BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
Social THEATRICAL Pleasures — A Social Club's Copy 
Head, James H. Home pastimes or tableaux vivants. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1860. 12mo. 264 pp., lacks printed title-page.
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costumes, scenery, positions, lights, shades, etc., designed for public exhibitions and the home circle.” An important work for the study of Victorian play, recreation, social interaction — and, theater. Notes at the back explain how to achieve fire effects, sound effects, etc.
The added title-page is printed in red and black and has a wood-engraved vignette of friends-and-family spectators rapt before a home stage.
Provenance: The German Society of Pennsylvania.
• Publisher's blue textured cloth stamped in blind; light discoloration to edges. Ex–social club library, as above: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpapers and fly-leaf, rubber- and pressure-stamp on title-page and rubber-stamp on a very few other pages. No other markings. Faint waterstain at front in some lower margins. With the handsome added title-page but without the printed “main” one. Withal, a good copy. (26283)
Direct-Action
Independent
Steam EnginesHenderson, William M. Patent No. 65,911: Improvement in steam pumps. [Washington, D.C.: United States Patent Office, 1867]. Folio (appr. 40 × 28 cm, 15.75" × 11"). [3], [1 (blank)] ff. 
• Laced together with a silk ribbon. Some browning, especially adjacent to ribbon and wafer; and a few tiny tears in edges. Short closed tears along the folds, without loss.
This
Is an
Appealing Little
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Hennequin, P.P. Voyages et aventures d'un jeune marin. Paris: Belin le Prieur (pr. by de Fain), 1835. 8vo. Frontis., [4], 338, [2] pp.; 2 plts. 
• Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped decorative motifs and gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with bookseller's ticket. Light waterstaining to lower inner margins of first and last sections (you can see the degree of this, at left), pages otherwise generally clean. A charming gift for a French speaker with maritime interests! (9091)
Front & Back Views of aBlack Cat Grace the Cover Herford, Oliver; Ethel Watts Mumford; & Addison Mizner. The cynic's calendar of revised wisdom for 1904. San Francisco: The Tomoyé Press for Paul Elder and Co., ©1903. 16mo. [128] pp.
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law-related puns. Wry little calendar-book
meant as a New Year's gift, featuring declamations such as “Honor is without
profit — in most countries,” “Where there's a will there's
a law suit,” and “A little widow is a dangerous thing.” Wickedly
amusing illustrations evoking the era appear throughout, in black and red, provided
by “Towanda” and Mizner.
• Original cloth over cardboard, front cover with printed and
illustrated paper label; lightly faded, some discoloration and soiling. Sewing
loosening but holding. Text clean. 
A delight. (26798)
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First-Person AMERICAN Account of the Boer War
Signed by THE AUTHORS Hiley, Alan Richard Illeigh, & John Arthur Hassell. The mobile Boer being the record of the observations of two burgher officers. New York: Grafton Press, (© 1902). 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., xvii, [1], 277, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 1 fold. map, 41 plts.
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illustrated with an oversized, color-printed map (affixed to the back pastedown) and with a total of 42 plates, mostly photographic, including a frontispiece portrait of Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
• Publisher's orange cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in green and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, sides with small areas of minor discoloration, spine sunned. Ex–social club library: call number in 19th-century hand on front pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages and plates clean and fresh. (26364)
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Well-Meaning butNot
Very High-Rising MUSEHill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
privately
printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the
poems and short pieces display intelligence, but not much by way of polished
craft — unsurprising given that most of them were written during Hill’s
adolescence. One unfinished poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would
plume her wing, / And higher as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the
note beneath reads “Muse did n’t get any further up that trip”
(p. 25).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.
• Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean.
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Blair, BlazonedHill, John. An account of the life and writings of Hugh Blair .... Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1808. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 229, [1 (blank)] pp.
Provenance: The Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple; the Maryland Diocesan Library.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 15224. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding moderately darkened and worn, cloth chipped over head of spine, spine showing shadow of a now-absent shelving label. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (as above); title-page additionally with early inked gift inscription in upper margin (this cut into by binder). Some light spotting and age-toning.
