow sewn wraps with images of Nicholson's illustrated alphabet to the inside. [iv] 12pp Folded sheet with b/w photographs "Printing William Nicholson's Alphabet from the Original Woodblocks" laid in. Small crease to top corner of front cover else fine.
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Winter Camping
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Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment, Food, Shelter and Beds, Campfires and Stoves, Wildlife in Winter etc.The design on the front cover, which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon.
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With The Colors From Montgomery County, Illinois U.S.A.: An Honor Roll: Containing a Pictorial Record of the gallant and courageous men from Montgomery County, Illinois U.S.A., who served in the Great War 1917-1918-1919.
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Hardcover quarto. 190pp. Fully indexed with six engraved color plates. Very good.With The Colors From Montgomery County. An Honor Roll of members of the armed forces and Red Cross nurses from Montgomery County, Illinois, each with a portrait photograph, who gave their lives in the First World War.
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Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written By Himself, Together With Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator.
by Franklin, Benjamin
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Octavo. 8" x 4 7/8" Contemporary full calf binding. [vi] (2) 303pp. Lacks frontispiece. Preface by Richard Price. Exterior hinges starting, covers show wear. Text block very good. Ford (Franklin Bibliography) C.439.
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The World Of King Richard.
by Cunningham, Scott (Photographer)
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Atlanta: Rand & Ezor Sports Enterprises, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover 4to. Inscribed by driver Richard Petty to the original owner on front free endpaper. A photographic essay on a typical week in the life of the King of Stock Car Racing, Richard Petty #43. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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Wynne. The Art of Al and Lou Wynne: Exhibition at Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver Oct. 1, 2008 through Jan. 4, 2009.
by Felix, Tracy. Co-Curator
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Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2008. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Catalog of the exhibition of fine art and pottery by Al and Lou Wynne held at the Kirkland Museum of Fine Art, Denver from Oct. 1, 2008 through Jan 4, 2009. Stapled pictorial wraps. 8" x 8" 56pp. Very good condition. Al Wynnes work has been featured in major exhibitions from Colorado to Washington D.C., south to Texas and north to Alaska. His work has been presented in both individual and group shows. Paintings, calligraphy, and sculptures are held in museums and in private collections around the world. Al was listed in Whos Who in American Art starting in 1959. In June 2013, the majority of Al's life's work was destroyed in the Black Forest Fire. All that remains are pieces held by the family and in collections.
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