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La Dame de Saint-Leu belongs to this body of popular Belle Époque and early twentieth-century writing. 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Its vivid setting made it a central work of Romantic Scottish literature and helped shape nineteenth-century tourism and literary images of Scotland. This later edition reflects its enduring popularity with general readers and students.","condition":"Original heavily rubbed boards with later smooth calf/leather rebacked spine lettered in gilt; engraved frontispiece present. Other illustrations and collation not verified.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"yes","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["English literature","Poetry"],"particulars":{"publisher":"James R. 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Pascar established an influential experimental theatre for children in Moscow around 1920, and recounts its pioneering approach to stagecraft, acting, and performance. Her illustrated narrative, published in Paris by G. Crès, is a primary witness to the development of modern Russian children’s theatre and its European reception. The book includes a portrait of Pascar by Alexandre Iacovleff and was published with a suite of theatrical photographs and illustrations, including color plates.","condition":"Later custom-style tan-and-green geometric decorative hard binding with green/gold paisley endpapers; covers have light rubs, spots and corner/edge wear, and page edges show aging. A loose handwritten greeting card dated 1970 is present. Binding maker and covering materials unverified from photography. Interior appears generally sound in pictured openings, but a full leaf/plate collation has not been completed (published with 20 plates, four in color).","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Moscow theatre","Children's theatre","Avant-garde theatre","Theatre production","Illustrated books","Fine bindings"],"particulars":{"publisher":"G. 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Such privately printed histories preserve names and relationships that might otherwise survive only in scattered local records. The original edition was produced for a specialized family and genealogical readership.","condition":"Original dark cloth with gilt lettering and ornament, light rubbing at spine base. Loosely inserted original-looking handwritten genealogical notes and list of names; association with any listed family not verified. No author autograph established.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Americana","Genealogy"],"particulars":{"publisher":"J. B. 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A portrait frontispiece of King George V and photographic illustrations document the social world of sporting estates, clubs, and field sports. This particular copy is numbered 355 of the 1,000-copy edition and retains an engraved “Ex Libris Spencer Eddy” bookplate depicting a dog. Another set from the same publishing series is offered separately with a bookplate bearing that name, suggesting a possible shared library association; the bookplate owner's biographical identity is not established.","condition":"Original two-tone green-and-tan buckram with gilt lettering. Moderate rubbing and surface soiling to covers; mild wear and small nicks at corners and edges. First few preliminary leaves have some pulling/loosening at the lower inner gutter near the binding (shown in close-up photo); the book is overall intact with slight localized looseness in places, not a detached text block. Marbled endpapers, King George V frontispiece and several photogravures present. One visible tissue guard is creased/wrinkled; vintage newspaper clipping laid in. Full text and photogravure plate collation has not been carried out, so completeness cannot be guaranteed. 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Issued by Fondo de Cultura Económica in its Letras Mexicanas series, the book documents the author's literary work during the 1970s. Its particular importance as a collectible copy is discussed separately in the record of its inscription.","condition":"Wrapper and spine mostly intact with light edge rubbing and slight aging; interior largely clean. 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Pages lightly toned with illustrated plates; complete pagination and illustration count unverified.