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The Blackbird
Stark, Richard (Donald E. Westlake)[New York]: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 7-184, [4] pp. Black cloth with purple lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Jack Wolf. Signed by the author as "Donald E. Westlake".....
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The Erection Set
Spillane, MickeyNew York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-335, [1] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by Spillane on the free front endpaper. Henderson 977. Spillane's wife Sherri posed for.....
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Human Nature and Conduct; An Introduction to Social Psychology
Dewey, JohnNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-336, [6] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "John Dewey". Taken from a series of lectures Dewey gave at Stanford in 1918. This book touches.....
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My Life on the Plains; Or, Personal Experiences with Indians
Custer, Gen. G. A.New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-256, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth lettered in gold and stamped with gold and black decorations on the front board and the spine, decorations and border in blind on the rear board. Pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. The front.....
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The Odyssey of Homer; The Iliad of Homer
Homer (Alexander Pope, translator)London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. 11 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Volumes are uniformly bound in contemporary full calf with gold tooling on the edges of the boards, spines in six compartments with gold tooling and an unpolished calf label on each; all edges marbled.....
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Modes et Costumes Historiques
Pauquet, [Hippolyte]; Pauquet, [Polydore]Paris: Pauquet Frères / René Pincebourde, ca. 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [5], 2-4. Contemporary half blue pigskin over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold floral decorations; top edge gilt. Bound by Chatelin. Decorative grey and blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with 96 color.....
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Where the Wild Things Are
Sendak, Maurice[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Quarter grey cloth over pictorial boards printed on white paper, the boards' illustrations match those of the jacket. Colorful illustrated endpapers and pastedowns (the endpapers and pastedowns depict flowers and plants of many colors). Price of $3.50.....
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The Warden
Trollope, AnthonyLondon: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv, [1], 2-336, [1], 2-24 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in blind and gold lettering on the spine. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Housed in a custom clamshell case with marbled inner papers.....
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Animal Farm
Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair)New York: Harcourt Brace and Company [1946], 1946. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 3-118, [4] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $1.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket done by Art Brenner. First printing of the first American.....
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Life and Mind: on The Basis of Modern Medicine
Lewins, RobertLondon: Watts & Co., 1880. Third edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-72 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the front board, a yellow paper label printed in black on the spine. Edited by Thalassoplektos. First published in 1873 under.....
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Where's My Cow?
Pratchett, Terry,London: Doubleday (2005), 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Quarter purple cloth over pictorial boards done in blue, black, white, and yellow. Illustrated colorful endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color drawings by Melvyn Grant. A Discworld picture book for people of all sizes. Signed by Pratchett on.....
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San Francisco; A Pageant
Dobie, Charles CaldwellNew York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-351, [1] pp. Quarter navy cloth over light green cloth with a pictorial inset on the front board, gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by E.H. Suydam. Illustrated by a colored-pencil frontispiece and several.....