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453. REXFORD (EBEN E.). 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Pansies and Rosemary.
Phila. 1910

* With autograph poem by the author:

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"God grant that time come soon,' the old man said-
'But soon or late the time will come, I trust—
When Love and Peace walk hand in hand, and tread
Above the grave where lies my little dust.

God still is God. Shall we not trust Him then?'
And every heart said trustfully Amen!"

454. RHEES (RUSH). The Life of Jesus of Nazareth. Map. 12mo, cloth.

N. Y. 1913 Autographed by the author. Dr. Rhees is President of the University of Rochester and a member of the Constitutional Convention.

455. RHOADES (JAMES).

Square 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Words by the Wayside.
Lond. 1915

* Inscribed by the author with a stanza from his poem on the death of Artemus Ward.

456. RHODES (EUGENE M.). Good Men and True. Illustrations by H. T. Dunn. 16mo, cloth.

N. Y. 1914

*Inserted is A. L. S. of the author, 2 pp., humorously discussing whether "Preparation for War is the best guarantee of peace."

457. RHODES (JAMES FORD, American Historical Lecturer). Manuscript of Lectures on the American Civil War, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1912. FIRST LECTURE. 54 pp. (in pencil), with notes, written on 4to sheets.

458. notes).

459.

The same. SECOND LECTURE. 55 pp. (with

The same. THIRD LECTURE. 65 pp. (with notes).

* These three lectures complete the course on the American Civil War. They were issued in book form by The Macmillan Company in 1913.

460. RHODES (JAMES FORD). Lectures on the American Civil War. 12mo, cloth, gilt top.

*

N. Y. 1913

Inscription by the author laid in, concluding: "No land of the vanquished Confederates [was] confiscated.''

461. RICHARDS (LAURA E.). The Hurdy-Gurdy. Humorous border illustrations in colors. Royal 8vo, cloth.

Bost. [1902]

* Has stanza of 4 lines inscribed on fly-leaf in autograph of the authoress; and a card inserted with autograph of Julia Ward Howe.

462. RICHARDS (LAURA E.). The Little Master. Illustrations by Josephine Bruce. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1913

*With autograph poem by the author addressed to the buyer of this book; and a typewritten L. S. to Mr. Rossiter Johnson, enclosing an autograph poem by Julia Ward Howe, which is also included.

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463. RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB). Original photograph. Profile to left. Mounted with a short autograph poem, entitled "The Magic of the Seasons," 2 stanzas of four lines each. Framed and glazed.

464. RILEY (JAMES WHITCOMB). Book, containing Poems Not in Dialect. Howland. 16mo, cloth, gilt edges.

The Lockerbie Collected by H. H. Indianapolis [1911]

* With autograph of James Whitcomb Riley inserted. 465. RITCHIE (ANNE). Records of Tennyson, Ruskin and Browning. 12mo, cloth. Lond. Macmillan, 1893

* Inserted is a 4-pp. A. L. S. of the author, referring to the forgeries of letters of her father (W. M. Thackeray). "They were characterised by excessive stupidity," etc. Refers also to Leigh Hunt and her father's letters to Edward Fitzgerald.

466. RIVES (HALLIE ERMINIE). The Valiants of Virginia. Colored illustrations. 12mo, ooze calf, gilt top.

* Signature of the author on fly-leaf. Indianapolis, n. d. 467. ROBBINS (REGINALD C.). Love Poems. Four Series. 4 vols. 12mo, limp leather, gilt top.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1912

* Each volume contains an autograph presentation inscription and also a poem in his hand on the outraging of Belgium.

468. ROBBINS (REGINALD C.). Poems of Personality. First and Second Series. 2 vols. 12mo, limp leather, gilt top. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1912

* Each volume inscribed with a poem, by the author.

469. ROBBINS (REGINALD C.). Earlier Poems. 12mo, limp leather, gilt top. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1913 * Inscribed by the author.

470. ROBERTS (CHARLES G. D.). The Haunters of the Silences. A Book of Animal Life. Illustrations by Charles L. Bull. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Bost. [1913]

* A. L. S. from the author inserted, 2 pp. 8vo, N. Y. 1897, relating to his admission to the Authors Club.

471. ROGERS (LEBBEUS H.). The Kite Trust: A Romance of Wealth. Portrait. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. [1902]

* With original autograph sonnet by the author, entitled "Belgium.''

472. ROLLAND (ROMAIN). Jean-Christophe. Translated by Gilbert Cannan. 10 parts in 3 vols., 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1915 *Inserted is a portrait and also an A. L. S. of the author, relating to his own literary affairs, written in French.

473. ROLLINS (FRANK WEST, ex-Governor of New Hampshire). What Can a Young Man Do? 12mo, cloth.

* Inscribed by the author.

Bost. 1907

474. ROOSEVELT (THEODORE). "An Elephant Hunt on Mt. Kenia." Carbon manuscript in the author's autograph throughout, with corrections. 46 pp., bound in 4to writing pad.

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* Inscribed in ink on last page: "Theodore Roosevelt, April 9th, 1915. For the Belgian Sufferers sale.' This manuscript is chapter X of Mr. Roosevelt's "African Game Trails" published by Scribner in 1910, where it appears as "Elephant Hunting on Mount Kenia."

475. ROOSEVELT (THEODORE). African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. Many illustrations. Royal 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1910

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* With typewritten L. S. of the author to E. S. Van Zile urging that the United States prepare for war 'as an agent in producing the peace of Righteousness. Impotence is never impressive. China is entirely peaceful and wholly

unable to be of the slightest use on the side of International peace. The United States will be as impotent as China if she permits herself to sink into the same condition of helplessness."

