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Beaux Arts Editions, 1995. 4to, pp. 374. Index. With more than 250 reproductions, over half in color. Blue paper over boards, stamped in gilt. Leaves slightly rippled at tops, o/w a nice copy in little scratched and wrinkled dj. Very heavy.

NY: Van Nostrand, 1961. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 211. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in chippped dj. The author was a professional boat yard owner, and has much good advice for the novice boat owner.

NY: Pagasus, 2015. First Pegasus edition. 8vo, pp 246. Memoir of the Pulitzer Prize winning book reviewer.

Boston: Four Seas, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 120. Author's signature and donor's presentation on flyleaf. Two reviews and a hand-made valentine laid in. Paper over boards, printed in blue, with blue cloth spine. VG. Poems.

Paris: Franklin, 1795. Second Impression of the first edition, labeled "Second Edition" but has the same errors in pagination as the first. 8vo, pp. [viii], 9-194 (ie. 192, pp. 153/154 non existant), frontis portrait of Carrier bound in on a stub, bound with the half-title in original sewn wraps, housed in a custom clam shell box. Untrimmed, some toning to the first half dozen leaves, a very nice clean copy. Martin & Walter I, 950; Lemiere 17. The "First Revolutionary Communist", French political agitator and revolutionary, Francois Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf (1760-1797) led the so called "Conspiracy of Equals" against the French Directory. This was the first violent attempt to install socialism in a country. The plot was denounced and a wave of arrests were made on May 10, 1796. A High Court of Justice was held in Vendome in October of 1796 and Babeuf was executed. In this tract, Babeuf condemns the policy of the Republican armies of Robespierre as genocidal against the rebellion in La Vendee. Jean… Read More

Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1964. First Edition. Thomas Cornell. 4to., full leather chemise laid in a cloth-covered clamshell box with a leather spine. (ii), 83, (5) pages in addition to 21 etched portraits printed on special paper and loosely inserted throughout the text. The paper is Nideggen made in Germany, and the pressman was Harold McGrath. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York and it was designed and produced by Leonard Baskin. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. This is called a "printer's copy", signed by Leonard Baskin. which contains twenty-one etched portraits signed by Thomas Cornell on blue Fabriano, enclosed in unbound, uncut signatures. Brook 36; Baskin 36. The "First Revolutionary Communist", French political agitator and revolutionary, Francois Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf (1760-1797) led the so called "Conspiracy of Equals" against the French Directory. This was the first violent attempt to install socialism in a country. The plot was… Read More

Paris: Guerin & Delatour, 1755. Nouvelle edition. 12mo, pp. viii, 352; viii, 340. Bound in full calf (rubbed and worn on the spine), a very good tight copy. Babin was canon, grand-vicar, and dean of the faculty of theology at Angers. This is one of his series on the Conference of the Diocese of Angers and concerns marriage as a sacrament and civil contract.

Salt Lake City UT: Gibbs Smith, 2000. First printing. 4to, pp. 152. Bibliography. Illustrated wtih many photographs. Near fine in dj. A remembrance of the bohemian years of New Mexico's artist colonies.

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 109. Notes. A nice copy in price-clipped and little chipped and soiled dj.

Ann Arbor MI: Edwards, 1947. Reprint. Large 4to, pp. xxii, 268. [Edwards music reprints Series A: Complete works and monumenta No. 1: Johann Sebastian Bach's werke.] Red cloth. Owner's name on title, stamp on pastedown; a number of neat notes in black ink. Foreword and librettos in German. Cover little scuffed and slightly worn at corners, a little insect damage, but only on edges of leaves, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY: Schirmer, 1939. 4to, pp. x, 76. With notes on the chorales. Edited by Charles N. Boyd and Albert Riemenschneider. Both open and close scores given. Tan cloth, stamped in black. Cover slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper, 1966. Stanley Clough. 12mo, pp. 62. paper over boards. Cover slightly bumped, o/w VG. Sayings from a great variety of sources.

NY: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. 8vo, pp. 321. Illustrated with photographs. A good, tight copy in somewhat stained and chipped dj. Macy, an American artist, established a school in Venice for the children of the poor.

8-1/2 X 11" letter folded in half, asking for support for the home, run under the direction of the Volunteers of America, located in Malden.The home was for children "whose fathers have deserted them and whose mothers are unable to support them.

NY: Macmillan, 1923. First edn. 8vo, PP. 201. A fine copy in chipped and worn dj. Signed by the author. An American newsman, Bacheller (1859-1950) is best remembered for his Eben Holden, the story of a young man in the mid 19th century, which sold over 1,000,000 copies.

NY: Dutton, 1996. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 466. Fine in dj. A horror novel.

NY: Basic Books, 1974. First edn. 8vo, pp. 308. Lacks the front flyleaf, o/w a good copy in dj. The rise of womanhood in 17th Century France.

NY: Basic Books, 1974. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 308. Fine in dj. Backer was chair of the French Dept. at Dickinson College. A portrait of the pr,cieuses of 17th century Francce. "Frivolous as they were, says the author ... [they] represented nothing less that a unified feminist attack against the madness and vulgarity of that world.

NY: Putnam, 1958. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 190. Illustrated. Presentation by the wife of the author on the flyleaf. VG in somewhat soiled, price-clipped cover.

Antwerp: Petrus Jouret, 1713. Reprint. 12mo, pp. 537 plus bladt-wyser. In Dutch. Contemporary calf. Cover somewhat worn, but interior bright; a VG tight copy. Sermons on Catholicism.