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Intruder in the Dust
Faulkner, WilliamNew York: Random House, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Near Fine in a jacket with traces of rubbing, a few closed tears and tiny chips, and some darkening to rear panel.
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One Fearful Yellow Eye
MacDonald, John D.Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome copy of the eighth Travis McGee novel.
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H.M.S. Surprise
O'Brian, PatrickLondon: Collins, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. Bound in textured light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown, a few small spots...
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The Odyssey of Homer; The Iliad of Homer
Homer (Alexander Pope, translator)London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 11 volumes. [iv-xli], 240 pp.; 272 pp.; 316 pp.; 277 pp.; 280 pp. [19], [28].; 175 pp.; 189 pp.; 304 pp.; 301 pp.; 287 pp.; 212 pp., [76]. The set is illustrated with numerous wood-cut head and tailpieces (each new...
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Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives Some Questions and Answers
UnknownWashington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971. Pamphlet. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front...
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The American Revolution; Illustrated with Portraits Maps Facsimiles Contemporary Views Prints and Other Historic Materials in Two Volumes
Fiske, JohnBoston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 351 pp; 321 pp. Three-quarter bound (by Blackwell for Brentanos) in brown pebbled Morocco over marbled paper, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red cloth bookmark bound in each volume...
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The Sword of Shannara
Brooks, TerryNew York: Random House (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 726 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Color fold-out plate by the Brother's Hildebrandt intact. First printng of the first edition. A very attractive copy of the author's first novel, difficult to find in such fine condition...
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The Mummy Case
Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pp. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth Peters" on the title page.
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Custer Died for Your Sins; An Indian Manifesto
Deloria, Jr., VineToronto: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A commentary on the struggles and injustices that Native Americans faced from westward expansion through the 1960s. Deloria Jr. was a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe...
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Who Goes There?
Campbell, John W.Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 230 pp. Bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Iconic wrap-around dust jacket art by Hannes Bok. A collection of seven stories (the title novella and six short stories). Currey 98;...
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R.New York: Basic Books (1979), 1979. First printing. Hardcover. 777 pp. Price of $18.50 on front jacket flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A nice copy of Hofstadter's well-known book, "A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" Near Fine...
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Alciphron: Or the Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues with A New Theory of Vision; Containing an Apology for the Christian...
Berkeley, GeorgeLondon: J. Tonson, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes. 356 pp.; 351 pp. Modern three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules, decorations and rules stamped in blind on the spine, new endpapers and pastedowns, brown topstain and red decorative speckling...
