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Gaboriau & Corelli Mystery & Romance
Gaboriau, Emile. File no. 113; or, the secret of the plundered safe. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [ca. 1918]. 8vo. [2], [5]-190, 29, [7 (adv.)] pp.
$40.00
Uncommon Chicago reprint of this mystery, translated from the French;
the title work is followed by Marie Correlli's short story "The Hired Baby: A
Romance of the London Streets." In a beautifully preserved decorative cloth binding.
(What you may think is a cracked hinge, towards the left of the picture, is actually
a bit of the cream-colored spine decoration, showing. Once you know this, it's
clear! but until you do, the eye can be well confused.)
Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, white, and gilt with arabesque designs; binding cocked, otherwise showing next to no wear. Owner's name, partially erased, inked on the front free endpaper. (12602)
Galsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp.
$100.00
27 plays by the Nobel laureate and author of the Forsyte Saga.
Signed binding: Contemporary half tan morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands each accented above and below with single gilt rule and single black rule; gilt-stamped title, spine compartments framed in gilt with gilt dots in each corner and each with gilt center device. Front free endpaper
stamped “Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.” Top edge gilt; silk ribbon place marker.
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Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, corners and extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with private collector’s armorial bookplate. Pages clean.

Do
It Yourself!
— PAINT
a Farm Wagon or
a Drawing Room
Gardner, Franklin B. How to paint. A complete compendium of the art. Designed for the use of the tradesman, mechanic, merchant, and farmer, and to guide the professional painter ... New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1872. 16mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). 127, [17 (adv.)] pp.;
illus.
$200.00
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First edition. The front cover proclaims “Every Man His Own Painter,” and Gardner obliges with Victorian-era how-tos (some illustrated) for “satisfactory results in plain and fancy painting of every description, including gilding, bronzing, staining, graining, marbling, varnishing, polishing, kalsomining, paper-hanging, striping, lettering, copying, and ornamenting.” The volume closes with a series of advertisements for contemporary crazes including decalcomanie goods, phrenological books and journals, and hydropathic cookbooks.
Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscriptions of W. G. Benton.
Rare in the first edition, with only one copy located via OCLC and none added by NUC Pre-1956.
Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; rubbed overall, edges darkened, spine extremities chipped. Front hinge (inside) cracked; front pastedown and free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscriptions; front fly-leaf partially excised. Light foxing variably throughout. (24377)
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New
York BANKING
— In Essence *&*
at Point
of Crisis
Gibbons, James Sloan. The banks of New-York, their dealers, the Clearing House, and the panic of 1857. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1858. 12mo (20.2 cm, 8"). Frontis., x, [2], [9]–399, [1], 4 (adv.) pp.; 29 plts., 1 fold. chart.
$150.00
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First edition. This authoritative, interesting overview of the banking industry in the 19th century is illustrated with
30 wood-engraved plates by Henry Herrick: expressive depictions of bank employees, customers, and their interactions. Gibbons, a financier by trade and a Quaker abolitionist, provides an excellent “picture of the banks of New York as they are” (p. v) — often by way of “you are there” conversations, including, on p. 95, a vigorous, decision-making interchange as to backing
a house “too important . . . to be allowed to go down.”
Basic banking principles, procedures, and roles are carefully and memorably explained, as are the functioning of the (new) Clearing House; the author notes that covering the latter, and
the Panic, has increased the length of his volume by a third.
Sabin 27289; not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and pictorial vignette; binding cocked, extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Ex–social club library: call numbers on endpaper, front free endpaper excised, pressure-stamp on title-page, two other pages rubber-stamped, no other markings. Some plates with small areas of staining to margins. (26638)
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Verse Long-Loved
by Lovers
Gibran, Kahlil. The prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 8vo. [4 (2 blank)], frontis., (iii)-vi, [2 (1 blank)], 96, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; 12 plts.
$12.50
Book Club edition, stated 68th printing. First published in 1923. A book of poetry on such topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, freedom, reason and passion, teaching, friendship, talking, time, and others. Illustrated with the author's own drawings.
Publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind and gold. Fine. (5219)
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Gill's Life of Poe — Passionate
Defense &
14 Plates
Gill, William Fearing. The life of Edgar Allan Poe. New
York: C.T. Dillingham, 1877. 8vo (19.1 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [4], 315, [1] pp.; 6 plts., 7 (6 fold.)
facs.
[SOLD]
First edition of this biography, which passionately rebuts many of Griswold's
criticisms. The volume is illustrated with a total of 14 plates, including a frontispiece portrait and
seven facsimiles of Poe's letters and literary drafts.
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BAL, VII, 147.
Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in black and gilt, spine with
decorative gilt-stamped title; front cover with small areas of discoloration, head of spine with
same extending onto back cover, slight rubbing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century call
numbers on endpapers and back of frontispiece, with spots of show-through; title-page pressure-stamped, back endpaper with pocket and front ones with affixed paper slips. Front hinge (inside
only) cracked; volume yet firm. A clean and pleasant copy for reading or study.
(26483)
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MENU of a
Major Philadelphia Occasion
Gimbel Brothers. Dinner tendered to Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt upon the occasion of the presentation of the Gimbel Awards... Philadelphia: Gimbel Brothers, [1934]. 8vo. [16] pp.; illus.
$37.50
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Menu (including Lobster Thermidor and Potato Louisiana) and program for the 1934 presentation of the Gimbel Award for Outstanding Woman of the Nation to Eleanor Roosevelt. A photographic portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt is at the front, and the guest list at the back.
Stapled in original printed cardstock, with decorative silk tassel. Darkening and dust-soiling, definitely more noticeable in person than the photos suggest on some monitors here; still a worthy souvenir. (26059)
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Classic Invaluable
Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the book. Second edition with a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle (DE): Oak Knoll Press & the British Library, 2001. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 551, [1] pp.
$75.00


