Condition: Fair

Sebastian Van Storck

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York; John Lane, London : 1927

Seller ID: k190126u

Condition: Fair

4to, illustrated linen, gilt titles. With 8 full-page tipped-in color by Alastair. No. 591 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed in pencil by the artist. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: Fair; the text block and illustrations are fine. The significant flaw is that it is lacking the backstrip on the spine, otherwise covers are good overall with several light stains.. The penciled signature on the plate on p.30 is present, but faint. Lacking original slipcase.
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[Decorative Tapestries of the French Royal Household] Les Tapisseries Decoratives du Garde-Meuble [mobilier nationale] Choix des Plus Beaux Motifs

By: Alfred Darcel and Edouard Guichard

Price: $550.00

Publisher: Paris, J. Baudry : 1881

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200128j

Binding: Blue board

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 1881. 2 volumes, folio. ¼ morocco, blue pebbled cloth; ribbed spines. ##### 100 full-page lithographic plates of wall tapestries and furniture coverings, mostly in b/w or sepia but including thirteen chromolithographic plates with tapestries or details in color. Each plate accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text. The Mobilier National, formerly the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne was the French department responsible for storing and repairing all movable furnishings and décor from the royal households of the Ancien Regime. [16th-18th centuries]. ##### Condition: Plates very good...
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The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona....

By: BOURKE J.G.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons : 1884

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200325c

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, 3/4 pebble-grained leather, gilt titles, ribbed spine, t.e.g. ; marbled end papers. (xviii 372pp.) With 31 full-page plates, including one fold-out; 15 colored, plus colored frontispiece. Tissue guards on all of the colored plates. The special binding here is contemporary not modern; signed Lippincott’s. Bourke fought in the Civil War and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He then attended West Point after the war, became an officer, and served as a cavalry officer in the American West and Indian Wars until his death. He wrote this book about the Moquis Pueblos of Arizona Territor...
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New Numbers / A Quarterly Publication of the Poems of …… Vol. 1 No. 3. August 1914

By: BROOKE, Rupert; Lascelles Abercrombie; John Drinkwater; Wilfred Wilson Gibson

Price: $50.00

Publisher: England, Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: Crypt House Press. : 1914

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k210515n

Condition: Fair

8vo, blue-grey wrappers. A short-lived periodical [4 issues] "devoted exclusively to new poems" by the four contributors, this issue containing pp. 109-152 of the series. 4 poems by Brooke.
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CONDITION: Fair; Covers toned; 1/2" chip top of spine, corners bumped, several edge nicks. Interior is good; a reasonably tight copy but with occasional light foxing.
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Notes from the Underground

By: Bryan, John (ed) / Kerouac, Patchen, Bukowski, et al

Price: $95.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Underground Press : 1964

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k180302b

Condition: Fair

1st ed., small 4to, wraps, 76 pp. Contributions by Neal Cassady, Alan Watts, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen and others. Text block is very good; clean and tight. Front cover rubbed with chips at top and bottom of spine; large stain on back cover.
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Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

By: E. N. Elliott

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Augusta, GA, Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis : 1860

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200408a

Condition: Fair

Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important Subject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law". ##### 1st ed., (8vo) 908, [4] ad pp. Engraved portraits. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slavery In the Light ...
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Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale. [Costumes Of The French Militaire.]

By: Eugene Fieffe

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Adolphe Elahays : 1860

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k200824e

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET. 171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat...
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PURE FOLLY / The Story Of Those Remarkable People / The Follies [Inscribed Association Copy]

By: Fitzroy Gardner

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Mills & Boon : 1909

Edition: 1st edition

Inscription: ALS by producer H.G. Pellisier

Seller ID: k210115l

Binding: Illustrated board

Condition: Fair

London, Mills & Boon. 1909, 1st Edition. Small 4to, illustrated boards, cloth spine. 132 pp. A humorous account of the “Follies”, the London theatrical phenomenon that was a blend of Vaudeville and the Folies Bergere. “ Songs, Dance, Reciatations…” “With a New Song by H.G. Pelissier.” b/w photos and illustrations by Geoffrey Holme and others. Pasted to the front end paper is a letterhead for the Follies, with manuscript note signed by H.G. Pelissier, the song writer and eventual producer. “ Dear Mr. Lloyd, / I have now taken over the above company -- performers in period costume -- Do you th...
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Sunday in London (Illustrated by George Cruikshank)

By: George Cruikshank

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London: Effingham Wilson : 1833

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k190218h

Condition: Fair

Full title: Sunday in London, Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by George Cruikshank, a Few Words by a Friend of His; with a Copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill. With frontispiece, engraved title, nine full-page woodcuts and three vignettes. 1st ed., 12mo, full polished tan calf, gilt rules and lettering, t.e.g. [iv] 105 pp. [24 publisher’s catalog] A satire on the English Sabbatarians and their leader Sir Andrew Agnew. Condition: Fair. The interior clean and bright overall with few pages darkened or spotted; one page of the catalog with a small closed tear. The major defect is the back board is det...
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A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WARS IN SCOTLAND; Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE…etc.

