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The book of the rose

The book of the rose

by Charles G. D. Roberts

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London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good First U.K. Edition. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper in 1910. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Tes streak near lower spine. Heavily bumped lower corners and moderately rubbed upper corners. Offset and toning to endpapers and pastedowns. Deckled fore edge. 1, 83 pages 1 plate. Twelvemo. All proceeds from this sale go to The Shalom Free Clinic, providing healthcare services to the uninsured and underinsured in Chico, California. 'The Book of the Rose' is a collection of poems, including 'The Wisdom of Love', 'The Covert', 'Invocation', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful literary genre was that of the animal story which featured in works such as Earth's Enigmas (1896) and Eyes of the Wilderness (1933). "Sir Charles… Read More
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The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, formerly a hunter : containing a narrative of the wars of...

The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, formerly a hunter : containing a narrative of the wars of Kentucky, with the discovery, purchase, and settlement of Kentucky ; and the Piankashaw Council, 1784 ; and territory of North American Indians ; and the rights of land in Kentucky.

by Daniel Boone; Alvin Salisbury, ed.

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Old Chelicothe Press, 1968. Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely and fine facsimile of the 1797 edition. Mustard paper over boards with title laid on in paper. Deckle page edges. Numerous folding maps and diagrams 37 pp. Octavo. . This is Daniel Boone's story as he told it to John Filfon, Pennsylvania schoolmaster turned traveler. With the addition of old maps and illustrations to his adventures, the reader glimpses America's great frontiersman as he first appeared to the world and views the western wilderness as it looked to Daniel Boone.
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The Definitive Best of The Horror Show

The Definitive Best of The Horror Show

by David B. Silva, ed.

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Baltimore: CD Publications [Cemetery Dance], 1992. First Edition; Signed Edition; Limited Edition. Cloth. As new/as new. Harry O. Morris. A fine (as new) limited signed edition in a fine dust jacket and fine slipcase. Appears unread. This is number 468 of 500 signed and numbered copies. Three full pages of author signatures (see table of contents below). Blue cloth boards and white endpapers. 429 pp. Octavo. The Definitive Best of The Horror Show is one of the most important books of the year. As editor David B. Silva notes in his expanded Introduction: "There are only a few back issues of The Horror Show still floating around, and in all honesty this book serves as a swan song of sorts." For eight wondrous years, The Horror Show held a special position of respect and honor in the horror/dark fantasy genre. When the final double issue was published in March 1990, the entire field lost a very dear friend. This deluxe volume showcases editor David B. Silva's… Read More
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Starr King in California

Starr King in California

by William Day Simonds

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San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company., 1917. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Good +/missing. A good plus first edition. Blue cloth under parchment boards with gilt accent and gilt title stamping on spine. Rubbed joints and bumped and frayed corners. Water stain on front cover (see photo). Binding is sturdy and square. loss on foot of spine. Deckled pages, previous owner's name on front pastedown. Frontis mounted portrait. Page IX showing loss, likely from printer, at hinge, not affecting text. Light pencilled marginalia on a few pages. 4 preliminary leaves, vii-x, 105 pages, 1 leaf. 12mo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall. Contents: In old New England -- California in 1860 -- California's hour of decision -- Philanthropist and preacher -- In retrospect. Thomas Starr King (December 17, 1824 – March 4, 1864), often known as Starr King, was an American Universalist and Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and a Freemason.… Read More
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Hispania sive de regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus commentarius [Spain, or a commentary on the...
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Hispania sive de regis Hispaniae regnis et opibus commentarius [Spain, or a commentary on the kingdoms and wealth of the King of Spain]

by Johannes de Laet

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Lugd[unum] Batav[orum]: ex offic. Elzeviriana (Elsevier), 1629. First Edition. Three quarter leather. Very good +. A beautifully rebound first edition of this important work on Spain and its New World Empire, published by Elzevir. This small 2" x 4" book is recently rebound in three-quarter, smooth brown leather over burgundy, gold, and midnight blue marbled boards. Three raised bands with burgundy leather and bright gilt titling on the second compartment of the spine. Green and white endbands. New cream endpapers. Edges painted red, color a bit faded in places. Ornate title page with coat of arms of each region in Spain, ornate chapter capitals.Text in Latin. Collated and complete. A8-I-8, [J]8, K8-T8, [U]6, V8-Z8 (with Y5 misnumbered), Aa8-Ff8, Gg8-Hh8, [Ii]3. 6 [3] 499 pp. Page 291 misnumbered by the printer, but the signatures and catchwords mark it as correctly bound in place. 48mo. 2" x 4" tall. Elzevir is a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers,… Read More
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October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween

October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween

by Dean Koontz, Jack Ketchum, Peter Straub, et al; Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, eds.

