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Miss Mary’s Valentine

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Miss Mary’s Valentine

And Other Stories

1895 First Edition Published By De Wolfe, Fiske & Company

In The Publishers Original Hardbound Victorian Covers

Lettered And Decorated Scroll Leaf Over A Maroon Cloth Spine And Gilt Framed Colour Pictorial Decorated By A Lovely Floral Bouquet Over Cream Paper Boards With Well Rounded Corners, Unpaginated Complete Contents,Octavo

A Gorgeous Book In Good Condition

A Toned Down Some Fading Cloth/Spine Crease

Some Darkening At The Boards/Some Peeling, Watermarked Edge At The Rear Board

A Mildly Agetoned And Scattered Foxing Some Cracking Contents,Some Loose Still Bound Pages,Hinges Weak,Cracked And Holding

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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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This AUCTION Is For The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It Is Greatly Illustrated By Gustave Dore

Published 1877 By Harper & Brothers   

It’s A Beautiful Interpretation Of Coleridge’s Longest Single Poem And The Dore Plates Are Exquisite And Large

The Book Is Elephant Folio At  17-1/2 High And 14″ Wide

All Original ln Dark Brown Full Leather Binding,Gilt Lettering At The Front Board, Full Gilt Page Edges, Marbled Pastedowns And Endpapers

The Text Is In 8 Pages Illustrated By 39 Full Page Plates On Heavy Paper Guarded By Protective Onion Skin + Large Oval To The Title Page + Headpiece To Start The First Part + Small Oval To End The Text

The Contents Is  Complete And Mildly Agetoned,The Plates Are Exquisite, Some Scattered Foxing About Not Affecting The Images,Some Wrinkled And A Bit Tattered Onion Skin, Still Tightly Bound,Couple Of Faint Dampstain Marks At The Beginning Not Disturbing The Text Or Images,Tattered At The Marbled Pastedowns And Endpapers

Leather Boards Detached And Present,Rubbed And Scuffed,Some Blemishes/Some Chipping,The Backstrip Is Missing,Rippling At The Rear Board

No Previous Owner Markings, No Writing In Book And Not Ex-Library

The Book Is A Beautful Interpretaion Of Coleridge’s Longest Single Poem Illustrated With Exquisite Plates By Gustave Dore

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A Captain Unafraid

A Captain Unafraid-Owned By General Clarence R Edwards

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A Captain Unafraid

By

Horace Smith

1912 First Edition,First Printing

Published By Harper & Brothers 1912

12mo Blue Gilt Block And Pictorial Cloth Hardcover

295 Pages Complete Tight Contents,Secure At The Hinges

Illustrated With Full Page Plates Blank On The Reverse

Inscribed And Signed By The Author To General Clarence R. Edwards

Papers Of The Presidents

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A Compilation Of The Messages And Papers Of The Presidents

Prepared Under The Direction Of The Joint Committee On Printing, Of The House And Senate, Pursuant To An Act Of The Fifty-Second Congress Of The United States

With Additions And Encyclopedic Index By Private Papers

Published By The Bureau Of National Literature,Inc.

A Complete Full Leather Registered 20 Volume Compilation Copyrighted In The Year 1897

Volumes I through 12 has only one date: It states Copyright 1897 by James D. Richardson, Book XIII ends with William McKinnley March 5th 1900, Book XIII thru XVIII have no copyright dates, Book XX is Index M-Z and begins with McKinley then goes into various information. Quote on copyright page for books XIX & XX:: Copyright 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917 by Bureau of National Literature.

