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Hardcover. Schaeffer, Mead illustrated. (illustrator). 2nd printing. VG book, no DJ. Orig dark green cloth. 12 full p color plates. Gilt cover lettering. Extrems rubbed. Spine gilt slightly faded. Very Good book, no DJ. TEG. Bright & tight. FINE inside.

Hardcover. Condition: AS NEW book & DJ. 1st US edition. AS NEW book, AS NEW DJ(in Brodart). "AS NEW", "VERY FINE", "MINT", flawless, pristine. Author's 2nd book. 8vo, 208pp. DJ without even so much as a 1/100" closed tear, but about 1/4" of one flap corner has been turned.

Hardcover. illus by Bianco (illustrator). 1st edition. VG+ book, VG DJ. Chips out of middle of DJ panels. 1/2" chips in top corners. 4in tear in upper front. 8vo, 42pp. VG+ book, VG DJ(in Brodart). FINE inside. Bright book. Clean DJ.

Hardcover. Early edition. NEAR FINE book, VG D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED on half tp. Bright D/J, but: spine corners w tears to 1" long. 8vo, xx,338pp. NEAR FINE book, VG D/J. SIGNED.

Hardcover. 1st Am ed. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). 1st Am ed. Flawless book BUT: spine ends scuffed a bit. Tight binding. DJ bright & clean BUT: p/c, extrems with 1/8" wear chips, a 1" closed tear in front top edge. Book itself stays closed when stood on its spine. Read with care, if at all. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ. 1st Am ed. 8"x5", 303pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. AS NEW softcover. TP with inked 2014 date & owner's name below which: author's SIGNATURE. Spotless. 9"x6",299pp. On this occassion Ellington kissed Nixon twice on each cheek. This is in the book. What is not in the book ia the reason for the double kiss. Nixon had a reputation for being two faced and . Ellington kissed both sets. There is another Nixon/jazz story. Nixon & Louis Armstrong were returning from overseas on the same plane. Nixon, the story goes, told Armstrong he loved his playing and asked if he, Nixon, could help Armstrong in any way. Armstrong said he help him by carrying a little bag of his off the plane. So Nixon took it through customs. "it" held Armstrong's stash. AS NEW wraps. All corners perfectly square, no reader's crease.

Hardcover. MINT book and DJ. In publisher's original shrink wrap, hence no publication date or copyright info. Assumed a first???? NEW book & DJ. An unbeatable gift!

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). FINE text block. Rinehart logo on cp. Red tinted top edge. No aging, foxing, soiling, etc. Very Good book, GOOD DJ. DJ w $2.75 price, spine ends chipped aw.

Hardcover. Stephan illustratins. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book, FAIR DJ(in Brodart). FLAWLESS book BUT: sunned spine ends & 1/2" front cover top. AS NEW text block. 8vo x,196pp. Gifford Pinchot foreword. Many b/w headpieces, tailpieces and in text illustrations by Elmer A Stephan. Stated 1st edition. Odd DJ pricing, with $2.50 price on DJ front flap & $2.00 on rear flap. Very Good book, FAIR DJ. Worn DJ, top inch of DJ chipped away.

Hardcover. early REPRINT. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). Very nice covers, white lettered green cloth with pink, black & gray floral decorations. 8"x5",318pp. DJ reenforced internally with archival tissue. FINE inside BUT: inked name & lightly foxed pastedowns. No aging or other foxing. Tight. Book tends to stays closed when stood on spine. This is a good quality binding, not common in a Burt. 1898 Lippincott CP date BUT: this Burt edition published 1912 as DJ rear flap lists 8 other Burts, all first published in 1912. Very Good book, GOOD DJ. DJ fragile, with large spine end chips.

Hardcover. Low color illustrations. (illustrator). 1st edition. GOOD book. Tight. FINE inside. Loretta Low did 12 full page color plates and many b/w in text illus. 10"x7". 49pp. GOOD book, no DJ. 1st ed. Worn, scratched pictorial front cover.

Hardcover. 1st edition. FINE book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). $23 DJ price. DJ extrems & top edge scuffed, one 1/4" closed tear. 9"x6", 398pp. Book stays closed when stood on its spine. FINE book & DJ. Book has only one flaw, lower tips bumped a bit.

