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COMMON-SCHOOL LITERATURE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN with several hundred extracts to be memorized

By: WESTLAKE, J. WILLIS

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Christopher Sower Company: (1876)

Seller ID: 2911

Binding: vernaculopegy - cloth

Condition: very good+

12mo (4 ” x 6 ”). pp. 156. Stereotyped by The Inquirer P. & P. Co.

Vernacular cover of brown paisley patterned cloth sewn together at the paste-downs with heavy brown thread over original blown cloth binding. Original publisher's advt. paste-downs. Red stained edges.Provides a brief overview of literary development though history; a concise overview of the lives and characters of great authors and extract from writings of the same so as to "impart knowledge and culture" in the student. A rare example of vernaculopegy.

Very good+ with offsetting from the cloth onto the ffep a...
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SHIPS AND HAVENS

By: [GOODHUE, BERTRAM GROSVENOR (book and cover design)]; VAN DYKE, HENRY

Price: $465.00

Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & Co., : 1897 and 1898

Seller ID: 3042

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1897 and 1898. First Edition. 8vo (7 7/8” x 5 1/8”). pp. 42. IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL PAPER DUST JACKET.

Unsigned Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue1 Arts and Crafts design of repeating Viking ships with the title in red caps in the upper left corner.

Printed in red and black by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in Clarendon type with the title page decorated with a woodcut of a ship in red. The TOC is set solid with line fillers of red fleur-de-lis and black snowflakes. Rubricated woodcut initial caps with page heads and quotations printed in red.
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THE HOLY CROSS; AND OTHER TALES

By: [RHEAD, LOUIS J. (binding design, title page and decorative initial caps)]; FIELD, EUGENE

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, Stone & Kimball: 1893

Seller ID: 3176

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1893. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (7” x 4 1/2"). pp. 191 [5].

Unsigned binding design by Louis J. Rhead in gold and silver on navy blue cloth; light blue eps; t.e.g. Includes decorated title page and 11 decorative initial caps designed by Louis J. Rhead.

Eleven short stories by Field, with the title story being a then modern retelling of the story of The Wandering Jew.

A near fine copy with a contemporary gift inscription on the ffep. Scarce; exceptionally so in this condition.
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Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE

COMMON-SCHOOL LITERATURE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN with several hundred extracts to be memorized

SHIPS AND HAVENS

THE HOLY CROSS; AND OTHER TALES