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Seller: James Arsenault & Company

Title: The Art of Making Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice from the Minutest to the Highest Branches: Containing the Plain and easy Directions for Mixing and Preparing the Ingredients, with instructions for making Squibs, Crackers, Serpents, Wheels, Roman Candles, &c. As also for some highly curious Aquatic Fireworks
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson, [1818]. 12mo., original printed paperboards, black cloth spine. 24 pp., with hand-colored folding frontis. engraving (8.75" x 7"). An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece recently reinforced, title at head of frontispiece trimmed at time of publication.

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

Title: Rags and Tatters, A Magic Action Story
Author: [ANONYMOUS]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co, 1936. 1st Edition. Stiff boards. Near fine. 4to; [18pp]; color pictorial wrappers on stiff board; 3 staple binding; 3 color illustrated pop-up; light ink bleed through from some illustrations, small scuff to white dog face, light age toning of paper; near fine. Only 3 located in WorldCat libraries. Charming story of two mischievous dogs with three color pop-ups.

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel
Author: Van Vechten, Carl
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Full black cloth under black & yellow illustrated dust jacket (same cover design at the first edition by Knopf). Slight wear to DJ at spine ends. Published the same year as The Great Gatsby, and largely dealing with the same smart set & ennui, this one adds some gay intrigue (Van Vechten himself was gay). F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Van Vechten that Firecrackers was his favorite of his (VV's) novels.