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Newport Folk Festival July 1966
[Counterculture]; [Folk Music]n.p. n.p. [1966], 1966. Pamphlet. 4to. 28 cm x 21.5 cm. 1-80 pp. Concert / Festival Program. Staple-bound. Pictorial covers printed in white, brown, and blue. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text photographs, some black and white, some printed in blue. The rear cover has an advertisement for various albums.....
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Booked to Die; A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway
Dunning, JohnNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1992], 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [3], 4-321 pp. Quarter navy blue cloth over blue paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket designed by Denise Palma. Includes a publisher's promotional letter.....
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Holes
Sachar, LouisNew York: Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter red paper over blue paper boards with red lettering on the spine and lettering in blind on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.00 on the.....
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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 Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church; According to...
[Book of Common Prayer]; [Christianity]Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood, 1819. Later printing. Hardcover. 24mo. 14.5 cm x 8.5 cm. Unpaginated. Mid-nineteenth century brown morocco with gold borders and decorations on the boards, spine in five compartments with decorations and lettering in gold, gold decorations on the turn-ins;.....
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Jesus' Son; Stories by Denis Johnson
Johnson, DenisNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [14], 4-160, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with metallic pink lettering on the spine. Price of $19.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Signed by Johnson on the half-title page.....
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Cartesian Linguistics; A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
Chomsky, NoamNew York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [5], 1-119, [1] pp. Navy cloth with silver and blue lettering on the spine. The first book in the Studies of Language series, edited by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. Chomsky's work here combines elements of.....
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Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera [= The Works of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius]
Catullus; Tibullus; PropertiusBirminghamiae [= Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition. Hardcover. 4to. [3], 2-372, [5] pp. Contemporary polished calf with gold-tooled borders on the boards, spine in six compartments with gold tooling, a maroon morocco label lettered and bordered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gaskell 44. This.....
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Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England; Taken Down from Oral Recitation and Transcribed from Private Manuscripts...
Bell, Robert, [Ed.]; Dixon, James Henry, [Ed.]; VariousLondon: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-252, [4] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and design on the spine; top edge gilt. Light blue endpapers and pastedowns.....
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How to Do Things with Words; The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University in 1955
Austin, J.L.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [4], 2-166, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering, gold rules, and publisher's device in gold on the spine. Price of 21s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by J.O. Urmson. Slater 25.....
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Democracy: An American Novel
[Adams, Henry]New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], 4-374, [2], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Twentieth-century full purple morocco with gold borders on each board, spine in six compartments with gold tooling and lettering, gold tooling to the turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns.....
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The Mysterious Stranger
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)New York: Harper & Brothers (1916), 1916. N. C. Wyeth. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [8], 1-150, [2] pp. Black publisher's cloth with an illustrated pictorial inset by N. C. Wyeth on the front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece (with tissue guard) and six additional color.....