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The Man's Prerogative [&c.] Tales From Town Topics No. 42: December 1901

By: Zile, Edward S. Van, et al.

Price: $103.13

Publisher: New York, Town Topics Publishing Co.: 1901

Seller ID: Books010733

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

247 pages, 9 pages of ads at rear. Dampstain to top of front cover bleeding on to title page. First three leaves foxed. The Man's Prerogative runs from page 7 through 85.
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Memoir of John Lang Bickersteth, Late of Rugby School

By: [Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler]

Price: $89.38

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union: 1850

Seller ID: Books012578

Binding: Quarter Cloth

Condition: Good

71 pages. 6 x 3.75 inches. Paper label on spine chipped and illegible. Scribbling to pastedowns and endpapers. Moderate foxing and soiling throughout. Binding is sound.
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The Little Red Book [12th printing]

By: [Ed Webster]

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Minneapolis, MN, The Little Red Book: 1957

Seller ID: Books012086

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

168 pages. Cloth rubbed at extremities; gilt faded. Former owner's name (a doctor in Minneapolis) to front pastedown and two of his cards laid in (one ripped in two with notation on verso], with his ballpoint scoring throughout.
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Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

By: [Edwin Eastman]

Price: $71.50

Publisher: Jersey City, Clark Johnson: 1873

Seller ID: Books007336

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

309 pages, plus leaf at rear extolling the virtues of [the publisher's] Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup. A clean sturdy example, with hinges fully secure. Spine slightly darkened; moderate spotting throughout; two childlike squiggles: on second front endpaper, and beneath the text on Contents leaf. Included is the christmas card dated 1882: "To Grandma with Charlotte's book".
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The Living Soul

By: [George Storrs, ed; Dr. Bond]

Price: $1,168.75

Publisher: New York, Self published [Herald Of Life]:

Seller ID: Books012459

Binding: Saddle Sewn wrapper

Condition: Very Good

20, 2, 2 pages. The Living Soul [pp 1-16] is signed in print Z.C. "Vain Philosophy" is noted as "from the pen of the venerable Dr. Bond, in 1854" [pp17-20]. The Principle of Evil and Questions on Immortality are unsigned. Apparently as issued. On the advert page at rear of Storrs' Man's Nature and Destiny this pamphlet is listed as having 24 pages, at a cost of 2 cents. OCLC records no holdings. No explicit date of printing, but after May 1856. Leaves evenly toned; first few leaves dogeared, and light spotting to final leaf.
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Social Amusements, or, Holidays at Aunt Adela's Cottage

By: [Jean-Pierre Bres]

Price: $584.38

Publisher: Boston, William Crosby and Company: 1839

Seller ID: Books010720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

218 pages. 2 pages of ads at front; frontispiece, and seven plates, with tailpieces to pages 40 and 190. OCLC [Jan. 2018] notes only three copies of this edition and they are noted as having only 3 plates. The preliminary adverts in our copy are recto: Rollo Books, verso: Juvenile Books published by Samuel Colman. As noted on title page: Translated, with some alterations, from the French "Les Jeudis Dans Le Chateau De Ma Tante". Printed paper over boards. White tape reinforcement running the full length of spine. No free endpapers. Moderate foxing / staining throughout. Small closed tear to in...
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The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery: Formed on Principles of Economy for the Use of Private Families

By: [Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby]

Price: $543.13

Publisher: New York, St. Louis / Philadelphia, Nafis & Cornish / John B. Perry:

Seller ID: Books011901

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

216 pages, frontispiece, five unnumbered plates, and full page illustration to verso of title page. Cloth stamped in blind, with gilt title to spine: "Domestic Cookery". No date of publication specified. Table of Contents at rear. Top of rear board nibbled; foxing to endpapers and first three leaves; contents generally clean with occasional soil/foxing. An unremarkable edition, but the unrestored publisher's binding is sound and as such a pleasing survival.
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Annot and Her Pupil : A Simple Story

By: [Selina Bunbury]

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Salem, Whipple and Lawrence: 1829

Seller ID: Books010442

Binding: quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

148 pages; frontispiece. Green leather spine, printed paper over boards with title to front and publisher's list on rear. 1832 Hebron Conn gift inscription to first free endpaper; endpapers stained and foxed; leaves toned, light foxing to a few leaves. Binding is sound. First American Edition from the Edinburgh Edition stated.
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Category: Americana