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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark

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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Twain, Mark
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Webster & Co, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With the three first printing points present. All other first state points present except corrections to the frontispiece, caption on page 143, and illustration on page 283. Very Good in the publisher's sheepskin binding. Rubbing and scuffing throughout, professional repair to the joints and spine edges. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Twain's Great American Novel of Huckleberry Finn's travels down the Mississippi River.

The Story of Marie-Antoinette by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Bicknell, Anna L.

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Title: The Story of Marie-Antoinette
Author: [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Bicknell, Anna L.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 212 x 146 mm.). [i]-xiv, [2], 334, [2, blank] pp, twenty-seven photogravure plates. Bound ca 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a central gilt design surrounding a fine oval hand-painted portrait miniature of Marie-Antoinette (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm.), set under glass. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Double-ruled gilt board edges and wide turn-ins, red silk liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. A Fine copy overall. Housed in the original fleece-lined, red cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. The binding is unsigned but is very similar to the Cosway-Style bindings that were done by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey's. Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) was the infamous last queen of France before the French Revolution. The youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, the archduchess of Austria became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to the Dauphin Louis-Auguste (the future King Louis XVI). Celebrated and criticized for her extravagant fashion (among many other things), her life continues to fascinate. Anna Louise Bicknell (1835?-), was an author and historian who published extensively on French history. In addition to her biography on Marie-Antoinette, she published the book Life in the Tuleries under the Second Empire (1894) and wrote several Century Magazine and National Geographic including: The Pretenders to the Throne of France (1883); Marie-Antoinette as Dauphine (1897), The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (1897); French Wives and Mothers (1898). The story of the Sangorski & Sutcliffe Bindery reads like something out of a novel-when two of Douglas Cockrell's talented apprentices, Frances Sangorski and George Sutcliffe, were laid off during an economic downturn they began working out of an attic. Eventually their bindery would be famous for its intricate multicolored leather inlays and elaborate gold and jeweled bindings. Although named after the English miniaturist Richard Cosway (1742-1821), the desirable "Cosway Binding" with its jewel-like portrait miniature set into a fine binding was first developed at the turn of the century by J.H. Stonehouse, director of London's Henry Sotheran Booksellers. Their miniatures were painstakingly crafted by the talented painter Miss C. B. Currie (1849-1940). As the style grew in popularity, other publishing houses quickly began to reproduce this technique-each developing their own desirable take on the aesthetic-referred to as "Cosway style.". Fine.

Maria Menzikoff and Fedor Dolgoronki. A Russian Tale Founded on Fact.. by [Juvenile]

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Title: Maria Menzikoff and Fedor Dolgoronki. A Russian Tale Founded on Fact..
Author: [Juvenile]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: J. Bailey, 1800. First edition in English. Modern card wrappers, measuring 173 x 105mm and collating complete including frontis: [2], 28. Bookplate of children's collector Albert Howard to recto of rear wrap. 3.75 inch tear along title, repaired along verso; some toning along fore-edge of text block and outer margins. A scarce and delicate piece which does not appear in the modern auction record and which OCLC reports at only 4 libraries, and a testament to the rising popularity of Russian fashion and literature in England during the late Georgian and early Regency periods. While Russophobia would set into English culture later in the century, the late Georgian and early Regency periods saw a rise of cultural exchange and admiration as the two nations allied against Napoleon. The present is an example of Russian-inspired literature translated into English for juvenile audiences. A romance that appeared first in French and Italian, Maria Menzikoff presented the star-crossed courtship, marriage, and death of two royals from competing families; and for young readers, it had the appeal of a familiar plot (to which both Ovid's Pyramis and Thisbe and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would have introduced them) as well as the exotic and fashionable novelty of a Russian imperial setting. The strength of women -- as monarchs, as wives, and as individuals -- is highlighted throughout.

Endless Tracks in the Woods by YOUNG, James A. and Jerry D. Budy

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Title: Endless Tracks in the Woods
Author: YOUNG, James A. and Jerry D. Budy
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Osceola, WI: Crestline Series / Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers, 1993. Second Edition (first published by Crestline Publishing Co., 1989). Quarto (28.5cm); gray leatherette-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in metallic green on spine and front cover; 308pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear and -soil, with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock, pastedowns, and endpapers; Very Good. Includes sections on Holt Tractor company, Caterpillar Tractor Company, diesel engines for tracklaying tractors, and motor trucks for hauling logs. [88561].

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