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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Potter, Beatrix

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Author: Potter, Beatrix
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1911. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm.). 84, [1], [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Cover pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). In the original glazed paper glassine dust jacket printed in black with the price "1/- NET" at foot of spine, with vertical lines at the top and bottom of the spine indicating where the fold should come for the front panel, with an advertisement for "The Peter Rabbit Books" on the rear panel listing The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes under "New Book for 1911," an advertisement on the front flap: "Children Will Revel In The Story of The Roly=Poly Pudding...The Pie & The Patty=Pan...Ginger and Pickles," and an advertisement on the rear flap: "A Novel and Charming Pocket Series by Beatrix Potter...The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit...The Story of Miss Moppet." A remarkable and complete jacket, with only a tiny bit of chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and a closed tear at the bottom of the spine. Housed in a quarter dark blue morocco clamshell case with felt lining. Accused of stealing nuts, the squirrel Timmy Tiptoes is imprisoned in a tree where befriends Chippy Hackee the chipmunk; hijinks ensue revealing contrasting species, personalities, and marriages along the way. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes was one of Potter's least commercially successful projects, often credited to her lack of first-hand observations of North American critters and mounting family pressures. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager student of languages and literature, she grew up loving classic folk and fairy tales...Her talent for drawing and painting was discovered early and encouraged" (Beatrix Potter Society). Her career began with the release of the now-beloved Tale of Peter Rabbit; and her subsequent works expanded into a magical world of anthropomorphic animals such as Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, and Benjamin Bunny. Linder, p. 429. Quinby 20. V & A 1664. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

PICASSO. Dos Contes: El Centaure Picador. 4 engravings by Reventos, Ramon.

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Title: PICASSO. Dos Contes: El Centaure Picador. 4 engravings
Author: Reventos, Ramon.
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Description: PICASSO. Dos Contes: El Centaure Picador. 4 engravings Reventos, Ramon. Edition Albor Barcelona, 1947. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Folio (335 x 258 mm; 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 in.); text in Spanish, illustrated with 4 original full-page black and white engravings with burin by Pablo Picasso; loose in Lana wove wrappers with title in a facsimile of the artist s handwriting on the front, guarded the original wooden boards with ties, with red title facsimile of artist s handwriting. Ref: Goepp ert 44. Bloch 468 - 471. Rauch 66. Cramer 44

Alphabets and Others. by [ Armstrong Press. Slow Loris Press. Clement, Walter B. and Ian L. Robertson, compilers. ]

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Title: Alphabets and Others.
Author: [ Armstrong Press. Slow Loris Press. Clement, Walter B. and Ian L. Robertson, compilers. ]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [Notasulga, Alabama: The Armstrong Press. Fairhope, Alabama: The Slow Loris Press, 1988 One of 125 copies. Dark red cloth with printed paper label. 17 in. x 7 in. Printed throughout, in black and in color, with specimens of nineteenth century American wood types and borders. With more than twenty typefaces represented. Text and descriptions printed in Caslon Oldface. Set, printed, and bound by Walter B. Clement and Ian. L Robertson, who provided the types from their presses. With an envelope containing eleven pieces of ephemera from the two presses. Some offsetting to preliminary blank from title-page. Otherwise, a fine copy of this charming type specimen book. Ian L. Robertson begin printing in the early 1950s. At the beginning of his career, he was encouraged and mentored by Will Bradley and Arthur Rushmore. Robertson went on to operate the Windhover Press and work as a printer, editor, and designer at Colby College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1973, he moved to Fairhope, Alabama, where he worked at a printing company and taught design at the University of South Alabama. Robertson partnered with Alabama-based printer Walter B. Clement to produce the present work under Clement's Armstrong imprint and Robertson's Slow Loris imprint.

Gold in the Streets by Vardoulakis, Mary

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Title: Gold in the Streets
Author: Vardoulakis, Mary
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear, top rear corner bumped; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with very slight paper loss at both ends of spine, one tiny chip and one tiny closed tear at top edge of rear panel]. This novel "brings to life a colorful group of people, Greek peasants who came to America in the early 1900's to the mills of Massachusetts with the hope of gathering enough of the fabulous gold in its streets to return as princes to their olive-crowned Island of Crete." Simone 185: "Appalled by their reception at Ellis Island, [the three friends] intend to stay only temporarily. But, despite hostility from the earlier Polish immigrants working at the mills, two of them decide instead to stay permanently, sending for other family members and their local priest and his daughter, whom [the main character] has long wanted to marry. [Another of the friends] opens his own coffee house, as the Greek community grows and flourishes." The jacket blurb offers this about the author, born in Hartford, Connecticut: "The daughter of Greek immigrants, she has planned to tell their story -- their hopes, experiences and problems -- ever since she spent the four years from 1932 to 1936 in their Cretan homeland and herself experienced, in reverse, the change from the Greek countryside to an American mill town." (Another fun fact: during World War II she "worked in the Greek section of the Office of Strategic Services," precursor to the CIA.) ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .

