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Weeden, William B. . THE MORALITY OF PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAWS AN ESSAY
Boston 1875 1st Roberts. Hardcover. 12mo., 223pp., original chartreuse cloth with gilt and black decoration. Good Plus, cover rubbed, hignes secure and text clean. no ownership marks. (a15936)
$45.00 Hewlett, Maurice . QUATTROCENTISTERIA (HOW SANDRO BOTTICELLI SAW SIMONETTA IN THE SPRING)
Portland 1908 -2nd Mosher. Narrow 16mo., 59pp. Green cloth with gilt. Near Fine. (a21045)
$30.00 Jacobs, Leo . SOCIAL THINKING SHACKLED
New York 1931 first edition Grafton. Hardcover. Octavo, 215pp., blue cloth. Near Fine, just faint foxing on fore-edges, no DJ. No ownership marks. (a30957)
$55.00 Gilchrist, Anne . MARY LAMB
Boston 1898 Roberts. 12mo., 336pp., hardcover. Good, about 12 pages in text have been punctured or torn with no loss of text. (a36531)
$35.00 du Bois, Elizabeth Hickman (translator) . PERVIGILIUM VENERIS A POETA LATINO INCOGNITO (THE VIGIL OF VENUS)
Woodstock (Vermont) 1911 1st Elm Tree Press. Copy No.16/125. Poem in Latin with English Translation. Tall 4to., 28pp., drawings by Dela P. Mussey, hardcover. **Signed by Elizabeth H. du Bois. Good, light soiling and light wear on boards. In removable protective clear glassine jacket. (a37252)
$100.00 Hamerton, Philip Gilbert . THE SAONE A SUMMER VOYAGE
Boston 1888 Roberts. 4to., 368pp., 148 illustrations by Joseph Pennell or the Author, 4 maps, light tan pictorial boards. All edges gilt. Near VG, some light corner and spine end wear, a few small spots on cover. (a37630)
$55.00 Flower, J. Howard and Walter John Coates . VASES OF VERSE AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERMONT SONNETS
Hartland 1931 1st Solitarian Press. 12mo., 16pp., wraps. Presentation copy to John Farrar (of Farrar publishing) signed by both Flower and Coates. Good, light wear. (a45539)
$45.00 Laporte, Laurent . SAILING ON THE NILE
Boston 1872 1st Roberts Bros. Translated from the French by Viginia Vaughan.Sm.8vo., 291pp., original hardcover. Good, new end papers. (a4681)
$49.00 Ewing, Juliana Horatia . THE STORY OF A SHORT LIFE
Boston 1887 Roberts Brothers. Sm.8vo., 130pp., illustrations by Gordon Browne, illustrated boards. Owner signed. Good, corners worn, spine rubbed with a few tiny chips. (a51252)
$35.00 Morris, William . HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART
Boston 1882 first american Roberts. Hardcover. Small octavo, 217pp., decorated bluegreen cloth with design in brown and lettering in gilt, no DJ. Lacks half title. Good, light wear. Hinges secure; no ownership marks. (a52323)
$35.00 Erving, Henry Wood . RANDOM NOTES ON COLONIAL FURNITURE A PAPER READ BEFORE THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1922 AND NOW REVISED (signed)
Hartford 1931. Privately printed for the author in unnumbered edition of only 200 copies at the Wayside Press in Topside, Massachusetts, on handmade Glaslan paper. Lg.8vo., 60pp.,photo illustrations, brown cloth spine with brown paper-covered boards, mounted paper spine label and fine brown marbled end papers. Errata slip laid in at. ***Inscribed and signed by Erving to All the Welchers, dated April 1932. Slight buckling from paperclilp on top margins of first few pages. Near Fine, in clear acetate cover. Excellent copy. (a53506)
$220.00 Pendleton, Louis . THE WEDDING GARMENT: A TALE OF THE LIFE TO COME
Boston 1894 Roberts Brothers. Sm.8vo., 246pp., original gilt decorated hardcover. VG, light rubbing, spine darkened, some soiling on cover, light stain on front fore-edge. (a59172)
$35.00 Prestage, Edgar (translator) . THE LETTERS OF A PORTUGUESE NUN (MARIANNA ALCOFORADO)
Portland 1940 Thomas B. Mosher. Limited to 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. 12mo., 54pp., title page in red and black, stiff wraps. VG, lightly soiled and lightly worn. (a61213)
$30.00 (juvenile) . THE CRUEL FATHER
Boston 1839. Sabbath School Society No 13. Cornhill. 24mo. (3 x 2 inches), 8pp.,illustrations, original but crudely-done string binding. printed wraps with illustration of beehive. Fair, very worn, all pages have half inch closed tear on edge. Rare. (a65040)
$35.00Coolidge, Susan . A FEW MORE VERSES
Boston 1890 (1889) Roberts. 16mo., 257pp., original illustrated green cloth hardcover. Owner bookplate. near VG, one signature has bolted a bit but is still securely bound in; overall light wear. (a65448)
$39.00 Laflin, Louis E Jr. . THE ANXIOUS BENCH OR LIFE AT A PREP. SCHOOL
Chicago 1929 Seymour and the Alderbrink Press. About a prep school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, near Trenton. Octavo, 337pp., decorative end papers, hardcover with mounted black spine label. VG, no DJ. (a67242)
$30.00 Hale, E. E. . WHAT CAREER? TEN PAPERS ON THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION AND THE USE OF TIME
Boston 1879 (1878 first edition.) Roberts Brothers. Small octavo, 271pp., original blue cloth hardcover. VG. (a67849)
