Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer by John Dryden. With a Memoir o the Author

New York, Calvin Blanchard, 1845. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Hardcover. 227pp. No date c1840s. Brown blind-stamped boards, gilt motif to front and gilt spine decoration, engraved title page and engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard. Very good copy with very little wear both inside and out, faint stain to top edge, binding is sound. Very Good.

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Book number: 004760

Catalogue: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Biography

Keywords: Dryden Palamon Arcite Iphigenia

Life of the Duke of Wellington. To Which are Added Memoirs of Duke of Marlborough

St. Louis, MO, Nafis & Cornish, 1847. 1st Edition, 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Hardcover. 256pp. FIRST EDITION. Green stamped boards, gilt stamped design to cover and spine. hand-colored title page and frontispiece plus 11 full-page black and white illustrations, text pages have ruled frame borders. Corners and spine edges worn and chipped, moderate fading to gilt, text is age-darkened with variable foxing, a few scribbles on front endpapers, former owner's stamp on front endpaper, binding is solid. A miniature book measuring 4 3/4 x 3 inches, and scarce. Good.

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Book number: 004783

Catalogue: Military, History, Biography

Keywords: Battles Vittorio Busaca Waterloo

(Goodrich, Frank B.)

Tricolored Sketches in Paris, During the Years 1851-2-3

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1855. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 368pp. FIRST EDITION.Blue embossed cloth, gilt spine lettering. Corners worn, spine ends chipped, spine slightly darkened, slight internal separation, endpapers darkened from offsetting, light foxing to first and last few pages, pencil notes on rear endpaper,former owner's name on front endpaper. Good.

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Book number: 003715

Catalogue: Biography, Military, History

Keywords: France Revolution "Louis Napoleon"

Ainsworth, Ed (and W.Parker Lyon)

Pot Luck; Episodes in the Life of W. Parker Lyon

Hollywood, California, George Palmer Putnam, Inc. 1940. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 201pp. Orange cloth. Bottom edge rubbed, some discoloration to endpapers, text is sound. Dust jacket is soiled and has been taped along edges. Inscribed, stamped and signed by W.Parker Lyon, foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. Includes a handwritten 1942 letter by W. Lyon Parker, and a W. Parker Lyon Narrow Gauge Railway ticket from Arcadia to Santa Anita along the Haw Haw Route, plus addressed envelope. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 003731

Catalogue: Biography, Signed, Humor

McCoy Amasa

Funeral Orration on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered at a Commeroation in the Presbyterian Church, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Monday Evening, November 8, 1852.

Boston, C.C.P. Moody, 1856. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 39pp. Grey printed wraps. Light wear and light soil to cover, contents are clean. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page. Bound in at fron are 5 pages of endorsements from prominent individuals of McCoy's speech. Good.

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Book number: 004451

Catalogue: American History, Biography, Government and Politics

Keywords: Speech Oratory Autograph

Andersen, Christopher

The King: The Life of Charles III

New York, Gallery Books, 2022. 1st Edition, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 9781501181597. 468pp. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book is in clean, unused condition. As New/As New.

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Book number: 004728

Catalogue: Biography, First Edition

Keywords: Royalty Camilla Diana England Windsor 9781501181597

M. le baron De B***

Amours Secrettes De Napoléon Buonaparte (Tome Second, Volume II only))

Paris, Germain Mathiot, 1816. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 284pp. Full leather. Couverture rigide. Text in French. Covers chipped and worn, front free endpaper missing, tape repair to title page, contents shaken, no loose pages, text lightly soiled, a few small chipped edges, owner's name on title page, bit of illegible writing on front pastedown dated 1847, handwritten note taped-in at rear and dated mai 1945. Fair.

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Book number: 003403

Catalogue: Biography, Erotic

Keywords: Bonaparte Francais

Bartlett, J. Gardner (Editor)

John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and Five Generations of His Descendants Also Ancestral Lines of Some Families Intermarried with His Descendants and Colonial Records Pertaining to Them.

Boston, Lewc. Hill (Privately Printed), 1904. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 97pp. Green buckram, gilt lettering. FIRST EDITION. Spine and top edge faded, book is otherwise clean and sound, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, Number 18 of and Edition of 100 copies. Six generations of the Hill family. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003181

Catalogue: Biography, Social History

Keywords: Genealogy

Bauer, Edward Louis

Doctors Made in America

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 370pp. Inscribed and SIGNED by AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Blue decorative boards, black backing, gilt spine lettering. Corners lightly rubbed, slight fading to edges, interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is worn and several pieces torn from upper edge. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 004544

Catalogue: Biography, Medicine, History

Keywords: "Jefferson Medical College" Physicians Surgery "Dr. Samuel Gross"

Beaumont, Cyril W.

Margot Fonteyn

London, C.W. Beaumont, 1948. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 20pp. Blue cloth, paper label to front board. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. Very good condition with mild age-toning. Dust jacket is chipped, soiled, missing large piece along bottom rear panel, price-clipped, no loss of text. Concise biography of the renown ballerina, with Cyril Beaumont's signature. Very Good/Poor.

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Book number: 004360

Catalogue: Biography, Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet "Sadlers Wells" "Royal Ballet"

Bland, T.A.

Life of Benjamin F. Butler

New York and Boston, Lee and Shepard and Charles T. Dillingham, 1879. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 202pp. Green boards, gilt bust of Butler on front board, gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library label on front pastedown, inner hinges cracked but holding, lengthy writing on rear endpapers, former owners' names on front endpapers, an aspiring artist has apparently colored part of the engraved frontispiece portrait with red watercolor. Poor.

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Book number: 003863

Catalogue: Biography, Military, U.S. Civil War

Burlingame, Roger

I Have Known Many Worlds

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1956. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 283pp. Grey cloth. Boards are clean and unworn, endpapers mildly foxed otherwise contents are clean. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped at head of spine and lightly spine-sunned. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Affectionately Roger" on front free endpaper. Autobiography dealing with the author's years of experience in publishing and writing. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002411

Catalogue: Biography, Signed, Books About Books

Keywords: Publishing

Cady, John H.

Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady Pioneer

John H. Cady, 1916. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 120pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. SIGNED by author. Edges and spine lightly rubbed, interior is very clean. Itinerary written on front pastedown and dated 1916, owner's name on front free endpaper beneath author's signature. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002822

Catalogue: Biography, Travel and Geography

Keywords: "Arizona Territory"

Clarke, Adam

Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Mary Cooper, of London; Who Departed This Life June 22,1812, in The Twenty-Sixth Year of Her Age. Extracted From Her Diary and Epistolary Correspondence.

New York, J. Soule and T. Mason, 1818. Second American Edition, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Hardcover. 245p. Full calf, red leather label. Covers scuffed and worn, text is moderately foxed throughout but otherwise clean, owner's name and numbers on front free endpaper, a faint spot on title page, binding is sound and tight. Good.

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Book number: 002355

Catalogue: Religion, Biography

Keywords: Christiianity

Courtteline, Georges

La Philosophie de George Courteline

PriS, Ernest Flammarion, 1917. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Leather. 191pp. Soft flexible leather, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, text in French. Couverture en cuir souple. Bon état. Spine is slightly faded, covers otherwise clean and unworn, contents age-toned. Very Good.

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Book number: 003568

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Philosophy, Biography