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Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County Wisconsin
AnonymousChicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [8], 19-1033, [7] pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised.....
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Tenting on the Plains; Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas
Custer, ElizabethNew York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 702, [4] pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering and the shoulder strap decoration on the spine, decorations in red, gold, and blue on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece of General George.....
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The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration
Stanley, Henry MortonLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Half recent green Morocco over green cloth bordered with twin gold rules, spine in six compartments bordered by twin gold rules, black leather labels with.....
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The Comic History of England
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott[London]: Published at the Punch Office, 1847; 1848. John Leech. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [3], vi-viii, [3], 2-304, [2] pp. Full polished calf with gold-tooled borders on the boards, gold tooling on the turn-ins, spines in six compartments each with gold tooling and.....
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History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-1864.
Wilson, HenryBoston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [1], 1-384, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Brown blind-ruled publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Afro-Americana 11287. ANB, Richard H. Abbott, "Wilson, Henry (16 February 1812–22 November 1875)". Henry Wilson.....
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The Cottages and the Village Life of Rural England
Ditchfield, P.H.London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [4], v-xiii, [1], 1-184, [4] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering and green and black decorations on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with 51 mounted color plates, with several line drawings.....
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The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams
Adams, John CouchCambridge: At the University Press, 1896; 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [5], vi-liv, 1-502, [2]; [7], viii-xxxii, 1-646 pp. Blue publisher's cloth on beveled boards with gilt lettering on each spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates, facsimiles of manuscripts written by Adams; volume two with six.....
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Philosophical Papers: Volume I
Lewis, David K.New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [4], 3-285, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 572. A magnificent collection of papers by one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, exceedingly uncommon in collectible condition. A Very.....
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Big-Enough
James, WillNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-314 pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, horses embossed in red on the front board. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of.....
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; An Inquiry into Values
Pirsig, Robert M.New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 11-412, [6] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front dust jacket's flap. Pirsig's masterful tale of his road trip with.....
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Distinction; A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Bourdieu, PierreCambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-613, [3] pp. Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $29.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Richard Nice. A landmark text in sociology examining class differences through the lens.....
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The Plague [in a later dust jacket]
Camus, AlbertNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], v, [3], 3-278, [2] pp. Black cloth with the Grim Reaper stamped in blind on the front board, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the jacket (the.....