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Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassoouf
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William Everson as Brother Antoninus
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Dr. Grant & the Mountain Nestorians
by Thomas Laurie
Notes
Boston; Gould & Lincoln; 1853. Rebound. Frontis, map, plates and illustrations as called for. Frontis and plates foxed, yellowed with age, but the text is bright and clean. Dr. Asahel Grant believed that the peoples with whom he worked in Persia were in...
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Your Price $360.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Ocho Mil Kilometros en Campana
by Alvaro Obregon
Notes
Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1970). Octavo, 16x22cm. cxxviii,615pp. Reprint of the second edition of 1959. Original wrappers. Text in Spanish, illustrations in black & white. Covers rubbed, soiled, and edgeworn. Good condition. Alvaro...
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Your Price $400.00
Rare Books - Trade Paper
Free Love and Its Votaries: or, American Socialism Unmasked
by John B Ellis
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New York: United States Publishing Co., (1870). 8vo., 502pp. Original green blindstamped boards, title in gilt on spine. Illustrated. Corners bumped and worn, light foxing through text. rear hinge starting at top. Good. A highly critical look at the...
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Your Price $120.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison
Publisher Comments
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people...
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Your Price $104.45
New - Hardcover
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher Comments
The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet...
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List Price $150.00
Your Price $90.00
Rare Books - Slipcase
Chow-Chow: A Journal Kept in India, Egypt and Syria, 1st Thus
by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland
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London: Eric Partridge, 1930. 8vo, 220x145mm. xxv + 408pp. First thus. Bound in the original navy cloth, spine gilt. Top edge gilt. This is a reprint of the 1857 original. 2 volumes bound together. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by H.G...
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Your Price $120.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Cinder the Cat
by Miriam Blanton Huber
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New York: American Book Company (1931). 14 X 19cm., orange pictorial cloth stamped in black, illustrated endpapers in green & ivory; 95pp. Seven stories illustrated in green, orange, black & white by A. Gladys Peck. Cloth soiled, gift inscription dated...
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Your Price $200.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Rising Sun, Signed 1st Edition
by Michael Crichton
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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1992. Signed by author on the limitation page. Red leather hardcover with gilt decorations and titling. Gold satin ribbon. Marbled endpaper. Includes loose advertisement. All in fine condition. Fine/None Issued...
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Your Price $100.00
Rare Books - Leather
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