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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. New Edition from New Plates. Decorated Cloth. Fine. pp: (xi), 285 with index; complete with eight tinted plates by F. Walter Taylor. Bound in blue cloth with gilt-stamped and colored fish and sea-world design, top edges gilt. A bright example. 7.75" x 5" Binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. [Gullans & Espey 281 ].

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. (copyright 1899). Original Cloth. Very Good. Albert E. Sterner & others. pp: (vii), 247, index; frontispiece, 12 plates. Front free-endpaper removed. Decorative trade binding, designed in art-nouveau-style on light-green cloth, with the monogram of the designer Henry Van Dyke. 7.75" x 5.5

[Washington?]: s.n., 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 18pp, caption title. Self-wrappers, stitched; faint shadow on first leaf. 8.25" x 5.75" [WorldCat locates only the Wisconsin Hist Soc holding of this title, catalogued as 14pp.].

London: Harrison & Co. and J. Wenman, 1778. Early edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 22pp, double-column format. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii, 618 with author, title, and subject indices. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 11.25" x 8.25

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: 110, colophon; frontispiece portrait and seven plates after McCarter illustrations. Printed by John Wilson & Son at the University Press in Cambridge during January MCCCCXCV for Stone & Kimball, Chicago. Bound in all-over-pictorial, green and gray ribbed cloth, gilt titles on spine and both covers (The Green Tree Library), top edges gilt; spine lightly sunned. 7" x 4.25" [Kramer, Stone & Kimball bibliography, 37.].

Montpelier: E.P. Walton & Son, 1851. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. pp: 142, (2); few old notations in Memorandum section. Overall wear and light staining, else complete and tight. 5.5" x 3.5

St. Albans, Vermont, 1882. Original manuscript. Very Good. Two letters, each one page on CVR letterhead. The letter signed by E.A. Chittenden, Superintendent of Local Freight Traffic, is re tariff and a shipment of sleds. The letter from the General Superintendent tells one H.R. Barney, Agent at Chester, Vermont, to increase his father's pay to $1.20 a day. 10.5" x 8

Montpelier: E.P. Walton & Son, 1853. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. 144pp; few old notations in Memorandum section. Overall wear and light staining, else complete and tight. 5.5" x 3.5

Wallingford / Brooklyn: American Fork & Hoe Co./ Albertype Co, 1920. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 4pp text; 12 sepiatone, interior & exterior Albertype views of the True Temper Inn and environs; Route 7 location map on back cover. Pictorial wrappers, ribbon-tied spine. 5.25" x 7.25" True Temper Inn is situate on Route 7, nine miles south of Rutland. When this viewbook was published, the Inn had been in operation for less than a year. [WorldCat locates only the U Vermont holding of this title.].

Windham County, Vermont, 1846. Original document. Very Good. One page, partly printed, accomplished in a neat hand. Signed by Royal Earl, John H. Campbell, J'than Bolles (Justice of the Peace), and witnessed by Martha Bolles. Wax seals at bottom. Docketed on verso. 13.75" x 8.5

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 19pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25" George Villiers, second Duke of. Buckingham, wrote "The Rehearsal" to satirize John Dryden and the genre of heroic drama.

Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch, 1789. First edition thus. Calf & Boards. Very Good. Four volumes, thick octavo; engraved decoration on each title-page, 22[?] engraved headpieces in the text. Bound in half calf and sprinkled boards, ribbed spines with gilt devices, black and tan labels with gilt lettering, hand-marbled pastedown endpapers, all edges rubricated. Few old, small ownership markings and light foxing on endpapers. 8" x 5

London: Geo. B. Whittaker [et al], 1826. Gift Edition. Calf & Boards. Very Good. pp: 664, 28 index. Bound in half black calf and marbled boards, gilt spine decorations and lettering, double gilt rules on covers, marbled endpapers and edges. 8.5" x 5.25" Text in Latin.

Baltimore, MD: Louis Kaufmann & Sons, 1916. Original document. Very Good. Postmark and message on verso dated 1916. Addressed to a Spokane, Washington woman, tells of places visited, in part: "...Hampton Roads full of battle ships and torpedo boats...10,000 sailors off 'on liberty' today till Monday. We came in on ferry from Old Point with lots of them...." Slight crease.

Hartford: Silus Andrus, 1825. Full Calf. Good. 276pp. Includes the six-page Preface to the Edition of MDCCL. Bound in old calf, red spine label with gilt lettering and rules; some scuffing and faint foxing. 7" x 4.25" [American Imprints 23182] First published in the US at Hartford by Andrus and Judd, 1750.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound as one. pp: 338, 62; 486, 28, 21 (indices and supplements). Bound in green cloth, red spine block with gilt lettering. 8.5" x 5.25" "This Reprint is Strictly Limited to 150 Copies" (statement on verso title-page).

Sonoma, CA, 1977. Original edition. Portfolio. Very Good. Portfolio contains: Autograph letter signed by Jane Voss, sending this material to one Kathy, dated at Sonoma, California, 19 July 1977, in part: ". along with some reviews of my solo album . My act with Hoyle is great fun . We've had rave reviews from Rosalie Sorrels (with whom H.O. has often worked), Utah Phillips, as well as Elizabeth Cotten & Kenny Hall.," &c. Also present are: two photocopied reviews; a four-page brochure re Voss & Osborne, their appearances and recordings, etc.; and an 8" x 10" publicity photo of the two in "country" clothing, Osborne with a mandolin and Voss with her guitar.