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Problems of Knowledge and Freedom; The Russell Lectures
Chomsky, NoamNew York: Pantheon Books [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [6], 4-111, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Chomsky's lectures given at Cambridge in honor of Bertrand Russell. A lovely copy of.....
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County Wisconsin
AnonymousChicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [8], 19-1033, [7] pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised.....
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The Overstory
Powers, RichardNew York: W.W. Norton & Company [2018], 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 4-502 pp. Brown paper over boards with orange lettering and orange rules on the spine. Price of $27.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney. Signed by Powers on a tipped-in.....
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Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, SaulNew York: The Viking Press (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-341, [1] pp. Quarter tan cloth over orange cloth with lettering in black, silver, and orange on the spine. First issue book with yellow topstain. Jacket design by Bill Preston. Jacket is either married or second issue since.....
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Rowling, J.K.[London]: Bloomsbury (1999), 1999. First deluxe edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-223, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering, gold borders, and a mounted color illustration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Red endpapers and pastedowns. With a blue ribbon bookmark bound in. The first.....
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time; Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of...
Truth, Sojourner; [Gilbert, Olive]Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. Third edition overall (First revised and expanded edition). Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [1], 13-320, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with a portrait of Truth in gold on the front board, borders in blind on each board, the portrait in blind on the rear board.....
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A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace, in the State of New-York
Cowen, EsekAlbany: Wm. Gould & Co. and Gould & Banks / G.M. Davison, Printer, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xxii, [2], 2-750, [4] pp. Full contemporary sheep with the spine in six compartments, a red morocco label on the spine lettered in gilt. Evans 5095. This volume was intended as.....
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Palm Sunday; An Autobiographical Collage
Vonnegut, KurtNew York: Delacorte Press [1981], 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], ix-xviii, [4], 1-330 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Housed in a maroon cloth slipcase with Vonnegut's signature embossed in gilt on one side. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Copy 486 of 500 limited.....
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Human Nature and Conduct; An Introduction to Social Psychology
Dewey, JohnNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-336, [6] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "John Dewey". Taken from a series of lectures Dewey gave at Stanford in 1918. This book touches.....
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![The History of Middle-Earth]: The Book of Lost Tales Part I; The Book of Lost Tales Part II; The. J. R R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ed.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000015968.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758904141)
[The History of Middle-Earth]: The Book of Lost Tales Part I; The Book of Lost Tales Part II; The Lays...
Tolkien, J.R.R.; Tolkien, Christopher, [Ed.]Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1984), 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. All volumes in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. All dust jackets with their correct.....
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Oratores Attici
Antiphon; Andocides; Lysias; Isocrates; Isaeus; Dinarchus; Lycurgus; Aeschines; Demades; Demosthenes; Gorgias; Antisthenes;...Berolini: G.E. Reimeri, 1823; 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. For pagination, please inquire. Mid nineteenth-century calf with the spines in six compartments, spines each with gold decorations and rules and with a red and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Text.....
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The Great Brain Reforms
Fitzgerald, John DNew York: The Dial Press [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-165, [1] pp. Green cloth with purple lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page drawings by Mercer Mayer. The fifth book in.....