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Ismailia; A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Supppression of the Slave Trade
Baker, Sir Samuel W.London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-447, [2], 2-55 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1]; [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-588 pp. Green cloth with a gold rule on each board, decorations in gold on the front boards with gold lettering and decorations on the.....
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Vieille Idylle
Morin, LouisParis: Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [10], 1-51, [9] pp. Full contemoprary red morocco with gold borders on each board, spine with gold tooling, gold-tooled borders around the red-silk doublures; top edge gilt. Red silk floral endpapers. Bound by the well-known French artisan and bookbinder Leon Gruel.....
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The Lone Woodsman
Miller, Warren HastingsPhiladelphia: The John C. Winston Company [1943], 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-230 pp. Orange cloth with a decoration in black on the front board, black lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Endpapers illustrated in beige and brown. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.....
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Homological Algebra
Cartan, Henri; Eilenberg, SamuelPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [3], 3-390, [2] pp. Bound in red-orange cloth with gold lettering and five gold rules on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front jacket flap. Volume 19 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Weibel, Charles A., 'History of Homological.....
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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 Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-135, [1] pp. Quarter green cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Robert Andrew Parker. The winner of the 1984 Newbery Award. Written by the author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, this.....
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Le Carre, John (David John Moore Cornwell)New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-355, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine; dark brown topstain. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Ahearn APG 009b. First.....
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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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The Letters of William James Edited by His Son Henry James
James, WilliamBoston: The Atlantic Monthly Press [1920], 1920. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [3], 2-348; [5], vi-xii, [5], 2-384 pp. Navy cloth with a paper label printed in navy on each spine; top edges gilt. Price of $7.50 and $10.00 the set on the spine panel of the.....
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Sunday in Boston
Updike, John[Derry, PA]: Rook Broadsides [1975], 1975. Limited Edition. Broadside. Broadside. 34.5 x 26.5 cm. Number 242. Signed by John Updike. A poem reflecting the sights and sounds of Boston, from the perspective of John Updike. Housed in a black and white frame (dimensions of the frame are 22" x 18").....
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The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and Contemporaries
Lewes, G.H.; [Goethe]London: David Nutt, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xx, [3], 4-423, [3]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 4-464, [2] pp. Half later sheep over marbled paper over boards with the spines in six compartments, a black leather label lettered in gold on the spines, gold decorations on the spines;.....
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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. Jacket design by Grace James. Ahearn APG 002a. A collection of Cheever's short.....