1868rif. 382211London: Frederick Warne & Co 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. First one-volume edition published in three volumes in 1867. Small octavo. 437pp. Later green cloth boards with gilt title on the spine. A couple of small holes on the spine one signature supplied in facsimile very good or better. OCLC locates two copy of this edition. Frederick Warne & Co hardcover books
1952rif. 609890Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Thin octavo. 80pp. 36 plates. Contemporary gift inscription else about fine in very good modestly worn dust jacket with a few small internal repairs. Interesting and attractive title. Australasian Publishing Company in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1944rif. 607804New York: Current Reference Publications 1944. Hardcover. Good. 283pp. Ex-library with the usual markings spine darkened with head frayed corners bumped a good only copy. The second issue of this compilation of facts and figures about Negroes. Because of production problems related to the war this volume encompasses the years from 1942 and 1943. Current Reference Publications hardcover books
1971rif. 109714NY:: Atheneum. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Near fine in a near fine crease to rear flap dust jacket.; 239 pages . 1971. Atheneum, hardcover books
1965rif. 27296Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. First edition. 24 x 30 cm.; Graphic novel with text in French English and German. One die-cut page one printed on gold paper. Spine a little darkened. Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
2012rif. 150552Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod 2012. Hardcover. VG- Security tab from ex-art library inside back cover; dj has average wear esp. at heel of spine; book itself is clean and plates are vivid. Fuchia cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover burgundy & color illus. dust jacket 336 pp. 250 color illus.; weighs 5.5 lbs. Text is in French. Offers examples of depictions of "Paradise" complete with wonderful animals from artists of the 15th-17th centuries. Stunning visuals. Some you'll have seen before. Others perhaps not. Citadelles & Mazenod hardcover books
1891rif. 190218New York: John W. Lovell Company 1891. Softcover. Very Good. Authorized edition. First edition. Wrappers. Chipping to spine else very good. Issued February fifth 1891. John W. Lovell Company unknown books
1926rif. 13977INTO THE VOID Little Brown 1928 first edition several leaves with some light brown circular stains not entering anywhere near the text else vg in near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping. A most uncommon bibliomystery in dust-wrapper. Little, Brown unknown books
1930rif. 9201930. Oblong 4to. 240 x 320 mm. 9 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Illustrated with 40 photographic gravure reproductions. Bound in still paper wrappers sewn with red cord; some discoloration of paper stock but sound and attractive copy. Souvenir of the City of Florence illustrated with the iconic sites of this Renaissance town and its illustrious history. With a list of plates each of which is protected by a tissue guard. unknown books
1962rif. 1396401London: Charles Griffin & Company 1962. Hardcover. Octavo ix 356 pages. In Fair condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is tan with brown print. Dust jacket has edgewear with tears at spine ends and flap corners toning to spine peripheral toning. Price unclipped: “£3.50”. Boards in brown cloth. Text block has cracked hinges light age-toning to paper. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area ND-HV Section. 1396401. FP New Rockville Stock. Charles Griffin & Company hardcover books
1921rif. 68482Shanghai: Commercial Press Limited 1921. 12mo pp. 7.5 x 5 in. pp. 4 58; printed paper wrappers; lower wrapper chipped text clean and sound very good. Commercial Press, Limited unknown books
1939rif. 206104New York: The American Historical Society 1939. Hardcover. VG. Spine has slight toning name penned inside otherwise clean and unmarked. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in patterned green cloth with gilt titles. xix 210 pages : frontispiece illustrations 62 i. e. 63 plates on 32 leaves ; 23 cm. The American Historical Society hardcover books
1943rif. 5466Florence Alabama: The Church 1943. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. 171 v pages. Advertisements. Errata list page 1. Cover title. Table of contents. Third Edition. A generous helping of more than nine hundred recipes clearly an act of perseverance to review and produce during wartime. Southern favorites stand in relief: Cracklin Bread Hush Puppies Ambrosia Daube Glacé Cabbage Au Gratin Creole Peas Fried Bananas Black Bottom Pie Pecan Cake. But this is a substantial revision of the second edition and the Women of Trinity Guild were noting with interest recipes from beyond their immediate sphere as much as was the case anywhere else. Three early instances of Italian-American spaghetti exemplify the cuisine's transition from "peasant" food to household staple. Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama's northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama – Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa – Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. Several handwritten corrections in pencil otherwise clean and bright internally. In stapled black-lettered red wrappers worn at the corners and with some good sized chips to the spine. Front panel of wrapper is illustrated with a photograph of Wesleyan Hall University of North Alabama. Good only. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the present revised edition and one copy of the first edition 1929; a copy of the second edition 1931 is also known; none of these editions is included in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown books
1898rif. RHALLIT00ECLothrop Publishing Company 1898. Very Good. Hall Florence Howe. Little Lads and Lassies : Stories in Prose and Verse About and For Them. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company 1898. 1st edition. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The boards are exposed along the edges. Contemporary owner's name and date on front free endsheet in pencil. The pages are clean and bright. Charming chromolithographs. Lothrop Publishing Company hardcover books
1916rif. 13006London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons LImited and E. P. Dutton & Co 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. ".but the singing of the Ukrainian is also a precious pearl in the common treasury of mankind. It was born out of the beauty of the Ukraine and it is beautiful; it was born on the steppes and as the steppes it is wide; it was born in battles and it is free.This is Ukrainian Song." This 1916 collection of Ukrainian verse and lyric is here introduced by Ukrainian freedom fighter Pavlo Krot and spans the songbook from old pagan songs to wedding cycles from historical ballads to songs of legendary heroic outlaws with over 40 folk songs from "The Daughter of the Witch" to "Songs of the Poppy Harvest" along with verse by prominent Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko Stepan Rudansky and Yuriy Fedkovych ending fittingly with the Ukrainian National Anthem. This first edition is inscribed by compiler and translator Florence Randel Livesay to fellow Canadian authoress Valance St. Juste Patriarche with her bookplate and a newspaper clipping of a poem by Livesay pasted in. Signed presentation copy with inked inscription signed by Florence Randal Livesay to front free endpaper with quotes from The Times and Montaigne with pencilled name and bookplate of Valance Patriarche to front pastedown. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 175pp plus ad for books on Russian history. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in orange cloth over boards with bouquet stamped in blind to upper board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated with flowers in kind. Mild wear to binding with faint stain to upper board small ink stains to rear board sunning to spine rubbing to corners and small neat tears and fraying to head and tail of spine. Front hinge tender. Binding remains sound. Newspaper clipping featuring a poem by Livesay with inked correction pasted in to flyleaf with toning to facing page. Title page printed in red and black. Pages are clean and unmarked. ".but the singing of the Ukrainian is also a precious pearl in the common treasury of mankind. It was born out of the beauty of the Ukraine and it is beautiful; it was born on the steppes and as the steppes it is wide; it was born in battles and it is free.This is Ukrainian Song." This 1916 collection of Ukrainian verse and lyric is here introduced by Ukrainian freedom fighter Pavlo Krot and spans the songbook from old pagan songs to wedding cycles from historical ballads to songs of legendary heroic outlaws with over 40 folk songs from "The Daughter of the Witch" to "Songs of the Poppy Harvest" along with verse by prominent Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko Stepan Rudansky and Yuriy Fedkovych ending fittingly with the Ukrainian National Anthem. This first edition is inscribed by compiler and translator Florence Randel Livesay to fellow Canadian authoress Valance St. Juste Patriarche with her bookplate and a newspaper clipping of a poem by Livesay pasted in. Signed presentation copy with inked inscription signed by Florence Randal Livesay to front free endpaper with quotes from The Times and Montaigne with pencilled name and bookplate of Valance Patriarche to front pastedown. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 175pp plus ad for books on Russian history. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in orange cloth over boards with bouquet stamped in blind to upper board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated with flowers in kind. Mild wear to binding with faint stain to upper board small ink stains to rear board sunning to spine rubbing to corners and small neat tears and fraying to head and tail of spine. Front hinge tender. Binding remains sound. Newspaper clipping featuring a poem by Livesay with inked correction pasted in to flyleaf with toning to facing page. Title page printed in red and black. Pages are clean and unmarked. J. M. Dent & Sons LImited and E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1850rif. 67381850. FLORENCE. Brief of Title to the Property of the Florence City Company. Chartered by the State of New Jersey 1849 . Philadelphia 1850. Cover-title 17 p. Wrappers. Abstracts of title for several tracts of land in Mansfield Township Burlington County assembled by Charles Harlan and conveyed to the Florence City Company in exchange for stock. P.D. Vroom and Garritt S. Cannon attest to the validity of the title. unknown books
