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New York City: Caroline E. McElveen, 1965. Bound in red cloth with original birch wood veneer covers inlaid into front and rear covers. Red leather spine label. Bound by PETER FRANCK, with his binder's mark in ink a foot of rear pastedown. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Mr. Franck on the front free endpaper. Housed in a hand-made slipcase with hand-made marbled paper onlays by the binder. Slipcase lightly rubbed at corners. Sixteen poems all printed on the recto with blank versos. Peter Franck (1883-1976) was a master binder and paper marbler. He learned his craft from an uncle starting at age 13. He worked for Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop, later established the Oakwood Binders with Sterling Lord, and ultimately founded his own bindery where he became the primary binder for Dard Hunter.. First Edition. Fine.. Thin Octavo.

Kansas City: Knife and Fork Club, 1909. About 1/3 of the spine missing. Covers rubbed and stained. Front cover designs and lettering easily readable. Book remains tightly bound. Compiled by John H. Powell, George T. Vance, and Fred N. Tufts. Brief notes on dinners, from the fifty-ninth to the eighty-third, with photos of the dinner speakers. Following this is a roster of members and the Constitution and By-laws of the club. . First Edition.. White Paper-Covered Boards. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket.. Thin Octavo.

Denver, Colorado: Powder River Publishers, Zeuch Printing Company, 1957. Jacket with minor chipping at extremities, spine sunned, rear panel lightly soiled. This is copy #222 of 1000 copies. Tipped-in portrait of the author at age 94. Eight full-page plates. Two small areas of neat ink underlining on pp.41 and 52. Otherwise clean and crisp throughout. 133pp.. Limited Edition.. Light Blue Cloth. Minor Wear./Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Boston: Deorge W. Light Spine lettered in gilt. Corners and spine extremities show light wear. Small stain and small area of cloth rippling rear cover. Old very light pencil writing endpapers. Title-page foxed. Some light to moderate foxing through the text. Occasional marginal notes in old pencil. Chapters on dignity, planning, keeping accounts, various grains and vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meats, cookery and economy of time, and more. 424pp. + 8 pages of adverts. William A. Alcott (1798-1859) was an American educator, physician, vegetarian, author of 108 books. He was related to Louisa May Alcott (second cousin to her father), and a founding member of the American Vegetarian Society.. Second Stereotype Edition. Green Blind-stamped Cloth. Moderate General Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1963. Dust jacket has area of brown spotting top of rear panel which bled onto rear cover. Cover is otherwise nearly fine. Illustrated in black and white. From the "Young Sportsman's Library" with chapters on fundamentals, advanced skills, offensive and defensive play, standards of play. Written by a noted high school coach. 94pp.. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Brown Spot Rear Cover/Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.

London: Leo Cooper Ltd, 1972. Reprinteing of despatches from Sir Winston durinf the Boer War. They previously appeared in "London to Ladysmith" and "Ian Hamilton's March", and were used as the basis for Churchill's first works, "The Malakand Field Force" and "The River War". Six full-page illustrations and nine mapsWoods is the noted bibliographer of Churchill's works. 350pp.. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. Crown Octavo.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. Spine lettered and vignette in gilt. Spine extremities are frayed with about 3/4" loss of cloth a foot. A bit squint. Frontispiece illustration and several more through the text. Occasional foxing, never heavy. Author's edition. 328pp.. First Edition. Red Embossed Cloth. Corner and Spine Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

New York, London Harper and Brothers 1912. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Light edge wear. Rear cover scratch. 32 full-page illustrations in black and white by Frank Craig, including tissue-guarded frontispiece. An Englishman arrivesvia the "Lusitania" for a visit to the United States. Impressions of New York, the Capitol, Boston, Chicago, and others. First edition..

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1972. All edges gilt. Cover vignettes and naval designs, spine lettered in decorated in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. A copy of notes From The Archives is laid-in. A collection of three stories, one a short story and the other two novellas. "Youth" the short stories was first published in 1898; "Typhoon" and "End of the Tether" in 1902. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer, one of the greatest novelists to ever write in the English language. 251pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Deep Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Royal Octavo.