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The Viking Age; The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations
Du Chaillu, Paul B.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], viii-xix, [1], 2-591, [3]; [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-562, [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front boards and the spines. Illustrated by a frontispiece in each volume with 1,366 illustrations.....
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Greenwitch
Cooper, SusanNew York: Atheneum, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 147 pp. Price of $5.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in Cooper's the Dark is Rising series, uncommon in the first edition. Near Fine book with previous owner name on free front endpaper and a few areas of faint.....
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Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, SaulNew York: The Viking Press (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-341, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in durable tan cloth with titling in black, silver, and orange. First issue with yellow topstain. Jacket is either married or second issue since although it has the correct.....
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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus".; With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings
Gilchrist, AlexanderLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-389, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [4], 4-268 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and spine. Illustrated from Blake's own works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a......
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A Firing Offense
Pelecanos, George PNew York: St. Martin's Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 216 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful copy of Pelecanos' first novel.
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The Silmarillion
Tolkien, J.R.R.London: George Allen & Unwin (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-365, [3] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; navy blue topstain. Illustrated with a fold-out map in the rear. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Hammond and Anderson A15a. Per Hammond and Anderson, the British domestic.....
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The Voyage of the Jeannette; The Ship and Ice Journals
De Long, George W.Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [3], iv--xii, 440, [4]; [3], iv-x, [1], 442-911, [3] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and black lettering and decorations on the front board. "Jeannette" is outlined in gilt with.....
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Biblia [= Bible]; Das ist; Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments ... des Dritten Buchs der Maccabear [= Old...
[Bible]Germantown, PA: Christoph Saur, 1763. Second edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 5-992, [3], 4-277, [1] pp. Printed in German Gothic type. Full leather calf, spine in six compartments, two metal clasps remain on the front board, volume lacks the straps and the clasps on the rear board. Based on Martin Luther's.....
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The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus; Fables Ancient and Modern Translated into Verse from Homer...
Juvenal, Persius; Homer, Ovid, Boccacio, ChaucerLondon: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1735; 1745. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], vi-cxi, [1], 296, [2] pp.; [59], 2-345, [5] pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in 19th century full.....
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Booked to Die; A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
Dunning, JohnNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1992], 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [3], 4-321 pp. Quarter navy blue cloth over blue paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes a publisher's promotional letter with a plot synopsis, reviews of the.....
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The Moonstone: A Novel
Collins, WilkieNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868. First American edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. 24 cm x 15.5 cm. [2] (publisher's advertisements), [5], 10-223 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece and many additional engravings by William Jewett illustrating the text (text in two columns). Green pebbled cloth with double blind-ruled borders, spine lettered in.....
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Undecidable Theories
Tarski, Alfred; Mostowski, Andrzej; Robinson, Raphael M.Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [3], 3-98, [2] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer.....
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