Kirkby Stephen: J.W. Braithwaite, 1884. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's maroon cloth triple-ruled in black and lettered in gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; [2],134,[1],[33](ads)pp.; color folding map frontispiece, text illus., pictorial ads printed on various colored stock bound in rear. Cloth a bit soiled and slightly rubbed, spine rather faded, a......

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Paris: Masson et Cie. 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with...

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Paris: Furne et Cie. n.d. [1864]. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (18cm.); original blue pictorial wrappers; [4],294pp. Some light edge wear, small chip to spine crown, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, minor later (early 20th century?) repair to loose signature, else a Very Good copy, interior quite fresh. Collection of...

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York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift inscription from...

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Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. Hardcover. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly...

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Chicago: Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1911. Large 4to, pp. [2], 661, [1]; folding plates, illustrations throughout; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in whilte, red, and gilt; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings and gift bookplate from the Commercial Club of St. Paul; spine ends and edgs a bit rubbed, else very...

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Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company, [1901]. Touraine Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1250 sets of which this is no. 898. 36 volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth, paper spine labels printed in red and black; illus. throughout by various artists. General shelf wear, spine labels uniformly dust-soiled, a....

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Tokyo: Kasuga Boeki K.K., [1953]. Reprint. Small octavo (18.25cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers; 127pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Raunchy full-page illustrations following the exploits of "Babysan," "A carefree and charming girl...[who] decided, in fact, to devote herself to the cause of.....

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Montauban: Victor Bertuot [...] A Roc-Amadour au Magasin de Marie, [1862]. First Edition. 8vo; pp. [2], ix, [1], 89; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather...

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Papeete, Tahiti: Loge Unie des Theosophes, 1935. Première Traduction Française de la onzième Edition Anglaise. 12mo; publisher's blue textured cloth, printed tan sheep label affixed to upper cover; [6],xvii,[3],200pp.; illus.; text printed mimeograph. Errata bifolium laid in. Light shelf wear, tiny dampstain to textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. First French.....

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London: St. Thomas' Hospital, ca. 1918. Original necklace of twenty-one hand-made wallpaper beads, each approx. 4cm. in length, interspersed with colored glass beads. Wallpaper beads a bit browned, else a fine piece of vernacular jewellery. Slightly later manuscript card attached to necklace stating "Necklace made of wall paper by a....

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Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...

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