Recent Arrivals from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Recent Arrivals from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
![Devil in a Blue Dress (Signed Advance Copy)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/018/532/1609532018.0.m.jpg)
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Signed Advance Copy)
by MOSLEY, Walter
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Publisher's wrappers
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€236.85
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Publisher's wrappers. 8vo.,215pp; First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Mosley, "To Becky/Walter Mosley." An Advance Reading Copy in illustrated wrappers. Light foxing to the page edges. Set in 1950's Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins, decorated war hero and private eye, is hired to find a missing socialite. The first title in the Easy Rawlins series. Signed by Author. Item Price
€236.85
![Rashomon and other stories](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/875/531/1609531875.0.m.jpg)
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Rashomon and other stories
by AKUTAGAWA, Ryunosuke
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1952
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€426.33
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8vo, 119pp., Publisher's light-blue cloth hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION with the gorgeous first-issue dustwrapper. The jacket and book are clean. Internally, there are no marks or notations. Some age darkening of color to the still bright jacket spine. With 7 half-tone plates by M. Kuwata. The collection includes both "Rashomon" and "In a Grove", which formed the basis for Kurosawa's… Read more about this item Item Price
€426.33
![Space, Gravity, and the Flying Saucer](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/618/531/1609531618.0.m.jpg)
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Space, Gravity, and the Flying Saucer
by CRAMP, Leonard G
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€142.11
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Publisher's cloth. 12mo. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book in solid condition, unmarked aside from small, penciled inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is unclipped, in new mylar sleeve; features wear along edges, light chipping at corners, light amount of soiling. Item Price
€142.11
![Peter Pan:, Or the boy who would not grow up (Publisher s salesman sample)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/136/623/1603623136.0.m.jpg)
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Peter Pan:, Or the boy who would not grow up (Publisher s salesman sample)
by BARRIE, J.M.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1928
- Binding
- Publisher's
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€426.33
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FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 160pp. The Publisher s salesman sample of a series of books as the book is encased in a plain dark charcoal fold-out case which folds out on the right and reveals 10 dark blue spines with gilt-colored titles of 10 titles of J.M. Barrie's (including 'Peter Pan'. The book itself is complete and bound in the publisher's… Read more about this item Item Price
€426.33
![Hypnotism or Animal Magnetism: Physiological Observations](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/622/1603622704.0.m.jpg)
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Hypnotism or Animal Magnetism: Physiological Observations
by HEIDENHAIN, Rudolf
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 2nd revised
- Published
- 1888
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- Publisher's cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€279.48
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12mo., Very Good. Second edition, 1888. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, 103 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of a lean to the book, age-toning to the pages and page-edges, minor creasing or wear to the edges of some pages, rubbing and light wear to the edges of the covers. Translated from the 4th… Read more about this item Item Price
€279.48
![A History of The Pharaohs: Volume I - The First Eleven Dynasties [with] Volume II - The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Dynasties [ 2 volumes complete ].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/547/283/1602283547.0.m.jpg)
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A History of The Pharaohs: Volume I - The First Eleven Dynasties [with] Volume II - The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Dynasties [ 2 volumes complete ].
by WEIGALL, Arthur
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1925-27
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€473.70
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1st edition. Publisher's Cloth, a near-fine set in the very scarce dust wrappers. 2 octavo volumes, xvi+328pp, xvi+424pp, b/w frontis to each volume, folding chart, grand total of 31 b/w plates showing 54 images, b/w illustrations, index to both volumes, scattered foxing mainly to the preliminary & final pages, fore edges foxed, dustjackets worn with some loss along the edges,… Read more about this item Item Price
€473.70
![The Oceanic Hydrozoa: a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake in the years 1846-1850. With a general introduction.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/239/1602239443.0.m.jpg)
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The Oceanic Hydrozoa: a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake in the years 1846-1850. With a general introduction.