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Travel","History"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Estes & Lauriat","place":"Boston","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":21,"binding":"cloth","bindingNote":"Original yellow illustrated publisher's cloth with black/gilt decorative printing; worn edges, cracked rear inner hinge.","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860084217479","cents":3499,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null},{"channel":"etsy","url":"https://www.etsy.com/listing/4603681037/butterworth-zigzag-journeys-in-acadia","cents":3499,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/zigzag-journeys-in-acadia-and-new-france/0.jpg","small":"/img/zigzag-journeys-in-acadia-and-new-france/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1201,"h":1600}],"marks":[],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"Photo review books_pics.pdf pp.741–742 identifies Butterworth, Zigzag Journeys in Acadia and New France, 1885 Estes & Lauriat. Catalog has no matching work.","cls":"documented"}],"sources":[],"indexedAt":"2026-10-18T18:43:06.430Z","about":{"name":"Canada","scope":"country","countryCode":"CA","lat":56.1,"lon":-106.3,"why":"subject"}},{"slug":"friends-though-divided","no":69,"title":"Friends Though Divided: A Tale of the Civil War","creator":"G. A. Henty","dateLabel":"Undated, likely c. 1895–1900","year":1895,"type":"book","category":"Books","volumes":1,"status":"available","soldMonth":null,"description":"An illustrated late-Victorian printing of G. A. Henty's English Civil War adventure, preserved in blue publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt decoration.\n\nFirst published in 1883, Henty's story recounts divided loyalties during the seventeenth-century conflict between Royalists and Parliamentarians. This undated printing bears the Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Ltd. London imprint, consistent with a later issue rather than the original first edition. Its pictorial gilt front board and decorated gilt spine offer particular shelf appeal. The volume retains an illustrated frontispiece and several black-and-white plates visible in the photographs, including cavalry, combat, and naval scenes. The pictured copy also has faint pencil ownership writing inside the front cover. Exact printing year and full plate collation have not been verified.","condition":"Original dark blue pictorial gilt cloth with rubbing to boards and spine; notable fraying and separation at spine head, wear at foot and corners, and abrasion to board edges. Toned page edges and interior paper, occasional spotting. Faint pencil writing on front pastedown. Illustrated frontispiece and additional plates are present as photographed. Binding opens, but complete collation and plate count have not been verified. No dust jacket. 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The work records a contemporary colleague’s tribute to Cardozo and is of interest to collectors of legal history, the Supreme Court, fine-press printing, and judicial biography. The photographed copy includes a separate printed compliments slip dated December 1938. A handwritten name on that slip appears to read S. M. Linowitz, an attribution that may suggest an association with the later lawyer and diplomat Sol M. Linowitz but remains unverified.","condition":"Pages and tipped-in/laid-in presentation slip photographed; minor age toning and small spots on slip. Dark binding visible near page edge. Original binding, portrait plates and collation remain to be checked.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"yes","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Supreme Court","Cardozo, Benjamin N","Legal history","Memorial addresses","Fine press"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Overbrook Press","place":"Stamford, Connecticut","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":21,"binding":null,"bindingNote":null,"languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860075832940","cents":6999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/benjamin-nathan-cardozo/0.jpg","small":"/img/benjamin-nathan-cardozo/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[{"kind":"label","person":"Irving Lehman","transcription":"With the compliments of Irving Lehman / December 1938","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null},{"kind":"inscription","person":"S. M. 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It is bound in brown cloth-backed marbled boards, and retains a New York bookseller label for G. E. Stechert & Co. and Alfred Hafner. Folded period advertising and a printed French clipping are inserted.","condition":"Cloth-backed marbled boards with slight rubbing, moderate interior toning; earlier pencil/ink notes faint; original publisher's wrappers not visible; inserted loose ephemera. 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Osgood, a Princeton scholar of English literature, reflects on the continuing relevance of classical antiquity and the Roman poetic tradition. The slim volume retains its original dark cloth binding with the title lettered along the spine. An academic commemorative publication rather than a conventional monograph, it appeals chiefly to collectors of classical scholarship, literary addresses, Princeton imprints, and Vassar College history.","condition":"Dark publisher's cloth with rubbing at corners and spine ends, light wear and scattered minor spots to leaves; deckle-edged paper. 