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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Nozick, RobertNew York: Basic Books, Inc. (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [2], 3-367, [1] pp. Bound in brown cloth with metallic green lettering on the spine, pink topstain. Price of $12.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. Slater 686. Winner of the National Book.....
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The Call of the Wild
London, JackNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 9-231, [1], 2 (pages of publisher's advertisements). Pictorial green cloth with decorations stamped in red and black on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and seventeen additional full-page illustrations.....
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [1], x-xiv, [3], 2-624, [2] pp. Half bound in later dark green morocco over green cloth, spine with 5 gilt raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece and vignette titlepage along with.....
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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. Modern three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules; new endpapers and pastedowns, brown topstain and red decorative speckling to fore-edge and bottom edge.....
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Cape Cod
Thoreau, Henry DavidBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of.....
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Psalmi Davidis, Vulgata Editione, Calendario Hebraeo, Syro, Graeco, Latino [= The Psalms of David, Common Edition, with the Hebrew, Syrian...
Parisiis [Paris]: Petri L'Huillier, 1588. Quarta Editio [Fourth Edition]. Hardcover. 8vo. [140], 2-943, [40] pp. Original unpolished calf, spine in five compartments. Title page printed in red and black, first 100 or so pages printed in red and black. Illustrated by woodcut head and tailpieces, publisher's device on the title.....
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A Theory of Time and Space
Robb, Alfred A.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 2-373, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spine, double-ruled blind-stamped border to both boards. Inscribed "To the Rev. G. A. Weekes with the author's.....
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The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk
Keene, CarolynNew York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-iv, 220 pp. Blue cloth with orange lettering on the front board and spine, orange endpapers and pastedowns; orange topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece. Farah 1940A-1. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. A lovely copy.....
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Conan Doyle, Sir ArthurNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-259, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Bound in patterned light blue cloth with gold lettering and Gordian knot design in dark blue on the front board, gilt lettering and handcuff design in dark.....
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A Dictionary of Birds
Newton, AlfredLondon: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-304, [2], 305-576, [2], 577-832, [2], 833-1088 pp. 4 parts bound in one volume, with the four title pages of each part of the dictionary bound in. Assisted by Hans Gadow. With contributions from Richard Lydekker.....
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya (Marguerite Annie Johnson)New York: Random House [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-281, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn, Collected Books (4th edition), 75. Angelou's first book, an autobiography detailing her life.....
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County Wisconsin
AnonymousChicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [8], 19-1033, [7] pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised.....
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