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376 pages + 8 pages of publisher's announcements at back; 'With one hundred and eighty-eight illustrations' (in black and white); "...not be an unbroken history of the ancient Oriental dynasties and nations...I only wish to give the readers of this book some impression of life under its various phases amongst the two most civilised nations which flourished upon our earth before the Greeks..."; with essays on: Egyptology: Thebes; Market and Shops; Pharaoh; Amen; Recruitment of the Army; Funeral and the Tomb; Battle; Assyrian Studies: Royal Residence Dur-Sarginu; Private Life; Death and the Funeral; (Hunting) Royal Chase; Royal Audience; Assurbanipal's Library; Science of Presages; War; Fleet And the Siege of a City; more; publisher's brick-red cloth binding, gilt spine titles, illustrated cover and spine in black; light wear, very good condition.
Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria
Maspero, G.
New York: D. Appleton, 1892.
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Complete in 3 volumes, this history of Long Island; xxiii + 796 + xiv + 686 + v + 395 pages; index for each volume, extremely useful for genealogical research; black and white illustrated throughout; with information on the topography of the island, Indians & their lands, white discovery, early settlements, political and financial relations, wampum industry, the Dutch, Peter Stuyvesant, British government, early families & settlers, Lion Gardiner & his Purchase Gardiner's Island, colonizing schemes, old families in Kings and Queens counties, Lloyds & Jones; Early laws, justice, slavery on Long Island, Congregational and Presbyterian churches, Captain Kidd, Battle of Brooklyn, British Occupation, Long Island Loyalists, Revolutionary War heroes, War of 1812 naval operations around L.I.; education; Flatlands, Flatbush, New Utrecht, Williamsburgh, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Neziah Bliss, Gravesend, Lady Moody, Coney Island, Brooklyn, era of the Civil War, street railways, libraries, cholera, extension of the city, Navy Yard, Wallabout, Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, Long Island City, summer resorts, medical profession on Long Island, dentists in Brooklyn, freemansonry on L.I., social world, Catholic Church, Nassau County, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay home of President Roosevelt, Suffolk County: Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Islip, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Southampton, East Hampton, each town with its separate chapter; Appendix with Long Island troops in the Revolutionary War; Volumes II & III are biographical studies of the prominent on Long Island; bound in the original marbled-paper covered boards, pebbled leather spine & corners; gilt titles, top edges gilt; bindings very worn and chipped, all volume boards detached as are a few leaves at front of all the volumes and all are present; backstrips lacking on volumes II & III; still, very clean copies; the original bindings for these volumes are invariably falling apart, the text block was far too heavy for the covers; there are differences copy to copy of the "Ross-Pelletreau" L.I. History in that the biographies contained are not always the same; this set is a fair to good working copies for research or for rebinding.
A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time in Three Volumes
Ross, Peter
New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.
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275 pages + (6) pages of publishers listings at back; fables by T(heodore) F(rancis) Powys (1875-1953) British novelist and short story writer, lived in seclusion and wrote original and eccentric novels. (Chambers); with the woodcut illustrated bookplate, dated 1933 of Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) abstract expressionist artist, and with his signature in pencil & dated 1933 on the opposing endpaper; the copyright page notes this as the first Phoenix Library edition, coming after a limited edition published in 1929; bound in sturdy black polished cloth, gilt spine titles & decorations; some edge, tips wear, rubbing to binding; in very good condition, interesting author-artist connection, perhaps Powys' work inspired Ossorio's artistic efforts.
Fables
Powys, T.F.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of the Lord Redesdale; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; John Thomas Freeman Mitford, first earl of Redesdale (1805-1886), British politician; photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers (this particular portrait being used in the present DNB); oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this British politician & philanthropist; a few small, faint spots in outer margin of mount paper; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale, Chairman of Committes of the House of Lords
(Lord Redesdale)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Anthony Ashley Cooper, seventh earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), British philanthropist and politician, "...his outstanding qualities were tremendous integrity, courage, and persistence, and a passionate concern for the welfare of his fellow human beings. He had the ability on occasions to stir the conscience of the nation, and the dedication to back up high-profile public action with unremitting conscientious labour, notably in the spheres of lunacy, education, and public health..." (John Wolffe in the DNB); photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this British politician & philanthropist; a few small, faint spots in outer margin of mount paper; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of The Right Hon. The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.
