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The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk
Keene, CarolynNew York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1940A-1. Near Fine book with very slight spine lean and a contemporary gift inscription (dated December 25, 1940) in pencil on the free front endpaper in a Very...
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The Hunt for Red October
Clancy, TomAnnapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards...
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A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of...
Darwin, CharlesLondon: John Murray, 1890. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 500 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Darwin. Bookplate of distinguished surgeon and Captain in the Royal Navy (serving during the first world war) Hugh...
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The Hunter and the Trapper in North America; or Romantic Adventures in Field and Forest
Revoil, BenedictLondon: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. 393pp. 6 pages of publisher's ads bound in at the rear. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, black lettering, and vignettes in gilt on front board and spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Translated from the French and with a preface...
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Let it Come Down
Bowles, PaulNew York: Random House, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. 311 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Bowles' fifth book. Very near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears, some light edge wear, and a few traces of rubbing.
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One Fearful Yellow Eye
MacDonald, John D.Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome copy of the eighth Travis McGee novel.
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The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Twain, MarkNew York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First printing. Hardcover. 260 pp. Small 8vo., bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near Fine book with a small crack to the rear hinge (binding is...
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Gould, Stephen JayCambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top...
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De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompeiano nec non A. Hirtii Aliorumque De Bellis Alexandrino, Africano, et Hispaniensi, Commentarii, ex Editione...
Caesar, C. Julius (C. Julii Caesaris)London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 24mo. 468 pp. Collates as complete. Bound in beautiful straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. A later edition of Franz van Oudendorp's edition of De Bello Gallico...
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Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in black with bird embossed gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the...
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Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives Some Questions and Answers
UnknownWashington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971. Pamphlet. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front...
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Grimus
Rushdie, SalmanNew York: The Overlook Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy of Rushdie's first novel. Ahearn APG 001c. A Fine book in a....
