“A Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumes and Kindred Toilet Articles” by John H. Snively [Charles W. Smith, 1877]. viii + 248pp, with 61 illustrations. Brown cloth with dulled gilt titling on spine. Pegasus bookplate from George F. Butler, possibly former Chicago physician and head of the Alma Sanitarium. Bookplate designed by W.W, Denslow, the artist famous for his illustrations in the first edition of “The Wizard of Oz”. Binding solid with just the front hinge showing a little play. Rubbing at head/tail of spine and corners bumped. Textblock clean and unmarked. Very Good- and scarce.
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TOLKIEN, J.R.R. “The Hobbit” [George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1942] 1st Edition
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien [George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1942]. First Edition, Third Printing. 310pp. Illustrated endpapers featuring maps of Middle-earth, frontispiece “The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water” in color, and additional black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bound in green cloth with black lettering to spine and mountain and dragon motifs to boards. Ex-library copy lacking dust jacket. Moderate rubbing and soiling to spine with a couple of small ink stains; light bruising to corners and extremities; moderate sun-fading to spine and boards slightly cocked. Cracking to the cloth along the outer edges of the spine, with light fraying to spine ends. Two preliminary pages with closed tears near spine causing slight looseness. Light foxing and discoloration to pages and edges throughout. Library stamps and markings to endpapers, prelims, colophon, top of first page of text, and spine. Two fragments of original dust jacket pasted into blank prelims. Good.
SKU: | 1093906711 |
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