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SALTEN, FELIX.
Bambi.
Illustrated
by Kurt Wiese. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth
stamped in gilt, light fade to spine, one
corner bumped; dust jacket, small chips to
extremities, tanned, especially to spine
panel, soiling, one short closed tear.
FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION
, with the single page
advertisement at end.
NewYork: Simon and Schuster, 1928
[300/400]
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[NURSERY RHYMES.]
A Collection of English Proverbs digested into a
convenient Method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion ...
Title printed
in red and black. Small 8vo, 19th-century calf, borders and spine gilt, spine foot chipped,
joints worn; top margin of title renewed with loss of “A”; 2 sheets of bibliographic notes
laid-in, preliminary leaves split and coming loose, William Henry Surman bookplate, ex-
collection Opie with their stamp. Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, for W. Morden, 1670
* Halliwell, James Orchard.
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the
Nursery Rhymes of England.
8vo, publisher’s green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, joints and
extremities repaired; lacking publisher’s catalogue at end. London: John Russell Smith,
1849.
Vp, vd
[350/500]
TWO FIRST EDITIONS
including the first appearance of the Nursery Rhyme “Jack Sprat He Loved
No Fat” in The Collection of English Proverbs.A second edition appeared in 1678 omitting proverbs
previously collected that were considered obscene. Keynes, John Ray 10, Wing R386; Opie, Three
Centuries 3; Gumuchian 2925; Osborne, page 96 (note).
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RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN.
The Yearling.
Illustrations by Edward
Shenton. 8vo, cream cloth stamped in green, joints partly discolored from binder’s glue; top
edges stained green; dust jacket, few small nicks to corner folds, mild edgewear, unclipped;
ownership inscription to front flyleaf.
FIRST TRADE EDITION OF RAWLINGS
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S PULITZER
PRIZE WINNING NOVEL
.
NewYork: Scribner’s, 1938
[350/500]