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Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields; Containing a Full Account of the Discovery of Gold; Enormous Deposits of the Precious...
Harris, A.C.n.p. N.P. [1897], 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xi, [1], 17-528, [2] pp. Light brown publisher's cloth with decorations in orange, yellow, gold, red, silver, and black on the front board, spine with gold lettering and black and silver decorations; all edges marbled. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by.....
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Cape Cod
Thoreau, Henry DavidBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of.....
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
Proulx, E. AnnieNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-151, [1] pp. Quarter purple cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. Proulx's first book of fiction, a well-received collection of nine short stories.
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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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Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization
VariousNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 832 pp. Bound in brown leather over light brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules, black and white patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Heavily illustrated by some of the finest American illustrators of the era including.....
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Grant in Peace; From Appomattox to Mount McGregor
Badeau, AdamHartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-591, [3] pp. Brown pebbled cloth with gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eighteen wood-engraved plates, scenes from Grant's career, and with.....
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Naked Lunch
Burroughs, WilliamNew York: Grove Press, Inc. [1962], 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [2], 2-255, [1] pp. Half black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 003d. Maynard and Miles.....
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The Death of the Moth
Woolf, VirginiaNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 3-248, [1] pp. Green cloth with white lettering and two white rules on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 034c. Kirkpatrick A27. Edited by Leonard Woolf.....
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The North Pole
Peary, Robert E.London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First UK edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], iii-xii, 1-326 pp. Green cloth with a white rule on the front board, Peary's gold seal and gold lettering on the front board, a polar bear stamped in white on the spine and rear board, and gold lettering on.....
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The Mountains of California
Muir, JohnNew York: The Century Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], ix-xiii, [4], 2-381, [1] pp. Light green cloth with green and gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Publisher's device on the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous full-page and.....
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Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon
Anderson, J.K.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-419, [3] pp. Yellow cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Price of $12.50 printed on the front flap. Illustrated with nineteen black and white photgraph plates and a few figures at the end of the.....
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The Three Musketeers
Dumas, AlexandreBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvi, [1], 2-428, [2]; [5], vi, [3], 2-418, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with bright gilt and silver decorations on the front boards, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines; top edges.....
