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London: Oxforrd University Press, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. An apparently unused copy in unclipped, soiled dustjacket with a few chips at edges. 8vo, tan cloth, orange spine label, xiv,457, b&w photos, plates, maps (2 folding).

New York: Robert M McBride and Company, 1928. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. VG/No Dustjacket. Locher, Robert E.. one of 3290 copies, leather spine with pressed gilt lettering, faux wood beveled covers, matching slipcase scuffed and rubbed, as is leather spine. Internals fine.

New York: Robert M McBride and Company, 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. number 150 of 1040 copies, jacket has a few small chips, else clean and tight with no previous owner markings.

New York: Robert M McBride and Company, 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Dustjacket. excellent condition, stamped gilt decoration front panel, number 616 of 920, slight rubbing top spine edge.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 2 volume set, stated fifth edition on copyright page. 8vo, polished blue cloth, gte. Solid, clean copies, apparently unused. Ownership names dated Christmas 1887 and September 1889 ffe. Upon publication, an immensely popular biography of one of the most beloved American philosopher-authors. Still is.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Solid reading copy of the original edition, lacking dustjacket. Black, ribbed cloth, silver Art-Deco style titles, designed by Dwiggins. Gift inscription half title.

London: George Routledge & Sons 0. 1st or early editions. Soft cover. Very Good. 2 titles of Caldecott's Picture Books in original editions, presumed firsts, each listing on back cover three sections of other publications of R. Caldecott: Picture Books One Shilling each (8 titles), Picture Books Five Shillings (Vol I 4 titles Vol II 4 titles), and Collection of Pictures and Songs Ten Shillings and Sixpence (8 titles) Uniform cover wear and soiling to both.Rear cover detached from Farmer's Boy. Internals much nicer. nd c 1870.

London: George Routledge & Sons 0. 1st or early editions. Soft cover. Very Good. Two titles of Caldecott's Picture Books in original, early editions each listing on back cover three sections of other publications of R. Caldecott: Picture Books One Shilling each (12 titles) , Picture Books Five Shillings Vol I 4 titles, Vol II 8 titles) and Collection of Pictures and Songs Ten Shillings and Sixpence (8 titles). Covers uniformly soiled, internals much nicer. Nd c.1875.

NY: Simon and Schuste, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Scottish author and journalist Calder, an early disarmament activist, to Detlev Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins an Rockefeller University on the ffe: "For Detlev Bronk, In gratitude for his encouragement of science writers - especially this one. With affectionate regards, Ritchie'. Clean copy in unclipped dustjacket with slightly tanned spine and modest edgewear.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1868. Eighth Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Publishers embossed brown cloth, gilt titles spine. Color frontispiece. 394 pages. Some wear top of spine, esle solid copy all over.

Kansas City: Hallmark Cards Inc, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy in near fine dustjacket with a short, closed tear bottom edge front panel.

Providence: Matrix Publications, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First trade edition. A fine, apparently unused copy in cloth covered slipcase modestly sun-faded, along with book spine.

Philaelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. First edition, 12mo, 250 (6), illustrated with 77 plates, some of them foldout. Issued by the Secretary of War, Simeon Cameron. Ownership copy of Peter M. Osborn of the famous 95th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, also known as the Warren Rifles. Signed by him with that identification in pencil and then again in ink on the flyleaf and the free rear endpaper in these latter cases listing along with the Warren Rifles the command of Col. Geo(rge) Biddle and Gen Burnside's Division, both Biddle and Burnside being famous Union commanders in the Civil War. A used unsophisticated copy, showing wear at the corners, its binding firm still. With the bookstore ticket of Lockwood 411 Broadway, lower right corner front pastedown. A Civil War troop artifact.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Fine unused copy in unclipped dustjacket that has modest edgewear. Inscribed by author Camp on the ffe: "Luck on the marsh Ray Camp

NY: American Sports Publishing Co 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Four consecutive annuals - 1916 - 1919, containg revised rules for wach year. Uniform format, pages tones as always seen, some incidentail wear to covers, sound copies all around.

Muirkirk ONT: Bridgetown Plaindealer Print, 1895. Assumed First (and Only) Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon individual effort at geneology of the Caruth clan in Canada' Ontario province. About 3'x4" gold cloth, first part 52pp, second 9, with another pasted-in part entitled "Descendants of Peter Campbell-Bawn of Dumbartonshire. Neatly pasted-in are about 14 pages of clippings of births and deaths of related clans in Scotland from the Glasgow Daily Herald of April 23, 1864.

London: Sampson Low, 1856. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. HAYDAY (binding). 8vo, green pebbled full morocco, HAYDAY binding, joints and corners moderately worn, covers moderately soiled, internals near fine.

Paris: Gallimard, 1953. Early Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 1953 printing, the first being 1942. Cream-colored, printed paper covers, a tad soiled. leaves gently toned as expected, still solidly bound. With bookseller ticket forSchoenhof's Foreign Books, Cambridge, MA.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Memoir of American man-of-letters Canby whererin he describes growing up in the All-American way of life in Wilmington DE in the 1890s. Inscribed by him on the ffe to author and bibiophile Anne Lyon Haight. Laid-in is an inscribed card a b&w reproduction of the frontispiece (a picture of his family's house)" "Greetings from 'The Age of Confidence' to the Haights from the Canbys and Merry Xmas" Green cloth, a bity dusty, in pictorial dustjacket by illustrator Kruse, soiled/ worn about the edges, with a darkened spine chipped at head and foot. Solid binding.

Canton OH: The Home Candy Makers, 1913. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Third edition revised, blue cloth wrappers (with no cardboard underneath as issued), stamped in gilt, measures approx 6" x 9", 110 pages + 2 page advertisements, Illustrated with photos and diagrams. Errata strip tipped-over one line on page 13 to correct for the temperature for small or light crack hand test from 244 degrees to 254 degrees; temperature is everything. Uncommonly well preserved. Cloth covers curl-in from corners - no backing.