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First US edition. Blanck's second printing, issue A. Original blue cloth blocked in black and gilt. Illustrated. This copy has been rebacked with most of the original spine laid-on, lacking from the word 'Adventures' to the top. The tops of the signatures have been neatly repaired at the gutter, not noticeable when the volume is opened. New peach endpapers. Light rubbing and wear to the original cloth. A very good copy. BAL 3369.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.
Price: $2,500.00
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12mo. iv, 5-132pp. Contemporary full leather. Lacks front free endpaper, and a small piece from the top corner of the title page; leather mended at some time at the base of the spine; general wear and scuffing; else a very good copy. Silas Betton's copy, with his signature and flourish on the front pastedown. Also with the signature of J. M. Cross of Boscawen(?), N.H. dated 1856. Betton (1768-1822) was a member f the State House of Representatives (1797-1799), State Senator (1801-1803), Elected as a Federalist to the 8th and 9th Congresses (1803-1807) a lawyer, a high sheriff, and served a further term in the State House of Representatives (1810-1811).

The Lay Preacher; Or Short Sermons for Idle Readers
Dennie, Joseph
Walpole, Newhampsire: David Carlisle, Jun., 1796.
Price: $1,000.00
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8vo. x,(2),334pp. Publisher's blue buckram. Cloth is soiled and worn, gilt spine titles have perished. The binding is in poor shape; but the text block is very good. Inscribed by Ransom on the front free endpaper to Nathaniel Hirsch: "To N D. Mttron Hirsch In Old Friendship. John Crowe Ransom. October 26, 1920. With diffidence I submit tis to a philosopher." There is a further inscription form Sidney Mttron Hirsch to his brother Nathaniel on the reverse of the Cotents pagel: "Dear Nathaniel: You knowing what I mean by the word 'brother', are aware that I can add nothing to -- your brother. Sidney Mtron Hirsch". Scarce tite and rare association.

God Without Thunder (Signed)
Ransom. John Browe
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1930).
Price: $500.00
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Folio. xxxvii, 110pp. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver on the spine and the upper board. The map endpapers. The plates of the moon are printed in color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has two closed marginal tears on the rear panel, else it is in very good condition.

The Times Atlas of the Moon
Lewis, H. A. G., ed.
London: Times Newspapers Limited Printing House, 1969.
Price: $175.00
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8vo. 436pp. Stated: First American Edition form the Last London Edition." Contemporary full calf. Spine with simple gilt rules. Lettering label perished, upper hinge strengthened, heel of spine worn, light soil and trace of foxing else a very good copy. Scarce 1806 printing. Volume 2 only, of 3.

Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Delivered in the University of Edinburgh;... Vol. II.
Black, Joseph
Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1806.
Price: $450.00
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8vo. vii,(1),327,(1). A new edition of Roger's poem. Full contemporary red leather binding by Oldfield. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and intricately gilt; gilt urns and rules to the boards, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Illustrtaed. Occasional light foxing and with traces of wear and sunning to the leather, some tape marks on the front free endpaper, ownership names, else a near fine copy. And with a pleasing fore-edge painting under the gilt: a view of a river, bridge, street scene and which may be, according to a note on the front free endpaper, of Florence.

Italy. A Poem.
(Fore-edge Painting) Samuel Rogers
London: Edward Moxon, 1852.
Price: $1,000.00
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Three volumes. 4to. Contemporary half leather. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, red and black leather lettering pieces gilt. Marbled paper boards. Decorated endpapers. Title pages in red and black. Volume 1 is the Parte Preliminar, 1874. Volumes 2 and 3 are the Historia de la Geografia. Volume 2 has two large folding maps and five full page tinted plates; Volume 3 has 4 folding maps and five full page tinted plates, complete as called for. Bindings lightly worn at edges, occasional light staining and spotting, top edges of volumes 1 and 2 spotted, volume three has a long narrow wormhole in the last 40pp of text affecting the printing, else this is a very good set. The author later published two volumes on the mineralogy and geology of Peru sometimes included in this series. In Spanish.

