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I Like it Here
Amis, KingsleyLondon: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-208 pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 13/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. The third novel by Amis. A very near Fine book with a touch of toning to the textblock.....
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The Life of Henry the Fourth; King of France and Navarre
James, Esq., G.P.R.London: T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. 3vol. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 2-432, [2]; [3], 2-427, [3]; [3], 2-410, [2] pp. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated by.....
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A Theory of Time and Space
Robb, Alfred A.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 2-373, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine, double-ruled blind-stamped border to both boards. Inscribed "To the Rev. G. A. Weekes with the author's.....
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You Can't Jail the Revolution
Chicago: ca. 1969. Poster. 24 x 20". Broadside. Imagery is that of a young man in flames holding his fist up in solidarity with the Chicago 8. Text reads: You Can't Jail the Revolution, Stop the Trial, Free the Conspiracy 8, 28 E. Jackson Chicago 427-7773. Printed on cream paper.....
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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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The Gospel Singer
Crews, HarryNew York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-248, [8] pp. Green cloth with white and black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Small bookplate signed by the author laid in. Ahearn APG 001a. A beautiful copy of Crews'.....
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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates
Blunt, Lady AnneNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1879. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 8-445, [4] (including a [1] pp of publisher's advertising, for Harper's Catalog) pp. Original navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; front board is decorated by a Bedouin riding a camel while wielding a spear, all.....
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De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things); Libri Sex
Titi Lucretii Cari (Titius Lucretius Carius)Birminghamae: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. [7], 2-280, [4] pp. Contemporary smooth brown calf with gilt rules on each board, edges of the boards show gilt tooling, spine in six compartments with gilt decorations, a recent black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Textblock stained.....
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The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Spears, John R.New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xi, [1], 319, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fourteen additional plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to American biologist and naturalist Francis Harper, known for his.....
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Gould, Stephen JayCambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top.....
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [3], 2-624, [2] pp. Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in five compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt with the spine showing blind and gilt tooling, marbled textblocks and endpapers. Bound from the original.....
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
Tristram, W. OutramLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [7], xii-xiii, [4], 2-367, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. With illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson: a frontispiece, eighteen additional full-page illustrations, and several in-text illustrations. A fascinating history.....
