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Little Dorrit
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-xiv, [1], 2-625, [5] pp. Half contemporary sheep dyed green over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartmetns with gold decorations and decorations tooled in blind, a maroon leather label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges sprinkled red.....
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers
Block, LawrenceNew York: Random House [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-181, [3] pp. Quarter black paper over yellow paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. This is copy number 934 of 1000 signed by the author on a specially.....
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The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture
Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsLondon: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-269, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering and gold publisher's device on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Gilman's blistering critique of patriarchy: here she reflects on the.....
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Across Unknown South America
Savage-Landor, A. HenryBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxiii, [1], 1-377, [3]; [5], vi-xvi, 1-439, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and gilt devices on each front board, gilt lettering and a gilt star on each spine; top edges gilt. Title pages.....
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The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Stanely, Sir Henry MortonBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvii, [4], 4-551, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a map in the rear and with sixteen photogravure plates. Edited by his wife.....
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Modes et Costumes Historiques
Pauquet, [Hippolyte]; Pauquet, [Polydore]Paris: Pauquet Frères / René Pincebourde, ca. 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [5], 2-4. Contemporary half blue pigskin over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold floral decorations; top edge gilt. Bound by Chatelin. Decorative grey and blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with 96 color.....
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![O Kata Ktesiphontos [= Against Ctesiphon]; O Peri Stephanus Logos [= Against Stephanus. Aeschines, Demosthenes.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000011722.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660679074)
O Kata Ktesiphontos [= Against Ctesiphon]; O Peri Stephanus Logos [= Against Stephanus]
Aeschines; DemosthenesOxonii [= Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano [= From the Clarendon Press], 1715. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [17], 2-182, [18] pp. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges sprinkled red. With three full-page portraits (one of Cicero, one of.....
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A Purple Place for Dying
Macdonald, John D.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1976), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 9-204, [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Bender, jacket illustration by Don Brautigan. First.....
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Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
Mill, John StuartNew York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], 4-616, [2]; [3], 4-603, [3] pp. Half contemporary sheep over marbled paper boards with the spines in six compartments, a brown and a red leather label lettered in gold, gold decorations and gold rules on the.....
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On the History of the Dogma of Infant Damnation; To Which is Added a Brief Statement of the Doctrine Taught...
Hayden, William B.Portland: Printed by David Tucker, 1858. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. [3], iv, [1], 6-32 pp. Pink sewn wrappers printed in black. Pamphlet. A Lecture Delivered in Deering Hall, Portland, on the Evening of January 10, 1858. As of 11/3/2021 there are no copies in commerce.....
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Train Dreams
Johnson, DenisNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 3-116, [4] pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. The basis for the well-regarded film, a novella.....
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The Ordeal of Mansart; Mansart Builds a School; Worlds of Color; The Black Flame: A Trilogy
Du Bois, W.E.B.New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957; 1959; 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 11-316, [4]; [8], 9-367, [1]; [8], 9-349, [3] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine for volumes one and three; dark green cloth with gold lettering on the spine for volume two. Price of $4.00.....