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The Hills Beyond; With a Note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell
Wolfe, ThomasNew York: Harper & Brothers [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 386, [6] pp. Bound in dark blue cloth, front board with title and author's name stamped in gilt within green rectangles bordered in gilt separated by two gilt rules with narrower gold rectangles at the top.....
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Word and Object
Quine, Willard Van OrmanBoston: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Light green cloth with twin gilt rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gilt rules and both gilt lettering and black lettering.....
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Les Satyres de Perse et de Juvenal, Traduites en François, par le P. Tarteron avec Le Latin a Costé [=...
Juvenal; Persius; P. Tarteron, [Tr.]Paris: Claude Barbin, 1695. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [71], 2-587, [3] pp. Later (late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century) full calf, spine in five compartments, with gilt decorations, a red-orange morocco label on the second compartment, edges decoratively stained red; early marbled endpapers and pastedowns with a green silk bookmark. Illustrated.....
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Nineveh and its Remains; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or...
Layard, Henry AustenNew York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound in one. Large 8vo. ii-viii, [1], 4-7, [2], 10-326; [3], 2-4, [1], vi-viii, [1], 10-373, [1] pp. Each volume illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, volume one illustrated with three folding plans, 13 woodcut figures, eleven plates (one.....
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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. 531, [1], [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red blind-ruled publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and with several wood-engraved plates and numerous.....
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The Journals of Zebulon Montgomery Pike; With Letters and Related Documents
Pike, Zebulon; Donald Jackson [Ed.]Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xxviii, [2], 3-464; [6], vii-xiii, [3], 3-449, [1] pp. Beige cloth with gold and silver lettering blocked in black on the spine, black lettering on the spines. Housed in a black slipcase with an olive.....
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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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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
Burke, James LeeBaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 241, [1] pp. Bound in blue-green cloth with red lettering on the spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns. Dust jacket is the version printed on high-gloss stock (generally assumed to be second issue) with price of $16.95 on the.....
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The Cheyenne Indians; Their History and Ways of Life
Grinnell, George BirdNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 358; [4], v-vii, [1], 430, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece. Volume one with twenty-two additional black and white photograph plates and fold-out map in.....
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The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration
Stanley, Henry MortonLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Finely three-quarter bound in recent green Morocco over green cloth bordered with twin gilt rules, spine in six compartments bordered by twin gilt rules, black.....
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Wyss, Johann DavidPhiladelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1868. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-383, [3] pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titling on the spine. A later edition, printed in one volume, revised and corrected. An attractive copy of this classic adventure tale.
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L.
Wordsworth, WilliamLondon: Edward Moxon, 1847. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-619, [3] pp. Contemporary full green morocco with elaborate gilt ornamentation, dentelles, and decorations on the boards and spine, spines in six compartmens; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Spawn and Kinsella 177. Bound by J. Wright.....
