Responsible Citizenship: A Manual of Suggested Class Activities for Teachers Cooperating in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Observance, 1958

New York, Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1957. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 48pp. Single foldout illustration laid in. Fine. Probable sole edition. .

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Book number: 11036

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Rights of Children

Cambridge, Harvard Educational Review, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 391pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, tables. Very good/very good. First edition. Collection of scholarly essays on children's rights, including a notable contribution by Hillary Rodham (pre-Clinton). .

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Book number: 1305

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Keywords: ODDS & ENDS Odds & Ends

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine & Program

N.p. Circus Magazine, 1954. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed color pictorial wrappers. 76pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. Single small light crease at lower right corner of both front and rear wrappers, else clean, tight and attractive, with lovely Charles Baskerville front cover illustrations depicting a female bareback horse rider. Handsome 1954 edition, featuring an introduction by John Steinbeck and more by John Ringling North. An unusual Steinbeck item. .

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Book number: 7282

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Keywords: JOHN STEINBECK Film & Theater

Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine & Program: 1952 Edition

N.p. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Magazine, 1952. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pink glazed pictorial wrappers. 76pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Very good. Tight, clean, bright, attractive copy. .

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Book number: 7527

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Keywords: Film & Theater

Ritual for Local Camps: Royal Neighbors of America

Rock Island, IL, Royal Neighbors of America, 1951. Hardcover. 16mo. Green buckram. 133pp. Line drawings. Very good. Ownership signature/date on front pastedown. Tight, clean, handsome copy of this rule book for this nonprofit fraternal social organization, founded 1888. Odd and interesting. .

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Book number: 5457

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Keywords: Americana

River Road Recipes

Louisiana, The Junior League of Baton Rouge, 1978. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers with black plastic spiral binding. 262pp. Line drawings. Very good. Touch of soiling. Later -- much, MUCH later!! -- printing (48th), tight and decent. .

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Book number: 13045

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Keywords: Cooking

The Romance of Tristan & Iseult

New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Translation by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Illustrations by Serge Ivanoff. Small 4to. Quarter red morocco with gilt-stamped green paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. xvi, 172pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates. Fine/near fine. Handsome LEC production of the first title in their 29th series, an oft-translated medieval chivalric tale that exists in many versions from many countries. Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #835) signed by illustrator Ivanoff. Laid in is the publisher's printed announcement card. NEWMAN 316. .

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Book number: 49932

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Keywords: World Literature

The Romance of Violette

Toronto, Published for the Trade, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo.Black calf with gilt lettering. 74pp. Very good. Bit of age toning to preliminary leaves; large humorous bookplate on front pastedown. Tight and handsome of this well-known erotic tale first published in Brussels in 1883. Authorship is often attributed to Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Theophile Gautier and other, invariably French authors. Some suggest an obscure lady of Northern France, Mannoury d'Ectot, as the true author. Exceptionally bright and nice binding. .

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Book number: 34125

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Rosa, the Little Cousin from India

N.p. N.p. 1870. Paperback. 24mo. Tan decorative wrappers. 32pp. Several small steel engravings. Good plus. Delicate, with mild edgewear and a tad dusty. Touching full-page non-authorial gift inscription on verso of title page dated 15 September 1891 tells how "This book.. you must keep in memory of your cousin Annie; when she was about four years old it was given to her, take good care of it, as she was the only child of your loving Aunt Mattie." Patronizing tale about a 6-year-old Indian girl brought to England, meant to show how even those from the most distant colonies can become obediant Brits and god-fearing Christians. "Poor heathen people of India!" it concludes. "We should be sorry for them, and pray that God would send out his light and his truth to lead them to Jesus.." Unusual. .

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Book number: 13520

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Keywords: Children's

Roundabout Rhymes with Pictures

Cleveland, The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1931. Paperback. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and stiff color wrappers. (47pp). Line drawings. Very good. Discreet non-authorial gift inscription inside front wrapper, else quite tight, clean and attractive. Probable sole edition. A charming compilation of short children's poems, many anonymous, but including one by Edward Lear. .

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Book number: 3039

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Keywords: Children's

Rowdy Rhymes and Bibulous Ballads Gathered from Many Gay Minstrels

Mount Vernon, NY, The Peter Pauper Press, N.y. Hardcover. Newly illustrated by Henry R. Martin. 12mo. Red pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 60pp. Cartoons. Near fine/very good. Later printing. Collection of humorous ballads and verses. .

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Book number: 860

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Keywords: HUMOR Humor & Folklore

Roy Rogers -- Dale Evans Collectors Association: Winter 1988-89 (Volume V, No. 34)

Portsmouth, OH, Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Collectors Association, 1988. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. (14pp). Illustrations. Very good. Tight, nice copy of this fanzine issued "at least quarterly, and usually each two months," celebrating all things Roy and Dale. Laid in are subscription and annual collector's convention leaflets. .

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Book number: 34563

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Roy Rogers -- Dale Evans Collectors Association: Spring 1988 (Volume V, No. 30)

Portsmouth, OH, Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Collectors Association, 1988. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. (14pp). Illustrations. Very good. Tight, nice copy of this fanzine issued "at least quarterly, and usually each two months," celebrating all things Roy and Dale. Laid in are subscription and annual collector's convention leaflets. .

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Book number: 36859

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The Royal Kalendar: And Court and City Register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the Year 1828

London, Suttaby, Fox, & Suttaby, 1828. Hardcover. 16mo. Quarter burgundy calf with gilt spine lettering and raised bands and marbled paper over boards. viii, 408pp, 12pp. Very good. Faint binding edgewear at extremities; light even age toning to text block. Quite tight and exceptionally handsome copy of this annual compilation -- with a unique autograph twist: Inner flyleaf bears a presentation inscription in a fine, legible hand: "S.J. Cramer / from his Friend / Bush'd. C. Washington." (Below this, another 19th century hand saw fit to repeat this verbatim in thick, bolder ink.) Bushrod C. Washington (1790-1851) was President George Washington's great nephew and a Virginia justice of the peace, legislator and plantation owner. S.J. Cramer signs the title page small but bold, and several text pages bear neat margin notes in pencil in what appears to be his hand. Title continues: "Including a Correct LIST of the EIGHTH Imperial Parliament, summoned to meet for their First Session July 25, 1826.." And continues again: "Both Houses of Parliament, Officers of the State, Law, Revenue, and other Public Departments; Army and Navy; Ecclesiastical Establishments; Literary, Scientific, and Charitable, Institutions; Commercial Companies, &c." A most unusual copy. (NOTE: Bushrod C. Washington should not be confused with Bushrod Washington, 1762-1829, the nephew of George Washington who inherited Mount Vernon upon the first president's death in 1799 and who was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1798 at age 36, serving as associate justice until his death.). .

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Book number: 39362

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Royster's 1948 Almanac: Sixty-Third Year Edition

Norfolk, VA, F.S. Royster Guano Co, 1947. Paperback. Small 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. 48pp. Illustrations. Very good. Single-punch hole at upper left for handy outhouse hanging! Tight and attractive copy of this obscure modern almanac, with the usual charts, two-column format, etc. Given their use, these seldom survive in such nice condition. .

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Book number: 36545

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Keywords: Americana