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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. First G&D Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Helen Sewell. Original quarter blue cloth over pictorial boards with illustrated endpapers. A beautiful and very scarce edition of Milne's stories illustrated by Sewell, the artist of the Little House on the Prairie seires. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.
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The Princess and the Apple Tree and Other Stories
by A.A. Milne
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Tigger Tales
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New York: Dutton children's Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Ernest H. Shepard. With the '1' in a full number line. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked in an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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Now We Are Six
by A.A. Milne
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Ernest H. Shepard. Reprinted from new plates and engravings, and type entirely reset, in the original dust jacket. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a small bottom corner chip'; price clipped; else a very goodjacket in a Mylar jackte cover.
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Lay My Burden Down
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Single date on copyright and no additional printings, in the original brown cloth with photo of a slave printed on the cloth, and $3.50 price on flap. ""In their own anecdotes and folk tales, former Negro slaves tell what slavery and emancipation meant to each of them."" One of the best compilation of slave narratives ever printed. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is near fine but for a 1/4""x3"" chip at the top inner edge of the front panel, and a 1/2"" chip to the bottom of the spine, not affecting text or photo. Protected in an archival Mylar jacket cover. Extremely scarce due to high demand and low print run.
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I'd Like the Goo-Gen-Heim
by A.C. Hollingsworth
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Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A.C. Hollingsworth. Single date on copyright page. A unique children's story set in a major art museum modeled on the Guggengheim. Pristine, clean and unclipped in an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War
by A.C. McClurg et al
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Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Frontispiece Etching. Lakeside Press green cloth binding with bright gilt monogram on cover and bright gilt title on spine. A compilation of Civil War memoirs by Chicagoans, including A.C. McClurg, who founded the McClurg publishing house in Chicago. Issued to employees of the Lakeside Press at Christmas, and thus printed in a limited edition. Rubbing to tips of the spine, but otherwise whole, clean, and unmarked.
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The Fifteenth Amendment: An Account of Its Enactment
by A. Caperton Braxton
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Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photo frontispiece. An account of the Amendment giving Blacks the vote, from a Southern viewpoint. The fifteenth Amendment: An Account of Its Enactment
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The White Company
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New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. N.C. Wyeth. With the date in Roman numerals on the title page, bound in burgundy cloth with Wyeth pictorial pastedown, endpaper illustrations and all the color plates by Wyeth. One of Doyle's most popular novels of the Middle Ages in perhaps its most attractive edition. A clean, unmarked, bright copy with, on the blank flyleaf not the endpaper, a beautiful vintage blank (unsigned) designer bookplate in the style of Wyeth. Scarce in this fine state.
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Science, Technology and Human Values
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Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. Single date on copyright page. Important work on the philosophy of science and technology by a noted Midwestern scholar. Book is fine and unmarked; jacket has a 1/2"" V chip at spine edge not affecting text, and is protected by a Mylar cover. Extremely scarce,
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The House of the Titans and Other Poems
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The Macmillan Co., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. States 'Published November 1934' on the copyright. Original red gilt cloth with $1.50 flap price. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a tiny chip to the top spine corner, and is otherwise fine and unclipped, and protected by Mylar. Scarce in a dust jacket this fine.
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Vale and Other Poems
by A.E. ( Russell, George William )
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London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Publisher's blue gilt cloth wit date on title page. Book is fine and unmarked, with bright title gilt. Jacket is clean and bright, with a few small edge nicks protected by a Brodart cover. Extremely scarce in this fine condition.
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The National Being: Some Thoughts on An Irish Philosophy
by A.E. ( Russell, George William )
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The Macmillan Co., 1917. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Extremely scarce first American issue of A.E.'s important work on Irish Nationalism issue at the time of the Easter Uprising. Undated but book states that this was bound from original sheets of the 1917 edition printed in Ireland and bound in the Irish-green cloth variant with gilt text. A clean, unmarked, tight copy in bright gilt.
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A Shropshire Lad
by A.E. Housman
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New York: Concord Books, 1932. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Elinore Blaisdell. With single date on copyright page. Blaisdell's unique ink art graces this beautiful older edition of Housman's classic, published in his lifetime. A clean, unmarked copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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Endurance
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Photos and map. With the '1' in a number line. Original preface by Patrick O'Brian for this first Norton edition of the memoirs of the Endurance captain and of the Shackleton expedition. A pristine copy, clean and unmrked.
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Men and Jackasses: The Journey of Frank Marks and His Brother Howard
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Pilgrim Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Important Depression era history about brothers traveling, GRAPES OF WRATH-style, on a mountain freighter pulled by burros. Same date on title and copyright pages. A fine copy in the rare dust jacket protected by a Mylar plastic cover.
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On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
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New York: charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. W.H. Overend. Original blue gilt designer cloth with black endpapers, date on title page, and tissue interleavings to plates. Scarce Henty boys adventure title. Minor edge rubbing and very slight dulling to gilt and colors, else a better than very good copy, tight and unmarked.
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Cuba Past and Present
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Includes facts and figures not in the first edition, and in a new format. Original blue cloth with black title. A significant record compiled by an outsstaning African-American journalist and historian. Clean, unmarked and tight.
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Chicago: The Second City
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Steinberg. Stated first edition. A famous, penetrating and often-quoted critique of America's second city by an outstanding journalist. In the original illustrated boards. Book is near fine; jacket has a minor light stain to the rear panel, and is otherwise very good, clean, bright and unclipped. Protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover and still an attractive copy. Becoming scarce, especially in this condition.
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The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo
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London: Fourth Estate, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Wolfgang Ledere dj art and frontispiece. With all the first issue points. Foreword by Garrison Keillor and Mark Singer who here argue that ""Liebling was the wittiest American writer who ever lived."" Tom Wolfe blurb on back adds: ""Liebling is irreplaceable."" A pristine copy, clean and unmarked in an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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The Good Negress
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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Jose Ortega dj art. "Truly extraordinary."" - Toni Morrison in jacket blurb. A pristine copy, clean, unmarked and unclipped in an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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