Marvelously inclusive and detailed encyclopedia of book, printing, and binding terms. A classic, and Donald Farren's introduction is a welcome addition.
Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, and contents as new. (6107)
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A
Classic
Presented in
Classic
Fashion
Goldsmith, Oliver. The
deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus.
$49.50
Attractive Boston printing of Goldsmith's popular poem, here illustrated with a number of engravings
Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
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Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

Parley's Tales of
Good Temper & Cheerfulness
Goodrich, Samuel G. Make the best of it, or, Cheerful Cherry, and other tales. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1865. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). [5]–viii, 170, [2 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]

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First published in 1842, this entry in the hugely popular “Peter Parley” series includes “Patience prevails; or, The cottage girl,” “The pleasure boat; or, The broken promise,” “Attention; or, The two brothers,” and “Happy and unhappy; or, The warning” (a hard-eyed temperance tale), The stories are illustrated with in-text wood engravings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “Miss Alice A. Chamberlin. Presented by her Grandfather Joel Chamberlin,” dated 1865, Sennett (in New York State).
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with foliate decorations, spine almost fully and in fact rather gorgeously gilt-stamped with title and pictorial vignette.
Bound as above; corners rubbed, front cover with small spots of discoloration, spine gilt lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Some light spotting, foxing, and offsetting. (25804)
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Hand-Colored
Floral
Frontispiece
Goodrich, Samuel
G., ed. The token, or affection's gift, a Christmas and New-Year's present. Hartford: S. Andrus &
Son, [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis., 312 pp.; 4 plts.
$150.00
Reprint of the 1838 “Token” gift book, with different plates and a hand-colored floral frontispiece offering pink roses. One of the four uncolored plates is of a “Young American in the Alps,” by Healey and engraved by Cushman; another and this cataloguer's favorite, “Sun Set on the Hudson,” is by Weir, engraved by J.A. Ralph.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.
Faxon 786. Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120.
One signature extruded. (12944)
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Ars
Typographica
Goudy, Frederick W., ed. Ars Typographica. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Autumn, 1934. Folio. [1] f., 50 pp., [1] f.
$35.00
Goudy, Frederic W. The story of the Village Type by its designer.... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. 8vo (23.4 cm, 9.25"). [6], 13, [15] pp.
$125.00

No. 156 out of 200 special numbered copies (out of a total edition of 650) containing “an extra page of supplementary information identifying the work to which Mr. Goudy has assigned those serial numbers which are missing from the chronological table.” Publisher’s quarter tan cloth over black paper–covered sides, front cover with black- and red-printed paper label, in original glassine dustwrapper; clean and unworn.
An elegant book.

AMHERST
Graves, Henry Clinton. History of the class of 1856 of Amherst college 1852–1896. Boston: C.H. Simonds & Co., 1896. 8vo. [6], 4–59, [6] pp.
$25.00
First edition.
Publisher's cloth, issued without dust jacket. Dust soiling and one spot of discoloration on the binding. Very good condition.

