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Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.

Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle. by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
Dorothy Q, Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
Author
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893 Illustrated by Howard Pyle. First edition, first state, with "flashed" to p. 50. Publisher's decorative gray cloth stamped in metallic silver with a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, green-coated endpapers, top edge silver. A near fine copy with some light wear to extremities, signature of author and editor Francis G. Walett to front free endpaper. Overall, a fresh copy in a beautiful binding. This collection of poetry includes three previously published works by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Dorothy Q (1874), one of Holmes's best-known poems, is a portrait of his maternal grandmother, celebrating her life through short, rhyming verse interlaced with humor and statements of great affection. The other two poems draw inspiration from local history of the Boston area, where Holmes was born and lived most of his life. One of the Fireside Poets, Holmes stands in literary history with other American poets associated with New England, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was a renowned book artist and one of the most important binding designers during the golden age of illustration and publishers' use of decorative trade bindings. Along with her contemporaries Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) and Alice Cordelia Morse (1863-1961), Whitman is an example of how the Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic movements provided new opportunities for women's employment in the arts during the turn of the 20th century. Her work appeared as early as 1884, and through 1887 she was one of the only professional artists who regularly created book cover designs. Although often unsigned, Whitman's work is easily distinguishable through her use of restrained Art Nouveau aesthetic, preference of gilt over color stamping and ornamentation, favor of light-colored binding cloths, and use of sans-serif, high-waisted typography. She is heavily associated with the publisher Houghton Mifflin. A pioneer in the field of designer publisher's bindings, Whitman was the first to carry a cover design across the spine and to the rear board. In addition to book design, Whitman was a talented creator of stained glass.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Whitman, Sarah Wyman; Pyle, Howard.
KVP Household Papers on Parade

KVP Household Papers on Parade

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Title
KVP Household Papers on Parade
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Minor dust soiling.
Description
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1930. Very good. Minor dust soiling.. Illustrated advertising poster for wax paper, parchment paper, and other products sold by the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, promising housewives "You will enjoy doing housework Quicker, Better and Easier ... and with more pleasing results". Illustrations of the products march along the bottom of the poster with the directive, "See what these hard-working efficient fellows can do for you. Your army is waiting inside for inspection". Foldout measures 6.25" by 3.5" folded, 12.5" by 10" unfolded, illustrated and printed in black, orange, green.
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A Sachet Valentine by Anonymous

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Title
A Sachet Valentine
Author
Anonymous
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
S. l. (England): s. n., 1860. Very good. Sachet valentine, n. d. (1860s); 5 x 3 1/2; several layers of gilded and embossed paper lace, forming an elaborate, 4-sided envelope; recto with two die-cut chromolithographs of flowers and butterflies; verso with a larger chromolithograph of a floral bouquet; silk satchet within, with a poem printed on it; remarkably well-preserved, with minor loss of paper to edges; in very good or better condition. Although unsigned, the stunning valentine could possibly be attributed to Benjamin Sulman - renowned British lithographer and manufacturer of greeting cards and valentines in the 1860s and 1870s, in the lavish style of the current one and quite often containing a perfumed sachet. The novelty of a sachet valentine would have been irresistible to the ladies - what with receiving a secret message, printed on a pad of perfumed silk, which reads: “Forget-Me-Not”: I have a little flower I tend it ev’ry day I place it where the sun- beam May warm it with its ray, I would thou wert that flower! And I, the sun to thee How sweetly should’st thou bask love, In purest beams from me-- I’d peer into each dew- drop bright, That in thy petals lay And finding there imag’d light, I’d kiss thy drops away!
Manual de Historia Uruguaya. Artigas. [Volume One only]

Manual de Historia Uruguaya. Artigas. [Volume One only] by Acevedo, Eduardo

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Title
Manual de Historia Uruguaya. Artigas. [Volume One only]
Author
Acevedo, Eduardo
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A very good unopened (uncut) copy with sunned and edgeworn wrappers, darkened spine, leaves browning.
Description
Montevideo: A Monteverde y Cía, 1942. Third edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy with sunned and edgeworn wrappers, darkened spine, leaves browning.. 541 pp. Sm. 4to. Includes tom 1: part 1. Colonización. Las invasiones inglesas. La revolución de mayo de 1810. part. 2. Artigas. Sus luchas a favor de la democracia y la libertad. part. 3. Bajo la dominación portuguesa. La cruzada de los 33 orientales.

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