The Annualette. A Christmas and New Year's Gift for Children

Boston , William Crosby & Co. 1842. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 137pp. Brown gilt stamped cover and spine, all edges gilt, 3 engraved plates with tissue guards, iincluding frontispiece, inscription on front endpaper. A small book measuring 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Corners worn, small chip to spine end, foxing to frontispiece and light scattered foxing in text, sound binding. A nice copy with an attractive gilt decorated spine. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004803

Catalogue: Children's, Poetry, Short Stories

Keywords: Christmas Holidays

Aunt Carrie's Rhymes for Children

New York, James Miller, 1854. 1st Edition, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 90pp. Gilt embossed brown boards, gilt lettering and floral design to spine, 5 hand-colored engraved plates. Cover shows very slight wear, chipping to head and tail of spine, small insect holes to rear joint, binding is tight and sound, an occasional spot to text otherwise clean, 1864 inscription on front free endpaper, book is overall in a well-preserved condition. Good.

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Book number: 004658

Catalogue: Children's, Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: Poems Rhymes "Hand-Colored" Illustrated

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

(Roby, John)

Jokeby, A Burlesque on Rokeby. A Poem, In Six Cantos. By an Amateur of Fashion

London, Thomas Tegg, 1813. Fifth Edition, Enlarged, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 216p. Printed blue paper over boards, color frontispiece. Wear to corners and spine ends, spine sunned and lightly chipped, owner's bookplate and glue residue on front free endpaper, chip to lower front endpaper, but the text is clean and crisp, and the binding and hinges are sound. Very Good.

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Book number: 002365

Catalogue: Poetry, Humor

Keywords: Satire

A Paradise of Daintie Devices. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Ballads. By Various Hands

New York, Charles Pratt & Co. 1882. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 101pp. Heavy coarse-stock imprinted wraps. Soiling and spotting to covers, occasional marginal spot, insecting to last 2 leaves. A curious collection of familiar and uncommon poems and songs published by Charles Pratt & Co. and given to its customers at Christmastime. Ads for Pratt's Astral Oil, Benzine, Naptha and Gasolene appear at end of book. Fair.

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Book number: 002574

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Christmas Poems Dainty

(Hart, John S. and Kirkland, C.M. (Editors)

Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art. Vol VII, July-December 1850.

Philadelphia, John Sartain & Co. 1850. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. 388pp. Quarter bound leather, 4 raised bands, buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine. Moderate wear to edges, front board loose but holding, foxing to preliminary pages and occasionally to contents, binding is tight. Numerous engraved plates with tissue guards, including 2 in color. Included in this volume is "The Poetic Principle" by Edgar Allan Poe from the unpublished manuscript. Other contributors include Harriet Martineau, R. H. Stoddard, Mary Howitt and Henry Tuckerman. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004854

Catalogue: Poetry, Literature, Art

Keywords: Poe Poetry Prose Music Engravings

Alberti, Rafael

A La Pintura. Cantata de la linea y del color

Buenos Aires, Imprenta Lopez, 1945. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 33pp, 58 plates in blackand white and in color. Text in Spanish. Tan boards, gilt letterimg and decoration. Chipping to spine. Text and plates mainly clean, last plate has 3 very small abrasions, slight internal separation, all pages and plates holding. Slipcase is worn at corners and lightly soiled. Laid-in is Imprenta Lopez business card of José M. Lopez Soto. Slight paperclip impression on front free endpaper. Good.

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Book number: 003366

Catalogue: Poetry, Art

Keywords: Paintings Masters

Allen, Gay Wilson and Davis, Charles T.

Walt Whitman's Poems

New York, New York University Press, 1955. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 280 pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Cover is clean and sound, contents mildly toned. Dust jacket has light wear and a 1/2 inch chip at top of spine. Critical analysis of Whitman's poems. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003152

Catalogue: Poetry

Bellamy, Daniel The Elder

Ethic Amusements

London, D. Bellamy, 1770. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Shana Valeska . Green calf, gilt borders, 5 raised bands, gilt bordered spine panels and gilt lettering, al edges gilt, gilt tooling to interior edges, numerous vignette engraviings throughout. Front board is detached but present, wear to edges and spine, contents lightly age-toned, some light spotting to a few margins, slight waviness to some pages. Text block is tight, and interior is attractive and in basically sound condition; just needs front board to be re-attached. Fair.

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Book number: 004213

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Poetry

Keywords: Tales Fables

Blanding, Don

Pilot Bails Out

New York, Dodd Mead & Company, 1943. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Don Blanding. Signed by Author(s). 85pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Book is in clean, unworn condition. Boldly INSCRIBED to Suzie AND SIGNED on the front free endpaper. Laid-in is a typed letter SIGNED "Don", in pencil, to Susie [sic]. In the letter he enthusiastically discusses the promotion of his book. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed along edges and folds and slightly darkened. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002789

Catalogue: Poetry, Signed, Humor

Keywords: "World War I" "World War II" Verse

Browning, Robert

Lyrics, Idyls, and Romances from the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed By Editor. 187pp. Green and white cloth, gilt spine lettering, ilt. Corners lightly rubbed, spine darkened, light soil to boards, contents clean, binding sound. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Horace E. Scudder on title page. Inscription reads: "Chosen and ordered by Horace E. Scudder." Scudder was a writer and also the editor for Houghton, Mifflin's Riverside Literature Series. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003834

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Idylls Scudder Verses Poems

Browning, Robert

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Atlantic Ocean, Privately Printed, 1945. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Greer Allen. Unpaginated, Blue cloth. One of 48 copies printed with Cloister Types. Title page reads : "Printed in the Atlantic Ocean." 5 engravings by Greer Allen. Edges lightly rubbed, one inch abrasion to lower front cover, remnants of label removed from front pastedown, text is clean and unmarked. Good.

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Book number: 003134

Catalogue: Poetry, Illustrated

Keywords: "Donald Chalmers" "Paul Tarantino"

Robert Burns

Burns' Poems

Edinburgh, Andersons, 1922. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Hardcover. 256pp. Thistle Library. Red tartan cloth cover, miniature book measures 3 1/14 x 2 1/2 inches, al edges gilt, full page black illustrations, 250 pages of poems by Robert Burns. Slight fading to cover, gilt edges very bright, interior is clean and sound, binding is tight. Very Good.

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Book number: 004838

Catalogue: Poetry, Miniature

Keywords: Poetry "Robert Burns" "" Scotland "Thistle Library" Miniature

Burt, Struthers

War Songs

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 46pp. Pictorial red paper over boards. Darkening to endpapers, book otherwise very sound. Unclipped dust jacket is spine-faded, age-toned. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author of front free endpaper. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002404

Catalogue: Poetry, Music, Military

Keywords: Patriotism Ballads

Campbell, Thomas

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell Including Theodric

Philadelphia, Crissy & Markley, 1835. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Light spotting along edges, spine slio. 183pp+38pp notes+18pp ads. No date c1835. Full leather bound, black label w/ bright gilt lettering on spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard. Edges chipped, spine scuffed. Endpapers soiled, moderate foxing throughout, binding is tight and sound. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000020

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Leather