El Peru: Parte Preliminar and Historia de la Geografia del Peru
Raimondi, Antonio
Lima: Imprenta del Estado, 1874-1880.
Price: $750.00
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12mo. 240pp. Contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Neat ownership name on the half-title. The final three pages constitute the publisher's catalogue. Edges well worn as is the text block, but still a good copy. The guide takes the reader from France through the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Swizerland, across the German countries, the Low Countries, British Isles, Portugal and ends in Spain. Rare. OCLC finds only one record. In Spanish.

Paseo por Europa, O Escenas Instructivas y Pintorescas Proprias para Dar Conocimiento a los Jovenes ....
Paris: Pillet Aine, 1838.
Price: $250.00
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First edition. 4to. Original brown cloth, silver titling. Illustrated with 74 duotone and 198 halftone illustrations. Foreword by James L. Enyeart. A New York Graphic Society Book published by Little, Brown in association with the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. Critical biography of the great photographer, considered a late-modern photography classic. One of a limited number of copies presented by the Center for Creative Photography and signed on a special page by Siskind for members of the Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped; the spine has only the barest trace of sunning else it is fine as well.

Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (Signed)
Chiarenza, Carl
Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.
Price: $175.00
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First printing. 8vo. 251,(1)pp. Nicely and artfully bound in tan leather; spine in five uneven compartments; watered silk cloth sides and spine labels, gilt. Handmade paper endpapers. Natonek's first book. He was a Jewish German-Czech writer and nationalist whose writings were burned by the Nazis. Some staining and soiling mainly due to removal of tape placed by a former owner, short closed tear to title page (no loss) else this is a very good copy in a fine binding and a scarce survival. Inscribed by Natonek to his publisher (publizistischen Kopf) thanking him for all of his assistance, and dated Leipzig, April 20, 1927; this is followed by another inscription dated New York, December, 1943, which was just about the time Natonek arrived in exile in the United States. The opening essay is "Chaplins Wallfahrt", and the connection with Charlie Chaplin was continued with Natonek's 1931 review of "City Lights". Rare.

Schminke und Alltag (Signed)
Natonek, Hans
Leipzig: F. Krick Verlag, 1927.
Price: $500.00
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4to. 344pp. New quarter leather binding, leather lettering slip, gilt; red buckram boards. Old library stamp on the reverse of the title page, two pp. remargined (no loss), light marginal stain along bottom of first 20pp, else a very good copy. Definitive discussion of the practices of the Tribunal and the persons it tried; lists of names and sentences; spells, extracts from the records. In Spanish.

Los Procesos de Hechicerías en la Inquisicion de Castilla la Nueva: (Tribunales de Toledo y Cuenca)
Cirac Estopanan, D. Sebastian
Madrid: "Diana", 1942.
Price: $500.00
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4to. xxvi, (ii),675,(iii)pp. Contemporary full marbled sheep; spine n 6 compartments with raised bands, purple lettering label, gilt; marbled end papers. Portrait frontispiece. Ex-library copy with circular stamp on the reverse of the title and a label removed from the rear free end paper. Marginal damp stain with a tide line noticeable on the outer edges of the frontispiece and title, on the bottom of the front board and top edge, else a very good copy. The author is a well-known Chilean bibliographer and published several works which have remained the standard reference; the current title is one of three now-standard works on the Inquisition in former Spanish colonies.

Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion en Chile
Medina, Jose Toribio
Santiago de Chile: Fondo Historico y Bibliografico J. T. Medina, 1952.
Price: $450.00
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This is likely the first English edition of an important American dictionary, but it was electrotyped in Boston at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. In addition to the London imprint it also bears imprints of Edinburgh, Paris and Boston, and, on the reverse of the title page, recites the standard Clerk's Office Entry for Boston, Massachusetts, dated 1859. Thick 4to. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Recent binding of half leather, spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, black cloth sides and black leather lettering label, gilt, top edge stained blue-black. The present work was regarded as the major American dictionary until Merriam's new edition of Webster's American Dictionary appeared in 1864. There were several innovative features in the present dictionary. It included a historical sketch about dictionaries and an improved method of treating synonyms. It was also one of the earliest dictionaries to use illustrations in the text. Comparing Worcester to Webster, Worcester was the more conservative of the two, holding more closely to British usage. Thick quarto. [lxviii], 1786 pp. Text in triple columns, woodcut illustrations in text. Neat library stamp on reverse of title, some roughness of the title page edge else a near fine copy.

A Dictionary of the English Language
Worcester, Joseph
London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., (1859).
Price: $500.00
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (Signed)
Rhodes, James Ford
NY: Macmillan, 1900-1906.
Price: $2,000.00
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Original full sheep; 6 simple gilt lines on spine; black lettering label, gilt. Hinges worn and there are a few small gouges to the leather, mostly on the spine, else a near fine copy. 'This edition contains the late Constitutions of Vermont, Delaware, Georgia and Kentucky, with the Regulations for the Government of the Territory north-west of the River Ohio; also, the Amendments to the Constitution of Maryland;--not in any former edition.' Kentucky had been admitted to the Union in the previous year. NUC records only this collation. Scarce in original binding.

The Constitutions of the United States, According to the Latest Amendments
(Constitutions)
Philadelphia: Campbell, 1800.
Price: $1,000.00
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(The Peloponnesian War) Thucydides Translated into English by Benjamin Howett, M.A., Late Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
(Ashendene Press) Thucydides
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1930.
Price: $4,500.00
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The Vege-Men's Revenge
Upton, Bertha
London, New York & Bompay: Lonmans. Green & Co, 1897.
Price: $400.00
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Three Puzzle Plates: Purcell's Lithographic Drawing Book, "China" & "Crockery"; Figures of Fun, "The Fruiterer"
Tilt, Charles, publisher
London: Charles Tilt, 1831-1833.
Price: $750.00
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4to. 64pp plus 64pp. Green cloth spine, glazed full color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Two early Disney stories from Silly Symphony in one volume. The Three Little Pigs is illustrated in black and white and with 12 full page full color illustrations. This is followed by The Big Bad Wolf and Little Riding Hood, with its own title page, also illustrated in black and white and with 11 full color full page illustrations and one double page full color illustration. The front endpapers show the three pigs and the wolf; the rear show a map through the forest from Red's house to Grandma's: it goes by the house of the three pigs and so they figure in the story. This is a fine, sharp copy, with only a trace of wear along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is present. It is a little worn on the spine and stained along the bottom, else very good and not price-clipped. It contains the special sticker announcing the second story and that this is the Combined Edition. The Three Little Pigs was published in the previous year as a stand-alone title, and Red Riding Hood in 1934 also as a stand-alone. Scarce in collectible condition as individual volumes and downright rare in the Combined Edition.

Three Little Pigs; The Big Bad Wolf and Little Riding Hood Combined Edition
Disney, Walt
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1934).
Price: $1,000.00
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Small oblong 8vo. 8pp followed by the 20 engraved plates of the heavens, printed on one side only. Paper-covered boards with title a paste-on to the upper board. Publication date from Kayser, Vollstandiges Bucher-Lexicon. Boards somewhat worn and soiled, light foxing to the text and plates. Rare. Only 3 institutional copies located.

Himmels-Atlas in 20 Blattern nach den grossen Bodenschen Sternkarten
Reidig, Christian G.
Leipzig: Schreiber, 1849.
Price: $500.00
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The January, 1849, issue of this prestigious series. 8vo. pp. 425-432b (i.e., 22pp). Green printed wraps. Plus full page hand-colored tissue-guarded plates of Dipladenia Urophylla, Asclepias Douglasii, Campylobotrys Discolor, Scutellaria Macrantha, Jambosa Malaccensis, Cypripedium Spectabile, Nemophila Maculata, Vriesea Glaucophylla and Haricot Beurre (eight plates in all). The wraps are chipped, the upper wrap is unevenly soiled and lacks a a small piece at the hinge. The plates are fine and bright except the first, which has a couple of mostly marginal soil marks. The publisher arranged for his own explorers to collect new exotic plants, then documented them in this series. Rare.

Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe
Van Houtte, Louis
(Ghent): Louis Van Houtte, 1849.
Price: $175.00
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Album of Pressed European Flowers
(Pressed flowers) B.B.
n.p.: n.p., 1853-55.
Price: $450.00
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Stiff printed wraps. Approximately 4 by 6½ inches. 32pp printed in one side only. The printed sides have text under neatly handcolored illustrations. Somewhat worn at edges and soiled; the final leaf with a closed tear at some early time neatly sewn back together with hardly any loss. A good copy of a scarce book, first published in England in 1823. (This American edition has rhymes which differ form the English edition.) The publisher, Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854) is called the first U.S. stationer after he opened his shop in 1804 in Baltimore. Osborne II, 650.

Little Rhymes for Little Folks; Or A Present for Fanny's Library. By a Lady.
Fanny's Library
Baltimore: Published by Fielding Lucas, Jun'r, n.d., ca. 1830.
Price: $300.00
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12mo. 4 by 7 inches. Printed sewn wraps. 17pp printed on one side only. Each page bears a well-executed hand-colored woodcut illustration of the story, with the printed verse below. Illustration on page 12 has a coffin with a date of 1819; the paper is watermarked 1825 (same page, also page 4). Last age is a listing of Harris's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction (23 titles), not listing this title. Wraps rubbed and worn, txt with light soil, but still a very good copy of a fragile title.

Cock Robin, A Pretty Painted Toy for Either Girl or Boy; Suited to Children of All Ages
(Cock Robin)
London: J. Harris & Son, n.d. (1825).
Price: $500.00
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8vo. viii, 188, (2)pp. With 2300 Figures. Thirty-eight full page plates of shell in two states: One hand-colored followed by one uncolored. Contemporary full long grained red leather. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; two with gilt titles and the remainder tooled in gilt. Boards tooled in gilt and blind. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbles endpapers. With the bookplate of Wm. Strong, an engraved lion's paw. Trace of soil to the lather else a fine copy.

Index Testaceologicus; Or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, Arranged According to The Linnean System;: With the Latin and English Names, References to Authors, and Places Where Found.
Wood, W.
London: Printed for W. Wood, 1825.
Price: $1,000.00
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Alphabet Pittoresque Dessine par Lepan
(ABC)
Paris: Ches tous les Marchauds de Nouveautes, n.d. (ca. 1850).
Price: $250.00
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16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. our alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case. Cover with a vignette of a plant, title page almost the same but the vignette is a palm tree. Pagination agrees with Welch: [1], [2-3], 4-26. [27-28], adv. list of books]. Cover soiled and rubbed, light age soiling to the text block but overall a very good copy. Contemporary ownership name of Bringhurst on the title page. Rare. Welch 439.1.

Hymns for Little Children
Gilbert, Ann (née Ann Taylor)
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812.
Price: $750.00
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Approximately 4½ by 7 inches. Sewn wraps, the upper wrap with titles and a vignette of the ball; the lower wraps listing juvenile books for sale by Marks. 16pp. printed one one side only and each with text and a handcolored illustration (some heightened with gum Arabic), pasted into the cover wraps, making eight hand-colored plates. Cover somewhat worn and soiled, text block less so. A good copy. Contemporary ownership signature on the front pastedown. Scarce--only two institutional copies located worldwide.