This Is A Registered Set/Registry No. G11184–And The Space Reserved For The Registry Certificate In Volume One Is Unmarked/The Registry Certificate Is Still Loose And Laid In

The Set,A Complete Compiliation Is In Fine Condition

It’s Superb,Just Gorgeous,Beautiful,-You Name It

Please Read The Registry Slip As Is Exactly Stated:

The Messages & Papers Of The Presidents

A Compilation Authorized By An Act Of The Fifty-Second Congress Second Lession And This Set Is Printed By Authority Of An Act Of The Fifty-Fifth Congress, First Lession, From Plates Made By The Government To Which Have Been Added By Private Enterprise,Subsequent Messages And Encyclopedic Index,Bringing The Compilation Down To 1918 And Is Subscribed For By___________ Of Bureau Of National Literature By R. R. May 04,1919 Registry No. G11184

What The Work Is:

Messages And Papers Of The President Is A History Of The United States, As Shaped And Summed Up By Those Who Have Directed The Nation’s Policy.

It Is A Work Of Reference Of United States History, Compiled From The Original Sources-In Fact,It Is The Original Sources.

It Is Authorized By The Government Itself

It Is Endorsed By Administration Officials, And By Senators An Representatives In Congress.

It Sets Forth And Epitomizes, From The Loftiest Point Of View, The Progress Of Every Institution Embracing Every Phase Of Our Educational, Religious, Social, Economic, And Political Life, All Our Commerce And Industries, Such As Agriculture, Manufacturing, Mining Transportation, Invention , Etc.,Etc.

Our Relations With Other Lands And Peoples Are Here Crystallized In The Diplomatic Correspondence Of Our Chief Executives. The Story Of Our Wars, Their Causes, Hardships, And Results Is Succinctly Told By Those Upon Whom The Responsibility For Their Conduct Has Fallen.

It Includes A Complete General Index, Grouping Together The References To The Progress And Development Of Our Great Institutions Through All Administrations.

It Is Profulsely Illustrated With Rare Engravings ,Some Of Which Have Never Before Appeared In Any Book. They Consist Of Portraits Of The Presidents, Government Buildings, And Copies Of Historic Paintings Such as ” The Signing Of The Declaration Of Independence,” Etc., etc.

It Is The Only Work Of The Kind Which Brings The Reader Face To Face With The Personality Of Those Who Have Made Possible This Great Land Of Liberty.

To Possess This Work Means Practically An Opportunity To Occupy The Presidential Chair Of Each Administration,And See How The Government Has Been Conducted, How The Administrative Policy Has Been Shaped And How Our History Has Been Made.

This Is A Solid Edition,A Complete Compilation In 20 Volumes Including Encyclopedic Index A-L,And Encyclopedic Index M-Z With Biographic Index

All Published With Nothing Missing

Includes Supplemental Pamphlet And Signed And Numbered Registry Slip

Fine In Full Dark Brown Pebbled Leather Binding

Presidential Coat Of Arms Gilt Stamped At The Front Covers And Spines

Gilt Rule At The Front Covers And Spines

Gilt Lettering At The Spines

Blind Embosssed Presidential Coat Of Arms At The Rear Covers

Full Gilt Page Edges

Superbly Illustrated Throughout With Tissue Guarded Plates

8582 Total Numbered Text Pages/Both Volumes For Index Unpaginated

6 Inches Wide And 9-1/2 Inches Tall/A Large Octavo Set

History Of English Literature

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History

Of

Literature

By H. A. Taine, D.C.L.

Translated From The French By H. Van Laun

One Of The Masters At The Edinburgh Academy

New Edition Published 1880 By Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly

London

This Is A Solid Edition A Complete 4 Volume Set In Near Fine Condition

Bound In Half Tan Leather And Marbled Boards

6 Compartments And 5 Decorative Bands Ornamented In Gilt With Red Leather And Black Leather Title Labels Lettered In Gilt At The Spines

Full Marbled Page Edges

Marbled Pastedowns And Endpages

Title Pages Decorated With Laurel Wreaths

1818 Total Pages

This Is An Octavo Editon

As Is Stated Exactly On The Preface Page:

This Edition, Of Taine’s History Of English Literature Has Been Carefully Revised And Compared With The Original.All The Quotations Have Been Collated And Verified Anew, And No Trouble Has Been Spared To Make It As Accurate As Possible.

For The Favourable Reception This Translation Has Met With From The Press And The Public, I Feel Much Indebted.

H. Van Laun.