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The Daltons or Three Roads In Life by Charles Lever; Illustrated by Phiz. Complete in Two Volumes; Vol. I is 384 pages, Vol. II is 360 pages. London: Chapman & Hall, 1852. 3/4 red leather and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in six compartments with hubs and black labels. Rubbed at extremities, otherwise externally handsome. Foxing and toning throughout. The second plate in Vol. I at page 22 has a water stain in the upper right corner. Previous owner bookplates. 8 3/4" tall. - $200
The Deerslayer by J. Fenimore Cooper. First Edition; Volume One Only (Of Two Volumes). Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Hard cloth cover is stained with light water damage, and the interior pages have light foxing throughout. The spine is quite worn and illegible. 7 1/4" tall, 267 pages. - $175
A Defence Of The Christian Revelation by Gilbert West. London: Printed by Voluntary Subscription; In Order To Be Dispersed In His Majesty's Colonies And Islands In America, 1748. Bound in full calfskin with blind ruling on front and rear covers, raised hubs and six compartments on spine with no labels. Hinges are cracking; book lacks first flyleaf. 246 pages and one-page advertisement. 8" tall. - $400
The Delightful Diversion: The Whys And Wherefores of Book Collecting by Reginald Brewer; Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Bound in grey cloth with red ruling on cover and spine with gilt lettering on same. Original dust-wrapper with a chunk out of the rear panel, affecting the ad for MacMillan Books. Binding has light wear to extremities but a rub at the bottom of the spine has begun to fray slightly. Internally quite sound and clean with some toning on endpapers. 8 3/4" tall. - $85
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Doris And The Trolls by Richard Atwater; Illustrations by John Gee. Rand McNally & Company; New York, Chicago, San Francisco, copyright 1931. No dust-wrapper. Original light blue cloth with silver lettering; some wear to extremities and light soiling. Interior has some toning and foxing. 8 3/4" tall. - $125
Drafts On My Memory by Lord William Pitt Lennox. Complete In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Vol. I is 381 pages, Vol. II is 432 pages. Bound in 3/4 Morocco tall leather and pebbled tan cloth. Some wear to extremities. Spine has raised hubs and six compartments with gilt flowers in four of the six, with two labels on each as well. There is foxing to the endpapers but internally quite nice. Several pages have remained strangely unopened (uncut); ink stamp ownership inside each front cover. 8 5/8" tall. - $400
The Dramatic Writings Of Will. Shakspeare; London: John Bell, 1788. Many engravings throughout. Vol. I & II: Prolegomena to the Dramatic Writings; Vol. III - Vol. XX: The Dramatic Writings. Bound in full calf with gilt-decorated spines and two red labels on each. The spines have chipping to some tops and bottoms. Some hinges are cracked but still holding on. Extremities show wear but still have a nice shelf appearance. Interiors quite clean and tight with some toning and occasional foxing. Previous owner's bookplates and inked inscriptions inside front covers. Lacking 1st free flyleaves. 7 3/4" tall. - $950
Enchiridion, Seu Manuale Christianum. Novissima Editio. Legundi: Ex Typis Rusand, in vico Mercatorio, 1807. 5 1/4" tall. - $330
English Literature & Printing From The 15th To The 18th Century, Part I (A-L) and Part II (M-Z) in one volume. Catalog published by Maggs Brothers, London, 1928. Finely bound in 3/4 leather and marbled papers with raised hubs on spine with red and black labels. 9 5/8" tall. - $250
An Essay On Learning Of Contingent Remainders And Executory Devices by Charles Fearne. The Fourth Edition: Dublin, H. Watts & J. Rice , 1791. Period full calf binding with blind ornamental ruling on the front and rear covers; spine is blind-ruled with a red label. Interior is toned with an owner bookplate and also written in script on the first flyleaf. Overall, a very tight scarce book. 8 1/4" tall. - $475
Examples of Old Furniture, English and Foreign by Alfred Ernest Chancellor. London: B. T. Batsford, 1898. Folio red cloth with gilt lettering on cover, bumped and slightly tattered at top and bottom of spine; endpapers and 1/2 title pages foxed, otherwise a nice copy with forty plates. 15" tall. - $125
Forms Of Conveyancing by William Graydon. Volume One only. Harrisburgh (Pennsylvania): John Wyeth, 1810. Full original calf binding; blind-tooled front and back, spine has red and black labels. Foxed and toned throughout. 8 1/4" tall. - $100
From Bull Run To Chancellorsville by Newton Martin Curtis. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York And London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1906. First Edition; published and reprinted in August of 1906. 384 pages with three engraved portraits and a photogravure frontispiece. The binding is blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering and a red cross on the front cover. There are rubbed corners and edges with some chipping at the top of the spine; the interior is clean and sound. 9 1/4" tall. - $125
From Poet to Premier by Thomas R. Slicer, M.A. #93 of 1250. London, New York: The Grolier Society, 1909 (MCMIX). - $80
Furniture Of The Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse. The Macmillan Company: New York & London, 1902. 371 pages of text and two pages of advertisements. Original tan publisher's cloth binding with a handsome gilt-decorated and gilt-letter mirror frame in brown on the front cover, with additional gilt lettering on the spine. There is some light wear to the extremities and the spine ends are bumped with some wear. There is a rub mark next to the mirror frame on the front cover and a brown dot on the 'a' in 'Macmillan Company' on the spine. The interior is very lightly toned but quite clean and nice overall. 8 1/4" tall. - $75
Furstlich Rassauisches Neues Verbessertes Gesangbuch Zur Beforderung Der Offentlichen Und Hauslichen Erbauung. Weisbaden, Schellenbergschen Hofbuchdruckerei, ca. 1800. Full black leather binding, gilt-ruled front and back with gilt-tooling and blind-stamped decoration on front, back and spine; raised hubs and five compartments on spine with ownership or binder's name at bottom of spine: 'El. Hannkammer.' All fore-edges gilt; moire endpapers. 6 7/8" tall. - $125
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