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Ivanhoe; A Romance
Scott, Sir WalterEdinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. Small 8vo. [7], iv-xxxiii, [2], 2-298, [4]; [5], 4-327, [5]; [7], 4-371, [5] pp. Half-bound in later green morocco over textured later green cloth with the boards ruled in gold, spines in six compartments with gold decorations and borders;.....
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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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Scott's Last Expedition
Scott, Captain R.F. (R.N., C.V.O.)New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [3], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-443, [1]; [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-376, [8] pp. Original dark green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; top edges gilt. Illustrated with two photogravure frontispieces, six original sketches in photogravure by Dr.....
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At the Sign of the Reine Pédaque
France, Anatole, (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault)New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1923. First Dodd Mead edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-275, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, decorations in gold on the front board and spine; red topstain. Illustrated with a vignette title page, a frontispiece, eleven.....
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues ...
[Bible]; [Isaiah Thomas]; [Early American Printing]Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. First Thomas edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], 3-1310 pp. Contemporary paneled sheep with the spine in six compartments. Illustrated with two engraved frontispieces. Completing the title page: And with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I, of England.....
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Snow Crash
Stephenson, Neal[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-488, [8] pp. Grey cloth with bright blue lettering on the spine. Illustrated blue and white endpapers and pastedowns. Housed in a grey cloth slipcase. Price of $150 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design done by.....
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Democracy: An American Novel
[Adams, Henry]New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], 4-374, [2], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Twentieth-century full purple morocco with gold borders on each board, spine in six compartments with gold tooling and lettering, gold tooling to the turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns.....
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Elements of Euclid; Viz. The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The errors, by which Theon, or...
Euclid; Stimson, RobertEdinburgh: Printed for E. Wingrove, London and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1793. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-vii, [2], 10-520 pp. Contemporary tree calf, decorations and rules in gold on the spine and brown morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; brown topstain, all edges decoratively sprinkled. Illustrated with three.....
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the...
Campbell, John LordLondon: John Murray, 1845; 1846; 1847; 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Full contemporary tree calf with gold-tooled borders on the boards, spines in six compartments with a red and black morocco label lettered in gold on each spine, spines decorated with gold tooling; all.....
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Ways of Worldmaking
Goodman, NelsonHassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press (1978), 1978. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 1-142, [6] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Beige patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's price sticker with the price £7.50 on front jacket flap. Honderich 323. A sharp copy of Goodman's controversial.....
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On Liberty
Mill, John StuartBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. Post 8vo. [3], 4-223, [3] pp. Brown textured publisher's cloth with borders and a lozenge design (publisher's device) stamped in blind on the front and rear boards, copper lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Macminn, Hainds.....
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Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Random House [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American.....
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