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1947réf. 16351New York: Capitol Publishing Company 1947. Near fine. Charming mid-century Santa novelty featuring the classic Victorian poem in the form of a Santa Claus shape book - with a beard made of real cotton. 11.25'' x 9.75''. Original spiral-bound color pictorial boards die-cut in the shape of Santa on a sleigh. Illustrated in color by Florence Kent. 24 pages including boards on card stock of varying thickness. Minor edgewear and soil. Capitol Publishing Company unknown books
1926réf. 4516Boston: Little Brown & Co 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket unclipped $2.00 generally rubbed and toned a few creases and closed tears tidemark at the back panel. Black buckram bumped at the bottom corners with light blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain clean internally. A mystery novel centering on the disappearance of a poet and a bookshop owner after a reading in a Massachusetts college town. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1885réf. 242017London: W. Stevens 421 Strand 1885. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff gray paper over boards. Very good. First edition. No. 30 in The Family Story Teller Series. 224 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wolff 7052 W. Stevens 421, Strand unknown books
1978réf. 160349Allentown PA: Center for the Arts Muhlenberg College 1978. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 13 through July 31 1978. Foreword by George Segal. Introduction by Leah Sloshberg. Text by Frank Trapp Linda Weintraub Peter Fingesten Dr. Florence M Hetzler William M Milliken Monroe A. Denton Jr. and Carter himself. Includes numerous black and white illustrations biographical notes list of previous one-man shows and public collections. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear. Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College unknown books
1993réf. 157248New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Ai's fifth collection of poems she went on to win the 1999 National Book Award for "Vice: New and Selected Poems." A clean near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some slight crimping to the base of the spine. W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
1971réf. 157901New York: Holiday House 1971. Later printing. Small oblong hardcover. Features text by Heide and illustrations by Edward Gorey. A very good plus copy in illustrated boards with some light bumping to the base of the spine and some faint foxing to the page edges in a very good dust jacket with some minor wear. Holiday House unknown books
1937réf. 238492Boston: American Photographic Publsishing Co 1937. Eleventh Edition. Illustrated. 247 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. In dust jacket with some staining at edges dust jacket only Good. Eleventh Edition. Illustrated. 247 pp. 1 vols. 4to. American Photographic Publsishing Co unknown books
1924réf. 51049Worcester Mass: Davis Press 1924. 8vo pp. 119 1; 62 text illustrations; original green cloth gilt fine. A series of lessons that instruct the reader on how to make pamphlets boxes portfolios pencil cases etc. Davis Press unknown books
1936réf. 654761936. 1936 Pardon for an African-American Issued by the Governor of Texas Texas. Murphy Florence. Conditional Pardon for Florence Murphy from a Conviction of Assault to Rape. Austin December 18 1936. 14-1/2" x 9" blue-backed legal-sized sheet headed "Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas. Signed by Governor James V. Allred and Secretary of State B.P. Matocha state seal affixed. Negligible wear rust marks from staples and paper clips. $350. Murphy an African-American was convicted of assault to rape in 1933. His pardon which notes the several appeals for clemency sent on Murphy's behalf refers specifically to a letter from District Attorney H.H. Wellborn "who states he was never satisfied about this negro's case that since his conviction certain things have come to light which leave him in doubt as to this negro's guilt that if he is guilty he has been punished sufficiently and that some of the best white citizens of his county are of the same opinion he is. unknown books
1967réf. 140817Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Klanak Press 1967. First edition. Softcover. A nicely printed collection of poems. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with a bump to the base of the spine. Klanak Press unknown books
1909réf. 265953Boston: Dana Estes 1909. First Edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown pictorial cloth. Fine in Very Good pictorial dustjacket with chips. First Edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From the Introduction: "We of the Anglo-Saxonrace still believe in slaying the fatted calf to which there is surely no objection.In the sudden deveolpment of enormous wealth in our own country there is some danger that we shall be dazzled by the pomp and display of of the very rich and lose sight of the true nature of hospitality." Cahpter on the Country Hostess Picnics House-OParties Dances Women's Club etc. Dana Estes unknown books
1969réf. 130144London: Latimer Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 35 pages. Copy 21 from an edition of only 25 that were specially bound in buckram. A collection of poems with drawings by Kate Jackson. A fine copy in an about very good glassine jacket that has a long tear and some chips to the top of the rear panel. Signed by both Bull and Jackson on the limitation page. Latimer Press unknown books