Hardcover. Ruskin drew 6 plates. (illustrator). early edition. NEAR FINE book. TEG. Early rebind in smooth calf with floral design on cover BUT: NO author/title lettering. 8vo, 204pp. Some minor rubbing of tips & raised ribs. Outer hinges showing a bit of creasing. Still a very nice rebind. Both boards and turn ins edge ruled in blind with a 2nd rule on upper board edge. Dating of book difficult as title page is 1882 but the very last page of book is dated 10th Aug, 1886. To furthur complicate, tp says "part VII" but the very next page states Vol II. There is no table of contents, list of illustrations or index. The six Ruskin plates are "IX Viola Canina fast sketch", "X Viola Canina details", "XI States of Adversity", "XII Mentha", "XIII Veronica Officinalis", "XIV Cotoneaster Spray seen in front" and "XV Cotoneaster Spray seen from the side". Chapter headings are: Chapter I Viola, II Pinguicula, III Veronica, IV Giulietta, V Brunella, VI Monacha, VII Science in her cells, VIII The Fourfold State & IX Salvia Silvarum. NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Spine w 6 raised ribs.E Vol 2 only.

Hardcover. tissue guarded frontis. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. Bevelled edges. Tight. Illus thruout text. Blanck 1st state, 1st printing. Extrems lightly worn. 7"x4.5", 129pp. Osgood initials (not Houghton at spine base). No p114 broken type. Book tends to stay closed when on its spine. All gilt still bright. Text quite nice, only an occasinal spot of foxing or soiling. Neatly pencilled owner name. Very Good book. 1st ed. Gilt lettered & decorated green cloth.

Hardcover. 1st Am ed. AS NEW book, FINE DJ(in Brodart). Flawless book front to back & top to bottom. DJ would be flawless BUT: two 1/10" wear chips. Immaculate book & DJ. All three text block edges AS NEW. ALSO: book stays closed when stood on its spine; so, read with care, if at all. DJ complete with $3.95 price. AS NEW book, FINE DJ. 1st Am ed. 8"x5", 303pp.

Hardcover. 15 tipped in color plates. (illustrator). VG book. Decorative front cover of elephants under a tent with author title illustrator letering part of the tent. Spine faded. FINE inside but for cracked inner front hinge & neatly inked owner's name on half title page and few pages with short margin tears. Patterned eps. Dulac's RUBAIYAT was first publ in London in 1909 with 20 tipped in color plates. Later printing in UK & US had a steady reduction in plates; from 20 to 15 to 10. This book has no date info on tp or cp. The 1920 date was tied to the plate numbering of 15. VERY GOOD book, no DJ. Bright, tight. Gilt lettered green cloth.

Hardcover. Rothenstein plates. (illustrator). 1st ltd ed. NEAR FINE book, FAIR-GOOD DJ. Tight. Book stays closed closed when stood on its spine. Of the 2000, 800 were for US. Very nice book in worn & sunned DJ. Top edge gilt. Half gren cloth, green paper boards. Author/title paper labels on front cover & spine. Book's four tips worn through to boards. Spine ends lightly scuffed. Other other deckled with lightest of browning. FINE interior. Book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. DJ extrems with 1/2" chips. Spine edges internally reenforced with archival repair tissue. NEAR FINE book, FAIR-GOOD DJ(in Brodart). 1st ltd ed of 2000.

Hardcover. 1st Am ed. FiNE book, GOOD DJ. tight. Extrems rubbed. Neatly ink lettered name on fep. DJ w 1" tears & 1/2" chips but is clean & bright. FINE book, GOOD(worn) DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed. Bright book & DJ.

Hardcover. Croome, Devereau engravings (illustrator). Early edition. VG book. Tight. With extra engraved title page. Rebound in blue cloth. Pencilled 1939 gift note. Light foxing throughout. With 640 engraving, many full page, by Croome, Devereau & others. Extreme fore edge of first few pages browned. Otherwise clean, in & out, including the three text block edges. Also, tight binding. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. VG book. Early ed. Modern blue cloth rebind. 9"x6". 916pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. FINE book, chipped DJ. Book has only 2 flaws: (1) Scuffed but not worn extrems. (2)1934-5 school award inside front cover. 10"x7", 468pp. Tight binding, book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. Text block top edge almost clean as new. DJ with many 1" chips, resulting in loss of top two letters on the spine. Old external scotch tape repairs on DJ spine. All DJ edges internally re-enforced with archival tissue. Internally book as new, likely no boy ever used this book. FINE book, chipped DJ(in Brodart). Tight. Bright DJ. 1st ed.