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SESAME AND LILIES

SESAME AND LILIES by (BINDINGS - CHARLES ELSDEN GLADSTONE). RUSKIN, JOHN

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
SESAME AND LILIES
Author
(BINDINGS - CHARLES ELSDEN GLADSTONE). RUSKIN, JOHN
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1865. FIRST EDITION. 170 x 117 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 3/4"). 2 p.l., 196 pp. Very pretty teal blue crushed morocco, elaborately gilt, by Charles Elsden Gladstone (signed in gilt "C. E. G." on front turn-in), covers with intertwining gilt vine forming a lattice design, the compartments formed containing a Tudor rose or gilt lettering, raised bands, spine compartments tooled with a swirl of gilt vine, wide turn-ins with spray of gilt leaves at corners, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed in black and red. Rear free endpaper with cut signature of "F. T. Palgrave 1865" mounted below manuscript notes in pencil. Spine evenly sunned to gray-brown, faint freckled foxing to flyleaves, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh internally, and the binding with few signs of wear.This is the first printing of Ruskin's famous lectures addressing what to read, the education and obligations of women in the monied classes, and the ultimate mystery of life, offered here in a binding by a talented amateur. Ruskin said that if one read the first two lectures in conjunction with his "Unto This Last" (1862), one would know "the chief truths" he had endeavored to display throughout his writings. Ruskin's views on aesthetics were no doubt of interest to Capt. Charles Elsden Gladstone, R.N. (1855-1919), a Royal Navy officer who bound several books in the late 19th and early 20th century. We do not know where he trained, but around the turn of the 20th century there were a number of opportunities available in England to study with established binders, either in one of the Arts & Crafts schools or in a workshop. Gladstone was a "finisher" who applied the gold tooling and decoration on books already bound in leather, and his work shows real skill and excellent taste. Former owner Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-97) was a literary critic and poet, best known for his poetical anthology "Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics."
In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire (First Edition)

In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire (First Edition) by Will Connell (photographer); Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, Grover Jones (text)

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Seller: Royal Books
Title
In Pictures: A Hollywood Satire (First Edition)
Author
Will Connell (photographer); Nunnally Johnson, Patterson McNutt, Gene Fowler, Grover Jones (text)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
New York: T.J. Maloney, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. Lacking the original illustrated paper slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box and matching chemise. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an American author, dramatist, and screenwriter who enjoyed a long and varied career. Fowler found early prestige as a journalist in New York, most notably a lengthy tenure as a managing editor of The Morning Telegraph, where his staff included a number of luminaries of the period, including Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner, Charles MacArthur, Westbrook Pegler, Martha Ostenso, Walter Winchell, Nellie Revell, among others. Fowler also worked as a screenwriter for several years, penning a dozen screenplays in the 1930s and early 1940s, including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "The Call of the Wild" (1935), and "Billy the Kid" (1941), and also collaborated with Ben Hecht on the 1932 Broadway play "The Great Magoo." Spiral bound wrappers Very Good plus-which anyone who has before encountered this book knows to be extraordinary condition. Custom clamshell box and chemise Very Good plus, with leather lightly faded and some light soil to the extremities.
Scientific Foundations of the Clean Water Era Government Research into Chemical and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, US Public Health Service, 1960-1964

Scientific Foundations of the Clean Water Era Government Research into Chemical and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, US Public Health Service, 1960-1964 by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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Scientific Foundations of the Clean Water Era Government Research into Chemical and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, US Public Health Service, 1960-1964
Author
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1960. [Ecology] U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service's Advanced Waste Treatment Research series, issued 1960-1964, which document the federal government's first sustained research program addressing the inadequacy of conventional sewage treatment in an industrial and chemically complex society. Issued following the 1961 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which expanded federal jurisdiction and authorized intensified research into water pollution, these reports establish the technical basis for the transition from sanitation-based infrastructure to chemically and technologically advanced water purification. They address a defined policy failure: primary and secondary treatment systems removed solids and reduced biological oxygen demand but left dissolved contaminants including phosphates, nitrates, synthetic detergents, and industrial chemicals in drinking water supplies. Produced as American waterways including the Potomac River, Lake Erie, and the Cuyahoga River exhibited visible ecological degradation, these publications place federal scientific research within the early formation of national environmental policy and the shift toward water reuse, chemical treatment, and pollution control as federal responsibilities. Archive of twelve issues, all issued by U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Environmental Health Series Water Supply and Pollution Control. Advanced Waste Treatment Research reports. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960-1964. all publications issued in original printed wrappers, Environmental Health Series reports with blue-covered summary volumes; all copies bearing a consistent manuscript ownership signature possibly reading "C. Flouhill" to upper covers. This research program preceded the institutional consolidation of federal environmental authority in the mid-1960s and the legislative framework later formalized in the Clean Water Act of 1972, making these reports direct technical antecedents to the statutory standards that followed. The inclusion of reverse osmosis, ion exchange, and adsorption demonstrates early federal investigation into processes that became standard components of municipal and industrial water treatment. Light edge wear, minor toning, and handling marks consistent with use; overall very good condition. A cohesive federal research archive documenting the point at which water pollution control shifted from a localized sanitation issue to a national technological and regulatory problem.
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Elite/Elate Poems. Selected Poems 1971-75. A Portfolio of Photographs by Guy Mendes. Introduction by Guy Davenport. Notes by the Poet by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Elite/Elate Poems. Selected Poems 1971-75. A Portfolio of Photographs by Guy Mendes. Introduction by Guy Davenport. Notes by the Poet
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy
Description
(Highlands): Jargon Society, 1979. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by JW, with an original black & white photograph, "Home, Cow & Country!", by Mendes laid in; the print is initialed & dated on the back by the artist. Jargon 91. The dust jackets for the limited signed edition were unavailable at the time of publication & were provided at a later date. Jaffe A119. Fine copy. MENDES, Guy. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.
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ZEISCHRIFT DES ARCHITECTEN- UND INGENIEUR-VEREINS ZU HANNOVER by ARCHITECTURE

