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Collected Works Volume I; Collected Works Volume II; Collected Works Volume III; Publications 1929-1936; Publications 1938-1974; Unpublished Essays and Lectures
Gödel, KurtNew York: Oxford University Press, 1986; 1990; 1995. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 3 volumes: [5], ii-xvi, [2], 1-474, [4] pp.; [5], vi-xiv, [4], 1-407, [7] pp.; [6], v-xvii, [3], 1-532, [6] pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the spines. Edited by Solomon Feferman, John W. Dawson, Jr....
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Poems; Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with a Memorial by Theodore Tilton; Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and...
Browning, Elizabeth BarrettNew York: James Miller, 1862, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. Small 8vo. [5], 384 [6]; [5], 408; [4], 400; [1] page of ads, [9], 242, [3] pages of advertisements in the rear, [3]; [9], 233, [1], [6] pages of advertisements, [1] pp. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece of the author...
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A Feast of Snakes
Crews, HarryNew York: Atheneum, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 177 pp. 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 with a tiny spot of discoloration to the top textblock in a sharp...
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The Big Sky
Guthrie, A. B.Boston: William Sloane Associates (1947), 1947. First printing. Hardcover. 386 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. A sharp copy of the first novel in Guthrie's highly regarded series of western historical novels. Cazedessus 48. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild...
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The Past Through Tomorrow
Heinlein, Robert A.New York: G.P, Putnam's Sons [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 667 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Currey 233. Ahearn APG 040a. A Very Good book with a previous owner's name written on both pastedowns, and a small scratch to the rear board in a like dust...
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The Mummy Case
Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pp. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth Peters" on the title page.
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Thunder Mountain
Grey, ZaneNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. 309 pp. Ahearn 061a (circular sticker "The New 1935 Zane Grey novel" present on the front panel). A beautiful copy, exceedingly difficult to find with such an attractive dust jacket. Near Fine book with a brief gift inscription dated 1935 on...
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The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
King, StephenWest Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1987. Dave McKean. First edition. Hardcover. 399 pp. Bound in black cloth with bronze metallic lettering on the spine, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. 10 color plates. Price of $35.00 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated...
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The Hunter and the Trapper in North America; or Romantic Adventures in Field and Forest
Revoil, BenedictLondon: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. 393pp. 6 pages of publisher's ads bound in at the rear. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, black lettering, and vignettes in gilt on front board and spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Translated from the French and with a preface...
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Essays on the Theory of Number
Dedekind, RichardChicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1901. First English language edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [9], 2-115, [5] pp. Bound in red cloth with lettering in gilt on the front board, lettering and publisher's device stamped in gold on the spine. Four pages of publishers advertisements at the rear. First edition...
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Gould, Stephen JayCambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top...
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Morgan, Dale L.Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cazedessus 12. A nice copy of...
