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The Faerie Queene by SPENSER, EDMUND. [CHIVERS, CEDRIC]

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: The Faerie Queene
Author: SPENSER, EDMUND. [CHIVERS, CEDRIC]
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: J.M. Dent, 1897. Chivers bindings. Fine. STUNNING CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDINGS. One of 100 large-paper copies, illustrated by Louis Fairfax Muckley. The three thick quarto volumes are elegantly printed on handmade paper and illustrated throughout with images and designs by the British artist and illustrator Louis Fairfax Muckley. The illustrations are magnificent and feature the plates in two states, red and black. The bindings by Chivers, however, are the star of the show and perfectly complement the text. For the front boards, Muckley has created an intricate design featuring a knight and lady on galloping horses surrounded by decorative borders and gilt titling. Each spine depicts a lady emerging from a colorful background, while each rear board has a stylized dragon seemingly jumping out from the binding. While the outlines of the designs are the same on each volume, they are each painted with different colors, creating a unique look and mood for each. On Cedric Chivers’s “vellucent” bindings: Chivers created a masterful binding technique in the late 19th century he called “vellucent” – a portmanteau combining “vellum” and “translucent”. The process was arduous, but the results were stunning, with artwork seeming to glow under a layer of thin protective vellum. His process began with a decorative design—in the case of these volumes, artwork by Louis Fairfax Murray – created on paper or thin parchment. The artwork was then placed underneath a sheet of vellum that was extremely thin and specially treated to be translucent, allowing the colors to almost shine like a stained glass window. The final step was particularly tricky – since vellum is not particularly flexible, it required expert craftsmanship to lay it smoothly over the book's boards and spine without wrinkles or bubbles. The result is a binding that doubles as a work of fine art. The bindings are stamped “Bound by Cedric Chivers” in gilt on the rear dentelles and decoratively written on the rear endpaper of volume 1 (likely by Chivers) is the note: “THIS BOOK IS BOUND BY / CEDRIC CHIVERS BATH / 2 COPIES ONLY WITH THIS DESIGN / THIS IS NO 1”. Anecdotally, however, we are aware of three copies that have been bound with this design (although without the written limitation). Provenance: There is a note in pencil in the first volume that these are from the Robert Hoe collection, but we have not been able to confirm this. London: J.M. Dent, 1897. Thick octavos (258 x 197 mm), vellucent bindings by Chivers. Text nearly pristine. A touch of bowing to bindings. AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF CHIVERS BINDINGS IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION.

My Regular Girl Is a Regular Feller (And I’m Her Regular Beau). Novelty Song by [Music – Tin Pan Alley – Gender] O’Neil, Dannie; Foley, Jimmie

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Title: My Regular Girl Is a Regular Feller (And I’m Her Regular Beau). Novelty Song
Author: [Music – Tin Pan Alley – Gender] O’Neil, Dannie; Foley, Jimmie
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine with light general wear and minor handling marks.
Description: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1919. Folio sheet music, 3 pp. plus pictorial cover (4 pp. total). Near fine with light general wear and minor handling marks.. A lively Tin Pan Alley novelty song written and performed by the vaudeville duo Dannie O’Neil and Jimmie Foley, whose studio portraits appear prominently on the cover. The design places their photograph against a decorative field of bold red flowers and deep blue foliage, a bright, poster-like arrangement characteristic of Witmark’s visually striking sheet music covers of the late 1910s. The cover explicitly advertises the piece as “written and sung by” O’Neil and Foley, reflecting the common Tin Pan Alley practice of promoting songs through the touring stage performers who introduced them. The comic title plays on contemporary slang. In early twentieth-century usage a “regular feller” suggested a dependable or easygoing companion; applied to a woman, the phrase humorously casts the girlfriend as “one of the boys,” a playful nod to the companionate style of modern courtship emerging in the years just after World War I. The balancing phrase “and I’m her regular beau” restores the expected romantic pairing, a typical vaudeville comic device that briefly toys with gender expectations before settling back into familiar roles. Three copies in OCLC, with a fourth mistitled at Mississippi State, none in commerce at the time of writing.

Quadrupeds of North America: Cotton Rat. by Audubon, John James.

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Title: Quadrupeds of North America: Cotton Rat.
Author: Audubon, John James.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Audubon, John James. Quadrupeds of North America: Cotton Rat. New York: Nagel and Weingaertner, 1850s. Print, 8vo, color lithograph, plate XXX, matted, but not laid down. Ample margins, some aging, a little foxing; otherwise very good or better. John James Audubon (1765-1851), after coming to America around 1803would become a noted naturalist and artist. His most well known work, The Birds of America, was produced between 1826-1838 and sold by subscription. The folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, was also sold by subscription, and published from 1845-1848. The octavo size version of this work was first published from 1849-1854. This plate of a pair of Cotton Rats, against a natural background, is clean and bright and was from a set published by Nagel and Weingaertner. ANB. Audoboninfo website. $100

[DIE-CUT] [PHARMACY] FREE, DEPENDABLE DELIVERIES ON ALL TELEPHONE ORDERS by Press Pharmacy

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Title: [DIE-CUT] [PHARMACY] FREE, DEPENDABLE DELIVERIES ON ALL TELEPHONE ORDERS
Author: Press Pharmacy
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Illustrated die cut card, blue paper backing. Near fine
Description: Cards. Illustrated die cut card, blue paper backing. Near fine. 9 x 12 cm. Die-cut image of a rotary telephone. "We welcome telephone orders and fill them promptly with the same quality merchandise you would select if you cam into the store. Just call MOnument 2-9091, PRESS PHARMACY

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