No Work, No Bread!

London, S.W. Partridge & Co, 1894. Hardcover. 16mo. Blue decorated cloth over light card stock. viii, 64pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, decorations. Very good. Tight, attractive fourth edition of this moral tale, with a charming nonauthorial gift inscription on the front flyleaf: "Luther Berry / Sunday School Reward / Infant Boys Class / Holland / March 12th 1894." Interestingly, the text is followed by two poems ("Our Mission Field at Home" and "Our Duty") by FANNY CROSBY (1820-1915), the noted blind American hymn writer who supposedly composed about 6,000 hymns. A charming piece. .

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Book number: 17343

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Keywords: FANNY CROSBY Children's

Noll Guide to Trout Flies and How to Tie Them

New York, Davis-Delaney-Arrow, 1969. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Some toning to outer wrappers (only). Tight, nice copy of this often-reprinted handy guide -- with the ownership name/address inkstamp on inside front wrapper of, appropriately, a fish and game warden. .

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Book number: 35915

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The North American Review: October, 1857 (No. CLXXVII)

Boston, Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1857. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan printed wrappers. 16pp ads, iv, pp. 293-584pp. Very good. Mild wear and age toning to outer wrappers (only). Tight and attractive issue of the first literary magazine in the United States, founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist/publisher Nathan Hale. Contents include "Charlotte Bronte and the Bronte Novels," "The Dred Scott Case" by Benjamin C. Howard, reviews of new books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and many others. Entire text block is bright and lovely. Ownership signature at top of front wrapper of prominent Syracuse, New York attorney B.D. Noxen, presidential elector for William Henry Harrison in 1841. .

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Book number: 35751

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Keywords: Americana Literary Criticism

Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life

New York, Rudd & Carleton, 1857. Hardcover. Illustrations by Hoppin. 12mo. Red blind-embossed cloth. 68pp. Frontispiece, steel engravings. Good plus. Some foxing; ownership signature on half-title page. First edition of this satirical poem first published in Harper's Weekly concerning a Miss Flora M'Flimsey of Madison Square, one of the "Spoiled children of Fashion" who visits Paris to buy dozens of dresses, yet forever claims to have nothing to wear. .

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Book number: 1350

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Keywords: POETRY Poetry

Notice Des Tableaux Du Musee D'Amsterdam, Avec Fac=Simile Des Monogrammes

Amsterdam, Francois Buffa & Fils, 1864. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter calf with raised bands and gilt and brown decorated paper over boards. xv, 208pp. Numerous signature facsimiles, glazed marbled endpapers. Very good. Spine somewhat darkened, but gilt bright and attractive. Tight, handsome second edition of this art museum guide. .

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Book number: 18815

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Keywords: Art

Numismatic Issues of the Franklin Mint: 1972 Edition Covering Issues of the Year 1971

Franklin Center, PA, Frankin Mint Corporation, 1972. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue glazed wrappers. 303pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Slightly rubbed. Tight and attractive. .

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Book number: 7173

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

Numismatic Issues of the Franklin Mint: 1971 Edition Covering Issues of the Year 1970

Franklin Center, PA, Frankin Mint Corporation, 1971. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue glazed wrappers. 230pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive. .

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Book number: 7174

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

The Odyssey of an Optimist: Meyer W. Weisgal -- an Anthology by His Contemporaries

New York, Atheneum, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 268pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of mild jacket edgewear. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this festschrift to the Weizmann Institute of Science figure. .

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Book number: 25360

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Keywords: Science

The Official System of Contract Bridge: The Official Book on the Official System

Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, 1931. Small 8vo. Brown gilt-stamped suede, dust jacket. vi, 236pp. Line drawings. Pictorial front endsheet, text rear endsheet. Very good/good. Jacket well worn and with large paper loss at center of jacket spine -- overall attractive nonetheless. Tight, clean first edition. .

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Book number: 7322

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Keywords: Games

On Human Dimensions: Excerpts from Papers Presented May 20, 1975, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, College of Architecture and Art...

Chicago, College of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1976. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff brown and tan wrappers. 75pp. Illustrations. Very good. Mild wrapper wear. First edition of this collection of academic talks on design theory, with speakers including Studs Terkel, Barry Commoner and Margaret Burroughs. Tipped in is a printed transmittal letter from the college dean. Unusual. .

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Book number: 25546

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Keywords: Architecture

One, Two Buckle My Shoe from Mother Goose

Berkeley, Peacock Press, 1964. Paperback. 64mo. Stiff yellow wrappers, string tied. (Ca. 10pp, rectos only). Fine. Edition limited to 300 copies. .

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Book number: 11153

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Keywords: Children's

One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry

New York, Columbia University Press, 1944. Hardcover. Small 4to. Terra cotta and tan cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 649pp. Illustrations, tables, foldout chart.Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and edge chips (large at head and tail of spine), though complete and overall still attractive. A tight and nice first edition of this hefty centennial history, featuring contributions from the likes of Richard H. Shryock, Henry E. Sigerist, Winfred Overholser, Samuel W. Hamilton, John C. Whitehorn, Henry Alden Bunker, William Malamud, Albert Deutsch and other noteworthies. .

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Book number: 34010

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Keywords: Medical

Open Shelf, Cleveland Public Library: CIVIL War Centennial, 1861-1961

Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library, 1961. Paperback. Small 4to. White pictorial wrappers. 12pp. Illustrations. Very good. Numbers 1 and 2 (January-February 1961) of this bi-monthly publication of the this issue devoted entirely to the Civil War. .

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Book number: 679

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

Optimus Magister Bonus Liber: Published by Loyola University Press to Observe Its Fortieth Year and the Opening of Its New Office Building and Warehouse, and in Thoughtful Remembrance of the Recent Golden Jubilee in the Society of Jesus of the Reverend Austin G. Schmidt, S.J.

Chicago, Loyola University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy blind-lettered cloth with gilt lettering. 31pp. Small illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this slim tribute with quaintly archaic lengthy subtitle -- whose Latin title translates "A good book is the best teacher." Laid in is card of Loyola University Press's assistant director. Small inkstamp on front pastedown of Stanislaus Vincent Bona (1888-1967), bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin (1945-67). Unusual. .

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Book number: 46915

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Keywords: Religion Bibliography & Books About Books

Oriental Tales

London, Printed for Subscribers Only, 1901. Hardcover. Complete 15-volume set. Small 4to. Brown cloth with paper spine labels. xii, 395pp; 372pp; viii, 371pp; viii, 378pp; vii, 346pp; viii, 364pp; 335pp; viii, 355pp; 392pp; viii, 303pp; vii, 301pp; viii, 301pp; xxxi, 250pp; xxi, 297pp; vii, 297pp. Top edges gilt. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations. Very good. Bit of wear to spine labels; ex-private club, the ONLY marking being the Union League Club of Chicago bookplate (each bearing a small inkstamped deaccession) on each front pastedown. The "Luristan Edition," limited to 500 numbered sets (this #273). A tight, handsome set. The first 9 volumes are devoted to "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night" (edited by John Payne), volumes 10-12 to "Tales from the Arabic" (likewise edited by Payne), volume 13 to "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp and Other Stories" (also Payne), volume 14 to "Persian Letters" (edited by Montesquieu) and volume 15 to "A Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour" and "Tartarian Tales" (edited by Leonard C. Smithers). A superb set of this significant edition, tight and quite handsome. .

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Book number: 27143

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Keywords: BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT World Literature