Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards...

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New York: Basic Books [1959], 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. 479 pp. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. A nice copy of Popper's well-known work in confirmation theory, a classic in 20th century philosophy of science. A Near...

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New York: The Overlook Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy of Rushdie's first novel. Ahearn APG 001c. A Fine book in a....

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Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top...

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New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First printing. Oversized Paperback. 663 pp. Advance Review Copy in wraps with dust jacket (different design and cover art than the published version), as issued. An attractive example of the first book in Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series, uncommon as an...

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp.; 911 pp. Large 8vo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and black lettering and decorations on the front board. "Jeannette" is outlined in gilt with gilt decorations meant to simulate icicles. On each...

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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 292 pp. Bound in gold cloth with lettering in red and gold, and decorations in red and pale blue on the front board and the spine. Frontispiece is a facsimile chart of Treasure Island in green and red, vignette title-page with tissue...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $21.00 on front flap of dust jacket. The first book in McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" and a best-seller that brought him to national prominence. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with a buckram-colored spine, 8vo. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A collection of short stories by one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A11, Ahearn APG 013a...

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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 707 pp. Bound in the original rich green-pebbled cloth (bound by Edmonds & Remnants in London, with the binder's ticket on the rear pastedown) with gilt titling on the spine and a beehive decoration embossed on the front board...

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New York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. An exceptional copy of the author's second book. A faint spot of discoloration on the rear free endpaper, else Fine in a like dust jacket.

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 332 pp. Ahearn 067a. A presentable copy, difficult to find in the dust jacket. Near Fine book with a gift inscription on the first page dated 1938 in a price-clipped Good only dust jacket with chipping to the bottom edges and...

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