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Cities of the Plain
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 5-291, [7] pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials in gold on the front board; red topstain. Price of $24.00 on front flap of dust jacket.....
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The Stars Like Dust
Asimov, IsaacGarden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-218, [2] pp. Navy cloth with light pink lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Currey 19. A very attractive copy of this early Asimov science fiction novel, and uncommon thus. Just about.....
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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 198 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan. Scarce first issue in the silver-blue dust jacket and.....
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The Deerslayer or The First War-Path
Cooper, James FennimoreNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 462 pp. Black cloth with an inset Wyeth illustration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Printed dust jacket with a pasted inset of another Wyeth illustration. Book illustrations include a......
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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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Can You Forgive Her?
Trollope, AnthonyLondon: Chapman and Hall, 1864; 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], 2-320, [4]; [5], vi, [3], 2-320, [4] pp. Later nineteenth-century full blue fine-grain morocco, spine in six compartments with gilt decorations and lettering, edges of boards are tooled and decorated with gilt; all edges gilt. Bound by.....
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The Works of Charles Dickens
Dickens, CharlesNew York: P.F. Collier, Publisher, 1879; 1880. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. Large 8vo. [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1183, [3]; [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1190, [4]; [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1182, [4] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spines, a gold decoration on each front board, and black decorations on the.....
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Fire and Sword in the Sudan; A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
Slatin, Rudolf C., PashaLondon: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [2], 636, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine, a decoration in gilt of Slatin escaping from Sudan on a camel on the front board; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure of.....
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The American Claimant
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisemets) pp. Bound in olive-green cloth with decorations in gold and black on the front board and spine. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves.....
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Bohn's New Hand-Book of Games; Comprising Whist, by Deschapelles, Matthews, Hyle, Carleton; Draughts, by Stuges & Walker; Billiards by White...
Bohn, Henry G. [Ed.]Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1850. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], iii-xii, [2], 3-652, [2] pp. Blindstamped blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several diagrams (including different board combinations in draughts) and a few wood-engravings. Jessel 141. This hand-book states the rules of poker, euchre, and.....
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The Ziegler Polar Expedition 1903-1905; Scientific Result Obtained under the Direction of William J. Peters Representative of the National Geographic...
Fiala, Anthony (Commander)Washington DC: The National Geographic Society by the Estate of William Ziegler, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [2], v, [5], 3-630, [6] pp. Half-bound in rich maroon leather over fine-grained maroon cloth, edges of leather are ruled in gilt. Spine has a red morocco label with gilt lettering, top.....
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Logic Without Metaphysics; And Other Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Nagel, ErnestGlencoe, Illinois: The Free Press [1956], 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-433, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with green and gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by Ernest Nagel on.....
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