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Untermeyer, Richard Starr One of 250, wear to corners, spine a touch faded. One of 250 copies, this with a bookplate from Jean Starr and Louis Untermeyer and the previous owner Whitman scholar Clifton Joseph Furness. The complete works of Louis Untermeyer's son Richard who died at 19. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048085.- $35
- $35
An Anthology of New Hampshire Poetry
Tappan, Edith Haskell (ed.) Light wear to book and jacket, chipping to jacket edges, spine darkened, Inscribed by editor. From Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's library and with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Old library marks to spine. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048078.- $25
- $25
Going on Two
Frost, Lesley Fine copy inscribed to John Frost by Lesley Frost. With an advertising flyer for the collection laid in. Two check marks in the table of contents, otherwise unmarked. Robert Frost's daughter Lesley was an accomplished writer - this copy comes from Robert Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's (his brother John Frost surely the John in the dedication) collection, though it is not marked as such. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Robin Hudnut. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inscribed by Illustrator. Inventory No: 048068.- $50
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Addresses Delivered in Ripton, Vermont on August 20, 1964 at the Dedication of an Historical Marker Honoring Robert Frost
Morrison, Theodore; Cox, Edward Hyde Side stapled wraps, inscribed on the cover by Edward Hyde Cox with a note by Robert Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048076.- $25
- $25
Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-1963
Thompson, Lawrance; Winnick, R.H. Light wear to book and jacket - from Robert Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's collection with his signature to the endpaper as well as a bookplate and clipped article on R Frost. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 048072.- $25
- $25
A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals
Von Haller, Albrecht Slight edgewear to orange boards, just about fine in a tattered but largely complete onion skin jacket. Reprint of Haller's 1752 thesis that advanced the subsequently influential theory of organs being either sensible or irritable. Scarce. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 048071.- $150
- $150
Dinocerata. A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals (United States Geological Survey)
Marsh, Othniel Charles Original cloth backed boards, neatly rebacked, modest wear at edges, surface scrapes; binding very sound overall. A few U.S. Geological Survey Library stamps dated 1887, small tear to edge of title, but otherwise unmarked internally. 243pp with 56 plates including the large folding dinosaur skeleton at rear. A bit of wear to inner edge of final plate, backed with linen; a nice copy of a mammoth p[roduction. Marsh was responsible for dozens of dinosaur discoveries and his finds formed the basis for the collection at Yale. He was without equal in 19th century American paleontology. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 048093.- $200
- $200
Sagesse
Verlaine, Paul A fine edition of Verlaine bound in an art deco binding of aquamarine leather with gilt and silver decoration. Slight wear and discoloration to spine. Binding signed L. Wolf. Top edge gilt, decorative endpapers. 131pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048090.- $600
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Les heures claires. Les heures d’après-midi. Les heures du soir [art deco binding
Verhaeren, Emile In a fine art deco binding by R. Vincent in green and brown morocco with gilt ruling, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt. Fine internally. Original wraps bound in. 208, (3)pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048088.- $850
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In Memoriam: Edward Thomas, being number Two of the Green Pastures series
Uniform browning to wraps. Included "Up in the Air" by Thomas and others. Attractively printed and designed pamphlet. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: James Guthrie. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048084. Le Livre de la Parfumerie de Famille
Rebound in purple cloth, undated ca. 1852. Woestyn was a prolific writer across genres (journalism, poetry, theater, fiction, home economics etc) In the 1850s after working as an editor at a number of major journals (Figaro, Le Gaulois) he wrote a series of single subject works on domestic pursuits (music, wine making, dance, parfumerie, games, hair, preserves). 61pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 048094. The Georgia Review Volume IX Number 3 Fall 1955 [with Frost Poem “From a Milkweed Pod”]
Light cover wear - with Frost's poem "From a Milkweed Pod" unpublished save for its use as a Christmas greeting the previous year. With a portrait of Frost from the collection of Joseph Frost along with a letter from The Georgia Review conveying the copy of the magazine and thanks for the use of the photo. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048069. Really Not Really
