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The Great Brain
Fitzgerald, John DNew York: The Dial Press [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-175, [7] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page drawings done in black and white by Mercer Mayer. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The first Great.....
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The Lives of Christopher Chant
Jones, Diana WynneNew York: Greenwillow Books [1988], 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-230 pp. Quarter orange cloth over blue paper boards. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket painting by Joseph A. Smith. A sort-of prequel for Jones' Chrestomanci series, hugely.....
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Elémens de La Philosophie de Neuton, Mis à la Portée de Tout le Monde
Voltaire, [François Marie-Arouet]Amsterdam: Etienne Ledet & Compagnie, 1738. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-399, [3] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; all edges decoratively stained red. A blue silk-ribbon bookmark bound in. Title page printed in red and black with the publisher's.....
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The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge
Coleridge, [Samuel Taylor]London: William Pickering, 1834. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 12mo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 4-288, [2]; [5], vi, [1], 2-338, [2]; [9], 6-331, [3] pp. Half later blue morocco over marbled paper boards with the spines in six compartments, gold roses and borders and lettering on the spines; top edges gilt.....
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Le Carré, John (David John Moore Cornwell)New York: Coward-McCann, Inc. (1964), 1964. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-256 pp. Quarter red cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine; yellow topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by.....
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Philosophy
Russell, BertrandNew York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Publishers [1927], 1927. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 1-307, [5] pp. Black cloth with a red paper label printed in black on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front panel of the dust jacket. Blackwell &.....
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Palaestina ex Monumentis veteribus Illustrata [= Palestine Illustrated from Ancient Monuments]
Relandi, Hadriani; Reland, AdriaanTrajecti Batavorum [= Utrecht]: Guilielmi Broedelet, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. (bound in one). 4to. [13], 4-511, [6], 516-1068, [94] pp. Contemporary full parchment with a brown leather label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges decoratively done in red. Illustrated with an engraved title page, eight plates.....
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The Town
Richter, ConradNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-433, [5] pp. Red cloth with blue lettering and grey decorations on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Winner of.....
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive; Being a Connected View of The Principles of Evidence and the Methods of...
Mill, John StuartNew York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1846. First American edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xii, [1], 2-593, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown cloth with decorations in blind on the boards, lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine. Evans 46-4655. Macminn, Hainds, and McCrimmon 56.....
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A Lost Lady
Cather, WillaNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-173, [3] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; pink topstain. Beautiful green and purple endpapers and pastedowns. Crane A13. Variant A of the first printing of the first trade edition. New Yorker.....
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Garcia; The Rolling Stone Interview plus a Stoned Sunday Rap with Jerry, Charles and Mountain Girl
Reich, Charles; Wenner, Jann; Garcia, Jerry[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 11-254, [2] pp. Black faux-leather boards with gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs, full-page and in-text. A......
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An Epitome of the Elementary Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Millington, JohnLondon: Printed for and sold by the author, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-358, [4] pp. Half mid nineteenth-century navy calf over marbled paper boards with the spine in five compartments, an unpolished orange leather label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges decoratively stained purple.....
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