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Dawson; Volume II includes Dawson’s dated 1959 ownership inscription. The folded, signed 23 September 1958 aerogramme from R. Howarth of Folkestone Public Libraries replies to Dawson’s inquiry about Kent records of strolling players. It identifies Tudor and Stuart municipal accounts and the 1911 Records of Lydd, offering access to original records. A second insert transcribes a Faversham payment to Lord Hunsdon’s players. Dawson’s 1965 edition covers Kent theatrical records, but use of these particular documents remains unproven.","condition":"Two original green publisher's cloth volumes with gilt spine titles; rubbed spine ends and edges, occasional foxing and cracking/separation at one rear hinge. Bound printed folding tables, including a detailed multi-column cast comparison, survive and open; complete collation remains unverified. 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The cover and title leaf prominently reproduce the cambuci, a fruit associated with the São Paulo region, while numerous internal plates depict leaves, blossoms, fruit and other diagnostic structures. The publication is represented in Brazilian and international research libraries. Its original illustrated wrapper format is desirable, though a later reprint must not be confused with the 1946 issue.","condition":"Original tan printed card wrappers with colored botanical image; outer cover creases, spine wear/splitting, corners chipped and rubbed. Interior contains many botanical drawings; visible stitching at gutter. 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The work situates mining, company policy, recruitment, worker resistance, and household livelihoods within the political economy of colonial rule. Published in the Africana imprint in New York and also issued in Britain by Heinemann, it remains relevant to histories of African labor, colonial extraction, and industrialization. This copy retains its illustrated dust jacket.","condition":"Red cloth hardback in a pictorial jacket with noticeable edgewear, chipping, and tears at upper jacket corners and head of spine; interior and hinges appear serviceable.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Central African history","Mining labor","Colonialism","Economic history"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Africana Publishing Company","place":"New York","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":23,"binding":"cloth","bindingNote":"Reddish cloth with illustrated paper dust jacket","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860076324207","cents":2999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/black-mineworkers-in-central-africa/0.jpg","small":"/img/black-mineworkers-in-central-africa/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"Black Mineworkers in Central Africa. 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The work reflects a European traveler's perspective within the cultural and political setting of French colonial rule and is useful as a historical travel account. Black-and-white photographic illustrations are distributed throughout. This copy is bound in orange pictorial cloth and retains an early Philadelphia bookseller's label.","condition":"Bright orange illustrated publisher cloth with rubbed forecorners, spine edges and head/tail, some spotting/foxing to front matter, no dust jacket shown. 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This American edition was published by Little, Brown in Boston. Its illustrative material includes a political map of Africa on the endpapers and black-and-white photographs. It is especially relevant to Kenyan and twentieth-century African political history.","condition":"Grey-black cloth hardcover with faded and slightly rubbed gold spine lettering, mild surface wear. 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A useful example of how early twentieth-century American state agencies promoted bird study, wildlife protection, and the relationship between agriculture and the natural environment.","condition":"Original pale blue-green printed wrappers with inset color meadowlark image; rubbing/spotting, mild corner creasing and edge wear. Internals show toning and a small handwritten note. Illustrated plates and birdhouse diagrams observed. 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Portraits, scenes of historic buildings, and printed facsimiles of Wadsworth family signatures complement the narrative. The work is of interest to Connecticut and Hartford historians, Wadsworth descendants, students of colonial government, and collectors of regional historical literature.","condition":"Original publisher's blue cloth, mostly covered by an old brown/tan illustrated paper dust jacket featuring the title and oak tree. The paper jacket is strongly browned, with chips, tears, loss along edges and spine ends. A separate clear archival plastic protective cover is loosely placed over the paper jacket, is not glued or adhered to it, and is removable without separating anything from the jacket (confirmed by owner). Deckled page edges and gilt top edge; minor interior spotting/toning. Binding/hinges and all 399 pages not fully collated. Small penciled old price mark on initial blank; printed facsimile signatures in text are not autographs.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Connecticut colonial history","Hartford local history","Wadsworth genealogy","Charter Oak legend"],"particulars":{"publisher":"W. H. 