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Rare Books, Period Furniture and Antiques
10:00 AM PT - Mar 21st, 2008

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Thirty Miniature volumes of Poetry:
including Browning, Poe, Yeats etc. Published by Little Lea...

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Washington Star Newspaper
The Campaign of '48 In Star Cartoons.

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Johnson, James Weldon. Gods Trombones
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Drawings by Aaron Douglas. NY...

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The Epicure in Hawaii
recipes gathered by Barbara Thompson; woodcuts by Mallette ...

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Lynd Ward. Gods' Man, 1st ed., pub. 1929, signed
by author on half title page. With 139 images engraved on w...

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Maxfield Parrish (illus.), The Knave of Hearts,
Louise Saunders. The Knave of Hearts. With Pictures by Maxf...

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Beebe, William. Pheasants Their Lives and Homes
two volumes. Hard cover with dust jackets. Published under ...

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DeKock, Charles Paul. Scenes of Parisian Life
No.596/1000. Illustrations by William Glackens. Boston: The...

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Bigelow, Horatio. Flying Feathers
A Yankee's Hunting Experience in the South. With an Introdu...

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Poems by John B. Tabb
fifth edition. With handwritten poem by Tabb opposite page ...

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Huneker,J. The Steinway Collection of Paintings
by American Artists together with Prose Portraits of the Gr...

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Foster's Cabinet Miscellany
A series of Publications on Various Subjects, from the Late...

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Childs, Mary Fairfax. De Namin ob de Twins
and other Sketches from the Cotton Land. Hardcover with pal...

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Carew, Thomas. A Rapture
No.269/375. Engravings by J.E. Laboureur. The Golden Cocker...

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New Salmagundi Papers, Series of 1922
text & pictures by members of the Salmagundi Club, NYC. NY:...

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Madman's Drum: A novel in woodcuts by Lynd Ward
NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930.

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Gods' Man: A novel in woodcuts by Lynd Ward
fifth printing. NY: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930.

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Alderman, E.A. & A.C. Gordon. J. L. M. Curry,
A Biography. Hardcover. Published by MacMillan Co., New Yor...

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Table-top adjustable bookstand

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The Roycroft Quarterly: A Souvenir and a Medley:
Seven Poems and a Sketch by Stephen Crane, 1896. (Paper cov...

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McAdie, Alexander. The Ephebic Oath & other Essays
decorations by Lucia K. Matthews; frontispiece by Arthur F....

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Wharton, H.M. War Songs and Poems
of the Southern Confederacy. Hardcover. 1904?.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame & Lilies
special binding. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1899.

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The Household of Sir Thomas More by Anne Manning
marbled endpapers and cover. London: Chatto and Windus, 190...

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Ruskin, John. The Poetry of Architecture/Giotto
marbled/leather hardcover. Published by NY: John W. Lovell ...

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Alexander, Frederick Warren.
Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with its History. Bio...

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Housman, Laurence. Of Aucassin and Nicolette
drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Hou...

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Lang,Andrew. The Miracles of Madam Saint Katherine
of Fierbois. First edition, No.277/350. Chicago: Way & Will...

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Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military
Operations Directed During the Late War Between the States....

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Mills, Anson. My Story
hardcover with gilt lettering. Published by the author, Was...

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Robinson, Selma : City Child
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.; 1931. Illus. By Rockwell Kent.

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Frost, Robert . West- Running Brook
first edition. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1928.

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Taggard,Genevieve , ed. May Days
an anthology of Verse from Masses-Liberator. NY: Boni & Liv...

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Sullivan, William. Public Men of the Revolution
including Events from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 181...

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Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock"
first American edition, paper pamphlet. Houghton, Mifflin &...

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Twelve Children's Books
stories include: Piggies, Rupelstiltzkin, Bunny Babies etc....

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Bishop, J. Our Political Drama, Conventions
Campaigns, Candidates. With numerous illustrations, hardcov...

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Currie, James,ed. The Life & Works of Robert Burns
three volumes in hardcover. Published by Macredie, Skelly &...

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Davis, Matthew L., ed. Private Journal of Aaron
Burr During his Residence of Four Years In Europe. Two volu...

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Campbell, Charles. History of the Colony
and Ancient Domain of Virginia. Hardcover. Philadelphia, J...

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Rockwell, Kent. N by E
NY: Literary Guild, 1930.

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Cocke, Sarah Johnson. Bypaths in Dixie
hardcover. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, c.1911.

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Lyttle, Andrew Nelson. Bedford Forrest
and His Critter Company. Hardcover. Published by Minton, Ba...

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Motley, J.L. The Rise of the Dutch Republic
three volumes. Red-brown cloth, gilt lettering very fine on...

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Smith, F. Hopkinson. A Day at Laguerre's
and Other Days. 10/250; artists' ed., Riverside Press, Camb...

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Compiled by McLuhan T.C. Touch the Earth
A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence. Hardcover with dust ja...

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Schroeder, John Frederick. Life and Times
of Washington. Volume I, hardcover. National Principles and...

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Dreiser, Theodore. Epitaph
No.595; printed on handmade Keijyo Kami; bound in cloth and...

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McCarthy, Carlton. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier
Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865. Hardcover...

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Old Virginia in Block Prints by Charles W. Smith
first edition, No.108/1000 copies; signed by Smith and slip...

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