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No place listed: No publisher listed, 1884. Leather bound. Very good. [PHOTO ALBUM]. Folio; 64 cream-colored mat board leaves; three-quarters black pebbled-leather over dark green textured cloth, gilt-stamped title to front board, beveled edges; 5 raised band spine, blind-stamped ornaments, gilt-stamped date "1884"; all edges gilt; gray marbled endpapers; 161 albumen and collotype photographs mounted on cream-colored mat board, some signed, sizes vary from the smallest, 3" x 4" to largest 7" x 9", although most are in a mid-range of about 3 ½" x 5"; laid in is a 10pp manuscript with photograph descriptions corresponding to the hand-numbered mat boards; five mat boards have been removed as evidenced by the skip in pagination from the small pencil numbering of pages in the upper right corner, and from the owner's written listing of images; scuffing to boards, a few finger smudges, one photograph with a creased edge; very good. A large photography album of natural scenery, street scenes, buildings and… Read More

Praze [Prague]: Nakladatelství Jos. R. Vilímek, 1930. Boards. Very good. Artuš SCHEINER. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [CZECH LANGUAGE]. Artuš SCHEINER, illustrator. English: Aquarius Ivan, Prague: Jos. R. Vilimek, Publisher 4to, 76, [1] pp; color pictorial front board depicting a dancing boy waving an American flag, watched by a man and woman sitting on a couch; red cloth shelf-back; blue and cream pictorial endpapers; title page in red and black ink, vignette of Ivanek in red; thick paper stock; tinted head and tail pieces; fp + 7 color plates tipped in; light edge wear to boards, age-toned paper and foxing throughout; very good. OCLC locates only 2 copies, one at Princeton University and the other at the National Library of the Czech Republic. This book is based loosely on the Czech legend of Vodník, the underwater creature living in the Vlatava River running through the city of Prague. In this tale, an underwater family, with a boy named Ivánek, lives under the Vyšehrad rock. Ivánek has… Read More

New York: The Conde Nast Publications, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 90pp; blue cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to front cover; illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs; light scuffing and sunning to cover, light age toning to endpapers; very good.