Marks's Edition: The Butterfly's Ball. And the grasshoppers Feast
Roscoe, William
Smithfield: J. L. Marks, n.d., ca. 1840.
Price: $250.00
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12mo: approximately 4¾ v 5½ inches. Publisher's rose-colored paper over boards, the upper bard with an engraved pasteon showing title and useful tools. xiii,(2),102pp followed by 2pp of publisher's ads and then 22 engraved plates, some of which are folding. Handcolored frontispiece. The Third edition, form the German. Ex-Grolier Club, with its bookplate on the front pastedown and 'Sold' printed through it, Hinges and edges worn, board paper somewhat rubbed and faded, else this is a very good copy.

Papyro-Plastics, Or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Your Persons of Both Sexes
Boileau, D.
London: Printed for T. and T. Booney, 1830.
Price: $250.00
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The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. The Fifth Edition.
Fuller, S. and J.
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810.
Price: $1,000.00
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12mo. 38pp printed on one side only. Illustrated with handcolored lithographed title page and nine handcolored lithograph plates with moveable flaps. Contemporary full red leather, boards embossed in blind and, on the upper board, with the title and frame in gilt; "The Lady's Toilet". All edges gilt. Each plate is followed by a riddle in verse on the next page describing the plate and suggesting what will be found when the flap is lifted. A tiny piece lacking from the fore-edge of one plate (no loss) else this is in very good condition with all of the flaps intact. Rarely found complete. Ownership name on the front free endpaper dated 1851. While the author's name does not appear, it is reputedly Stacey Grimaldi, whose father, William, a London miniature painter, provided the charming illustrations.

The Toilet
(Grimaldi, Stacey)
London: Rock Brothers & Payne, n.d., ca. 1845.
Price: $850.00
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15 x 24 mm. (about ¾' by 1"). 64pp . Illustrated. With Almanac for 1793. Contemporary full leather. Boards and spine tooled in gilt, also tooled with 'Libert Egalit" on the upper board and crossed swords on the lower. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Rare. Not found in Gumuchian; Welsh #5483 (under 'Paul et Virginia';

Paul et Virginie A Paris
(Miniature) Saint Pierre, J. B. H
(Paris): Chez Janet, Successeur du Sieur Jubet, (1792).
Price: $1,000.00
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16 x 25 mm. (about ¾' by 1"). 64pp. Illustrated. Contemporay full leather. Boards and spine tooled in gilt. A fine copy. Rare. Gumuchian, #4055; Welsh, #221.

L'Amour et les Belles. Pour l'Annèe 1818
(Miniature)
Paris: (Marcilly), (1817).
Price: $1,000.00
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19 x 27 mm. (about ¾' by 1"). 64pp. Eight tiny full-page illustrations. Contemporary full leather. Boards and spine tooled in gilt, the boards showing a bird returning to tree.. Small abrasion to the upper left corner of the title, affecting the fist letter, else a fine copy. Rare. Not found in Gumuchian ; Similar to Welsh, #6892, but slightly larger and does not contain word Almanac in title.

Valeur et Constance. Année 1823
(Miniature)
Paris: E. Jourdan, (1822).
Price: $350.00
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8vo. (8), 160 pp. Half-title present. Contemporary paneled calf boards, nicely rebacked in polished calf with a red morocco lettering piece, gilt. Some browning to the text block, wear to the edges and corners and leather boards rubbed else this is a very good copy. This is the first authorized edition, there were reportedly two pirated editions preceding. Oxford, p. 51. The poem, 'The Art of Cookery', is in Latin with facing English translation. With the bookplates of John L. Marks and Mary Chadsey.

The Art of Cookery, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With Some letters to Dr. Lister, and Others: ... Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients.: By the Author of the Journey to London.
(King, William)
London: Bernard Lintott, (1708).
Price: $600.00
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8vo. vi, 7-512pp. First Bagster edition, being the seventh edition overall. Frontispiece and sixteen plates plus engraved illustrations of fish in the text. The full page plates consist of two plates of portraits in the 'Life of Walton'; eleven plates in the 'Angler' (2 of music), and the remaining in the final section by Cotton. Nicely bound in full crimson crushed morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt; gilt rules on both boards, and on the inner dentelles; all edges gilt. Occasional foxing to the text block else a very good copy in a fine, lovely binding.

