Mississippi Writings: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Life on the Mississippi; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Pudd'nhead Wilson (The Library of America Series Book 5)
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]
New York: The Library of America, 1982. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. Reprint. Includes publisher's slipcase. A few minor blemishes to boards and slipcase, previous owner's ink label on bottom slipcase edge. 1982 Hard Cover. 1126 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. Three novels and a boyhood memoir by the American author... Read More
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Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old. Now First Published in Complete Form
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]
Hartford / Chicago: The American Publishing Company, 1875. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1881 reprint of the work first published in 1875 (BAL 3364). Spine slightly toned, light stain to fore edge of front endpapers, endpapers a bit foxed, rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 320 pp. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. A collection... Read More
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (The Mark Twain Papers)
by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]; Smith, Harriet Elinor
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x2x10. Third printing. Crease on front jacket flap corner, minimal wear to corners. 2010 Hard Cover. xix, 736 pp. 10 1/8 x 7 1/8. Several pages of photographs. "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give... Read More
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Destiny's Man
by Tweed, T.F. [Thomas Frederic]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket. 1935 Hard Cover. 386 pp. The provocative story of Johan Zimri, born the son of a Hungarian plumber, "a strange doctor credited with marvelous cures," an idol of thousands of peasants, branded a communist and a menace by... Read More
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Spanish Hill and Carantouan: The History, the People, and the Politics
by Twigg, Deb
Sayre, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna River Archaeological Center of Native Indian Studies, 2007. Spiral-Bound Softcover. Good. 0x0x0. Wrappers and pages bowed. 2007 Spiral-Bound Softcover. 101 pp. A review of the connection between a grand mound in northern Pennsylvania known as Spanish Hill and an Indian nation that was once called 'Carantouan,' by local historian and archaeologist Deb Twigg. Spanish Hill... Read More
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The Triumphs of a Maid; or, 'Barbarine
by Twitchell, Alice Bentley; Howard, O.O. [Oliver Otis]
London / New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Scarce - only 5 in OCLC. Spine toned, edges a bit faded. 1899 Hard Cover. 191, [1] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, maroon border and rules. Photographic frontispiece of O.O. Howard. Includes introduction by Major General Oliver Otis Howard, who served... Read More
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Three in Norway (Alta Edition)
by Two of Them [Lees, James A.; Clutterbuck Walter J.]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Porter & Coates. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Ford, G.H. No publisher date (circa late 1800s). Lacks map and frontispiece, though most likely these were never included in this edition. Board corners bumped, rear board and pages soiled, bookplate on front endpaper. xv, 341, 10 pp. "Three in Norway (by two of them) is a travelogue... Read More
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The Will of Eros: Selected Poems, 1930-1970
by Tyler, Parker
Los Angeles, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Spine lightly toned, ink name on front flyleaf. 1972 Trade Paperback. 152 pp. Parker Tyler was primarily known for his film criticism. His critical writing was an oft-noted interest of the title character in Gore Vidal's novel "Myra Breckinridge." - Ken Sanders Rare Books
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A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy
by Tyler, Samuel
Frederick City, MD: Ezekiel Hughes, 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First edition. Boards rubbed with 2 inch chip from spine head and some loss from other corners, portion of front free endpaper removed, foxed throughout. 1844 Hard Cover. xxiv, 178 pp. Samuel Tyler was a Maryland lawyer who dabbled in writings on philosophy and logic... "through... Read More
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The Years of the Shadow
by Tynan, Katharine
Boston and New York / Edinburgh: Houghton Mifflin Company / T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pencil underlining and marginalia on a handful of pages only. 1919 Hard Cover. viii, 343 pp. Memoirs by the Irish poet and novelist who was friends with William... Read More
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Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred (Necronomicon Series)
by Tyson, Donald
St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 7x0x10. First edition - a paperback original. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2004 Trade Paperback. 269 pp. "Anyone familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's work knows of the Necronomicon, the black magic grimoire he invented as a literary prop... Read More
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
by Tyson, Neil deGrasse
New York: Norton, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 89x17x132. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2013 Trade Paperback. 384 pp. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson―one of our foremost thinkers on all things space―illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as... Read More
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Treatise on Response & Retribution [T'ai-shang kan-ying p'ien: Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution]
by Tzu, Lao; Suzuki, D.T. [Daisetz Teitaro]; Carus, Paul
LaSalle, Illinois: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1973. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x8. 3rd printing. Spine a bit faded, single spine crease, wrappers lightly rubbed. 1973 Trade Paperback. 139 pp. The "Tai Shang Kan-Ying Pien" ("The Great Learning") is a classic Chinese text dating back to the 6th century BC. In this translation by D.T. Suzuki... Read More
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Fox
by Ugresic, Dubravka; Elias-Bursac, Ellen; Williams, David
Rochester, New York: Open Letter, 2018. First American Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First American edition. An exceptional copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. 308 pp. Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursac and David Williams. Fox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor†characters―unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic... Read More
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The Witness: An Inner Sanctum Mystery
by Uhnak, Dorothy
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x6x1. 2nd printing. Faint edge wear to jacket. 1969 Hard Cover. Christie Opara, the only woman on the D.A.'s Special Investigation Squad, is assigned by her boss to shadow his daughter to a civil rights demonstration. An ugly group of hecklers soon turns the demonstrators... Read More
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William Tichenor: Early Dentist and Inventor, in Two Volumes (Rochester History Summer, 1997, Vol. LIX, No. 3; Fall, 1997, Vol. LIX, No. 4)
by Umberger, Eugene Jr.; Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Ruth (editor)
Rochester, New York: Rochester Public Library, 1987. Stapled Binding. Fine. Fine copies. 1987 Stapled Binding. 24; 24 pp. Two volume set: William Tichenor: Early Dentist and Inventor (Rochester History Summer, 1997, Vol. LIX, No. 3; Fall, 1997, Vol. LIX, No. 4). With black-and-white illustrations. A biography of William Tichenor, a dentist and inventor in Rochester, New York.
