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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Later printing. Signed at half title by Cable with brief inscription and dated March 22, 1893. Octavo. 303 pp. + advertisements. Frontis with tissue guard. Maroon cloth stamped in orange. Ex-library copy though with no external markings. Light rubbing to boards and joints and spine mildly faded. Binding is sound. Forbes Library bookplate to front pastedown and perforation stamp to title page. This copy from the Clifford H. Lyman Autographed Collection of the Forbes Library (deaccessioned ca. 1999) and with his ownership inscription at front free endpaper. Inoffensive library marks in pencil to copyright page and rear pastedown and interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. Later Printing. Octavo; 288pp. Illustrated dust jacket with 16s. net price intact; boards in brown cloth with silver lettering. Jacket shelfworn with some creasing along edges of front panel, smudging to rear, and toning to verso. Boards square with light bumping at corners and spine ends. Contemporary Christmas ownership inscription on front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.

New York: Times Books / Random House, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Times Books / Random House, 1995. First Edition with numberline to 2 (in keeping with publisher's methods at the time). Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xi,[1],130pp. Light shelf wear, jacket rather dust-soiled, front flap creased, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by former President Jimmy Carter and dated Feb. 4, 1995, to front free endpaper.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Very Good. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Octavo. 119 pp. Black and white illustrations including frontispiece, complete. Patterned green cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns. Boards lightly worn at extremities, spine ends mildly nudged and corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. Crease to front free endpaper; some very light smudging to and pages unmarked. Very Good.

New York: Starr Shirt Company, 1950. Very Good. New York: Starr Shirt Company, [ca. 1950s]. Trade catalog with fabric samples for ties, socks, and shirts from the Starr Shirt Company of New York. Housed in button portfolio with first panel featuring 11 pages on stiff cardstock with photographs and fabric samples. Second panel features 63 fabric samples for shirts, most with descriptions and prices mounted to rear. Among the samples featured are Satin-stripe Broadcloth, Woven Silk Rayon, Basket-weave Twist, and Stevens Chambray, Sanforized Shrunk. A label underneath gives monogram options and notes "All Starr Shirts Strictly Union Made." Light wear and scuffing to wallet with brief exposure to extremities. Overall Very Good.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Very Good. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm.); full contemporary blind-ruled calf by J. Mackenzie, gilt spines in six compartments, red and green spine labels, all edges speckled red; xxiv,459,[1]; xi,[1],477,[1]pp. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at extremities, uneven dark spotting to spines, moderate foxing to early leaves, else a Very Good, internally quite fresh set of James Fenimore Cooper's travelogue first composed in 1830 while traveling through the United States. Provenance: Armorial ex libris of Frances Mary Richardson Currer to both front pastedowns. By the age of thirty Currer (1785-1861), the unmarried sole heir to both the Richardson and Currer estates, had amassed one of the most celebrated private libraries of her generation. She was considered the first as well as the greatest female bibliophile in Europe, with "a heart as big as St Paul's Dome and as warm as Volcanic lava" (Dawson Turner, cf. Oxford… Read More

Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1994. Near Fine. Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1994. First Edition. From the library of Brenda Richardson. Octavo (25.5x20x1cm); 63pp, including biography and chronology. Twelve full-page color photographs, with 18 additional B&W images, most full-page. All text in parallel English, French, and German versions. Photographic boards; textblock of ivory wove paper. This is the catalog of Dine's self-portrait mural work in Ludwigsburg in 1994 within the Kunstverein château. A preliminary statement and interview transcript with Dine are included, as well as an essay by the curator for the exhibit, Ingrid Mössinger. This copy comes directly from the library of Brenda Richardson, former deputy director of the Baltimore Museum of Art and one of the most formidable curatorial pillars and modernist advocates of the East Coast museum scene. The gift note to her accompanying the volume is laid in.

Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp, 1950. Very Good. Bridgeport, CT: Hollander Metal Product Corp., [ca. 1950s]. Six-panel folding trade catalog with 58 belt buckle samples. Belt buckles tied down and numbered and first four sample pages are labeled either bronze cast, bronze + brass wire, or steel wire. Variance in design and size are subtle though apparent. Hollander would go on to produce belt buckles for the Department of Defense during the Vietnam War. Folder edgeworn, scuffed, and rubbed with brief exposure to edges. Rust-spotting and dust soiling to interior; overall Very Good.