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The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in any Former Edition and Many Letters...
Franklin, BenjaminBoston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1840. First edition thus. Hardcover. 10 vol. 4vo. [5], viii-xxxvi, [4], 612; [5], vi-ix, [2], 557, [5]; [5], viii-xiv, [3], 577, [3]; [4], viii-ix, [3], 539, [3]; [5], iv-xiii, [3], 578, [4]; [5], vi-xiii, [3], 516, [4]; [5], vi-xxii, [2], 568, [2]; [5], vi-xxii, [2].....
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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 Philosophical Works of David Hume; Including all the essays, and exhibiting the more important alterations and corrections in the...
Hume, DavidBoston: Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-vii, [6], 6-337, [3]; [7], vi-vii, [4], 4-552, [2]; [7], vi, [3], 2-564, [2].; [9], viii-ix, [4], 2-580, [2] pp. Contemporary three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, black morocco labels.....
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The Indian Sign Language, with Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures Taught...and War Signals of our Aborigines
Clark, W.P.Philadelphia: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-443, [1], [4] pages of publisher's advertisements, including ads for other historical works on Native Americans, published in the nineteenth century. Includes a fold-out map with the Native American reservations west of the 84th Meridian and their populations diagrammed.....
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Old Deadwood Days
Bennett, EstellineNew York: J.H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], ix-xi, [3], 3-300 pp. Orange cloth lettered and decorated in black on the front board and spine; tan topstain. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and several additional black and white.....
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Time and Again
Finney, Jack (Walter Braden Finney)New York: Simon and Schuster [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-399, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with lettering stamped in gold on the front board and the spine, gold endpapers and pastedowns, yellow topstain. Bookseller's ticket (Vroman's Pasadena) on the free front endpaper. There is no book.....
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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1878; 1879; 1880
Thomson, Charles; Marquis de La Rouerie;New York: Printed for the Society, 1879; 1880; 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [5], 4-503, [3]; [17], 6-559, [3]; [11], xii-xiii, [9], 6-489, [5] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gold on each spine. The collection from 1880 is illustrated by a fold-out map.....
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Child of God
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Random House, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 3-197, [5] pp. Quarter navy cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. As with all of McCarthy’s early works, there was a relatively small print run. The story of Lester Ballard, physically isolated from his fellow.....
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A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
Burton, Sir Richard FrancisLondon: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [10], xi-xxi, [3], 256; [6], vii--viii, 305, [3] pp. Original dark brown cloth with an Amazon and an Arabic design embossed on the front board, the mausoleum at Mortlake embossed on the rear board, gold lettering on the.....
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Space Cadet
Heinlein, Robert A.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 242, [4] pp. Navy cloth with teal lettering on the spine and a teal decoration of a spaceman on the front board. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. Ahearn APG 003a. Currey.....
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The Godwulf Manuscript
Parker, Robert B.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-186 pp. Bound in brown cloth with stylized 'G' stamped in dark brown on the front board and lettering in gold and designs in dark brown stamped on the spine, red topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust.....
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The Gospel Singer
Crews, HarryNew York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-248, [8] pp. Green cloth with white and black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Small bookplate signed by the author laid in. Ahearn APG 001a. A beautiful copy of Crews'.....