By: George Wishart / James Graham

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, n.p. : 1720

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. The 2d part being never before published, is now done into English from the Latin of the right Reverend father in God, Doctor George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, With an appendix containing 1st a Description of Montrose's pompous Funerals in the year 1661. 2dly, A character of King Charles the 1st...
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AFFAIRS IN OREGON. Letter from the Secretary of War Communicating.Correspondence with General Harney, Relating to Affairs in the Department of Oregon

By: Harney, Brig. General William S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: House of Represedntatives, HED 65, 36-1 : 1860

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200225a

Condition: Fair

8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Practically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence concerning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects and developments in "the war against the Indians of Washington and Oregon territories." Important contemporary material on the territory Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War.
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THE ADVENTURER - 4 volumes

By: Hawkesworth, John; Samuel Johnson; Joseph Warton et. al.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, Charles Green Say, for J. Payne : 1754

Edition: 2nd edition

Seller ID: k200418c

Condition: Fair

Printed by Charles Green Say, for J. Payne, London, 1754. Second edition. Four volumes. 12mo. (iv), 308p; (vi, 292p; (vi, 298p; (iv), 297p. The Adventurer was one of several 18th century English periodicals to publish the essays of Samuel Johnson. This 4-volume set contains all 140 numbers as in the first edition. Bound in contemporary calf, ribbed spine with gilt labels and double lined borders. 25 of the papers are attributed to Johnson, 70 to Hawkesworth. ##### Condition: Fair/Poor. The text blocks are clean and tight overall with only occasional light foxing; the only significant flaw ...
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Shouting: Genuine and Spurious. Giving a History of Outward Demonstrations of the Spirit such as Laughing, Screaming, Shouting, Leaping, Jerking, and Falling under the Power, &c

By: Henry, G.W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oneida, NY, Published and bound by the author : 1859

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

A history of speaking in tongues, along with lessons in the oratory of hellfire and damnation 12mo. [1, vi, [1], 7-425, [6] pages of sheet music for several hymns at rear. Engraved frontispiece. Maroon textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with "Shouting in All AGES of the CHURCH.” Full title “SHOUTING: GENUINE AND SPURIOUS, in all Ages of the Church, from the Birth of Creation, when the Sons of God Shouted for Joy, Until the Shout of the Arch-Angel: With Numerous extracts from the Old and New Testament, and From the Works of Wesley, Evans, Edwards, Abbott, Cartwright, and Finley. Giv...
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The Quest. [First Separate Printing - Ltd to 12 copies]

By: KIPLING, Rudyard

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Edward H. Crussell : 1933

Seller ID: cr220722d

Condition: Fair

12 pp; 12mo stapled grey wrappers. Colophon: "Set by Hand and 12 copies printed; none of which are for sale; VII-XI-XXXIII." A forty-line, four-stanza poem about a knight returning from battle. First, and only, separate publication. The poem was first published in The Book of Beauty / A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day; edited by. F. Harcourt Williamson; London; Hutchinson & Co, 1897. It was next reprinted by E.W. Martindell in Fragmenta Condita: The Unrecorded Portion of my Kipling Collection. (Appendix to 'A Bibli...
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The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with their Songs

By: MARSH, J.B.T.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company : 1880

Edition: Revised ed.

Seller ID: k210219b

Condition: Fair

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold. #####Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University). #####Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally...
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A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

By: McNevin, Captain Edmund

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco: , A. L. Bancroft & Company : 1878

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, original black cloth with a mariner’s compass blocked on upper cover, leather spine and corners. 324 pp. [16 advts] + one leaf with a Mariner’s Compass inserted between pages [8]-9 and four pages of testimonials inserted before the title leaf. Profusely illustrated with charts and nautical tables. Captain Edmund McNevin was born in Ireland left for the US in 1847 on The Great Western. For nearly twenty-five years he commanded a variety of ships. He moved to San Francisco in 1874 and opened a school for Navigation. This is one of several authoritative nautical works he publishe...
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Mascaras Mexicanas [Mexican Masks

By: Montenegro, Roberto

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, : 1926

Edition: 1st ed

Seller ID: k191122g

Condition: Fair

1st ed. 4to, magenta boards. cxxxiv pp. 47 full-page plates (recto only) of Mexican masks, mostly b/w but several in color. Precolumbian to recent folkloric, with text by artist Roberto Montenegro. Limited to 2500 copies. Condition: Fair; text block is near fine -- clean, bright, and tight. Covers worn, sunned, with random damp-staining occasionally affecting the end papers but not affecting the text block itself.
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Marlowe: A Drama in Five Acts [Inscribed Association Copy with ALS]

By: Peabody, Josephine Preston [George Turner Phelps / Arnold Daly]

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Miffilin Company : 1901

Edition: 1st ed

Inscription: Signed presentation copy from the author to the fa

Seller ID: k210130j

Condition: Fair

First Edition. 8vo, 156pp. #####Signed presentation copy from the author to the famous actor/producer Arnold Daly, of one of her most successful plays. Poet/librettist George Turner Phelps has used the covers, pastedowns and end sheets to write a long letter to Daly urging him to produce the play with Dorothy Donnelly, who played opposite Daly in Shaw’s Candida. An added note by Peabody on the rear flyleaf approves.Condition: Fair. A clean, tight copy internally; moderate wear to covers, title label on spine rubbed, end papers toned. But who cares -- it’s a $15 book enhanced immeasurably by...
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Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

By: Robert E. Draper

Price: $525.00

Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers : 1869

Edition: 1st ed

Seller ID: k181231h

Condition: Fair

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. . list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of Californiaâs Board of Land Commissioners, was the Stateâ's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johns...
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Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2 Vols.)

By: Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York : 1926

Edition: 1st edd

Seller ID: k191122d

Condition: Fair

1st ed. Tan wrappers with black lettering. 529 pp., numbered continuously between the two volumes. Vol. I has100 full-page plates and 116 figures and Vol. II 105 full-page plates and 183 figures. One of the great early studies of pottery of this Central American region with copious historical background and discussions of culture, customs, tribes, languages, religion, etc. Condition. Vol 1 Fair: Covers worn, cracks to spine, all corners rubbed. Text block is clean and unmarked, but loosely shaken and cracked at several locations. Vol 2: Poor; similar condition but covers are partially detac...
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