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A Complete Run of Greenaway's Almanacks from 1883 to 1897: Almanack for 1883; Almanack for 1884; Almanack for 1885; Almanack...
Greenaway, KateLondon; New York: George Routledge and Sons; Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1883; 1884; 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1897. Hardcover. 14 vol. 24mo. 10 cm x 7.5 cm; 13.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 10.5 cm x 8 cm.; 10.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 8.....
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo; With a Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, Language and Other Peculiarities
Rink, Dr. HenryEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds.....
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Quinctillian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
Quinctillian; W. Guthrie, Esq., [Tr.]London: Printed for R. Dutton, W.J. & J. Richardsons, R. Lea ... and J. Cawthorn, 1805. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-448, [2]; [5], 2-458, [2] pp. Contemporary sheep with a gold rule on each board and the spines in six compartments, gold decorations and a......
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Model Theory for Infinitary Logic; Logic with Countable Conjunctions and Finite Quantifiers
Keisler, H. J.Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-208, [2] pp. Bound in yellow cloth with narrow rule border on the front board in black, gold lettering on the spine inset in a solid black rectangle with black and gold rules at the top and bottom.....
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Faithfull; An Autobiography
Faithfull, Marianne; Dalton, DavidBoston: Little, Brown & Company (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-310 pp. Quarter grey paper over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design.....
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The Marne
Wharton, EdithNew York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 1-128, [2] pp. Quarter green cloth over grey paper boards with green lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $1.25 on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 030a. Wharton's historical novel focused.....
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South...
Rhodes, James FordNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. Later printing. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Half contemporary green morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments with gold borders and gold lettering; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. With the half-titles bound in.....
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Autograph Manuscript Letter Signed by William James Sent to Mr. Washburn
James, WilliamCambridge: n.p., 1908. Loose_leaf. Single sheet of William James' stationary with James' handwriting on both sides. 21 cm x 13 cm. James' home address at the top of the sheet. The text of the letter reads: "Jan 13. 08 / Dear Mr. Washburn, You are evidently a first-rate "psychometrist" and.....
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The Odyssey of Homer; The Iliad of Homer
Homer (Alexander Pope, translator)London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. 11 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Volumes are uniformly bound in contemporary full calf with gold tooling on the edges of the boards, spines in six compartments with gold tooling and an unpolished calf label on each; all edges marbled.....
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My Life on the Plains; Or, Personal Experiences with Indians
Custer, Gen. G. A.New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-256, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth lettered in gold and stamped with gold and black decorations on the front board and the spine, decorations and border in blind on the rear board. Pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. The front.....
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No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
Garcia Marquez, GabrielNew York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 3-170 pp. Quarter red cloth over yellow paper boards with brown lettering on the spine. Green and yellow decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by.....
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The Way of Zen
Watts, Alan W.[New York]: Pantheon [1957], 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [3], 3-236, [2] pp. Black cloth with two writing characters in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with two double-sided plates of.....