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Eckel, John C. THE FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS, Their Points and Values. A Bibliography, Revised and Enlarged, with Illustrations and Facsimiles. New York: Maurice Inman, Inc 1932. Lg. 8vo. xviii,272,(6)pp. Index. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece and 28 plates (5 printed on colored paper and 2 in color). Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Orig. maroon cloth, lightly rubbed. T.e.g. A very nice, bright copy.
Garroway, Will. PIANISM. Foreword by Merle Armitage… New York: Carl Fischer, Inc. 1939. Sq. 4to. (6),iv,206pp. Index. Frontispiece a photo portrait of Garroway at the piano & illustrated endpapers. Text with several drawings and examples of printed music. The special edition limited to 75 numbered copies signed by Will Garroway on the limitation leaf. This is copy #36. Black cloth stamped in yellow, slightly dulled. Bookplate. A book of piano instruction. The special edition is quite scarce.
Irving, Washington. THREE CHOICE SKETCHES BY GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. The Stout Gentleman, The Adventures of My Uncle, Horsemanship. Taken from Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall & Tales of a Traveller. San Mateo, CA: The Greenwood Press 1941. 12mo. (x),83,(3)pp. Illustrated with a title page vignette, 3 headpieces, and a colophon vignette, all printed in brown. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Raw linen, paper spine label. Fine, as new, in the original D.j. (very small chip at top of spine). The first book of The Greenwood Press of Jack Stauffacher.
Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille, Sieur de. LIVES OF FAIR AND GALLANT LADIES. Translated from the Original by A. R. Allison. Paris: Charles Carrington 1901-1907. 2 vols. in 1, each with its own title page. (4),xliv,379,(1);xiii,(1),464pp. Title pages printed in red & black. Edition limited to 500 copies on India paper. Cont. 1/2 red morocco, gilt, over cloth. T.e.g.
Sprake, Austin. THE PRICE GUIDE TO STEVENGRAPHS. Stevengraphs, Stevens Silk Postcards, Bookmarkers. Clopton…: The Antique Collectors’ Club 1972. (12),208pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Gray leatherette stamped in gilt. D.j. Laid in is an original Stevengraphs bookmark, “To My Son…” with tassel. Also a 14pp. oblong pamphlet, “Stevengraphs Price Revision List, April 1979.” A fine copy.
Hood, Thomas. WHIMS AND ODDITIES, in Prose and Verse; with Forty Original Designs [ First and Second Series]. London: Lupton Relfe [and Charles Tilt] 1826-1827. Sm. 8vo. 2 vols. bound in 1. xii,146;viii,150pp. Each vol. with 36 woodcut plates. Title pages with woodcut vignettes. Later half calf (circa 1900), gilt, lightly rubbed, over marbled boards, black calf spine label. One leaf in Vol. I with a closed tear. One plate in Vol. II with a paper repair on verso. Occasional soiling and numerous amateurish pencil sketches (& 1 in ink) in blank areas (done in a style imitative of the woodcuts).
Parke, Uriah. LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF NUMBERS, and the Adaptation of Arithmetic to the Business Purposes of Life… Zanesville, OH: Printed and Published by U. P. Bennett 1842. 12mo. 340pp. Illustrated with woodcut diagrams. Cont. sheep, rubbed, black calf spine label (slightly chipped). Cont. ownership signature on front pastedown. Occasional foxing. “Parke’s Series, No 4.”
Byrom, John. THE UNIVERSAL ENGLISH SHORT-HAND; or, the Way of Writing English, in the Most Easy, Concise, Regular, and Beautiful Manner, Applicable to Any Other Language, But Particularly Adjusted to Our Own. Invented by John Byrom. Manchester: Printed by Joseph Harrop 1767. First edition. 8vo. (4),x,(3)-92pp. Illus. with an engraved table and 12 engraved plates. Modern 1/2 burgundy calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco label, over marbled boards. Title page with two vertical tape stains (light discoloration) from something that was once attached to the verso. Still a very decent copy.
Spence, Joseph. OBSERVATIONS, ANECDOTES, AND CHARACTERS, OF BOOKS AND MEN. Arranged with Notes by the Late Edmund Malone. London: John Murray 1820. Sm. 8vo. viii,302pp. Following the end of the text are pages 399-434 of a journal that contains an historical critique of Spence’s “Anecdotes of Books and Men.” Later brown morocco (lightly scuffed) over marbled boards. Bookplates on front pastedown and free endpaper.
Brieger, Lothar. E. M. LILIEN. Eine Kunstlerische Entwickelung um die Jahrhundertwende. Mit 226 Abildungen Nach Radierungen und Zeichnungen des Kunstlers. Berlin-Wien: Benjamin Harz 1922. Lg. 4to. 260pp. Profusely illus. with 226 text figures. Title printed within a decorative pictorial border. Orig. tan cloth stamped in brown and black, cloth somewhat soiled & spines a bit frayed. Scarce monograph on this German illustrator and artist.
Montherlant, Henry de. LES CELIBATAIRES. Photographies de Georgette Chadourne. Paris: Librairie Plon -1948. 4to. (4),242,(4)pp. With numerous photographic illus. Edition ltd. to 3000 machine-numbered copies. Bound in 1/2 green polished calf over marbled boards with the orig. printed wrappers preserved.
Bell, Sir Charles. MANUSCRIPT OF DRAWINGS OF THE ARTERIES. New York: Medicina Rara 1971). 4to. (72)pp. facsimile of an original holographic manuscript, circa 1820. Illustrated with 12 color plates (one folding). Edition limited to 300 deluxe copies bound in full red morocco (from a total printing of 2,800). ISSUED WITH: Jones, Harold Wellington. CHARLES BELL AND THE ORIGIN OF HIS ENGRAVINGS OF THE ARTERIES. A 12pp. pamphlet in brown wrappers, reprinted from the Charles Bell number of “Medical Life”, 1937. Both items housed in publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Fine.
MacInnes, C.M. THE EARLY ENGLISH TOBACCO TRADE. With Eight Plates. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd 1926. 12mo. xii,196pp. Index. Illus. brown cloth; with some text foxing.
Stendahl Art Galleries. WILLIAM WENDT AND HIS WORK. With Articles by Anthony Andersen… Fred S. Hogue… Alma May Cook… Arthur Millier. Los Angeles: Stendahl Art Galleries, [at] The Ambassador Hotel 1926. 8vo. 94pp. including 80 half-page half-tone photographs of Wendt’s oil paintings, each with descriptive text. Frontispiece portrait of Wendt, inscribed in ink at bottom, “To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meline. William Wendt.” Orig. green cloth, titles stamped in gold, a bit faded. Last plate with some foxing, otherwise a very nice copy. The inscription by Wendt is to noted Los Angeles architect Frank L. Meline (1875-1944).
No author. THE FIRST CATECHISM [Bengalee]. School Nook Series. No. 1. Calcutta: Church Mission Press. 1835. 12mo. (12)pp. Text in Bengalee. Self wrapper. At the bottom of the title page is printed, “4th Ed., 10,000 copies.” Printed for the Calcutta Christian Tract and Book Society.
Jackson, John. REFLECTIONS ON PEACE AND WAR. Philadelphia: T. E. Chapman 1846. 12mo. (2),78pp. Plus 8pp. publisher’s catalog. Orig. blind stamped brown cloth, gilt titled spine. Spine a bit faded and there is a ring stain on front cover. A presentation copy, inscribed “by the Author” on a blank preliminary, and dated 4 March 1846. Occasional foxing and light browning. An early American anti-war tract. The author was a Quaker. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 46-3674.
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