(Earl of Shaftesbury)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir James MacNaghten Hogg; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, first Baron Magheramorne of Ireland (1823-1890) British civic administrator; photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this British politician & administrator; a few small, faint spots in outer margin of mount paper; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of Sir James MacNaghten Hogg, K.C.B. Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works
(Sir James MacNaghten Hogg)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of John Bright; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; John Bright (1811- 1889) British politician, an outspoken supporter of the Union during the American Civil War, "...by the 1860s he was being celebrated as ‘honest’ John Bright, a man whose humble origins vouchsafed his authenticity as a leader of the working class...Bright's public life...is a distillation of all that was brilliant and all that was complex in nineteenth-century British radicalism." (Miles Taylor in the DNB); photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this noted British politician; small spot in outer margin of mount paper; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. For Birmingham
(John Bright)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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vii + 362 pages; front endpaper humorously inscribed and signed from the author, "To Bide Dudley a real writer - from Bill Hart Who tries to write 1937"; with frontispiece in color by Charles M. Russell and other illustrations in black and white within the text, some of which are from Hart's early film efforts - cowboy William S. Hart (1864-1946) American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer, became one of the first great stars of the motion picture western; tan cloth binding, soiled, top of spine cloth chipped away; couple of pages roughly edge-opened; no dustjacket; in good condition and nice for the associative inscription - Bide Dudley was the author of the fiction story 'Bolivar Brown' and of much 1920s music as well.
My Life East and West
Hart, William S.
New York - London: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
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69 pages + (3) pages at back with the Valedictory, illustrative woodcut of sash and star of the Order and a page describing the Decorations of same; frontispiece "Star" in five colors, with symbology; presentation page also with colors and small vignettes (not filled in); several black and white wood engraving illustrations and stanzas of music in the contents, which include information on the history of the order, which was for females, with the Rules, the Address which purpose was to "...inform you as to your true relationship to the Masonic Fraternity...and Second, to confer upon you the beautiful, instructive and useful Degrees of the Order...", followed by the "Points" of the order, Jephthah's Daughter, Ruth, Esther, Martha, Electa and the accompanying duties, tributes, signs, more; especially interesting for the illustrative work accompanying the text; our research indicates that the first edition was 1865, according to OCLC the binding for that copy (the Bella Landauer example at the NY Hist. Soc.- our copy has no other printing indicated) has the same binding as this, with colored leather onlays in a gilt star on the front board, reflecting the same symbols in the frontispiece - the back board with the same star in blind; dull brick-red finely-pebbled cloth, gilt cover titles, all edges gilt; worn, rubbed, soiled, front hinge a bit sprung and still good, spine ends of cloth chipped, first few leaves including title with some old discoloration and staining, still good; binding approximately 4" x 6 1/4"; (with) the 1871 "By-Laws of the Evergreen Chapter..." 12 pages; printed in Danbury at the News Job Printing Establishment; small pamphlet in the original printed lavender paper wraps, approx. 3" x 5" size and with the information needed to conduct the business of the order in the town; bit of wear and wrinkling to wraps, faint old handwritten note of "Unionville Ct." at top; good condition overall; two interesting American women's Masonic items.
Manual of the Order of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, Etc., Adapted to the System of Adoptive Masonry. (with) 1871 By-Laws of Evergreen Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Held in New Milford, (Connecticut)
Macoy, Robert (Arranger)
New York & Chicago: Masonic Publishing and Manufacturing Company, 1866.
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Letter entirely handwritten, on imprinted Tiffany Thayer letterhead, dated July 19, 1933; several paragraphs from the novelist Thayer, regarding one of his controversial stories "Three Sheet": "... A great many people hold it in different esteem. Several parents have been kind enough to thank me for writing it...their sons will be less likely to go that way..." and reassuring the recipient, "...Don't worry about any of your children growing up to be "another T.T." (one of the less-savory characters in the book-or himself?). I feel very, very certain none of them will..."; old fold lines, light wear to letter; in the original mailing envelope, postally canceled Van Nuys, Calif, from the period when Thayer worked in Hollywood screenwriting and acting; Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (1902-1959) in addition to writing rather indifferently received, sometimes scandalously explicit novels, founded with Theodore Dreiser the Fortean Society which promoted the eccentric theories of Charles Hoy Fort (Martians ruling earth, Sargasso Sea in space, teleportation, etc.). Dennis Wepman writing in the ANB notes about Thayer, "...Characterizing himself as an atheist, an anarchist, and a skeptic, he enjoyed his image of impudent prurience...A writer with few literary pretensions, he seemed indifferent to the critical disapprobation of his voluminous output, observing breezily in an interview reported in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1956, "Literature? To hell with literature." He also worked in antiquarian bookstores in his youth; an interesting letter from an independent thinker.