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The named donor may be the English literature scholar Raymond Dexter Havens, who joined Johns Hopkins in 1925; the handwriting alone does not establish the identity.","condition":"Beige paper-covered boards and cloth spine, faint exterior soiling and rubbing, age-toned endpapers, spine head and corners worn; photographed openings appear largely clean; collation not undertaken.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"yes","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["English political satire","British literature","French Revolution","Poetry"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Basil Blackwell","place":"Oxford","country":"GB","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":null,"binding":"other","bindingNote":"Cream cloth spine, paper-covered boards","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860079751888","cents":3999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null},{"channel":"etsy","url":"https://www.etsy.com/listing/4603670787/poetry-of-the-anti-jacobin-1924-l-rice","cents":3999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/poetry-of-the-anti-jacobin/0.jpg","small":"/img/poetry-of-the-anti-jacobin/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[{"kind":"inscription","person":"Raymond Havens to Richard L. 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His work attracted literary attention: Charles Dickens also owned author-inscribed copies of the 1857 and 1858 editions, documented in the Dickens Library Online. Recipient James Spear Loring was a longtime Boston bookseller and historical writer associated with the New England Historic Genealogical Society. This presentation connects two nineteenth-century figures interested in Massachusetts biography, genealogy, and local history.","condition":"Original purple-brown ribbed cloth with gilt crest; significantly faded and abraded spine, frayed corners, cracked inner hinges, loose sewing and partial separation near the back index, foxing in text. In need of conservation if handled frequently. 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They form the opening portion of a six-volume series issued in 1852–1853 and provide accounts of early Washington jurisprudence, including commercial disputes, criminal prosecutions and petitions for freedom by enslaved people. Cases published in these volumes, including Sylvia v. Coryell and Mima Queen v. Hepburn, are studied in the Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family digital history project. This work is distinct from Cranch's earlier reports of United States Supreme Court decisions.","condition":"Two matching original textblocks in later-looking tan institutional cloth; dusty and toned covers with superficial scuffs, darkening and spine wear; edge soiling and scattered foxing/toning, especially on title pages; library stamps to endpapers and page edges. Boards appear attached in photographed views. Vols I–II only of six; completeness within each volume uncollated. 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The signature attribution and identities of the Cotton family members have not been independently verified.","condition":"Original beige cloth with pale blue-green printed lettering. Light fading and surface soiling, modest corner and edge wear; appears structurally intact in photos. No dust jacket photographed. Photographed pages appear clean. Contents and condition as pictured; no additional loose material included. Full page-by-page collation not performed.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"yes","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Maine coast","Maritime life","Regional photography","New England"],"particulars":{"publisher":"E. P. 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The memorial identifies an official committee and proposes naming the company's Washington Street headquarters the John V. Bacot Building. Its biographical sketch links Bacot to French Huguenot settlers and the family's colonial American history. The work is evidence for Utica's private water-supply infrastructure and the city's business elite in the early twentieth century. A digitized bibliographic copy is recorded by Google Books.","condition":"Black grained, flexible leather- or leatherette-like binding with gilt-stamped name on front. Heavy abrasion and material loss along spine, significant wear at edges/corners; marble-patterned endpapers; photographed interior leaves and portrait appear reasonably clean. Binding material and completeness not verified. One supplied photo is out of focus.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Utica (N.Y.) local history","Water utilities","Corporate memorials","Huguenot genealogy"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Privately printed","place":"Utica, N.Y.","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":null,"binding":"other","bindingNote":"Black grained flexible leather- or leatherette-like covers, gilt-stamped name, marbled endpapers; material unconfirmed.","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860080080770","cents":6499,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/in-memoriam/0.jpg","small":"/img/in-memoriam/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"Front cover: John Vacher Bacot.