Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950. Third edition. Hardcover. 150 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the Third Edition. This edition includes a new Appendix on the The Generalized Theory of Gravitation. An attractive copy of one of the most influential books by this...

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London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. Two volumes (256 pp.; 305 pp.), bound in black cloth with an Amazon and an Arabic design embossed on the front board, the mausoleum at Mortlake embossed on the rear board, gold lettering on the spine, and top edges stained red...

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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 256 pp. Price of $4.50 on the top corner of the jacket flap (bottom corner of the flap is clipped as usual on the trade dust jacket; the publisher printed the same jacket for both the trade and library editions...

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. A very attractive copy of this science fiction classic, and uncommon thus. Some rippling to the rear pastedown near the hinge, else...

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New York: Stein and Day, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 268 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Fourth novel in the author's celebrated Jack Aubrey series. Slight age toning to flaps; book itself has a few spots of discoloration to the textblock, and a touch of fading...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in durable tan cloth with titling in black, silver, and orange. First issue with yellow topstain. Jacket is either married or second issue since although it has the correct price of $4.50 printed...

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 87 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Beth Krush. Ahearn APG 016a. An attractive copy of Welty's only book for children. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities.

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New York: E.P Dutton [1978], 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 185 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed and with an illustration by the author on the free front endpaper. Winner of the Newbery Medal, an inventive and entertaining mystery. Inscribed to the author's dear friend Susan Glazer...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 145 pp. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Miller's acclaimed play is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials which serve as an allegory for the Red Scare of the early 1950s and associated mass cultural and political hysteria...

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Several beautiful color illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. First American Edition and the true first edition preceding the UK edition. Green and Gibson A39c. A very...

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London: Collins, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. Bound in textured light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown, a few small spots...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. An endearing story about Freddy the pig-detective, and how he makes the football team while solving two mysteries...

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