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![Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London [= Hindenburg's Invasion of London]; Von Einem Deutschen. Paul Georg Münch.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000012713.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681488181)
Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London [= Hindenburg's Invasion of London]; Von Einem Deutschen Dichter [= By a German Poet]
[Münch, Paul Georg]Leipzig: Grethlein & Co. [1915], 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [7], 10-260, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half contemporary brown imitation leather over marbled paper boards with the spine in five compartments, gold lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Re-bound without the half-title. Clarke Future Wars.....
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The Fortune of War
O'Brian, PatrickLondon: Collins, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-279, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £5.50 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cunningham 15a. A lovely copy of the sixth Jack Aubrey novel. A very slight lean and a tiny push.....
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Principia Ethica
Moore, George EdwardCambridge: At the University Press, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxvii, [1], 1-232 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering, a gold rule, and the publisher's device in gold on the spine. Honderich 585. Slater II 710. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "George Edward Moore". Moore began the work in.....
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The Comedies of Plautus, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse, by Bonnell Thornton, M.B.
Plautus; Bonnell Thornton, M.B. [Tr.]; Richard Warner, [Tr.]London: J. Lister for T. Becket and P A. de Hondt, 1767; 1772; 1774. First English language edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments, each with a red morocco label lettered in gold and with a second, smaller red morocco label.....
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Mercy
Dworkin, AndreaNew York: Four Walls Eight Windows (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-344 pp. Quarter purple cloth over grey paper boards with white lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Moskof Associates. Inscribed by the author on.....
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The Life of George Cruikshank; In Two Epochs
Jerrold, BlanchardNew York: Scribner and Welford, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Crown 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, 1-284, [2]; [5], vi-viii, 1-280, [2] pp. Contemporary polished calf with gold borders on each board, gold tooling to the boards' edges and turn-ins, spines in six compartments, each with a red and a green.....
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Stride Toward Freedom; The Montgomery Story
King, Jr., Martin LutherNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-230, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over blue cloth with the publisher's device in silver on the front board, silver lettering and two silver rules on the spine. Price of $2.95 on the front flap of the.....
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The Philosophy of Karl Popper
Popper, Karl; Paul Arthur Schilpp, [Ed.]La Salle, Illinois: Open Court [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [5], 4-670; [9], x-xii, [3], 672-1323, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $30.00 on each front jacket's flap. Each volume illustrated with a full-page photograph of.....
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Race Rock
Matthiessen, PeterNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-306, [4] pp. Quarter green-blue cloth over black textured paper boards with yellow lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A presentable copy of Matthiessen's first novel.....
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The New America: The New World
Wells, H.G.London: The Cresset Press (1935), 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 7-96 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of 2s 6d net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wells' observations and opinions on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New.....
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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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General Theory of Relativity
Dirac, P. A. M.New York: John Wiley & Sons [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [7], viii, [1], 2-69, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white lettering on the spine and publisher's device stamped in white on the front board. Dirac was one of the twentieth century's most important theoretical physicists and was.....