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Berkeley: Privately Printed, New Algonquin Club (no printer or publisher mentioned), 1906. First edition. Booklet with red ribbon tie at spine (later). This publication was advanced in commemoration of a banquet honoring Bibliophile Society member William K. Bixby, pictured in an etched frontispiece, by W. H. Bicknell (with tissue guard)..... (Item #4997)

Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. First edition thus. 12mo. Superb binding by Marian Lane [signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Marian Lane," inf full blue crushed morocco with central double gilt ruling and lettering surrounded by leaf and blossom design on both covers, gilt ruled raised bands on spine, similar..... (Item #2151)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. Nicely bound in full medium brown morocco, title in gilt on spine and cover, gilt-decorated turn-ins, top edge gilt. In a flannel-lined slipcase of marbled paper over boards, with leather-covered opening. One of 375 copies, in the original slipcase made for the binding with..... (Item #3591)

12mo, 4 x 4 1/2 inches, n.d. [1845], n. pl. A.E.G. Original brown fine-grained brown cloth with attractive gilt border and corner designs on both covers, gilt cross-haches to spine. Superb original blue and red and gilt decorated endpapers. A scare promotional booklet featuring 20 highly executed full page chromolithographed..... (Item #2395)

4pp. Printed on handmade paper with lettering in black, and several lines in red on front and back, internally are four stanzas of poetry, each with color initials in red or green. Fine. Scarce. (Item #3133)

4to. 1934. 4pp. printed on handmade paper with superb full-page illustration on front, two specimen pages internally including one printed in black and blue, and a full description of the book on the final page. Scarce. (Item #3147)

Amsterdam: Schalekamp en van de Grampel, [1825]. 12mo. Original yellow printed paper over card boards, 123pp. Superb hand-colored vignette on title-page and two exquisite hand-colored engravings. (Item #3301)

No place, no publisher, no date, but ca. turn of the century (1890), and probably distributed by the various businesses advertised at the beginning and the end of the booklet. Original pictorial wrappers, A child's ABC with delicate woodcut illustrations throughout. (Item #4168)

Curtis Publishing, "Saturday Evening Post" decorative borders by T. M Cleland, 1910; "Man From Brodneys," ca. 1908, Fisher color illustration; Mosher Press, "Frontier," by Isabel Fiske Conant, [1924]; Announcement for J. H. Jansen; Crowell, "Illustrated Poets"; four bookmarker announcements for Knopf, Harper, Macmillan and B. Herder Book Co. (Item #3167)

Offered here is a nice octavo size gouche watercolor of classic woman looking at herself in a tambourine-shaped mirror, measuring 10 x 8 inches and executed on brown card paper, signed lower left, G. Barbier. Attractive composition with Barbier's popular flowing garment designs, delicate line and subtle coloration. Provenance: Drouot..... (Item #3847)

Cambridge: J. Baskerville, 1762. Contemporary 18th Century plished black calf with embossed central oval pattern and concentric floral ruling, marbled endsheets. Wear to covers, some internal wear, minimal paper damage, overall well-preserved. (Item #3931)

Offered here is a single proof leaf printed on coated paper for "The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. London, Elkin Mathews, April 15, 1894 showing famous woodcut illustration by Aubrey Beardsley of woman rummaging through old book store. Fine. Most scarce. (Item #3362)

"I wish you good luck, a good conscience, a sweet and nice friend to kiss, and the flower, that slips through your fingers, turns into a forget-me-not." Larger size hand-colored etching in stippled style. 11.5 x 8.7 cm. Vienna, Johann Joseph Neidl, around 1820. A young man carries numerous baskets..... (Item #4744)