1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850 and then the hand-colored engraved title page for July. At the end of December is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-seventh Volume, June 1850 through January, 1851 (although January 1851 is not included). At the very back of the book is the title page for August 1850 (weird place for it!) No title pages for any of the other months is included. Light scattered foxing. Otherwise very good. Binding is tight.

Leafing through this book set me to wondering what the workday of a typesetter using this tiny 6 pt. type was like. He must have gone home exhausted. Or maybe he got involved in the story as he set his composing stick. And then how much squinting did the reader have to do? How could you read it by candlelight or kerosene lamplight? Whew! Item #441

1982. Soft cover. fine. Item #1376

University of South Carolina Press, (1991). Illustrated with photos and maps. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-3/8". 214 pp. including index. White leatherette covered boards stamped in gold. Name and date neatly written at top of free front endpaper, else fine. / In fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0872497712 Item #1145

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1928). First American Edition. Thick large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-5/16". 2" thick. 448 pp. including index. Attractive book plate on front pastedown. Item #1215

Inscribed and signed by the author. Later printing. Hardcover. fine / fine. ISBN: o684163403 Item #1454

New York: Coward-McCann, (1932). Stated First Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Top of text block stained red. 384 pp. including index. Book is in as new condition, beautiful. / Dust jacket is very good.

One expects fine things from John Buchan, but in Sir Walter Scott he has surpassed himself. As the London Times in a two-column review said: "The hour occasionally brings forth the book, and one of these fortunate occasions is that which sees Mr. John Buchan's long-matured study of Scott published in this year of his centenary. It would seem to be just the book needed to place Scott in his due proportions . . . he brings to his study just that trained historical imagination which by placing Scott accurately in his time and place shows us the real man in the comprehensiveness of his genius. From the delightful prelude which sets before us the physical and spiritual Edinburgh of 1771 down to the closing scenes of Scott's life, Mr. Buchan is always solicitous to fill in the background against which Scott's actions must be judged. . . Item #846

1899. various illustrators and photo illustrated as well. first edition. cloth. slight lean otherwise very good. Item #1519

La Jolla: Hans-Curt Köstner, A Star and Elephant Book from the Green Tiger Press, 1982. Charming illustrations grace each and every page, most in color. First Edition. Square 4to. 11-3/16" x 11-2/16. Glossy pictorial boards. 193 pp. One small dent in the joint between spine and front cover. Otherwise a book in fine condition.

The Carl Larsson Exhibitions at the Amos Anderson Museum in Helsinki in 1981/82 and the Brooklyn Museum in New York late in 1982 make it clear that perennial interest in this artist continues even in our day. . . . .What is the basis for this so constant interest in an artist who is hardly "modern"? At all events, what we may call the "generation gap" does not seem to have been a factor regarding this interest in the case of Larsson. The present work seeks an answer to this question in, I feel, a new form, in that it confronts the reader with his work, his life and also his feeling in a sequence which has hitherto not been attempted. ISBN: 0914676938 Item #837

Ballantine, 1989. paperback. very good. Item #1670

1932. First Edition. Hardback. very good. Item #2747

New York: Century Company, 1909. Illustrated with photos. Large 8vo. 6-3/8" x 9-1/4." Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. 470 pp. Binding is tight, book is clean and unmarked. Front cover has a stain along the fore-edge and back cover has a few tiny splatter spots. A little rubbing to corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Item #450

william morrow, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine / fine. Item #1879