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Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1971. Two volumes (of four). 4to, pp. 192 plus indices; 228 plus indices. Bibliography. Copiously illustrated with black and white photos; several plates of the planes in color. VG in somewhat soiled and chipped djs.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 313. Index.Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Illustrated with many photographs. Black cloth. Ex library, with stamps, bookplate, dj flap pasted on flyleaf, pocket. A VG tight copy. A dual biography of George and Ira Gershwin.

New Haven: Yale, 2012. First printing. 8vo, pp. x, 329. Notes, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards, a VG tight copy.

Oxford: Oxford University, 1963. [Series: Oxford history of English literature, Vol.10] 8vo, pp. 643. Owner's signature on flyleaf, o/w a nice copy in little soiled dj. Reassessment of the poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, the fiction of Scott and Peacock, and the prose of Hazlitt, Lamb and DeQuincey; plus a full treatment of minor writers.

(Flagstaff AZ): Northland Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 4to, pp. 199. Glossary, suggested reading, index. With more than 200 color photographs by Jerry Jacka, and an introduction by Barton Wright. A small rubbed spot at top of front cover, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. Third printing. 8vo, pp. 212. Author's presentation on flyleaf, along with Eli Wallach's signature. A nice copy in little oiled dj. Autobiography of the actress' early life in rural Pennsylvania and in Brooklyn. Jackson is married to Eli Wallach.

New Haven: Yale, 2001. First printing. 8vo, pp. 324. Notes, bibliographies, index. A nice copy in very slightly chipped dj. Jackson surveys a wide range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, and the psychology that underlies them.

London: Henry Colburn, 1822. Second enlarged edition. 8vo, pp. [vii], 136. Upper joint cracked and partially repaired, o/w a fine uncut copy in original rose paper boards and paper label. Henrey II, pp. 583-4; Abbey, Life, 17. Jackson's Botanical Dialogues was written for children and was much praised by Erasmus Darwin who listed it in his Plan for the conduct of Female Education ... (1797) although this present work was much more popular.

NY: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Large 8vo, pp. 29. One of 1500 copies, sent to Club members as a New Year's gift. Paper over boards. Edges little worn, slightly worped, o/w VG. A part of a chapter from The anatomy of bibliomania.

NY: Harper, 1976. First printing. 4to, pp. 170. Index. Copiously illustrated in color and black-and-white. Black paper over boards. A nice copy in price-clipped, scuffed and little chipped dj.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 268. Previous owner's signtaure on the end paper. Fold out chart, a very fgood copy in some nicked and worn dj. A survey by the Institute of Community Studies.

Lexington KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Second printing. 8vo, pp. xx, 248. Notes, biliography, index. About as new.

Evanston IL: Northwestern University, 1993. Unrevised and uncorrected proof. 4to, 103 leaves, printed one side. Spiral bound; paper back cover, plastic front. A VG tight copy. Poems.

Boston: Little Brown, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, 212pp. Signed by the actress, wife of Eli Wallach. Author's "compliments card" laid in. Cover slightly faded, edges lightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in little soiled dj.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1901. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 459. Frontis portrait. VG. Born in 1805 and descended from Hugenot refugees who had fled from France to England, Martineau was a minister, theologian, and New Testament critic.

Andover, MA: the Andover Press, 1914. Small 8vo, pp. 38. Owner's annotations and corrections, as well as signature on flyleaf. Cover very slightly worn, o/w a nice copy. Historical notes about the town of Andover, along with personal recollections.

NY: Holt, 1882. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 546. One hinge tender, light moisture stains on the edges of a few pages, cover little worn at ends of spine. VG. An account of the rich and famous of 18th century France.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895. 8vo, pp. 490, 7. Green cloth, stamped in gold and black. Donor's presentation on blank. Cover little worn at corners, o/w a good tight copy. A novel.

NY: Dutton, 1906. 8vo, pp. 358. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Ex library, withpocket and date slip removed from the back. Red cloth, blind-stamped and printed in gilt. TEG. Cover slightly worn at edges and ends of spine. VG.

F.B. Meyer. Illust. NY: Fleming, 1900. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 127. A VG copy in soiled cloth. Lacks one plate.