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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 431 pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. Light edgewear and scuffing to dj. Faint discoloration to endpapers. Text clean, binding sound. Predictions on the future of society sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1860. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 320 pp. Marbled maroon boards backed in beige cloth with paper spine label. Heavy wear to boards, especially at edges and corners. Lacking most of spine label, partial title text remains. Hinges cracked, endpapers chipped. Small loss to half title page and closed tears to table on pp 319-320. Few spots and stains throughout, otherwise clean. Text in French.

New York: Hastings House, 1947. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 126 pp. Cream, blue, and brown patterned cloth in matching patterned dust jacket. Light sunning along dj top edge and spine. Po's inscription to front flyleaf dated 1961. Otherwise clean and sound. Signed by author, Kathleen Dickenson Mellen on dedication page. Illustrations by Madge Tennant.

Providence: E. L. Freeman & Sons, 1906. Pamphlet. Very Good. Annual Report of the Thirty-Fifth Years of the Advisory Board of Visitors to Institutions Where Women are Imprisoned, Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, 1906. 8vo. Tan stapled pamphlet. 4 pp. Split along spine, chipping and soiling along edges. Brief report on the treatment and conditions of the Institutions where women are imprisoned in Rhode Island. With suggestions for improvements to quality of life after the Death of State physician, Dr. Keene.

London: T. and J. Allman, 1818. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 237 pp. + (1) Later re-bind in brown cloth with new endpapers. PO's name, "Mary Ann Hackshaw" to fep and title page. Damp-staining and soiling throughout, though does not interfere with legibility of diagrams or text. Full title reads: Practical Chess Exercises; Intended as a Sequel to the Practical Chess Grammar; Containing Various Openings, Games, and Situations, with Instructions & Remarks on the Principal Moves of Each Party; For the Use of Those Who Have Already a Knowledge of the Game.

New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc, 1974. Wraps. Very Good. 10.5 cm x 18 cm. 329 pp. Rainbow colored paper wraps w/ black titling. Light scuffing to front and rear wrapper, faint price stamp to half-title. Illustrated. Introduction by psychic and clairvoyant schoolteacher, Sibyl Ferguson.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1848. Cloth. Good. 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm. 139 pp. Beige blindstamped cloth, faded gilt titling. All edges gilt. Lightly rolled w/ rubbing, soiling to cloth. Toning, discoloration throughout not interfering with text. Religious sketches, plant care list illustrated throughout in b&w from prolific biblical scholar, John Kitto.

New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1853. Cloth. Good. 7.5 cm x 11.5 cm. 128 pp. Red cloth w/ gilt stamped titling and decoration to spine that reads "The Violet". Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cloth, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Toning and discoloration throughout but does not interfere with text. Religious sketches, plant care list illustrated throughout in b&w from prolific biblical scholar, John Kitto.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Calderon, Ella. 12mo. 176 pp. Pictorial wraps. Red stained text block edges. Creasing to wrappers, heaviest at rear top corner. Some interior leaves lightly creased. "Surefire recipes for the quickest way to a man's heart," with menus to impress every type of man, including: 'Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit,' 'Man in a Garret,' 'Man in Gray Flannel Leaderhosen' and others. As the authors state: "each wily man, though he tries valiantly to pass himself off as a unique individual, is actually just a member of an easily defined type.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Artzybasheff, Boris. 4to. 268 pp. Burgundy calf with bold gilt titling, spine rebacked with new leather, sunned to a reddish orange. Heavy scuffing and rubbing to leather, with board edges and corners exposed. Top edge gilt, new stuck-on endbands, pictorial endpapers. Inner hinge splitting before title page, with first signature starting to detach but holding. Otherwise fine inside, with bright, tipped in, color plates throughout. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff.