A Reply to the Review of Dr. Wyatt's Sermon and Mr. Spark's Letters on the Protestant Episcopal Church, which originally appeared in the Christian Disciple at Boston, and subsequently, in a separate form at Baltimore: in which it is attempted to vindicate the Church from the charges of that review
by A PROTESTANT EPISCOPALIAN [George Weller, attr.]
Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1821. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); disbound; 168pp. Light foxing throughout, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good overall. SABIN 102563; SHOEMAKER 6613.
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Alla Ricerca dell'Italia Liberale
by AQUARONE, Alberto
Napoli: Guida Editori, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers, French flaps; 356pp. Light shelf wear, spine and rear cover a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Published as no. 10 in the series Esperienze. Text entirely in Italian.
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Gli Studi di Storia e di Diritto Contemporaneo
by AQUARONE, Alberto et al, eds
[Milano]: Edizioni di Comunità, [1968]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's decorative card wrappers; 158pp. Light wear, spine a bit creased, else Very Good or better. Rapporti sulle Scienze Sociali no. 1. Text entirely in Italian.
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France Écoute
by [ARAGON, Louis]
Alger: Revue Fontaine, [1944]. Octavo (14.5cm x 11cm); small stapled booklet; [28]pp; illus. Text in French. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-soil; Very Good. Collection of five poems includes "Le Jour se Leve sur la Fontaine des Innocents", "Le Medecin de Villeneuve", and "France Ecoute". [87029].
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Biodiversity and Evolution
by ARAI, Ryoichi; Masahiro Kato; Yoshiichi Doi (eds.)
Tokyo: National Science Museum Foundation, 1995. Octavo (25.5cm). White glazed paper; x,336pp; in-text black and white illus. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Lightly rubbed and cocked, else clean and sound: Very Good.
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El trapecista
by ARAUJO, Fernando
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 388pp. Mild wear; Very Good or better. Memoir of captivity by a Colombian official kidnapped and held captive by FARC rebels from 2000 to 2006. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Shall We Tell the President
by ARCHER, Jeffrey
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22.5cm). Black cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 220pp. Straight, tight, and fine in a bright, unclipped dustwrapper (priced £3.95 net). A bookplate signed by Archer is loosely laid in at the title page. A crisp, new-appearing copy of the author's second book, a thriller centered... Read More
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Monographs and Papers in Maya Archaeology
by [ARCHEOLOGY] BULLARD, William R. [Ed]; POLLOCK, H.E.D.; TOURTELLOT, Gair; et al.
Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, 1970. First American Edition. Quarto. 27cm. Publisher's olive greeen card wraps, titled and decorated in dark green and brown to the spne and front panel. [ix]; 502pp. Sharp and clean, a little sunned to the spine panel; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to half title, illustrated throughout. A very good copy indeed of an unwieldy... Read More
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Hellenistic Economies
by ARCHIBALD, Zofia (et al), ed
London: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvi,400pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. Edited volume of essays on the economic history of ancient Greece, with contributions by John K. Davies, Amos Kloner, Makis Aperghis, others. [82309].
