•  Shoemaker 33941; Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 714.   Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers, split and chipped along spine, otherwise crisp and clean. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting.  (24569)

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana (describes Rumford Cook Book and Complete Cook Book only).   Publisher's printed paper wrappers, with hanging loop; wrapper rubbed, with corners creased — and still charming. Pages with light spotting, one upper outer corner creased and darkened, one recipe with title bracketed in pencil — a copy apparently cooked from!  (26056)

•  Vicaire, Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIXème, I, 772. Uncut, mostly unopened copy. Publisher's wrappers, printed in black and red; front one off, with expectable chipping and with soiling. Some pages lightly spotted; mostly, clean. Now housed in a simple acid-free phase-box. (14356)

Up to p. 112, this issue is a reprint of the second edition (with the title-page labeled Deuxième edition, giving a date of 1913), after which comes a section entitled “Alasotmaganel” (rather than the “Gis Oen Melgitimg” of the actual 1913 printing). The closing section, “Gtapegiemgeoel,” is the same in both printings. The publisher's binding gives the date of 1921 on the front cover!

•  Publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper-covered sides; cloth and paper showing light wear. Some offsetting and paper punctured around binding staples, otherwise a nice, even fresh copy.  (12614)

•  Publisher's red cloth in dust wrapper, jacket not price-clipped; dust jacket rubbed and chipped at extremities and along upper back edge, light dustsoiling to portion of back cover.  (24682)

Author's presentation copy:  Signed by Markham, with an inscription “with my friendly greetings” to a theological seminary, dated 1933.

•  Mounted on cardboard. Age-toned, edges darkened; clean and unchipped.  (26119)

•  Publisher's quarter cloth and printed paper–covered boards; front cover worn and stained, spine chewed in three spots. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. Just — COOL!  (26662)

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•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, slightly age-toned, back cover with light soiling, pamphlet creased once vertically.  (26057)

•  Cf. Banks, 147; cf. Pilling, Algonquian, 345, for first (1861) ed. Not in Evans. Publisher’s cloth, with binder's title “Vie de Jésus en Algonquin”; cloth a bit wrinkled over spine and showing slight rubbing over corners, with signs of a now-absent shelf label on spine. Pages age-toned and a bit brittle as of the era, with sewing starting to loosen for some signatures. Back free endpaper with portion of upper margin torn and affixed to back pastedown.

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•  Publisher's green pebbled cloth, front cover stamped in yellow; spine reinforced with cloth tape, tape now rubbed and splitting. Title-page with updated contact information on affixed label covering original printed publisher's information. A number of leaves with grey discoloration in upper margins; otherwise, a clean copy of a somewhat unusual item.  (26240)

Binding:  Publisher's purple cloth, elaborately blind-embossed on covers. Gilt center device on each cover and spine lettered in gilt with modest gilt decoration.

•  Binding as above; spine a little faded; light wear at extremities. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A nice copy.  (26259)

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The volume is illustrated with an added engraved title-page and three steel-engraved plates, done by O. Pelton after designs by T.B. Read and Beaume, and by Charles Phillips after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Signed binding: Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame; the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names stamped in panel. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 713. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 53.   Binding as above, extremities with very minor rubbing; frontispiece lacking. Offsetting from plates, two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, scattered light spotting elsewhere. A gorgeous example of the binding, with interesting reading inside.  (26737)

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The volume is illustrated with four steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page by various hands.

Signed binding: Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame; the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names stamped in panel. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 714. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 53.   Binding as above, showing virtually no wear. A few light spots, pages mostly clean. Dried flower laid in. It is hard to imagine a better copy of this lovely annual.  (26743)

•  Sabin 42997 (with other two volumes). Recently rebound in navy leather over blue cloth, leather edges blind-tooled, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label. Title-page and eight others stamped by now-defunct library. Page edges slightly embrittled, with a few short marginal edge tears. Small repair to dedication leaf. Evocative.

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•  Recent wrappers. Pages clean; two leaves shaved at bottom with very minor loss.

•  Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in silver; corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front hinge (inside) cracked and back hinge tender; endpapers partially adhered to pastedowns.  (22222)

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Binding:  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and white; designed by Thomas Watson Ball and with his “B” cipher. The cover depicts a richly dressed man at a tickertape machine. Top edge gilt.

•  Bound as above; black stamping showing light wear: a solid, clean copy.  (22208)