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Text Box: House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel ca. 1908 New York, NY: H.M. Caldwell Co. Hawthorne's classic about a house in Salem, MA. 403 pp. 10 x 16 cm. Cloth with paper cover printed with gold design with colored picture in center. Gilt printing on spine faded. Stereotyping of printing in text is fair. Owner inscr. dated 1908 in ffep. Very good. (1362) $19.00. Literature/Fiction. Last Days of Pompeii, The by Lord Lytton 1908 London, England: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Lord Lyton's famous account of life in the Roman leisure resort in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. Ten years after the disaster that destroyed Pompeii, Glaucus writes Sallust, reporting that he has become a Christian.535 pp. 10 x 15 cm. Leather flexible binding with high-quality fine, thin paper, very good. (1388) $19.00. Literature Last of the Mohicans, The; Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; Library Edition by Cooper, J. Fenimore New York, NY: The Publishers' Plate Renting Co. Adventure in the North American wilderness with warriors of the first trip Englishmen encountered in the New World. 373 pp. 13 x 20 cm. Maroon cloth on board with gilt lettering, gilt end pages on top. Very good. (2794) $11.00. Literature Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, First Edition. by Alcott, Louisa M. 1871 Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers Louisa May Alcott's classic about playful, mischievous, energetic boys. With 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements inserted between the front end papers. 376 pp. 11 x 17 cm. Cloth on board with gilt lettering on spine and cover; cover faded and water stained, Heel and toe of spine frayed, bottom of front cover frayed, corner bumped. Binding tight. Text block very good. Overall good. (1363) $60.00. Literature/Fiction. Lochinvar, a Novel by Crockett, S.R.1898. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Seventeenth Century adventure set in Scotland. Excellent illustrations. 414 pp. 13 x 19cm Decorated beige cloth on board. Heel and toe of spine show minor rubbing. Two inserted 1899 clippings about a Scottish play. "Merry Christmas" gift card pasted on front pastedown from “Mrs. Walter Callender, 1509 Westminster St.” Very good. (3738) $22.00. Literature/Fiction Mosses from and Old Manse, Two volumes by Hawthorne, Nathaniel ca. 1890 New York, NY: The Mershon Co. Collection of short pieces: The New Adam and Eve; items from the unpublished "Allegories of the Heart." 620 pp. 11 x 15 cm. Two volumes. Decorated cloth on board, covers faded. Very good. (3599) $24.00. Literature Noctes Ambrosianae, Revised Edition, with memoirs and notes by R. Shelton Mackenzie, D.C.L. In four vols. Vol. III missing. by Wilson, John 1872 New York, NY: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher Rich literary collection from Blackwood's magazine, 1819-1824. Lord Byron in Pisa; Mr. Odoherty, Mr. Blackwood, Mr. North. Balaam, Quentin Durward… 1386 pp. 13 x 19 cm. Half-leather, marbled boards. Leather in spine deteriorated.. Marbelled end pages. Text block very good. Overall good. Vol. III missing. (1477) $30.00. Literature. Opere Scelte di Metastasio, seconda edizione, con aggiunte, Seven volumes, in Italian. [Second volume lacking title page.], 1819, Avignone, France: Presso Fr. Seguin Aîné, stampatore e librajo. (1594 pp.) Tomo I. Siroe, Artaserse, Adriano. (243 pp.) Tomo II. Demetrio, Issipile, Olympiade. (242 pp.) Tomo III. Demofoonte, La Clermenza di Tito, Achille in Sciro. (243 pp.) . Tomo IV. Ciro Riconosciuto, Temistocle, Zenobia (239 pp.) . Tomo V. Ipermestra, Antigono, Attilio Regolo. (200 pp.) Tomo VI. La Morte d’Abel, Isacco Figura del Redentore, Giuseppe Roconosciuto, Betulia Liberata, Gioas Re di Giuda, La Passione di Gesù Cristo. (187 pp.) Tomo