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FORGING HISTORY. The Detection of Fake Letters and Documents
by RENDELL, Kenneth W
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1994)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£35.33
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Norman, OK & London: University of Oklahoma Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth in dustwrapper (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") with many illustrations of authentic and forged autographs. "Culminates in an analysis of three major forgeries of recent times -- the Hitler diaries, the Mormon letters, and the Jack the Ripper diary."
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A NEW GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS TO THE WEST, Containing Sketches of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, With the Territories of Wisconsin and Arkansas, and the Adjacent Parts
by PECK, J. M
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- Used - Lacking front endpaper; library ink stamp on one page and blindstamp on title and three other pages; text fairly clean. Much of
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- First Edition
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- 1836
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£100.82
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Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking front endpaper; library ink stamp on one page and blindstamp on title and three other pages; text fairly clean. Much of backstrip missing. Good. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth; 374, 6 [ads] pages. John Mason Peck was a pioneer Baptist missionary to the western frontier who founded one of… Read more about this item Item Price
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GREAT ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS. From the Earliest Times to the Present, as Told by the Explorers
by STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur (editor)
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- Used - Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1947
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£75.66
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New York: The Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. With the collaboration of Olive Rathbun Wilcox. Illustrated with maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansson on the half-title page on 27 January 1947 "For Dr. D C Coleman/from his admirer and/old friend." Also SIGNED by Wilcox and Harrison by… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN SWEDEN, Occasion'd by the Change of Religion, and Alteration of The Government, in that Kingdom bound with THE REVOLUTIONS OF PORTUGAL
by VERTOT [René Aubert de Vertot d'Aubeuf]
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- Used - Many lousy copies of these titles are available online, but few in the Near Fine condition of this volume. Contents clean and cr
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- Fifth Edition/Early Edition
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- 1723/1724
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£252.06
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London: M. Poulson, W. Taylor, et. al./W. Taylor and C. Rivington, 1723/1724. Fifth Edition/Early Edition. Hardcover. Many lousy copies of these titles are available online, but few in the Near Fine condition of this volume. Contents clean and crisp, interesting old bookplate pasted over another interesting bookplate on the front pastedown; binding lovely with the spine darkened and minor… Read more about this item Item Price
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A FINE ENDEAVOR: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FASHIONABLE COLLECTING. Kent State University Museum, 1985 - 2010
by DRUESEDOW, Jean L
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- (2010)
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- Softcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£25.25
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(Barberton, OH): Kent State University Museum, (2010). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover (9-1/2" x 9-1/2"), 224 pages. Foreword by Linda Allard. Color illustrations on nearly every page.
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DIE JÜNGSTEN FRÜCHTE MEINER EINSAMKEIT
by [GRUMBKOW, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm von]
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- Used - Partial modern bookplate on verso of front wrap. Light to moderate foxing but a Fine copy of a scarce title
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- First Edition
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- 1803
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£352.89
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(Berlin), 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Partial modern bookplate on verso of front wrap. Light to moderate foxing but a Fine copy of a scarce title. Octavo (5-1/2" x 9"), uncut, bound in later linen-backed boards retaining the original plain wraps; (22), 246 pages. Dedicated to King Fridrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
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TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN THE YEARS 1798 AND 1799
by ACERBI, Joseph
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- Used - The map is detached and has a short closed tear with little effect on the image. Scattered staining and foxing but generally cle
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- First Edition
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- 1802
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£1,008.25
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London: Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. The map is detached and has a short closed tear with little effect on the image. Scattered staining and foxing but generally clean. Bindings rubbed but the covers are tight. Very Good. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,008.25
THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE
by SCHEFFER, John
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- Used - Occasional foxing or stain; short closed tear to one leaf with no loss. Leather cracked, dry, and peeling, but sound. Very Good
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- First English Edition
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- 1674
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£1,764.44
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Oxford: Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or stain; short closed tear to one leaf with no loss. Leather cracked, dry, and peeling, but sound. Very Good. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DISCOVERER. A NEW NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND HAZARDOUS ADVENTURES OF THE GENOESE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
by De HEVESY, Andre
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- Used - Owner presentation on half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine
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- First Edition
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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New York: The Macaulay Company , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner presentation on half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUNG STATESMAN 1901-1914
by CHURCHILL, Randolph S
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1967
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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£35.33
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. The second volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the last of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front pastedowns and small bookseller's… Read more about this item Item Price
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUTH 1874-1900
by CHURCHILL, Randolph S
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. The first volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the first of two of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front pastedowns and… Read more about this item Item Price
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PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY
by BIRLEY, Robert
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1964
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- Wraps
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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London: Monotype Corp, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contribution of print to public debate as an essential… Read more about this item Item Price
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