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Featured items that Fulcrum Rare Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2013.
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Fulcrum Rare
Patty Maher and Judy Volc
4690 Table Mountain Dr. #100 Golden CO 80403
303-277-1623
www.fulcrumrare@fulcrumrare.com
jvolc@fulcrumpublishinginc.com
First editions, natural history, photography, religion, science and technology history, sports, travel, western americana
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Rural Hours by A Lady. With Illustrations. Sixth Edition, Willis P. Hazard,
Philadelphia 1854. Entered according the Act of Congress by James Fennimore
Cooper in 1850. The book is dedicated to "The Author of "The Deerslayer""
by the Writer. The Writer being Cooper's daughter, Susan Cooper.
Bookplate on inside of the front cover reads: "R. F. Beirne. To lend a
Borrowed Book, or to keep it after you have read it, IS DISHONEST". The
caps are on the book plate. R. F. Beirne's Book is handwritten on front end
paper. Full color illustrations of birds and plants with tissue covers
appear throughout the book Bound in brown leather with embossing and gilt
lettering, front, back and spine. Slight signs of wear in a couple of
places on the cover. Some spotting on some pages. Gilt edges. Tight copy.
Some penciled notes by previous bookseller inside front cover and a small
sticker with red edges and notation inside front cover.
Genre: Natural Science
Price $500.00
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Our Navy in the Great Rebellion, Heroes and Battles of the War 1861-65
Comprising an Authentic Account of Battles and Sieges, Adventures and
Incidents, Including Biographies of the Prominent Naval Heroes Who Were
Instrumental in Bringing The Civil War to a Triumphant Close. With Numerous
Fine Steel Portraits, Battle Scenes, & Maps. By Hon. J. T. Headley. E. B
Treat, New York, 1891. Copyright 1891. 6" by 9" tall. 616 pages.
Blue cloth cover with black embossed pictures and gilt lettering on front
cover and spine.. Embossed decorations also on back cover. Inscription,
partially illegible, is dated 1894. Pages of lists of ships from both sides
in battles at back. Tight clean copy with very slight damages to edges and
corners of cover.
Genre: American History - Civil War
Price $100.00
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Decorum, A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American
Society, Sold only by subscription, entered into Act of Congress by J. A.
Ruth and Co. in 1877. Union Publishing House, New York, Boston, Cincinnati
and Savannah, Ga. 1880. 5 ½” by 7 ½” tall. 352 pages followed by
Testimonials and blank ledger pages for notes.
Bound in blue cloth with full color portrait in a medallion with gilt and
black embossed decorations and title on front cover, more gilt and black
embossing on back cover. Spine is darkened. Inscribed ‘Tis yours -. From Jim
Lucid, Holy Cross, C. Lusul, 1943-44. Topics covered include dress, forms
of salutation for various countries, subjects to be avoided, travel and foot
care to name just a few.
Genre: Manners and decorum
Price $125.00
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Beyond the Mississippi from the Great River to the Great Ocean, Life and
Adventures on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast. With More Than Two
Hundred Illustrations, From Photographs and Original Sketches of the
Prairies, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Mines, Cities, Indians, Trappers,
Pioneers, and Great Natural Curiosities of the New States and Territories.
New Edition, written down in the summer of 1869. Entered According to An
Act of Congress in 1867 and again 8n 1869. By Albert D. Richardson, American
Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn, 6" by 9" tall. 620 pages.
Green paper binding somewhat faded with embossed and gilt decorations on
front, back and spine. Slight damage along the edges and at the corners.
Small and various sized illustrations appear on most pages as well as the
usual full page engravings and photographs.
Genre: American History - Westward Expansion
Price $250.00
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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Lippincott & and Company, Philadelphia.
Entered according to Act of Congress by G. P. Putnam 1863. Illustrated with
wood engravings by various "Eminent Artists" along with a steel engraving of
Washington Irving made from a portrait with tissue cover intact. 6" by 8"
tall 38 pages.
At the back are ads for two more of Irving's stories, A Christmas Story and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which include information about a cloth binding
with full gilt while this has a Japanese style binding, brown reptile skin
with flexible covers indicating that this volume has been rebound. Front is
stamped with gilt title or perhaps lettered, Rip Van Winkle. Tight, with
slight wear on edges of skin, pages have some few spots but are mostly clear
and quite legible.
Rip Van Winkle was first published in the United States in either 1819 or
1820.
Genre: Americana - Fiction 19th Century
Price $500.00
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