by HUXLEY, Thomas Henry
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1858-59
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- Publisher's limp boards
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€663.18
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Folio (36.2 x 26.2 cm). x, 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, a few text figures. Original quarter linen over limp boards. Printed label with title mounted on front board. = Written by Darwin's Bulldog, the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted… Read more about this item Item Price
€663.18
![The Ring and the Book [4 volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/237/1602237437.0.m.jpg)
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The Ring and the Book [4 volumes]
by BROWNING, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st state
- Published
- 1868
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€568.44
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Small 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth over black-stamped beveled boards First edition, First issue with volume 1& 3 lettered in Roman numerals and 2 & 4 in Arabic numerals on the spines (see Carter Binding Variants, p. 99). complete in four volumes. A FINE set in the publisher's cloth, no markings or inscriptions some minor spotting in places and minor… Read more about this item Item Price
€568.44
![Amulets and Superstitions](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/475/235/1602235475.0.m.jpg)
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Amulets and Superstitions
by BUDGE, Ernest Alfred THOMPSON WALLIS
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st state
- Published
- 1930
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- Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€900.03
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FIRST EDITION. In-8, XXXIX-543 pp, Red canvas decorated in gilt from the publisher on the spine AND cover (Most copies are blind-stamped ). Original edition of this treaty relating to the amulets and superstitions of ancient peoples such as the Babylonians or the Egyptians as well as their various religious and mystical rituals. It is illustrated with 22 plates in… Read more about this item Item Price
€900.03
![The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/016/1602016836.0.m.jpg)
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The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology
by BUDGE, E.A. Wallis, Sir
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd revised.
- Published
- 1925
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€468.96
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Second edition revised & greatly enlarged. Small quarto. xxiv + 516pp + plates. Publisher's original deep maroon cloth with gilt tooling to the spine. The upper board is blind-stamped. unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's library plate to FEP. (The bookplate has wrinkled the front endpaper) The very scarce DJ is lightly shelf worn; tanned and discoloured, notably the spine, with… Read more about this item Item Price
€468.96
![Salem Witchcraft; With An Account of Salem Village, and A History of Opinons on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects - 2 Volume Set, Complete](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/951/1601951704.0.m.jpg)
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Salem Witchcraft; With An Account of Salem Village, and A History of Opinons on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects - 2 Volume Set, Complete
by UPHAM, Charles W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1867
- Binding
- Publisher's Green cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€2,084.28
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2 volumes. xl, (2), 469, (1); (4), 553, (1)pp. 2 woodcut frontispieces, and a folding map of Salem Village in 1692. A bright very good set in the original publisher's green cloth and fold-out map. An excellent set housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box. In the late seventeenth century, nineteen residents of Salem, Massachusetts—charged by their neighbors with… Read more about this item Item Price
€2,084.28
![Mystical Meditations on the Collects](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/591/301/1601301591.0.m.jpg)
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Mystical Meditations on the Collects
by FORTUNE, Dion
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€658.44
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First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 192pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, black borders. The first edition of this work by Dion Fortune described by the publisher as "based upon an esoteric interpretation of the Christian scriptures. and provides a series of broad-minded and tolerant considerations of the 'Mysteries of Jesus' as indicated in the Collects of the… Read more about this item Item Price
€658.44
![Spiritual Experiences, Including Seven Months With The Brothers Davenport](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/207/1601207805.0.m.jpg)
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Spiritual Experiences, Including Seven Months With The Brothers Davenport
by COOPER, Robert (Davenport Brothers)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1867
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€473.70
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Small 8vo, pp [iv] , 219pp. + 1pp advert. Original blind-stamped dull purple cloth lettered in gilt to upper board, a little faded to spine and wear to lower joint, else a tight clean very good copy now Mylar protected. FIRST EDITION. An interesting memoir from a prominent English spiritualist who followed various mediums , including the American magicians /… Read more about this item Item Price
€473.70
![La Fin des Temps confirmée par des prophéties authentiques nouvellement recueillies par J. Collin du Plancy (The End of Time confirmed by authentic prophecies newly collected by..) COLLIN DE PLANCY (Jacques)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/228/382/1600382228.0.m.jpg)
