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London: John Camden Hotten, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. [5], ii-x, [1], ii-lxxxvi, [3], 2-160, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown pebble-grain publisher's cloth with several borders and the publisher's device in blind on each board, gilt lettering on the spine. Light brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Bone & Son as evidenced by the binder's ticket on the rear pastedown. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Completing the title page: "Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; The Houses of Parliament; The Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. Preceded by a History of Cant and Vulgar Language from the Time of Henry VIII; Shewing its Connection with the Gipsey Tongue; with Glossaries of Two Secret Languages, Spoken by the Wandering Tribes of London, the Costermongers, and the Patterers. Oxford DNB, Simon Eliot, "Hotten, John Camden (1832-1873)". Hotten's publishing and writing careers were…
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
by A London Antiquary; [Hotten, John Camden]
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One Life at a Time, Please
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: Henry Holt and Company [1988], 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [9], xi-xii, [2], 225, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and a couple in-text illustrations. Ahearn 020b. A Very near Fine book with a touch of foxing to the top textblock in a like dust jacket with a few hints of foxing to the reverse.
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Desert Solitaire; A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [2], 1-269, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white and brown lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket design and in-text drawings by Peter Parnall. Ahearn APG 004b. A tour-de-force of literary naturalism, Abbey's memoir of his time as a park ranger. His writing portrays the American desert as infinite, strange, yet enchanting. A gorgeous copy.
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Good News
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: E.P. Dutton (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [11], 2-242 pp. Quarter black cloth over tan paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 014b. An attractive copy of Abbey's sixth novel. A Very near Fine book in a very near Fine jacket with some offsetting to the reverse.
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Confessions of a Barbarian; Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
by Abbey, Edward
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1994], 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-356 pp. Quarter red paper over blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with original drawings by Edward Abbey. Edited and with an introduction by David Petersen. A Fine book in a very near Fine jacket with a tiny wrinkle to the rear panel.
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Abbey's Road
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: E. P. Dutton [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], xi-xxiv, [2], 3-198, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over green paper boards with green lettering on the spine. Price of $9.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 013b. A Near Fine book slightly askew in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a tiny discoloration to the top of the spine panel.
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The Fool's Progress
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: Henry Holt and Company [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], 485, [3] pp. Quarter navy cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. First state jacket with correct points.
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Hayduke Lives!
by Abbey, Edward
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [13], 4-308, [2] pp. Quarter orange cloth over yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 023b.
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Earth Apples; The Poetry of Edward Abbey
by Abbey, Edward
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New York: St. Martin's Press (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [2], 3-112 pp. White paper covered boards quarter bound in white cloth with red lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on the front the flap. Original in-text artwork by Michael McCurdy. Introduction by David Petersen. Ahearn APG 025b. A touch of sunning to the jacket's spine panel.
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George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago
by Abbott, John S.C.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Publishers, 1875. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [3], 4-360 pp. Blindstamped navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the American Pioneers and Patriots series. A Very Good book with some rubbing to the spine and board tips, one annotation in the margins.
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Rollo on the Rhine
by Abbott, Jacob
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Boston: W.J. Reynolds & Company, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [2], 7-218, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Original purple blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and a vignette title page, with additional full-page and in-text illustrations. The Rollo series was aimed at children, concerning a comedic character who traveled around the world. The series was intended to teach children about history and geography. Near Very Good with notable traces of wear to the corners and fading to the cloth (spine faded to brown).
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History of Xerxes the Great
by Abbott, Jacob
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1850], 1850. Early Printing. Hardcover. Good+. Small 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [6], 14-302, [1], 2-10, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on each board, gilt lettering on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a chromolithograph title page, a map, and a few full-page illustrations, engravings. No statement of date on the title page, only a date of 1850 on the copyright page. The binding subtly shaken but still holding strong, the pages show spots of soiling, this book was once owned by the Sawyer School District Library (the only library marking present is a pencil note on a blank leaf).
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History of Josephine
by Abbott, John S.C.
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1879], 1879. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. [9], 14-328, [1]-7, [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Purple cloth with black lettering on the boards and spine, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Empress Josephine and with six full-page wood engravings. Part of The People's Library. Minor wear to the tips and a tiny discoloration to the rear board; one minute dampspot on the recto of the frontispiece.
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Rollo at Play; or, Safe Amusements
by Abbott, Rev. Jacob
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London: James S. Hodson, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. [7], 2-173, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board, spine in four compartments. Later endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with five full-page illustrations. Corners gently exposed, binding has a lean.
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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi; The Lay of the Higher Law
by Abdu the Traveller
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New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1924. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. [6], 7-135, [1] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the front board. A Near Fine book with a bit of age darkening to the spine.
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The Face of Another
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 3-237, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering and red decorations on the spine and front board; red topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. With fourty-four drawings by Robert Steele Wallace. First printing of the first American edition. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. A very attractive copy, basis for the 1966 Japanese film. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with the top corner of the rear flap clipped.
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Beyond the Curve
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New York: Kodansha International (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], 9-247, [1] pp. Brown cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. WIth a preliminary illustration before the text. A collection of short stories. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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The Ark Sakura
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [9], 5-333, [11] pp. Quarter white cloth over white paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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The Comic History of England
by A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
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[London]: Published at the Punch Office, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. John Leech. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [3], vi-viii, [3], 2-304, [2] pp. Later full smooth calf with gilt borders to the boards, gilt gauffering and detail to the interiors of the boards, spines in six compartments each with a red and a green morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Riviere & Son. Title pages printed in red and black. Lacks the half titles. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume, volume one with ten coloured steel etchings, and one hundred twenty woodcuts by John Leech; volume two with ten coloured steel etchings and one hundred twenty more woodcuts by Leech. With a late nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown (C.H. Buckland of London). NCBEL 1143. Oxford DNB, Simon Houfe, "Leech, John". Tooley 244-245. Leech famously contributed illustrations to The Ingoldsby Legends and to Punch magazine, focusing on…
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Man on Fire; John Brown and the Cause of Liberty
by Abels, Jules
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New York: The Macmillan Company [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [13], xiv-xviii, [3], 2-428 pp. Bound in red-orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine, red-orange topstain. Pictorial dust jacket with illustration of John Brown on the front panel, price of $12.50 on the front flap. Eight plates with black and white photographs of John Brown, his company, and associated places. A biography of John Brown focused on the events leading up to the raid at Herper's Ferry, and its aftermath. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with age toning and spots of discoloration, light rubbing and wear to the extremities.
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