February 29, 2008
Antiquarian
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ON AUCTION
Gaudeamus Igitur Juvenes Dum Sumus-German Songs
Gaudeamus Igitur
Juvenes Dum Sumus!
Lahr in Baden
Druck und Berlag von Moritz Schauenburg
1925
Rare
A Complete German and Musical Text
Full Color Frontispiece
In Blind Embossed and Black Stamped Full Forest Green Original Brass Hobnail Hardcover ,,Lettered at the Front Board and Spine
A Distinct Emblem at the Front Board and All Page Edges Representing the German Flag in Color
Decorative Pastedowns and Endpages
745 Pages Complete
6-1/2 Inches Tall
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February 26, 2008
Collectible
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ON AUCTION
Where Eagles Dare
by
Alistair MacLean
Published
1967 by Double Day, Garden City
Stated First Edition…….Same Date/No Others
Full Black Cloth Hardcover In A Price Intact Upper Front Flap Dustjacket
Silvered Lettering at the Spine
Dark Pink Pastedowns and Endpages
312 Pages Complete Tight Contents and Deckled Edges
Secure at the Hinges
8vo
Very Good+/Very Good
In Toned Down Lightly Rubbed Cloth,Faded Spot At the Spine Top Edge,,Mildly Agetoned Contents,No Previous Owner Markings In a Very Good Price Intact Upper Front Flap Mildly Agetoned Some Nicks,Sliver Like Tears at the Edges,Open Tear at the Spine Top Edge Dustjacket
True U.S. Stated First Edition,First Printing,Not Book Club,Not ExLibrary and Not a Remaindered Book
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February 22, 2008
Poetry
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A thousand books my library
Contains;
And all are primed, it seems to me
With brains.
Mine are so few I scratch in thought
My head;
For just a hundred of the lot
I’ve read.
A hundred books, but of the best,
I can
With wisdom savour and digest
And scan.
Yet when afar from kin and kith
In nooks
Of quietness I’m happy with
Sweet books.
So as nine hundred at me stare
In vain,
My lack I’m wistfully aware
Of brain;
Yet as my leave of living ends,
With looks
Of love I view a hundred friends,
My books.
Robert W. Service
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February 18, 2008
Antiquarian
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ON AUCTION
The Life And Letters of John Hay In Two Volumes/A Complete Set
by William Roscoe Thayer
1915 Eleventh Impression Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
illustrated with Black and White Plates Blank on the Reverse
Very Good and Very Good/No Dustjackets and No Slipcase
A Nice Complete 2 Volume Set,Some Pages Remain Uncut/Unread
Volumes Are 8-3/4″ Tall In Dark,Dark Green Cloth Hardcover,,Lettered In Gilt at the Spines,,Top Edges Gilt and Deckled Edges
904 Numbered Pages In Total/Complete Tight Contents
Contents For Volume One:
Beginnings
Life At Brown University
The Poet In Exile
The New Life
First Months In The White House
War In Earnest
Errands North and South
The Great Companion
The Roving Diplomat-Paris
Washington During Reconstruction
The Roving Diplomat- Vienna
The Roving Diplomat-Spain
Journalism
Authorship
Friendships
Politics
Contents For Volume 2:
The Bread Winners
Abraham Lincoln: A History
The Washington Circle
Letters To Henry Adams
Letters To Henry Adams (continued)
Major McKinley
Hay’s Ambassadorship
Enter Hay Secretary of State
Alaska: The First Canal Treaty
The Boxer Ordeal And The Open Door
Lights And Shadows
The German Menace Looms Up
The Republic Of Panama
Theodore Roosevelt Sketched by John Hay
Hay’s Last Labors
Conclusion
Index
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February 17, 2008
Poetry
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They dumped it on the lonely road,
Then like a streak they sped;
And as along the way I strode
I thought that it was dead:
And then I saw that yelping pup
Rise, race to catch them up.
You know how silly wee dogs are.
It thought they were in fun.
Trying to overtake their car
I saw it run and run:
But as they faster, faster went,
It stumbled, sore and spent.
I found it prone upon the way;
Of life was little token.
As limply in the dust it lay
I thought its heart was broken:
Then one dim eye it opened and
It sought to like my hand.
Of course I took it gently up
And brought it to my wife
Who loves all dogs, and now that pup
Shares in our happy life:
Yet how I curse the bastards who
Its good luck never knew!
Robert W. Service
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