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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Stacy Drum, Glenn Chadbourne. A fine, signed limited edition in a fine leather clamshell slipcase. Letter "O" of 52 lettered copies. Signed by Dean Koontz and dozens of other horror writers on the first pages. Appears completely unread. Burgundy clamshell slipcase . Fine dust jacket. Burgundy cloth binding. Full color illustrations. Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies with a satin ribbon page marker, and also includes a separate, specially-commissioned Halloween Art Portfolio, featuring twelve full-pages of stunning artwork inspired by classic Halloween images. 660 pp. Folio. At more than 660 pages, this oversized volume is one of the best (and biggest) collections of Halloween material ever published! Contents include: 22 short stories of spooky Halloween fiction (eleven brand new, never-before-published tales specially-written for October Dreams and eleven… Read More
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Conquistadors Without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas, an account with original narratives

Conquistadors Without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas, an account with original narratives

by Leo Deuel

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. A near fine first edition, first printing, as stated, in a fine dust jacket. Rust-color cloth boards with gold title stamping and glyph on spine. Minor soiling to bottom edge (1/16" at corner).Illustrated with 43 plates, 142 figures and 30 maps. 45 pp. bibliography. 647 pp. including index. Octavo.
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Death is Now My Neighbor: An Inspector Morse Novel

Death is Now My Neighbor: An Inspector Morse Novel

by Colin Dexter

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New York: Crown Publishers, 1996. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/fine. A very near fine, signed, first American Edition, first printing, in a fine dust jacket. Appears unread. Red and grey boards. Minor spotting to fore edge. 347 pp. Octavo. “Another deviously construction Inspector Morse mystery from the masterly hand of Colin Dexter.”—The New York Times Book Review Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior dons and their wives battle for a plum promotion. Then, on the personal front, Inspector Morse receives intimations of his own mortality. And while Morse muses on life, he reveals his first name at last. . . . Praise for Death Is Now My Neighbor “An excellent writer . . . Dexter's mysteries featuring… Read More
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The Life of Our Lord, Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849

The Life of Our Lord, Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849

by Charles Dickens

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good +. A fine first edition in a good plus / very good dust jacket. Green cloth boards with facsimile Dickens signature in gilt on cover. Black title stamping on spine. All edges painted black. Loss to bottom edge of dust jacket (see photo). 128 pp. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches tall, 16mo. The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus of Nazareth written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing David Copperfield. The Life of Our Lord was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death. -- wikipedia
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Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History

Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History

by Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon

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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Fine first printing in a fine dust jacket. Red paper boards under black quarter cloth. Previous owner's embossed stamp on FFE. Illustrated. 699 pp. Octavo. In this superb sequel to At Dawn We Slept, the authors examine meticulously the circumstances surrounding the December 7, 1941 disaster and turn up " -- neither villain nor scapegoat. In their analysis of the roles of the president and key cabinet members, of the chiefs of staff, military commanders and war plans officers, they draw the conclusion that much was taken for granted, principally that the Japanese would not attack Pearl Harbor. On the basis of their solid scholarship, the authors refute the revisionist view that Roosevelt deliberately withheld information from the military commanders in Hawaii to ensure that the attack would come unopposed. Included is a discussion of concurrent events and attitudes in the U.S. Philippine command and explanations… Read More
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En Repos and Elsewhere Over There. Verses Written in France, 1917-1918

En Repos and Elsewhere Over There. Verses Written in France, 1917-1918

by Lansing Warren; Robert A. Donaldson

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/none as issued. A very near fine first edition. Brown paper over burgundy quarter cloth boards with black title on cover and title on paper label on spine. Previoous owner's name on front pastedow is only flaw. xvi, [1], 111, [1] pages, 1 leaf The verses here collected "need no bush" They evidence what they are the reflections, now playful, now serious, of typical American youth upon the surroundings of life on the French Front. They were written by two members of one of the many volunteer ambulance sections of the American Field Service, who came to this organization from Leland Stanford University and who served in and with the French Army long before American troops were operating in France. Subsequently the sections of the American Field Service were adopted by the American Army, though left to serve with the French divisions, and the authors of these verses, along with many hundred other former volunteers, were… Read More
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The Birds' Christmas Carol