1933 Autograph Letter Signed By Author Tiffany Thayer
(Tiffany Thayer)
Van Nuys California: 1933.
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Several pieces of material, including: September 17, 1957 typed letter signed from Alberto Vargas to recipient on Long island which includes (1) set of 3 pages of stapled typed copy "Idea and Design by Alberto Vargas..." delineating a short movie about his work called "Heavenly Body" and which is a melding of his pin-up girl artistry with a proposed automobile design - describing in minute, item-numbered detail a staged 'routine' and storyline, with singing and dramatic action and which does not appear have been produced; in the letter from Vargas, he is asking the recipient to sign one copy of the 'design' and send back to him, which was done; with the original mailing envelope having Vargas' 1539 Greenfield Avenue California address and postally canceled in October at Visalia CA, airmailed to New York; laid-in is a lengthy illustrated newspaper clipping from the Visalia Times-Delta of Sept. 19, 1957 by reporter Ron Einstoss with the headline, "Famed Artist Alberto Vargas Visits Visalia" and which illustrates himself with his work and also with his wife - humorously, a note has been written-in at top which states in part "...Alberto is quite a guy! Anna Mae (his wife) wears the pants!..." - the article mentions the reason that Vargas is in Visalia, being a house guest of Robert Lash Robbins, also a commercial artist and known for his WWII poster stamps and who cooperated with Vargas on a book of Pony Express artistry in stamps as well being a musical lyricist; (with) a two-page typed letter signed from Robbins written in 1964 on his business letterhead (Fine & Commercial Artist Employing Oils, Temperas, Air Brush, Silk Screen, Line Techniques) from Visalia California, to the same recipient on Long Island, asking a similar 'copyrighting' favor for his friend, writer George N. Walker who had met with some misfortune in this area, "...theft of his finished materials by Radio and TV factions..." (no additional materials here); Robbins notes that "...A check in the amount of $ 1.00 is being enclosed to help defray the expenses of postage, etc., with 20 cents left over for bus fare to the Post Office..."; Robbins also writes of some of his musical endeavors and receiving royalties for same; the recipient had evidently accomplished this task for Robbins, as there are Post Office mailing receipts for the material; according to the Vargas and Robbins correspondence, this method of 'copyright' securing was used by both artists to secure their work; Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) famed 'pin-up' painter and illustrator; both letters and Vargas' 'show' script in very good condition, old fold lines; Vargas envelope with some wear and tear and soiling; newspaper clipping darkened; all materials very good and an interesting glimpse into Vargas' artistic process as well as his attempts to legally secure his work, along with his friend Robbins' attempts to do the same.
1957 Typed Letter Signed Artist Alberto Vargas (with) Typed Copyright "Idea and Design" from Him as Well as Another Similar Correspondence 1964 Concerning His Partner Robert Lash Robbins, Poster Stamp Artist
(Alberto Vargas)
1957.
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"In Committee of the Whole, on Wednesday evening, March 5, the Bill providing for an appropriation of five millions of dollars, and the raising, arming and equipping of one hundred thousand men, to protect the frontiers of the State of New York against invasion, coming up for discussion, Mr. Raymond, of New York City, spoke substantially as follows..."; 24 pgs, title page stamp "Respects of Chas. E. Young, Assembly Doorkeeper"; overall, very good; at this time there was real fear building among the general populace and in the business sectors in New York State, especially in NYC, of an invasion by Confederate forces.
The Rebellion and our Foreign Relations. Remarks of Henry J. Raymond, Speaker of the Assembly, on the Conduct of our Foreign Affairs and the Action and Disposition of European Powers. In Assembly, State of New York, Mar. 5, 1862
Raymond, Henry J.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1862.
