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OVERBROOK PRESS
Commemorating
the
First
Anniversary of His Death
King,
Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford:
The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
$50.00
One of six hundred handsome copies printed for private distribution.
Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge
a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
Amour . . .
Lassalle, Ferdinand. Une page d'amour de Ferdinand Lassalle. Recit - Correspondance - Confessions. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1959. 8vo. [8], 86, [2] pp.
$45.00
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One of 250 copies printed of these ardent love letters, in French, allegedly written by Lassalle to a young girl he met while taking the water cure at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1860.
Publisher's cloth, clean and unworn, in original glassine dustwrapper. (14192)
CHESS — One of
150 Copies
Mansfield, Comins. Adventures in composition[:] The art of the two-move chess problem. Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944. Small quarto. [8 (2 blank)], iii–xi, [2 (blank)], 212, [8 (5 blank)] pp.
$150.00

First edition. Edited by Alain White, and illustrated. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of only one hundred and fifty copies printed on rag paper and specially bound.
Cahoon, 42. Quarter gilt cloth and pastepaper over boards, gilt label. Fine in tissue dust jacket, jacket with a chip and some spots of discoloration. (24502)
CHESS — One of
250 Copies
Mansfield, Comins. Adventures in composition[:] The art of the two-move chess problem. Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944. Small quarto. [8 (2 blank)], iii–xi, [2 (blank)], 212, [8 (5 blank)] pp.
$100.00
First edition. Edited by Alain White, and illustrated. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of two hundred and fifty copies printed on laid paper.
Cahoon, 42. Quarter gilt cloth and boards, gilt label. Fine in tissue dust jacket. (24501)
Printed
for the Foundation
Wilson,
Woodrow. Cabinet government in the United States...with an introductory
note by Thomas K. Finletter. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1947. [6 (3 blank)],
v–xii, [2 (blank)], 31, [1] pp.
$150.00

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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