19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY WORKS OF ART. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 1974. Paper. 880 items listed. Catalog of sale #3699, November 1974. Included art nouveau and deco, Orientalia, European bronzes, decorations, tapestries, and furniture. Estimate list and final price list included. Very Good
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AMERICAN & BRITISH VERSE FROM THE YALE REVIEW. New Haven: Yale University Press 1920. Paper Boards. First Edition. 52 pp. Cover has two crests and lettering stamped in black ink. Covers are lightly soiled, aged and foxed. Cover edges are lightly rubbed. Spine, w/lettering stamped in black ink, is sunned and chipped at top and bottom. Corners are frayed to the boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Some aging to eps, otherwise text is near fine. Very Good+
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AMERICAN PRECEDENTS OF DECLARATIONS. Boston: Barnard B. Macanulty (Manning & Loring, Printers) 1802. Calf Binding. 345 pp. Subtitle, "Collected Chiefly from Manuscripts of Accomplished Pleaders; Digested and Arranged Under Distinct Titles and Divisions; and Adapted to the Most Modern Practice. With a Prefixed Digest of Rules and Cases Concerning Declarations." Tan leather binding is aged, soiled, shelf-worn and edge-worn. It appears as though spine was replaced long ago. Title is hand-written, in ink, on the spine. Bottom spine end is bumped, worn and has a few small worm-holes. Corners are bumped and frayed to the boards. Front paste-down is partially removed. Occasional pencil notations on ffep. Previous owner's name, in ink, at top of title page. There is a small, closed tear through the lower corner of pages 29-30. Interior is aged and foxed, but clean, crisp and tight. Good
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The Architectural Forum, January-February 1972: The World of Buckminster Fuller. New York, NY: The Architectural Forum 1972. Soft Cover. First Edition. The Architectural Forum, Vol. 136 No. 1. Scuffing to cover, clean and crisp within. Very Good / No Jacket
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AUTOMOBILE GREEN BOOK:OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK OF THE ALA: NEW ENGLAND STATES, CANADA AND TRUNK LINES WEST AND SOUTH - VOL. 1, 1925. Boston: Scarborough Motor Guide Company 1925. Green Cloth. 859 pp. "Golf Club Guide." A clean, lightly used copy. An amazingly complete tour guide for the traveler of the 20's: includes a general map showing the entire covered area plus mileage charts; index of cities and towns; ads for golf clubs, hotels and garages, historical sites; ferry schedules; a section on the recent highway number system; and more. Great period advertising. Very Good
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BIBLIOTHECA ANGLO-POETICA. London: Thomas Davison, for the Proprietors of the Collection 1815. Leather. First Edition. 481 pp., including Index. Subtitle, "Or, a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry; in the Possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical." Original full-leather covers have been attached to a new, brown cloth spine. Original leather title-block has been pasted onto the new spine. Blind-stamped, gilt lettering and rules on the title block are somewhat worn and faded. Title-block is missing the lower right-hand corner, but lettering is unaffected. Front and rear covers have matching blind-stamped, bright gilt rules and a gilt center medallion which reads, " Franc et Loyal." Portions of these rules are faded and/or worn. Covers themselves are somewhat aged, soiled, darkened and cracked. Spine ends and corners are bumped and worn. Corners are worn to the boards. Marbled eps match the marbled edges. The leather covers were attached to the new spine with crimson binding tape, which runs the length of the cover interiors. B/w frontis illustration of what appears to be three seated poets in the midst of a medieval poetry slam. Text is occasionally embellished with engraved decorative initial capital letters and portraits. Interior is very slighlty aged, but clean, crisp and tight. Very Good / No Jacket
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BYODO-IN: THE VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES, MEMORIAL PARK. Japan: Valley of the Temples Corporation 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition. Collection of 32 photographs, plus color frontispiece photograph of Amida in this beautifully designed book. Light stain on frontispiece tissue at lower left corner. Commemorates the replica of Japan's Byodo-In Temple constructed in Hawaii between the years of 1966 and 1968 by the Valley of the Temples Corporation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. Very Good / No Jacket
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Catalogue of the Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art 1908. Printed Wraps. Revised Edition. Heavy, brown card-like covers with fraying and losses at edges. Previous owner's name in colored pencil on first free end paper. Very Good / No Jacket
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CHEER: A BOOK OF POEMS. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. 1912. Paper. Presumed First. 63 pp. "Cheer" appears in bright gilt, raised script on the front cover. Beneath this, in dark green on a green background, is a drawing of a bird on a flowering branch. Spine edges are worn and there is an approx. 1" tear at bottom front hinge. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Original glassine wrapper is creased and approx. half of spine is missing. Presentation box in matching dark green paper is broken at corners and has a couple of tears at edges. Title block on box cover is faded and somewhat foxed. Title block on box end which reads, "Happy Days Series" and "Duchess Boards" is also faded. Dark green eps with deckled edges. Each page also has deckled edges and a flower and vine design, in orange, at header and footer. Interior is clean, bright and crisp. Near Fine / Fair
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Colonial Williamsburg: Official Guidebook and Map. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg 1955. Soft Cover. Revised Edition. Originally published in 1951. Clean, crisp copy of an early Williamsburg guidebook, includes one loose sheet alerting visitors to a new Visitors Center, fold out map in color tipped in at rear of book and as crisp and clear as the day it was published. Small tear at foredge of rear cover at midpoint. Near Fine / No Jacket
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THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. Armfield, Maxwell. London: Chatto & Windus 1921. Full-Leather. Stated Reprint. 326 pp., plus 11 full-page, color illustrations (including frontis). Subtitle, "As Translated Out of the Original Latin by Edward Bouverie Pusey, D.D. and Edited by Temple Scott with an Introduction by Alice Meynell." Beautiful Sangorski & Sutcliffe full-leather binding has mellowed with age. The spine, with five raised bands, is somewhat darkened and slightly cracked. The blind-stamped gilt rules on the spine are still bright, although worn in a few places. New, pasted-on, leather title block on spine. Upper and lower spine is rubbed, as well as the hinges. Upper front hinge is slightly cracked. Both covers have a blind-stamped, bright gilt border. Front cover also has the title blind-stamped in bright gilt. Covers are very slightly aged, soiled, scratched, shelf- and edge-worn. Corners are slightly bumped and rubbed. A.e.g. Bright and beautiful interior gilt fillets. Lovely marbled gilt eps. Full-page, full-color frontis illustration is separated from the illustrated title page by a protective tissue. The illustrations are lovely and imaginative. An exquisite book which appears to have been well-loved. Internally Near Fine
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