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Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1894. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Large 12mo. 126 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to front board. Some rubbing and light fraying to spine ends and corners. Faint soiling to boards, small indentation to fore edge front board. Green floral endpapers. Frontis photo portrait with tissue guard. Text block lightly toned but clean. A collection of writings originally published in periodicals such as Harper's Bazar, The Women's Journal, The Providence Journal, and others.

Boston: George M. Baker & Co, 1876. Wraps. Good. 12 cm x 19 cm. 67 pp. [4] Orange paper wraps with black printed titling and decoration. Overall handling and wear to edges of wraps, chipping along spine, POs initials in ink to top edge of front wrapper. Translated and adapted from the German of Roderich Benedix.

South Orange, N.J.: Power Publishers, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 169 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling in black and red dust jacket. Very light scuffing to all sides of dj. Otherwise clean and sound. Instructional hypnosis treatments for a variety of ailments, including Advanced Techniques in Sex Therapy. From Power Publishers "How-To" series.

New York: Lewis Colby & Co, 1846. 1/4 Leather. Good. 24mo. 20 pp. Marbled boards backed in navy leather w/ faded gilt titling. Rubbing to boards and leather spine strip, faint foxing scattered throughout, previous owner's notation in ink to rpd. Frontispiece No. 1914. Scarce Christian parable.

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1879. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. [6] 201 [12] pp. Green cloth w/ gilt titling. Scuffing to cloth, heaviest at corners of boards. Detailed resource for training midwives with numerous illustrations, examination questions and index.

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Wittert, Elaine. 8vo. Unpaginated. Red cloth-backed pictorial boards w/ colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Soiling and chipping to dj, heaviest at spine ends with 2" closed tears to front and rear panel. Rarely seen with it's dust jacket. Rubbing to cloth at spine ends with light board exposure at corners. Clean interior. Only two copies in the OCLC. Scarcely seen with its dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Elaine Wittert of a precocious anthropomorphic clock briefly stopping time so that a family of fungi can grow and join in the fun at a carnival.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. Cloth over boards. Very Good. 8vo. [4] 205 pp. Brown cloth with gilt titling. Fraying to spine ends and corners of boards. Boards scuffed. Small annotation in ink to IX of the introduction from PO stating that the US has established juvenile court systems in 24 States instead of the reported 8. Reports prepared for the International Prison Commission.

New Haven: [Yale University Library], 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 4to. 27 pp + 10 illustrated plates. Brown paper-covered boards backed in brown Morocco, gilt titling to spine. Small (appx 1 cm) stain to front board at spine foot, spine ends gently pushed, otherwise near fine. Top edge gilt, somewhat brassy, bottom and fore edge deckled. Limited to 300 copies, this is number 26. Lecture originally delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Graphic Arts Collection in the Yale University Library on May 9, 1966. Printed and set in Dante type by Officina Bodoni in Verona, with illustrations done at the Meriden Gravure company in Meriden, CT. Foreword by James Tanis, University Librarian.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 48mo (10.5 cm x 7 cm). 124 pp. Red cloth with front board bound in green holly-patterned paper with faded gilt titling. Ex Library with call number to spine, bookplate and gift plate to front endpapers, perforated stamp to title page and final leaf at rear, pencil and ink notations to copyright page and p. 15. Dampstain to rear board and top margin of few rear leaves. Rest of text block clean, with bright color illustrations. Binding shaken and cracked at hinges but sturdy and sound. Introduction by L. Frank Baum. Part of the Christmas Stocking Series of miniature gift books, intended to fit in a child's stocking. Scarce.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. Cloth. Good. Ver beck, Frank. 8vo. 237 pp. Blue cloth, stamped blue and white titling, illustrated paste-down illustration of fairy folk. Significant fraying and soiling to cloth, heaviest along spine, text block lightly rolled, PO's inscription in blank ink to ffep "To Margaux from Junior. Christmas 1914". Discoloration scattered throughout margins, not interfering with text. The first full-length children's fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum after the publication of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. Whimsically illustrated by Frank Ver Beck.

