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The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
Thomas, RossNew York: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-383, [1] pp. Half white cloth over black paper boards with black and red lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin.....
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The American Continent and its Inhabitants before its Discovery by Columbus; A Unique History Communicated by Robin Goodfellow, Fairy Historian
Cady, Annie ColePhiladelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1892. Early Printing. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [4], v-vii, [3], 2-479, [1]; [4], xi-xx, [2], 1-470 pp. Recent half brown morocco over pebbled leather boards with the spines in six compartments, gilt lettering on the spines; all edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and.....
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-vii, [2], 2-190, [2] pp. Contemporary half sheep over marbled paper boards, spine in six and a half compartments with gold tooling and a green sheep label lettered in gold on the second compartment; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and.....
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Dream Days
Grahame, KennethLondon: John Lane, The Bodley Head [1902], 1902. First illustrated edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 3-227, [2], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold, black, and green decorations on the front board, red and black lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt.....
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The Problem of Anxiety
Freud, SigmundNew York: The Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press and W.W. Norton & Company Inc. [1936], 1936. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [3], 11-165, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and gold rules and gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap.....
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The Incompleat Folksinger
Seeger, PeteNew York: Simon and Schuster [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [7], viii, [1], 2-596, [4] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering and a blue banjo on the front board, blue and white lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the.....
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Keynes, John MaynardNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-298, [2] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with publisher's device in blind on the front board, gold lettering and three gold rules on the spine. Without the dust jacket. Ahearn Collected Books (2011), 398. Keynes' prophetic reaction to.....
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The Philosophy of G.E. Moore
Moore, G.E.Evanston: Northwestern University, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xv, [3], 3-717, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with a double-sided plate. Edited by Paul Arthur.....
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Runaway Ralph
Cleary, BeverlyNew York: William Morrow & Company (1970), 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-175, [1] pp. Bound in red cloth with Ralph on his motorcycle in black on the front board, black lettering on the spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several.....
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The Principles of Human Knowledge; Being Berkeley's Celebrated Treatise on the Nature of The Material Substance (And Its Relation to...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: William Tegg & Co., 1878. First Simon edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-lii, [5], 6-220 pp. Bound in green cloth with both boards bordered in blind, lettering and rule stamped in gold on the front board. Yellow/green endpapers and pastedowns. Algaier, Reconstructing the Library of William James; Gay Wilson.....
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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson)New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xiii, [3], 3-248 pp. White paper boards imitating parchment with a gold decoration and lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, several black and white plates, and.....
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The British Museum is Falling Down
Lodge, DavidNew York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967), 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-176 pp. Quarter green cloth over pink paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Lodge's third novel. Jacket with a bit of soiling and.....