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The Pilgrim's Regress
by C.S. Lewis
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Miracles: A Preliminary Study
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Octavo. Publisher's blue gilt cloth with date on title page and 'First Printing' on copyright page. One of Lewis's most popular books on apologetics, in his unique style. A fine copy, clean and unmarked in bright spine gilt. A facsimile dust jacket will be provided at nominal cost,
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On Stories and Other Essays on Literature
by C.S. Lewis
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New York: Harper One, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Octavo. Stated first edition with the '1' in a full number line. First book publication of these essays by Lewis previously available only in scarce periodicals. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.
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George MacDonald: An Anthology
by C.S. Lewis
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The Macmillan Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Original sand-colored cloth with date on title and copyright page. Lewis's appraisal of the noted British folklorist, with an original preface and numerous hard-to-fine selections from MacDonald's work. Book is fine and unmarked. Save for price-clipping and a tiny spiny corner chip, jacket is near fine and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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Randall and the River of Time
by C.S. Forester
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Stated first edition with original $3.00 flap price. A modern coming of age story by the author of the Hornblower books. Book is fine and unmarked except for minor scraping to bottom edges. Jacket has tiny chips along 2"" of bottom middle front edge and a 1/4"" chip at the edge of the spine, and is otherwise fine. An attractive copy in its Mylar cover.
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Respiration
by J.S. Haldane
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Birmingham, MI: The Classics of Medicine Library, 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. As New. Tables and diagrams. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES for members of the Classics of Medicine Library, bound in full brown gilt Morocco with gilt decorations, all edges gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and silk ribbon marked. With the C. of M. Notes laid in. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked in bright cover gilt.
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Tregonia The Sunbow Phropecy
by K.S. Krueger
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Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Dino C. Crisanti. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page and extra-illustrated by her, with no other name present. A pristine copy, clean, unclipped and unmarked.
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Religion; Natural and Revealed: or, The Natural Theology and Moral Bearings of Phrenology and Physiology: Including the Doctrines Taught and Duties Inculcated Thereby, Compared with Those Enjoined in the Scriptures, Together with the Phrenological Exposition of the Doctrines of a Future State
by O.S. Fowler
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New York: O.S. Fowler, 1844. Third Edition, Enlarged and Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original brown gilt cloth. The bible of Phrenology by its founder, a disproved and now absurd pseudo-science that helped lay the basis for Eugenics and racist doctrines of a Master Race, especially with the Nazis. A historical document and curiosity nevertheless, important as such. Minor chipping to back edge of spine, else a very good, tight, clean and unmarked copy. Very scarce.
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The Practical Phrenologist; and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents
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New York: Mrs. O.S. Fowler, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Diagrams and illustrations. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Subtitled 'A Compendium of phreno-Organic Science, this was one of Fowler's early books on phrenology, with one of his earliest head charts. Publisher's original brown gilt decorated cloth with design of a human head with brain map. This copy belonged to Commander Ralph E. Duncan of the marine corps, USNR, and bears his stamp on the endsheet. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Very scarce.
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Private Lectures on Perfect Men, Women and Children
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New York: Mrs. O.S. Fowler, 1883. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Woodcut illustrations. Original embossed brown cloth with black titles and ornate, music sheet-style title page, with numerous woodcuts. A prime example of the discredited phrenologist's racist quakery, now a historical curiosity and main example of the misplaced eugenic beliefs of the period. Very good, clean and unmarked.
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Robert Josephy. Original tan cloth with black title, single 1939 date on copyright page, and original thin orange card stock dust jacket. A book of humorous poems concerning cats, and one of Eliot's most popular works, written for his godchildren and an inspiration for the musical Cats! Book is fine, clean and unmarked. The iconic dust jacket is whole, clean and bright save for slight fading at edges, retaining its color. Price-clipped with a thin 1/2"" horizontal chip to the rear top edge. Jacket has been internally reinforced at folds with archival tissue not visible on front, the whole protected and enhanced by the archival Mylar jacket cover.
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The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
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New York: Farrrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Enrico Arno. Stated first edition in the original decorated boards with gilt angel and yellow title. Design and decorations by noted Italian artist Enrico Arno for this short, moving essay by the great poet. A fine copy but for rubbing to spine edges.
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926 and The Trumbull Lectures at The Johns Hopkins University, 1933
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Theresa Garrett Eliot frontispiece. With the 'A' on the copyright page. First publication of these famous lectures by Eliot, accompanied by his wife's sketch of the poet delivering his lectures at Cambridge. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.
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Inventions of the March hare: Poems 1909-1917
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Has the 'A' on the copyright page. Features previously unpublished works. Edited by Christopher Ricks. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is clean and unclipped, and protected by a Brodart plastic cover.
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The Waste Land and Other Writings
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New York: The Modern Library, 2001. First ML Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Duodecimo. With the '1' in a full number line. Introduction by Mary Karr for this compact, scholarly edition of Eliot's groundbreaking poem. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.
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Ernesto
by Saba, Umberto
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Manchester: Carcanet, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Vittorio Bolafo Dj Art. Has all the first edition points. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected by the Mylar plastic dust jacket cover.
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Three Mint Lollipops
by Sabatier, Robert
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E.P. Dutton & Company, 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Translated by Patsy Southgate and Joan Wright Smith. Tiny v chip to edge of rear jacket panel, protected by the Brodart cover. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
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Boston: House of Greystoke, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. A clean, tight, unmarked copy in u nfaded cloth.
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The Carolinian
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth.
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Franklin Paine Mall: The Story of a Mind
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photo Frontispiece. A superb copy, with ARC review slip laid in. Out of print.
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