$22.00 Ingelow, Jean . POEMS
Boston 1866 Author's Edition, Roberts. Hardcover. 12mo., 256pp., tan cloth hardcover. VG. (a69761)
$45.00 Molloy, J. L. . OUR AUTUMN HOLIDAY ON FRENCH RIVERS
Boston 1879 1st Amer Roberts Brothers. Hardcover. Small octavo, 319pp., original gilt decorated brown cloth. VG. (a70330)
$85.00 Moulton, Louise Chandler . LAZY TOURS IN SPAIN AND ELSEWHERE
Boston 1896 Roberts Brothers. Hardcover. Octavo, 377pp., gilt printed cloth. VG, light rubbing on edges and spine ends. (a70984)
$49.00 Crow, Martha Foote . THE MINISTRY OF A CHILD A BOOK OF VERSES
Chicago 1899 1st Wind-Tryst Press. Hardcover. 12mo., 94pp., cloth. VG, light cover soiling. (a71718)
$55.00 Noble, Alden Charles . SCOTT WHO WAS NINE, A TALE OF THE JOYOUS UNIVERSE
Chicago 1901 1st The Blue Sky Press. Copyright by Langworhty & Stevens. Hardcover. Copy No. 39/200 printed on Ruisdael handmade paper.12no., 23pp., attractive color illustration and lettering on front. Initialled by Langworthy. VG plus, slight spotting and browning of end papers. (a71739)
$130.00 Sainte-Beuvre, C. A. . MEMOIRS OF MADAME DESBORDES-VALMORE, WITH A SELECTION OF HER POEMS
Boston 1873 (1872) Roberts. Translated by Harriet W Preston. Hardcover. Octavo, 227pp., original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. VG, light wear to spine ends and corners. (a71863)
$55.00 Moulton, Louise Chandler . IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS: LYRICS AND SONNETS
Boston 1892 5th Roberts. Hardcover. 12mo., 170pp., small text illustrations, half pale green and half ivory cloth with full gilt thistle plant and lettering on ivory portion. Top edge gilt. Four-line long manuscript poem written by Moulton and signed by Moulton on front end paper. Owner bookplate (Alice Epes). VG, some light soiling and browning of cover. (a73003)
$145.00 Jones, Jesse H. . JOSHUA DAVIDSON CHRISTIAN THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF ONE WHO, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WAS LIKE UNTO CHRIST AS TOLD BY HIS BODY SERVANT, A PARABLE
NY 1907 1st Grafton. Edited by Halah H. Loud. Hardcover. Octavo, 308pp., frontis portrait, cloth. Signed by Halah Loud with a two paragraph ink inscription. Good, light cover wear, light cover soiling. (a74981)
$35.00 Mother; Father; C. Gasquoine Hartley; Wallace Rice . WOMEN AND MORALITY; MEN AND MORALS; THE SEXES AGAIN; INTRODUCTON
Chicago 1914 1st Laurentian. Three essays plus an introduction - all bound together. 12mo., 102pp., original wraps. Good plus. (a77318)
$45.00 Cumming, John Palmer . ME, - AN' WAR GOIN' ON
Boston 1921 1st Cornhill. Poetry. Hardcover. 12mo., 60pp., blue cloth. Good plus, light cover wear. Scarce, (a77334)
$75.00 Hyde, Fritz Carleton . CONCEPTS
1948 1st Privately Printed. Poetry. Designed by William Edwin Rudge and printed at Elm Tree Press in Woodstock, Vermont. Hardcover. Large octavo, 54pp., mounted frontis illustration of an oil painting by Hyde, cloth. VG. Scarce. (a79444)
$65.00French, Mary M. Billings. INDIAN CAPTIVE THE EXPERIENCES OF ZADOCK STEELE DESCRIBED IN THE NARRATIVE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
Woodstock 1934 1st Elm Tree Press. Hardcover. Octavo, 46pp., portrait of Zadock Steele, end paper maps, half dark brown cloth with reddish paper covered boards and small mounted printed white title label on front. VG plus, slight wear, no DJ. (a82683)
$38.00 Lewis, Elizabeth . YOU TAKE THE GLORY
Portland 1932 first edition Mosher Press. Hardcover. 12mo., 38p., cloth. Good plus, corner of cover worn off, no DJ. (a86489)
$29.00 Miller, Joaquin . SONGS OF THE MEXICAN SEAS
Boston 1887 first edition Roberts Brothers. Poetry. Hardcover. 12mo., 132p., 3/4 green cloth with red and brown marbled boards, mounted spine label. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Henry McLallen of Indiana. VG plus. (a88618)
$125.00Jackson, Helen (H H). RAMONA, A STORY
Boston 1893 Roberts. Hardcover. 12mo. 490p. plus "Ramona's Home: A Visit to the Camulos Ranch and to Scenes described by H.H." by Edwards Roberts (7p.) plus 13 pages of book reviews and ads. Nice original green floral end papers and hinges not cracked at all. Tan cloth cover with 3 bright gilt flowers on front panel. Black lettering on front board; gilt lettering on backstrip. Text very slightly and evenly toned. Binding secure. VG . Nice condition. Scarce early California. (a94990)
$125.00 Baehr, Edmund M. (1878-1933) . FRAGMENTS COLLECTED FROM HIS LETTERS AND HIS WRITINGS AND PRINTED PRIVATELY FOR HIS FRIENDS.
Cincinnati 1934 Byway Press. Baehr is described as a member of the faculty of the College of Medicine, amateur pianist and serious student of Beethoven. Octavo, 52pp., hardcover. Beautifully printed and bound. Inscribed presentation copy from Martin Pincher (?) (presented to William M. Millar ). Card of Pincher laid in. Fine. (m12)
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