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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lV/f R. R. H. RUSSELL announces that he has again personally resumed the publication of art books, fiction, enriched and limited editions, pictorial reprints, and general literature under the imprint of: R. H. RUSSELL He wishes particularly at this time, because of their unique value, to call your atten- tion to seven books by CHARLES DANA GIBSON who has just come back to this country, reiterat- ing the statement that he would not return to the field of his early and remarkable success in pen and ink characterization of American types and manners. 1 he books listed below printed on heavy plate paper and bound in Japan vellum prac- ticallv cover his work: The Social Ladder .... $5.00 Americans 5.00 A Widow and Her Friends - 5.00 The Education of Mr. Pipp - 5.00 Sketches and Cartoons - - 5.00 Pictures of People .... 5.00 People of Dickens .... 5.00
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