2008 Special Books

Numerous Signed Books

Rare Books

• The Thurber Carnival with 2 signed letters from James Thurber to the former owner, a fraternity brother with advice on how to make it in Hollywood as a writer
• Audubon's America Donald Curlross Peattie
• Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia Margravine of Baireuth
• South-Sea Idylls by Charles Warren Stoddard, 1873
• Begone Satan! A Soul-Stirring Account of Diabolical Possession in Iowa, 1928
• A Book of Christmas 1909 Mabie, Hamilton Wright Gilt and pictorial binding
• Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1867
• Schillers Works 1883 Illus with wood and steel engravings head and tail bands and plates, Title page has ornate borders
• Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan 60 illus by David Scott 1887 T. Nelson & Sons
• The Manchester Guardian History of the War 1914-1919 Leather Bindings Volumes1-9
• Symposia of Quantitative Biology
• Several leatherbound bibles one in German, one gigantic one in English

Foreign Language with gilt and Illustrated bindings

• Marchen von Gebruder Grimm Buchschmuck von Robert Weise 1890 In German
• Le Paradis Perdu de Milton 1847In French
• Peveril du Pic Sir Walter Scott 1891 563 p. illus 4to 18cm
• Binding of very ornate red cloth over boards in red and gold
• Soeurs de Grands Hommes 1900 In French
• Pontificale Romanum Summorum Pontificum a Benedicto riv. Et Leone xiii
• Red full leather raised bands gilt decoration and page block Near Fine condition Latin
• German prayer book, Joseph Alois Krebs Black leather binding metal clasp, cross and ornamentation on front cover 484 p. illus 8 vo 13 cm
• Die Wunder die Kirche der Katakomben und Martyrer (The Wonders of the Church of the Catacombs and Martyrs), 1900: Near Fine condition In German
• Washington und die Helden der Revolution by Dr. Johann Friedrich Schroder, leather bindings raised bands marbleized boards, endpapers and page block 2 Volumes. 1857 In German