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    Custer, General George A.:  My Life on the Plains.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1952. First Thus. Fine in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt text and decorations on the spine and front board and with the top edge of the text block gilt. The gilt text and decorations on the spine are bright, clean and without any tarnish. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. This is the 50th volume in the Lakeside Classics series. This copy is from the library of Milo Milton Quaife and tipped-in at the front of this copy is his calling card. The text of this book was originally published in serial forms in The Galaxy magazine in 1872. This reprinting provides an introduction by Edgar I. Stewart. An extremely nice, collectable copy.
    TB33558  $55.00



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    Dinesen, Isak:  Last Tales.  New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Very good+ in light gray cloth covered boards with gilt text and black decorations on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/16 by 5 3/8 inches with slight fading to the spine and to the outside edges of the boards and with foxing to the end sheets as a result of the glues used in binding. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with chipping around the extremes and the front panel separated from the spine area and taped back together with adhesive tape on the verso side. A collection of twelve short stories by the author of Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales. 341 pages of text.
    TB33566  $20.00



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    Elspeth [Elspeth Macduffie O'Halloran Bragdon]:  Young Man, Beware!.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First Edition. Very good+ in its original binding of green cloth covered boards with printed, paper labels on the spine and on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the cloth and paper label heavily on the spine heavily tanned and the edges around the boards faded. Without its issued dust jacket. This copy contains a unique collection of three manuscripts written and illustrated by the author. One poem written and illustrated by "Beith" on Christmas. A second poem of 15 lines written on a Bloomingdale Bros., Inc. letterhead. And, a third written on a folded note card containing small illustrations and two poems. A final typewritten and hand edited manuscript with the title "To A Facile Biographer" is on an extremely fragile, heavily tanned, paper now in multiple parts. 101 pages of text containing 75 poems in five sections. Elspeth Macduffie O'Halloran Bragdon(1898-1980) was a poet, a writer for The New Yorker and wrote many books for children.
    TB33579  $500.00



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    Elspeth [Elspeth Macduffie O'Halloran Bragdon]:  Strange Truth.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Very good+ in its original binding of blue cloth covered boards with printed, paper labels on the spine and on the front board. A 12mo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with the tanned cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn down to the edges of the text block and with the cloth worn through at the tips of the boards. Without its issued dust jacket. Signed by the author with the greeting "This is an "unbirthday" present | from Elspeth" on the first free end page. 104 pages of text
    TB33578  $75.00



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    Field, Eugene:  Poems of Childhood.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition. Very good in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated paper label on the front board and illustrated end sheets. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is slightly worn, but not fraying and the cloth is worn at the lower edge of the both boards. The gilt text on the spine almost not readable. The illustrated paper label is in remarkably near fine condition with no chipping or damage around its edges. There is a Christmas gift inscription at the upper fore corner of the first free end page and the signature of another prior owner. Without a dust jacket. 199 pages with nine illustrations (including the title page) by Maxfield Parrish. The end sheets show a remarkable illustration of the giant with his club riding a bright orange lobster ready to pound the boy with the sword.
    TB33563  $225.00



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    Foote, Allan D. and James Morrison, Joseph Robertaccio, and Alan Sterling:  Liberty March The Battle of Oriskany.  Utica, NY: North Country Books, (1998). First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 221 pages including an index, bibliography, end notes, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with maps, reproductions of contemporary works of art and images from drawings by David Yahnke.
    TB33555  $40.00



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    Gilpin, Laura:  The Pueblos A Camera Chronicle.  New York: Hastings House Publishers, (1941). First Edition. Near fine in light blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with a silver Native American symbol on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with minor rubbing and fading to the cloth at the ends of the spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1 and 1 1/2 inch deep chips to the ends of the spine area and small chips at the upper fore corners of the panels. 124 pages of text and illustrated throughout with two maps and images from black and white photographs.
    TB33560  $150.00



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    Hemingway, Ernest:  For Whom The Bell Tolls.  New York: Charles Scribner's, 1940. First Edition. Good in cloth covered boards with black text and decorations on the spine and with the author's facsimile signature on the front board. The spine is tanned and the boards are spotted and the end papers show the typical tanning at the hinge areas due to a reaction to the acid in the glue employed in binding. The first free end page has the remnants of a prior owner's book plate. 471 pages of text
    TB33576  $35.00



