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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New York: Hubbell Publishing Co., n.d., but ca. 1908. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, color plate mounted to upper panel, housed in original brown paper-covered box, printed label with original price (75c.); [2]-184pp.; text printed within pink decorative borders throughout. Shallow chips to.....

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New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped.....

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Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,318pp.; photographic frontispiece, three leaves of plates. Jacket quite dust-soiled and worn along the edges with a number of closed tears, some with subsequent creasing, splitting to top and bottom two inches of front.....

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New York: American Bible Society, 1852. 105th Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's black elaborately blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine; 591,[5],184pp. Boards rather rubbed at extremities, foxing throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. Bible and "book of ages" of the Captain Charles (1811-1873) and Janet (1809-1896) Cook[e] family. Family Record leaves at.....

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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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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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Parisiis: Apud Ioannem Iost, 1637. Editio Quarta. Thick quarto; full contemporary triple-ruled sheep, unadorned spine in five compartments, all edges speckled red, retaining original endpapers as well as a wastepaper front free endpaper; [4],1011,[61]pp.; engraved title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, text printed in double columns. Leather somewhat edge.....

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Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as.....

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Dresden: Hartwig & Vogel A.-G. ca. 1930. First edition, oblong 8vo; pp. 16 & 48 plain photographic plates; loose as issued in green stiff paper chemise embossed in gilt on upper cover, pamphlet staplebound in self-wrappers; fine. Title on upper chemise cover: "Hartwig & Vogel A.G. Dresden: Schokolade, Kakao, Dessert.".....

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Paris: Librairie d'Education nationale, Alcide Picard, ca. 1900. Quatrième édition, large 4to, pp. 324; plain woodcut frontispiece, 4 plates, text illustrations and maps throughout, many full-page; original red cloth gilt; some fraying to edges and spine head, occasional spotting, pages uniformly toned; very good and sound. Forms part of the.....

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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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