VII. L’Isola Disabitata, Il Sogno de Scipione, Alcide al Bivio, Il Trionfo d’Amore, ec. Also: Poesia diverse e sonetti. (240 pp.) Seven-volume set of collected works by the celebrated 18th-century poet and librettist, with six volumes dedicated to his historical plays. Seven vols., Green leather with gilt border design, edges worn. Marbled endpapers, bookplates belonging to “Wm. J. Rotch” with Roche family crest in front of each volume. Vol. II missing title page. Some title pages have small penciled name “E.R. Arnold” at top. Most pages show very slight foxing, very good. (6903) $195.00. Literature/Italian. Rembrandt's Amsterdam, by Frits Lugt, Reprinted, by permission of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from "The Print-Collector's Quarterly", April, 1915. 1915. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts. This little book provides a comprehensive picture of Amsterdam in the 17th century, including black and white images of his sketches. Includes large fold-out map of Amsterdam, About 1650. 169 pp. 12 x 18 cm. Dark green cloth on board with fold-out map on light paper. Very good condition. (2315) $38.00. History/Art Robertson’s Theatre: Three Tragedies and One Comedy: London Merchant, The, or the History of George Barnwell by George Lillo; Royal Convert, The, by Nicholas Rowe; The Spanish Fryar; or the Double Discovery, by John Dryden; and Douglas, by John Home 1774-1776. Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Robertson. Collection of three tragedies by Lillo, Rowe and Home, and comedy, by Dryden, all bound in one book. Lillo's tragedy is an 18th century morality play about a young apprentice who falls in love with a lovely, but wicked courtesan. Royal Convert takes place in Kent, England about 20 years after the first invasion of Britain by the Saxons. Dryden's comedy pokes fun at the Spanish and Roman Catholics, at a time when Britain was very conflicted about Catholicism. Home's tragedy, Douglas, stirred up a hornet's nest in Edinburgh, between Presbyterians and supporters of the stage. Each play includes a frontispiece illustration. 273 pp. 10 x 17 cm. Calf on board, front cover detached. Title on spine is "Robertson's Theatre". Both front and back calf is cracked and quite worn, and spine shows unsuccessful efforts to hold front board on with tape. Text block good. Overall poor. (2722) $110.00. Literature/Drama Scelta Di Favole; Racolte da' piu celebri Autori Francesi, e Rese in Italiano by De La Motte Fenelon. 1816 Napoli, Italia: A. Garruccio Stampatore Fifteen small (fables) -readings, incl. some in French, with adjoining translations in Italian. 110 pp. 14 x 21.5cm Fair condition, paper bound, very rough cut. Engraved illustration as frontispiece. (0184) $55.00. Literature/Fiction. MUSIC Sheet Music, Music Books American Cowboy Songs with Guitar Chords; The Greatest Collection of Cowboy Favorites 1936 New York, NY: Robbins Music Corporation. Songs include "A Prisoner for Life", "Bad Companions", "Buffalo Skinners", "The Dying Ranger", "Gal I Left Behind Me", "Indian's Death Song", "The Trail to Mexico", "Utah Carroll" and "Zebra Dun". 80 pp. 15 x 22 cm. Paper booklet, pages show slight warping from moisture, cover lightly soiled, good. (6608) $18.00. Music/Cowboy Any Bonds Today? Words and Music by Irving Berlin; Theme Song of the National Defense Savings Program 1941 Washington, DC: Henry Morganthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. Sheet music, Drawing of Uncle Sam on cover. 