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Denver, CO: H. H. Tammen. Very Good+. 1903. Paperback. B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 34 pages; 1903 H. H. Tammen. Larger format paperback with die-cut burro form paper covers and saddle stapled binding. Pictorial covers with embossed 4 color design. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos on pictorial patterned pages. Light rust to binding staples apparent at center fold. A very attractive die-cut design devoted to the Burro. VG .

London: J. Andrews & W. Cole. Very Good+. 1826. First Edition; First Printing. 1/2 leather. [Harry Bache Smith Copy with Bookplate]; Etched engravings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 369 pages; 1826 J. Andrews & W. Cole, London. 1st edition. An unusual and very interesting copy from the library of prominent American librettist and bibliophile, Harry Bache Smith, with his color pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, and (presumably) his very Jazz Age choice of rebinding style. Rebound in 1/2 green morocco with floral patterned paper covered boards and endleaves. A distinctively, and rather dissociative (for the title) Jazz Age choice of font and decorations in gilt to the compartments at spine. A manuscript note laid in at front appears to be a bookseller catalogue note, as it does not appear to be in Smith's hand. The note asserts unambiguously that two poems in the collection signed "Alfred" are in fact the earliest print appearance of poems by Tennyson,… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good-. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original brown cloth with titles lettered in black to board and in gilt to spine. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners with trace fray at spine ends. Light foxing to endpages. Solid and decent copy. VG- .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good-. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; 1892 G. P. Putnam's Sons. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original brown cloth with titles lettered in black to board and in gilt to spine. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners with trace fray at spine ends. Solid and decent copy. VG .

Boston: Brewer and Tileston. Good. 1858. revised edition. Hardcover. Colored maps and woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; Circa [1858] Brewer and Tileston. Revised edition in quarter leather backed spine and pebbled brown cloth sides. Shallow loss to leather at crown and a short open chip over the front joint. Prior ownership in pencil at front of young Susie Wardle, 212 Mantonga [? ] St. Pottsville, PA. Below the ownership she has written the same word three times in pencil - could be "russian" but might be "ruffian." On the rear endpage pastedown in what appears to be the same hand Miss Susan Wardle has sketched out plans to leave for the big city (philadelphia) on Christmas day: "Miss Alice / is very cross to me and I am / going to leave school on christmas / and go to the City to school / for miss Alice is to cross / and I hope that I will get a / kinder teacher and if my teacher / is kind to me I will do good / and learn my lessons well and not… Read More

Lancaster, PA: All Kinds Blintzes Press. New. 2004. First Edition; Limited edition. Wraps. Color Reproductions of F Stettheimer paintings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Limited edition of 26 copies hand-sewn into Japanese Prescious Ores tea paper wrappers and hand lettered A through Z. This copy lettered "o." Includes color Reproductions of 4 Florine Stettheimer paintings. Letter reproduced with facsimile manuscript and facing page type. .

United States: Ken Mack. Good+. 1972. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 70 pages; Slim paperback in title lettered cardstock covers. A square, soundly bound copy. Ruler guided underlining and notes sporadically throughout text. Prior owner's name stamped neatly to inside front cover and to front cover. Suggestions of light soiling to the front cover. Scarce. G++ to VG- .