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The Philosophy of Karl Popper
Popper, Karl; Paul Arthur Schilpp, [Ed.]La Salle, Illinois: Open Court [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [5], 4-670; [9], x-xii, [3], 672-1323, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $30.00 on each front jacket's flap. Each volume illustrated with a full-page photograph of.....
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Going After Cacciato
O'Brien, TimNew York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 338, [2] pp. Bound in teal cloth with facsimile of O'Brien's signature stamped in gold on the front board, lettering in gold on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust.....
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Screwjack
Thompson, Hunter S.Santa Barbara, California: Neville, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [8], vii, [3], 3-38, [6] pp. Red cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. An emblem in grey on each endpaper. Title page printed in grey, red, and black. A few in-text red.....
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The Cottages and the Village Life of Rural England
Ditchfield, P.H.London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [4], v-xiii, [1], 1-184, [4] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering and green and black decorations on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with 51 mounted color plates, with several line drawings.....
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Gilead
Robinson, MarilynneNew York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-247, [1] pp. Quarter beige cloth over pale yellow paper-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on the front jacket flap. Signed by the author on the title page. A tale of one.....
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during...
Ross, Sir JohnLondon: A.W. Webster, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [7], ii-xxxiii, [2], 2-740 pp. Recent half blue buckram over marbled boards with a recent black morocco label lettered and ruled in silver on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding chart at the beginning and one.....
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Dialogues sur L'Eloquence en General, et sur celle de la Chaire en Particulier. Avec une Lettre Écrite à l'Academie Françoise.
Fenelon, M. François de Salignac de La MotteParis: Chez Florentin Delaulne, 1718. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [9], 2-409, [5] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, brown morocco label lettered in gold on the spine, gold tooling on the spine; all edges sprinkled red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with woodcut initials and headpieces.....
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![Aristotelis de Rhetorica [= Aristotle on Rhetoric]; Libri Tres as Fidem Manuscriptorum. Aristotle.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000010497.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631717054)
Aristotelis de Rhetorica [= Aristotle on Rhetoric]; Libri Tres as Fidem Manuscriptorum
AristotleOxonii [= Oxford]: E Typographeo Academico [= University Press], 1833. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 2-239, [1] pp. Contemporary half sheep over blue cloth with the spine in six compartments, black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine, spine with gold decorations; all edges decoratively sprinkled. Preface and title.....
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Over the Black Coffee
Gray, ArthurNew York: The Baker and Taylor Company [1902], 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. [6], v-vii, [1], [6], v-vii, [1], 1-108, [6] pp. Grey paper over boards with a black decoration on the front board and white lettering and decorations on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Title page.....
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The Aeneid of Virgil with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Clavis, an Historical Geographical, and Mythological Index
Virgil; Charles Anthon, [Tr.]New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiii, [2], 2-942, [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Full contemporary sheep with the spine in five compartments, a red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges marbled. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Virgil's bust and.....
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Strata
Pratchett, TerryGerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 7-192, pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Inscribed on the title page ("To Joe, Better wishes!") with Pratchett's later stylized signature. An attractive example of Pratchett's third novel. Near Fine with a bump to the rear.....
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Three Soldiers
Dos Passos, JohnNew York: George H. Doran Company [1921], 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-433, [1] pp. Black cloth with orange lettering and orange decoration on the front board, orange lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.00 net on the spine panel. Potter 2. According to Potter our jacket.....