4 pp. 23 x 30 cm. Sheet music, owner name on cover, cover soiled. Fair. (7099) $15.00. Music/World War II Anchors Aweigh, The Song of the Navy by Chas. A. Zimmermann, Musical Director, U.S. Naval Academy 1930 New York, NY: Robbins Music Corporation. Sheet Music, cover art features seal of U.S. Naval Academy 6 pp. 23 x 30 cm. Sheet music, folds torn, owner name on cover, poor. (7111) $15.00. Music Concert Companion, The; a comprehensive guide to symphonic music by Robert Bagar and Louis Biancolli, with an introduction by Deems Taylor. ©1947. New York, NY: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. Comprehensive and very readable program notes for concerts by New York Philharmonic Society, from Tomás Luis de Victoria to Lukas Foss, and Wagner, Gluck, Franck, Berlioz, Haydn and many more. 868 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Black cloth on board, light wear, very good. No dj. (5392) $16.00. Music/Educational Concert of the Old Folks'Choir of Fitchburg at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Tuesday Evening, March 30, 1858 Programme [Program Leaflet] 1858 Worcester, MA: The Sentinel. Programme begins with Opening Ode, to tune of "Lang Syne"; Also "Edom", "Confidence", "Cowper", "Stephey", "I Waited Patiently", "Hollis", "Knaresborough", "Mear", and more. 4 pp. 15 x 24 cm. Paper leaflet, penciled numbers beside each tune in program, good. (6738) $15.75. Music Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer Lyric by Harold Adamson, Music by Jimmy McHugh, Featured by Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra. 1943 New York, NY: Robbins Music Corporation. Popular World War II tune, cover features inset photo of Carmen Cavallaro. 4 pp. 23 x 30 cm. Sheet music, moderate wear, good. (7113) $15.00. Music Foolish Songs with Piano and Ukelele Accompaniment; Violin, Mandolin, C Melody Saxaphone ad lib by Lois C. Haupt ca. 1937 Boston, MA: Carl Fischer Inc. Music includes A Man of Prayer; There's a Lady in Kalamazoo; A Sprig Love Sog [sic]; Thoughts; Zephyr; Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue; I Was Born 100,000 years ago; Riding Down from Bangor: more. 34 pp. 17 x 27 cm. Paper booklet, owner's name on front and back covers: Lloyd L. Wells; also names of members of his "Agony Trio" at Woodville High School, 1928-29. Pencil notes on one song. Fair. (6524) $15.00. Music Hull's Temperance Glee Book, containing a choice variety of Temperance songs, duets and choruses, together with a Glee Department, enlarged edition by Asa Hull, ©1877 Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson & Co. Songs: The Temperance Star; God Speed the Right; Ask Me Not to Sip the Wine; The Temperance Crusade; The Water-Cure; The Temperance Army; Away with the Wine-cup; The Larboard Watch; many more. 128 pp. 14 x 20 cm. Paper on board with cloth spine. Spine worn and fraying. Cover mended with cellophane tape. Inside front hinge mended, inside rear hinge cracked. Fair. (3611) $19.50. Music/Temperance La Damnation de Faust, Dramatic Legend in Four Parts, composed by Hector Berlioz, translated expressly for the Symphony Society of New York 1880 New York, NY: New York Symphony Society. Berlioz was impressed with the work of Goethe, and wrote parts of this opera as he traveled through Hungary, Austria and Bohemia. First scene opens without overture, as Faust is wandering amid the plains of Hungary. Mephistopheles appears in Part II. 16 pp. 17 x 25 cm. Paper booklet, lightly worn, top wrap has several chips in edge, good. (5930) $17.00. Music/Opera Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucy of Lammermoor, A Romantic Opera in Three Acts, music by Donizetti; Corbyn's American Edition ca. 1870 New York, NY: Sheridan Corbyn. Opera was originally written in French, then rewritten in Italian, much departed from the original story of Scott. Libretto plus music. Includes "Verranno a Te Sull'Aura-- Oh! On the Breeze", duet with Lucia and Edgardo. 