The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse o Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing.
Walton, Isaac, and Charles Cotton
London: Samuel Bagster, 1808.
Price: $250.00
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Folio. One of 250 numbered copies of which this is number 170. Chapter headings and binding blocks by Nuiko Haramaki. Printed on handmade Tovil paper (replete with ecclesiastical watermarks and deckle edges., Original programs from the stage productions of the San Francisco-based Interplayers are bound into their places in the text, and others are housed in a special pocket in the rear board. The endpapers are from a production of Hamlet. Binding of beige linen by Perry G. Davis, housed in a special foldover case which itself is housed in a slipcase with cloth insets of a spade on one side and a club on the other. A fine copy. And with the prospectus (San Francisco, 1956) laid-in.

Printing for Theater
Wilson, Adrian
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1957.
Price: $1,500.00
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12mo. 64pp. Printed wraps. The wraps are soiled, worn and creased, the spine perished, upper wrap partially detached, and the first two pages are also soiled and with edges turned in; thereafter the text block is in generally good condition and uncut in places, but there is a thin on the title page affecting the 'O of 'Origin'. Exceedingly scarce pamphlet in any condition. OCLC locates only two copies.

The Origin and Nature of Ghosts, Demons, and Spectral Illusions Generally. Familiarly Explained and Illustrated
Buchanan, R(obert)
Manchester: A. Heywood, ca. 1840.
Price: $300.00
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Small 8vo. (28),291,(1)pp. 19th cent. full calf by Hering of Regent Street. marbled endpapers and edges. Author's name from Wing; sometimes erroneously attributed to David Craufurd. Bound without portrait or errata slip, sometimes present. Rebacked with original backstrip laid on (with some loss to the edges), boards yawning a bit, else a very good copy. With a blank modern bookplate on the front free endpaper and the armorial plate of Somerst on the front pastedown. Wing C6853; ESTC R5167.

The History of the House of Esté. From the time of Forrestus until the Death of Alphonsus the last Duke of Ferrara ...
Craufurd, James
London: J. M. for Rich. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Pauls Church-yard, 1681.
Price: $500.00
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12mo. viii,(9-)290pp. Contemporary full sheep, spine gilt. Frontispiece of Franklin present, as well as both the engraved and the typeset title pages. Endpapers perished; typical general staining to the text block; hinges repaired and spine gilt and spine tips worn; but still a good copy in its original binding and complete with the usually lacking frontispiece and engraved title.

The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary with His Life, Written by Himself
Franklin Benjamin
New=York: George G. Sickels; Publisher, 1830.
Price: $300.00
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4to. Black quarter morocco and Japanese cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on red leather spine. The text is was composed in Ehrhardt types and printed on Frankfurt mould made paper. Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris. Tipped-in original folio and quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of black and white illustrations. Illustrated with original watermarked leaves, and 5 original double leaves from "Old Paper-Making", "Papermaking in Siam", Old Papermaking in China and Japan", "Papermaking in Indo-China", and "Papermaking by Hand in America." There is also a leaf from Dard II's "The Life Work of Dard Hunter." There are reset pages from Roycroft books and rare ephemera , color photos of DH's stained-glass, marbled and paste papers, black and white photos of moulds, watermarks, and type specimens. One of 225 numbered copies. I fine condition. In original gold colored silk cloth covered clamshell box with gilt lettering on red leather spine label, also in fine condition. With Publisher's Prospectus laid-in.

Dard Hunter & Son
Hunter, Dard, II, and Dard Hunter, III
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998.
Price: $1,000.00
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Thin 4to. (38)pp. Pictorial paper over boards, bright yellow cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Each page illustrated in either black & white or color with scenes from the Fantasia production. A superb copy, fine and bright, with only the barest trace of wear along the bottom edge. The dustwrapper is present. It is price-clipped and it is rubbed both on the upper and lower panels and at the folds, else it is in very good condition. A scarce early Disney title and downright rare in this condition.

