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The Hills Beyond; With a Note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell
Wolfe, ThomasNew York: Harper & Brothers [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 386 pp. Bound in dark blue cloth, front board with title and author's name stamped in gilt within green rectangles bordered in gilt separated by two gilt rules with narrower gold rectangles at the top and bottom of the design.....
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Booked to Die; A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
Dunning, JohnNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1992], 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [3], 4-321 pp. Quarter navy blue cloth over blue paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes a publisher's promotional letter with a plot synopsis, reviews of the.....
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The Yearling
Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 428, [4] pp. Three-quarter bound in red morocco, over red cloth with five raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Gilt rules between the leather and the cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers and.....
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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 bound in green leather over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges stained a pinkish-brown, light pink endpapers and pastedowns. Bound.....
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The Glacial History of Nantucket and Cape Cod; With an Argument for a Fourth Centre of Glacial Dispersion in North...
Wilson, J. HowardNew York: The Columbia University Press, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 1-90, [3] (publisher's advertisements) pp. Illustrated with thirty-three plates, black and white photographs of the glaciers discussed in the book, the deposits of fossils and sediments found within them, the Newfoundland Ice Sheet, and other places of.....
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The Shoe Bird
Welty, EudoraNew York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 87 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Beth Krush. Ahearn APG 016a. An attractive copy of Welty's only book for children. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with some light wear to.....
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Following the Equator
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text.....
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In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties
Brassey, Lady (Baroness Anna Brassey)London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xiv, [2], 532 pp. Original publishers grey cloth with decorations stamped in blue, brown, green, and gilt on the front and rear boards and the spine. Illustrated by nine coloured maps, (two of which are fold-out) and by 292.....
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Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
PlutarchBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. [2], 3-414, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 422, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 452, [2]; [4], 570, [2]; [2], iii, [1], 618, [4] pp. Original brick blindstamped cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and.....
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The Outsider
Camus, AlbertLondon: Hamish Hamilton (1946), 1946. First English language edition. Hardcover. 103 pp. Bound in grey-green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 6s. net on front flap of jacket. First edition in English and Camus' first English publication. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Introduction by Cyril Connolly. Ahearn Collected.....
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Freddy Plays Football
Brooks, Walter R.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. An endearing story about Freddy the pig-detective, and how he makes the football team while solving two mysteries.....
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The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia
Spears, John R.New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xi, [1], 319, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fourteen additional plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to American biologist and naturalist Francis Harper, known for his.....
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