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Book Description: 5 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in., 176 pp., illustrations are black & white "woodcut" style cuts. Maroon, textured paper-covered boards with titling in green on spine & device in green on front cover; color printed (unclipped) dustjacket. Dustjacket shows dusting, tanning, 3 in. chip out of the top edge of the back panel of dustjacket. Near fine/good. First published by Philosophical Library in 1949. Seller Inventory # ABE-216366365

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Book Description: 4 1/8" x 7", (64) pp., illustrated with drawings. Glossy, color pictorial paper covers. Covers & text paper show age-related tanning, rubbing to outer cover surface. Very good. Seller Inventory # ABE-244775362

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Book Description: 8 1/8" x 9 5/8", 96 pp., illustrated. Red cloth spine & sides with title gilt on spine and tan paper-covered boards; glossy color pictorial (unclipped) dustjacket designed by Mollie M. Torras. Dustjacket edges show light chipping, wear, 2" closed tear to back panel, lower edge of dustjacket. Fine/good. Seller Inventory # H-84

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Book Description: 8vo., 288pp. Brown cloth, title gilt on spine. Pictorial dustjacket with Leonard Baskin water color design. Embossed owner's stamp on titlepage. VG+/VG (dj. has minor edge wear). Seller Inventory # ABE-89140271

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Book Description: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4", 276pp., illustrated in color; 591 lots. Color pictorial paper covers. NF. Lacks prices realized slip. Seller Inventory # ABE-101499432

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Book Description: 8vo., 328pp., illustrated. Pictorial dj. Dj. edges show slight rubbing, tan spotting to book edges. VG/VG. Seller Inventory # ABE-108743596

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Book Description: 8vo., viii, 182pp. Green cloth with title gilt on spine. No dj. With printed Columbia UP slip with typed message: Compliments of Author, laid in. Minor edge wear to lower front cover edge, smoking. VG+/. Seller Inventory # ABE-147760918

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Book Description: (Columbia Essays on Modern Writers Series)First edition Sm. 8vo., 48pp., wrappers. VG++(slight discoloration to edges of wrappers). Seller Inventory # ABE-19444566

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Book Description: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 117 + pp., illustrated with Bill Thompson drawings. Glossy, Thompson pictorial paper covers with Timothy Savard photo of author on back cover. Fine (as new copy). Seller Inventory # BG-192

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Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", 512 pp., including bibliography & index; illustrated with black & white repros. of book titlepages, prints, etc. Dark brown cloth with titling gilt on spine; glossy, pictorial (unclipped) dustjacket. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down, some pencil underlining is present, light rubbing, scratches to outer surface of dustjacket. First published in 1973. Weight: 2 3/4 lbs. Seller Inventory # H-73

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Book Description: 6 3/8" x 9 1/2", 287 pp., illustrated with black & white repros. of prints, maps, photos, etc. Brown cloth with titling gilt on spine; glossy, color pictorial (unclipped) dustjacket designed by Colin Lewis. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down, scattered tan spotting to fore-edge, edges of book; fading to spine of dustjacker, edge wear to dustjacket corners. Very good/good. Seller Inventory # H-77

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Book Description: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2", 631 pp. Dark blue cloth with title gilt on spine; glossy, color pictorial (unclipped) dustjacket with reproduction of Henry Lamb's "The Artist's Wife" on front panel. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Very light rubbing to dustjacket, light edge wear to dustjacket. Fine/near fine. Seller Inventory # H-78

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Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 6 3/4" x 10 3/4", 240 pp. With 114 illustrations, 14 in color. Maroon cloth with titles gilt on spine & gilt device on front cover; glossy, (unclipped) color pictorial dustjacket with detail of Arthur Hughes' "April Love" on front panel. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Spine shows slight cocking; lower edges of dustjacket have absorbed some color from the top-edge purple staining being applied to the bottom edge of this copy. Some pencil underlining in text. Good/good. Seller Inventory # H-79

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Book Description: 7 1/2 in. x 10 in., 160 pp., illustrated with color and black & white photographs of exteriors. Orange cloth with titling in white on spine, maps on endpapers; glossy, color photo-pictorial (price-clipped) dustjacket, with view of Castle Howard on front panel. Former owner's bookplate on back of front endpaper, a few penciled checks on pages, lists of sites visited. Rubbing to dustjacket surface. Very good/very good. Seller Inventory # H-127

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Book Description: 8 3/4 in. x 12 in., 144 pp., illustrated in color and black & white. Glossy, color pictorial hardcovers; glossy (unclipped) dustjacket reproducing a portion of a Max Volkhart painting. Former owner's name in (removable) pencil on front endpaper. Dustjacket shows light fading, slight edge wear, rubbing to surface. Near fine/very good. This is the 1988 UK reprint of the book originally published by Hamlyn (UK), in 1978. Seller Inventory # H-141

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Book Description: 6 x 8 3/4", 382 lots; English Books: 1-168; Spanish & Portuguese & relating to: 168-260; Continental including Bibles: 261-382. Printed tan paper covers, stapled, Fine. Lacks prices realized slip, has estimates bound in. Seller Inventory # ABE-64508706

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Book Description: 6 x 9", 50pp., 196 items offered + references cited. Printed pictorial white textured paper card covers with repro. of engraving of Milton on front cover, stapled, a page corner or two creased. NF. Excellent recent catalogue devoted to Milton. Seller Inventory # ABE-79394612