1969réf. 130145London: Latimer Press 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 35 pages. One of only 75 cloth copies. A collection of poems with drawings by Kate Jackson. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Latimer Press unknown books
1936réf. 81613Lansing Mich: Shaw Publishing Company 1936. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fair. 96p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Partial ring mark and other cover spotting and wear. Last text leaf torn at top. DEFECTIVE -- pages 65-80 omitted in this copy and pages 49-64 present in duplicate. INSCRIBED by Marshall on title-page. African American author listed in French et al's "Afro-American Poetry and Drama 1760-1975." Almost of the poems in this uncommon book urge abstinence from drinking any alcoholic beverages. Marshall listed her address in Washington DC on the copyright page. Shaw Publishing Company paperback books
1984réf. 584111984. Cohen Jerome A.; Timothy A. Gelatt; Florence M.L. Li translators. The Criminal Law and the Criminal Procedure Law of The People's Republic of China. Beijing: Foreign Langues Press 1984. ii 298 pp. Paperback. Light wear small old price tag affixed on upper front cover a very good copy. $15. Represents the first complete set of English translations of China's two basic laws on criminal law and procedure enacted in 1979 which are fundamental to an understanding of China's socialist legal system. Contains an English-Chinese and Chinese-English Legal Glossary at pages 252 to 298. unknown books
1930réf. 64789Boston: Richard G. Badger 1930. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. color frontis photos 75p. Cloth-backed boards. 20 cm. Corners frayed. No Jacket. Fiction. Richard G. Badger hardcover books
1895réf. 243578London: F.V. White 1895. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth. Second edition. 312 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Originally published in 1893 under the title A Passage through Bohemia in three volumes. Glover/Greene 449; Wolff 7045 note F.V. White unknown books
1927réf. 30639London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. First edition 12mo pp. 6 136 4; decorative title-page printed in black and ocher decorative headpieces throughout; some offsetting to endpapers otherwise a very good clean copy enhanced by the presence of the fragile printed dust jacket with browned spine panel the ends chipped away about 1/2" a handful of small chips out along edges and light creasing to the bottom of the front panel. "The story of the strange friendship and stranger rivalry of an English gentleman and a Negro singer. A hectic story in fact with a saxophone accompaniment." dust jacket. Dreyfus 39. The Nonesuch Press unknown books
1930réf. 28552New York: The MacMillan Company 1930. 8vo; pp. xi 1 289; 12 plates including frontispiece; very good. Green cloth boards gilt on upper cover and spine. Endpapers have minor tape stains. "This volume forms the second and concluding part of a biography the first part being The Early Life of Thomas Hardy published 1928. The MacMillan Company unknown books
1883réf. 13616London Paris & New York: Cassell & Co 1883. First and only edition oblong 8vo pp. 52 4 ads; 16 mounted chromolithographs showing various painted designs on assorted ceramic ware 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original maroon cloth gilt lettering on upper cover. Cassell & Co unknown books
1935réf. 11678New York: Beautician Publications 1935. Second Edition. Partially Revised by Members of the Staff of Inecto Inc." Seventh Printing. Illustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Original black cloth. Second Edition. Partially Revised by Members of the Staff of Inecto Inc." Seventh Printing. Illustrated. 1 vols. 12mo. Signed on the flyleaf: Florence Ernestine Wall Personal Copy" and with her marginal notes thorughout. Inscribed on p. iv: "To Miss Florence E. Wall - It is my great pleasure to do what one seldom has an opportunity to do: - To present an "autographed" copy of a book to its author! Ralph L. Evans Feb 12 1936.". Beautician Publications unknown books
1905réf. 213819London: A. & C. Black 1905. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter green morocco marbled boards a.e.g. Spine tanned light rubbing to extremities else Fine. Bookplates of Edward Lawrence and Carrie Estelle Doheny. First edition. xii 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A. & C. Black unknown books
réf. 14606n.d. Pen and ink heightened with white on board. 1 vols. Image approimately 5 x 4 inches. Matted. Thomas H. Pen and ink heightened with white on board. 1 vols. Image approimately 5 x 4 inches. unknown books
1903réf. 88414Boston: Little Brown & Co 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19.5cm. Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 3924pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing and union-led mill the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1910réf. 9032502New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Designed with decorations by Margaret Armstrong illustrated by Townsend. Bound in publisher's original green textured cloth with spine and cover stamped in beautiful illustrated gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Includes eight color plates and beautiful illustrated title page and text margins. Text block is fine. Book is gorgeous but has rubbing at corners head and heel through cloth. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 340 pages. G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker hardcover books
