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1970rif. 52601970. GIBSON GEORGE and FLORENCE GIBSON. Gloucester County Residents 1850. N.p. 1970s. 4to. 337 p. Wrappers. Fully indexed compilation of names from the 1850 census and from the 1849 and 1854 county maps. unknown 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
1984rif. 9005329New York: Norton 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. Norton hardcover books
1973rif. 9000457Garden City: Doubleday 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine. Francis Lee Jaques. 370 pp. 64 paintings and dioramas in full color 100 drawings. Text includes a treasury of prose writings from the six Jaques books three new appraisals of the artist's work memorials to Francis Lee Jaques by Sigurd F. Olson and to Florence Page Jaques by Harriet Buchheister. Bound in publisher's original full pale green cloth with title and decorations stamped in gilt. Spine sunned. Doubleday hardcover books
rif. 4765Homolka Florence. FOCUS ON ART. Foreword by Aldous Huxley. New York Ivan Obolensky 1962. 1st edition. Cloth over paper boards. Thin octavo 116 pp. numerous black and white photographs. Dust jacket has previous owner's writing on the front panel. Near fine condition. hardcover books
1893rif. 437New York: E.P. Dutton and Company 1893. Near fine. Rare first edition of this early Upton title following the life of a little girl in the 1890s. A scarce and little known work illustrated by Florence Upton issued two years before the first of the Golliwogg books with Bertha Upton that made her famous. OCLC finds only two institutional holdings one the copyright deposit copy at LOC. A lovely copy. 8.25'' x 6''. Original quarter gilt-stamped cloth gilt floral paper boards. Illustrated by Upton with 9 halftone plates and a vignette. 65 1 pages. Ink gift inscription from Christmas 1893 to front fly leaf. Light toning to spine corners a touch worn. Hinges firm interior clean. E.P. Dutton and Company unknown books
1916rif. 372848San Francisco: Published by the Author. Sunset Publishing House 1916. First Edition. 8 full page plates in colour and pictorial coloured vines on each page by the artist/authir. 94 4pp. 12mo 17.5x12 cm 7x4¾". Blue publisher's cloth pictorial cover stamped in gilt and red. Fine. First Edition. 8 full page plates in colour and pictorial coloured vines on each page by the artist/authir. 94 4pp. 12mo 17.5x12 cm 7x4¾". Published by the Author. Sunset Publishing House unknown books
1981rif. 50511New York: Holiday House 1981. First printing. Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books. 6'' x 7''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped $7.95 green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey with full-page black-and-white images facing each page of text. 64 pages. Light offsetting to gutters of endpapers. Else crisp and clean. Holiday House unknown books
2005rif. 48629New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2005. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this delightful collection of the many different kinds of Christmas trees with promotional Christmas card. Wendell Minor is perhaps best known for his book cover art which has adorned Pulitzer Prize Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal-winning titles. In his picture books he flexes his illustration muscles beautifully visualizing stories from American history and everyday life. 11'' x 8.5''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped $16.00 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Inscribed by Wendell and Florence Minor to half-title page "Merry Christmas!" dated 2005. Christmas card with art from the book envelope and promotional card loosely laid in. Tight. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
rif. 346569New York: Doubleday 1983. 227pp. 8vo. Cloth in dj. 227pp. 8vo. With ALS from Jackie Kennedy on Doubleday letterhead to Mrs. Millicent Fenwick laid in thanking her for the marvelous quote on the back of the jacket & wishing her good luck on her Wonderful new job Fenwick was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as United States Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome Italy. Doubleday unknown books
1908rif. 38770London: Longmans Green & Co 1908. First printing. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated Edwardian fantasy of an "unsophisticated little boy" who sets out to rescue a Princess on orders from a fairy. 9.75'' x 10''. Original red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page chromolithographs and additional line drawings in-text. Unpaginated. Some rubbing and wear to boards. Light soil to interior. Longmans, Green & Co unknown books
1910rif. 44643n.p.: n.p. 1910. Very good. Original draft entirely written out by hand of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY. While Florence Barclay was working on this manuscript she was in the midst of a life-changing experience: her romance novel THE ROSARY had just become one of the biggest blockbuster novels of the Edwardian era. It was not only a runaway bestseller for years on end but also parodied by PUNCH made into at least five films and described by the Queen of England herself as her favorite book of the year. According to Rachel Anderson it was "said to have been read and wept over by every housemaid in the British Isles." THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE was something of its sequel featuring characters first introduced in THE ROSARY. THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE is an exquisite romance between a widow and the man who accidentally killed her husband: like THE ROSARY it combines a moving arc of emotional development with an alluring charisma between the main characters. When Barclay arrived in the United States for a book tour of SHENSTONE she was greeted as a celebrity much in the way that Charles Dickens had been on his first trip to the country. In addition to photographers and journalists she was met right off the boat by a crush of fans holding welcome banners. This experience was so unlike what was expected for English authors in the period that her daughter makes special remark upon it in her biography of the author: "To English readers it may