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Weems, Mason Locke. The life of George Washington; with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen. Embellished with six engravings. Philadelphia: Joseph Allen (pr. by King & Baird), [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis. port., title-leaf, [5]–244, 36 pp.; 5 plts. (included in pagination).
• Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-embossed, and spine with gilt decoration, lettering, and cameo portrait; portions of binding discolored, gilt-lettered author's name on spine rubbed, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting; intermittent staining/spotting, and a few old ink stains. Small chip at bottom margin of pp. 155/156. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, pressure-stamp on title-page, ink numeral in lower margin of p. [5], charge pocket on rear free endpaper, no other markings. Small booksellers' label of “Leary & Getz” inside front cover. (26332)
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A Missouri Teacher's Copy: Curricula & Grading
Country Educators Welch, William Michael. How to organize, classify and teach a country school. Chicago & Omaha: W.M. Welch, © 1886. 12mo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 107, [1] pp.
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uncommon (OCLC finds no institutional holdings of any edition preceding the present example).
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, front cover handsomely stamped in black and gilt.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription of Thomas D. Embree (later a prominent Democrat in Bates County, MO) dated 1891, back fly-leaf with inscription in the same hand reading “Bates Co. Teachers' Institute, Butler Mo.”
• Marple, Iowa Authors & Their Works, 312. Spine very slightly sunned, sides with a few small, unobtrusive spots of discoloration — overall a bright copy showing virtually no shelf wear. Front and back fly-leaves with inscriptions as above. A few scattered spots of light foxing, pages otherwise clean. (26761)
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Latest Agricultural Innovations, with COLOR-PRINTED Plates Wells, David Ames. The year-book of agriculture; or, the annual of agricultural progress and discovery, for 1855 and 1856. Exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements.... Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). 399, [1] pp.; 5 plts. (4 col.).
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Andrew J. Downing, “the most eminent of American horticulturists and professors of Rural Architecture” (p. 5). Much interesting material is present here on the cultivation of various fruits and vegetables, the introduction of exotic domesticated animals (Chinese yaks, cashmere goats, camels) into the United States and Europe, statistics of American production, and various mechanical and technical innovations.
Illustrated with four color plates done by Max and Louis N. Rosenthal of the famed Philadelphia firm Rosenthal's, producers of some of the earliest chromolithographs in the U.S. The frontispiece here, after a drawing by B.L.C. Wailes, depicts a blossoming cotton plant, while the three other chromolithographed plates show a more mature example, the cotton caterpillar, and rot in cotton. The volume is additionally illustrated with a number of in-text steel and wood engravings.
• Allibone 2641. Not in Reese, Stamped with a National Character. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, chipped at head, and with small darkened area. Ex–social club library: Call number on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, title-page and several others (not plates) with old, round, light rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (26420)
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Handsome Copy Westlake, J. Willis. How to write letters: A manual of correspondence, showing the correct structure, composition, punctuation, formalities, and uses of the various kinds of letters, notes, and cards. Philadelphia: Sower, Potts & Co., 1879. 8vo. 264 pp.
• Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities rubbed, gilt partially oxidized (quiet attractively). Back hinge tender. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled ownership inscription. Early portions of text with pencilled emphasis marks and some underlining. All edges red. A nifty period piece. (20333)
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A Guide to Youth in TheirFIRST Attempts at Prayer Westminster Assembly (1643–52). The shorter catechism: Composed by the Assembly of Divines ... containing the principles of the Christian religion; with Scripture proofs. Albany: Websters & Skinners, 1814. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). 70, [2 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Very few institutions hold actual hard copies of this edition, as opposed to microform; OCLC locatesonly two U.S. institutional holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 33653. Later paper wrappers, lightly dust-soiled. Front flyleaves with early pencilled inscriptions; first page of preface with rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin. Foxed; upper corners bumped yet paper untattered. (25893)
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A Time CapsuleWharton, Edith. American and British verse from the Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Hymphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). 52, [2] pp.
• Garrison B15. Publisher’s printed paper–covered boards, darkened, most notably over spine. Front free endpaper with pencilled owner’s name. Pages slightly age-toned.
InCharming Cloth CoversWharton, Edith. French ways and their meaning. New York & London: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). xi, [3], 149, [1] pp.
• Garrison A28.I.a. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover stamped with a French country scene in white, red, and gold, spine with gilt-stamped title; original box lacking, cloth a bit rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with spine title dimmed. Front free endpaper with inked owner’s inscription dated 1919. Faint waterstaining to outer margins of pp. 21–35.
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Preparing for the End Times White, Ellen G. The great controversy between Christ and Satan: The conflict of the ages in the Christian dispensation. Washington: Review & Herald Publishing Association, (© 1911). 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). 718 pp.; 41 plts.
a frontispiece and 40 plates depicting biblical and historical scenes as well as notable churches and holy sites. Each chapter also has a headpiece involving an interesting frame/border, and there are a few tailpieces.
This is an original edition, not a facsimile reprint.
Binding: Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and gilt with scene of an angel holding a chain and the key to the bottomless pit (Revelation 20:1), spine decoratively stamped in black and gilt.
• Binding as above, cocked, spine slightly sunned, corners and spine extremities with minor rubbing; small smudge to outer upper edge of front cover. Front pastedown with inked inscription dated 1916. A few corners dog-eared; four pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in items, pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled. (25796)
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Lovely Little Production — Illustrations by
John De Pol White, Lewis F. A brief account of the Between-Hours Press[,] Ben Grauer, proprietor. New York: Privy Council Press, 1952. 12mo. [20] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Fine, in original wrappers. (10226)
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E.A. POE's Onetime Near-Fiancée Rebuts Griswold's“Perverted Facts & Baseless Assumptions” Whitman, Sarah Helen. Edgar Poe and his critics. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. 12mo (19.5 cm; 7.5"). [8], [13]–81, [1], 6 (adv.) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • BAL, VII, p. 146. Publisher's terra-cotta ribbed cloth, covers framed and modestly decorated in blind, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, a little rubbed, and spine gilt slightly darkened. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on endpapers, title-page and two others rubber-stamped, back endpaper with pocket. No other markings. Pages age-toned and slightly embrittled. A good copy, with list of Rudd & Carleton's “NEW BOOKS” at the end. (26513)
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Rewritten Mother Goose
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Whitney, Adelaide
Dutton Train. Mother Goose for grown folks.
A Christmas reading.
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). Frontis., iv, 111,
[3], 6 (adv.) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's deeply waved terra-cotta cloth of Krupp's style Wav6, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped frame.
• Binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50,
p. 43. Binding as above, corners/edges slightly rubbed and spine pulled
at top; interior with an upper corner bumped. A very attractive, clean copy.
(26714)
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