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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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The Virginians; A Tale of the Last Century
Thackeray, W.M.London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858; 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], 2-382, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-376, [2] pp. Half bound in green leather over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges stained a pinkish-brown, light pink endpapers and pastedowns. Bound.....
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Publii Terentiii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae VI [= Publius Terence of Carthage's Six Comedies]; His accedunt integrae notae Donati, Eugraphii, Faerni...
Terentii; [Terentius]Amstelodami [= Amsterdam]; Lugduni [= Lyon]: Abrahamum Wolfgang, & Jacobum Hackium, 1686. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound as one. 8vo. 96, 461; [3], 465-888, [46] pp. Full early nineteenth-century calf, spine in six compartments with gold lettering, a gold decoration on each board; all edges gilt. This is an.....
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The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Twain, MarkNew York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 9-260, [3], 9 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near.....
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Jesus' Son; Stories by Denis Johnson
Johnson, DenisNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [14], 4-160, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with metallic pink lettering on the spine. First printing of the first edition. Price of $19.00 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of Johnson's acclaimed collection of.....
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Uncollected Works of Abraham Lincoln; His Letters, Addresses and Other Papers
Lincoln, AbrahamElmira, N.Y. The Primavera Press, Inc., 1947; 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [6], 7-655, [3]; [4], 5-693, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Assembled and annotated by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, assisted by other Lincoln.....
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Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, NealNew York: Avon Books (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [11], 2-918 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. A very attractive copy of Stephenson's tour de force combining.....
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer; With an Essay upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary...
Chaucer, [Geoffrey]London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1822. First edition thus. Hardcover. 5 vol. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], ii-lx, [1], 2-284, [6]; [5], 2-354, [10]; [7], 2-291, [9]; [7], 2-344, [8]; [5], viii-ix, [2], 2-300, [8] pp. Full smooth early twentieth-century calf with gilt rules on each board, the spines in six.....
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Anubis Gates
Powers, TimLondon: Chatto & Windus (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-387, [5] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £9.95 net on front flap of jacket. The first trade hardcover edition and the first Tim Powers novel to appear in hardcover. Cover art by Don.....
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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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The Enormous Radio; And Other Stories
Cheever, JohnNew York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-237, [11] pp. Blue-green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; dark yellow topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 002a. A collection of Cheever's short stories that were published in.....
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the...
Campbell, John LordLondon: John Murray, 1845; 1846; 1847; 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xxviii, [1], 2-652, [2]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-621, [3]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-596, [2]; [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-687, [3]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-678, [2]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-709, [5]; [5], vi-xx, [1], 2-736, [2]; [3], vi-xvi.....
