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Philadelpha: D. Humphreys for Young, Dobson, Carey and Rice, 1792. Second American edn. (after the one issued in NY the previous year). 8vo, pp. [iv], 5-256. Bound in modern diced calf with morocco label. Little toned and stained but a very good copy. PMM 239 for the London edition; Bristol B7946; Evans 24157; Todd 53gg. Burke supported the American Revolution and the quest for liberties it entailed, but he believed the French Revolution to be "one of the greatest calamities which has ever fallen upon mankind." He wrote this work to counter sympathy for the Revolution which prevailed in England at that time. Indeed, Mary Wollstonecraft answered this with her "Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790). as did Thomas Paine in his Rights of Man.

NY: Council on Books in Wartime. From the 1942 Houghton Miffllin edition. Horizontal 12mo, pp. 479. Paper wraps. Title partially loose, several leaves at back loose, cover soiled and somewhat worn. Good.

West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co, 1968. Limited edition. 8vo, pp. 203. Includes descriptive plates for the management and cleaning of the rifle musket, Model 1863. Foreword by Jean A. Bradnick. Frontis photo of a Civil War soldier. Black cloth, embossed with U.S. Army eagle; decorative "bullet hole" drilled through the cover and most of the leaves. Near fine, in somewhat tanned slipcase.

NY: Random House, 1931. First edition thus. Valenti Angelo. 4to, pp. 142. Of a total edition of 980 copies printed, this is number 600, printed in Hand-set Type Goudy Modern, on Van Gelderred and black at the Grabhorn Press. With a title-page illustration, 24 headpieces, and a tailpiece by Valenti Angelo at the Grabhorn Press. Bound in cloth-backed blue boards, a very good clean copy in chipped plain dust jacket. Grabhorn Bibliography # 154. "This was the first of a series of three books that the [Grabhorn] Press contracted to do for Random House during the year of 1931. The House of Seven Gables, a companion volume to The Scarlet Letter, was to be the second; and the Life of Cellini in an edition of four hundred copies was to be the third. Because of business conditions, however, only The Red Badge of Courage - because it had progressed too far to be abandoned - was completed.

NY: Heritage, 1944. Curry, John Steuart. Large 8vo, pp. xiii, 170. Illustrated by John Steuart Curry, introduction by Carl Van Doren. Patterned blue paper over boards; red cloth spine. Slightly faded on spine, owner's bookplate on pastedown, o/w a nice copy in little faded blue box.

NY: Heritage Club, 1938. Grant, Gordon. 4to, pp. not numbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant with 8 full color plates and many smaller drawings. Cover little scuffed, o/w a nice copy; no dj.

NY: Heritage Press, 1944. Heritage Editions Club. John Steuart Curry. Large 8vo, pp. 170. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. A nice copy in little faded box.

NY: Viking, 1945. First Illustrated edition. Wesley Dennis. Large 8vo, pp. 131. Colored illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Cover little soiled, o/w VG.Variant issue, printed by The Zeese-Wilkinson Company. This copy lacks the slipcase.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1890. Two volumes. Illustrated with 60 B&W photogravures of Florence. White cloth, with decorative stampings in red, black and gilt, teg. Rear hinges tender, o/w VG in somewhat faded red djs. An historical novel, set in Florence at the end of the 15th century.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1959. First and only edition, early issue with a tipped in dedication page. 8vo, pp. 248. A very good plus copy in dj (ragged at the top of the spine and lacking a very small piece where the cover meets the hinge. Scarce.

NY: Dutton, 1963. First edition, third printing. Schoenherr, John. 8vo, pp. 189. Illustrated by John Schoenherr. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Top edges spotted, o/w a nice copy in price-clipped and little chipped and soiled dj.

NY: Putnam, 1906. Second edition. 8vo, pp. 399 plus 4-page publisher s catalogue. Profusely illustrated including maps. Top edge gilt. Tan cloth binding, with three-color design on cover and canoe-design on spine, which has darkened. A very good plus copy.

London: Saunders and Otley NY: Harper, 1838. First US edn. 8vo, pp. 276, 239. 2 volumes bound in one in later 3/4 calf, some light foxing, but a very good clean tight set. Not in Graff, Howes M-348; Robinson p. 144; Sabin 44941; Clark III, 205. Martineau (1802-76) is remembered as an essayist, educator and novelist. Her two books on her journey to the US are remarkable for her outspoken criticism of slavery and criticism of repressive chivalry. Robinson notes that Martineau's Society in America discusses the politics of her visit to America while this work discusses the mechanics of her travel, which took her the length of America: from Niagara to Texas, where she spent a good deal of time in the South. She mentions New Orleans, Charleston, SC, and Virginia before heading to Baltimore, Lexington (KY) and Cincinnati.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First printing. 8vo, pp. 512. A VG tight copy in chipped and browned dj. The author sums up his life and work.

NY: Vinking, 1945. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 131. With illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Pictorial endpapers. Tan cloth with paper Illustration on front, stamped in blue and gilt. Near fine.

NY: Random House, 1962. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 305. A VG copy in somewhat chipped and scuffed dj. Massey 193. A novel.

NY: Random House, 1962. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 305. A near fine copy in similar dj (thaty has a small closed tear at the top of the cover) Massey 193.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 512. A Vg tight copy in worn dj. The author sums up his life and work.

NY: Random House, 1962. Book Club edn. 8vo, pp. 305. A VG copy in little worn (torn at the foredge) scuffed dj. Massey 193. A novel.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1953. First English edition. 8vo, pp. 251. A VG tight copy in slightly chipped dj. A play.