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“A Good Kind of House to Build” — 228 Pages of Plates Hodgson, Frederick Thomas. Practical bungalows and cottages for town and country. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., © 1906. 12mo. 8, [15 (index & adv.) pp.; [228] pp. of plts.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with white-stamped title and pictorial vignette, spine with white-stamped title; joints and extremities showing moderate wear, covers with small spots of light discoloration. A solid, internally clean copy. A pleasure, in hand. (26664)
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College Sermons — Presentation Copy Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
• Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)
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Archetypal
Feminine Beauty
— Limited,
Beautiful Edition
Hoppé, E.O. The book of fair women. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Folio (31.7 cm, 12.6"). 27, [131] pp.; illus.
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Fascinating! (26938)
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Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera expurgata, notis anglicis illustrata: Quibus præfixum syntagma prosodiale. Cura et studio Thomæ Dugdale. Philadelphiae: Impensis Solomon W. Conrad, excud. Guilelmus Fry, 1815. 8vo. xvii, [1 (blank)], 359, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the title-page image for an enlargement. This is the rarer of two Philadelphia editions of 1815: It is not listed in NUC Pre-1956 and Shaw and Shoemaker located only one copy (at The American Antiquarian Society); we do know of some other copies. The other edition has the imprint reading “Impensis E. Kimber.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 34951. Original treed sheep, leather label; spine, with gilt-stamped red leather label, a little pulled at bottom. Significant degrees of browning and foxing, as expectable of the paper used. Front free endpaper missing; volume opens on title-page. An interesting volume in attractive condition. (7008)
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Dartmouth's LaureateHovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp.
• First edition. Poems by “Dartmouth's Laureate," edited by Edwin Osgood Grover.
• BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)
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Attractive Little Book! Howells, William Dean. Criticism and fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 12mo. Frontis., title-leaf, 188 pp., [2] ff.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front cover with an overall pattern of torches with bows, surrounding a central cartouche with the title and author in gilt.
Click the images for enlargements. • BAL 9577 (for first edition). Binding as above, lightly rubbed at base of spine, small area of minor discoloration on spine. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (26805)
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When ElevatorsALL Had Operators Howells, William Dean. The Elevator, a farce. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1885. 16mo. 84 pp.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth front cover elaborately stamped in black with a center oblong in gilt leaving the title and author in revers color, i.e., in the green of the binding.
Click the images for enlargements. • BAL 9617. Binding as above, spine with overall lightening. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper and front fly-leaf, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. (26806)
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“A Wise & Affectionate Early Education” Howitt, Mary Botham. The childhood of Mary Leeson.
Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1849. 12mo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). Frontis., [2], 143, [1] pp.
Prize copy: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Presented to Lydia Ann Beeson by Mt. Pleasant Sabbath School 1852.”
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's olive green rippled cloth (Krupp's style Rip1), covers panelled in blind with blind-stamped floral decorations, spine gilt extra; binding lightly rubbed, front cover with two small areas additionally of light discoloration. Front free endpaper as above. Occasional mild staining, pages mostly clean. (26754)
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Colors as Lush as the Forest Hudson, W[illiam] H[enry]. Green mansions: A romance of the tropical forest. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Foreword by John Galsworthy. New York: Random House, (1944). 8vo. 303 pp., color plts.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter cloth with illustrated paper sides, one small chip to paper of front cover and spine a tad “greyed”; otherwise, excellent. Slipcase with some chips and abrasions but solid. Signature in ink on half-title. (6736)
Very Victorian -- That's in a GOOD Way!Hughes, Thomas. The manliness of Christ. New York: John B. Alden, 1887. 8vo. [4], [577]-631, [1] pp. 
• Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title, cloth showing very minor wear to extremities and some slight wrinkling over back cover. Front free endpaper with faint early owner's name. (16726)
AMERICAN
Grapes AMERICAN
Wine AMERICAN Author Husmann, George. American grape growing and wine making ... fourth edition — revised and rewritten. New York: Orange Judd, 1902. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). viii, 269, [11 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Provenance: Ownership stamp of “C. Witter . . . St. Louis, Mo.”
• Amerine & Borg, Bibliography on Grapes, Wines, Other Alcoholic Beverages, & Temperance, 1851. Publisher's dark green cloth, covers with blind-stamped grapevine borders, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title; spine extremities slightly rubbed, front cover with a few tiny spots of faint discoloration, otherwise a clean, fresh copy. Title-page with private owner's rubber-stamp in lower margin. Pages clean. A nice book. (20691)
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