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Bracebridge Hall
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Bracebridge Hall

by Irving, Washington

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BRACEBRIDGE HALL 1887 Macmillan & Co. By Washington Irving. Ralph Caldecott Illustrated Edition. First Edition Thus. Sequel to "Old Christmas". Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included if issued. 284 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/2. Bright gold gilt top-stain, titling and ornamentation. 1" Dark green end-papers. Summary: "Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire."
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[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.
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[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.

by Michael Birk, Tuttlingen Deutschland

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Tuttlingen, Germany: Michael Birk, [c. 1890s]. Quarto. Original limp cloth wrappers blocked in gilt, grey, black, and white, blue endpapers, blue top-stain. 15 double-sided leaves of chromolithographic, metallic-printed, and embossed designs, of which 6 are folding, engravings throughout the other 290 pages. Minor bumps at the corners. A superb, fresh copy in unused condition with many of the leaves unopened and still delicately adhering to each other at the edges. A superb, unused Art Nouveau chromolithographic catalogue issued by the German pharmaceutical and medical supply firm Michael Birk, probably in the 1890s. This remarkable, 320 page catalogue catalogue contains 15 double-sided plates of elaborate chromolithographic, metallic, and embossed designs for product labels, as well as another 290 pages advertising an incredible array of other products. The chromolithographic labels could be ordered in bulk to be used on bottles and jars filled in person by the pharmacist, and some could be… Read More
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The Queen Of Hearts
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The Queen Of Hearts

by Collins, Wilkie

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The Queen Of Hearts, 1859 Harper & Brothers, NY. First Edition. By Wilkie Collins. Complete in one volume. RARE. QUEENS QUORUM TITLE. Exlib. Marbled boards, beige cloth spine. Paper library tag on spine. 4 5/8 X 7 1/2. Moss green end-papers are intact at the hinge. 472 pages. Pages tanned. Some pages show some degree of water damage. Please see our photos.
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 4
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Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften Vol. 4: vom fruhen Mittelalter bis Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts nach gleichzeitigen Originalen

by Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck

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Volume 4 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs number 217-286 and 31 pages of explanation in German.Plates include suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, jewelry, combs, mirrors, tournaments, etc. from the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, but all chromolithographic plates clean and vivid, many handfinished in gold and silver.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.
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Costumes Historiques des XVI, XVII et XVIII Siecles Vol. 1
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Costumes Historiques des XVI, XVII et XVIII Siecles Vol. 1

by Georges Duplessis

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First volume only of this 2-volume set on European costumes from the 16th to 18th centuries. This volume dedicated to the 16th century. 75 fine hand-colored lithographs and 151 pages of explanatory text in French (some explanations mismatched with the plates).Exquisite costume plates of French, German, Italian, English nobles, courtiers, bourgeois, mercenaries, musicians and peasants of the 16th century, taken from contemporary paintings, manuscripts, tapestries and frescos.Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was a French art historian and curator of the Print Room of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was professor at the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs.Condition: Binding solid, interior mostly clean except for some spotting to text and tissue-guards.
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Bless Me, Ultima

by Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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25th Printing Thus
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Paperback
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Rudolfo Anaya. Bless Me, Ultima. TQS, Quinto Sol Publications, Inc. Berkeley, CA. Softcover. Copyright 1972, 25th Printing Thus, 1991 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. ABOUT RUDOLFO ANAYA: Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Altima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. We consider offers.
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Morris & Co.  [Sanderson Fabric Swatches]
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Morris & Co. [Sanderson Fabric Swatches]

by [William] Morris

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25 fabric designs with fabric description on back. Blue cloth binding; gilt particulars to spine and front. Blue and yellow hanger cord. Protective plastic cover. 12.5 x 17.5 in.
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The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose
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The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose

by Jessie Willcox Smith

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2nd Edition Thus
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Smith, Jessie Willcox: The Little Mother Goose (1918 Dodd, Mead & Company Stated 2nd Edition. Children's book. Nursery Tales. ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE WILCOX SMITH. Used. VG/ No DJ if issued. Black cloth. Gold Titling on spine is somewhat dimmed. Front Pastedown is complete and in nice condition. Twelve color plates (including frontis) . Oblong 8vo; 176 p.. Please see our photos. Rare/scarce. A clean, solid copy.
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks: Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings with Descriptions

by [William Alexander]

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Very good copy of William Alexander's translation of Octavian Dalvimart's depiction of the costumes of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. A complete set of these charming costume plates showing different ranks of courtiers and servants to the Sultan, enslaved women Sultanas, Odalisks and Eunuchs of the Seraglio or Harem, musicians and dancing girls of Constantinople, whirling dervishes, Spahi and Janissaries, officers and soldiers, Bedouin Arabs, Armenian, Tartar and Jewish men, etc.Title page, vi, and 120 unnumbered pages (60 hand-coloured engraved plates and 60 text pages).First published in 1802, and reissued by various publishers several times until the 1830s. [Some plates in this copy watermarked 1823.]Octavian Dalvimart or d'Alvimart was a French painter and engraver active in London. He travelled in the Ottoman Empire from 1796 to 1800, sketching people of Constantinople (Istanbul) and their costumes from life. The explanatory texts are based on works by Baron Francois de Tott, J.… Read More
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island

The Adventure of Wrangel Island

by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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First Edition
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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The Book of the Feet
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The Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes

by Joseph Sparkes Hall

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1st US
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Good copy of this rare book on the history of boots and shoes by the inventor of the Chelsea boot.With Illustrations of the Fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the Prevailing Style Throughout Europe During the Middle Ages Down to the Present Period.Joseph Sparkes Hall was shoemaker and bootmaker to Queen Victoria, the Queen Dowager and the Queen of the Belgians. He is also credited with the invention of the "patent elastic ankle boot" in 1837, now known as the Chelsea boot.Illustrated with four hand-colored plates and numerous figures in the text.A concise and fascinating history of the development of boots, shoes and footwear from ancient Egypt to the 1840s. First American edition after the second English edition, augmented with "a history of boots and shoes in the United States, showing the changes of fashion in this indispensable article of dress."Full leather binding with four raised bands, front and back hinges splitting, some slight toning to page edges and… Read More
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Gone With The Wind
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Gone With The Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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First Edition Thus
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Paperback
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

by Du Maurier, Daphne

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1937 Printing Thus
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Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes
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The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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Cheaper Edition
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The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus. published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. 320 pages. The RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper is not sunned at spine. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Books, Inc. Edition)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Books, Inc. Edition)

by Hugo, Victor

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First Edition Thus
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Hugo, Victor. Please excuse our group photo, but please see this item (in beige and red dust jacket) at bottom right. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
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