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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1887. Very Good. 12mo. 305 pp. Rust orange cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine, small landscape tableaux in black at top edge of front board, bordered in gilt. Light soiling, darkening to spine cloth. Corners bumped, spine ends lightly chipped and frayed. Some wrinkling to cloth at boards. Floral endpapers. Interior uniformly toned but clean. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "Rev. A.J. Chaplin / With the kind wishes / of the Author / Dec. [?], 1888." Previous owner's (F.P. Chaplin) name in faded brown ink to half-title.

New York: Pyramid Books, 1960. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 160 pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. First edition. Moderate soiling to front and rear panels, creasing at spine. Pages toned, mottled soiling to top edge of text block. Pulp novel of an adolescent girl meeting a mature sailor at a church dance on the precipice of her entering a convent. Cover painting by Victor Kalin.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Unpaginated. Gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Dust jacket in fair condition with tears at spine and front panel. Light sunning to board edges, fading to end leaves. Photography throughout by Harriet Klebanoff. Formerly a Broadway actress, Canner was a pioneer in Dance Movement Therapy, noted for her early and significant contributions to working with children with disabilities.

New York : London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Capek, Josef. 8vo. 159 pp. Green paper-covered boards in green pictorial dust jacket. Sunning and soiling to spine, front and rear panels of dj. Spine ends bumped with very light sunning along edges of boards. Light foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Translated from the Czech by M. & R. Weatherall. A story of amateur gardening from the author of the play R.U.R. - known as the first literary appearance of the word "robot." Illustrated throughout by his brother, Josef Capek.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. Paperback. Good. Set of 6 pamphlets in slipcase. Ex-library with usual markings: ink stamp to front of slipcase, verso front wrapper of each booklet, with call number sticker. Grey paper wraps printed in black, with Riverside Press emblem to front wrappers. 2 booklets have slight discoloration to wraps, faint darkening, one has ink smudges and another has a small blank sticker. 5 pamphlets are authored by Robert J. Wickenden: Charles-Francois Daubigny Painter and Etcher, The Men of 1830, The Art and Etchings of Jean-Francois Millet, Charles Jacque (1813-1894), and Le Pere Corot. Pamphlet titled 'Maxime Lalanne' written by William Aspenwall Bradley. Slipcase heavily worn, lacking spine panel and partial top panel.

Lowell, Indiana: H. H. Ragon & Son, Printers, 1906. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo. 307 pp. Brown paper wraps with black titling. Very light edgewear. Interior clean and sound. Loquacious instructional essays on violin making and repair.

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Barry, Etheldred B.. 8vo. 388 pp. Green publisher's cloth with decorative gilt titling, red flowers, and red and green cover image of four children holding hands. Corners bumped, spine cocked. Spine cloth faded, ends lightly chipped. Rear board partially sunned. Very small stain to text block fore edge, affecting few leaves at outer margin, with more staining to pp 216-217, not affecting text. Text block lightly toned but otherwise clean. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout.

Stephen Chang, 1985. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated [16 pp]. White stapled card wrappers with bright blue titling. Wraps lightly toned. Some light rubbing to spine. Interior very clean. Instructions on practicing the Crane exercise, a technique for weight loss, partly derived from principles of Chinese medicine, which involves rubbing one's hand on the stomach in a circular motion, thus transferring energy towards removing and expelling excess body fat.

London and Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, Ltd, 1921. Wraps. Near Fine. 24mo. 30 [2] pp. Flexible paper wraps. Repertory Plays No. 20. Faint scuffing to front and rear wrappers. Otherwise clean and sound. One act play revolving around a reclusive philosopher in the village of Butterbiggins contemplating the mysteries of life.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo. 215 pp. Green cloth w/ gilt titling and black stamped illustration of the branches of an eastern white pine tree. Floral endpapers. Rubbing to cloth along spine strip and corners. Bookplate of Susie I. Grier to fpd. 4cm split to rear hinge. Interior clean. With illustrations in helio-type from water-color sketches by the author. Inspired by Longfellow, a party of 8 travels by rail to Acadia, Canada.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, 1910. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo.128 pp. [2] Red cloth w/ gilt titling. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Otherwise fine. Illustrated guide, black and white photographs throughout.

Taipei, Taiwan: Vairocana Publishing Co., Ltd, 2005. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. Three volume set. Blue, magenta & green paper wraps. 143 pp. [2], 155 pp. [2], 109 pp. [2]. Fine. Clean interiors, bindings sound. Includes " The Sweet Dews of Ch'an", "Three Contemplations Toward Buddha Nature", & "Tapping the Inconceivable". Lectures on Buddhism for English Meditation Class at Cheng Yen Monastery, N.Y.

Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 304 pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Scuffing to front and rear wrapper. An in depth analysis of the female sexual deviant. Complete and unexpurgated. Foreword by Dr. S. Wolman.

Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 1996. Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo. 119 pp. Very light rubbing along edges of wraps. Otherwise lean and sound. Defensive shooting tactics and techniques.

Springfield, MA: McLaughlin Bros, 1953. Paper pop-up. Near Fine. 21.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Very light wear to edges. Brightly colored bi-fold pop-up printed with Mary Had a Little Lamb, illustrated by Geraldine Clyne.

Chicago, IL: The Chicago House Wrecking Co, 1911. Wraps. Good. 4to. 64 pp. Pictorial beige stapled wraps printed in red and brown. Soiling and chipping to wraps, heaviest at spine and rear lower fore corner. Rear wrapper detached but mended. Interior uniformly toned but clean. Advertising booklet for "New Plumbing Goods at Wrecking Prices." Profusely illustrated, with bold typography throughout.

New York: Coats & Clark, Inc, 1964. Wraps. Very Good. 13.5cm x 18.5cm 34 pp. + foldout tissue patterns. Illustrated stapled wraps. Damp-wrinkling and discoloration to front wrapper, light scuffing to rear. Interior clean and bright. Tissue patterns uncut. Coats & Clark's Book No. 151.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 262 pp. Burgundy cloth w/ beige paper spine label, black titling. Fraying to cloth along edges of boards, scuffing to paper spine label. Biography of the former Headmistress of Walnut Hill School, located in Natick, MA, as told by her sister. Illustrated throughout w/ engraved frontis, 8 b&w plates.

Marburg: Johann Christian Krieger, 1822. Third Revised Edition. Quarter leather. Good. ...zum Gebrauche ben seinen Vorlesungen Entworsen. 8vo. 393 pp. Marbled boards backed in mottled brown calf, with very small points of corners leatherbound to match. Lacking spine, waste paper spine strip exposed. Binding remains sturdy. Scuffing and soiling to boards, corners, throughout text. Ex library, with St. Louis Medical Society bookplate to fpd, library stamp to title page, final leaf of text, and bottom text block edge. Bottom and fore edge stained yellow, with top edge darkened to black. All text in German.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Good +. 8vo. 351 pp. Reddish-orange cloth withy gold titling and white, circular paper cover onlay. Spine cloth lightly sunned, with library sticker to foot. Cloth of front board wrinkled and creased. Library bookplate, black ink discard stamps to fpd, ffep, and copyright page, few small pencil notations to front matter. Rest of text clean.