George Stubbs 1724-1806. Hard cover edition published by Salem House in 1985. Exhibition catalogue for shows at the Tate Gallery in London and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT, both sponsored by United Technologies Corporation. Measures 10 x 13.5 inches. Good condition, bump on the back bottom corner. Dust jacket. Owner's name and address inside the second page.
Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Rodale Press, 1955. Excellent condition. Measures 8.75 inches high, by 5.25 inches wide and .25 of an inch thick.
Hugo Grotius: De Veritate Religionis Christianae, Cramoisy Paris 1640 in as found estate condition. Measures 3 inches wide, 5.25 inches high and 1 1/8 inches thick in pig skin binding. 374 pages.
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES by Isak Dinesen. First Edition, 1934, Modern Library, New York-#54. Dust jacket is in excellent condition. Corners of DJ are in very good shape. Green Boards in good condition. Owners name top right of first page. 420 pages. Introduction written by Dorothy Canfield. True first edition, debuting Isak Dinesen in America, then republished later in England and in 1935, translated and published into Danish that same year. -"The light in it is strange clear light, and in it we see a series of vigorously presented outrageously unexpected beings. They seemed endowed with a sort of legendary intensity of living, almost beyond the possible." Same author who wrote Out Of Africa.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. With an introduction by Basil Willey and woodcut illustrations by Henry Bugbee Kane. Published in 1951 by Bramhall House, a division of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., by arrangement with W. W. Norton and Company. Hardbound with original dust cover.