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Recipes & Wine Suggestions:
“Bunny in a Bucket”  “Pheasant in the Fire”  &  “Moose Mulligan”

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•  Second edition: “The West's finest old & new recipes for wild game - fish - birds,” illustrated with drawings by Vern Craig and with photographic plates (included in pagination). Recipes from eight famed American outdoorsmen are included, along with photographs of the eight bearing their printed signatures.

•  Publisher's textured brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, front cover with vignette of deer in pot, dustwrapper chipped at corners, upper edges, and spine extremities with spine lightly sunned. Front fly-leaf with inked owner's name. Pages clean.  (26903)

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE

•  First edition: History of the college, with musings on its then–present day state and on the experiences of its students.

•  Recent paper wrappers. Reverse of the title-page and one other page with institutional stamps; a few pages with pencilled marginalia, otherwise clean.

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“READ!”

•  Third edition. Political satire, in verse and prose, attributed to Will Williamson. At head of title is printed a large, “Read!” Stated on p. 32: “On Friday will be published, Part II. Have at them. Tally Ho! by Fair Play ... and soon thereafter will be published, Part III. The games afoot. Tally Ho! by Fair Play.” Click the image for an enlargement.

•  NSTC 2F755 & 2W16139.   Disbound. A few light brown spots on title-page. A very good copy.  (11078)

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Willis “Pitched His Tent” by theSusquehanna River

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•  First edition of this series of lighthearted letters written in and about the valley of the Susquehanna, near Owego, New York. An author of notable but ephemeral fame, Willis came from a talented family: His grandfather published newspapers in both the north and south of the U.S., his father founded the Youth's Companion (the first newspaper specifically for children), his sister enjoyed much literary success under the pen name Fanny Fern, and his brother Richard Stolls Willis was a music critic and composer known for hymns including “It Came upon the Midnight Clear.”

Willis himself was the founder of the magazine that became the Home Journal, and was celebrated in his day for his essays and travel writings as well as several collections of his journalistic work. The Cambridge History of American Literature calls him the “prince of magazinists,” and remarks on “the evanescent sparkle and glancing brilliance” of A L'abri, later known as Letters from under a Bridge. These charming, witty essays touch on Willis's Yale education (and its lack of practical application!); fishing; a dinner with Lady Blessington, Benjamin Disraeli, Count D'Orsay, and Lord Durham; the possibility of local railroad construction to connect the Hudson with Lake Erie; the relationship of American to British literature, etc. Whatever the ostensible topics of the individual letters, each touches in affectionate and amusing fashion on some aspect of life in the Susquehanna region.

A publishing practice, demonstrated: Bound in at the back of this volume are yellow printed paper wrappers for John Smith's Letters, and the title-page and preface for Fireside Education — both items published by Colman in the same year as the present work.

•  BAL 22752 (spine label in first state, cloth described as “Brown S cloth “); American Imprints 59260; Fearing, Check List of Books on Angling, Fishing, Fisheries, Fish-Culture, etc., 135; Sabin 104504. On Willis, see: Cambridge History of American Literature online.   Publisher's brown cloth embossed with floret and dash pattern, spine with printed paper label; corners rubbed, and spine cloth chipped with paper label chipped and darkened. Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription. Foxing throughout; occasional pencilled marginalia and marks of emphasis.  (25806)

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Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding

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•  First U.S. edition: “Illustrated withone hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas.” The work was edited by a friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens; from Chaucer to Swift to “Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes,” Wills's comic selections are delightfully entertaining, and their wood-engraved illustrations equally amusing.

Binding:  Publisher's deluxe black calf, covers and spine elaborately embossed and stamped in blind and gilt with central vignette of a cherub dressed as a jester and playing a lyre. All edges gilt. The embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: “R.D.”

This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped publisher's cloth is the norm.

•  NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762.   Binding as above, showing minor wear to extremities and front cover vignette, original silk bookmark detached and laid in. Volume slightly shaken with text block starting to pull away from spine; this is the kind of volume that wants to do that, and the reader will want to “cradle” it in hand — that done, no worries. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled gift inscription and with a Maine druggist's small ticket. Mild to moderate foxing. Both funny and decorative, in an American publisher's binding that may fairly be called “DAZZLING.”  (26748)

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“Arguably theGolden Age of ENGLISH ART”

•  First American edition of this excellent overview of the glories of Anglo-Saxon art (including the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Stockholm Codex Aureaus, the Ruthwell Cross, etc.), with numerous illustrations. Given the nature of the subject matter, the volume offers both archaeological content and travelogue.

•  Publisher's brown cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust jacket; dust jacket with corner clipped but price remaining, front upper outer corner very slightly crumpled. A clean, beautiful copy.  (24834)

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Printed for the Foundation

Wilson, Woodrow.

•  One of one thousand copies, printed in Caslon Old Face on rag paper, for the Wilson Foundation.

•  Cahoon, 56. Boards, printed label. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued.

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Do-It-Yourself . . .

•  First edition of J.S. Dwight's English translation of this work.
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•  Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine faded and cloth lightly worn. Pages clean. (10646)

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Wood’s Bible Dictionary

•  James Wood (1751–1840), a Methodist minister, largely based this encyclopedic dictionary of the Bible on that of Augustin Calmet.

This is the sole American edition. First printed in England in 1804.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 30564; NSTC W2651. Contemporary speckled sheep. Spines divided into compartments by double gilt rules with large red leather title labels and small round black volume labels, both edged with gilt fillets and gilt-lettered. Fine cracking to spines with shallow chipping from head and foot; edges rubbed, corners bumped. Pages with light browning around impression and on edges, with darker browning from turn-ins towards beginning and end of each volume. Large bite from rear free endpaper of vol. II; generally, text problem-free, with but a few shallow tears and chippings and a few light waterstains.

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ThisKillarney Tour for a Reader

•  First edition of this tourist’s directory of picturesque and historical sites, including “every necessary direction . . . the time required, the modes of conveyance, the inns on the road, and the probable expense” (p. v).

•  NSTC 2W33589. Recent plain paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Frontispiece, title-page, and several other pages stamped by a now-defunct institution. Lacking all but one plate (the frontispiece). Page edges untrimmed.

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AND LASTLY:
 The SCIENCE thatMakes a Good Cook
     (or a Good Air-Flow through the Bedroom)

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•  First edition; illustrated with in-text wood engravings. Home heating, lighting, cleaning, and more, with considerable discussion of the culinary science and its relation to health: sugars, starches, the effect of heat on meat and other foods, influences of protein, etc.

•  Whaton & Kelly 6655; Cagle & Stafford, American Books on Food and Drink, 840.   Publisher's ribbed brown cloth, covers elaborately embossed in blind. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, lacking the front free endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A rather handsome book, and one in nice condition.  (26509)

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