[Rarebooks] FS: A FEW SMALL, MAYNARD & COPELAND & DAY IMPRINTS

[Norman Kane]

NEELY, HENRY M.  FRED SPENCER, REPORTER.  ILLUSTRATED BY A[LEX] A. 
BLUM.  Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (1912).  First edition. Original pictorial cloth, bright copy, IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST WRAPPER (d. w. has light wear), which has a somewhat different rendering of the scene on the cover and the frontispiece.  4 plates, as listed. (Blum is best known as a comic artist. This boys' book is the story of the adventures on the waterfront of a young would-be reporter.  Scarce; only 2 copies in OCLC.)  $90.00

HOWE, M. A. DeWOLFE.  SHADOWS.  Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897.  First edition.  Original cloth, very good. Printed by the Rockwell & Churchill Press, Boston. (Poetry.)  $40.00

HOLLAND, CLIVE. A WRITER OF FICTION.  Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897.  First U.S. edition.  Original decorated cloth, slight wear.  End paper excised. Old signature on fly leaf: Theresa Sampson.   (Novel: an author's novel is mauled by the critics.) $40.00

SANBORN. ALVAN F[RANCIS]. MEG McINTYRE'S RAFFLE AND OTHER STORIES.  Boston: Copeland & Day, 1896.  First edition. Original gilt-stamped cloth, 
very good. (Working class life: Baucis & Philemon in Bigelow Street; Episodes in the Career of a Lodging-House; Suffer Little Children; &c.)  Wright III-4756 (5 copies.) $40.00

DAVIDSON, JOHN.  BALLADS AND SONGS. London: John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894. First edition. Original gilt-decorated cloth, just slight wear.  4 pages re Davidson & his books, and advts dated 1894, at the rear.  $35.00

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