seem a surprising outburst and very different to anything that can be imagined as taking place in England by way of reception accorded to a private individual" 220. In 1921 SHENSTONE also became the first of Barclay's books before THE ROSARY to be turned into a film. This manuscript offers a window into the writing process of a famous romance author at the height of her power. In addition to the entire base text in Barclay's hand essentially every page is revised in the same hand in some cases extensively. Common editorial markings include crossed out words and sentences some replaced with new text additions to punctuation and rearranged phrases. It is illuminating to compare the manuscript itself with the details of Barclay's writing as described in her daughter's book LIFE OF FLORENCE L. BARCLAY 1921. In seeking to champion her mother as an author for "ordinary readers" her daughter asserts that Barclay "had no eye to the literary connoisseur the seeker after mere artistic effect" 242. Yet many of the revisions made by Barclay in this draft suggest that she cared much more about the art of her work than the biography claims. Altered words often reflect the author's stylistic refinements seeking a more accurate or elevated word in place of the original e.g. "empty" changed to "desolate". Other changes show a focused eye for paring down. For instance "she poured out the doctor's tea" and "passed it across the folding tea table between them" has been changed simply to "handed it to him." These decisions reflect more than a desire to "supply them her readers with that they wanted" 242: they show an author spending hours refining her craft. A manuscript offering the opportunity to research further into the working process of a major popular romance writer - a topic that has thus far been rarely recorded or studied. 9'' x 6.75''. 386 individual lines sheets thread-bound by hand with pink ribbon filled out in pencil on rectos only. Text begins with Chapter I "On the terrace of Shenstone" and ends with the phrase sentence of the final chapter "Mrs. Jim Airth" in larger script an effect reproduced in the printed final. Editorial markings throughout. Housed in later waxed canvas wrapper with two printed labels "The Mistress of Shenstone" and one handwritten annotation "1st M S of Mistress of Shenstone." Provenance: by descent from author's family. n.p. unknown books
1897rif. 29161London: George Routledge & Sons Limited 1897. Very good plus. First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of simply rhyming verses about the everyday life of little children at the turn of the century - quite scarce in this condition. 9.25'' x 8''. Original cloth spine paper pictorial boards. Illustrated throughout cw: depiction of golliwog doll. 62 2 pages. A bit of rubbing and light soil to boards hinges starting to crack but still firm. George Routledge & Sons, Limited unknown books
1872rif. 242124London: Richard Bentley 1872. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very Good lendinbg library lael removed on upper cover of each volume. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1761 second edition; Wolff 4849 Richard Bentley unknown books
1981rif. 20066New York: Holiday House 1981. First printing. Fine in about-fine jacket. Signed first edition of this adorably macabre picture book for older readers featuring a boy whose imagination is stimulated by reading lots of comic books. 6'' x 7''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped $7.95 green pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Gorey with full-page black-and-white images facing each page of text. 64 pages. Signed by Gorey on the title page crossing out his own name. Slight sunning to jacket spine. Holiday House unknown books
1920rif. 19634London: Joseph Johnson 1920. Very good. Terrific large-format Peter Pan imitation in which two children grow wings and have an adventure with fairies. 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Anderson with 12 full-page color plates and line illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Some rubbing to boards subtly infilled one dark spot to rear board. Interior with light foxing and toning. Bright. Joseph Johnson unknown books
1907rif. 17839London & New York: Blackie & Caldwell 1907. Near fine. First edition American issue printed on dark green paper that contrasts vividly with the tipped-in color plates in Harrison's distinctive style. Given the clear Pre-Raphaelite characteristics in her work it is unsurprising to note that she was the first woman to be a commercial illustrator for the work of Christina Rossetti - indeed it was in part due to the success of RHYME OF A RUN that the Glaswegian publisher Blackie asked her to take on a major project. One of Harrison's particular touches is the heavy black outlines around characters giving her Art Nouveau-influenced illustrations an effect not unlike stained glass. It is thanks to the work of book collector Mary Rosalind Jacobs that Florence Harrison was identified only in the 21st century as the Australian-born Florence Susan Harrison not the English artist Emma Florence Harrison. A beautiful copy of Harrison's second book scarce in the American issue and in this condition. 9'' x 11.25''. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Green patterned endpapers. Printed on heavy dark green paper. Illustrated by Harrison with elaborately ornamented title page lettered in red 21 tipped-in color plates 10 full-page black-and-white designs and many black-and-white vignettes. A bit of the creasing to some plates as in virtually all copies due to a finishing fault with the publisher. Faint spotting to rear board and very minor rubbing to extremities. Blackie & Caldwell unknown books
1947rif. 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
1885rif. 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
1937rif. 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
1909rif. 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
1895rif. 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
1935rif. 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
1905rif. 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
rif. 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