Inscribed by the author to "Katherine, Susan and Deborah" on the day your daddy gave a talk for me. November 19, 1966. this copy comes from Robert Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's collection, though not marked as such.Light shelfwear and browning to jacket edges. Damage to decorative endpapers with large paper lift, otherwise fine internally. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Barbara Remington. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 048070. An Annual of New Poetry 1917
Toning to paper covered boards, spine darkened. Sound otherwise. From Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's library with his signature to endpaper and bookplate to rear endpaper. With six poems by Robert Frost. Old ownership signature from M.L. Davies, The College, Harrogate. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048080. Ainsi ma Vie. [art deco binding]
Finely bound in checked teal and red morocco with gilt ruling. Slight rubbing to spine, faint fading to boards (mostly the front - a really charming binding stamp signed by R. Vincent with decorative endpapers and a matching slipcase. Top edge gilt. Original wraps bound in. 131pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048089. The Connecticut Town-Officer; in Three Parts
Leather worn slightly at corners and bumped, surface damage to portion of rear cover, rear pastedown dampstained and damaged. Foxing and browning throughout but about very good overall.A wide ranging discussion of legal matters for early American towns. 287pp with errata at rear. Sabin 103710. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Law & Criminal Studies. Inventory No: 032572. Nadeschda. Scènes de la vie russe [art deco binding]
133 of 250 copies. In a fine art deco binding in dark mustard morocco with green, red, and brown morocco inlay and gilt ruling and decoration, top edge gilt. Two sets of decorative endpapers, Binding signed R. Vincent, attractive illustrations by Henri Farge. Occasional light foxing internally. Original wraps bound in. (6), 127pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 048087. The British Housewife: or the Cook, Housekeeper’s and Gardiner’s Companion
Two volumes one in tattered and torn original leather and the other in early acid calf, boards crudely reattached. Some wear to page edges, volume two with periodic light stains in pink and teal early on and a few light dampstains in margins, not obscuring any text. Modest age toning, generally uniform. Plates worn in a few cases, frontis adhered to partially adhered to endpaper. A married set in slightly different sizes and different bindings. One bound with six (of seven) of the plates bound at the beginning and the other withfour of the plates (the one missing from volume one and three repeats) bound at the end. One the whole a well used and worn but complete copy. Undated, but Cagle dates it as 1756 based on an ad for its serial publication in Scots Magazine dated January 1756 announcing its publication; the full book is thought to have been offered for sale shortly after the parts version. 752pp; 469, (33)pp. With the seven plates of place settings (and three repeated). Vicaire 111, Bitting 54, Cagle 574, Oxford 104, Simon 236 Scarce with both volumes, volume 1 often showing up alone. The engraved menu plates are extremely well executed. Collects household management, gardening and cookery recipes. Remarkable for it's detailed start to finish explanations giving origins of ingredients and preparations. It is, unlike most 18th century English cookbooks aimed at women (other than Raffald's in 1769), a decidedly practical and middle class cookbook aimed at the housewife not a gentlewoman. Learn to make calve brain paaties, pitchcock eels, grow pineapples, cure the pimple evil in sheep, or hysterick fits in your neighbors. Filled with eels, puddings, creams and pies - a work of delightful completeness. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 048096. Selected Letters of Robert Frost
Light shelfwear, Inscribed by Thompson. from Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's library with his bookplate. Laid in is the poem mending wall from an early 20th century collection and a few newspaper articles about Frost (one in the book leaving some browning). Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Signed by Editor. Inventory No: 048074. (Decretum) Decreti huius plenissimum argumentum
Full contemporary alum tawed pigskin over wooden boards. Remains of clasps, rolled with botanical designs. Wear to edges and spine, worm holes in covers and first few pages, largely in the margins, old notes to pastedown, missing front blank if there was one, light tide mark later in the volume for a number of pages near the end of the first volume and the final index page with a repaired tear to the bottom but apparently no loss to text. Title soiled, scattered stains and browning but generally bright and a finely printed edition. Interesting binder's waste from an earlier manuscript peaking out at the endpapers. CCCCXXVI, (22),XXXVIII, (2) leaves. The rarest of the editions of Gratianus printed by Fradin, an important early Lyonnaise printer active from 1493-1537. A prodigious volume measurein 17 1/2 x 12" and weighing 18 lbs. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Religion & Theology; Law & Criminal Studies. Inventory No: 048097. The Major Themes of Robert Frost
Light wear to jacket - inscribed by author to From Frost's friend and cousin Joseph Frost's library with an inscription" "You asked for one of my verses here. But I know of none appropriate to this occasion. I am reminded, however, of the sad story of this book. It was intended by publication date as a birthday present for Robert - a birthday which he missed." Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048081.