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Please Note: [signed] indicates a designer's monogram, not a signature, and "pos" indicates a previous owner's signature. 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.

Barrie, J. M. The Little Minister. Illustrated with photographs. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, n.d. Frontispiece Pre-Raphaelite photogravure portrait of Maud Adams. Full flexible polished maroon leather stamped in gold on front cover and spine with arts and crafts style motifs and title. Top edge gilt. Back cover lightly scuffed, front top corner slightly bumped, glaze mostly gone from spine, though leather and gold are intact (the spine can be repolished with glaire and a polishing iron). 

Brontė, Charlotte. Shirley. Introduction by May Sinclair. Everyman's Library, Edited by Ernest Rhys. London: J.M. Dent & Co., New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d. (1908, No. 288 in the series) Printed by Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh. Gilt stamped cover and spine designs on tight back maroon flexible leather (advertised as the "leather, rounded corners, gilt top" style), with narrow light blue ribbon bookmark. Endpapers and title page in similar style, signed RK 05 (Reginald L. Knowles). Headcap replaced, slit in cover near foredge closed, small bookseller's pencil notation on the ffep, otherwise a clean interior. This issue is hard to find in this binding in this condition. If you just want an example of this binding style, there are other titles out there for less. [unsigned, Reginald L. Knowles]

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Cook, Dr. Frederick A. and Peary, Commander Robert E. Discovery of the North Pole. n.p., n.d., ©  J.T. Moss, 1909. Salesman's sample book and the printed edition. The Sample book has several pos, including large ink ones, a neat pencil one and a label.  Other writings where subscribers names would have gone. Cover darkened, scratched, stained. The spine design is stamped on the back cover of the sample book. The edition copy has no markings inside. The paper has browned but is in good condition, with many photos printed on coated stock. The significant interior defect is that the last page of the book is taped to the back endpaper,  If ever there was a back free endpaper it is gone.  It is frayed at the spine ends and corners and has darkened similarly to the sample book.

 
Deland, Margaret. Partners. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, October 1913, first printing (I-N). In monochrome dust jacket with the same design. Blue, light green, orange and white on dark green pebble-grained cloth.Very slight bumping to corners and spine ends, small tear to top of spine (shelf-pulling).  Ink pos on flyleaf dated 1913. Some foxing to endpapers and scattered through text. The dust wrapper is missing some pieces (see image) and is in a Mylar sleeve. 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Introduction by W. D. Howells. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899 University Press, Cambridge. Top edge gilt. [signed AM, Alice C. Morse]. Spine a bit darkened, slight rubbing to gold on front cover, erased pencil inscription on ffep, worn spots at spine ends, Inner paper at hinges split and appear to be reglued, not affecting strength of binding, which is tight. Corners are straight and not worn.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Introduction by W. D. Howells. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898 University Press, Cambridge. Top edge gilt. [signed AM, Alice C. Morse]. Spine somewhat darkened,  bookseller's pencil notation on ffep, no other interior marks, no interior foxing; worn spots at spine ends, slight spotting to cloth, small paint(?) spots on spine and bottom corner of back cover, front hinge strengthened (by me, partial paper splitting mended with Neschen filmoplast P), binding is tight. Corners are straight and not worn. 

Hichens, Robert. The Garden of Allah. Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., ©1904. Actually about 1936, as this edition has the endpaper photos of Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer, from the film. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, spine a bit faded. Pos on ffep, different po rubber stamp on ep, otherwise the interior is clean. Note that the camera flash makes the cloth look shinier than it really is.

Holmes, Mrs. Mary. Rosamond. New York: Hurst & Company, n.d. Black stamping on light smooth cloth with printed paper image of a rose.12 pp of ads in back. slight bumping to lower front corner and spine ends, some light soiling to back cover. The paper is browning (though it is so even it may always have had a tint). An erased pencil inscription on the ffep is dated 1910, and a bookseller's small pencil notations remain in pencil. [signed with miniscule monogram J., see detail above).

Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen's Wife). Samantha at Coney Island. New York: The Christian Herald, n.d. ©1911. Booksellers' pencil notations on ffep. A couple of small spots on spine and some light soiling of cloth. Bottom corners and spine ends bumped.

Merriman, Henry Seton. Roden's Corner. Illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.Gold, black and green on brown cloth. Spine, spine edges and corners rubbed. Pencil notation on ffep, and erased notations; some foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean internally. Hinges tight and square.

Sangster, Margaret E. The Island of Faith. Frontispiece illustration by Anne Brockman. New York etc.: The Fleming H. Revell Company, n.d. ©1921. Gray cloth printed in black, with dust jacket in Mylar sleeve. Jacket is missing a piece at the top of the spine (see image). No marks or inscriptions, clean interior except for offsetting(?) on endpapers at dust jacket turn-ins. No edgewear or corner wear. small crease in spine. Small spot in black area of cover appears to be a defect in the cloth. Slight bending at spine ends. Ads in back date this copy at 1925.

Van Dyke, Henry. Camp-Fires and Guide Posts.  Toronto: The Copp, Clark Co. Toronto, April 1921.Blue cloth stamped in gold and colors. [MA, GE 288] Lacks free front endpaper, inscription ink offset on front pastedown, ink pos and pencil prices on fore-title, otherwise internally clean with no foxing, front hinge starting.

Van Dyke, Henry. The Unknown Quantity. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1912. [MA, GE 285] Some light dampstaining(?) to the endpapers and first few pages, otherwise clean internally.

Viele, Herman K. The Inn of the Silver Moon. New York: Duffield& Green. n.d., Fourth Edition, 1931. Black and white on purple cloth. Design attributed to Mary Prindeville but is likely Frank Hazenplug. Some smudges in the moon on the front cover (see image). Booksellers'  pencil notations on ffep, and other erased pencil note at the top edge near the hinge that made a small tear in the edge of the paper, not affecting the hinge. Both hinges are tight. There is a bit of spotting on the back endpaper that is not foxing. The book is otherwise internally good.

Ward, Mrs. Humphrey. Eleanor. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Silver and green on midnight blue cloth. Lower corners, spine corners, and author's name on spine are rubbed (see photo above). Erased pencil inscription on back of frontispiece, bookseller's pencil notations on ffep, lower page corners creased at the beginning of the book, as though it had been dropped while open (else the lower front cover would have been bumped instead--for those of us interested in the cover design, it was a better way to drop it ;>).

Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Findlater, Mary; Findlater, Jane; and McAulay, Allan. Illus. Martin Justice. The Affair at the Inn. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1904, Published September, 1904. [signed AI, Adrian Iorio] Title page design appears to be the same hand as the cover designer. Among the earliest examples of automotive fiction illustrated on both covers with motor car images. Ink inscription on ffep dated 1904 and old pencil bookseller's notation; spine darkened and frayed at ends, corners bumped and worn, small hole in cloth at spine edge; orange ink stain lower front corner of cover, matches ink on title (perhaps a bindery fault). Inner hinges are intact and strong, but paper is split between the publisher's booklist (back of flyleaf) and the title page, not affecting strength of binding, which is tight and solid.

Williamson, C.N. & A.M., The Heather-Moon. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912.  Blue, green and cream on brown cloth .Pictorial endpapers.  Bookseller's (?) marks on rear endpaper, front hinge starting but mostly solid, binding is tight and square. Some stains on cloth. Corners and spine ends bumped. Light rubbing at spine edge.

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