“PRINTED AT THE ETON COLLEGE PRESS”
Gray, Thomas. Poems by Thomas Gray. Eton: Eton College Press, 1902. 8vo. xiv, 164, [2] pp.; 4 plts.
$90.00
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Early 20th-century Eton “leaving book,” being the College's own printing of these much-beloved 18th-century poems, graced with a portrait engraving of Gray and three other handsome plates including a fine “distant prospect” of the College.
Binding: Tan calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets and gilt roll with gilt-stamped corner stars, central gilt-stamped coat of the Warre family arms; board edges with gilt roll, gilt inner dentelles, fine marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands accented with gilt rolls and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments. All edges gilt. Signed by Spottiswoode & Co.
Provenance: The preprinted presentation leaf, completed in manuscript, notes (in Latin) that the recipient was Crichton Jordan Milne and the donor headmaster was Edward Warre.
Binding damaged by old fire with spine label chipped nearly away, corners/edges abraded, and significant cracking/darkening of leather overall; still sound and indeed attractive. Interior very good, having been protected from that fire by the heavy gilt to the page edges which prevented smoke entry. Presentation leaf as above, with information dated 1905. (12687)
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Greenaway's Lads & Lasses
Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the old nursery rhymes. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.45"). 48 pp. (with contents pr. on front free endpaper).; illus.
$100.00
First edition, second issue of this classic, charming Greenaway-illustrated work, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
Not in Gottlieb, Early Children's Books & Their Illustration. Publisher's quarter rose and ivory cloth, covers with title stamped in brown surrounded by green latticework, dust jacket lacking; binding darkened and spotted. Front free endpaper with small inked ownership inscription. Sewing starting to loosen; light offsetting from facing images occasionally noticeable; some pages with tears at inner margins; a good copy only — yet, still, a charming thing! (27046)
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Anglo-Jewish Cookbook
Greenberg, Florence. The Jewish Chronicle cookery book. London: The Jewish Chronicle, [1934]. 8vo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). vi (adv.), 307, [1] pp.
$100.00
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First edition. Written before food rationing came into force, while refrigerators were a possibility but not a probability in the home, this landmark cookbook is a remarkable document of British Jewish culture in the early 20th century. The author was the wife of Leopold Jacob Greenberg, a prominent Zionist and for many years the editor of the Jewish Chronicle; the Chronicle later published this work several times with the title Florence Greenberg's Jewish Cookery, under which it remains popular in many homes to this day.There is a small separate section on Passover cookery; there is one on “invalid cookery”; and there are advertisements front and back that tickle in themselves.
Bitting 200. Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, spine sunned, covers with spots of light discoloration. One upper outer page corner torn away, not touching text; index with one inked annotation. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots, mostly clean. (26663)
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Phyllis
Wheatley Anne
Bradstreet & “Others”
Representing the
“Female
Genius” of Their
Days
Griswold, Rufus Willmot, ed. The female poets of America.
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1849. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.3"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 400 pp.; 4 plts.
$240.00

Second edition: Selections from 95 American women poets, with brief biographies and
critical notices. Contributors include Anne Bradstreet, Mercy Warren, Phillis Wheatley, Susannah
Rowson, Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Lucy Larcom, both Careys, and others, many
famed in their days and now poignantly forgotten. Griswold was the editor of The Poets and Poetry
of America, The Prose Authors of America, and The Poets and Poetry of England; Edgar Allan Poe,
in his review of the present work, commended Griswold's taste and courage in promoting “numerous
lady-poets . . . many of whom he now first introduces to the public,” including several Southern
women.
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The volume is illustrated with five steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page.
Binding: Contemporary maroon
morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet and blind-stamped with arabesque
designs, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped raised bands, board
edges gilt-tooled, all edges gilt.
Provenance:
Front cover with gilt supra-libros of A.M. Pratt.
BAL 6681; Sabin 28893;
Library Company, Afro-Americana, 4386 (for a much later edition); Allibone p. 745; Poe, “The
Female Poets of America,” Southern Literary Messenger, Feb. 1849; . Bound as
above, spine and edges gently sunned; edges lightly rubbed. Front cover gilt-stamped as above. Pages
slightly age-toned, with offsetting around plates and scattered spotting; plates with spots of foxing.
A very nice copy. (25126)
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