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THE JAMESTOWN EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATED

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Norfolk, The Seaboard Publishing Company: 1907

Seller ID: 186

Binding: Staplebound wraps

Condition: fine

R8vo (6¾” x 10"). 16pp. unpaginated. Souvenir booklet with light brown stablebound wraps with titles and photographic illustrations in dark brown. Illustrated througout with photographs with descriptive captions of the buildings and exhibits of the great Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exhibition, which celebrated the 300th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement on the American continent, which ran from April 26th to November 30th, 1907. Photographs include visitors to the fair, clearly showing the fashions of the time. One in a series of exhibitions celebrating the history of ...
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MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE BOOK IN COPPERPLATE SCRIPT

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: 1836

Seller ID: 2655

Binding: Full calf

Condition: Good+

12 mo. (7 1/2” x 5"). 56 leaves. An autograph album bound in black calf with a pressed fanfare design on both boards and the spine. The word "Album" is stamped in gilt on one end of the spine. Cream and blue pages, a.e.g.

A commonplace book of contemporary and classical poetry about friendship and the impending loss of a friend in a fair, copperplate hand. The title page has an illustration of a sail with the initials S. B. W. and 1836 and a flag of of the mast that reads "Adieu God Bless You and Protect You".

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TWO BESTIARIES BY MARIE ANGEL 2 VOLUMES: A BESTIARY; A NEW BESTIARY

By: Angel, Marie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The President and Fellows of Harvard College: 1964

Seller ID: 193

Binding: Soft Bound

Condition: VG

~32mo (4" x 4"). Unpaginated. Two softbound volume set (A Bestiary: first edition fifth printing; A New Bestiary: first edition, first printing) in a pale blue-green paper covered slipcase with white title label printed in red. Both volumes in VG condition with slight darkening to spines and a small bump to rear foot of spine of A New Bestiary. In a G+ slipcase with light bubbling and browning to paper, and a crack to upper corner.Marie Angel (1923 - 2010) was a British illustrator, miniaturist and calligrapher.
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COLLECTION OF EIGHT ORIGINAL HAND-PAINTED JAZZ AGE COUTURE FASHION DESIGNS

By: EARLE, JOSEPHINE(?); Bruyère, MADAME MARIE-LOUISE; ROUFF, MAGGY.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: New York, 1920

Seller ID: 2828

New York: 1920. Eight (10 1/4” x 7") cream colored cards, each with a fashion design whose stenciled silhouette drawing of the model (see reverse side of design #324, red crepe), is painted with the fashion design in watercolor by a professional contemporary hand -- presumably that of the designer. Each drawing includes the design number on the left with a brief description of the colors and the types of fabrics and trim used to create the garment, and on the right, the notation "Earle | 1375 B'way".

Earle is likely the name of the designer (possibly Josephine Earle?), while "1375 B'W...
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DISSERTATIO PHILOLOGICO-THEOLOGICA DE PECCATO IN SPIRITUM SANCTUM AD DICTUM LOCI CLASSICI EBR. VI. 4.5.6

By: Hichtel, Johann Samuel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Halae Magddeburgicae [Halle an der Saale], Litteris Hendelianis: 1759

Seller ID: 189

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very good

8vo (6½ ” x 8”). pp.48. Yellow paper wraps stamped with repeated variable designs in black and gold; includes wood-cut historiated initials, head-piece and tail pieces. Publication of a dissertation regarding blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. The dissertation defence by Johann Samuel Hitchel took place on 17 August 1740 against the arguments of his theology professor, Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706-1757) at the University of Halle, in Germany. Baumgarten was a Protestant transitional theologian whose pioneering work led the way toward rationalsim. Slight creasing to corners and rubbin...
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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT BUSINESSMEN Volume 24, No. 6 JOHN J. ASTOR

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: East Aurora, Roycrofters: 1909

Seller ID: 188

Binding: Sewn Paper Wraps

Condition: Very good

8vo (6" x 8"). Vol. 24, No. 6. pp.190; [vi]. Issues of Little Journeys were paginated serially. Signed Dard Hunter binding in sewn grey paper decorated in red and black in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow Arts & Crafts style. Includes title page in red and black by Dard Hunter and a two color frontis portrait of Astor detached but present. All book elements including floriated initial caps and tail pieces designed by Hunter. Printed on Boxmoor paper. Very good with age toning to preliminaries, edges of wraps with light wear, rear corners folded and contemporary ownership mark. M...
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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF ENGLISH AUTHORS. Volume VI, No. 4 ROBERT BURNS

By: Hubbard, Elbert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: East Aurora, Roycrofters: 1900