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Napoleon's Last Grande Armee: Eyewitness Portraits from the 1813 Campaign (An Age of Napoleon 200th Anniversary Series Book)
by Umhey, Alfred; Muir, Howie; Bowden, Scott; Chartrand, Rene; Dempsey, Guy C.; Nafziger, George; DeLaMater, Matthew; Lombardy, Dana; Sellers, Janice; Schwartzberg, Philip; Mitchell, David; Teefy, William B
Hong Kong: Military History Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rocco, Keith. Signed by illustrator. Limited edition, #162 of 1000 copies, signed by author. Minor blemish on front board, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2005 Full-Leather. 346 pp. A collection of eyewitness Napoleonic uniform plates from the 1813 Campaign.... Read More
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Merry's Book of Eastern Wonders
by Uncle Merry [Stearns, J.N.]
New York: H. Dayton, 1860. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper, faint stain on corner of first few pages. 1860 Hard Cover. xii, [13]-240 pp. 12mo. Light brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece of Damascus, engraved plates and cuts throughout text. An illustrated travelogue of the Middle East and Asia,... Read More
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Alaska: An Empire in the Making
by Underwood, John J
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Binder's copy. Boards loose from text block, two owner bookplates on front endpapers, light stain on top edge of first two pages. 1913 Hard Cover. xvi, [12], 440 pp. Includes fold-out map, black-and-white photographic frontispiece and plates (48 total). A history of Alaska and... Read More
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The Christmas Quiet Book
by Underwood, Deborah
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 112x5x136. Liwska, Renata. First edition. 1 inch closed tear on jacket corner. 2012 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. [32 pp.] The holidays are filled with joyful noise. But Christmas is sometimes wrapped in quiet: 'Searching for presents quiet,' 'Getting caught quiet,' and 'Hoping for a... Read More
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The Christmas Quiet Book
by Underwood, Deborah
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x8. Liwska, Renata. Brand new from publisher. 2012 Soft Cover. [32 pp.] The holidays are filled with joyful noise. But Christmas is sometimes wrapped in quiet: 'Searching for presents quiet,' 'Getting caught quiet,' and 'Hoping for a snow day quiet.' Irresistibly cute, soft colored pencil illustrations of... Read More
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Antique Underwood & Underwood Boxed Set: Stereo Viewer and Cards with Wood Cabinet of Drawers, Including Cards Depicting Palestine, Italy, Switzerland and the Alps, etc
by Underwood & Underwood
New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1900. Unbound. Very Good. NOT ELIGIBLE FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. Includes 355 stereo cards. It is difficult to know with certainty which cards were originally sold with this cabinet, but some (the Rochester, New York views specifically) appear to be miscellaneous views not original to it. One drawer pull missing, one pull missing its... Read More
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Machiavelli: A Biography [Niccolo]
by Unger, Miles J
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. First printing. An excellent copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. x, 400 pp. Niccolo Machiavelli is the most influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a... Read More
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The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II
by Ungvary, Krisztian; Lukacs, John; Lob, Ladislaus
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2005. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 9x6x1. Second printing. Minor general wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 475 pp. This definitive history of one of the fiercest battles of World War II describes the siege of Budapest in unprecedented detail. Both Stalin and Hitler demanded victory at all costs, and the cost... Read More
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Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth Latitudes 40 Degrees to 49 Degrees, Inclusive, Vol. V (H.O. NO. 214) (United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office)
by United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office/Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C: United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office/Government Printing Office, 1940. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Ink stamp, some pencil notes. 1940 Large Hardcover. x, 263 pp. These tables consist of tabulated solutions of the navigational triangle, so arranged as to yield computed altitude and azimuth angle by inspection. The scheme of precomputing such values for ready... Read More
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