Miscellaneous Non-Children s Books

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1 12 Minerva Lane - Litchfield, CT Tel: (860) aol.com ORDERING: Orders are accepted by phone 7 days a week from 10am to 9pm EST. orders any time. All items subject to prior sale. PAYMENT METHODS: Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover, checks, money orders, and PayPal. (Credit Card orders require: billing address & security code on reverse of card) PAYMENT TERMS: Payment is due before book(s) ship. We will hold book(s) for payment for seven business days. Libraries and institutions may be billed. Connecticut residents, please add 6% sales tax. Trade discount: 20% reciprocal (checks/mo/cash) 15% (CC/Paypal). SHIPPING: Media Mail: $4.50 for 1st Book, $1.00 each additional book OR Priority Mail: $8.00 for 1 st book, $2.00 for each book after that, per order Insurance is extra, please request insurance when ordering. INTERNATIONAL orders will be shipped via Global Priority at cost. Please note: We will not falsify customs documents, so please do not ask. RETURNS: You may return any book for any reason as long as: 1) Prior notice by telephone is given within 3 days after receiving book, 2) Item is returned in condition in which is was received and is properly packed and insured for return trip, please use a traceable shipping method. Refunds will be issued for book price and original shipping once item has been safely returned and inspected. Miscellaneous Non-Children s Books 1. Architecture. Mitchell, Eugene (Auth). American Victoriana: Floor Plans and Renderings from the Gilded Age. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, Folio. Fine / Very Good. Hard cover in color illustrated dust jacket with creasing and a 4" closed tear to rear panel. Featuring plans, diagrams and articles illustrated in color and b&w from pages from Scientific American-Architects and Builders Edition focusing on Victorian design of homes. $ Art. Howat, John K. (Auth). Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, First Printing. Large 4to. Near Fine / Very Good. Orange cloth boards, a few smudges to endpaper else fine; color illustrated dust wrapper with rubbing at folds. Color and b&w reproductions of artwork by artists of the Hudson River School. Large heavy book, will require extra postage. $ Art. Sewell, Darrel (Organized by). Thomas Eakins. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale Univ Press, First Edition. Large Thick 4to. Near Fine / Fine. Blue cloth hard cover, a few marks at bottom edge of text block, else fine. Color pictorial dust wrapper. Exhibition catalog illustrated in color and b&w. Large heavy book will require extra postage. $45.00

2 4. Arts and Crafts Movement. Craftsman Vol 23, October-March New York: Craftsman Pub, Thick 4to. Periodical. Good. Five issues of The Craftsman bound together in brown buckram library binding, x-library with minimal markings, cloth stained and worn, a few signs of use internally but clean overall. Articles about architecture, arts, carpentry, gardening, etc... Includes an article about Arthur Rackham and one about Pamela Colman Smith. Large heavy volume, will require extra postage. $ Bryce, James. South America: Observations and Impressions. New York: Macmillan, Fourth Printing. Thick 8vo.. Near Fine / No Jacket. 611 pgs + 4 pgs of ads. Blue cloth with gilt spine titles, corners rubbed, small splits at spine ends. Color maps at rear of book. $ Bullard, F. Lauriston. Historic Summer Haunts from Newport to Portland. ill. Louis H. Ruyl. Boston: Little Brown and Company, First Edition. 8vo. Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, spine gilt dulled, spatter to spine, corners rubbed, marginal dampstain at top edge of pages. Illustrated with black and yellow plates. Collated complete with 21 plates. $ Cary, Elisabeth Luther. William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist. New York: Putnam, First Edition. Large 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. (1902, Published October 1902). Blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, wear to extremities, crack at half-title page, small tear to frontis tissue guard, marginal tear to one plate, gift inscription. Collated, complete. A biography of Morris with numerous illustrations. $ Comstock, Sarah. Old Roads from the Heart of New York. New York: Putnam, First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Maroon cloth pictorially stamped in white, black and gilt, top of spine spotted, rubbing to corners, sporadic foxing. Two fold-out maps at rear of book. $ Crossley, Fred H.. English Church Design AD, A Study. London: B T Batsford, Second Edition. 8vo. Good / Good. (1945, 1948). Red cloth titled in black, foxing to edge of text block and throughout heavier at beginning and end; color illustrated dust jacket is worn with foxing and damp stains to front panel. A study of church and cathedral design illustrated with drawings, plans and photographs. $25.00