\nPortrait leaf: John Bacot [printed facsimile signature beneath portrait].\nTitle page: IN MEMORIAM / JOHN VACHER BACOT / 1857–1921 / BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS / OF THE / CONSOLIDATED WATER COMPANY / OF UTICA, N.Y. / PRIVATELY PRINTED / UTICA, N.Y. / MCMXXII.\nResolution dated November 17, 1921; references death on October 30, 1921, company offices at 712 Washington Street and proposed naming John V. Bacot Building.\nText begins: John Vacher Bacot, President of the Consolidated Water Company of Utica, N.Y., died suddenly October 30, 1921, while strolling through the woods of his New Hartford property.","cls":"documented"},{"field":"imprint","label":"Imprint","value":"Privately printed, Utica, N.Y., MCMXXII [1922].","cls":"documented"},{"field":"extent","label":"Extent","value":"15 pages","cls":"documented"}],"sources":[],"indexedAt":"2026-10-24T19:37:44.639Z","about":{"name":"New York","scope":"region","countryCode":"US","lat":42.9,"lon":-75.5,"why":"subject"}},{"slug":"gridiron-nights","no":125,"title":"Gridiron Nights: Humorous and Satirical Views of Politics and Statesmen as Presented by the Famous Dining Club","creator":"Arthur Wallace Dunn","dateLabel":"1915","year":1915,"type":"book","category":"Books","volumes":1,"status":"available","soldMonth":null,"description":"Arthur Wallace Dunn’s 1915 Gridiron Club history survives in a distinctive Masonic presentation copy honoring fellow journalist and club member William Wallace Jermane.\n\nThe extensively illustrated book chronicles Washington political satire, journalist dinners and the famous club’s humorous treatment of American leaders. Jermane is named in the narrative itself at page 166, where his initiation into the Gridiron Club is described. On November 15, 1915, Benjamin B. French Lodge No. 15 in Washington presented an elaborate appreciation plate to Jermane, then Deputy Grand Master of Masons for the District of Columbia. The signed plate bears an impressed lodge seal and records his status as a journalist, Mason and friend. Jermane became District of Columbia Grand Master in 1916. Dunn and Jermane also participated in the same Gridiron Club social and professional circle.","condition":"Publisher's original dark navy ribbed cloth, very bright gold stamping and ornament on front and spine, mild rubbing/bumping and wear at lower spine and extremities. Interior plates/pages look clean and intact in photographs. The striking Masonic presentation plate with ink secretary signature and embossed seal is preserved on front pastedown. No dust jacket seen. Exact pagination/collation not checked.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"yes","subjects":["Gridiron Club","Journalism","Political satire","United States politics","Freemasonry","Book provenance"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Frederick A. Stokes Company","place":"New York","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":"Original 1915 edition","firstEdition":"yes","format":"4to","heightCm":27,"binding":"cloth","bindingNote":"Original navy-blue ribbed publisher's cloth, gilt titling and decorative garlands on upper board and spine","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860080089467","cents":14999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null},{"channel":"etsy","url":"https://www.etsy.com/listing/4610126131/antique-1915-gilt-book-gridiron-nights","cents":14999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/gridiron-nights/0.jpg","small":"/img/gridiron-nights/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[{"kind":"bookplate","person":"William Wallace Jermane","transcription":"\"Newspapers are the fourth estate of a nation\" / IN APPRECIATION OF / WILLIAM WALLACE JERMANE / JOURNALIST / DEPUTY GRAND MASTER OF MASONS / DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA / AS A MAN AS A MASON / AS A FRIEND / AT THE GRAND VISITATION OF / BENJAMIN B. FRENCH LODGE / NO. 15 F.A.A.M. WASHINGTON D.C. / NOVEMBER 15, 1915 / [in ink] E. St. Clair Thompson / Secretary / [embossed lodge seal]","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null}],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"GRIDIRON NIGHTS / HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL VIEWS OF POLITICS AND STATESMEN AS PRESENTED BY THE FAMOUS DINING CLUB / BY ARTHUR WALLACE DUNN / WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS / NEW YORK / FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY / PUBLISHERS / Copyright, 1915, by Arthur Wallace Dunn. Bookplate: \"Newspapers are the fourth estate of a nation\" / IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM WALLACE JERMANE / JOURNALIST / DEPUTY GRAND MASTER OF MASONS / DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA / AS A MAN AS A MASON AS A FRIEND / AT THE GRAND VISITATION OF BENJAMIN B. FRENCH LODGE / NO. 15 F.A.A.M. 