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A Stab in the Dark
Block, LawrenceNew York: Arbor House [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-192 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. Henderson 107. Signed by Block on the title page.....
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Garcia; The Rolling Stone Interview plus a Stoned Sunday Rap with Jerry, Charles and Mountain Girl
Reich, Charles; Wenner, Jann; Garcia, Jerry[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 11-254, [2] pp. Black faux-leather boards with gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs, full-page and in-text. A......
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A History of Madison, The Capital of Wisconsin; Including The Four Lake Country to July, 1874, with an Appendix of...
Durrie, Daniel S.Madison, Wis. [Atwood & Culver], 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-420, [4] pp. Quarter recent black smooth morocco over original pebbled green cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns with original endpapers bound in. Written by a Librarian of the State Historical Society of.....
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Nonexistent Objects
Parsons, TerenceNew Haven: Yale University Press [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiii, [1], 1-258 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. An explanation of Parsons' theory of fictional, abstract, and mythical objects drawn on the philosophy of language and logic. Parsons' work differs from Russell's, and results.....
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Les Satyres de Perse et de Juvenal, Traduites en François, par le P. Tarteron avec Le Latin a Costé [=...
Juvenal; Persius; P. Tarteron, [Tr.]Paris: Claude Barbin, 1695. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [71], 2-587, [3] pp. Later (late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century) full calf, spine in five compartments, with gilt decorations, a red-orange morocco label on the second compartment, edges decoratively stained red; early marbled endpapers and pastedowns with a green silk bookmark. Illustrated.....
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Rifles for Watie
Keith, HaroldNew York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xiii, [1], 1-332, [4] pp. Red cloth with a few black stars on the front board, black lettering and two black stars on the spine. Price of $3.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket.....
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Collected Essays
Bradley, F.H.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], ix, [2], 2-347, [1]; [7], 350-708 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and the publisher's device in gold on the spine. Price of 36s. net on the front flaps of the dust jackets. SEP, "Francis Herbert Bradley".....
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Oratores Attici
Antiphon; Andocides; Lysias; Isocrates; Isaeus; Dinarchus; Lycurgus; Aeschines; Demades; Demosthenes; Gorgias; Antisthenes;...Berolini: G.E. Reimeri, 1823; 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. For pagination, please inquire. Mid nineteenth-century calf with the spines in six compartments, spines each with gold decorations and rules and with a red and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Text.....
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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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The History of Arithmetic
Karpinski, Louis CharlesChicago: Rand McNally & Company [1925], 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xi, 1-200 pp. Green publisher's cloth with black lettering, decoration, and a black border on the front board, black lettering on the spine. With the dust jacket printed in red and blue. With several full-page and in-text illustrations.....
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, CharlesLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-609, [1] pp. Recent full brown calf, spine in five compartments with gold tooling and rules, a red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Marbled recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and vignette.....
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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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