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La Fin des Temps confirmée par des prophéties authentiques nouvellement recueillies par J. Collin du Plancy (The End of Time confirmed by authentic prophecies newly collected by..) COLLIN DE PLANCY (Jacques)
by COLLIN DE PLANCY (Jacques)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition, 2nd issue
- Published
- 1871
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- 1/4 calf over marbled boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€710.55
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Paris, Henri Plon, 1871. In-12, 211 pp., dark blue leathery half-sorrow, smooth back decorated with golden nets and florets, preserved cover (dusty cover, small gaps at the foot of the cover, some small spots). Second partly original edition of this collection of prophecies of the end of the world by Jacques Collin de Plancy. It brings together predictions from Cazotte,… Read more about this item Item Price
€710.55
![The Science of Ethics](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/211/322/1599322211.0.m.jpg)
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The Science of Ethics
by STEPHENS, Leslie
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1882
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- Publisher's gilt-stamped Cloth
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€331.59
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1st edition hardbacks in original cloth Nice copy octavo xxviii + 462pp., Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, & mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell. Nice tight copy, partially uncut, in brown cloth boards with minimal wear. Uncommon and near-fine. Item Price
€331.59
![Essays in Biography](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/600/321/1599321600.0.m.jpg)
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Essays in Biography
by KEYNES, John Maynard
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition, second impression
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Publisher's Cloth & Dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€658.44
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8vo., 8 plates; First edition, second issue, published 2 months after the first edition "with minor Corrections"; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Dust-wrapper, price-clipped, with sunning (darkening) to spine, is otherwise bright and clean, with some slight edgewear and minor chipping to top and base of spine panel. Dust-wrapper held in removable protective archival mylar sleeve. Green… Read more about this item Item Price
€658.44
![Doctor Zhivago. Russian edition (Cyrillic). PUBLISHERS ARCHIVAL COPY with stamp.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/335/321/1599321335.0.m.jpg)
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Doctor Zhivago. Russian edition (Cyrillic). PUBLISHERS ARCHIVAL COPY with stamp.
by PASTERNAK, Boris
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1957
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- Publisher's Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€3,315.90
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Prima edizione November 1957. 8vo., 566 pag - First authorized Russian trade edition - from the archive of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore . Publisher's original olive paper-covered boards stamped in black on the cover with the publisher's emblem stamped to the spine. Likely bound without the front free endpaper. Publishers stamp at the bottom right of the title page. A remarkable… Read more about this item Item Price
€3,315.90
![The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/621/320/1599320621.0.m.jpg)
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The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays
by RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1931
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- Publisher's gilt-stamped Cloth
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€1,421.10
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FIRST EDITION, 8vo., 5 3/4 x 8 5/8" 292 pages plus 20 pages of publisher's list dated 1938 (Only some copies of the first edition sheets were bound and issued upon publication. Slow sales of these copies delayed the binding and distribution of the remaining sheets, which were instead bound in stages over the next several years, as demand required.… Read more about this item Item Price
€1,421.10
![The Female Offender](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/122/320/1599320122.0.m.jpg)
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The Female Offender
by LOMBROSO, Ceaesar & FERRERO, William
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1898
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- Contemporary three-quarter brown Morocco over marbled boards.
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€284.22
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First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., xxvi, 313 pages, 26 photographic plates & numerous text tables. Bound in contemporary three-quarter brown Morocco over marbled boards. A beautiful copy, with a bit of mottling to the spine keeping it from being graded very fine. This comprehensive work defines the different genres of criminals, focusing on physical and psychological characteristics and other anomalies… Read more about this item Item Price
€284.22
![The Man of Genius](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/439/319/1599319439.0.m.jpg)
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The Man of Genius
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1891
- Binding
- Publisher's red cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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€331.59
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Publisher's red cloth. 8vo., xvi, 370 pp., including half-title plus 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Large folding map. Owner's name (Vance Thompson [1863-1925], American literary critic, novelist & poet on front free endpage. Marginalia and writing inside, spine darkened, light wear at the head of the spine, a very good copy. Lombroso believed that genius was closely… Read more about this item Item Price
€331.59