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Dier Treblig Nhoj, PICKWICKIANS ABROAD. With illustrations by the Author.

Published by the International Insitute of China, 1913 (1989), Inscribed: To Ida Gregory: -a much traveled copy of an old “first edition” - with compliments of the author-remembering many kindnesses, John Gilbert Reid, (Dier Treblig Nhoj) Santa Cruz,
California, August 30, 1946. . 4to 7 1/2″ x 10″, .” Very good in decorative grey-green leatherette with black lettering and picture of Chinese pagoda on a hill on front. In very good scarce jacket. Both FEPs discolored, else interior pages quite clean, hinge tight, a very sound copy of an old-timey children’s book, “a continuation-drama of comedy and tragedy, every scene of which has been carefully acted out by the Pickwick Club, now
numbering more than a hundred mannikins, many of whom begun life at the Siccawei Orphanage near Shanghai. That the result may amuse other children as much as it has the
author is the sincere wish ..” One color & several B/W illustrations by the author. 286pp

$175.00

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Editor

Illustrated

Volume I

Published by

S.J. Clarke Publishing Company

Chicago

1918

Crown and foot marbled.

Hardcover in very good condition, with the exception of the gwawed corner, as shown.

$64.95

by

Marvin R. Vincent

Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature in Union Theological Seminary, New York

Hardcovers in good condition.

$74.95

Containing

Facts, Incidents, Stories, Experiences, Anecdotes, Selections, Etc., for Illustrative Purposes. With Cross References.

Compiled and Edited by

Robert Scott

and

William C. Stiles

Funk & Wagnalls, Co.

New York

1911

Former owner name stamp f.e.p. and card pocket on f.p.d.

Ex Church Library copy
$19.95

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary;

a New Practical and Exhaustive Work of Reference to All the words in the English Language, With a Full Account of their Origin, Meaning, pronunciation, History and Use. ( 4 volumes)

$49.95

Random House

New York

1975

First Edition, second printing

Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket.

“Richly illustrated throughout with cartoons, photographs, drawings, decorations, and memorabilia, and with a jacket drawn especially for the book by Charles Addams, Here at the New Yorker, is as delightful to the eye as it is entertaining to its reader.

$9.95

A Tale of Misrule

Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Ltd

London

no date circa 1900

Hardcover in good condition.

$99.95

Text by

Dorothy Noyes Arms

with fifty-six reproductions of etchings, aquatints, and drawings

by

John Taylor Arms, A.N.A.

The Macmillan Company

New York

1931

Hardcover in very good condition, in very good jacket.

$149.95

Le Magasin Utile

Année 1853. In-4, Rel. ép. 1/2 bas. Dos lisse orné. Double filet. Titre gravé. 319pp. Nbr. grav.

Hardcover in very good condition. Corners bumped. Light fowing.

Text in French

8″ x 11 1/2″

$44.95