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MILLER, CAROLINE.
Lamb in His Bosom.
8vo, original gilt-lettered black
cloth, cocked; dust jacket, overall rubbing with some short chips to spine panel ends with
smaller nicks to fold corners,
1
/
2
inch tear mid-back panel center, front flap corners clipped,
few closed tears; old ownership note and discreet bookseller’s ticket on front free endpaper,
otherwise unmarked.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION IN UNRESTORED FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET
,
with Anne Parrish blurb
along top of front jacket panel. Uncommon in presentable dust jacket. The 1934 Pulitzer
Prize winner.
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MILTON, JOHN.
Paradise Lost.
[32], 416 pages, including initial blank *
Paradise Regain’d.
[2] (of [4]), lxx, 3-390 pages; lacks initial blank. Together, 2 volumes.
8vo, 19th-century crimson straight-grain morocco, spines attractively gilt in 6 compart-
ments, lettered in 2 with pointillé latticework tooling in the rest; contents clean.
Bookplates of R. A. McDonald, volume, his signature on title in first volume dated 1907.
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1758; 1758
[400/600]
FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION
,
octavo issue. Listed among the subscribers is “Benj. Franklin,
Esq., Philadelphia.” Gaskell 4, 5.
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(MINIATURES.) Bryce & Son, David.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old
and New Testaments.
Illustrated. 45x31 mm., embossed brown morocco, spine lettered
in gilt; magnifying glass in rear endpaper pocket as issued, stamps from a NJ scholarship
fund mounted to front endpaper, contemporary owner’s note inked to pastedown; original
folding wooden box with plaid thermoplastic covering containing printed label mounted
to inside front cover “Smallest Bible in the World with Burns’ Family Register in the
Poet’s Handwriting.”
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, [1896]
[300/400]
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