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The Coaching Age
Harris, StanleyLondon: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 1-468, [2] pp. Twentieth-century half red leather over orange cloth with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in Bath. Illustrated with a......
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Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-389, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter-bound in black with a flamingo embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust.....
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Mathematics in Aristotle
Heath, Sir Thomas L.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-291, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 21s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. Bookplate of Henry LeRoy Finch on the free front.....
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Our Singing Country; A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs
Lomax, John A.; Lomax, AlanNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxiv, [2], 3-416, [2] pp. Green cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Music edited by Ruth Crawford Seeger. Wilgus 219-220. A sequel.....
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The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio; Translated from the Italian
Boccaccio, [Giovanni]London: J.F. Dove, 1820. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-579, [3] pp. Later half maroon morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. lllustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio.....
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Adventurers of Oregon; A Chronicle of the Fur Trade
Skinner, Constance L.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 290, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold rules on the front board, decorations in gold, blue and white, with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and a......
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Coll and His White Pig
Alexander, LloydNew York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Grey paper boards with pink lettering on the front board and spine, pig embossed in pink on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color drawings by Evaline Ness. Quite difficult.....
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Morgan, Dale L.Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-458, [6] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a......
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Homological Algebra
Cartan, Henri; Eilenberg, SamuelPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [3], 3-390, [2] pp. Bound in red-orange cloth with gold lettering and five gilt rules on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front jacket flap. Volume 19 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Weibel, Charles A., 'History of Homological.....
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Autobiographia; Or The Story of a Life
Whitman, WaltNew York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-vii, [3], 11-205, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Blue-green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, blue lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece.....
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War-Path and Bivouac, or The Conquest of the Sioux; A Narrative of Stirring Personal Experiences and Adventures in the Big...
Finerty, John F.Chicago: Publication Office [1890], 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xxi, [1], 25-460, [4] pp. Blue cloth with black decorations on the front board and spine, gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges marbled. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a fold-out map of the.....
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Under Fire; or, Fred Worthington's Campaign
Munsey, Frank A.New York: Frank A. Munsey & Company, Publishers, 1890. Hardcover. Small 4to. [9], 12-240, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering and a gold and red decoration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and.....