Dance of the Hours from Walt Disney's Fantasia
Disney, Walt
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940).
Price: $500.00
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4 folio volumes: The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, and The Age of Satinwood. With plates in color after Shirley Slocombe, and numerous illustrations selected and arranged by the author. Bound in half green morocco by Asprey, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and titles, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A superb, gift-quality set of the standard reference on English furniture. A sumptuous gift for the discriminating collector on your list, or for yourself. The binding matches our copy of Ralph Edwards' 'Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture' (our number 18577).

A History of English Furniture : Finely bound in leather by Asprey
Macquoid, Percy
London: Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd, 1938.
Price: $1,250.00
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Large 4to. Illustrated with 184 plate sin black and white and color; the color plates are tipped-in. List of pottery ad porcelain marks in rear. Bound in half deep red morocco by Asprey, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and titles, deep red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A superb, gift-quality title. A sumptuous gift for the discriminating collector on your list, or for yourself.

English Pottery and Porcelain: Finely leatherbound by Asprey
Savage, George
London: Oldbourne Press, n.d. (1961).
Price: $175.00
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First state with section headings Book First, Book Second and Book Third. Colored title page and 19 full page plates, five in full color and the rest in two colors. Color pictorial endpapers. Original red cloth blocked in white, black and brown on the upper board in an illustration of Santa descending a chimney. The spine is blocked with the title in black and brown. The pictorial endpapers depict Santa in his sleigh. Cloth lightly soiled and discolored and the white ink rubbed in places, notably on Santa's beard; small repair to the front inner hinge, and chip to the free edge; else this is a very good copy. It also has a contemporary gift inscription on a preliminary blank dated 1902 and an ownership name and address on the half title.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Baum, L. Frank
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, (1902).
Price: $1,000.00
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8vo. 84pp. Cloth spine, red leather lettering label, gilt; printed paper boards. Described 205 bindings, many of which are illustrated by full page plates. One of 127 copies on handmade paper. Trace of wear at the edges else a very good copy. With the charming wyvern bookplate of the Rasmussens on the front pastedown.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Bookbindings by the Caxton Club (in the Art Institute) December XVI to XXX, MDCCCXCVII
(Caxton Club)
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co for the Caxton Club, 1898.
Price: $250.00
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8vo. xii,50pp. Cloth spine, gilt; paper over bards with a gilt block of a hand press on the upper board. Map endpapers showing the dates of the first known printing in the several sates. Illustrated. Bibliography. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered, but with a lengthy inscription form Herschel and Anne Logan to Bill and Lucille Rasmussen, friends of the press. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper.

The American Hand Press--its Origin, Development and Use
Logan, Herschel C.
Whittier: The Curt Zoler Press, 1980.
Price: $150.00
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Folio. 349 followed by 61 tissue-guarded plates. Printed cloth biding. The pastedown ticket indicates that the binding is based on a 16th century binding illustrated in No. 115 of the catalog .A very good copy.

Exposición de Encuadernaciones Españolas Siglos XII al XIX.
Rolland, Francisco Hueso
Madrid: La Clasa Blass, 1934.
Price: $500.00
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Folio, 10 by 13 inches. Cloth-backed portfolio with ribbon ties housing two text folded sheets and 50 full size plates of bookbindings. The portfolio is printed in red and black. The spine label of the portfolio is partially perished, edges lightly worn and some soil else it is in very good condition. The plates are in fine condition. No. 17 in the 'L'Art Intenational d'Aujourd'hui' collection. Binders represented include Georges Crette, Pierre Legrain, Rose Adler, Robert Bonfls ad Genevieve de Leotard.

Reliures Presente par Rose Adler
Adler, Rose
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, (1929).
Price: $350.00
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Folio. 178pp followed by 64 finely printed full page plates of bookindings. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine. Spine faded else a very good copy with fine plates.

Maioli, Canevari and Others
Hobson, G. D.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1926.
Price: $225.00
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