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Typed letter on the newspaper PM Daily letterhead paper; dated 13 February 1947; a couple of paragraphs, in which he apologizes for a delay in answering the recipients letter and remarks "...I am interested in bibliotherapy, saw some encouraging signs of its usefulness at Rockland State Hospital and at the Menninger Clinic, and hope to write about it some day...I would be pleased to get any material that you may have available on the subject..."; with the original canceled mailing envelope, also a PM Daily printed piece; Albert Deutsch (1905-1961) medical historian and journalist, his first book, Mentally Ill in America, "...immediately established Deutsch's reputation as the most important historian of American psychiatry up to that time..." and Deutsch went on to pioneer exposure of the treatment of veterans in hospitals as well as juveniles; he was elected an early member for what became the New York Society for the History of Medicine and was awarded much recognition and winning citations for his ground-breaking journalism. (Edward M. Brown in the ANB); light wear, one corner fold-lined, envelope with some soiling;l in very good condition and an interesting history of science autograph, especially as referring to Deutsch's opinion and interest in bibliotherapy.
1947 Typed Letter Signed By Albert Deutsch, Regarding His Opinion on the Uses of Bibliotherapy
(Albert Deutsch)
New York: 1947.
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14 individual dance cards, booklet style; 12 of the 14 with their tiny pencils still attached with strings in various colors; including: 3 pieces from "O.W.L." events. 2 of these from 1931, approx. 2 3/4" x 6" size, with original well-executed and colored cover art, one having a handsome man in suit and the other an attractively-attired woman in long dance dress and stylish jacket - inside with printed menu for the occasion (included O.W.L. sandwiches) and a Program of music and song, remarks - we note also that a Mr. Nelson was to give 'Remarks' at the end and that both Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Nelson are handwritten on the covers of these cards - these names also occur on others of this group and presumably were given to the couple at these social events. Mr. Nelson's dance card slots on the back are nearly all filled in, while Mrs. had no dances, or perhaps did not attend. Both with the imprint of Allied Union Printers of Quincy, Illinois on back. Both of these cards with no pencils, and no holes punched for holders. With also a smaller O.W.L. Dinner-Dance card, for 1935 for Mr. Nelson, who is not noted as having any dances. This also with a musical background and with dinner menu and noted as also being Union printed, at The Royal Printing Co., Inc.; (2) undated handcolored Aurora (club?) dance cards, each differently colored with a Japanese geisha girl motif, with musical and literary program and (blank) hand numbered dance numbering (with) another Aurora example, this undated and with a hand drawn and colored whimsical balloon motif, at center a silhouetted Pierrot-clown figure in black, rather well-done. This card simply gives the names of the 4 lady officers of the Aurora inked by hand and also numbered dance list (blank); 1933 Annual Dance Centennial Debating Society 1818-1918, cover with the printed shape of the State of Illinois, with list of officers, motto, emblem, colors, object of the organization noted, card list blank, union printed by Royal Printing Co.; 1931 (2) from Hypatia (society or club) both with hand drawn and colored cover artworks of bust portraiture of a dapper couple a la 1930's, handwritten program in each, with listing of participants names and events, with a couple of pencil notes on the back of one and a pen name on the back of the other, (with) (2) others from Hypatia, 1933, also with handcolored artwork on covers - each with a belle in full fancy dress and flowers and with two blank dance lists within; 1934 a rather austere card, simply stating on front Prom Parliament 1934 and the inside with usual numbered slots for dances, blank, cover with black pencil & string attached and a small tasteful black ribbon; An undated card with Mrs. Nelson's name on front, this with a hand drawn 'Chinaman' motif in black and white and with 3 printed 'pages' - menu, program, dance list; and an undated small card with well-done 'flapper' style head portrait hand colored and drawn with Mr. Nelson's name, handprinted dance list within, blank; with a small paper canoe shape having Mrs. W. Nelson's name, evidently a marker of sorts; sizes vary, average about 3" x 4", some smaller, some larger; light wear and soiling; colors bright and a fun group in very good condition and interesting 20th century dance card ephemera from Illinois, especially charming for the original artwork.
1931-1935 Group of Dance Cards, Many with Original Illustrations and Hand Coloring and Designs, with Illinois Provenance
(Dance Cards)
Illinois: 1931.
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16 pages; black and white cover illustrations of a group of Palmer Cox elves painting "A Merry Christas & A Happy New Year" on a home's mantelpiece, surrounded by elaborately tasteful type ornamentation; other illustrations within, for children's stories, including The Great Goldfish A Christmas Story by Almira Bellew; mabel's Angels by Lilian Grey, Christmas Day; or, a Gift to All by Sarah A. Cartwright; Fun at Christmas (anon.); The Small Destroyer A Christmas Story for the Young Folks by annette L. Noble, and others; at back page is a small 'Grandma's Riddle Box with a word-puzzle and a quiz; approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; original printed self-wraps; some edge, tips wear and a bit of darkening to paper, faint old fold line; good condition and interesting later 19th century Christmas ephemera.
