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THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
by AUGUSTINE, St.
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 170.48
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Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edy Legrand. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter black leather and natural linen sides, "the nearest practical material to a hairshirt," with a gilt-lettered black leather label on the front cover; 240 pages. Translation of J. G. Pilkington. Copy #430 of 1500 illustrated with paintings… Read more about this item Item Price
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MORIAE ENCOMIUM; OR, THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
by ERASMUS, Desiderius
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- Used - Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean. Light chipping to the tips of the spine which is rather fragile with a lo
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- 1943
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 213.16
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean. Light chipping to the tips of the spine which is rather fragile with a long vertical tear down the center. Good, internally Near Fine, in a Good slipcase with the bottom portion partly split. Lynd Ward. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full black… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 213.16
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
by CONFUCIUS
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- Used - Minor scratches to lettering on front of box. Fine in a Fine Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand
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- 1933
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,449.04
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Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Softcover. Minor scratches to lettering on front of box. Fine in a Fine Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand. Octavo (8" x 11") bound in full silk brocade wrappers. Copy #1286 of 1500 translated with an introduction by Lionel Giles and printed on handmade Chinese paper. Four illustrations printed on double… Read more about this item Item Price
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AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
by SMITH, Adam
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- Used - Light pencil underlining and a few notes, text rather clean; owner ink stamp on title page of first volume. Near Fine
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- Early Edition
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- 1811
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 3,409.50
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London: J. Maynard and F. Zinke, 1811. Early Edition. Hardcover. Light pencil underlining and a few notes, text rather clean; owner ink stamp on title page of first volume. Near Fine. Three volumes (5-1/4" x 8-8/8") in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in attractive green blindstamped morocco leather with matching corners, all edges marbled (lxxi, 360; vi, 514; v,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MAP OF LIFE. CONDUCT AND CHARACTER
by LECKY, William Edward Hartpole
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- Used - About Fine
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- New Impression
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- 1900
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 127.92
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. New Impression. Hardcover. About Fine. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco for G. P. Putnam's with gilt rules and gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt; xv, 328 pages. Philosophical ruminations about happiness, the law, politics, religion, money, marriage, time, success, and death.
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THE PRINCE
by MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
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- Used - Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 596.66
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
by MONTAIGNE
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- Used - Owner name on verso of front endpaper with generic bookplate on facing blank; slight wear at top and bottom of joints. A lovely
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- Reprint
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- [1960s]
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 596.66
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New York & London: Oxford University Press, [1960s]. Reprint. Hardcover. Owner name on verso of front endpaper with generic bookplate on facing blank; slight wear at top and bottom of joints. A lovely binding in just about Fine condition. Two volumes in one bound in full polished blue calf leather (4-3/4" x 7-1/4") by Frost & Co. with… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 596.66
GENERAL SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF PANTHEISM
by PLUMPTRE, C. E
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- Used - Hinges sound, text clean; minor wear to spine tips. Very Good
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- Early Edition
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- [1881]
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 170.48
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London: Trubner and Co., [1881]. Early Edition. Hardcover. Hinges sound, text clean; minor wear to spine tips. Very Good. Two volumes in original blue cloth. The first volume covers From the Earliest Times to the Age of Spinoza; the second covers From the Age of Spinoza to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. A printed Notice states that… Read more about this item Item Price
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PROPÄDEUTIK DER MORALPHILOSOPHIE NACH GRUNDSÄTZEN DER REINEN VERNUNFT
by HEYDENREICHS, Karl Heinrich
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- Used - Original cloth faded and worn; contents Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1794
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 170.48
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Leipzig: Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth faded and worn; contents Fine. Two octavo volumes in original cloth with remnants of paper spine labels. Engraved portrait of David Hume on title page of the first volume. The first two volumes (of three). The missing last volume was the shortest. Heydenreich was a German philosopher and poet… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What It Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It. In Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up
by [BURTON, Robert] DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR
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- Used - Small chip to one text page; small library stamp to front pastedown and sticker to verso of dedication leaf; generally clean wit
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- Third Edition
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- 1628
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,557.12
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London: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small chip to one text page; small library stamp to front pastedown and sticker to verso of dedication leaf; generally clean with occasional stain; few pages at beginning and end splitting from binding. Joints split, covers held by cords; minor chipping to spine. Overall a Very Good example of this important book.… Read more about this item Item Price
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UTOPIA
by MORE, Sir Thomas
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- Used - Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Go
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- 1934
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 127.92
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Bruce Rogers. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Designed… Read more about this item Item Price
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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS. SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS
by AQUINAS, St. Thomas
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- Used - Fine in a Fine slipcase
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 170.48
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Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") in slate-gray pyroxylin-impregnated vellum cloth stamped in black pigment leaf with a checkerboard pattern of multiple crosses; 132 pages. Book designed by Will Carter. The translation of Father Thomas Gilby, selected and arranged by Dr. George N. Shuster who… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY
by RUSSELL, Bertrand
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- Used - Some uneven sunning to the covers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1951
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,704.75
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Some uneven sunning to the covers. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper and scarce as such.
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SGD 1,704.75
TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)
by SANTAYANA, George
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- Used - Creases from mailing with a short split and paperclip stain to the longer letter. Near Fine with excellent content
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- 1925 & 1927
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- Letter
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,557.12
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Rome, 1925 & 1927. Letter. Creases from mailing with a short split and paperclip stain to the longer letter. Near Fine with excellent content. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED as "G. Santayana" by this Spanish-born American poet and philosopher who is thought to be the originator of the oft-used expression: "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat… Read more about this item Item Price
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LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP. THE SYMPOSIUM. PHAEDRUS
by PLATO
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- Used - Minor scrape to the front cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 85.24
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[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Minor scrape to the front cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Eugene Karlin. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in natural-grain goatskin vellum-backed boards covered with a pinkish-tannish Swedish paper. Translated from the Greek, with Introductory Analyses, by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Whitney J. Oates. Illustrated with full- and part-page… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 85.24
THE PRINCE
by MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
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- Used - Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 426.19
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
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- Used - Owner blindstamp on the front free endpaper. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 110.88
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Owner blindstamp on the front free endpaper. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. William Sharp. Tall octavo (6-1/8" x 9-3/4") bound with brown Oasis goatskin morocco leather stamped with the title in gold leaf and with hand-made French marbled kraft on the sides. The anonymous translation into English of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
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- Used - A few rubbed marks to spine. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 85.24
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. A few rubbed marks to spine. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. William Sharp. Tall octavo (6-1/8" x 9-3/4") bound with brown Oasis goatskin morocco leather stamped with the title in gold leaf and with hand-made French marbled kraft on the sides. The anonymous translation into English of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 85.24
POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
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- Used - Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 127.92
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Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #473… Read more about this item Item Price
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POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
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- Used - Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 153.43
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Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard… Read more about this item Item Price
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