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Cagle, William R., & Lisa Killion Stafford, comps. American books on food and drink: A bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in The Lilly Library at the [sic] Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 8vo. xviii, 794 pp., illus.
• New, in dust jacket.
The California Poets California Writers Club. Poems. 1933. Berkeley: Pr. by The Professional Press, 1933. 8vo. 67, [1] pp.
Provenance: Bookplate inside front wrapper of Lorraine & Horace Haynes.
• Publisher's light-blue wrappers. Bookplate as above. Near fine. (23669)
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Commentary from Two Modern Masters Campion, Thomas. Selected songs of Thomas Campion. Boston: David Godine, 1973. Folio. 161, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust jacket; jacket lightly dust-soiled, price-clipped. A beautiful clean copy of a beautifully done book. (24833)
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“The
Little Sleeper”
& “Paul's
Run Off with the Show” 
ILLUSTRATED
Carleton, Will. Farm legends. New York: Harper
& Brothers, c. 1887. 8vo. 187, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 17 plts., illus.
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Soldier Humor Illustrated Cary, Melbert B., Jr. ( ed. & pub.). Mademoiselle from Armentières, volume two. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. 8vo. xlv, [9], 111, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, top edge gilt; fine save for one corner bump (sans glassine wrapper). Pictorial endsheets and illustrations, tipped-in facsimile. (18011)
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WHISTCavendish. The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system by means of hands played completely through. American edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, & London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., 1895. 8vo. Frontis., x, 318 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, spine darkened with gilt dimmed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated [18]96. Pages clean, two with lower corners dog-eared. All edges gilt. (13988)
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Quick-SettingKnox Sparkling Gelatine Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Knox Gelatine desserts salads candies and frozen dishes. [Johnstown, NY]: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co., © 1933. 12mo. 71, [1] pp. (pagination incl. covers); col. illus.
very attractive chromolithographed images. The recipes include dishes for children's parties and for convalescents.
Click the images for enlargements. • Not in Brown, Culinary Americana (lists 1943 and 1945 eds. only). Publisher's printed paper wrappers; foot of spine very slightly rubbed, else in amazingly fresh bright condition. A beautiful copy. (26049)
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Go Fish The child's book of nature; being figures and descriptions illustrative of the natural history of beasts, birds, insects, fishes, &c. Lancaster [MA]: Carter, Andrews, & Co., (copyright 1830). 16mo (13.2 cm, 5.3"). 16 pp.; illus.
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17 hand-colored, in-text wood engravings of different types of fish and one uncolored title-page vignette.
• American Imprints 852. Not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, creased, paper worn and split along spine, edges rubbed. Moderate spotting throughout.
Charming. (24547)
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