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BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
American
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ILLUMINATED
Leaves
The
ladies' wreath. A souvenir for all seasons. Boston: Phillips,
Sampson & Co., [ca. 1855]. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). [2 illuminated] ff., 288 pp.;
4 plts.
Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers and spine gilt extra in foliate designs with cherubim at play. All edges gilt.
• Faxon 457a. Binding as above, front joint just starting
at top and bottom, edges and extremities showing very slight wear, gilt slightest
bit rubbed in spots; overall bright and handsome. Light age-toning and spotting
throughout.
In
remarkably good condition, unusually bright. (20886)
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“Hai-Kai”Lafferty, Robert C. (Bob). Scores of cheerful epigrams in hai-kai form and with sketches. New York: The Culture Press, 1929. 8vo. [4 (blank)], v–xi, [1 (blank)], 17–123, [13 (1 blank)] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's green cloth, with an attractive design on the front cover. Very light rubbing over joints, and soiling to front cover. Pages clean. Very good. (5895)
STRIKINGLY Illustrated La Motte-Fouque, F. de la. Undine. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. 4to. vii, [1], 141, [5] pp.; illus.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 10. Binding as above; a clean, fresh copy showing next to no wear, in a rubbed slipcase with the spine reinforced some time ago with tape. (11241)
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He Had a Dream Langland, William. The vision and creed of Piers Ploughman. London: Reeves & Turner, 1883. 12mo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., xl, [2], 272 pp. II: [4], [273]–621 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Later 19th-century half toffee-brown calf over salmon cloth boards; gilt-lettered red leather spine-labels (title, volume, editor); gilt-accented raised bands, date in gilt at base. Slight rubbing to joints and extremities, one label with a streak of discoloration, vol. II with small chip at head of spine and lower corners rubbed. Pages toned. One leaf with edge nicks. Lower outer portion of pp. 211/212 chipped, with loss of outermost letters of bottom four lines and detached piece laid in; aforesaid pages also creased down the middle, brittle, and all but separated in two (still, present). Top edge gilt, others deckle. A pleasing and attractive binding; a volume internally clean. (21256)
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Studying Hawthorne, with
Commentary from Melville Lathrop, George Parsons. A study of Hawthorne. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876. 12mo. 350 pp., [1 (ads)] f.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped and decorated in black on front cover and in black and gold on spine. Rear cover modestly embossed in blind. All edges red.
• Bound as above. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, two rubber-stamps on title-page, no other markings. A clean, bright copy. (26367)
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Ladies, Get Spry! Lever Bros., Cambridge, Mass. Easy to be a good cook now! No place: No publisher/printer, [ca. 1950]. 12mo (12.5 cm; 5"). [1] leaf.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Folded as issued. Very good condition. (26013)
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Illustrated Admiration Life of General Scott. [New York?: 1852?]. 8vo. 32 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sabin 78417. Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping. (26006)
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The Daring AviatorTells His Own Story Lindbergh, Charles A. “We” New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. 8vo. 318 pp.; frontis., 23 double-sided plts.
Illustrated with 23 double-sided plates and a frontispiece, offering 48 images.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and airplane vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; airplane endpapers.
• Binding slightly shaken, spine gently sunned. Two leaves each with one tear from lower margin, not touching text. (25989)
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Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
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• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label; clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper a little chipped at edges. (22940)
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Lochore, Robert. Margaret and the minister, a true tale. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2M14137. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16756)
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It's a MysteryLove, William F. The chartreuse clue: A novel. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1990. 8vo. 284, [4 (blank)] pp. 
• Publisher's cloth, in a dust jacket. Crisp and tight. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket; price on dust jacket crossed out in black ink. In a mylar cover. (5561)
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