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Scott's Last Expedition

Scott, Captain R.F. (R.N., C.V.O.)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes, 443 pp.; 376 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and top textblock in gilt. In two volumes, volume one being the journal of Captain R.F. Scott, volume two being the...

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Custer Died for Your Sins; An Indian Manifesto

Deloria, Jr., Vine

Toronto: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A commentary on the struggles and injustices that Native Americans faced from westward expansion through the 1960s. Deloria Jr. was a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe...

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Journey of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Speke, John Hanning

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 590 pp. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pale pink endpapers and pastedowns. All illustrations are present as well as the two maps. Includes four pages of advertisements. The illustrations are beautiful black and white lithographs, with what...

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Dickens, Charles

London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 609 pp. Bound in brown calf, spine with red morocco label, 4 gilt decorated raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, patterned endpapers and pastedowns. 43 plates by Robert Seymour (first 7 plates following the vignette titlepage), Robert William Buss...

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A Game Of Thrones

Martin, George R.R.

New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First printing. Oversized Paperback. 663 pp. Advance Review Copy in wraps with dust jacket (different design and cover art than the published version), as issued. An attractive example of the first book in Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series, uncommon as an...

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One Fearful Yellow Eye

MacDonald, John D.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome copy of the eighth Travis McGee novel.

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Your Day in the Barrel

Furst, Alan

New York: Atheneum, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 180 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The Author's first book. A few faint traces of foxing to textblock, else Fine.

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The Return of the King

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 444 pp. Black cloth-covered boards with ‘Ring and eye’ device stamped on front cover in purple and gold, title stamped on spine in gold. Purple topstain, fold out map of Middle Earth in rear. The price of $6.00 is printed on the front...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Musical Comedy Based off the Plays of Plautus

Shevelove, Burt; Gelbart, Larry

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 107 pp. Bound in red cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs. Includes several black...

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The Bushwhacked Piano

McGuane, Thomas

New York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. An exceptional copy of the author's second book. A faint spot of discoloration on the rear free endpaper, else Fine in a like dust jacket.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence, D.H.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 327 pp. Bound in the publisher's bright orange cloth with black lettering on the front board. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Banned for obscenity in both the...

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Little Big Man

Berger, Thomas

New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Berger's magnum opus. A Very near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with moderate fading to the spine panel and a few hints of rubbing and edge wear.

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