Archives for: November 2008

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ~ [Limited Edition]

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Shakespeare, Willilam; George Lyman Kittredge [editor]

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ~ [Limited Edition]

Price: $400.00
Publisher: Boston: Ginn and Company, 1936
Book Condition: Collectible; LIKE NEW
Binding: Hardcover

Limited edition: "Of this First Edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Two Hundred and Fifty Copies are printed on All-Rag paper. This Copy is No. 121" SIGNED BY THE EDITOR G.L. Kittredge. The present edition includes all the plays and poems that are ascribed to him, in whole or in part, on satisfactory evidence...The text has been determined by a fresh collation of the original editions..." [from the Preface] 8vo, full cream-colored leather with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, all edges gilt, 1561 pages, frontispiece of Shakespeare "after the Droeshout Copperplate Portrait of the First Folio." Book is in FINE condition in a VERY GOOD slipcase: book is like new; slipcase (numbered 121) has a few scuff marks and light edgewear, a small red spot on front panel. An absolutely gorgeous copy of this title.

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Atlas of Windham County, Vermont Centennial Edition 1869-1969

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Reprint of F. W. Beers Atlas by Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, VT
Available from Black Riiver Used Books, 37 Main Street, Springfield, VT Tel: 802-885-1819,
Cost of Book $125.00 plus shipping.

Hero to His Valet

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Amos, James E. THEODORE ROOSEVELT; HERO TO HIS VALET. New York: John Day Company, 1927. First edition. Octavo, blue cloth. 162pp. plus colophon. Portrait frontispiece of Theodore Roosevelt plus seven black and white plates. Very good. Very scarce. Amos, an African American, was initially hired by TR to look after his children while living in the White House. His job became much more than that and he traveled extensively with the President. The book is written from the perspective of a man who no doubt loved the President but there are insightful glimpses into the areas surrounding some of the most controversial events of the Roosevelt Administration, namely the Brownsville Incident and the White House dinner to which the President invited Booker T. Washington, the first African American to be entertained at the Executive Mansion. When TR was ailing near the end of his life, Mrs. Roosevelt asked Amos to return to their service, he did so and was with the Ex-President when he died at Sagamore Hill in 1919. traveling with him extensively. He recorded TR's last words; "James, will you please put out the light". $650.00

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