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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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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 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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Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-389, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with a flamingo embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on the spine; green topstain. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of.....
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The Burden of Our Time [The Origins of Totalitarianism]
Arendt, HannahLondon: Secker & Warburg (1951), 1951. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [4], 4-477, [3] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering and two black rules on the spine. Price of 30s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Arendt's magnum opus, a brilliant treatise in political philosophy.....
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Illustrated History of the War in Italy; Embracing a Description of Northern and Central Italy, Geographical Analysis of Places of...
Tuel, J.E.New York: J.G. Wells, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xii, [3], 18-336, [5], 4-21 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [5] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with two color folding maps and one folding plate, with.....
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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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Vigilante Days and Ways; The Pioneers of the Rockies: The Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming
Langford, Nathaniel PittNew York: D.D. Merrill Company, 1893. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [3], xx-xxvi, [1], 2-426, [2]; [5], vi-xiii, [4], 2-485, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece. Volume one with three in-text wood engravings and.....
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Wisconsin Death Trip
Lesy, MichaelNew York: Pantheon Books [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Miyamoto. With a preface by Warren Susman. Illustrated throughout with several.....
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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.....
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Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
Sheridan, P.H.New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xiii, 500, [2]; [4], v-xi, [1], 486, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spines. Floral green endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a steel-engraved frontispiece in.....