BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
"THE PATRIOTIC DEAD"
[Collins, William T., & Hanson E. Weaver]. Broadside.
Begins: "Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Adjutant General's Office, 411 F Street" Washington, 1870. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [1] f. 
Single-click the image, for an enlargement.• One leaf, printed on one side and creased from folding into six parts. Top left and bottom right corners torn. Tear to lower margin resulting in the loss of one or two words of text. (6336)
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THE VEDA Considered . . . (A conversation on the Veda). A conversation on the Veda. Madras: Religious Tract and Book Society, printed at the American Mission Press, 1864. 12mo. 10
pp. 
• Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15159)
1850 in
Prosperous, Bustling Boston Coolidge & Wiley. The Boston almanac for the year 1850. Boston: B.B. Mussey & Co., & Thomas Groom (pr. by Coolidge & Wiley), [1849]. 12mo (13.9 cm, 6.45"). 211, [5] pp.; 1 map, illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Boston-area businesses with full-page advertisements in this publication include a silversmith/jeweler, an apothecary, an upholsterer, a pianoforte manufacturer, and an ink maker; also provided are both an extensive business directory and an index of the smaller in-text advertisements promoting local merchants.
Binding: Signed binding of brown straight-grained cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with vignette of the city and blind-stamped with two female figures representing Agriculture (holding a scythe) and Law and Order (holding scales), back cover similarly blind-stamped with central stamp of Benjamin Bradley & Co. bookbinders.
• Drake, Almanacs, 4446; Spawn & Kinsella, American
Signed Bindings, 56. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America.
Binding as above, spine showing minimal wear; clean and beautiful.
Front pastedown with ticket of a Massachusetts bookseller. Endpapers with
offsetting; map age-toned with offsetting, outer edges slightly ragged; one
index page with chip to outer margin, with loss of a few letters. Pages lightly
age-toned. 
An excellent copy. (26684)
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First Paperback Edition Coward, Noel. To
step aside: Seven long short stories. New York: Avon Book Co., (1943). 12mo.
183 pp. 
• Very Good condition. Original printed wrappers, spine lightly sunned. Pages browned from cheapness of paper. (3406)
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Crowell CopyCowper, William. Poetical works of William Cowper. Complete edition. With memoir, explanatory notes, etc. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [ca. 1875?]. 8vo. 649, [5 (adv.)], pp.; 6 plts. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; cloth a bit rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with spine gilt slightly dimmed, otherwise beautiful. Front pastedown with small bookplate, front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription. (12985)
San Francisco Cookery in a
High-Flying Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
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Well, no . . . This Wouldn't Be for Everybody . . .
(Crane, Hart). Schwartz, Joseph. Hart Crane: An annotated critical bibliography. New York: David Lewis, 1970. 8vo. xi, 276 pp.
• A detailed and valuative bibliography of writings about Crane. Intended for the extreme Crane enthusiast and Crane scholars.• Very good copy in dust jacket; dust jacket lightly foxing.
Pretty Binding / Sweet Illustrations Crockett, Samuel R. Sweetheart travellers. A child's book for children, for women, and for men. New York & London: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (copyright 1895). 8vo. [4], ix-xv, [1], 314 pp.; 14 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
Provenance: Bookplate of Ruth and Loring Dodd on front pastedown.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Publisher's grey-blue cloth, covers and spine stamped in white and black, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities lightly rubbed, with a small spot to the back cover. Front pastedown with bookplate, front free endpaper with inked gift inscription. (12990)
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“Well . . . What says my Daughter?” Cumberland, Richard. The brothers. A comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: W. Griffin, 1770. 8vo. v, [3], 72 pp.
surely-emblematic title vignette of a ship about to be wrecked on a rocky coast engraved by J. Taylor after the drawing of A. Alcock.
• Very good; disbound from a nonce volume with signatures starting to separate. One page faintly stamped by a now-defunct library. (1478)
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