Replenishing Jessica by Bodenheim, Maxwell

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Title: Replenishing Jessica
Author: Bodenheim, Maxwell
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Boni and Liveright. Good. (c.1925). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, some darkening to spine cloth, light bumping at corners, 1925 gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. Early novel by Bodenheim, then a leading figure of the Greenwich Village literary scene. Despite some pre-publication expurgation by publisher Horace Liveright (who initially found Bodenheim's manuscript "filthy"), the book's depiction of its titular heroine's sexual adventures raised the ire of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which led to a grand jury indictment of the publisher on obscenity charges. In the ensuing trial, in 1928, the judge ordered the entire book to be read to the jury, a number of whom reportedly slept through the juicier passages; they subsequently exonerated Liveright after only fifteen minutes of deliberation. .

Protocol for a Kidnapping by Oliver Bleeck [pseud. of Ross Thomas]

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Title: Protocol for a Kidnapping
Author: Oliver Bleeck [pseud. of Ross Thomas]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good -
Description: New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in cream paper and rouge cloth with white and black lettering to spine; 254pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with bumping at spine ends, a bit of fading to spine, and some dust soiling to rear panel. Boards nudged at corners; spine cocked and bumped at ends. Scattered foxing to textblock edges, with some toning to half title and final blank. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Thomas's second Philip St. Ives novel, written under his Bleeck pseudonym.

The conversion of missionaries: liberalism in American Protestant missions in China, 1907-1932 by Xi, Lian

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Title: The conversion of missionaries: liberalism in American Protestant missions in China, 1907-1932
Author: Xi, Lian
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 247, [1]; map and 7 illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions as they developed an appreciation for Chinese religions and culture" (jacket blurb).

SCHWEBEROUTINEN FÜR TISCH UND BÜHNE [FLOATING ROUTINES FOR TABLE AND STAGE] by Wichmann-Braco, Ralf

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Title: SCHWEBEROUTINEN FÜR TISCH UND BÜHNE [FLOATING ROUTINES FOR TABLE AND STAGE]
Author: Wichmann-Braco, Ralf
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Berlin: Privardruck, 1973. Presumed First Edition. Softcover. Octavo, 149 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Covers are blue textured paper with black lettering to spine. Sunning to spine and along edges of covers. Staining to front cover with a small black dot to rear cover. Mild age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Alcove. 1388563. Special Collections.

Wandering Blue Sun by Amoroso, S.W.

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Title: Wandering Blue Sun
Author: Amoroso, S.W.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Canton, NY: S.W. Amoroso, 1999. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. 1 of 100 copies. A collection of poetry, letterpress printed and bound for the author. Special thanks is given to Mark McMurray (of the Caliban Press) and St. Lawrence University. Gift inscription from the author on the colophon. Bound in stiff decorative handmade paper with sewn binding. Marbled endpapers. Business card of the author laid in to front cover. Unpaginated. [about 26 pages] PRI/122623.

Memories of Mistresses: Reflections From a Life by Barzini, Luigi

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Title: Memories of Mistresses: Reflections From a Life
Author: Barzini, Luigi
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780020130802
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Collier Books, 1986. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Slightly tanned overall, else very good in publisher's wraps.

Ellenton: Its Early Years. by Wiggins, Jim.

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Title: Ellenton: Its Early Years.
Author: Wiggins, Jim.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, (2003). Octavo, paperbound (slick, b&w photo. illus. marbled coral wrappers), iii + 153 pp. Former-owner inscription; otherwise, Fine. Contents: In the Beginning -- The times of the earliest indigenous people; The Plantation -- The story of Major Robert Gamble’s plantation; The War Between the States -- A look at the hardships endured along the river; Ellenton Emerges -- The Gamble Plantation and its demise; The Fuller’s Earth Plant -- Operation at Rocky Bluff between 1903 to 1922; 1918 -- A close view of the year 1918; Hometown Tragedies -- Three tragedies strike within fifteen months; The Church -- The center of Ellenton’s activities; THe School -- An unusual school with a unique principal; World War II -- The best and worst of times growing up; Musings, Mullet & Mischief -- A smorgasbord of lingering memories.

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