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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-198 pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $18.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several in-text illustrations by Ron Miller.....
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Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo; To which is...
Clapperton, Commander [Hugh]Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1829. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [5], vi-xxiv, [1], 26-422, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Half recent buckram over marbled boards with a later nineteenth-century purple morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. With both the original.....
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A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the...
Fisher, AlexanderLondon: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [1], [2], 2-320, [2] pp. Half contemporary calf over marbled paper boards with the spine in six compartments with gold decorations and lettering on the spine; all edges marbled. Illustrated with a fold-out map and a......
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life.; Edited by Gulian C. Verplanck With Critical Introductions, Notes, etc. Original and Selected
Shakespeare, WilliamNew York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Later Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 4to. Pagination begins and ends with each new play in all three volumes. Text printed in two columns. Quarter bound in contemporary black sheep over red cloth, spines in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations on each spine.....
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Once More with Footnotes
Pratchett, TerryFramingham, MA: The NEFSA Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 13-282, [8] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Omar & Sheila Rayyan. Edited by Priscilla Olson and Sheila M. Perry. Inscribed by.....
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The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade Ancient and Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations...
Blake, W.O.Columbus, Ohio: J. & H. Miller, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 18-832, [4] pp. Full contemporary black sheep with decorations stamped in blind on the boards, gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and.....
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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. Contemporary olive-green sheep with gold borders and tooling on each board, gold decorations to the turn-ins, spines in four compartments with gold decorations and two black sheep labels.....
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-v, [3], 1-225, [3], [1]-22 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Original publisher's textured blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved title page. BAL 12136. The first.....
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The Concept of Law
Hart, H.L.A.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-263, [1] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Slater 429; Honderich (J. M. Finnis), 334. Hart is widely recognized as one.....
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Flower of Joy
DeLeeuw, HendrikNew York: Lee Furman, Inc. [1939], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-241, [7] pp. Textured grey and white paper boards with brown lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An investigative memoir into the underground drug trade. DeLeeuw traveled.....
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Whitehead, A. N. (Alfred North)Cambridge: The University Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-200 pp. Bound in blue cloth with lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. Whitehead is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century in addition to his.....
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The Last Sitting
Stern, Bert; Gottlieb, AnnieNew York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [8], 9-188, [2] pp. Grey publisher's cloth with a design in blind on the front board, silver lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.00 and $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.....