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With Star and Crescent; A Full and Authentic Account of a Recent Journey with a Caravan from Bombay to Constantinople...
Locher, A.Philadelphia: Aetna Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], 6-634, [2] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by three steel-lithograph plates, one of the author (the frontispiece), one of the Sultan of Turkey, and one.....
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
Proulx, E. AnnieNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 151 pp. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. Proulx's first book of fiction, a well-received collection of nine short stories.
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Logical Investigations
Husserl, Edmund, Findlay, J.N. (Translator)London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes: xvii [xviii], 432, 11 (publisher's catalogue), [1], pp.; xvii [xviii], [2], 435-877, [3], 11 (publisher's catalogue), [1], pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. £10.50 net ( £10 10s the set) on.....
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus; Ad Lectiones Probatiores Diligenter Emendatus et Interpunctione Nova Saepius Illustratus [Works of Horace, approved selections cleverly revised...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace]Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis [Foulis Press], 1760. Editio Quarta [Fourth Edition]. Hardcover. Foolscap 4to. [9], viii-ix, [2], xii, [1], 2-307, [3] pp. Original smooth calf, spine neatly rebacked (likely a contemporary rebacking), with the original spine laid down. Boards are ruled in gilt, all.....
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Alciphron: Or the Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues with A New Theory of Vision; Containing an Apology for the Christian...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: J. Tonson, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [15], 2-356, [4]; [9], 2-351, [3] pp. Modern three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules; new endpapers and pastedowns, brown topstain and red decorative speckling to fore-edge and bottom edge.....
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Journals of Congress: Containing the Proceedings from January 1, 1776, to January 1, 1777; Published by Order of Congress
York-town, PA: Printed by John Dunlap, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], I-520 (page 92 misnumbered 66), [1], ii-xxvii, [3]. Contemporary utilitarian binding consisting of black cloth over boards. This is the second issue with sheets printed by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia combined with new sheets printed by John Dunlap.....
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The Moon is Down
Steinbeck, JohnNew York: Viking Press, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 188 pp. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue with the correct first issue dust jacket ($2.00 price and untrimmed corners). The jacket has age toning and yellowing to rear panel, two small abrasions to front panel, and a......
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Dear Judas
Jeffers, RobinsonNew York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of this collection of poems by Jeffers. Ahearn APG 011a. A Very near Fine book with a vintage bookseller label on the rear pastedown in a Very Good+ jacket.....
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De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things); Libri Sex
Titi Lucretii Cari (Titius Lucretius Carius)Birminghamae: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. [7], 2-280, [4] pp. Contemporary smooth brown calf with gilt rules on each board, edges of the boards show gilt tooling, spine in six compartments with gilt decorations, a recent black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Textblock stained.....
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The Great War
Churchill, WinstonLondon: George Newnes Limited [1934], 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 3 volumes, consecutively paginated: (i)-iv, 1-512; (i)-iv, 513 - 1024; (i)-iv,1025 - 1668. Three-quarter crimson morocco over dark red cloth, spines in 5 compartments with gold lettering and decorations, marbled crimson endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait.....
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In Darkest Africa; or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
Stanley, Henry MortonNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-547, [3]; [3], iv-xvi, 540 [2] pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gilt lettering and facsimile of Stanley's signature.....
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Reflexions de L'Empereur Marc-Aurele Antonin, Surnomme' Le Philosophe [Reflections of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Nicknamed the Philosopher]
Marc Aurele, (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)Paris: Chez Denully, 1742. Later Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], ii-xxiv, [1], 2-315, [7] pp. Full contemporary maroon morocco, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt. All edges gilt, the edges of the board's interiors show lovely gilt gauffering. Beautiful later eighteenth century marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by an engraved.....
