Allen, Thomas B. & Polmar, Norman

MERCHANTS Of TREASON

New York: Delacorte Press, 1988. 1st edition. Red cloth spine with yellow boards. Dust jacket. 378 pp (including index). Illustrated with b/w photos. 8vo. F/F .

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Book number: 17090

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Allen, Edward

MUSTANG SALLY

New York: Norton, 1992. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. A Fine copy in a similar dust jacket.

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Book number: 10950

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Allen, Captain Quincy

The OUTDOOR CHUMS In The FOREST

New York: Goldsmith, 1911. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Dust jacket. [4], 230 pp. 8vo. 19.5cm x 13cm. VG+ (pos fep)/VG (spine ends chipped/ dampstain along flap edge of lower panel/ 1cm wedge missing top edge rear panel/ pencil checks at rear flap).

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Book number: 21300

Catalogue: Childrens

[Travel]. Allen, W. E. D. - editor

RUSSIAN EMBASSIES To The GEORGIAN KINGS 1589 - 1605.; Texts translated by Anthony Mango

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1970. 1st edition. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. 2 volumes, illustrated with plates & maps (including color frontis in each volume), 8vo. NF (binding defect to 2 preliminary leaves of V2)/NF (lt wear). Hakluyt Society Series II, Volume CXXXIX.

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Book number: 7776

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Allende, Isabel

EVA LUNA

Franklin Center: Franklin, 1988. 1st edition. SIGNED by the Author. Original publisher's full leather binding with gilt stamping. AEG. Marbled eps. 272 pp. 8vo. Fine (bpt).

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Book number: 790

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Allende, Isabel

The STORIES Of EVA LUNA.; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

New York: Atheneum, 1991. 1st edition. Black cloth spine with yellow paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. 331 pp. 8vo. 24cm x 16cm. NF/NF (pc) .

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Book number: 19523.1

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Allestree, Richard [1619 - 1681] - Attributed to

The WHOLE DUTY Of MAN, Laid Down In a Plain and Familiar Way, for the Use of All, but Especially the Meanest Reader. Divided into XVII Chapters; One Whereof Being Read Every Lord's-Day, the Whole may be read over Thrice in the Year. Necessary for All Families

London: Printed for John Eyres [sic], Thomas Page, and William Mount, 1731. 1st edition thus [ESTC T26176]. Modern full brown calf binding executed in a period style, with black leather title label in the second spine compartment. Period eps retained. [4], xii, 503, [9] pp. Printed glosses. Frontispiece & engraved t.p. 8vo. 8" x 5". Binding - Fine. 3 prior owner singnatures to ffep [one of 'Arthur Vaughan, St John's Coll, Cambridge / 1733']. Margin hole to engraved title leaf. Text - Very Good. ESTC shows no copies of this edition as being held by US institutions.

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Book number: 37307

Catalogue: Literature

Allingham, William; Arnold, Edwin; Dobson, Austin; Gosse, Edmund - Contributors

AULD LANG SYNE. Selections from the Papers of the "Pen and Pencil Club."

[London]: Printed for Private Circulation by the Chiswith Press, 1877. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding, blocked in gilt & black [with gilt title stamping of "Pen and Pencil"]. Pale yellow eps. vi, 176 pp. Photographic frontispiece ["autotype"], plus one inserted plate [also "autotype"], both of Aubrey House [front & back view]. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". Modest wear. Gilt bright. Prior owner signature to ffep. A pleasing VG+ copy. Contributions begin with Mentia Taylor's "Cradle", Feb. 1864, and continue through Taylor's concluding contribution, "Farewell". A total of 60 pieces are included, dating from Feb. 1864 through May 1874.

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Book number: 47856

Catalogue: Literature

[Allis, William Phelps] Woods, Frederick; Goodwin, Harry; Keyes, Frederick; Moore, Clarence., editors

JOURNAL Of MATHEMATICS And PHYSICS. Vol. VI, No. 3

Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1927. 1st edition. Gray printed wrappers, disbound (staples removed). 119 - 189 pp. 8vo. 23.5cm x 16cm. Spine panel chipped/faint yellowing of extremities, disbound and wrappers dettached. Withal a VG copy. Includes articles by William Phelps Allis, Norbert Weiner, Kurt Mahler and Frank L. Hitchcock.

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Book number: 22211

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Allman, Kevin

HOT SHOT. A Mystery

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 1st edition. Black paper-wrapped binding. Dust jacket. 245 pp. Sm. 8vo. F/F .

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Book number: 20032

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[Publisher's Promotional Poster]. Van Allsburg, Chris [b. 1949]

The MYSTERY Of HARRIS BURDICK

[Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. 1st printing. SIGNED by the author. Now housed, folded, in an archival mylar sleeve. Broadside, ~ 27-5/8" x 23-1/2". Black & white image of a man about to crush a lamp with a chair. Horizontal & vertical fold-lines, with short tears at the edge of the folds. VG+ - Nr Fine. Van Allsburg "is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is a 1984 picture book by Van Allsburg. It consists of a series of images, ostensibly created by Harris Burdick, a man who has mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories. Many famous writers have tried to put their own twists on the pictures." [Wiki] Uncommon Van Allsburg item, at the time of cataloguing, we see no other copies on the market.

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Book number: 50082

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[Almanac]

The AMERICAN ALMANAC And REPOSITORY Of USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, For the Year 1833

Boston: Published by Gray & Bowen, 1832. 1st edition (American Imprints 10888). Contemporary red half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. [xii], 312, 12 pp. Adverts comprise the last 12 pp. 12mo, in 6s. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2". VG (joints starting/extremity wear/bookseller label for Issac N. Whiting [Columbus Ohio]).

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Book number: 15878

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[Women's Pocket Almanac]

CALENDRIER De La COUR Pour L'Année bissextile 1820

Paris: Chez Madame Hérissant Le Doux, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi, Rue Sainte-Anne, No. 20, 1819. 1st edition thus. Period deep maroon full calf with gilt decorations to spine & covers. AEG. Yellow eps. [2 (blank)], 214, [4 (blank)] pp. T.p. printer's ornament. 4-3/16" x 2-1/4". General extremity wear. Unobtrusive repair to spine. Black ink smudge to front cover. Offset to eps. Withal, a VG copy.

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Book number: 50482

Catalogue: Literature

[Almanac]

The MASSACHUSETTS REGISTER And UNITED STATES CALENDAR; For the Year of Our Lord 1809, the Thirty-Third of American Independence.; Containing Civil, Judicial, Ecclesiastical, and Military Lists, in Massachusetts; Associations, and Corporate Institutions, for Literary, Agricultural, and Charitable Purposes. A List of Post-Towns in Massachusetts, with the Names of the Post-Masters. Also, Catalogues of the Officers of the General Government ..

Boston: Published by John West & Co. and Manning & Loring, 1808. 1st thus (American Imprints 15557; Drake 3707). Period plain grey paper wrappers. 215 pp (including Index). 12mo, signed in 6s. 5-5/8" x 3-3/8". Overall Abt VG - VG (some wear to extremities/rear wrapper beginning to detach/period pos).

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Book number: 26821

Catalogue: Americana

Gerstacker [also, Gerstaecker], Frederick [1816 - 1872]

HOW A BRIDE WAS WON; Or, A Chase Across the Pampas.; Translated by Francis Jordan

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1869. 1st Edition in English (Cf. Sabin 27184). Not in Wolff. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding. 274 + 6 pp adverts at rear. With 8 illustrated plates by Gaston Fay. 8vo. 24cm x 15.5cm. VG (sq & tight/lower corner of preliminary blank missing).

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Book number: 23076

Catalogue: Literature