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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). (TRAVEL IN BRITAIN, DEVON AND CORNWALL). NORWAY, ARTHUR H.

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL
Author: (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). (TRAVEL IN BRITAIN, DEVON AND CORNWALL). NORWAY, ARTHUR H.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London and New York: Macmillan Company, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 140 mm. (8 x 5 1/2"). viii, 391 pp. VERY PRETTY OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO, GILT IN AN ARTS & CRAFTS DESIGN, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed on front pastedown and with exhibition stamp on rear pastedown), covers abloom with stylized flowers and twining vines, gilt lettering on upper cover, raised bands, spine compartments with similar flower-and-leaves designs, gilt lettering, turn-ins tooled with gilt leaves, red silk pastedowns and endleaves, top edge gilt. With 66 illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson, 26 of these full-page, and a folding map. Front flyleaf with engraved bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme. Spine and edges of boards sunned to a medium brown (as expected with green leather), a breath of rubbing to spine bands and extremities, isolated thumbing, but still a fine copy--clean and fresh internally, and in a scarcely worn binding bright with gilt. This engaging account of Southwest England features a harmoniously designed binding by an important workshop. Our author, British civil servant and writer Arthur Hamilton Norway (1859-1938), had an extremely varied literary output which included fiction, travelogues, and literary analysis. In the present work, part of a "Highways and Byways" series produced by the Macmillan Company, the author provides a delightful journey through the landscape, history, and folklore of his native Devon and neighboring Cornwall. The text is accompanied by a charming series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) and Hugh Thomson (1860-1920); these alternate between cheerful sketches of the towns and scenery and romantic caricatures of the historic locals. The attractive binding is a fine example of the work of the Zaehnsdorf firm, long a top-ranked English bindery. Born in Pest, Hungary, Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-86) served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart, worked at a number of European locations as a journeyman, and then settled in London, where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at age 33, when the senior Joseph died, and the firm flourished under the son's leadership, becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years, Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders, including the Frenchman Louis Genth (who was chief finisher from 1859-84), and trained a number of others, including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. A family-run business until 1947, the Zaehnsdorf bindery continued to produce consistently attractive and innovative designs executed with unfailing skill. Here, a complex design of softly curving foliage and bright flowers mirrors the serene countryside described in the book's pages. The bookplate is most likely that of American heiress Ophelia Fowler Duhme (1854-1921), who had a handful of attractively illustrated bookplates made for her throughout her collecting life..

Blytheville. In the Heart of the St. Francis Valley In the State of Arkansas by [Arkansas]

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

Title: Blytheville. In the Heart of the St. Francis Valley In the State of Arkansas
Author: [Arkansas]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Blytheville, AR: Press of the News for the Business Men's Club, 1912. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Photographically illustrated. Minor wear and toning to wrappers, ink ownership signature on front wrapper from local resident. Text block detached but clean. Very good overall. An unrecorded promotional for home seekers in northeastern Arkansas in the early 20th century. Blytheville was founded by Methodist clergyman Henry T. Blythe in 1879. The lumber industry brought sawmills and a rowdy crowd of settlers, as the area became known for its disreputable saloon culture in the 1880s and '90s. After clearing the land through the lumber industry, cotton became a thriving local commodity, encouraged by ongoing levee building and waterway management. The population grew significantly after the turn of the century. The text here contains numerous facts about the town, as well as promotional passages about the town's agriculture, roads, water supply, schools, and so forth. The text is profusely illustrated with photographs on just about every page showing the first Methodist Episcopal Church, numerous agricultural scenes (timber, alfalfa, cotton, corn, and strawberry harvesting), livestock, the local high school, and more. We were unable to locate any holdings in OCLC.

Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People: Federal Writers Project of the Workers Progress Administration (American Guide Series)

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Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books

Title: Massachusetts: A Guide to its Places and People: Federal Writers Project of the Workers Progress Administration (American Guide Series)
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo., 675pp. Sharp First Edition, First Printing Bound in dark blue cloth with titles in gilt on front board and spine. Illustrations, photographs and maps throughout including large fold-out map in rear pocket. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.50), has some tiny chipping in spine ends and a 1" hole in the middle rear hinge. Some edge-wear and rubbing. Still fresh, bright and complete. Fold out map about Fine. A very pretty collectable copy.

The Lice by W.S. Merwin

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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Title: The Lice
Author: W.S. Merwin
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780246974396
Condition: Fine
Description: London : Hart-Davis, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First British Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket, some creases on inside flaps and top spine edge. Stated "First published in Great Britain in 1969" on copyright page. .

Franco Assetto: anthology

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Title: Franco Assetto: anthology
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [Milan:] Fabbri Editori, [1985] First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Assetto in 1986, with a bold inscription spanning across the front endpapers. Pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Minor shelfwear. Near fine.

Concepts in Film Theory by Andrew, Dudley

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Title: Concepts in Film Theory
Author: Andrew, Dudley
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
Description: Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, minimal shelfwear, previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket faded along spine, one tiny nick and some associated short creasing at top of front panel, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. This book "concentrates on the major areas of debate rather than on individual figures" in the sometimes arcane regions of film theory. The author, touted as "a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified [and, one might also say, largely uninterested] public," here "provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psychology and structuralism; semiotics and psychoanalysis; hermeneutics and genre study." As the saying goes, it's the sort of thing you'll like, if you like that sort of thing. .

POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN by Whitman, Walt

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Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books

Title: POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN
Author: Whitman, Walt
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: London: Review of Review Office, (ca. 1894). Original orange wrappers, 60 pp. plus four page publisher's ads at the back. This fragile book is number XXVII in the Masterpiece Library volumes of The Penny Poet series. Front cover creased, else a nice copy of a rather unusual Whitman item.

Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Utah (Not including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) by [WPA] Works Progress Administration

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Title: Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Utah (Not including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Author: [WPA] Works Progress Administration
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Ogden: The Utah Historical Records Survey, 1938. First Edition. 16pp. Quarto [27 cm] Side-stapled printed wrappers. Near fine. "This list of churches and educational institutions maintained by religious organizations in Utah is issued primarily for the use of research workers of the Historical Records Survey as a check list against which they should check to ascertain that the records have been listed on a 20 HR form for each organization in their county. The Historical Records Survey intends to issue inventories of the church archives of all religious organizations which have ever existed in this state." - from the Preface.

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