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Nights at the Circus
Carter, AngelaLondon: Viking (1985), 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 7-294, [4] pp. Quarter red cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent X. Kirsch. Inscribed by.....
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Logic Without Metaphysics; And Other Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Nagel, ErnestGlencoe, Illinois: The Free Press [1956], 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-433, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with green and gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by Ernest Nagel on.....
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Animal Liberation; A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Singer, PeterNew York: New York Review (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvii, [1], 301, [1] pp. Bound in beige cloth with black lettering on the spine. Edward Gorey contributed to the book's design. Illustrated with a few black and white plates of photographs of animals in inhumane living conditions.....
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Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and...
Newcomb, Raymond Lee, [Ed.]; VariousHartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xv, [3], 18-479, [3] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in black, silver, and gold on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several full-page and in-text engravings, maps, and plans.Completing the title page: "With.....
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; An Indian History of the American West
Brown, DeeNew York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [10], xi-xvii, [5], 1-487, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with purple decorations on the front board and spine, blue lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.95 on the jacket's front.....
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Complete Theories
Robinson, AbrahamAmsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-129, [3] pp. Flexible paper 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). A volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and.....
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
Whitehead, A. N. (Alfred North)Cambridge: The University Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-200 pp. Bound in blue cloth with lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. Whitehead is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century in addition to his.....
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Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. De La Fontaine
de La Fontaine, J.[ean]Bouillon: La Société Typographique, 1776. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Contemporary full sheep, spines in six compartments with an orange and a green leather label lettered and bordered in gold on each spine; all edges red. Marbled blue and white endpapers and pastedowns. A green.....
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Flower of Joy
DeLeeuw, HendrikNew York: Lee Furman, Inc. [1939], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-241, [7] pp. Textured grey and white paper boards with brown lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An investigative memoir into the underground drug trade. DeLeeuw traveled.....
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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.....
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Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
Dawes, Rufus R.Marietta, O. E.R. Alderman & Sons, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], ii-v, [2], 6-330 pp. Blue cloth with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventeen plates (plus additional portraits dubbed.....
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Holes
Sachar, LouisNew York: Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter red paper over blue paper boards with red lettering on the spine and lettering in blind on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.00 on the.....