24 pp. 17 x 24 cm. Paper booklet, worn, edges curled, front cover has 5 cm closed tear, fair. (5931) $16.00. Music/Opera Martha, Parepa-Rosa Grand English Opera, music by Flotow 1871 Wm. C. Bryant & Co. Lady Harriet, or Henrietta, a lady of rank, maid of honor to Queen Anne of England, gets bored, and disguises herself as a servant-girl in search of employment. At the Richmond fair, she is hired by Lionel, who is smitten with her. 50 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Paper booklet, engraved picture of a formidable Martha on cover. Cover lightly soiled, very good. (5933) $17.00. Music/Opera Over There sheet music by Cohan, George M. 1917. New York, NY: Leo. Feist Inc. Sheet music cover illustration shows sailor, Wm. J. Reilly, U.S.N. from USS Michigan on cover. "Johnny get your gun… Over there…send the word…" words also in French. 4 pp. 27 x 36 cm. Paper sheet music, good. (2713) $15.00. Music/World War I Sailor Maids, A Musical Comedy in Two Acts. Book, Lyrics and Music by Charles Ross Chaney 1926 Cincinnati, OH: The Willis Music Co. Frances Marie, daughter of a lighthouse keeper is celebrating her 18th birthday and the launching of her new yacht. There's Edward, her childhood sweetheart, and David, and much confusion. Script of operetta, music and lyrics. 144 pp. 17 x 26.5 cm. Paper booklet, cover shows yachtsman and yachtswoman with lighthouse in background. Cover worn, bottom 5 cm of spine torn, fair. (7442) $42.00. Music Trumpet Notes for the Temperance Battle-Field; a careful compilation from the best sources for Temperance Assemblies, Gospel Temperance and Prohibition Meetings, etc. by Stearns, J.N. and Main, H.P. 1888 New York, NY: National Temperance Society and Publication House. The power of song in the Temperance Movement cannot be overestimated. "Trumpet Notes" is a compilation of the choicest temperance songs, to aid in the growing sentiment against drink and the saloons. "Lift Up Your Voice in Trumpet Notes", “God's Clock Has Struck the Hour", "Daybreak", "Freedom's Day" and "Blow the Temperance Trumpet." 192 pp. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Decorated paper on board, stains on cover. Bookmark from Helen P. Ross. Inside front hinge of book contains cracks, other defects. Good. (5427) $42.00. Music/Temperance Trumpet Notes for the Temperance Battle-Field; a careful compilation from the best sources for Temperance Assemblies, Gospel Temperance and Prohibition Meetings, etc. by Stearns, J.N. and Main, H.P. 1888. New York, NY: National Temperance Society and Publication House. The power of song in the Temperance Movement cannot be overestimated. "Trumpet Notes" is a compilation of the choicest temperance songs, to aid in the growing sentiment against drink and the saloons. "Lift Up Your Voice in Trumpet Notes", “God's Clock Has Struck the Hour", "Daybreak", "Freedom's Day" and "Blow the Temperance Trumpet." 192 pp. 13.5 x 20.5 cm. Decorated paper on board, stains on cover. Inside front hinge of book cracked. Poor. (5429) $36.00. Music/Temperance Virgil: Opera P. Virgilii Maronis by Virgil (P. Virgilius Maro); Nova Editio Stereotypa Iteratus Curis, Castigata et Expolita 1824. Lipsiae (Leipzig): Sumtibus et Typis Car. Tauchnitii. [Karl Tauchnitz]. Latin text by Virgil. Bucolicon Liber. Georgicon Libri I,II, III, IV. Aeneidos Libri I,II,III,IV,V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII. Culex Ad Octavium. Ciris Ad Messalam. Catalecta. Copa. Moretum. This was a classic text for Scholars in the nineteenth century. 434 pp. 9.5 x 13.5 cm. Quarter leather and marbled paper on board. Leather spine is cracked and worn. Frontispiece contains profile bust of P. Virgilius Maro. Good. (1738) $55.00. Literature/Educational From Bucolicon: Me. Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi Silvestrem tenuis Musam medtaris avena: Nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva; Nos patriam fugimus: tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas. Meliboeus: You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields, And home's familiar bounds, even now depart. Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you Sit careless in the shade, and, at your call, "Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.