1908rif. M13447Paris:: Henri Jouve 1908. 1908. 25 cm. 8vo. 51 1 pp. Early quarter dark morocco green marbled boards; spine ends a tad worn rubbed spine faded. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Very good. RARE. Alebrand of Florence physician to the King of France wrote the first French medical book in the vulgar tongue the Regime du Corps written in 1256 a treatise that is largely devoted to the care of children. See: Chereau A. «Les medecins et les chirurgiens de saint Louis roi de France» L'union medicale ns 14 1862; Havelock Ellis Sex in Relation to Society vol. VI 1920 p. 633; Osler 1763; John Carmi Parsons & Bonnie Wheeler eds. Medieval Mothering Garland 1996. Not in Grulee. FFrye C188 Henri Jouve, 1908. hardcover books
1911rif. 012113London: Longmans Green & Co 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine -/Poor. Beautifully preserved copy blue cloth with pictorial pastedown titles stamped in black. Trace wear spine tip internals as nice as we might see. With printed brown dustjacket with chunks missing along spine re-pieced together. Whimsical charming illustrations by Broughton in a primitive Greenaway mode. Longmans, Green & Co hardcover books
1920rif. 401051Lewiston Maine: Journal Printshop and Bindery 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 330pp. illustrated from photographs. Green cloth gilt. Bookplate of Carl B. Scherzer spine lettering a little dull modest bump to the top of rear board some small hand corrections in the text. Inscribed by the author to Clara R. and Standish Prescott in 1920. Journal Printshop and Bindery) hardcover books
1931rif. 391917New York: Research Bureau Welfare Council of New York City 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 38pp. Folding map. Stiff printed card covers. Bookplate of a noted collector on the inside cover tiny penciled name of previous owner small tear on map else near fine. Research Bureau, Welfare Council of New York City hardcover books
rif. 2273LA WARD RITCHIE PRESS 1941. 1/50 PRINTED AT WARD RITCHIE PRESS VERY GOOD. LA, WARD RITCHIE PRESS, 1941 unknown books
1915rif. 31095New York: Hurst and Company Publishers 1915. Very Good. New York: Hurst and Company Publishers 1915. First Edition. Quarto 26cm.; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in black and red; 116pp.; color illus. throughout. Light wear to cloth margins general dust-soil to both boards shallow dog-earing to a few internal leaves else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper in Spanish by Luis Churion First Secretary of the Venezuelan Legation together with two of his business cards repurposed as greeting cards in postally used envelopes laid in. Hurst and Company Publishers unknown books
1940rif. 22006772Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co 1940. Minor dust soiling spotting. Bright and saturated color. Well read. A bright and well-preserved example of an illustrated ABC for early learners featuring illustrations ranging from "Apple" to "Zipper". Printed on linen-like paper giving the book a nice tactile charm. Single volume 13" by 9.5" pp. 16 illus. stapled in original illus. self wrappers. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
1912rif. 50845Frederick A. Stokes 1912. MORTON Isabella. HENGLER Florence. LITTLE MISS DAPHNE AND OTHER TALES. Illustrated by Isabella Morton. NY: Frederick A. Stokes 1912. 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. Signed presentation by Hengler on front pastedown: "To dear Christopher "Lorrie" Norrie this was my first book I think your favorite story will be "Tale of a Gold-Fisk". Let me know Flo. Florence Hengler. 1953." Near fine; few small chips & tears minor spots d/j. $125.00. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
1917rif. 7931New York. Fleming H. Revell Co. 1917. Bound in pictorial titled cloth with colour cover plate. 8vo. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with brilliant full page colour and monochrome plates depicting fairies etc. Pictorial decorated endsheets. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. Top corner of front free endsheet torn with childs ink signature to blank verso. Further bookplate to blank recto of frontis. Numbers in crayon to blank rear free endsheets. A lovely bright Fine copy. Fleming H. Revell Co. hardcover books
