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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Bell, Currer (Charlotte Brontë)Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1850. Third continental edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. 16 cm x 12 cm. [7], 8-334, [4]; [5], 6-358, [4] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over glazed white pebbled cloth, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments with gold lettering and flowers stamped in gold; top edges.....
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A Grief Observed
Clerk, N.W. (C.S. Lewis)Greenwich Connecticut: The Seabury Press, 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [4], 7-60, [4] pp. Quarter grey cloth over green and grey patterned paper over boards, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Brown and Hamilton 74. According to the.....
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Conjectures and Refutations; The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Popper, Karl R.New York: Basic Books, Publishers [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-412 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering blocked in brown on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Loretta Li. Popper's treatise on a theory of knowledge.....
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The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money
Dos Passos, JohnNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers; Harcourt, Brace and Company [1932] [1936], 1930; 1932; 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [5], 1-426, [2]; [4], v-viii, [2], 3-,473 [3]; [4], v-viii, [2], 3-561, [7] pp. Quarter purple cloth over orange, black, blue, and gold patterned paper boards, spine.....
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The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Autograph Edition in Twenty-Two Volumes
Hawthorne, NathanielBoston / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1900. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 22 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Three-quarter contemporary red morocco over marbled paper boards, spines in six compartments with gold tooling and lettering; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. A red silk ribbon.....
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Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
Blume, JudyScarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-298, [2] pp. Red cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Bernard Colonna. Inscribed by Blume on the.....
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Memoirs of The Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, Including the Protectorate
Jesse, John HeneageLondon: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xix, [2], 2-390, [2]; [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-496, [2]; [3], iv-xv, [4], 2-512, [2]; [3], vi-xix, [2], 2-525, [3] pp. Later navy calf (ca. 1900) with gold borders on the boards, gold decorations on the edges of the boards.....
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 2-364 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with borders and designs stamped in blind on the boards, gold lettering and sparse gold decoration on the spine. Later blue endpapers and pastedowns. Carter binding B. Without the publisher's advertisements. Carter 110-112. Sadleir.....
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Laments for the Living
Parker, DorothyNew York: The Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-237, [9] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and gold decorations on the front board, gold lettering and gold borders and gold decorations on the spine; green topstain. Title page in green and black. Price of $2.50 on the.....
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The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus; Fables Ancient and Modern Translated into Verse from Homer...
Juvenal, Persius; Homer, Ovid, Boccacio, ChaucerLondon: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1735; 1745. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], vi-cxi, [1], 296, [2] pp.; [59], 2-345, [5] pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in nineteenth-century full red.....
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Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice
Moore, FrankHartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xvi, 17-596, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively spotted. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title-page, and eight plates. The plates depict.....
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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.....