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You are welcome to inspect the books in person at the gallery in Hudson, New York (a half hour southeast of Albany).
All items are offered subject to prior sale. 
[We update this page regularly to delete items that are sold, so the books below should be available.]

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Please Note: [signed] indicates a designer's monogram, not a signature, and "pos" indicates a previous owner's signature. Even if not noted, most of the books have either bookplates or pos. All books are shipped in their polyester dust wrappers (removed for the photos below). Condition is as described and as shown in the photos, but no attempt has been made to collate any of the books. They are offered as examples of the art of cover design. Some of the books are in excellent condition, and are duplicates, or books eliminated from the collection either because they fall outside the guidelines (date or place of publication) or to make room for other books. There are also reference copies that have been replaced in the collection by copies in better condition, or by other books.

Alger, Horatio Jr. The Young Adventurer. New York: New York Book Company, 1910. (reference copy) Some soiling to boards, repaired interior hinge. Pos on pastedown.

Habberton, John. Helen's Babies. Illustrated. New York: A.L. Burt Company, n.d., ©1881 but this copy likely 1916 based on adverts in the book.  In a chipped dj with the same design as the cover but without the green. Some wear to corners, inner hinges archivally strengthened.

Harrison, Constance?  The Anglomaniacs. Cassell Publishing House, 1890.  (reference copy)  Mild soiling to the flat-weave cloth, title fading on spine, wear at spine ends and corners, still a good example of this unusual design.

Jordan, Elizabeth. May Iverson Tackles Life. Illustrated by Charlotte Harding Brown. New York & London, Harper & Brothers. n.d. ©1912, this copy inscribed Dec. 25, 1929. (reference copy). A very hard to find design, this copy is lightly soiled with rubbed spine ends and corners. Though some of the cloth color has rubbed off, it has not rubbed through the cloth.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. Poems. New York: Hurst and Company, no date  An unsigned knock-off of the Margaret Armstrong style. (reference copy) The ffep has been mostly torn out, there is slight wear and bumping to the corners and spine ends.

Webster, Jean. Dear Enemy. Illustrated by Author. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., originally published October 1915. Plaid print border frames image of building seen through trees, stamped in two-tone blue on blue-gray cloth. A bright copy with a Christmas 1936 inscription on ffep.

Unknown, Emerald and Ermine, A Tale of The Argoät. Illustrated by the Author. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907, Published October 1907. Authorship attributed by various booksellers to Meriam Ffoulkes, Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen and Miriam Ffoulkes. A bright copy. Pos on pastedown. 

 
Lee, Jennette. Uncle William. New York: The Century Company, 1908. The De Vinne Press. White, black and yellow stamping an gray-green cloth. Ffep apparently removed, though a blank remains before fore-title. [DD]

Atherton, Gertrude.  Ancestors. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907, published September 1907. (reference copy) Removed bookplate left unhappy pastedown, other notations on ffep, slight rubbing to corners and spine ends.

Boisgobey, Fortune du. An Ocean Knight. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 1891. Dalziel Brothers Engravers and Printers. Beveled boards, multicolor and gold stamping. Mild bumping & rubbing to corners, spine edges and ends, 

Bowen, Marjorie. I Will Maintain. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1911. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh. Gold stamped maroon cloth. Gold is bright.  Archivally reinforced front hinge, very slightly bumped and rubbed corners and spine ends, pencil notations on ffep. A very nice copy of a beautiful arts and crafts leaf wreath design. First (only?) American edition, from sheets printed in Britain. Scarce: no American copies found in abebooks or ilab.

Lockhart, Caroline. "Me-Smith". Illustrated by Gayle Hoskins. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 9th Printing, November 1913. (reference copy) [signed H, Edward Stratton Holloway]. Although this copy is somewhat rubbed and soiled, it is in better condition than this edition is usually found..

Reed, Myrtle. Lavender And Old Lace. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, n.d., ©1902. Black on blue cloth with paper label. Dust jacket (in Brodart) of same design as paper panel, but with lavender instead of gold. Dj torn (see photo) and missing top inch and bottom 1/4 inch of spine. Book almost as new. Pos on ffep.

Stockley, Cynthia.  The Garden of Peril.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.  Knickerbocker Press. 1924. Gold and red on dark blue cloth. Cover design incorporated in dj design. The scarce Dj is taped, is complete, and is in Brodart cover.  Bookseller's pencil notations on ffep. The covers are like new, and the only marks on the interior are a thin line down the fep's where the tape on the dj offset.

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