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Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns.
Schliemann, Henry (Dr.)New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Octavo, 8vo. Bound in green cloth with top edge gilt, gilt decorations on the spine and the front board, and beveled edges. Includes illustrations that show over 700 artifacts Dr. Schliemann excavated from Mycenae. The volume also includes...
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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau, Jean-JacquesPhiladelphia: Gebbie and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 4 volumes,176 pp.; 201 pp. 304 pp.; 238 pp. Half-bound in smooth, rich brown calf with marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns and marbled paper covering the boards. The spine of each volume is lettered and decorated with gilt, top edges gilt...
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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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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Musical Comedy Based off the Plays of Plautus
Shevelove, Burt; Gelbart, LarryNew York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 107 pp. Bound in red cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs. Includes several black...
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H.M.S. Surprise
O'Brian, PatrickLondon: Collins, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. Bound in textured light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown, a few small spots...
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R.New York: Basic Books (1979), 1979. First printing. Hardcover. 777 pp. Price of $18.50 on front jacket flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A nice copy of Hofstadter's well-known book, "A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" Near Fine...
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Good Omens; The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, TerryLondon: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 268 pp. Bound in red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of £12.95 net on the front flap of dust jacket. Signed by both Pratchett and Gaiman on the title page. Includes the bookmark from a Washington Post Book Club...
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Just and Unjust Wars
Walzer, MichaelNew York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 361 pp. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, first published in 1977, has...
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The Charles
Tourtellot, Arthur BernonNew York: Farrar & Rinehart [1941], 1941. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings by Ernest J. Donnelly. Part of "The Rivers of America" series. Series edited by Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer...
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Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the...
Greely, Adolphus W.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 428 pp.; 444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines. With nearly one-hundred illustrations made from...
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The Garden Murder Case; A Philo Vance Story
Van Dine, S.S.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. 332 pp. Attractive Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear and a few hints of rubbing.
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H.M.S. Surprise
O'Brian, PatrickPhiladelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. A very attractive copy of the third book in the Aubrey/Maturin...
