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Revenge of the Lawn; Stories 1962-1970
Brautigan, RichardNew York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 10-174 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; green topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of sixty-two stories. Poetry Foundation, "Richard Brautigan". Richard Brautigan was.....
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The Outlaw of Torn
Burroughs, Edgar RiceChicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-298 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Nicely inscribed by Burroughs on the free front endpaper (in the year of publication). Heins 170; Zeuschner 381. The Outlaw of Torn.....
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Fire and Hemlock
Jones, Diana WynneNew York: Greenwillow Books [1985], 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-341, [3] pp. Quarter white cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $13.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket art by Darryl Zudeck. Based on.....
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Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824; Extending Across the...
Denham, Major; Clappteron, Captain; OudneyLondon: John Murray, 1826. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-lxxxviii, [1], 2-321, [5]; [3], iv, [1], 2-413 pp. Half mid-nineteenth century sheep over marbled paper boards with the spines in six compartments; all edges sprinkled red. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, volume one.....
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Visions of Cody
Kerouac, JackNew York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [4], 3-398, [4] pp. Maroon cloth with lettering in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design.....
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Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)[Paris]: La Société Littéraire-Typographique, 1784 - 1789. First edition. Hardcover. 70 vol. 8vo. Please inquire if you require any pagination information. Contemporary full calf, spines in six and a half compartments, each with a red and a green morocco label lettered in gilt; several edges decoratively stained yellow. With 104.....
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Scott's Last Expedition
Scott, Captain R.F. (R.N., C.V.O.)New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [3], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-443, [1]; [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-376, [8] pp. Original dark green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; top edges gilt. Illustrated with two photogravure frontispieces, six original sketches in photogravure by Dr.....
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May Day
Students & Youth for a People's PeaceWashington DC: Students & Youth for a People's Peace [1971], 1971. Poster. 57.15 cm x 43.18 cm. (or 22.5" by 17"). Lithograph printed in red, black, white, and a purplish hue. The text next to the image of Sitting Bull reads: "If our people fight one tribe at a time.....
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Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Random House [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American.....
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the...
Campbell, John LordLondon: John Murray, 1845; 1846; 1847; 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Full contemporary tree calf with gold-tooled borders on the boards, spines in six compartments with a red and black morocco label lettered in gold on each spine, spines decorated with gold tooling; all.....
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers
Block, LawrenceNew York: Random House [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-181, [3] pp. Quarter black paper over yellow paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. This is copy number 934 of 1000 signed by the author on a specially.....
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues ...
[Bible]; [Isaiah Thomas]; [Early American Printing]Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. First Thomas edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], 3-1310 pp. Contemporary paneled sheep with the spine in six compartments. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Completing the title page: And with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England.....