The Birds' Christmas Carol

by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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510th Thousand
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Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1888-1896. 510th Thousand. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Katharine R. Wireman. A very good "510th Thousand" ca. 1896 edition in a poor, but original dustjacket. Difficult to find an early edition with an intact dust jacket. Both the dust jacket and copyright page denote the number of copies of the book of the book. Red cloth pictorial boards, showing a girl with crutches on the cover. The image is repeated on the dust jacket. Moderate soiling to top and bottom edge of book. head and tail of spine worn. Previous owners gift inscription on first free endpaper, dated 1911. Toning and offsetting from dust jacket on paste downs. List of works on last page ends with Wiggin's "Nine Love Songs and a Carol, " which was published in 1896. Dust jacket is tattered and missing pieces. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. [xii], 69 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches tall. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24,… Read More
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The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

by David Drew

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition, first printing in a fine dust jacket. Burgundy cloth boards with silver title stamping on spine. Blue end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Fine dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Illustrated with drawings, color and black/white plates. 450 pp. including index. Octavo. The Maya records left on stone are chronicled in this work. This is the first printing of the book, the separate Berkeley edition was not released until 2000.
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An Editor on the Comstock Lode

An Editor on the Comstock Lode

by Wells Drury; Ella Bishop Drury

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A very near fine first edition, with Rinehart colophon present, in a very good dust jacket. Navy blue boards with bright gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Binding is sturdy and square. pages and pastedown show mild toning, otherwise fine. Loss at crown of dust jacket and edgewear. 343 pp., including index. Octavo. Wells Drury, pioneer newspaperman and member of the Nevada House of Representatives, was born September 16, 1851 in New Boston, Illinois. Orphaned while crossing the Oregon Trail in 1852, he was adopted and brought up in Oregon on a Indian reservation on Puget Sound. Drury arrived in San Francisco in 1873. Successful investments in mining concerns in the Comstock in Nevada convinced him to move to Virginia City, where he became one of the editors of the Virginia City Chronicle, the Territorial Enterprise, the Gold Hill News, and the Bodie Daily Miner. As a reporter in the Comstock, Drury knew Mark… Read More
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Juan Antonio Balthasar, Padre Visitador to the Sonora Frontier, 1744-1745. Two Original Reports

Juan Antonio Balthasar, Padre Visitador to the Sonora Frontier, 1744-1745. Two Original Reports

by Juan Antonio Balthasar; Peter Masten Dunne

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Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1957. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. A very near fine first edition, limited to 600 copies. In a near fine dust jacket showing tanning at edges. Grey cloth boards with cross and gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Bottom corners mildly bumped. Deckle fore edges and bottom edge. Fold out and rear pocket maps present and pristine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 122 pp. plus [7 pp.] index. Octavo 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall.
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Ouvres de George Sand / Works (only six volumes: La Petite Fadette; Francois Le Champi; Jean de...

Ouvres de George Sand / Works (only six volumes: La Petite Fadette; Francois Le Champi; Jean de la Roche; Le Marquis de Villemer; Tamaris; Indiana)

by George Sand [Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant Aurore Dupin]

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Nouvelle Edition
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Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1869. Nouvelle Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. Beautifully bound partial set in green half leather over black and green marbled paper boards. Gilt title on spine. Four raised bands. Rubbing to edges and bumped corners of paper boards on some volumes. Mauprat showing rubbing to spine. Blue marbled end papers. Previous owner's inscription and writing on some blank leaves. Binding is sturdy, square and strong. Foxing and toning to pages. Each volume about 300 pp. Sextodecimo, 4 1/2 x 7 inches tall. Text in French. Levy, Sand's official publisher, released this New Edition in the author's lifetime.
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The lessons of history

The lessons of history

by William and Ariel Durant

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. A very good plus fifth printing in a very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with midnight blue topstain. Previous owner's name stamp in red on first free endpaper. Jacket shows mild loss at crown of spine of jacket extending down to a short tear, and shelfwear at edges. Toning to edges of inner flaps on DJ. 117 pages, Octavo. The companion volume to the Durants' epic "Story of Civilization." Surveys the history of human culture and civilization, identifying key themes from throughout five thousand years, with discussion of race, character, morals, religion, economics, government, war, and other topics, and addressing the question of whether progress is real. TOC: Hesitations History and the earth Biology and history Race and history Character and history Morals and history Religion and history Economics and history Socialism and… Read More
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