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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
Burke, James LeeBaton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 241, [1] pp. Bound in blue-green cloth with red lettering on the spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns. Dust jacket is the version printed on high-gloss stock (generally assumed to be second issue) with price of $16.95 on the.....
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They Were Still Dancing
Waugh, EvelynNew York: Farrar & Rinehart [1932], 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 317 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Lacks copyright and title page. Yellow boards with brown lettering on spine and lion in brown on front board. Dark blue topstain, rough cut fore-edge. Presumed 1st american edition.....
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De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni [= On the Matter of the Deeds of Alexander the Great]; Libri Decem [= Ten...
Rufi, Q. Curtii [= Quintus Curtius Rufus]Parisiis [= Paris]: J. Barbou, 1757. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-xv, [2], 2-557, [3] pp. Late eighteenth to early nineteenth-century mottled calf with a maroon morocco label on the spine, label lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, board edges show gilt gauffering; all edges decoratively marbled. Marbled endpapers.....
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Collected Papers; Volume I Critical Essays; Volume II Collected Essays 1929-1968
Ryle, GilbertNew York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (1971), 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vol. [4], v-x, 291, [1]; [4], v-viii, 496 pp. Red brick cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Honderich 786. Ryle was famous for his work on what the purpose of philosophy is, and his publications.....
More info about Collected Papers; Volume I Critical Essays; Volume II Collected Essays 1929-1968
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Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus".; With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings
Gilchrist, AlexanderLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-389, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [4], 4-268 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front board and spine. Illustrated from Blake's own works, in facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in photolithography; with a......
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Philosophical Papers: Volume I
Lewis, David K.New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [4], 3-285, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A magnificent collection of papers by one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, exceedingly uncommon in collectible condition. A Very near.....
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The Evolution of Physics; The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
Einstein, Albert; Infeld, LeopoldNew York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], v-vi, [2], ix-x, [2], 3-319, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a gold decoration on the front board; navy topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by.....
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Fire and Sword in the Sudan; A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
Slatin, Rudolf C., PashaLondon: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [2], 636, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine, a decoration in gilt of Slatin escaping from Sudan on a camel on the front board; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece photogravure of.....
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In the Night Kitchen
Sendak, Maurice[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Beige cloth with a decoration in brown, yellow, white and blue, lettered in red on the front board. Each page illustrated with bright and bold color drawings by Sendak. Baumgarten 191. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, "Case.....
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The Past Through Tomorrow
Heinlein, Robert A.New York: G.P, Putnam's Sons [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-667, [5] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Currey 233. Ahearn APG 040a. A nice copy. A Very Good book with a previous owner's name.....
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Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
Sheridan, P.H.New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xiii, 500, [2]; [4], v-xi, [1], 486, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spine. Illustrated by a steel-engraved frontispiece in each volume, 11 folding maps.....
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The Town
Faulkner, WilliamNew York: Random House (1957), 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-371, [5] pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge grey, grey patterned endpapers. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. Ahearn APG 048b. First issue (jacket flap has 5/57 date.....
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