rare book catalog 2012 - Weller Book Works

History
50. Bourke-White, Margaret. They Called it Purple Heart Valley: A Combat
Chronicle of the War in Italy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. 2nd printing.
182 pages. 8vo. Tan cloth. Good condition with mild shelf wear and rubbing to
extremities. Front hinge a bit weak and frontis photo of the author is loose.
Contents very good. Lacking the dust jacket. Bourke-White has inscribed the book
in ink on the front endsheet to General Cannon, and dated it July 1945. General
Cannon was Utah native John Kenneth Cannon, fondly known as Uncle Joe
Cannon during his long career in the Air Force. Bourke-White took Cannon's
photo after he bailed out of his P-51 in the Mediterranean Sea. The photo precedes
page 9. RBOUTHE00jn $250
51. Buchan, James Walter and Reverend Henry Paton, editors. A History of
Peeblesshire. 3 volume set. Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Co, 1927. 1st edition. 498,
555, 723 pages. 8vos. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good condition with lightly
bumped and rubbed corners and yellowed endsheets. The cloth of volume 3 has a
few small spots. The front hinges of Volumes 2 and 3 are weak. Contents of all
volumes are clean. A detailed history of
this southeastern county in Scotland.
With a government reorganization in
1975, the name Peeblesshire was
discontinued and the area was governed
as the district of Tweeddale. However,
the Peeblesshire name is still in frequent
use. Many interesting black and white
illustrations. RBUCHIS00ec $325
52. Clarendon, Edward Earl of. History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in
England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1843. 1364 pages. Thick 8vo. Full
diced brown leather with raised bands, gilt decor, all edges gilt, and gilt
dentelles. In very good condition with light rubbing to edges of spine and a
contemporary book plate on front pastedown. Brief pencil notations on verso
of free endsheet and flyleaf at front. Mild foxing to endsheets and flyleaves.
Pages very clean and binding is tight. A gorgeous binding. RCLAHIS00jn $675
53. Jolliffe, Eric. Witchetty's Tribe: Aboriginal Cartoon Fun, Number 35.
Sydney, Australia: Sungravure, circa 1943. Unpaginated. Oblong 8vo. Color
illustrated wraps. Very good, with light rubbing, lower-rear corner slightly bent
and two tiny closed tears in upper edge of rear wrapper. RJOLWIT00rjb $45
54. Keltie, John S., Thomas MacLaughlan, and John Wilson. The Scottish
Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. 2 volumes. Edinburgh:
A. Fullarton & Co., 1875. 776, 818 pages. 4to. 3/4 green leather with green cloth
boards, raised bands, red leather gilt stamped labels, gilt rules and blind
dingbats on the spines and marbled endsheets. Very good. Both volumes have
been discreetly restored, Spines are faded from green to brown. Previous
owner’s name in light pen written vertically on the leather of the front board
near the spine of volume 1, which also has a gift inscription and a few small
doodles and sketches on the front free endsheet and first flyleaf. The rear
pastedown of volume 2 has previous owner's name and address. RKELSCO00ec
$700
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