Grandmother's Children and Young People. Holiday Number. Supplement to the Christmas Number of the Christian At Work, December 25, 1884. With Palmer Cox Illustrated Cover Art
(Christmas)
The Christian at Work, 1884.
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205 pages; anthropology, human interest, adventure, humor, travel & exploration in South America Patagonia; "...the oddest facts imaginable...strange history...wonderful and exciting stories..."; first edition number line "1"; original publisher's paper covered boards binding, cloth spine; light wear & soiling to dustjacket, endpaper with slight old crease-line, not intrusive; volume in very good condition.
In Patagonia
Chatwin, Bruce
New York: Summit Books, 1977.
Price: $45.00
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242 pages; first edition, the first state, with these 'points of issue': pictorial endpapers, title page printed in orange and black, "Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N.Y." at bottom of copyright page, illustration on page 238 printed upside-down; with 8 color plates by Fanny Y. Cory collated complete and other illustrations in orange throughout; previous owner gift inscription in the year of publication on endpaper; in the original grayish-tan pictorial boards binding, with red, yellow, orange & black coloring; spine lettering in orange outlined in black; some edge, tips wear, soiling to binding; a few leaves with some soiling; overall, in good plus condition, especially nice for being the first state.
The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People
Baum, L. Frank
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903.
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Pencil and some color; a humorous 'sporting' scene with a man in fox hunt garb, hat flying off, speeding along on a horse, chasing a dog running along the course, others in background, a fun action scene; inscribed and signed in pencil on the right, "To a charming hostess from Tony Sarg '31"; composed on one of the blank panels of a green paper menu; approx. 7" x 12"; some spotting and discoloration to image, edgewear; back of menu wording rubbed, no indication as to the location; amusing Sarg image in good condition.
1931 Original Tony Sarg Artwork Signed and Inscribed
Sarg, Tony
1931.
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A very large holiday issue of this literary magazine; with 162 pages and with large advertisement sections at beginning and end, for about 100 additional pages; this issue with a stellar lineup of contributors, literary and illustrative: Howard Pyle, with a frontispiece as well as interior story illustrations in color for his "The Fate of a Treasure-Town"; Mark Twain "Eve's Diary"; Edmund Gosse and Seventeenth Century Epigrams; The Amigo by William Dean Howells; Jack London "The Sun-dog Trail" with illustrations by Frank Tenny Johnson; other pieces by John Erskine, Booth Tarkington, Thomas R. Lounsbury, Ernest Harold Baynes, Maurice Maeterlinck, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith L. Lewis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Grover Cleveland; other illustrators from the great age of American graphic arts, Peter Newell, Elizabeth Shippen Green, more; previous ownership signature of Long Island artist William S(teeple) Davis (1884-1961) on contents page; advertisements nearly as interesting as the content, with pieces concerning the publications of Theodore Roosevelt and an especially nice Edward Penfield color illustrated automobile advertisement, with a woman-driven Oldsmobile driving Santa Claus and a load of presents; original paper wrap covers, approx. 7" x 10" size; much chipping and wear to the covers, spine ends chipped away, tears; back cover gone; contents page with old closed tear at the staples; nevertheless, contents clean and illustrations good; good condition overall; a great issue of this magazine.
Harper's Monthly Magazine Vol. CXII December, 1905 No. DCLXVII Christmas Issue
(Harper's Monthly Magazine)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1905.
Price: $125.00
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147 + (34) pages of publisher's announcements at back, these pages printed on two different paper stocks; black and white illustrations, amusing and instructive; set out in the format of a "Programme for Ten Entertainments" on ten evenings; each 'evening' having several games and tricks, illusions and 'amusements' available; original color illustrated paper covered wraps binding; some edge, tips wear to covers; spine ends chipped, as are corners, closed tear on back panel; still, in good condition; interesting 19th century American amusement history.
Dick's One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social Gatherings, Containing New and Attractive Parlor Games...Surprising Tricks...Musical and Other Innocent Sells...Comical Illusions...new and Ingenious Puzzles...Mrs. Jarley's Wax-Works.
(Parlor Amusements)
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879.
Price: $125.00
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