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Book Description: 6 x 9", 104pp., 446 items. Gray glossy paper card covers with title, design printed on front cover. NF. Excellent recent catalogue on this subject; good notes. Byron: #1-132; Keats: 204-257; Lamb: 258-293; P.B. Shelley: 318-394; Wordsworth: 409-430. Seller Inventory # ABE-91183002

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Book Description: Tall 8vo., 371pp., b & w photos & other types of ills. Tan cloth, with titles in brown, design of furniture in black on front cover. Printed tan dj. with similar design. (Top of dj. shows dampstaining, edge tears or wear, fading to dj. spine. Slight damp to front upper cover corner area & top edges of prelims., frontispiece, titlepage, former owner's name in ink on fep.). VG/G. Weight: 3 lbs. Later impression of a famous title; faults not as bad as they sound. Seller Inventory # ABE-94670558

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Book Description: 8vo., 194pp., diagrams. Black cloth with title gilt on spine; pictorial dj. with Anthony Burgess quote on front & photo of Burchfield on back panel. Dj.is price-clipped, edges show slight wear, dj. & book are tobacco- "smoked". VG+/G. "Burchfield's brilliant book on the English language is both scholarly and human. It is the best brief survey I have read of the development of English.it conveys an authentic sense of the great mystery of language. It instructs, but it also compels wonder." (Anthony Burgess). Seller Inventory # ABE-106724744

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Book Description: 8vo., 75pp., illustrated. Brown cloth with title gilt on spine; pictorial design dj. Dj. back panel shows dust stains, tanning, minor edge wear. NF/VG. "From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf was first published in the Spring 1951 issue of Furioso.". Seller Inventory # ABE-149367384

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Book Description: Quarto; 194pp., color illustrations; 402 lots, 1-147 are oriental carpets plus index of carpets & glossary of terms. Glossy, color pictorial paper card covers. With 2001 International Ceramics Fair insert. Minor scratches to back cover. NF. Seller Inventory # ABE-100484784

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Book Description: A folded, 16 x 21" printed broadside/chronological chart of English literature/authors/periods/dates, distributed by Macmillan for this projected series whic was to contain: Types of English Fiction by Hardin Craig & John W. Dodds; Poetry by Rudolf & Clara Marburg Kirk; Drama by John W. Ashton; Prose by Virgil B. Heltzel. Columns are printed with red lines against white & pink backgrounds with printed title, etc. on back. Has remainded folded & folds show some browning, slight wear. Scarce item. Books were published ca. 1940-41. Seller Inventory # ABE-144644118

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Book Description: Size of high-quality paper sheet: 9 ½ x 12 3/4 , size of image reproduced in gray tones: 2 1/4" x 3 3/4 . Features a reproduction of an engraving of a bust of the young Francis Bacon. Edges of sheet show a little, age-related tanning. Image is clean and suitable for framing. Scan shows the image and most of the sheet. Seller Inventory # ABE-211511279

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Book Description: Size of sheet: 10" x 13 3/4", size of printed image: 7 1/2" x 10 1/8", Rossetti drawing ("Sancta"?) finely reproduced in gray & tan tones. Might be part of a larger series of repros. of paintings & etchings, etc. Edges of sheet show slight age-tanning, image is clean & suitable for framing. Scan shows the image. Seller Inventory # ABE-225395722

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Book Description: Size of sheet: 9 1/2" x 13", size of printed image: 6" x 7 7/8", Rossetti painting (Sleep?) finely reproduced in sepia tones. Possibly removed from a book, or larger series of repros. of paintings & etchings. Edges of sheet show slight age-tanning, possible trimming to left-hand edge of sheet; image is clean & suitable for framing. Scan shows the image. Seller Inventory # ABE-225396864

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Book Description: 6 3/4" x 10", 1109 pp., illustrated with repros. of black & white photos, prints. Glossy color paper covers with Newell and Sorrell design, using a Winslow Homer (The New Novel) painting on the front cover. Former owner's bookplate on inner front cover. Near fine. (excepting the bookplate, an unused copy). Weight: 4 lbs. Seller Inventory # H-5

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Book Description: 7 3/4" x 10 1/4", 281 + pp. (index), illustrated with high quality reproductions of color and black & white photographs. Brown cloth with titles gilt on spine; glossy (unclipped) color photo-pictorial dustjacket designed by Gun Larson. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Lower front corner of cover shows a bump. Light edge wear, rubbing to dustjacket. Very good/very good. Weight: 3 lbs. Seller Inventory # H-74

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Book Description: Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4", 67pp. (includes index). Printed light green wrappers; wear to yapp edges, spine shows general wear, 2" chip to upper left front cover; text shows damp staining throughout. Overall, G. Engraved M. J. Rowe bookplate (1902) of Cleveland, Ohio based bibliographer & book collector Hugh Wallace Cathcart inserted (has paste & dark paper on top back edge). Famous 19th century reprints of 16th-17th century English literature & history (London: John Russell Smith, 1856-., 61 vols., 8vo.); all are bibliographically described here. Scarce item. Seller Inventory # ABE-42748405

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Book Description: (First or early editions of English and Foreign authors prior to 1800 Incunabula-15th and 16th Century books with woodcuts-illuminated manuscripts.). 8 1/2 x 5 3/8", 188pp., 1065 items, fine plates of titlepages, woodcuts, etc. & printed insert (colonial buyers). Printed gray wrappers, slight wear to spine ends, small spot to front cover, corners creased, VG+. Incunabula: # 943-1019. Scarce early 20th century catalogue, part 1 only. Seller Inventory # ABE-49422497

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