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Lysistrata
Aristophane, [= Aristophanes]Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [11], 8-179, [5] pp. Contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled paper boards with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. A ribbon bookmark bound in with marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a......
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The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations from the Plates...
Shakspeare, [William]; A.J. Valpy, M.A., [Ed.]; [Shakespeare]London: A.J. Valpy, 1832; 1833; 1834. First Valpy edition. Hardcover. 15 vol. Small 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Early twentieth-century half blue calf over marbled boards with gold rules on the boards, spines in six compartments, each volume with two red morocco labels and gold lettering and decorations on.....
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Justice in War-Time
Russell, BertrandChicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1916. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [4], 2-243, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. With a frontispiece laid in, the portrait of Russell is printed on white paper stock smaller than the rest of the.....
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![De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni [= On the Matter of the Deeds of Alexander the Great]; Libri. Q. Curtii Rufi, Quintus Curtius Rufus.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/00009405.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627934499)
De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni [= On the Matter of the Deeds of Alexander the Great]; Libri Decem [= Ten...
Rufi, Q. Curtii [= Quintus Curtius Rufus]Parisiis [= Paris]: J. Barbou, 1757. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-xv, [2], 2-557, [3] pp. Contemporary mottled calf with a maroon morocco label on the spine, label lettered in gold, boards ruled in gold, board edges show gold gauffering; all edges decoratively marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns, with a......
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The Way of Zen
Watts, Alan W.[New York]: Pantheon [1957], 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [3], 3-236, [2] pp. Black cloth with two writing characters in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two double-sided plates of.....
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A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Maeander; With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke...
Keppel, Captn the Hon. Henry Keppel, R.N.London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], viii-xiv, [3], 2-301, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-286, [2] pp. Contemporary half smooth blue calf over bright blue pebbled cloth, spine in six compartments, each with a red morocco label lettered in gold, spines lettered and decorated in gold;.....
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Eight Million Ways to Die
Block, LawrenceNew York: Arbor House [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-319, [1] pp. Quarter red cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $13.50 on the front flap of the jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The fifth book in Block's.....
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Being and Time
Heidegger, MartinNew York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1962], 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-589, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and a gold rule on the spine. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Nordquist 7. Sass 16. With the name "Harper" on the.....
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The Virginians; A Tale of the Last Century
Thackeray, W.M.London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858; 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], 2-382, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-376, [2] pp. Half contemporary green sheep over marbled paper over boards, spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, all edges stained a pinkish-brown, light pink endpapers and pastedowns.....
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The World According to Garp
Irving, JohnNew York: E.P. Dutton [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-437, [1] pp. Quarter navy cloth over gold paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Maroon endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 004d. A rollicking and eccentric novel.....
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Agamemnon; Volume I: Prolegomena Text Translation; Volume II: Commentary on 1-1055; Volume III: Commentary on 1056-1673 Appendixes, Indexes
Aeschylus; Ed. Fraenkel, EduardOxford: The Clarendon Press [1978], 1978. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, 1-195, [1], 1, [1], 2, [1]; [4], v-viii, 1-480; [4], v, [1], 481-850, [4] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spines. Volume I illustrated with two single-sided black and white plates. Name on each.....
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The Dharma Bums
Kerouac, JackNew York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-244, [4] pp. Black cloth with green lettering on the front board and silver and green lettering on the spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 005a. Charters A4. Kerouac's classic work.....