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A Year in Spain by a Young American
[Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell]London: John Murray, 1831. First UK edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-413, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements); [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-377, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Contemporary century half sheep over marbled boards, spines in six compartments, a green and a brown leather label lettered.....
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Emil and the Detectives; A Story for Children
Kästner, ErichGarden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [3], 3-224, [2] pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering and a red decoration on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.00 on the front flap.....
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The Elements of Mechanics
Renwick, JamesPhiladelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxxi, [1], 1-508 pp. Contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, a red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Illustrated with a few full-page and numerous in-text diagrams. With a discussion of canals, gases, the movement of.....
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The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gîtâ (From the Mahâbhârata); Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being...
[Bhagavad-Gîtâ]; [Hinduism]; [Religion]; [Association Copy]Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-185, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green publisher’s cloth with a gilt wheel with feathers in gilt and gilt floral design on the front board, gilt lettering, a gilt harp, and publisher’s device in gilt on the spine.....
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Murakami, HarukiNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 6-611, [3] pp. Blue paper boards printed in white with white lettering and decorations on the boards and spine. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Jay Rubin. Murakami's fifth novel translated.....
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The Last Sitting
Stern, Bert; Gottlieb, AnnieNew York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [8], 9-188, [2] pp. Grey publisher's cloth with a design in blind on the front board, silver lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.00 and $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.....
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Mark Twain's Autobiography
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. [4], vii-xvi, [2], 3-368; [6], 1-365, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front boards and spines; top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with.....
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Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, DanielLondon: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1820. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], iv-xcii, [1], 2-429, [5]; [5], iv-v, [2], 2-415, [5] pp. Later (ca. 1899) morocco over marbled paper over boards, spines in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.....
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty; Transcribed from the Shorthand...
Pepys, SamuelLondon: George Bell & Sons, 1899; 1900. Later edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination please inquire. Half contemporary sheep over marbled paper boards, spines in six compartments with gold decorations and a maroon and a purple morocco label lettered in gold on the spines; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.....
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The Marvellous Country; or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, The Apaches' Home
Cozzens, Samuel WoodworthBoston: Shepard and Gill, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-532 pp. Green cloth with a gold decoration, decorations in black, and gold lettering on the front board, gold lettering and black decorations on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, numerous.....
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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, 1-540 [2] pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gold lettering and facsimile of Stanley's signature.....
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Little America; Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic the Flight to the South Pole
Byrd, Richard EvelynNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, 1-422, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; navy topstain. Photographs on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page printed in.....
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