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The Story of My Life or The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years
Livermore, Mary A.Hartford, Conn. A.D. Worthington & Co., Publishers, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], vii-xxxiv, 35-730, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [4] pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively speckled in red. With green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with.....
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The Cheyenne Indians; Their History and Ways of Life
Grinnell, George BirdNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 358; [4], v-vii, [1], 430, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece. Volume one with twenty-two additional black and white photograph plates and fold-out map in.....
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Macdonald, Ross, (Kenneth Millar)New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-277, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with a decoration in blind on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine; pink topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust.....
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The Pharsalia of Lucan
Lucan; Sir Edward Ridley [Tr.]London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1919. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xxviii, [1], 2-277, [3]; [6], vii[2], 2-315, [1] pp. Quarter buckram cloth over blue paper boards, each spine with a paper label. Title pages printed in red and black, each volume with an errata slip, and a......
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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'.....
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Aeschyli Tragoediae Superstites et Deperditarum Fragmenta [=The Remaining Tragedies of Aeschylus and the Fragments of the Ruins]; Ex Recensione G....
Aeschylus (Aeschyli)Oxonii (Oxford): E Typographeo Academico (at the University Press), 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 6-324, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary smooth calf, spine in six compartments. Front and rear board stamped in gilt, with a bust of (presumably Dindorf) on the front board and bottom compartment of the spine.....
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My Lady's Casket of Jewels and Flowers for Her Adorning
Talbot, Eleanor W.Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 10" x 7". Unpaginated. Pictorial publisher's binding: textured gold cloth with maroon and silver decorations on the front board, maroon lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Chromolithograph title-page with fifteen additional chromolithographs throughout the book. Two chromolithographs have.....
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The Meaning of Relativity
Einstein, AlbertPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945. Second edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], 135, [3] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine; brown topstain. Illustrated by a few in-text diagrams. Boni, Russ, Laurence: A Bibliographical Checklist and Index to the Published Writings of Einstein: 121.1. Printing.....
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In Darkest Africa; or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
Stanley, Henry MortonNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-547, [3]; [3], iv-xvi, 540 [2] pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gilt lettering and facsimile of Stanley's signature.....
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Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], 8-624, [2] pp. Half-bound in morocco over pebbled brown cloth, with marble endpapers, pastedowns, and a marbled textblock. Spine is lettered and decorated in gilt with five raised bands, the margins of the boards are in ruled.....
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-vii, [2], 2-190, [2] pp. Engraved vignette title page. With twelve illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a portrait. Bound from the original parts. Lacks the wrappers and the advertisements. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, spine in seven compartments with.....
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Publii Terentiii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae VI [= Publius Terence of Carthage's Six Comedies]; His accedunt integrae notae Donati, Eugraphii, Faerni...
Terentii; [Terentius]Amstelodami [= Amsterdam]; Lugduni [= Lyon]: Abrahamum Wolfgang, & Jacobum Hackium, 1686. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound as one. 8vo. 96, 461; [3], 465-888, [46] pp. Full early nineteenth-century calf, spine in six compartments with gold lettering, a gold decoration on each board; all edges gilt. This is an.....
