BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
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.
• 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)
The
Plays
Complete & in
a Signed BindingGalsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp. 
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
• 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-Lovedby 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.
• 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.
Click the images for enlargements. • 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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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.
Click the images for enlargements. • 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 — InvaluableGlaister, 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.
• Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, and contents as new. (6107)
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Fashion Goldsmith, Oliver. The
deserted village. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. 8vo. 53, [1] pp.; illus. 
• 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)
Thomson's Illustrations — The Vicar Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus. 
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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)
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Parley's Tales ofGood 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.
Click the images for enlargements.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-ColoredFloral
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.
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
TypographicaGoudy, Frederick W., ed. Ars Typographica. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Autumn, 1934. Folio. [1] f., 50 pp., [1] f.
• Cary 216. Printed wrappers. Collotype plates and illustrations. A fine copy. (17734)
For more WOOLLY WHALE, click here. For more BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here. This also appears in the GENERAL One of the Special CopiesGoudy, 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.
• 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.
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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.
• 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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.
• 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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”
“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.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. 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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