Chicago: George M. Hill, 1901. Cloth. Good. Parrish, Maxfield. 8vo. 265 pp. Red, black, white printed publisher's cloth. Soiling and fraying to cloth, heaviest at spine ends. Binding shaken but holding. Previous owner's inscription in ink to flyleaf "Helen from Josie, Christmas". 12 illustrated plates by Maxfield Parrish. A collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Originally published in 1897 by Way and Williams of Chicago, The last story in the collection features a young girl named Dorothy who can speak to animals, preceding the publication of The Wizard of Oz in 1900.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Good. Beard, Alice. Square 4to. Unpaginated [80 pp]. Black cloth backed boards with illustrated cover. An innovative and interactive children's book, text block and boards are strung together through the center with a single cord of brown string. The Stringum family embarks on a series of colorful adventures, with each illustration incorporating the piece of string: as a tightrope at the circus, a ringmaster's whip, a clothesline at the beach, a fireman's hose, etc. String holes repaired by previous owner with circular reinforcement labels. Tearing to several leaves from pulling, partially affecting text, some mended. Binding shaken, boards lightly bowed. Soiling and shelfwear to boards. String is likely not the original, with large decorative beads on either end.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Branch, 1945. Wraps. Very Good. 19.75 cm x 26.5 cm, 96 pp. Off-white stapled wraps. Toning to spine, former owner's name in pencil to front wrapper. United States Atomic Energy Commission, New York Operation. AECD-2664. Clean interior. Numerous black and white diagrams throughout.

Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1951. First trade edition. Wraps. Good+. 12mo. 217 pp. Tan wraps. First edition. Toning along spine strip and wrapper edges, 2cm split at foot of spine. Uncut bolts. Text in French. The second novel in Beckett's "Trilogy.

Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 1999. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 8vo. 26 pp. Stapled orange paper wraps. Very lightly rubbing along spine. Otherwise clean and sound. Numbered 84 out of 125 copies. Literary contributions from Tom Clark, Wanda Coleman, Fielding Dawson, Ronald Dzerigian, David Elsey & Diane Wakoski. Collages by Fielding Dawson.

London: Horace Liveright. Sixth Edition. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 2 volumes. [13] 403 pp. + [7] 388 pp. Blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jackets. Jackets have moderate chipping and soiling to edges, heaviest at spine ends and corners of volume one. Soiling and sunning to spine ends and board edges. Light off-setting to endpapers, with light foxing scattered throughout. Illustrated. Fold-out map of Persia present with small

New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Unpaginated [49 pp]. Pictorial paper boards, rebacked with brown cloth spine. Boards heavily soiled and rubbed. Original tan floral pastedowns, both free endpapers have been replaced with contemporary, tan floral leaves, unmatching but similar. Light soiling scattered to mostly clean text block. Illustrated throughout in black and white. A humorous bestiary of sorts, featuring entries such as "A Swallow" (man drinking rum), "The Chetah" (cheater), and a previous owner's pencil sketch next to the image of "A Little Bare" (scantily clad woman).

Boston: Beacon Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 256 pp. Bright yellow cloth w/ orange titling in dust jacket. DJ separated along front joint, with toning to all panels. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Inscribed by the author in ink ffep. "With gratitude to Julia, from Lucia Bequaert". Resources for single women with a wide range of backgrounds to support themselves and each other.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1956. Hardcover. Good+. Beskow, Elsa. Squarish 4to. 32 pp. Illustrated boards backed in blue cloth. Soiling, slight board exposure to bottom edge front board and outer corners. Splitting to front hinge (lower 2 in), previous owner's ink gift inscription to ffep. Child's pencil drawing of Boston's Logan Airport laid in. Several leaves have tearing at bottom inner margin, most mended. Whimsical color illustrations throughout, 2 extra-illustrated in previous owner's crayon. All text in Swedish. Lisa attends the flower people's Midsummer party with the help of a fairy's magic.

York: Selwyn & Blount LTD, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Austen, John. 8vo. Beige paper-covered boards with illustrated paste-down, navy titling. Lacking jacket. Toning and discoloration to boards, heaviest along spine. Faint off-setting to endpapers. Art Deco inspired illustrations by John Austen throughout.