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The Queen Mary Atlas
Barber, Peter; [Queen Mary Atlas]London: The Folio Society, 2005. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Elephant Folio; Large 8vo. The elephant folio is unpaginated, the large 8vo has a pagination of [4], v-vii, [4], 4-87, [1] pp. Both volumes housed in a maroon cloth clamshell, lettered in gilt on the front, with a......
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Seize the Time; The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Seale, BobbyNew York: Random House [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [4], 4-429, [5] pp. Brown cloth with a decoration in red on the front board (Seale bound to a chair), red lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration.....
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Physik; Unter Redaktion von E. Warburg
Auerbach, F.; Braun, F.; Einstein, A[lbert]; Lorentz, H.A.; Planck, M[ax]; VariousLeipzig: Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [6], vi-viii, [3], 4-762, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Contemporary half black morocco over brown paper boards with gilt lettering in a gilt border on the spine; all edges black. Dark green endpapers.....
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Diogenis Laertii De Vitis, Dogmatibus et Apophthegmatibus Clarorum Philosophorum Libri X
Diogenis Laertii [= Diogenes Laertius]Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [16], 672; 590, [56] pp. Contemporary full parchment, spines in seven compartments, each spine with a maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Fore-edge and bottom textblock decoratively sprinkled. Both volume's title pages printed in red and black. Volume one.....
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The First Year of the War
Pollard, Edward A.Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [5], 2-368, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson Davis.....
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![La Chanson de Roland [with] Chronique de Turpin [= The Song of Roland with the Turpin Chronicle];. Théroulde, La Chanson de Roland, Medieval Poetry.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000014958.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733515882)
La Chanson de Roland [with] Chronique de Turpin [= The Song of Roland with the Turpin Chronicle]; Poëme de Théroulde
Théroulde; [La Chanson de Roland]; [Medieval Poetry]Paris: Librairie Internationale A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Co., 1865. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], iv-x, [6], 17-293, [5] pp. Half contemporary red artificially grained sheep over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. This edition not in Graesse. The.....
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Three Soldiers
Dos Passos, JohnNew York: George H. Doran Company [1921], 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-433, [1] pp. Black cloth with orange lettering and orange decoration on the front board, orange lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.00 net on the spine panel. Potter 2. According to Potter our jacket.....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Boswell, James, Esq.Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826. First Pickering edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-394, [2]; [5], 4-416; [5], 2-395, [1]; [7], vi-xi, [2], 2-428 pp. Full contemporary calf (tree calf on volumes three and four), the spines have been rebacked in period style, twin gold.....
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The Erection Set
Spillane, MickeyNew York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-335, [1] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by Spillane on the free front endpaper. Henderson 977. Spillane's wife Sherri posed for.....
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Little Dorrit
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-xiv, [1], 2-625, [5] pp. Half contemporary sheep dyed green over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartmetns with gold decorations and decorations tooled in blind, a maroon leather label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges sprinkled red.....
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Vegas; A Memoir of a Dark Season
Dunne, John GregoryNew York: Random House [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 4-288, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over blue paper boards with purple lettering on the front board and purple and navy lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by.....
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Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo; To which is...
Clapperton, Commander [Hugh]Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1829. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [5], vi-xxiv, [1], 26-422, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Half recent buckram over marbled boards with a later nineteenth-century purple morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. With both the original.....