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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Austin Stevens (illustratore). First Edition. yellow wrapper with black illustrations and lettering, "how to alter unsatisfactory fireplaces & to build new ones in the 18th century fashion", " the story of count Rumford & his fireplace designs that have remained unchanged since 1795 ", Rumford's designs were based on optimum looks relative to the size of the fireplace room, as well as geometries that allowed the wood to be burnt effectively without making smoke, and this book was written to help improve the designs that were created in the early 1900's which were ugly and did not work that well, line illiustrations of Rumfords designs are given in the book by the illustrator, Benjamin Franklin had speckulated on the problems of smoke from fireplaces before Rumford and agreed vwith some of his principals but did not carry the designs as far as Rumford, 60 pages contain 9 line drawings that can be used by modern workers to improve current fireplaces for looks and performance,

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth with front cover paste-on of a Vermont scene. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. A small damp stain to fore edge of text block that does not get into book or text. Covers lightly soiled. Illustrated with b&w photos. Rubbing at extremities. An overall clean and tight copy. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good +. No Jacket. Moderate age/use wear; an adequate study copy. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Binghamton: Stuart David Schiff. Near Fine. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial [perfect bound 5.5" x 8.5" format] wrappers, 176 pages, illustrated by various artists. Near Fine copy with slight spine cocking ,and very light wear. clph.

unpaginated 4to Illustrated in black and white Green cloth with black and white pictorial pastedown on front Foreword by Charles Beecher Hogan Light cover rubbing and soil, spine ends heavily rubbed, endpapers foxed: VG/no dj.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Binghamton: Stuart David Schiff 1982. First Edition. Magazine. Inscribed by Stuart David Schiff on contents page. "To Eric Our Ramsey Campbell Feast of Fantasy Best Stuart David Schiff" Pictorial perfect bound 5.5" x 8.5" format, wrappers, 176 pages, illustrated by various artists. Very good with light wear and minor rubbing to covers. See photos clphE.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Binghamton: Stuart David Schiff 1982. First Edition. Magazine. Pictorial [perfect bound 5.5" x 8.5" format] wrappers, 176 pages, illustrated by various artists. Very good with edge wear, creasing to covers and a small horizontal crease across the spine heel 100, clph.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. An association copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Provenance: Vincent Starrett's copy with his name written on the first page. Starrett, who corresponded with Lovecraft, had short stories published in the earliest issues of Weird Tales and poems in Arkham House anthologies. A journalist, writer and literary scholar, he is best know for his pioneering works of Sherlock Holmes scholarship. 78 pp. Stapled sheets in publisher's original pictorial wraps illustrated by Vermont Country Store co-founder and friend of Lovecraft Vrest Orton. Very Good. Textblock completely detached from wraps, old tape reinforcement to spine, small faint tidemark to front cover at top edge, light chipping to spine ends and corners. The New England writer and publisher William Paul Cook was a friend and supporter of H. P. Lovecraft and encouraged the literary research that Lovecraft synthesized into his famous essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." The essay occupied pages 23 through 59 of The Recluse, a periodical Cook began for his own amusement. The contributors, who included Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei,and Vrest Orton, were not paid, and Cook never got around to publishing a second issue. Joshi I-B.ii.335a.