CLOTH OF THE TEMPEST
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Tall Octavo. First Edition limited to 2000 copies. A very good+ copy bound in black cloth with red printed title label spine and front cover, minimal cover edge wear, neat owner inscription half title page. In a very good dust jacket with... Read More
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The Teeth of the Lion
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers.
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The People Wept.... Being a Brief Account of the Origin, Contents, and Application of That Unjust Law of the Union of South Africa Known as THE GROUP AREAS ACT OF 1950
by Paton, Alan
Kloof Natal [1957]: Mr. Alan Paton. First Edition. Very Good. octavo, 44 pages, custom bound in gray buckram, original pictorial wrappers bound in. SIGNED by Alan Paton, on the title page. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown, and one page of typed notes laid in, referencing the text. Richard Dale was an author, expert... Read More
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The Charlestown Story (Signed)
by Paton, Alan
Pietermaritzburg (c. 1960): Liberal Party of South Africa. First Edition. Near Fine. octavo, 26 pages, custom gray buckram binding, original pictorial wrappers bound in. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown and with one page of autograph notes laid in, referencing the text. Professor Dale was an... Read More
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Kiss the Girls
by Patterson, James (SIGNED)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 451 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED thus on title page: "Art - / James Patterson" - first printing with full number line. Dust jacket with price of $22.95 on front flap.
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The Midnight Club
by Patterson, James (SIGNED)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 283 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED thus on title page: "Arthur / James Patterson." Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket.
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![INSECTS, TICKS, MITES AND VENOMOUS ANIMALS of Medical and Veterinary Importance. Part II Public Health. [In Original Glassine Dust Jacket]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/454/677/873677454.0.m.jpg)
INSECTS, TICKS, MITES AND VENOMOUS ANIMALS of Medical and Veterinary Importance. Part II Public Health. [In Original Glassine Dust Jacket]
by Patton, Walter Scott
Croydon: H.R. Grubb, Ltd, 1931. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine. Thick Small Quarto. PART II ONLY. 740pp. Illustrated throughout with many photos. Beautifully bound in a pristine green pictorial gilt cloth, large folding chart at rear, in original glassine wrapper. This is the second part after part I, Medical (1929). An important work in beautiful condition.
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LECTURES ON CONDITIONED REFLEXES
by Pavlov, Ivan P.
New York (1928): Liveright Publishing Corp. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. Second American Edition, apparently preceeded by the International Publishers Co. edition, of the same year. Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (behavior) of Animals. Bound in publisher's red, vertically ribbed cloth. 8vo. 414pp., frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Translated from... Read More
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Of the Imitation of Christ; in Three Books. Translated from the Latin of Thomas A'Kempis
by Payne, John
Stanford NY: Henry & John F. Hull, 1803. Full-Leather. Good+. 12mo, 210 pages; bound in contemporary full brown calf, red leather label on spine, printed in gilt; endpapers browned and stained, half inch x 2 inch loss to front pastedown; title page is browned at edges, small chip at fore-edge, 1 inch closed tear. Text uniformly age-toned, with... Read More
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NEAREST THE POLE. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Artic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-06
by Peary, R.E.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. First Edition. Near Fine. Quarto. xx, 411 pages, with 95 photographs by the author and colored frontis; two folding maps at rear. Bound in original green cloth with globe and eagle in red, white and gilt on front panel; top edges and spine lettering gilt. (Artic Bibliography 13226) A near fine,... Read More
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NEAREST THE POLE, a Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
by Peary, R.E.
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1907. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Quarto. color frontispiece, 411pp., 2 large folding color maps at rear showing Perry's route, 96 photographic illustrations by the author; bound in black pictorial gilt cloth. Very minor wear to spine ends, internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind.
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THE INTELLECTUAL ACTIVIST. An Objectivist Review. Volume 6, Number 5, September 1992
by PEIKOFF, Leonard
Lincroft, NJ: TIA Publications, 1992. Original Wrappers. Near Fine. Octavo. Near fine copy in original staple bound printed wrappers with address label rear panel. 16 pp.
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II, Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered By the Rev. John Smith, A.R. Of St. John's College, Cambridge, From the Original Short-hand MS
by Pepys, Samuel
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First Edition. Very Good. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243. Overall a very good copy. ... Read More
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Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669
by Pepys, Samuel (ed. O. F. Morshead)
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1927. Near Fine. Ernest H. Shepard. Magnificently bound in full tan leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with custom felt-lined slipcase, for Marshall Fields. Octavo, 570 pages, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers, maps at rear. Fourth printing of this edition; a near fine copy, spine slightly age-toned.
