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Cardinal Algebras; With an Appendix Cardinal Products of Isomorphism Types by Bjarni Jonsson and Alfred Tarski
Tarski, AlfredNew York: Oxford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-326 pp. Bound in red cloth with title blocked within a black rectangle on both the front board and the spine, black lettering on the spine. Slater 918. Tarski is undeniably one of the greatest logicians in.....
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A Long Fourth; and Other Stories
Taylor, PeterNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-166 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. A sharp copy of Taylor's first published.....
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor, FlanneryNew York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1965), 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxiv, [2], 3-269, [1] pp. Quarter dark blue cloth over light blue paper-covered boards with white lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Price of $4.95 on the front.....
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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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The Diseases of the Ear, their Diagnosis and Treatment; A Text-Book of Aural Surgery in the Form of Academical Lectures
Von Tröltsch, Dr. AntonNew York: William Wood & Company, 1864. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xvi, [1], 18-254, [4] pp. Blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several in-text wood engravings. Translated from the German and edited by D.B. St. John Roosa, M.D......
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Ordinal Algebras
Tarski, Alfred; Chang, Chen-Chung; Jonsson, BjarniAmsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [9], 2-133, [3] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket. Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer, E. W. Beth, and A. Heyting. An earlier volume in the long-running Studies.....
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Revenge of the Lawn; Stories 1962-1970
Brautigan, RichardNew York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 10-174 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; green topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of sixty-two stories. Poetry Foundation, "Richard Brautigan". Richard Brautigan was.....
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Blue Rum
Souza, Ernest (Evelyn Scott)New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (1930), 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-483, [5] pp. Blue cloth with yellow lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 013b. Evelyn Scott was most famous for her Civil War.....
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Johnny Tremain; A Story of Boston in Revolt
Forbes, EstherBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-256 pp. Red cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine, a blue decoration on the front board. Pastedowns and endpapers decorated with an illustrated map of Boston and its environs in the Revolutionary Era. Price of $2.50.....
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?O???S ?G?O???? [= In Praise of Folly; In Praise of More]; Sive Stultitiae Laus [= Or the Praise of Stupidity]
Erasmus, DesideriusBasileae [= Basel]: G. Haas, ex Officina J.J. Thurneisen, 1780. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [17], 2-355, [5] pp. Contemporary tree calf with a gilt rule on each board, spine in six compartments with beautiful gilt tooling and a red morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Marbled.....
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Practical Ethics; A Collection of Addresses and Essays
Sidgwick, HenryLondon: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim. 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [3], 2-260 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with horizontal rules in blind on the top and bottom of the front board; light green topstain. Patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Briefly inscribed by the author to H. G......
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The Complete Works of Aristotle; The Revised Oxford Translation
Aristotle; Barnes, Jonathan [ed.]Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press [1984], 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [6], 4-1250; [5], vi, [5], 1252-2487, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spines. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Title pages printed in blue and black. First printing of this edition.....
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