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Voyage aux Mers Polaires a la Recherche de Sir John Franklin
Bellot, J.-R. (Joseph René)Paris: Garnier Frères, 1880. Later edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x-lix, [1], 1-492 pp. Red cloth over beveled-edge boards with gold floral decorations, an image stamped in gold of men pulling a comrade out of polar ice, black borders, gold and black lettering and black decorations on the front board.....
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1959 Photograph Album of a Man's Trip to England and Scotland
[Photography]; [England]; [Scotland]; [History]; [Travelogues]n.p. n.p., 1959. Photo Album. Oblong 8vo. 28 cm x 38 cm. The album cover is red faux leather with gold lettering and two gold flourishes on the front cover, bound with a red tie. Photographs and postcards are mounted with four corner tabs each on black paper. Photographs measure.....
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Lecons sur la Theorie Des Fonctions [= Lessons on the Theory of Functions]
Borel, EmileParis: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [3], 2-136 pp. Contemporary half brown cloth over marbled paper, three gilt rules and gold lettering on the spine. Original front wrapper bound in at the front, publisher's errata slip tipped in at the end. Borel is an important.....
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My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience ...
Livermore, Mary A.Hartford, Conn. A.D. Worthington and Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-700, [2] pp. Contemporary full sheep, spine in five compartments with gold rules and a brown leather label lettered and ruled in gold; all edges sprinkled purple. Pink endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the.....
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Win Some, Lose Some; The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy
Resnick, MikeDeerfield: ISFIC Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [8], ix-x, [2], 3-646, [8] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $35.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of Resnick. Cover art done by Vincent di Fate. Signed on.....
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Von Neumann, John; Morgenstern, OskarPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-xviii, 1- 641 pp. Bound in brown cloth with publisher's name in gold on the spine, other spine lettering in gilt set within a dark brown rectangle bordered on the top and bottom by three bars stamped in gold;.....
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Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade; A Duty Dance with Death
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt[New York]: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 1-186, [8] pp. Bright blue boards with the author's signature embossed in gold on the front board, and red, black, and gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of.....
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Oriental Assembly; Edited by A. W. Lawrence
Lawrence, T. E.London: Williams and Norgate Ltd. (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 164 pp. Price of 10 s. 6d. net on front flap of jacket. Frontispiece, 12 plates following page 62, and 64 plates following page 164 (all black and white and printed on coated stock, primarily from.....
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to...
[Bible]London: John Baskett, 1716. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Book of Common Prayer unpaginated, Psalter pagination as follows: [3], 4-237, [7] pp. Contemporary fine-grain red morocco, spine in six compartments, gold tooling on the boards and spine, contemporary marbled endpapers and pastedowns; all edges gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece of King.....
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Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans; The Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and...
Schliemann, Dr. HenryNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to. [9], x-xvi, [1], 2-800, [2] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper over boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold decorations; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map of.....
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The Yearling
Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 1-428, [4] pp. Half bound in red morocco, over red cloth with five raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Gilt rules between the leather and the cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers and.....
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The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman
Whitman, WaltNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Three quarter maroon morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments, gold decorations and gold lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns, each volume with.....