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1911 FIRST EDITION LETTERS THAT LIVE SELECTED BY LAURA E. LOCKWOOD AND MAY R. KELLY SIGNED-BINDING BY BERTHA STUART [BS] *** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EMBOSSED GILT FINE BINDING ~ ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE ~ CLASSIC LETTERS *** INCLUDES LETTERS FROM MANY IMPORTANT AUTHORS AND HISTORICAL FIGURES, INCLUDING JANE AUSTEN, CHARLES DARWIN, LEWIS CARROLL, EMILY DICKINSON, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, MATTHEW ARNOLD, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, ROBERT LOUIS…

1904 JAPANESE ART BY SADAKICHI HARTMANN ILLUSTRATED SIGNED-BINDING DESIGNED BY AMY RICHARDS *** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EXQUISITE GILT DECORATED FINE BINDING ~ PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL-PAGE PLATES ~ CLASSIC FINE ART *** Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1904. Printed by the Colonial Press. • First Edition - "1904" on title page, though copyright page shows "September, 1903" with no additional printings listed - also there is a December, 1903 gift inscription on front endpaper •…

BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). The Poetical Works of Robert Browning with Portraits. London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. for Smith, Elder, & Co, 1899.

The Antiquarian Sticker Book: Imaginarium: An Illustrated Compendium of Adhesive Ephemera (The Antiquarian Sticker Book Series) : Odd Dot: Amazon.co.uk: Books

xxxi, 163 p. incl. front., illus. 19 cm

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