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The First Year of the War
Pollard, Edward A.Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [5], 2-368, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson Davis.....
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Homological Algebra
Cartan, Henri; Eilenberg, SamuelPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [3], 3-390, [2] pp. Bound in red-orange cloth with gold lettering and five gold rules on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front jacket flap. Volume 19 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Weibel, Charles A., 'History of Homological.....
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The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator", Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854
Osborn, Commander Sherard, [Ed.]; M'Clure, Robert Le M.London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-405, [1] pp. Rebound in later brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with three plates and a folding color map. Illustrated by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell, R.N. Edited.....
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The Last Hero
Pratchett, TerryLondon: Gollancz (2001), 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [11], 12-158, [2] pp. Blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color illlustrations by Paul Kidby. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A sharp example of the trade edition.....
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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. Eighteenth-century full calf, spine in five compartments, with gold decorations, a red-orange morocco label on the second compartment; all edges red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns with a green silk bookmark bound in. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page.....
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The Theory of Numbers
Hardy, G.H.; Wright, E. M.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-403, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device on the spine. ODNB: Bela Bollobas, "Hardy, Godfrey Harold"; ODNB: N. H. Bingham, "Wright, Sir Edward Maitland". Hardy is one of the greatest and most.....
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Human Nature and Conduct; An Introduction to Social Psychology
Dewey, JohnNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-336, [6] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "John Dewey". Taken from a series of lectures Dewey gave at Stanford in 1918. This book touches.....
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Scrapbook from a World War II Navy Veteran's Career
Rorabaugh, Howard Walter; Rorabaugh, Edna[Sampson, New York]: 1943-1946. Hardcover. Folio. 37 cm x 30.5 cm or 15" by 12". Scrapbook. Each pastedown and 23 leaves have text or documents from the scrapbook's compiler. Red leatherette boards with gold lettering on the front board, bound with a tied string on the spine. The scrapbook is.....
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The Golden Apples
Welty, EudoraNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-244, [2] pp. Quarter maroon cloth over green paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by.....
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The Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-135, [1] pp. Quarter green cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Robert Andrew Parker. The winner of the 1984 Newbery Award. Written by the author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, this.....
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Le Carre, John (David John Moore Cornwell)New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-355, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine; dark brown topstain. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Ahearn APG 009b. First.....
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Orley Farm
Trollope, AnthonyLondon: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-320, [2] pp. Half contemporary sheep dyed green over white paper over boards, boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments, gold lettering and gold decorations on the spines; all edges.....