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The Moviegoer (Signed)
by Percy, Walker
Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Fine. Walter Rane. octavo, 224 pages; publisher's green full leather, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. Signed by the author on a front end paper. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark. As new.
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NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854 - Volume 2 Only But with the Illustrations from Volumes 1 and 3
by Perry, Matthew Calbraith [Commodore]
Washington: Nicholson, 1856. First Edition. Very Good+. Small Folio. House issue, of this most important expedition, led by Commodore Perry, which opened Japan to the West. original cloth, volume 2 only, but with the illustrations from volumes 1 and 2, unbound; lacking the "suppressed" NUDE BATHING PLATE. Vol. II shows minor wear at extremities, small loss at spine... Read More
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Photo, Inscribed and Signed (7" x 9")
by Pickford, Mary (Gladys Smith)
N.p., 1929. Very Good+. Beautiful sepia portrait (7" x 9") of Ms. Pickford INSCRIBED THUS: "Very Sincerely / Mary Pickford / 1929." Born on April 8, 1893, Gladys Smith, billed as "Baby Gladys" she toured with various road shows. At age 14, she charmed David Belasco into giving her a major role in his play "The Warrens of... Read More
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THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE
by Pinkerton, Allan
Chicago: W.B. Keen, 1875. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 278pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt, yellow coated endpapers; very faint dampstaining to outer margins of pages 221-239 affecting only a couple of plates. A very early printing (fifteenth thousand). A very good+ copy showing only light wear... Read More
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The Gingerbread Boy (In Original Box)
by Piper, Watty
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1927. Hard Cover. Fine. Early printing, IN ORIGINAL BOX. Original color pictorial boards, spine in red cloth; pictorial end papers; illustrated by Eulalie. "The Little Engine That Could (1930)" listed last on the Never Grow Old Stories page. A fine copy in the fine original box.
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Ein Vermeintlicher Widerspruch Des Magneto-Optischen Faraday-Effectes Mit Der Thermodynamik
by Planck, Max
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Fine. Original printed wrappers, 8vo. Max Planck's important contribution to Faraday's work on thermodynamics. In "Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1900" pages 206 - 210, number 14.
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BERICHT DES ABTRETENDEN REKTORS; UBER DAS AMTSJAHR 1913/1914
by Planck, Max
Universitat Zu Berlin am 15. Oktober 1914. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. Pages 3-18, original printed wraps. The present paper is Part 1 of Rektorwechsel an der Friedrich-Wilhelms. [Bound with] Kipp, Dr. Theodore, Rede des antretenden Rektors. Kriegsaufgaben Der Rechtswissenschaft (part II). A very good copy, housed in a custom half-leather clamshell case.
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NEUE BAHNEN DER PHYSIKALISCHEN ERKENNTNIS, (New Methods of Understanding Physics)
by Planck, Max
Berlin: Druck Der Norddeutschen Buchdruckerei 191, 1913. Very Good. Quarto. pages 23-45, original printed wraps. Part II of: Rektorwechsel an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, Berlin am 15. Oktober 1913. II. Rede des antretenden Rektors. Dr. Max Planck: Neue Bahnen der Physikalischen Erkenntnis. (Bound with: Bericht des abtretenden Rektors, D. Dr. Wolf Wilhelm, Grafen Baudissin uber das... Read More
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UBER DIE GRENZSCHICHT VERDUNNTER ELEKTROLYTE (Parts I, II and III)
by Planck, Max
Original Wraps. Very Good+. Uber die Grenzschicht Verdunnter Elektrolyte. (part I). Berlin, 1930; Akademie der Wissenschaften. First edition, 8 v. 9pp. original orange printed wraps [together with] Uber di Grenzschicht Verdunnter Electrolyte. (Part II/Zweite Mitteilung). Berlin, 1931; Akademie der Wissenschaften. First edition, 8 vo, 12 pages, original orange printed wraps. [together with] Uber die Grenzschicht Verdunnter Elektrolyte. (Part... Read More
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ARIEL
by Plath, Sylvia
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. With publisher's code "D-Q" on copyright page. 85 pp. Introduction by Robert Lowell. Bound in black cloth stamped in blue, spine lettering blue, neat owner's name on front free endpaper, in unclipped dust jacket priced at $4.95, showing only a... Read More
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Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Complete with an Original Memoir
by Poe, Edgar A.
New York: W. J. Middleton, 1874. Good+. 12mo, 278 pages, 6 pages of ads; publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt. Light foxing on first few leaves, not extending beyond title page. Wear at spine ends, loss along lower front hinge and upper rear hinge. Owner name tipped-in at ffep. Top edges gilt.
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