3 10. Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home, A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. New York: Norton, First Printing. Large 8vo. Fine / Fine. Hard cover in pictorial dust jacket. A room by room tour of the Victorian houses including the use of technological advances of the day and the types of activities that would go on in each room. Illustrated in color and b&w with drawings, diagrams and photographs. $ Hubbard, Elbert. Litttle Journey to the Home of Robert Ingersoll. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, Reprint. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. (1902, 1930). Paper over boards with pastedown title label, light rubbing at corners and spine ends; dust wrapper with tiny chips at spine ends. Color designs and initials throughout. $ Hubbard, Elbert (as Fra Elbertus). Motto Book. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, Later Edition. 8vo. Fine Bound in limp suede with moire silk lining. An unusually well-preserved copy. $ Hudson River. Mack, Arthur C. (Auth). Palisades of the Hudson: Their Formation, Tradition, Romance, Historical Associations, Natural Wonders and Preservation. Edgewater, NJ: Palisade Press, vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Red paper over boards with red cloth spine, b&w pastedown, boards faded and rubbed, edges and corners rubbed, fold-out map with creases. $ Hudson River. Lewis, Tom (Auth). Hudson, a History (Signed By Author). New Haven: Yale University Press, Fourth Printing. 8vo. Signed by Author. Fine / Fine. Hard cover in dust jacket. Signed by author and dated $ Hume, David. History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 Vols I-IV and VI-X. London: Printed for R. Scholey, Mixed Edition. Large 8vo. Very Good of 10 volumes (lacks Vol. V) bound in brown leather with gilt designs and titling, light overall external wear, sporadic foxing internally. Heavy set, will require extra postage. $300.00

4 16. Jewitt, Llewellynn, FSA and Hall, S. C. FSA. Stately Homes of England, Complete in Two Series. New York: R. Worthington, Later Edition. Thick 8vo. Good / No Jacket. Circa 1880s. Brown cloth over beveled boards, titled and designed in gilt and black ink, edges rubbed, spine ends worn, foxing throughout. Illustrated with 380 engravings on wood. $ Kahlo, Frida (Sub); Souter, Gerry (Auth). Frida Kahlo: Beneath the Mirror. New York: Metro Books, Reprint, 3rd Impression. Large Square 4to. Fine / Fine. Glossy pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. Biographical text with color reproductions of Kahlo's work throughout. Large heavy book, will require extra shipping. $ Knight, Charles R. (Ed.). Half Hours with the Best Authors in Two Volumes, A New edition with Steel Portraits. London: Frederick Warne, 8vo. Good Marbled edges. Two volumes uniformly bound in tan leather with gilt insignia of Albert Memorial College on front cover, given as a prize for completion of Cambridge Local Examination Shelf wear, spine rubbed and cracking, fading to boards, foxing to first and last few pages, which does affect the frontis portraits. 624 pgs & 628 pgs. $ Lacey, Robert. Queen Mother (Inscribed By Author). Boston: Little Brown and Company, First American Edition. 4to. Signed by Author. Near Fine / Fine. 1/4 cloth hard cover, light dust soil to top edge; illustrated dust jacket. Biography with many photographs, some by famed photographers, in color and b&w. This copy is inscribed by the author. $ Loesser, Frank. Edited By Robert Kimball and Steve Nelson. Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser. New York: Knopf, Stated First Edition. Large Square 4to. Fine / Fine. Hard cover in dust jacket. One of the most prolific American lyricists who contributed to both American popular music, film and Broadway (Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business). Large, heavy book may require extra postage. $ Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a Time. New York: Viking, First Printing. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Hard cover in dust jacket. The personal account of Greg Mortenson, nursed back to health by a village in Pakistan after becoming lost on an exhibition to climb K2. He vowed to return to the village and build a school for them. The success of the book helped bring The Central Asia Institute, a charity he founded, into public awareness. Unfortunately, Mortenson and the CAI became embroiled in scandal, calling into question the truth of his story and the true nature of his philanthropic work. $ Muir, Richard. Villages of England. New York: Thames and Hudson, First American Edition. Large 8vo. Fine / Fine. Hard cover in color dust jacket. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs. $25.00