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    Lathem, Edward Connery (Editor):  The Poetry of Robert Frost.  New York: Holt, Rinehart And Winston, (1967). First Edition, First printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text on a black title block on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a tiny chip to the lower edge of the spine area. 607 pages including an index of first lines and titles. From the dust jacket" "All eleven of his books-complete" and "The long awaited comprehensive and authoritative edition".
    TB33568  $25.00



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    Manly, William L.:  Death Valley in '49.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1927. First thus. Fine in green cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge with a no rubbing or wear to the cloth at any of its areas. The gilt text on the spine and front board is bright and clean. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. With a tipped-in fold-out map preceding page 3. This copy if protected by a clear, Milar cover. First published in book form in 1894 under the title Death Valley in '49 The autobiography of a Pioneer. The 25th volume in the Lakeside Classic series issued in 1927 and the last to appear in a green cloth binding. A perfect copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33559  $100.00



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    Mayes, Fraces:  Under The Tuscan Sun At Home In Italy.  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1996). Seventh Printing. Fine in yellow cloth covered boards with red and yellow text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches. Laid-in at the front of the book is a brochure from the New Canaan Library regarding the appearance of Frances Mayes on March 19, 2006. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. 280 pages of text. An extremely handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33572  $75.00



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    Merrill, Boynton, Jr.:  Jefferson's Nephews A Frontier Tragedy.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, (1976). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in dark gray cloth covered boards with gilt text and black rules on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with small spots of foxing to the edges of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 462 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. The true story of murder on the western frontier of Kentucky in the early 1800's.
    TB33570  $25.00



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    Michener, James A.:  Centennial.  New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in decorated red-brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and a gilt decoration on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 5/8 inches with tiny spots of foxing to the lower edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. An extremely handsome and clean copy of one of Michener's finest books. 909 pages of text.
    TB33571  $75.00



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    Mill, John Stuart:  Principles Of Political Economy With Some Of Their Applications to Social Philosophy.  New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1904. Second Revised Edition. Both volumes of this two volume complete set are in near fine to fine condition in pebbled, brown cloth covered boards with black bands and gilt text on the spines with the black bands continuing on to the front boards, Both volumes are small octavos of 7 3/4 by 5 1/4 inches with the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines very slightly rubbed and with a prior owner's name in pencil on the first free end page of volume I. Volume I contains 616 pages including an appendix. Volume II contains 603 pages followed by four pages of ads by the publisher. A revision of the 1883 first edition.
    TB33575  $125.00



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    Mitchell, Margaret:  Gone With the Wind.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. 50th anniversary Facsimile Edition. Fine in gray cloth covered boards with dark blue text on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches with small spots of foxing showing up on the fore and lower edges of the text block. (Foxing is is a natural occurrence when the acid in paper is gradually oxidized when exposed to oxygen.) In a fine, unclipped (but no price) dust jacket A classic novel of the Civil War and the author's only book which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. 1037 pages of text.
    TB33567  $35.00




  • O'Henry [William Sydney Porter]:  Cabbages And Kings.  New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Fiction. Very good in its original decorated, black cloth covered boards with faded red text on the spine and with orange and green decorations on the front board with black text. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with a slight lean to the spine and a crack to the lower 3 inches of the front hinge what has been strengthened. Without a dust jacket. Signed and inscribed "To Eugene Wood | from OHenry | P.S. With regards and some adminiration" on the first free end page. 344 pages of text a collection of 18 short stories. The author's first book.
    TB33583  $1200.00



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    O'Neill, Eugene:  The Iceman Cometh.  New York: Random House, (1946). First Edition. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with a red title block on the spine and gilt text and a facsimile of the author's signature in gilt on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the end sheets tanned and the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn and rubbed as is the cloth over the tips of the boards. Without its issued dust jacket. 260 pages of script.
    TB33582  $20.00



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    Salisbury, Harrison E.:  American In Russia.  New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, (1955). First Edition. Very good+ in 1/4 gray and maroon cloth covered boards with a gilt title block and gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 5/8 inches with faint crease in the middle of the spine and wear to the heel of the spine. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with shallow chips at the ends of the spine area and wear and rubbing to the fold to the front flap. 328 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a two page map at the start of the text and a 16 page section of images from black and white photographs. The author, as a reporter for the New York Times, spent five years living and traveling through Russia and narrating what he saw and learned in the time between 1949 to 1954.
    TB33581  $30.00