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Por Una Cuba Negra: Literatura, Raza, y Modernidad en el Siglo XIX
by ARCIA, Alberto Abreu
N.p. [Madrid]: Hypermedia Ediciones, 2017. First Edition. Octavo. Glossy card wrappers (softcover); 419pp; includes bibliography. Some unobtrusive pencil underlining to first ca. 20pp, else a tight, fine copy. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Latin America: A Cultural History
by ARCINIEGAS, Germán (text); MACLEAN, Joan (translation)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xxviii,594,xliii,[3]pp; illus. Slight lean, base of spine gently nudged, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket priced $10.00, clipped at lower right corner of front flap; mild wear... Read More
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Narrative of The Arctic Land Expedition, to the Mouth of The Great Fish River, and along the shores of The Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835
by [ARCTIC] BACK, Captain George
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. First Thus. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt and black to spine. Dustjacket. [xxv]; 663pp. Strong and bright, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a strong, clean dustjacket with some light marginal creasing. A very good copy indeed. A facsimile edition of... Read More
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Mit Flugzeug, Faltboot und Filmkamera in den Eisfjorden Grönlands. Ein Bericht über die Universal Dr. Fanck Grönlandsexpedition
by [ARCTIC EXPLORATION - GREENLAND] SORGE, Ernst
Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in blue and red on spine and front cover; 184pp; illus; appendices. Light overall soil and wear; foxing to text block edges; Very Good, lacking the jacket. Prize label inside front cover, awarded by ther Gewerbeschule Lörrach to Ernst Roser, April 1935. Account of a filmmaking expedition... Read More
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The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881
by [ARCTIC] DE LONG, George W; Emma De Long, ed
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. First Edition. First printing. Two large octavo volumes (24cm). Publisher's pictorial brown pebbled cloth; xii,[1]-440; xxii,[441]-911pp. Volume I with folding map in rear pocket; inserted folding circumpolar map; steel-engraved frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of plates (on wood and steel); Volume Il with steel-engraved frontispiece, seven inserted leaves of wood-engraved plates; numerous illustrations, maps, and... Read More
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A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Latitudes: being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam," to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
by [ARCTIC EXPLORATION] DUFFERIN, Lord [Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood]
New York: R. Worthington, 1878. Third Edition. Octavo (21cm). Gilt-pictorial blue cloth; xii,268,[2]pp; illus. Mildly rubbed at extremities, with some fading and flaking to cloth at crown of spine; 20th-c. private ownership stamp to endpapers and a few page margins; overall a tight, Good or better copy. Given Worthington's history of piracy, this is likely an unauthorized... Read More
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Left-Handed Liberty. A Play About Magna Carta
by ARDEN, John
London: Methuen, 1965. First Edition. First printing (cloth issue). 12mo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 157pp. A fine unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front wrapper), lightly rubbed and with a short (
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Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
by ARDIZZONE, Edward
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc, 1955. Second Edition. Quarto (26cm.); light red publisher's cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; [48pp]. Dustwrapper toned, with intermittent soiling and chipping to extremities; tear along rear spine hinge; inner panels price-clipped; interior text clean, sound. Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper. Author and illustrator Edward Ardizzone began his Tim series in 1935 with... Read More
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
by ARENDT, Hannah (text); WINSTON, Richard and Clara (translation)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in red and green on spine; dustjacket; xx,236pp. Subtle lean, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $7.95). with light wear to extremities, and some gentle sunning to the red spine lettering. Detailed biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, daughter... Read More
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NEW POETRY FROM CALIFORNIA
by Arguelles, Ivan; Jack Foley
Berkeley: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Pictorial wraps; 4to. 127 pp. Neeli Cherkovski preface; linocuts by Jose Galindo. Signed by the prolific Oakland/Berkeley poet Jack Foley to another poet, one associated with New Formalism. An about very good copy, worn at the foot of the spine, rubbed.
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Itzam Na: Novela
by ARIAS, Arturo
[Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1981]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's card wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; 297pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and wrapper extremities, tiny soil spot at bottom textblock edge not bleeding into textblock, else Very Good or better. The Guatemalan author's first novel.
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New Dimensions in Psychiatry: A World View
by ARIETI, Silvano and Gerard Chrzanowski, eds
New York: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Interscience Publication, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; xiii,[1],446pp.; illus. A few chips to jacket extremities, brief tape repair at top edge of rear panel, corners very gently bumped, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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Severe and Mild Depression: The Psychotherapeutic Approach
by ARIETI, Silvano and Jules Bemporad
New York: Basic Books, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; x,453pp. Some minor wear to jacket, including wrinkling to upper extremities, else Very Good and sound.
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Die Psychologie des Aristoteles, insbesondere seine Lehre vom Nous Poietikos
by [ARISTOTLE] BRENTANO, Franz
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967. Facsimile reprint of the 1867 first edition. Octavo (22cm). Tan cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; viii,252pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, inconspicuous spot of soil to front cover, else minimal evidence of use - Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A clean copy. Text entirely in German.
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Aristotle's System of the Physical World: a Comparison With His Predecessors
by [ARISTOTLE] SOLMSEN, Friedrich
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1960). First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Maroon cloth stamped in silver; xiv,468,(2)pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, slight rubbing at head of spine and corners, overall Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
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Aristotle on Dialectic: Proceedings of the Third Sympsium Aristotelicum
by [ARISTOTLE] OWEN, G.E.L.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 346pp. Mild toning to cloth covers; neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, Near Fine. Edited volume of essays, with contributions by W.A. de Pater, Joseph Moreau, Gilbert Ryle, others. Text in English, German, and French.
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