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The Fabulous Riverboat
Farmer, Philip JoseNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 412 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The second book in Farmer's acclaimed Riverworld series focusing on Sam Clemens building of a riverboat and exploring the Riverworld. Currey 184. A nice copy of one of.....
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Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875
[Lee, Major General Charles; Pattison, James; Various; Washington, George]New York: Printed for the Society, 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876. First edition. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. [12], 494, [4]; [10], 494, [4]; [12], 494, [4]; [13], 2-500, [2]; [9], x, [5], 2-553, [5] pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Several leaves uncut.....
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 432 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine and the front board. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard, marginal illustrations throughout, full-page illustration preceding "Those Extraordinary Twins". Contemporary ownership inscription (dated.....
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Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann[New York]: New Directions [1951], 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 3-153, [3] pp. Quarter green cloth over pictorial boards, gold lettering on the spine, black topstain, housed in a pictorial slipcase with a paper label on one side. Price of $5.00 on the paper label. The first issue.....
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A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 198 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan. Scarce first issue in the silver-blue dust jacket and.....
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Scott's Last Expedition
Scott, Captain R.F. (R.N., C.V.O.)New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [3], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-443, [1]; [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-376, [8] pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and top textblock in gilt. Illustrated by two photogravure frontispieces, six original sketches in photogravure.....
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Following Abraham Lincoln 1809-1965
Wall, BernhardtLime Rock Conn[ecticut]: Bernhardt Wall, 1931; 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 4to. Unpaginated. Grey tape over grey boards lettered in black on each front board; grey dust jacket over each volume. Printed on hand-made paper. The title pages and copyright pages are etched. One volume contains an etching of.....
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Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-389, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter-bound in black with a flamingo embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust.....
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An Autobiography
Sanger, MargaretNew York: W.W. Norton & Company Publishers [1938], 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 504, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine; dark orange topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of the author. ADNB.....
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Cities of the Plain
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 5-291, [7] pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials in gold on the front board; red topstain. Price of $24.00 on front flap of dust jacket.....
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Physics and Philosophy; The Revolution in Modern Science
Heisenberg, WernerNew York: Harper & Brothers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 206 pp. Bound in grey cloth with series design in red/orange on the front board, title on front board in white divided by a white horizontal rule, white lettering on the spine with a red/orange horizontal.....
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The Virginians; A Tale of the Last Century
Thackeray, W.M.London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858; 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], 2-382, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-376, [2] pp. Half bound in green leather over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges stained a pinkish-brown, light pink endpapers and pastedowns. Bound.....