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    Smith, Adam:  An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations.  Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press, 1880. Second Edition. Both volumes of this two volume, complete set, are in very good+ condition in their original red-brown, pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text and symbols stamped on their spines and blind embossed borders on the boards. Both are octavos of 8 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches with light foxing to the preliminaries. Volume I contains 423 pages of text with many un-opened pages. Volume II contains 594 pages including an index and many un-opened pages. Edited by James E. Thorold Rogers.
    TB33577  $125.00



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    Spring, Matthew H.:  With Zeal And With Bayonets Only The British Army On Campaign In North America, 1775-1783.  Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, (2008). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1.4 red cloth and red paper covered boards with bold silver text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 381 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with charts, tables, maps and images of uniforms from art work.
    TB33554  $65.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Forgotten Village.  New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Very near fine in off-white buckram cloth covered boards with green text on the spine and a green image of a farm laborer on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches what appears to be foxing in the gutters and very mild foxing to the cloth over the spine and foxing to the hinges all a result of a reaction with glues used in binding. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2 inch chip to the lower center of the spine area and shallow chipping to the ends of the spine area and two small chips to the lower edge of the front panel. 143 pages of text and images from photographs on each page.
    TB33561  $45.00



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    Stevenson, Robert Louis:  Treasure Island.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition Thus. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 7 inches with minor soiling to the front board and and with minor rubbing to the edges of the boards. There is what appears to be burn marks in the lower margins of pages 242 to 255. Without its very scarce dust jacket. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, map, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. A very clean and highly collectible copy of this beloved classic tale with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33472  $875.00



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    The :  The Reader's Digest Book of Christmas.  Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, (1973). First Edition. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A quarto of 10 3/4 by 8 3/8 inches. In a near fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front panel. 303 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color images from earlier works of art.
    TB33574  $25.00



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    Thoreau, Henry David:  Walden Or Life In The Woods.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 yellow cloth and printed paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches with a prior owner's date only of "May, 1967" at the upper fore corner of the first free end page and a a 5 cent US postage stamp with the image of Thoreau pasted to that same page. It is unfortunate that there are six lines underlined in ink on page 9.. The contents are otherwise fine. In a fine, clear acetate dust jacket. The book and its jacket are contained within a very good+, lined, paper covered slipcase with the printed title and publisher's name on the closed end. The slicase shows light minor separation of the joints on the opening end. One of only one thousand copies printed and sold. 355 pages of text. Illustrated with engravings throughout by Rudolph Ruzicka. With an introduction by Raymond Adams. An extremely handsome copy
    TB33565  $400.00



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    Various Authors:  Lakeside Classics from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Nurse and Spy In The Union Army - A Complete Unbroken set of the 118 volumes.  Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1903 to 2019. . The first 26 volumes (which includes the 1915 reprint of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin) of this complete set are in very good+ to near fine condition and are all bound in dark green cloth covered boards. None of the dark green volumes have prior owner's names or markings in them. The 25 volumes bound in red are all in at least very good+ condition or better and none of them have any prior ownership markings of any kind. All 25 volumes of the "blues" are in fine condition; although four of the years (1974-1977) have a prior owner's raised, embossed seal on the front end pages. All of the "browns" are in fine condition; however, two volumes (1978 and 1980) have a prior owner's raised, embossed seal on the front end pages; and, 1979 has the ghost of a removed book plate from the front paste down. The last seven volumes of the "browns" are still within the publisher's original shrink wrap. The final 25 volumes in the teal cloth binding are all fine and all are still contained in the publisher's shrink wrap. This is a remarkable collection as it is a complete run of the Classics and each of the volumes are in such attractive, collectible condition.
    TB33156  $11250.00



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    Winter, William:  Wanderers The Poems of William Witner.  New York: Macmillan and Company, 1892. New Edition. Very good+ in its original gray-green cloth covered boards with a paper label on the spine. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 5 inches with the fore and bottom edges of the text block deckled. The cloth on the spine is tanned and the paper label is rubbed so that some of the printing damaged, but still quite legible. One of only 250 copies printed of this edition on hand-made, laid and water marked-paper. 268 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author from an engraving. The is the large paper edition noted as Printing B in Bibliography of American Literature by Jacob Blanck. (BAL, 23096)
    TB33580  $50.00



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    WPA:  Connecticut A Guide to its Roads, Lore and People.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Very good in red cloth covered boards with the cloth on at the head and heel of the spine lightly worn and with the gilt text on the spine darkened. Missing its issued dust jacket. The rear end paper of the book has a pocket within which is the multi-color map of the state. 593 pages including an index, chronology and photographs.
    TB33569  $50.00






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