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Snow Before Christmas
Tudor, TashaLondon / New York: Oxford University Press [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. Blue-green cloth with red lettering and red and green decorations printed on a white paper label on the front board. Price of $1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated.....
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Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice
Moore, FrankHartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xvi, 17-596, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively spotted. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title-page, and eight plates. The plates depict.....
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The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Spears, John R.New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xi, [1], 319, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fourteen additional plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to American biologist and naturalist Francis Harper, known for his.....
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Memoirs of The Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, Including the Protectorate
Jesse, John HeneageLondon: Richard Bentley, 1846. Second edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-[x]vi, [1], 2-390, [2]; [3], iv-xix, [5], 5-496, [2]; [3], ivxv, [4], 2-512, [2]; [3], vi-xix, [1], 2-525, [3] pp. Turn-of-the-century half brown leather over beige cloth, spines in six compartments with gold decorations and two maroon morocco labels.....
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A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada; from the Mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida
Irving, WashingtonLondon: John Murray, 1829. First UK edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xv, [2], 2-407, [3]; [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-421, [3] pp. Paneled mid-nineteenth century olive calf with gilt borders on each board, gilt decorations to the turn-ins, spines in four compartments with gilt decorations and two black morocco labels.....
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Ligotti, ThomasNew York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-x, [2], 3-275, [3] pp. Quarter red cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of twenty short horror stories.....
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The Principles of Human Knowledge; Being Berkeley's Celebrated Treatise on the Nature of The Material Substance (And Its Relation to...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: William Tegg & Co., 1878. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-lii, [5], 6-220 pp. Bound in green cloth with both boards bordered in blind, lettering and device stamped in gilt on the front board, yellow/green endpapers and pastedowns. Algaier, Reconstructing the Library of William James; Gay Wilson.....
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Opera Theologica, Moralia, Historica, Philosophica, Mathematica & Rhetorica, quotquot hucusque haberi pouterunt omnia, in Vetus et Novum Testamentum ... in...
[Bede]; Venerabilis Bedae [= The Venerable Bede, Saint Bede]Coloniae Agrippinae [= Cologne]: Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. (8 vol. bound in 4). Folio. [8], 2-452, [2]; 1-238 (with a section of these leaves mispaginated); [4], 2-499, [2]; [4], 2-916, [1]; [2], 2-815; [2], 2-851; [4], 2-486, [1]; [4], 2-967, (a lengthy, unpaginated index of.....
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The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Engels, FrederickLondon: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-298, [2], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Full recent red morocco with a gilt border to each board, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. With a preface written.....
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo; With a Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, Language and Other Peculiarities
Rink, Dr. HenryEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds.....
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McClellan's Own Story; The War for the Union: The Soldiers who fought it the civilians who Directed it and his...
McClellan, George B.New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xiv, 678, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering and red and gold decorations on the front board and gilt lettering and two gold star decorations inset in a black bar with gilt bordering (the.....
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Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, SaulNew York: The Viking Press (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-341, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in durable tan cloth with titling in black, silver, and orange. First issue with yellow topstain. Jacket is either married or second issue since although it has the correct.....