Seller ID: 191

Binding: Sewn Paper Wraps

Condition: Very good

8vo (5 3/4" x 7 5/8"). Vol. 6, No. 1. pp. 73 - [97]. Issues of Little Journeys were paginated serially. Regular edition with body and copy set in Old Style Antique. Sewn grey paper with titles in black and the Roycrofters device stamped in green. Includes title page with elaborate Arts & Craft border, floriated Arts & Crafts style initials and typographic design after Morris. Portrait of Morris after the painting by Watts opposite pp.14. Printed on Boxmoor paper. Very good with offsetting to ffep and title page fore-edge and foot. McKenna 60; 62.
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A LOG OF THE SPANISH MAIN

By: Mora, Jo

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Jo Mora, Jr.: 1934

Seller ID: 182

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

8vo (6" x 8¾”). Yellow cloth boards with titles and illustration of a pirate stamped in black, red and green on front cover. Illustrated paste-downs. Brass rivet binding. A pre-printed diary provided by W. R. Grace and Company to young passengers of its Grace Line cruisers headed for the Caribbean coast and Gulf of Mexico (the Spanish Main). The book provides a young sailer with diary space and information about life aboard ship and what to expect at their ports of call. This particular copy was owned by one Mikey Robinson from Sewickley, Pa. traveling to South America during the perio...
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THE WHISTLER JOURNAL

By: Pennell, Elizabeth and Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1921

Seller ID: 194

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very good

(6¼" x 8¼"). pp.5. Prospectus and order form for The Whistler Journal, a book of the Pennell's notes taken during their research of the Life of Whistler, and contains revelations regarding Whistlers's life and friends as well as notes of his witty but often serious table-talk. Includes table of contents, A reproduction of a Whistler self-portrait, a specimen of the text as well as an order form for the book. Single horizontal crease that affects all folds of the pamphlet, light soiling, and some wear to the folds, otherwise VG.
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TYPES BORDERS AND ORNAMENTS

By: Washington Press, Inc.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Washington Press, Inc.: N.D.

Seller ID: 197

Binding: staplebound wraps

Condition: Very good

R8vo (6½” x 10¾”). pp.36. Stiff paper wraps covered in painted brown paper with titles in black and the Washington Press logo in red. A sample book of all types, borders, ornaments, flourishes, decorations and effects offered by the Washington Press to its customers. Rubbing to corners and spine and light soiling to the final page, otherwise VG. The Washington Press, Inc. was a Boston-based printing company active from the early to the middle part of the 20th Century.
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THE MARY FRANCES HOUSEKEEPER ADVENTURES AMONG THE DOLL PEOPLE

By: [AMERICANA-- CULTURAL HISTORY; AMERICANA -- SOCIAL HISTORY; Greene, Julia; Mowitz, Albert C., illustrators]; Fryer, Jane Eayre

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company: 1916

Seller ID: 178

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

4to (7” x 9½”). pp. [xviii]; 253. Blue cloth boards with color illustrated paper onlay with titles; spine with titles stamped in gold script. Illustrated eps. Color paper dolls, vignette and margin silhouettes by Julia Greene; frontispiece, foldout doll house plans and color paper furniture by Albert C. Mowitz. A scarce copy complete with all 9 paper dolls and clothing, Arts and Crafts style furnishings and doll house plans. One in a series of seven books by Jane Eayre Fryer whose purpose was to teach children all the domestic arts.A significant piece of piece of social and cultural ...
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SALOMÉ; A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT

By: [BEARDSLEY, AUBREY (ILLUSTRATIONS)]; WILDE, OSCAR

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, Melmoth & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 3141

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

London: Melmoth & Co., 1904. Pirated edition containing the first appearance of 15 original Beardsley illustrations. Small 4to (8 1/2" x 6 3/4"). pp [1 - 10]; 11 - 75; [76 - 77]; [2 blank]. Collated and complete, but as usual, the plates are not in the order specified on list of illustrations. Limited edition; this copy number 238 of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. Beveled boards in light blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. A very good copy with wear and minor loss of cloth at the spine extremities.

Salomé was Oscar Wilde's one act play retelling the biblical sto...
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THE MARY FRANCES SEWING BOOK ADVENTURES AMONG THE THIMBLE PEOPLE

By: [Boyer, Jane Allen]; Fryer, Jane Eayre

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company: 1913

Seller ID: 180

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

4to (7” x 9½”). pp. [x]; 175. Blue cloth boards with color illustrated paper onlay with titles; spine with titles stamped in gold script. Illustrated eps. Printed in red and black and profusely illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer in the Golden Age tradition with full page color illustrations and textual vignette illustrations. Includes 10 tissue-paper fold-out clothing patterns. One in a series of seven books by Jane Eayre Fryer whose purpose was to teach children the domestic arts, The Mary Frances Sewing Book weaves lessons about basic sewing into a story about a little girl taught to sew...
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