5 23. Murphy, Thomas D.. British Highways and Byways From a Motor Car: Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland. Boston: L C Page, First Edition. 8vo. Good / No Jacket. Green cloth pictorially stamped in cream, black and gilt, spine ends worn and frayed, corners rubbed, sporadic foxing, crack at FFEP, name on bookplate scratched out and ownership stamped rubbed out, newspaper clipped pinned to endpaper. Complete with 16 color plates with tissue guards and 32 duograves from photographs, two maps affixed to rear endpapers. $ New England. Mallary, Peter T. (Auth). New England Churches and Meetinghouses. ill. Tim Imrie (Photographer). New York: Vendome Press, First Edition. Thick 4to. Fine / Near Fine. Black cloth in color illustrated dust jacket, some scuffing to dust jacket. Color and b&w photographs of churches across New England. Nice coffee table book. $ Newman, Arnold (Photographer). Great British, The. Boston: New York Graphic Society, First American Edition. 4to. Very Good / Good. Red cloth hard cover, 1" tear at gutter of endpaper; dust jacket age-toned, gently worn, slightly faded, price-clipped. A collection of photographs of powerful figures of Great Britain. $ Poetry. Collier, J. Payne Esq, FSA. History of English Dramatic Poetry To the Time of Shakespeare and Annals Of the Stage to the Restoration (3 vols). London: John Murray, vo. Very Good TEG. Uniformly bound in full leather ruled in gilt with decorative gilt stamping to spine, raised bands, title and date labels; fading and rubbing to spines, one volume with fading to rear cover, light shelf wear, text clean overall. Bound by Ramage. 454 pgs, 488 pgs and 508 pgs respectively. $ Priestley, J. B.. English, The. New York: Viking, First American Edition. Large 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Red cloth with some edge rubbing; color illustrated dust jacket slightly scuffed, price-clipped. Priestley tackles what it means to be English and how that idea has evolved over centuries. Illustrated in color and b&w. $ Ryder, John. Suite of Fleurons, or A Preliminary Enquiry into the History and Combinable natures of certain printers' flowers. London: Phoenix House, First Edition. 12mo. Very Good / Good. Parchment covers stamped in brick-red and black, foxing to endpapers, mild soil to bottom edge; tissue dust wrapper with small losses and foxing. A study of the history of fleurons with examples from various printers and eras on nearly every page. $125.00

6 29. Scott, Marion dupont (as Told to Strine, Gerald). Montpelier: The Recollections of Marion dupont Scott (Deluxe Leather Limited Edition). New York: Charles Scribners Sons, First Limited Edition. Oblong Folio. Full Leather. Fine Bound in full leather with gilt spine titles and embossed design on front cover, #286 of an edition of 500. Housed in 1/4 leather and buckram clam shell box with a pastedown label depicting a jockey uniform. Large, heavy book; it will require extra postage. $ Sergeant, Lewis. John Wyclif, Last of the Schoolmen and First of the English Reformers. New York / London: Putnam, Early Edition. 8vo. Full Leather. Good / No Jacket. Bound in green morocco, covers ruled in gilt, Whitgift Middle School insignia tooled on front cover, boards stained, rubbing at folts and edges, foxing to first and last few pages. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Given as a prize in $ Singleton, Esther (Editor). Switzerland As Described By Great Writers. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, rubbing to extremities, spine gilt starting to flake. 42 b&w photos. $ Singleton, Esther (Editor). Florence As Described By Great Writers. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, rubbing to extremities, top corner slightly bumped, faint stain to front cover, internally clean and free of foxing. 42 b&w photos. $ Sproule, Anna and Pollard, Michael. Country House Guide: Family Homes in the Historic Houses Association. Topsfield, MA: Salem House, First American Edition. Large 8vo. Fine / Fine. Blue cloth hard cover in color illustrated dust jacket. A guide to the historic country homes of Great Britain which are open to the public but not owned by the National Trust $ Stickley (Sub.) With an introduction By Don Marek and Richard Weiderman Quaint Furniture Catalog: Stickley Brother Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Parchment, MI: Parchment Press, Oblong 4to. Near Fine Paper wraps with mild edge wear and small scrape to front cover. A reproduction of the 1912 Quaint Furniture catalog from the Stickley Bros. $35.00

7 35. Travel.. Guide to the Tower of London, or Sketches of The Tower of London. Fortress, A Prison and a Palace. London: J. Wheeler, mo. Good Illustrated paper cover, newer spine, losses at corners of cover. A guide to the Tower of London with a fold-out map and engravings throughout. $ Ulmann, Albert. New Yorkers, from Stuyvesant to Roosevelt. New York: Chaucer Head Book Shop, First Edition. 8vo. Signed by Author. Very Good / No Jacket. Black cloth decoratively titled in gilt, spine gilt dulled, edge rubbing. Internally clean. Inscribed by Ulmann on FFEP. $ Vornberger, Cal. Birds of Central Park. New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, First Printing. Large Square 4to. Fine / Fine. Pictorial boards in dust jacket. Pocket guide in pouch at end of book, unused. Illustrated with color photographs throughout. Large, heavy book will require extra shipping. $ Ward, Thomas Humphry (Ed). English Poets, Selections with Critical Introductions, 4 Vols (Complete). London: Macmillan, Mixed Edition. 8vo. Full Leather. Good Overall Editions of 1911 and 1912 (First was 1880). All bound in brown morocco, decorative gilt borders, Highgate School insignia tooled on front cover of each volume. Volume I: Chaucer to Donne with repairs to spine folds, edge rubbing; Volume II: Ben Jonson to Dryden with edge rubbing, bottom of spine torn, front cover detached (hanging on by one thread); Volume III: Addison to Blake, edge and corner wear, covers nearly detached; Volume IV: Wordsworth to Tennyson, repair to front cover, rear cover nearly detached. Will require extra shipping. $85.00