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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus".; With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings
Gilchrist, AlexanderLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-389, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [4], 4-268 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and spine. Illustrated from Blake's own works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a......
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-609, [1] pp. Bound in recent brown calf, spine with red morocco label and 4 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Illustratedy with an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, and with.....
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An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry
Russell, BertrandCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, 201, [3] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine, double-rules blind-stamped to top and bottom of spine, double-ruled blind-stamped border to both boards. Russell was one of the principal.....
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The Viking Age; The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations
Du Chaillu, Paul B.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], viii-xix, [1], 2-591, [3]; [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-562, [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front boards and the spines. Illustrated by a frontispiece in each volume with 1,366 illustrations.....
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A Tramp Abroad
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, 17-631, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by two frontispieces, several full-page illustrations, and numerous in-text illustrations (in all 328.....
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Following the Equator
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text.....
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A Dictionary of Birds
Newton, AlfredLondon: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-304, [2], 305-576, [2], 577-832, [2], 833-1088 pp. 4 parts bound in one volume, with the four title pages of each part of the dictionary bound in. Assisted by Hans Gadow. With contributions from Richard Lydekker.....
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Ironweed
Kennedy, WilliamNew York: The Viking Press (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 2-227, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $14.75 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 006b. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, included in the Modern Library.....
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Fire and Sword in the Sudan; A Personal Narrative of Fightin 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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Hindu Philosophy. The Bhagavad Gita or the Sacred Lay.; A Sanskrit Philosophical Poem
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-208, [2]. Pages 23-26 bound in-between pages 2 and 3. Errata slip bound between [18] and [19] pp. Bound in green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gold on the boards and spine, top.....
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The Outsider
Camus, AlbertLondon: Hamish Hamilton (1946), 1946. First English language edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [4], 3-103, [3] pp. Bound in grey-green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 6s. net on front flap of jacket. First edition in English and Camus' first English publication. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by.....
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A Feast of Snakes
Crews, HarryNew York: Atheneum, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-177, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. Ahearn APG 009b. A beautiful copy. A Very near Fine book.....