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Niccolls Édition de Luxe; inferred from related editions)","year":1900,"type":"set","category":"Sets and multi-volume works","volumes":2,"status":"available","soldMonth":null,"description":"A two-volume Boston illustrated edition of John Doran’s essays on London theater and historical figures, issued in a numbered limited printing.\n\nThe set is identified on its limitation leaves as the Édition de Luxe, number 139 of 1,000 copies. Decorative title pages, tissue-guarded portraits and other illustrations accompany essays on Drury Lane, theatrical life, British personalities and social customs. A number of pieces first circulated in periodical form. This is a later American presentation of a work first published in London in 1881, not demonstrably an 1881 printing itself. Matching ornamental monogram bookplates appear in both volumes, but the owner has not yet been established.","condition":"Two slate-gray cloth volumes with significant chipping to both paper spine labels, frayed spine ends/corners, light rubbing and aging of paper, deckled edges. Illustrated leaves visible; completeness not fully collated.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"yes","subjects":["Theater history","London","Drury Lane Theatre","British social history"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Francis A. Niccolls & Co.","place":"Boston","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":"Édition de Luxe; no. 139 of 1,000 copies","firstEdition":"no","format":null,"heightCm":null,"binding":"cloth","bindingNote":"Matching slate-gray publisher's cloth, paper spine labels, deckled fore edges","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860080382894","cents":8999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null},{"channel":"etsy","url":"https://www.etsy.com/listing/4607377432/antique-two-volume-theatre-book-set-john","cents":8999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/in-and-about-drury-lane/0.jpg","small":"/img/in-and-about-drury-lane/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[{"kind":"bookplate","person":null,"transcription":"Decorative intertwined initials or monogram in both volumes, not securely read","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null}],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"In and About Drury Lane. By John Doran, LL.D. In Two Volumes. Volume I; Volume II. Published by Francis A. Niccolls & Co. Boston. ÉDITION DE LUXE: Limited to One Thousand Copies. No. 139.","cls":"documented"},{"field":"illustrations","label":"Illustrations","value":"Tissue-guarded engraved and other full-page portraits and images.","cls":"documented"},{"field":"edition","label":"Edition","value":"Édition de Luxe, no. 139 of 1,000","cls":"interpretation"}],"sources":[],"indexedAt":"2026-10-24T21:51:21.010Z","about":{"name":"United Kingdom","scope":"country","countryCode":"GB","lat":54,"lon":-2.5,"why":"subject"}},{"slug":"an-american-student-abroad","no":127,"title":"An American Student Abroad: From the Letters of James F. Magee","creator":"James Francis Magee; edited by George W. 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This photographed copy is in printed flexible wrappers rather than the cloth bindings commonly appearing in dealer descriptions.","condition":"Cream printed flexible covers stained with water-like brown rings and spots, edge/corner wear, browned paper, spine red string exposed; no verified author/editor autograph, full page count unverified.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"unknown","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Americans in Europe","Nineteenth-century travel","Travel correspondence","Philadelphia history"],"particulars":{"publisher":"The Magee Press","place":"Philadelphia","country":"US","printer":null,"edition":null,"firstEdition":"yes","format":null,"heightCm":null,"binding":"wrappers","bindingNote":"Cream printed card/paper covers in black and red, red thread visible along spine; distinct from hardbound copies on market","languages":["en"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860080384411","cents":2999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/an-american-student-abroad/0.jpg","small":"/img/an-american-student-abroad/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"Edited by George W. Magee, Jr. An American Student Abroad from the letters of James F. Magee. The Magee Press. 6388 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia. 1932.","cls":"documented"},{"field":"extent","label":"Extent","value":"Library of Congress record notes 297 + 3 pages and portrait plates for 1932 publication; this copy's flexible wrapper structure and total page count are not independently collated.","cls":"documented"}],"sources":[],"indexedAt":"2026-10-24T21:51:21.010Z","about":{"name":"Pennsylvania","scope":"region","countryCode":"US","lat":40.9,"lon":-77.8,"why":"subject"}},{"slug":"il-teatro-musicale-italiano","no":128,"title":"Il Teatro Musicale Italiano","creator":"Guido Bustico","dateLabel":"1924","year":1924,"type":"pamphlet","category":"Pamphlets","volumes":1,"status":"available","soldMonth":null,"description":"A 1924 Italian music bibliography bearing what appears to be the ownership name of prominent philologist Raphael G. Urciolo.