BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
First Paperback Edition (1943)
O'Hara, John. The
doctor's son and other stories. New York: New Avon Library; Duell, Sloan & Pearce,
[1943]. Small 8vo. [4], 217, [3] pp. 
• Original wrappers. Very light rubbing to spine and at edges. Rear cover with a single 2" crease, some wrinkles on spine. Mildly age-toned. Very good. (7181)
“CLOUD-LANDS” Oakley, Amy. Cloud-lands of France. New York: Century Co., 1927. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 497, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped; corners and extremities very slightly rubbed, dust-jacket lacking, otherwise a beautiful copy. (18414)
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BRITTANY Oakley, Amy. Enchanted Brittany. New York: Century Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xix, [1], 437, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, dust-jacket lacking. (18410)
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Keepsake . . . The oath of a free-man. With a historical study by Lawrence C. Wroth and a note on the Stephen Daye Press by Melbert B. Cary, Jr. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1939. 8vo. [20] pp.
This is Keepsake no. 60 of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, although this copy does not include the laid-in sheet noting that detail. Important study by the head of the John Carter Brown Library on the Oath.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and fresh. (14191)
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Travelling
the Great Northern Route
— 21 Plates
& a Large
Folding Map
Ontario
and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company. The
Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company's hand-book for travelers to Niagara
Falls, Montreal and Quebec, and through Lake Champlain to Saratoga Springs.
Buffalo: Jewett, Thomas & Co., Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1852. 12mo (19.1
cm, 7.5"). 158 pp.; 1 fold. map, 21 plts. (incl. in pagination).
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Niagara
Falls and beyond, from the “Great Northern Route. American
Lines” series. This particular journey is described as “one of the
favorite summer excursions so indulged in by all classes of the American people”
(p. 25). The volume is illustrated with an oversized, folding map (28 x 20 cm)
of the routes from Albany to Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and Montreal (with an engraved
image of the Falls), as well as a frontispiece and 20 other wood-engraved plates
depicting scenic views to be found along the way. The plates are mostly by Benjamin
C. Vanduzee and J.P. Hall, after John Van Cleeve.
Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Ida M. Hardy, dated 1867. The book itself, alas, provides no indication whether Ms. Hardy was a traveller of the actual or armchair sort.
• Sabin 57368. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America. Publisher's brown cloth of Krupp's style Lea8, covers blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped title; a little sunned with corners bumped and binding slightly cocked. Front pastedown with inscription as above, front free endpaper with mostly erased pencilled inscription. Mild smudging to some page edges; a few leaves with light waterstaining to lower outer portions. One leaf torn, repaired some time ago with cellophane tape, touching but not obscuring five words; map with short tear from lower edge, upper edge a bit crumpled. A solid copy, with map and all plates. (26666)
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Illustrated — Inspiring — Sumptuous Orsini, Mathieu, abbé, & J. Sadlier. Life of the blessed virgin Mary, mother of God; with the history of the devotion to her. Completed by the traditions of the East, the writings of the fathers, and the private history of the Jews. Translated from the French of the Abbé Orsini, by Mrs. J. Sadlier. New York, Boston, & Montreal: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1861. 4to. [4], xxviii, 225, [3], 311, [12], 8–192, 133 pp.; 22 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Illustrated with 22 engraved plates (each with protective tissue guard), an added engraved title-page (in color), and in-text engravings used as chapter tail-pieces. Text printed within an engraved decorative border, repeated throughout.
• Publisher's full red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with raised bands, gilt center devices and lettering in spine compartments. Front cover bears a gilt image of the Blessed Virgin framed in an oval, with “Mary A. Dunigan” stamped in gilt beneath it; back cover bears a gilt-stamped crucifix within an oval. All edges gilt. Rubbing at edges and joints. Front joint starting and weak. Scratch-marks. Some spotting to plates and tissue guards. Very light waterstaining in margins of later pages. Chip at top margin of two leaves, only. Very good condition, without ownership markings. (14268)
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IN YOUR HEAD by 27 . . . Orton, Hoy D. Orton's lightning calculator, and accountant's assistant. The shortest, simplest, and most rapid method of computing numbers, adapted to every kind of business, and within the comprehension of every one having the slightest knowledge of figures. Shelby, Ohio: H.D. Orton, ©1866. 12mo. vi, [9]–194 pp.
“Energy is the price of success.” “Address all orders for this book to H.D. Orton, Shelby, O. Single copies by mail, One Dollar. For sale by all Booksellers.”
• Publisher's brown cloth shelf-back with printed paper on the boards; small rent in cloth. Very nice copy. (26558)
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Well-Edited
& Well-Produced
Otway, Thomas. The complete works.... Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Folio. 3 vols.
• McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 38. Quarter light brown publisher's buckram with cream Ingres paper sides. Cream paper label at top of spine. All edges untrimmed. Light dustsoiling. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A rather nice set.
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Naso, Publius. ... Opera, ad fidem editionis Burmannianae expressa. Londini: Rodwell & Martin et al., 1815. 12mo (13.2 cm, 5.2"). 3 vols. I: vi, 309, [1] pp. II: [4], 334 pp. III: [4], 360 pp.
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• NSTC C616; Schweiger, II, 632–33. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume numbers; bindings showing overall rubbing and scuffing, one volume with spine head chipped. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s bookplate, institutional rubber-stamp, and pencilled notations. A few signatures at the beginning of vol. I unopened. Small areas of waterstaining to upper inner margins of first few leaves of vol. I and scattered small spots of light foxing elsewhere, pages generally clean. A nice little antiquarian set.
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