Album of Maine Central R. R. Scenery. Portland, ME: Chisholm Brothers Hard Cover. First Edition. Mid to late-19th Century railroad piece. Red leatherette covers with bold embossed border and titling, black cloth backstrip, bumping to corners and minor soiling. Accordion-fold design that highlights towns and depots along the Maine Central Railroad line. Guttter has split at rear pastedown, but overall in good condition. Good / No Jacket
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ALAN MAGEE: SELECTED WORKS 1981-1991. Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum 1991. Soft Cover. First Edition. Unpag. B/w & color ills. Catalog of exhibition at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME June 29 - August 18, 1991 in cooperation with James A. Michener Art Center, Doylstown, PA, August 25 - Nov. 11, 1991; and The Selby Glaaery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 12-Feb. 15, 1992. Glossy white wraps have Magee's "Spirit" center front. Gray lettering front and spine. Comprehensive coverage of the various styles of Alan Magee accompanies an interview with the artist. Clean and tight. Signed by Magee in black ink on title page. Fine / No Jacket Exhibition Catalog.
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Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending December 31, 1866. Augusta, ME: Stevens & Sayward 1867. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Leather spine and corners with marbled insets on cover boards, gold titling to spine. Previous owner's name in pencil on first free endpaper, as well as year in which the books was received, 1868. An important book for anyone doing research on Maine and its citizens involvement in the Civil War. Very Good / No Jacket
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Archive. Alan Magee: Monotypes. Magee, Alan. Rockland, Maine: Darkwood Press 2000. Soft Cover. First Edition. Unpag. B/w & color ills. Catalog of exhibition at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME June 29 - August 18, 1991 in cooperation with James A. Michener Art Center, Doylstown, PA, August 25 - Nov. 11, 1991; and The Selby Glaaery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 12-Feb. 15, 1992. Glossy white wraps have Magee's "Spirit" center front. Gray lettering front and spine. Comprehensive coverage of the various styles of Alan Magee accompanies an interview with the artist. Clean and tight. Signed by Magee in black ink on title page. Fine / No Jacket Exhibition Catalog.
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THE ART COLLECTION OF THE LATE MRS. JOHN E. ROVENSKY. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. 1957. Paper Boards. 313 pp. Covers have protective, glassine wrapper which is aged, cracked and torn. Covers likewise. Many b/w photos and several sepia tints, some w/protective tissues. Priced in ink. Elizabethan furniture, Jacobean furniture, Carolean oak furniture, paneled rooms, and art by Boucher, Watteau, Nattier, Del Sarto, Lawrence, Raeburn, and Romney were included. Very Good
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The Blue Book of the Hamptons 2008. Self Published 2008. Hard Cover. Blue cove with gilt lettering on front and spine. Pristine copy! Inside text is crisp and clean. Appears unread. Very Good / No Jacket
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But the Greatest of These is Carity. First Corinthians Thirteen: One to Thirteen. Volk, Kurt H. New York: Self Published 1946. Hard Cover. First Edition. Very nice limited edition book designed, decorated and embellished with pure gold by the illustrator/publisher. A faux vellum spine wraps to the front and rear cover boards approximately half-way across the board and stamped with a gold floral design. Book is set in Lydian Cursive and produced in a run of 500 copies, of which this is number 294 and signed by the illustrator/publisher. Fine / No Jacket Limited Edition.
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Chagall Discovered. New York, NY: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. 1988. Hard Cover. As. Jacket is crisp and clean, now in a protective mylar cover, no tears or losses. First 20 pages have water damage. Rest of book is excellent. Previous owner's stamp on first free end paper. Fair / Very Good
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The Comprehensive History of the Great Civil War from Bull Run to Appomatox. New York: World Manufacturing Co. 1885. Hard Cover. First Edition. Dark burgundy cloth covered boards with wear, scuffing, soiling to covers, pages have yellowed from age and quality of paper. Loose in boards, title page starting to tear at gutter but still intact. Good / No Jacket
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THE CONNOISSEUR: A MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. 1903. Hard Cover. First Edition. 4 bound issues, Vol. 6, Nos. 21-24 (May through Aug. 1903). 3/4 green leather with raised bands, no imprinting on spine. Near fine. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. In this issue: Old Marseilles Ware, Chippendale Furniture, Gainsborough's Portrait of a Lady, Alencon and Argentan lace, Holbein's Henry VIII, and much more. Fine / No Jacket
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COUNTRY LIFE JULY 5 - DEC. 27, 1902. London: Country Life 1902. Half Leather. First Edition. 856 pp. B/w ills. How the British gentleman's family (and animals) lived 100 years ago! Beautifully bound book has black leather spine and corners, raised bars on spine. Boards marbled in a lovely peacock pattern of blues and greens w/gilt. Gilt title & Vol. # 12 on spine. Leather is worn at corners and spine extremities. Ends of spine have a little erosion. Cover all over is scuffed and edgeworn, but still looks stately - as are its contents. Marbled eps match boards. Although eps are separated at front hinges, binding is tight. In this issue, there is a small ink p.o. on flyleaf. These beautiful magazines were published for the landed gentry of England, and feature articles on hunting, husbandry, fishing, gardens, horse racing, dogs, cattle, sheep and similar subjects. Each weekly issue has a cover photo of a beautiful woman, with or without her children. She is always identified by her husband's name, or her father's. Each issue also features a well-illustrated article on a country home and its gardens. Photography in these magazines is beautiful, and the reader has a full picture of life as it was lived then. Particularly interesting is the reader correspondence, which leans heavily to memories and observations. Houses featured in this six months include Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian; Barncluith, Hamilton; Biel, Prestonkirk; Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire; Tyninghame, Haddingtonshire; Drummond Castle, Perthshire; Omaston Manor, Derbyshire; Longleat, Warminster; Hewell Grange, Redditch; and others. Of note in these feature articles is the wide use of topiary gardens. Very Good
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DELINEATOR, MAY 1930. New York: The Butterick Publishing Company 1930. Paper Wraps. 136 pp. Front cover has an illustration of a beautiful young woman with blue eyes. The blue scarf tied around her hair, beneath her hat, matches the color of her eyes. Her crimson hat and dress match the hue of her lipstick. Rear cover is a full-page ad for Lux soap which states, in part, "Of the 521 important actresses in Hollywood, including all stars, 511 use Lux Toilet Soap . . ." Covers are slightly aged, soiled and slightly chipped along edges. Spine is missing approximately 1" from top edge. Majority of the contents consist of period advertising, fashions and interior decorating. Front section of the magazine is reserved for fiction by Louis Joseph Vance, Bernice Brown, John Galsworthy, Mildred Cram, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Coningsby Dawson, Anna Brand and Peggy Bacon. Interior is slightly aged and, occasionally, slightly damp stained. Very Good Periodical.
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DIALECTICS NO 5. A MARXIST LITERARY JOURNAL. New York: The Critics Group Paper Wraps. 32 pp. Nd, but copyrighted 1938. Red & yellow cover is lightly soiled but not worn. Contains "Party Organization and Party Literature" by V.I. Lenin; "James Joyce's 'Ulysses' " by R. Miller-Budnitskaya; and a bibliography of Soviet literature. Very Good
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