\n\nGuido Bustico’s Il Teatro Musicale Italiano was published in Rome within the Fondazione Leonardo’s Guide Bibliografiche series and surveys Italian opera and musical theater literature. A conspicuous manuscript ‘Raphael G. Urciolo’ on the printed wrapper gives this copy particular association interest. The Italian-American scholar studied under Max Leopold Wagner and supported Wagner’s Sardinian etymological scholarship, making the ownership mark potentially relevant to the broader Wagner–Urciolo collection. The name requires comparison against verified handwriting, and the additional oval mark has not been identified. Independent copies of this 1924 printing are recorded by Italian libraries.","condition":"Original cream printed paper wrappers stained, foxed and browned; prominent fold and chip at upper right, frayed outer margin and spine, partly loose first gathering; pencil price and inked ownership name; completeness not physically collated.","completeness":"unknown","inscription":"yes","bookplate":"unknown","subjects":["Italian opera","Musical theater","Performing arts bibliography","Wagner-Urciolo provenance"],"particulars":{"publisher":"Fondazione Leonardo per la Cultura Italiana","place":"Roma","country":"IT","printer":null,"edition":"Guide Bibliografiche, no. 22; Roma, 1924","firstEdition":"unknown","format":null,"heightCm":17,"binding":"wrappers","bindingNote":"Decorative cream paper wrapper printed in red and black with pencil and ink ownership markings","languages":["it"]},"offers":[{"channel":"ebay","url":"https://www.ebay.com/itm/860080391173","cents":7999,"currency":"USD","lotSize":null}],"photos":[{"src":"/img/il-teatro-musicale-italiano/0.jpg","small":"/img/il-teatro-musicale-italiano/0-s.jpg","view":"front","w":1200,"h":1600}],"marks":[{"kind":"inscription","person":"Raphael G. Urciolo (probable reading; not authenticated)","transcription":"Raphael G. Urciolo","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null},{"kind":"stamp","person":null,"transcription":"Oval decorative monogram or signature-like ownership device, identity unresolved","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null},{"kind":"other","person":null,"transcription":"40- [pencil price on front cover]","basis":"observed","authenticated":"unknown","date":null,"place":null,"location":null,"role":null}],"facts":[{"field":"visible_text","label":"Text on the object","value":"Guide Bibliografiche. Guido Bustico. Il Teatro Musicale Italiano. Roma: Fondazione Leonardo per la Cultura Italiana, R. Palazzo Venezia, 48. 1924. Additional inked name or stamp on cover, reading uncertain.","cls":"documented"},{"field":"edition","label":"Edition","value":"Rome, Fondazione Leonardo per la Cultura Italiana, 1924, Guide Bibliografiche no. 22; 82 pages cataloged in SBN.","cls":"documented"}],"sources":[],"indexedAt":"2026-10-24T21:51:21.010Z","about":{"name":"Italy","scope":"country","countryCode":"IT","lat":42.8,"lon":12.5,"why":"subject"}},{"slug":"the-virginia-plutarch","no":129,"title":"The Virginia Plutarch","creator":"Philip Alexander Bruce","dateLabel":"1929","year":1929,"type":"set","category":"Sets and multi-volume works","volumes":2,"status":"sold","soldMonth":"2026-10","description":"Philip Alexander Bruce’s illustrated, two-volume history presents Virginia’s colonial, revolutionary and national contributions through biographies of notable figures.\n\nPublished at Chapel Hill in 1929, the set divides its narrative into The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras and The National Era. It includes portraits of Pocahontas, George Washington and other major Virginian figures, along with early maps and reproductions of period images. The publisher issued a separate numbered, signed vellum-backed version of the work; these are the regular two-tone cloth volumes. A decorative ex-libris of Lucien Minor Abbot is mounted inside one volume, documenting an earlier named owner without establishing a special association with the author.","condition":"Matching two-tone cloth boards and gilt spines with minor rubbing and cloth soiling, edge/corner wear, red-stained top edges; one mounted pictorial bookplate. 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By Philip Alexander Bruce, LL.B., LL.D. In Two Volumes. Volume I: The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras. Volume II: The National Era. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1929. 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Its full-page photographs and color images of dancers in elaborate costumes make it a useful visual record of mid-twentieth-century performance practice. The text addresses episodes from the Ramakien and other dramatic cycles and includes explanations of staging and roles. The original orange illustrated dust jacket reproduces two performing figures, while the brown cloth binding has gold stamping. 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