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Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical Inquiry
Mach, Dr. ErnstChicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1906. First English language edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 5-148, [1]-13, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red cloth with black lettering and a black border on the front board, black lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Price of $1.00 on the spine.....
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Alciphron: Or the Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues with A New Theory of Vision; Containing an Apology for the Christian...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: J. Tonson, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [15], 2-356, [4]; [9], 2-351, [3] pp. Recent half brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold rules; brown topstain and red speckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Volume 1.....
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Discipline and Punish; The Birth of the Prison
Foucault, MichelNew York: Pantheon Books [1977], 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-333, [1] pp. Maroon boards with grey lettering and two grey rules on the front board, silver lettering and a silver rule on the spine. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design.....
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The Case of the Hanover Forces in the Pay of Great-Britain, Impartially and freely examined: With Some Seasonable Reflections on...
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; Waller, EdmundLondon: Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe, 1743. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 2-83, [3] pp. Pamphlet bound in twentieth-century pink paper boards with a red morocco spine label lettering in gold. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Price of One Shilling on the front wrapper of the pamphlet. Gulick 92.....
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; From the Original Editions
Shelley, Percy ByssheLondon: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Later printing. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [7], 8-498, [4]; [11], 20-462, [4]; [5], ii-iv, [3], 8-309, [5] pp. Half contemporary calf over marbled paper over boards with the spines in six compartments, gold decorations and two brown morocco labels lettered in gold; top.....
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Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx: A Revolutionary Interpretation
Hook, SidneyNew York: The John Day Company [1933], 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-347, [5] pp. Tan cloth with red lettering and decoration on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed and dated by Hook (March.....
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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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On My Own
Roosevelt, EleanorNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 1-241, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with black lettering on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules blocked in blue on the spine. With the original acetate. Without the publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with eight.....
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Angle of Repose
Stegner, WallaceGarden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-569, [7] pp. Bound in light green cloth with oval wreath design stamped in blind on the front board and gold lettering on both the spine and front board. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on.....
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Jitterbug Perfume
Robbins, TomNew York: Bantam Books (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-342 pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper over boards, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cover illustration by Stephanie Gerber. Press release, review slip, and promotional postcard laid.....
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![The History of Middle-Earth]: The Book of Lost Tales Part I; The Book of Lost Tales Part II; The. J. R R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ed.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000015968.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758904141)
[The History of Middle-Earth]: The Book of Lost Tales Part I; The Book of Lost Tales Part II; The Lays...
Tolkien, J.R.R.; Tolkien, Christopher, [Ed.]Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1984), 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. All volumes in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. All dust jackets with their correct.....
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The Martian
Du Maurier, GeorgeNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. First American trade edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv, [2], 1-477, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with green and gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board, gold lettering and two gold devices on the spine. Illustrated with.....