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Hell's Angels; A Strange and Terrible Saga
Thompson, Hunter S.New York: Random House [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-278, [2] pp. Black cloth with a silver decoration of a motorcycle rider on the front board, silver and red lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the 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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Remains of Lost Empires; Sketches of the Ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon, and Persepolis, with Some Notes on India and...
Myers, P.V.N.New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], ii-xiv, [1], 16-531, [1], [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red blind-ruled publisher's cloth over beveled-edge boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and.....
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Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, NealNew York: Avon Books (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [11], 2-918 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Anatomy of Wonder II-1075. A Locus Award winner. Inscribed by Stephenson on the title page. A......
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The Snowy Day
Keats, Ezra JackNew York: The Viking Press (1963), 1963. Second printing. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. [5], 6-32 pp. Blue cloth with white lettering, white footprint decorations and a red decoration on the front board, red and white lettering on the spine. Beautifully illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.00 on the front flap.....
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Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans; The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and...
Schliemann, Dr. HenryNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to. [9], x-xvi, [1], 2-800, [2] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper over boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold decorations; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map of.....
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues ...
[Bible]; [Isaiah Thomas]; [Early American Printing]Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. First Thomas edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], 3-1310 pp. Contemporary paneled sheep with the spine in six compartments. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Completing the title page: And with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England.....
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Les objet fractals: forme, hasard et dimension.
Mandelbrot, BenoitParis: Flammarion, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. [5], 2-190, [6] pp. Bound in original wrappers with the publisher's wrap-around band. Numerous additional black and white illustrations. Mandelbrot is best-known for his discovery of fractal geometry, a mathematical theory that can be used to represent the "roughness" of things such.....
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Song for the Basilisk
McKillip, Patricia A.New York: Ace Books (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 4-314 pp. Quarter green paper over blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Murello. Signed by the author on the title.....
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Where's My Cow?
Pratchett, Terry,London: Doubleday (2005), 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Quarter purple cloth over pictorial boards done in blue, black, white, and yellow. Illustrated colorful endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color drawings by Melvyn Grant. A Discworld picture book for people of all sizes. Signed by Pratchett on.....
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during...
Ross, Sir JohnLondon: A.W. Webster, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [7], ii-xxxiii, [2], 2-740 pp. Recent half blue buckram over marbled boards with a recent black morocco label lettered and ruled in silver on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding chart at the beginning and one.....
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The Naked and the Dead
Mailer, NormanNew York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-721, [7] pp. Black cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with one full-page map. Signed by the author on the title page, dated June.....