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The Iliad of Homer Rendered into English Blank Verse
Homer; Edward Earl of Derby, [Tr.]London: John Murray, 1864. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [4], 2-402, [2]; [5], 2-432, [2] pp. Contemporary calf with three gilt rules to each board, gilt decorations to the turn-ins, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations and a maroon and a brown morocco label lettered.....
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The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Twain, MarkNew York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 9-260, [3], 9 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near.....
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The Theory of Numbers
Hardy, G.H.; Wright, E. M.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-403, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device on the spine. ODNB: Bela Bollobas, "Hardy, Godfrey Harold"; ODNB: N. H. Bingham, "Wright, Sir Edward Maitland". Hardy is one of the greatest and most.....
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Raum und Zeit
Minkowski, HermannLeipzig and Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1909. First edition thus. Original Wraps. 8vo. [5], 2-14, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Minkowski with tissue guard. Original tan wrappers with Minkowki's name and the title inset on the front wrapper. Clamshell case with brown linen on the boards.....
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North America
Trollope, AnthonyPhiladelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. First Authorized American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 5-335, [1]; [2], iii-iv, 5-334, [4] pp. Brown textured publisher's cloth. Off-white endpapers and pastedowns. Sadleir 14. Two volumes bound in one, a common practice with this edition. The authorized American edition of Trollope's travel narrative.....
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The Reverse of the Medal
O'Brian, PatrickNew York: Collins, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-256 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First trade edition. The sixteenth of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels. Pageblock a touch toned, a small erasure on the free.....
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Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)[Paris]: La Société Littéraire-Typographique, 1784 - 1789. First edition. Hardcover. 70 vol. 8vo. Please inquire if you require any pagination information. Contemporary full calf, spines in six and a half compartments, each with a red and a green morocco label lettered in gilt; several edges decoratively stained yellow. With 104.....
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Autobiography
Mill, John StuartLondon: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-313, [3], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original green pebbled cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Second issue with the errata leaf. NCBEL III 1552. ODNB, Jose Harris, "Mill.....
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Oeuvres Philosophiques de Descartes, Publiées, D'Après les Textes Originaux [= Philosophical Works of Descartes, Published after the Original Texts]
Descartes, RenéParis: Librairie Classique et Élémentaire de L. Hachette, 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], ii-clxiv, [3], 4-469, [5]; [5], ii-xl, [3], 4-560, [6]; [5], ii-xxxiii, [8], 8-456, [4]; [5], ii-xl, [3], 4-464, [6] pp. Mid-nineteenth century pebbled green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on each spine. Marbled.....
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Mark Twain's Notebook
Twain, Mark, (Samuel L. Clemens); Paine, Albert Bigelow, [Ed.]New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xi, [1], 413, [5] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Title page printed in red and black. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a......
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Following the Guidon
Custer, Elizabeth B.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiii, [6], xx, 341, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in green cloth with the front board lettered in gilt with gilt bullet decorations and an American flag stamped in red, white, and blue, on the.....
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Wisconsin Death Trip
Lesy, MichaelNew York: Pantheon Books [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Purple cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Miyamoto. With a preface by Warren Susman. Illustrated throughout with several.....