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THE SALEM DIRECTORY AND CITY REGISTER;Containing Names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Residences, ...
Salem, MA Henry Whipple, Publisher 1846 Hardcover Good. 16mo
...With Lists of City Officers, Banks, Insurance Offices, Societies, & Etc. Names of the Streets and Wharves and Other Useful Information. Green blind-stamped cloth covers. Map opposite title page. Hole on one leaf (pages 91-92). Wear at cover edges. 184 pages plus 30 pages of ads. 004752
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550.00 USD
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(London, Jack) Jack London Cigar Box
Allentown, PA Allen R. Cressman's Sons Very Good
No date. Handsome cigar box showing a young Jack London, with seal showing The Sea Wolf (1904), The Call of the Wild (1903), A Daughter of the Snows (1902) and The Game (1905), suggesting that the box was issued around that time. 006237
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1200.00 USD
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Anderson, Sherwood WINESBURG, OHIO
New York The Modern Library, Random Hosue 1919 Early Edition Flexible CLOTH Fine Good + 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
c. 1919 by B.W. Huebsch. Introduction by Ernest Boyd. Price on dust jacket is: 95 cents. Titles on inside of dust jacket list to 210. Dust jacket spine is numbered 104 -- plain design with bands of red. Dust jacket is chipped at edges. 005456
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15.00 USD
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Anonymous Impatient Boy
New York Carlton & Porter 1858 1st Edition Contemporary Quarter Leather Good 24mo Wood Engravings
By the anonymous author of "Addie Oakland". 53 pages plus one leaf of publisher's ads; tidal lines and spots inside along top margin. 006145
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20.00 USD
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Arey, Richard Fred. Waterfalls of the Mississippi.
Saint Paul Minnesota Outdoors Press 1998 Limited Edition Hardcover Fine Small Quarto With Color Wood Engravings By Gaylord Schanilec Signed By Author and Illustrator
"The Story of Eight Waterfalls Found in Saint Paul & Minneapolis; Descendents of the Late, Great River Warren Falls; And the Only Waterfalls Along the Entire Mississippi River." Brown cloth covers with gilt waterfall design on top cover; gilt titles on spine label. Fine in a fine slipcase. 200 numbered copies, this copy out of series, labled "P. Proof" and signed by both Arey and Schanilec. 005502
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300.00 USD
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Bak, Bronislaw M. HOMO SUM.Tragicomedy in Seven Parts or Notes of a Passerby
Chicago Studio Press 1967 Limited Edition Hardcover Fine Folio Bak, Bronislaw
Dark navy cloth covers, stamped in red and gold. Seven brillian color woodcuts each face a page of quotation from the Old Testament. Limited Edition, number 24 of 148 copies (of which only 130 were for sale). Each print has been signed in pencil by Bak. Handset and printed by Heidi Bak on handmade Fabriano Book paper. Epilogue by James E. Kulas, Ph.D. Biographical note laid in 006299
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275.00 USD
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Barbour, Philip L., Editor THE JAMESTOWN VOYAGES UNDER THE FIRST CHARTER 1606-1609, 2 VOLUMES
Cambridge The Hakluyt Society, Published at the University Press 1969 First Thus Cloth, Hardcover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Second Series. Nos. CXXXVI and CXXXVII. Subtitled: Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609. Vol. I: xxviii + 247 pages. Vol. II: viii + 249-524 pages. Black and white illustrations and maps, (some folding); Appendices, bibliography, and indexes. Dust jackets have some sunning. 006002
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70.00 USD
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Barrie, J. M. PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1906 First American Edition Hard Cover Very Good Quarto Arthur Rackham
xiv+ 126 pages. Green cloth with gilt stamping, original captioned tissues facing each plate have foxing; tight copy, minor silverfish marks to covers, ex-libris Joseph A. Sadony with his rubber stamp on the dark endpaper. This classic of childhood first appeared in 1904 as a play, and in this 1906 book--with its full complement of 50 tipped in color plates. The book served to propel Arthur Rackham toward his position as, arguably, the premier book illustrator of the first half of the 20th century. 006239
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850.00 USD
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Baum, L. Frank The Magic of Oz.
Chicago Reilly & Lee Co. Later Printing Hardcover Very Good Octavo John R. Neill
(Copyright, 1919) 266 pages, no color plates. Wear at cover corners; light creasing on corners of first few pages. Matches Bievenue's criteria for a printing between 1931 to late 1950s: illustrated endpapers, "semi-script" publisher's spine imprint, no color plates, green cloth covers with color pictorial pastedown on front cover. 005647
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35.00 USD
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Bellow, Saul The Victim
New York Vanguard 1947 1st Edition Black Cloth Fine Fine DJ Octavo
Author's second book. In a nearly perfect dj ( very tiny break at top of front flap fold, lightly sun-darkened toning to extremity on top cover. "A vivid, compelling, and serious writer, destined, I believe, to occupy an important position among the novelists of our time and place -Robert Penn Warren." [Burgess 99]. 002741
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1500.00 USD
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Boisragon, Captain Alan THE BENIN MASSACRE
London Methuen & Co. 1898 Second Edition Hardcover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Black and white frontis. of two survivors; map. 190 pages plus 40 page catalogue of Methuen and Co. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles; book slightly cocked. former owner name on front paste-down endpaper. 005327
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100.00 USD
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Boswell, James / Samuel Johnson JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D-
London Henry Baldwin for Chas Dilly 1786 Third, Revised Ed, First State Hardcover Good Octavo
Third, Revised Ed. First State, with half-title page (two tears at gutter), uncancelled leaf pp. 73/74, and advert leaf at end. First appearance of a two-page "Advertisement to the Third Edition" by Boswell pp. iv-v. Contains Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: With an Authentick Account of the Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the year 1746. Extra gilt spine, new spine label, gold fillet borders to inner and outer sides of the covers. Octavo, xv, 442 pp, cont. calf, rehinged (damage to marbled endpapers previously) 005404
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250.00 USD
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