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All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 5-301, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.00 on front flap of dust jacket. The first book in McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" and a best-seller that.....
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Jesus' Son; Stories by Denis Johnson
Johnson, DenisNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [14], 4-160, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with metallic pink lettering on the spine. First printing of the first edition. Price of $19.00 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of Johnson's acclaimed collection of.....
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The Town
Richter, ConradNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-433, [5] pp. Red cloth with blue lettering and grey decorations on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Winner of.....
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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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The Laws and Etiquette of Cinch; Compiled and Edited by The Chicago Cinch Club
The Chicago Cinch Club; [Card Games]; [Gambling]; [Chicago]Chicago: The Chicago Cinch Club, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], 6-35, [1] pp. Dull maroon cloth with gold lettering on the front board; textblock decoratively stained red. Title page printed in black and red ink. Bicycle [Cards], "Cinch". Jessel and Horr 266. OCLC shows five holdings as of 9/2/20.....
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Convention: A Philosophical Study
Lewis, David K.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], ix-xii, [2], 1-213, [3] pp. Bound in blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $8.00 on the front jacket flap. Foreword by Willard Van Orman Quine. Slater 572. Lewis, one of the most important philosophers of.....
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The Moon is Down
Steinbeck, JohnNew York: The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-188, [2] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue with the correct first issue dust jacket ($2.00 price and untrimmed corners). Ahearn APG 018c. Goldstone and.....
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Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneid; Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden
Virgil; John Dryden [Tr.]London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. Third edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [3], 2-211, [1]; [2], 213-545, [3]; 549-857, [1] pp. Three-quarter later (late nineteenth-century) calf over marbled boards, spines in six compartments, ruled in gilt, each spine with a black morocco label lettered in gilt. Title pages printed in red and.....
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The Odyssey of Homer
HomerNew York: The Modern Library Publishers (1929), 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. 383 pp. Price of 95 cents on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bound in green balloon cloth with a green topstain. The first Modern Library Edition of Homer's Odyssey, scarce in collectible condition. A complete and.....
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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1878; 1879; 1880
Thomson, Charles; Marquis de La Rouerie;New York: Printed for the Society, 1879; 1880; 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [5], 4-503, [3]; [17], 6-559, [3]; [11], xii-xiii, [9], 6-489, [5] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gold on each spine. The collection from 1880 is illustrated by a fold-out map.....
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Complete Theories
Robinson, AbrahamAmsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-129, [3] 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). A volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and.....
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The Pharsalia of Lucan
Lucan; Sir Edward Ridley [Tr.]London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1919. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xxviii, [1], 2-277, [3]; [6], vii[2], 2-315, [1] pp. Quarter buckram cloth over blue paper boards, each spine with a paper label. Title pages printed in red and black, each volume with an errata slip, and a......
