BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
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Narkiss, Bezalel, & Cecil Roth. Illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. New York & London: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd., 1983. Folio. 175, [1] pp.
• Publisher's tan cloth and blue d/j printed in white and “gold” with illustration. Corners bumped. (22344)
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“Marble is Never Commonplace”
National Association of Marble Dealers. The everyday uses of marble. Cleveland: The National Association of Marble Dealers, © 1927. 8vo. 76 pp.; illus.
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photographs of a wide variety of interiors and exteriors.
• Publisher's brown marbled, textured paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Clean and unworn. Not a commonplace copy! (26833)
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CYRANO
— 1924National Theatre playbill.
Cyrano de Bergerac. Presenting a new English version by Brian Hooker. New
York: New York Theatre Program Corporation, [1924].16mo. 32 pp. 
• Original printed paper wrappers, in beautiful clean condition. (5910)
First U.S. Edition: Icelandic Travel Book
Nicoll, James. An historical and descriptive account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., 360 pp.; 2 fold. maps, 1 plt. (incl. in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's olive-brown vermiform cloth of Krupp's style Mis1, spine with gilt-stamped series and individual title.
• Sabin 32058. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Mis1. Binding as above, head of spine chipped, front joint with small spot of insect damage. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and small call-number ticket on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. First map creased, outer edge slightly tattered. Pages age-toned. A nice copy. (26418)
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Caroline Norton's SoleKeepsake Effort Norton, Caroline, ed. The keepsake for MDCCCXXXVI. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [1835]. 8vo (18.9 cm, 7.45"). Add. engr. t.-p., [4], 324 pp. (pagination skips 300–303); 18 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is illustrated with 18 steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page.
Binding: Crimson straight-grain morocco, covers framed in blind and panelled in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt.
• Faxon 1497. Binding as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed with corners bumped, joints and edges darkened, lower spine compartment discolored. Title-page and two others institutionally pressure-stamped. Pages gently age-toned with a few scattered light spots, generally clean. (26033)
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Our State in the '20s
Nutting, Wallace. Pennsylvania beautiful (Eastern). New York: Bonanza Books, 1988. 8vo. 302 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's cloth. Near fine copy, with a near fine dust jacket.
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