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Intuitionism: An Introduction
Heyting, A.Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-132, [4] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel, rear panel, and spine panel of the dust jacket. A volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics series. Series.....
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The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus; Fables Ancient and Modern Translated into Verse from Homer...
Juvenal, Persius; Homer, Ovid, Boccacio, ChaucerLondon: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1735; 1745. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], vi-cxi, [1], 296, [2] pp.; [59], 2-345, [5] pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in 19th century full.....
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lawrence, D.H.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 9-327, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's bright orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, decorations in green on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket.....
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King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae; [bound with] King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius;...
Boethius; King Alfred the Great; J.S. Cardale [Tr.]; The Rev. Samuel Fox...London: William Pickering, 1829; 1835; 1828. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [19], vi-xv, [4], 4-425, [3]; [3], iv-viii, [5], 6-144; [5], vi-xii, [3], 4-32, [2] pp. Quarter recent blue pebbled leather over nineteenth-century smooth black calf, spine in six compartments with a green morocco label lettered in gold on the spine.....
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The Works of Charles Dickens
Dickens, CharlesNew York: P.F. Collier, Publisher, 1879; 1880. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. Large 8vo. [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1183, [3]; [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1190, [4]; [2], iii-vii, [2], 2-1182, [4] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spines, a gold decoration on each front board, and black decorations on the.....
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The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne; Translated into English. The eighth edition, with very considerable amendments and improvements, from...
Montaigne, Michael deLondon: Printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne, J. F. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, et. al. 1776. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [41], 2-414, [30] pp; [11], 2-608, [38] pp.; [11], 2-468, [34] pp. (N.B.:index to each volume is unpaginated). Bound in 20th-century.....
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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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Combinatorial Set Theory: Partition Relations for Large Cardinals
Erdos, P.; Hajnal, A.; Mate, A.; Rado, R.Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-347, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with white decoration and lettering on the front board, lettering and publisher's device in white on the spine. Slip from the publisher laid in. Omega Bibliography, V, 403. This book was published simultaneously in.....
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Stalin; An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence
Trotsky, LeonNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 516, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispice and thirty-five black and white photographs from Trotsky and.....
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Aeschyli Tragoediae Superstites et Deperditarum Fragmenta [=The Remaining Tragedies of Aeschylus and the Fragments of the Ruins]; Ex Recensione G....
Aeschylus (Aeschyli)Oxonii (Oxford): E Typographeo Academico (at the University Press), 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 6-324, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary smooth calf, spine in six compartments. Front and rear board stamped in gilt, with a bust of (presumably Dindorf) on the front board and bottom compartment of the spine.....
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The Movie: "Barfly"
Bukowski, CharlesSanta Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-125, [5] pp. Pictorial boards quarter bound in navy cloth with a paper label on the spine. Krumhansl 103c. The first hardcover trade edition, one of 400 copies numbered and signed by Bukowski, this being number 393.....
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The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
Ayer, Alfred J.London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 276 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 10s. 6d. net on the front flap of the jacket. Slater 28. A.J. Ayer's third book, an exploration of the philosophy of metaphysics and epistemology. He.....
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