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Abbot, Willis J. American
Merchant Ships and Sailors. Illustrated by Ray Brown. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. Blue cloth with ship silhouetted in
cloth color, sea and sky of white and aqua, white lettering. 21 x 14 [Ball,
Thomas W., unsigned]
Adams, John Coleman. Nature Studies in Berkshire. Illustrated with
photogravures from original photographs by Arthur Scott. New York and London: G.
P. Putnam's Sons :: The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. Green cloth stamped in
two-tone (textured) gold repeating pattern. 25 x 17.2 [Thayer, Lee, unsigned]
Alden, Mrs. G. R. (Pansy), Faye Huntington and others. Three Times Three.
Ills by W. New York, Chicago,
Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, n.d., ©1899, inscribed Xmas 1899.
Light turquoise cloth stamped in yellow-red split-fountain and dark
blue-light blue split fountain ship and fish design. 19.2 x 14.1
[Cassidy, Bert, signed
with BC logo]
Arnold, Sir Edwin. Potiphar's Wife and other poems. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, Second Edition. Green cloth stamped in
black, green, tan and gold decorative oval around gold title. 18.4 x
12.1 [Magonigle, Harold, attributed in the 1894 Grolier Club catalog]
Barbour, A. Maynard. At
the Time Appointed. Frontis by J. N. Marchand. New York and London:
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Red cloth stamped in dark green trees
and gold title on cover and spine. 19.8 x 13.3 [ Holloway, Edward Stratton,
signed H]
Blanden, Charles G. A Valley Muse. Chicago New York Toronto: Fleming H.
Revell Company, 1900. Light green cloth spine, light olive green paper wrapped
boards stamped with turquoise scene of tree reflected in pond with white moon,
title stamped in white. Same design on back cover. 18.7 x 12.3 [Hazenplug,
Frank,
unsigned, attribution by John Lehner]
Bowen, Marjorie. The Sword Decides. New York: The McClure
Company, 1908. Brown cloth with green vase and white flowers in front of
orange cat (lioness?), orange title. 19.8 x 13.5 [Cleland, Thomas Maitland,
signed C]
Bower, B. M. Good Indian. Ills. by Anton Otto Fischer. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1912, September. Blue cloth stamped in green,
yellow and orange bush and sunset, orange title. Also, the Grosset &
Dunlap reprint on light greenish cloth with the design stampd in black,
pink and red, in a dust jacket with a color pictorial of a man and woman
on horseback, kissing. POS dated 1921 on ffep. 19.4 x 13.4 [Stuart,
Bertha, signed BS]
Bowne, Eliza Southgate, Intro. by Clarence Cook. A Girl's Life 80
Years Ago :: Selections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne.
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Beige cloth
stamped in russet and green with a sampler design, the lettering
designed to look stitched. This copy presented to James A. Briggs by his
friend A. Gracie King. The prominent King family is featured in this
book, as Eliza was Rufus King's niece. 21.7 x 16.6 [Hilgenreiner, A.,
attributed in Brander Matthews Oct. 1894 article in The Century]
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The One I Knew the Best of All. Ills.
by Reginald B. Birch. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Black
cloth stamped in two-tone (textured) gold on cover and spine with images
of a sailing ship, dolphins, children, dogs, and decorative elements.19.2
x 13 [Birch, Reginald B., Identified in the 1894 Grolier Club catalog]
Carruth, Hayden. The Voyage of the
Rattletrap. Illustrated by H. M.
Wilder. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1897. Green cloth stamped in white semi-abstract design of horses
pulling a covered wagon, with foreground trees in the cloth color (cf.
Will Bradley's design on In Russet and Silver three
years earlier), light blue sky, dark blue mountains, gold title. This
copy inscribed in ink by the author on the ffep on March 9, 1897. 17.2
x 11.4 [Ball, Thomas W. ?, unsigned]
Church, Samuel Harden. Beowulf. Ills. By A.G. Reinhart. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company, n.d., October, 1901. Blue cloth stamped
light blue and two-tone (textured) gold image of sailing ship. 20.3 x
14.2 [Ball, Thomas W. ?, unsigned]
Crouse, M. Elizabeth. Algiers. Illustrated with photographs by Adelaide
B. Hyde. New York: James Pott & Company, 1906, First impression, September.
Blue cloth stamped in light blue, gold and blind of a view from a hill through a
moorish window looking down over the roof of a church toward a moonlit sea. 20.7
x 13.8 [Hood, George W., signed GWH]
D'Annunzio, Gabriele. The Daughter of Jorio. Illustrated. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company, 1907, November. Cream cloth stamped in wo-tone (textured)
gold, image of an angel. An unread copy with uncut pages. The two photos above
are the same copy with different lighting. At some angles the gold almost
disappears into the cream cloth, and at others it pops. 21.2 x 14
Daskam, Josephine. Poems. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903,
October. Red cloth with two-tone (textured matte and bright) gold stamping of
flowers and leaves. 19.8 x 13.3 [Thayer, Lee, signed DD]
de la Mare, Walter. The Veil. New York Henry Holt and
Company, 1922. Dark gray cloth stamped with gold "magic lamp"
design, the stylized smoke wrapping to the spine and back cover. 22.6 x
15.3
Earle, Alice Morse. Home Life in Colonial Days. Illustrated
by Photographs. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1899, Set
up and electrotyped November, 1898. Reprinted December, 1898. Gray
buckram stamped in red and green sampler pattern with lettering made to
look stitched. 20.2 x 14.3 [Thayer, Lee, unsigned DD]
Elliott, Maud Howe, Editor. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's
Building. Illustrated. Paris and New York: Goupil & Co. ::
Boussod, Valadon & Co., Successors, 1893, Official Edition. Black
cloth stamped in ornate two-tone gold and silver designon beveled boards.
24.8 x 17.2 [Morse, Alice Cordelia, attributed by Mindell Dubansky]
Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. Ills. by Edwin A. Abbey. New
York and London: Harper & Brothers, n.d., ©1886. Olive green cloth stamped in
multitextured gold, black and turquoise Art Nouveau mask. 20 x 13.2 [Abbey, Edwin
A. ?, unsigned]