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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
Woolf, VirginiaNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1944], 1944. First American edition. Hardcover. 148 pp. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes a foreword by Leonard Woolf. A beautiful copy of this posthumous collection of eighteen short stories, six of which were previously unpublished and six...
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Facsimile of Washington's Accounts; From June, 1775, to June, 1783
Washington, GeorgeWashington DC: Treasury Department, Register's Office, 1833. First edition thus. Pamphlet. Oblong folio. [3], 66, [5] pp. Quarter brown cloth over marbled wrappers. From the title page: "General Washington's account of expenses during the Revolutionary War, in his own hand writing, is on file in this office: -- the annexed...
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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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Gilead
Robinson, MarilynneNew York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2004), 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Pale yellow paper-covered boards quarter-bound in beige cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on front jacket flap. Signed by the author on the title page. A very sharp copy of Robinson's second novel...
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Women of the Orient: An Account of the Religious, Intellectual, and Social Condition of Women in Japan, China, India, Egypt...
Houghton, Rev. Ross C. A.M.Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden [1877], 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 3-496, [2] pp. Brown cloth with decorations stamped in black and gilt, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a wood-cut frontispiece, sixteen full page illustrations, and numerous...
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Reminiscences; General of the Army
MacArthur, DouglasNew York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], viii, [2], 3-438, [2] pp. Navy cloth with decorations in red and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with seven maps, a....
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Cape Cod
Thoreau, Henry DavidBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of...
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The Viking Age; The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations
Du Chaillu, Paul B.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 591 pp.; 562 pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front boards and the spines. 1,366 illustrations with a frontispiece in each volume and one full-page map in volume 1. Du Chaillu...
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Undecidable Theories
Tarski, Alfred; Mostowski, Andrzej; Robinson, Raphael M.Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [3], 3-98, [2] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer...
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The Ogowe Band; A Narrative of African Travel
Reading, John H.Philadelphia: Reading & Company, Publishers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, 278 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates (steel engravings and photographs) and two maps, including a chromolithograph of French colonial currency used in turn-of-the-century Western Africa. The illustrations include portraits of native peoples, Mrs. Reading, several different churches in...
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The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Wright, ThomasNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxix, [1], 32-291, [2]; [5], vi-ix, [4], 14-291, [3], vi-xxv pp. Illustrated with sixty-four full-page illustrations including a map. Frontispiece of volume one features Sir Richard Burton, frontis of volume two features a photograph of Isabella Burton...
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Hindu Philosophy. The Bhagavad Gita or the Sacred Lay.; A Sanskrit Philosophical Poem
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-208, [2]. Pages 23-26 bound in-between pages 2 and 3. Errata slip bound between [18] and [19] pp. Bound in green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gold on the boards and spine, top...