476. RUBINOW (I. M.). Social Insurance. With Special Reference to American Conditions. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1913

*With an L. S. of the author inserted.

477. RUSSELL (WALTER). "The Shore at Bar Harbor." Oil Painting on Academy board. Signed. Height 8 inches; width 10 inches. Framed.

478. RUSSELL (WALTER). "Rocks at Great Head." Oil Painting on Academy board. Signed. Height 8 inches; width 10 inches. Framed.

479. SAINT-GAUDENS (HOMER). The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Portraits and illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, boards, cloth, gilt tops, uncut. N. Y. 1913

* With an A. N. S. of Homer Saint-Gaudens inserted.

480. SAMPSON (ALDEN). Studies in Milton, and an Essay on Poetry. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, uncut.

* Signature and inscription by the author.

N. Y. 1913

481. SARKA (CHARLES). Sailors of the American Fleet Landing in the Tropies; illustration for Magazine. Black and White Wash Drawing. Signed. Height 44 inches; width 19 inches. Unframed.

482. SCOLLARD (CLINTON). Sprays of Shamrock. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Portland, 1914

*

Autograph poem of author on fly-leaf, signed.

483. SCOLLARD (CLINTON). Lyrics from a Library. 12mo, boards, uncut. N. Y., n. d.

* With signed autograph inscription on the fly-leaf, and two signed MS. poems, by the author, entitled "Bravery" and "What Tidings,'' inserted.

484. SEAWELL (MOLLY ELLIOT). Papa Bouchard. Illustrated by William Glackens. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

* With an A. N. S. by the author inserted.

N. Y. 1901

485. SEAWELL (MOLLY ELLIOT). The Sprightly Romance of Marsac. Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

*

N. Y. 1909 Autographed card of the author pasted in. Also a typewritten slip stating that this is the book that received first prize of $3,000 over 2,000 competitors in the New York Herald contest.

486. SEAWELL (MOLLY ELLIOT). Typewritten manuscript of "Betty's Christmas Days: A Story." 116 pp. 4to, in wrappers, with autograph corrections and additions.

*Betty's Christmas Days" was published in 1914 by Lippincott, under the title of "Betty's Virginia Christmas.''

487. SEAWELL (MOLLY ELLIOT). Typewritten Manuscript of "Bettina Loved a Soldier." 28 pp. 4to, unsigned. * Inserted is a slip stating that this story was sold over the telephone for $750 before a line of it was written.

488. SEAWELL (MOLLY ELLIOT). The Ladies' Battle. Some Considerations against Woman Suffrage. Original typewritten manuscript, with corrections and alterations in author's autograph. 31 pp. 4to, sheets, in wrappers.

*"The Ladies' Battle' was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1910 and later issued in book form, with some additions. It was productive of much discussion and wrath, and suggestions were freely made that Miss Seawell be hanged, drawn and quartered for writing it.

489. SEITZ (DON C.). Discoveries in Every-Day Europe. Illustrated by Maurice Ketten. 12mo, half cloth and boards. N. Y. 1907

* With autograph inscription by the author: "A little travel is a dangerous thing-it breeds a taste for more!"

490. SEITZ (DON C.). The Buccaneers: Rough Verse. Colored frontispiece by Howard Pyle. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, N. Y. 1912

uncut.

*Signed autograph poem of the author on fly-leaf.

491. SELIGMAN (EDWIN R. A.). The Economic Interpretation of History. 12mo, cloth.

N. Y. 1912

* With autograph inscription, signed, by the author: "May

492. SEMPLE (ELLEN CHURCHILL). Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut. N. Y. 1911 * With an A. L. S. of the author, concerning the work, laid in.

493. SETON (ERNEST THOMPSON).

Wild Animals I

Have Known. 200 drawings by the author. 8vo, cloth, uncut. N. Y. 1913

*A. L. S. of the author inserted, relating to the hardiness of Golden Pheasants.

494. SHACKLETON (ROBERT AND ELIZABETH). The Charm of the Antique. Illustrated. 8vo, half straight-grain morocco, gilt, gilt top. N. Y., n. d.

* One of the Autograph Edition of 100 copies, signed by the authors, and with an A. N. S. by the authors laid in. 495. SHACKLETON (ROBERT AND ELIZABETH). Four on a Tour in England. Illustrations and maps. 8vo, half lilac levant morocco, gilt, gilt top. N. Y., n. d.

* One of 100 copies of the Autograph Edition, inscribed by the author, and a signed note, reading in part: "This is a record of the appearance of England up to the very week of the beginning of the Great War."

496. SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar. Edited by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. Large 8vo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Phila. 1913

* With a signed autograph quotation by the editor. 497. SHERMAN (FRANK DEMPSTER). Lyrics of Joy. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, uncut.

Bost. 1904

* With autograph poem from the above-named work, written and signed by the author.

498. SHERMAN (FRANK DEMPSTER). Little-Folk Lyrics. Illustrations by Maude and Genevieve Cowles. 12mo, cloth, gilt top. Bost., n. d.

* With a poem from the above-named work, written and signed by the author, on a fly-leaf:

"Daisies.

At evening when I go to bed

I see the stars shine overhead;

They are the little daisies white

That dot the meadow of the Night,'' etc.

499. SIGSBEE (CHARLES D.). The "Maine": An Account of her Destruction in Havana Harbor. Illustrations. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1899

* With signed inscription by the author: "In view of events, since the loss of the Maine, it is gratifying to know, that this narrative does not need, as to terms and statements, any

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