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Egyptian Mummies
Smith, G. Elliot; Dawson, Warren R.London: George Allen & Unwin LTD (1924), 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-189, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, a mummy stamped in gold on the front board, gold rules on the spine. Price of Twenty-five Shillings net on the front flap.....
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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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Freddy and the Baseball Team from Mars
Brooks, Walter R.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 3-241, [7] pp. Pink cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, blue decorations on the front board and spine; blue topstain. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. The.....
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Autobiographia; Or The Story of a Life
Whitman, WaltNew York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-vii, [3], 11-205, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Blue-green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, blue lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece.....
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Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains; Tacoma Edition
Irving, WashingtonNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xxi, [4], 2-389, [1]; [4], v-xvi, [3], 2-391, [3] pp. Maroon textured cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; top edges gilt. Each volume with a silk bookmark bound in. Volume one.....
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Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann[New York]: New Directions [1951], 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 3-153, [3] pp. Quarter green cloth over pictorial boards, gold lettering on the spine, black topstain, housed in a pictorial slipcase with a paper label on one side. Price of $5.00 on the paper label. The first issue.....
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The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, Collated with the Manuscripts, and Various Printed Editions; Life, Poems...
Bede (Saint Bede); Rev. J.A. Giles, [Ed.]London: Whittaker and Co., 1843. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], xii-clxxvi, [1], 2-252, [2]; [7], 6-402, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf with a gilt border to each board, edges of the boards with gilt dentelles, spines in six compartments with gilt tooling and decorations and two red.....
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo; With a Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, Language and Other Peculiarities
Rink, Dr. HenryEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds.....
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The Desert Music; And Other Poems
Williams, William CarlosNew York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-90, [4] pp. Green cloth with red and black lettering on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wallace A38. A nice collection of poems by one of.....
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An Eulogy on the Life and Character of James Madison, Fourth President of the United States; Delivered at the Request...
Adams, John QuincyBoston: American Stationers' Company, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-90 pp. Green wrapper printed in black, lacks the rear wrapper. Evans 35645. Sabin 278. John Quincy Adams' eulogy for James Madison. A fascinating piece of Americana, one former President of the United States speaking on another's life. Difficult to.....
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Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads now Extant Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw...
Ritson, Joseph, Esq.London: William Pickering, 1832. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], viii, [1], vi-cxxxv, [2], 2-148, [2]; [5], vi, [1], 2-261, [3] pp. Mid-nineteenth century green morocco with gilt rules and decorations, spine in six compartments, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Lovely marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by.....
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Meet Me at the Morgue
Macdonald, John Ross (Kenneth Millar)New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 3-212, [4] pp. Yellow patterned paper boards with black lettering blocked in white on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill English. Bruccoli A9.1.a. The story.....