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ZEISCHRIFT DES ARCHITECTEN- UND INGENIEUR-VEREINS ZU HANNOVER
Author
ARCHITECTURE
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1881. (ARCHITECTURE). ZEISCHRIFT DES ARCHITECTEN- UND INGENIEUR-VEREINS ZU HANNOVER. Neue folge des Notizblattes. Herausgegeben von dem Vorstande des Vereins. Redigirt von Keck, Professor an der Technischen Hochshule zu Hannover. Volume 27, No. 1 - 4. Hannover: Schmorl & Von Seefeld, 1881. 4to., three-quarter crushed morroco with marbled boards. Spine is divided by gilt rule and leaf design into six compartments; lettered in gilt. Corners are bumped, edges and spine are rubbed with slight sun to spine. There are two small stamps on the preliminary pages, yet all 28 plates (12 of which fold-out, 4 are two-tone) and text are in fine condition.
George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810

George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810 by Skarsten, M. O.

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George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
Author
Skarsten, M. O.
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Red cloth, gilt spine title. 8vo. 356pp. Two folding maps. Index. fine copy. Western Frontiersmen Series XI. .
Two Apologies, One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To Which Are Added, Two Sermons, and a Charge, in Defence of Revealed Religion

Two Apologies, One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To Which Are Added, Two Sermons, and a Charge, in Defence of Revealed Religion by Richard Watson

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Title
Two Apologies, One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. The Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To Which Are Added, Two Sermons, and a Charge, in Defence of Revealed Religion
Author
Richard Watson
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: C. Whittingham / Scatcherd and Letterman, 1806. Very Good. London: Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street; for Scatcherd and Letterman et al, 1806. First Collected Edition. Octavo (22cm); full contemporary gilt-tooled calf, recased with original gilt spine laid down preserving green gilt spine label; [6],470pp. Leather a bit scuffed and rubbed at margins, upper cover unevenly darkened, faint tide staining to bottom half of textblock, light but extensive and learned pencil marginalia throughout. A Very Good copy overall. Two of the most important works by Richard Waston, Bishop of Llandaff (1737-1816), compiled here into one volume. The Apology for Christianity first appeared in 1776; the Apology for the Bible appeared twenty years later, in 1796. Provenance: Two ownership ex libris to front pastedown, of George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron of Dover (1797-1833) and Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), the publisher and lover of Lytton Strachey.
Jacques Pépin's THE ART OF COOKING

Jacques Pépin's THE ART OF COOKING by Pépin, Jacques

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Jacques Pépin's THE ART OF COOKING
Author
Pépin, Jacques
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lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
White boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrappers
Description
New York: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1987-88. First Edition. Hardcover. White boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrappers. 342 & 356 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. These two volumes are praised for their encyclopedic depth in classical French techniques, detailed step-by-step photography - over 1,300 color procedural photos by Pépin himself. Pépin's comprehensive approach to professional skills like butchery, baking, and plating brings a genuine culinary education to your home. Techniques include: Garde Manger Essentials, Precise Knife Work, Poaching, Roasting, and Sauce Construction. Chapters: Salads and Cold Dishes, Breads and Yeast Doughs, Pastries and Desserts, Stocks and Soups, Eggs and Dairy, Shellfish and Fish, Poultry, Game, and Meats. Interiors clean and crisp. Volume I's dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Volume II is clean. Covered in protective mylar. Heavy - Extra shipping costs.
Thirteen Moons (Signed First Edition)

Thirteen Moons (Signed First Edition) by Frazier, Charles

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Title
Thirteen Moons (Signed First Edition)
Author
Frazier, Charles
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780375509322
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Random House, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 422pp. Beautiful Stated First Trade Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Frazier's follow up to "Cold Mountain". Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($26.95), is fresh and bright with no creasing, chipping, toning or tears. Signed the author on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
Fitting Ends and Other Stories

Fitting Ends and Other Stories by Dan Chaon

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Fitting Ends and Other Stories
Author
Dan Chaon
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780810150218
Condition
Very Good
Description
First Edition/First Printing with no mention of subsequent printings; a Very Good book w/o jacket as issued, with only a few small ink stains to the cover and some mild sunning to the spine. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A handsome copy of this debut collection of stories from the NBA finalist; an uncommon title, particularly signed. Not remaindered, not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
THE UNITED STATES NAVY ‒ A HANDBOOK

THE UNITED STATES NAVY ‒ A HANDBOOK by Williams, Henry

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Title
THE UNITED STATES NAVY ‒ A HANDBOOK
Author
Williams, Henry
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, 228 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with white lettering. Boards have bumping to corners, rubbing, and a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has the first front end paper shaken from the binding and with pen writing, title page has writing at the top, preface page has pencil writing in the gutter, page 118 is shaken from binding, page 119 has a piece torn on the bottom right corner, and there are two small stickers on the rear paste down. Ex-Library. Shelved in Room G. 1373090. Special Collections.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, a supplementary bibliography

Edwin Arlington Robinson, a supplementary bibliography by White, William

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Title
Edwin Arlington Robinson, a supplementary bibliography
Author
White, William
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
ISBN
9780873381079
Condition
Fine
Description
Kent State University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 168 pages. BOB/111416.

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