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Wein: Mansche k.u.k. Hof-Verlags- und Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1915. Leather Bound. x, 144p., telegram texts and other communiqués, presswork in a large font on alkaline paperstock, hardbound in half-morocco marbled boards gilt-titled and -ruled, nice raised bands, the leather is from a well-tanned hide in very good condition. Pastedown boasts an attractive small bookplate lettered in Cyrillic. The entire book is very good.

no city, CA: Wheeler of California, 1948. Pamphlet. 11p., softbound, a large (9.5x12 inches) pamphlet stapled into decorated wraps. Plates exhibit patterns appropriated for widths 3/4" to 2" (with rather little variation, it seems to us), quite edgeworn and dust-soiled with severe abrasion to spinefold and a penciled ownership. As is. Pedestrian, if classic, leaf, flower and acorn motifs. "These new and different design sheets employ detailed photographs that enable you to see the actual tool marks on the pattern... to tell at a glance what tools are used and how they are applied. The greatest aid to leatherworkers ever created, and the only patented design sheets in the leathercraft field.

Madrid: Dirección General de Agricultura, 1933. xii, 250p., government presswork on alkaline glazed paperstock, a few photoillustrations, morocco-bound hardcover with minor wear. Annual report on agricultural pests and diseases.

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1832. Hardcover. viii, 340p., small hardbound book in 7.2x4.5 inch boards, half-bound in cheap morocco over marbled boards, a re-bind of an earlier production; raised bands gilt with plain gilt titling. The textblock was trimmed, affecting an old sepia ownership signature to titlepage, but we see no other damage, and margins remain satisfactory. The leather elements (spine and corner-tips) are worn along extremities with little abrasion to marbling; the presumably substituted endsheets are a little dust-soiled but rather nice. A little saddle-soap, water-color and archival leather dressing would work wonders. Author a layman Protestant with no announced affiliation. He might have been influenced by Swedenborg.

London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1888. 136p., preface, in memoriam, bookplate of Francis Marion Crawford, inscription by the subject's sister, signed H. E. Galway , dated July 1888, untrimmed fore and bottom edges, top edge gilt, very good in rather warped original vellum and gilt, textblock also wavy. British poet, orator and unrequited suitor of Florence Nightingale. Inscribed to Crawford, a novelist who now is known mostly for a half-dozen short horror tales that appear in nearly every cheap anthology.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947. Hardcover. xviii, 246p., cloth-covered boards, spine gilt lettering darkened, boards frayed at corners, pages lightly toned, else good condition. No dj. Wertheim Fellowship publications.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Leather Bound. xxii, 499p., special message to First Edition Society members, introduction, note from the author, b&w illustrations, near-fine limited first illustrated leather edition thus in full-leather and gilt, all edges gilt, bookmark bound-in. Jones' final book and third in his War Trilogy (From Here to Eternity, Thin Red Line & Whistle) He died before finishing the final three chapters but left instructions and notes with Willie Morris who completed the novel.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1990. Leather Bound. xix, 567p., preface, frontis, list of characters, signed by the author at first blank, faux marbled endpapers, fine first signed edition in gray leather with raised bands, decorated in gilt, all three edges gilt and gold silk ribbon bookmark bound-in. The beginning of a planned trilogy but the author died a year after this book was published.

Boston: Printed and Published by J. Q. Adams, 1836. Leather Bound. Two volumes bound as one: frontis portrait tissue-guarded, lii, 408, 2 [light cardstock "Family Record" leaves], frontis (of family) with tissue, lii [repeated material], 416p., first edition recased in late 19thC red morocco gilt: a custom-bound production with pleasing spine titling, raised bands ruled and tooled gold, all edges fully gilded, sewn headbands, green endsheets overprinted gilt. Extremities are slightly abraded, a 3-inch split upper front joint, boards yawn somewhat. Within, textblock is quite sound; find original blanks faintly toned with flecks of soil, v.I foxing to portrait, occasional foxing in text, v.II frontis heavily foxed, some splashy foxing in text. A very good copy, pace the split, which in no way affects handling. Kneeland, an intimate with Robert Dale Owen and Frances Wright, was a frequent contributor to their Free Enquirer. In 1831 he moved to Boston and established The Boston Investigator, one of the… Leer más