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A Gold Standard for Literature.
 [123347] (---) George W. Russell ("AE").
Norton, MA: Periwinkle Press, 1939. First Edition, thus. Limited edition of 200 copies printed by hand by Katherine Burton and Louise S.G. Perry of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. The binding is in Cockerell marble paper from Letchworth, England. Old name inked neatly inside, light corner rubbing else a fine crisp copy. Short essay by this poet, mystic and Irish literary renaissance figure who co-founded the Dublin Hermetic Society with W.B. Yeats as he borrows some of the assumptions of economics and applies them to literature. Reprinted from a section of A.E.'s "The Living Torch." $25
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 Notes on Old Gloucester County, Vol. 1. (Signed by author, Admiral Robert E. Peary and Soldier-Priest Patriot-Improver Paul Perigord)
[140482] (ADMIRAL PEARY - LIEUT. PAUL PERIGORD) Frank H. Stewart .
Camden: New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, 1917. 342 pages. First Edition. Complete unto itself with additional volumes serialized at a later point. Very good copy. Publisher's orig. cloth. Illustrated. Unopened, secretary of the Society's small embossed stamp to frontis. Signed by the author in ink. Autographed also by in pencil by Admiral Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, and Soldier-Priest Lieut. Paul Perigord. Annotated ink comment at bottom of page states the autographs were obtained 12/18/1917. Perigord was famous during World War One for his speaking engagements meant to stir up patriotic fervor. Likely, Peary was assisting him at a speaking engagement for this purpose when this book was signed by all three men. $75
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 Free Rum on the Congo and What it is Doing There.
[140393] (AFRICA - TEMPERANCE) William T. Hornaday .
Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, 1887. 145 pages. Second Edition. Original printed wraps. 6¾" x 4¾" Mild overall soil to covers which have small chips, old owner's name inked to top of front cover. A few pages with small edge-tears. A good copy of a fragile book. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937). Conservationist, naturalist, contributing author and successor to Seton's Boy Scouts "Handbook for Boys", Hornaday worked tirelessly to preserve American wildlife. He actively promoted the protection of the American bison, waterfowls and songbirds and Alaska's fur seals. At various points of his career, Hornaday was affiliated with the Smithsonian and was director of the New York Zoological Park. "In a career of almost six and a half decades, Hornaday made distinctive contributions to the professionalization of museum taxidermy and its procedures, to the organization and display practices of natural history museums, to the development of zoos with ecologically correct habitats, and to the preservation of North American wildlife.... Abstemious in his personal behavior, he authored [this book] in 1887 for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union a book against the sale of rum to African natives..." [ANB] Included with this book is a small leaflet entitled, "Women of the Lower Congo" by Berenice Royal. $45
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 The Good Companions.
[141722] (ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE) Alexander Woollcott.
New York: [The Morrill Press, Reprinted by Permission by Cosmopolitan Magazine], 1936. 20 pages. 5½ x 3¾ inches. Printed pale green wraps, stapled. Designed by noted typographer Frederic Warde, title page vignette, a few line drawings within by Baldridge. This copy with even sunning to upper wrap, upper wrap with faint glass circle mark, and tiny speckling; internally, the item in fine condition. An essay, in part, about the seeing eye school for the blind in Whippany, New Jersey, and dogs as guides for the blind. Not to be confused with the Morrill Press noted as privately printed, in boards. $50
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 Lights and Shadows of the Great Rebellion, or, The Hospital Nurse of Tennessee, A grand military drama of the Great Rebellion, in four acts and five grand tableaux.
[141231] (AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - DRAMAS) J.H. Dawson & B.G. Whittemore .
Clydem, Ohio: A.D. Ames, 1885. 12mo, 39, [1] pages. Orig. printed wraps. Mild soil, else a very good copy. No 194 in the Ames' series of standard and minor drama. This Civil War military play first made its debut in 1884 in Auburn, Nebraska. OCLC, [5] $35
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 [1816] A Short Biblical Catechism... [Printed Marbled Wrappers]
[140193] (AMERICAN PRINTING) Hervey Wilbur .
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1816. 48 pages. 7th Edition. Some loss to paper on spine; 1818 contemporary inscriptions inside covers. A very good example. [Shaw & Shoemaker 39821; 28614]. A common biblical catechism of the period, but unusual in being bound in printer's waste sheets: printed marbled wrappers with the front cover presenting the title page in simple ornamental border for "The Gentleman's Pocket Almanack; and Free-Mason's Vade Mecum for the Year of Our Lord, 1814" [Boston: Charles Williams, 1813?], and rear cover presenting an almanac page for the month of June. $200
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The Batsford Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia. Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk.
[28418] (ARCHAEOLOGY) David Alderton & John Booker .
London: B.T. Batsford, (1980). 192 pages. First Edition. ISBN: 0713422335. Hardbound. Very good with a price-clipped dust jacket in very good condition. Very mild evidence of light dampstaining to margins of first twenty or so pages. Profusely illustrated. $45
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 Berlin, 1900-1933: Architecture and Design.
[123463] (ARCHITECTURE - GERMANY) Tilmann Buddensieg.
New York [and] Berlin: Cooper-Hewitt Museum [and] Gebr. Mann, (1987). 187 pages. Softcover. A fine unread copy. Printed in both English and Germany. Well-illustrated with photos, color illustrations. How Berlin manifested its creative energy in architecture and design during this period is the subject of this publication. From the Foreword: “While American audiences are familiar with development of the Modern movement, the rich array of material presented [within] includes work not widely known outside Germany, such as the poetic unbuilt projects of the Expressionist architects.” $35
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Heart's Gate: Letters Between Marsden Hartley & Horace Traubel 1906-1915. Edited & Introduced by William Innes Homer.
[28425] (ART - LETTERS) Marsden Hartley & Horace Traubel .
Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982. 87 pages. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and and signed by the editor to a fellow professor. Illustrated. Near fine, almost as new. $25
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Oriental Calendar for 1921. A Year's Tour in the East. Presented with the compliments of ASIA, The American Magazine on the Orient. [Cover title]
[140751] (ASIA - EPHEMERA) [Asia the American Magazine on the Orient] .
[New York]: [American Asiatic Association], [n.d., ca. 1921]. [24] pages. Flip-up format calendar, stapled binding, paper covers. Near fine condition. Well-illustrated and designed, photos and drawings, promotional testimonials throughout. $25
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