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Collection of Confederate imprints comprising 296 works and 12 duplicates
by (Confederate States of America)
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- Used - Mostly in fine condition, many stamped in purple ink with "Rebel Archives, War Department, Record Division" and some with 19th-c
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[Idyllia] [and other texts]
by Theocritus; Hesiod
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- first
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- Used - Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tool
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- First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocrit
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The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers
by [Walton, Izaak]
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- first
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- Used - Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4, Q6-8 and R1-3 in facsimile, a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 2
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- First edition
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Lolita
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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- Signed
- first
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- Used - Green printed wrappers, priced Francs : 900 on back wrappers. Spines toned, lower portion of spine of first volume worn with sma
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- First edition
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Autograph Letter, Signed ("George"), to his brother, giving his eye-witness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14th, 1865
by (Lincoln Assassination) Todd, George B., M.D.
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- Used - Slight soiling and minor tears along old folds, otherwise in very good condition
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Autograph Letter, signed, from Thomas Jefferson to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn
by Jefferson, Thomas
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- Used - Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. Strip of later paper on left edge verso, where letter had been tipped into an album. Ver
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Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
by Muybridge, Eadweard
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- Used - Black half morocco clamshell boxes
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Autograph Manuscript leaf from working draft of WALDEN, chapter III, "OF READING" [inserted in:] The Writings in Twenty Volumes, Manuscript Edition
by Thoreau, Henry David
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- Used - Fine. Some spines of set faintly toned
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Eight Studies [for the Book of Genesis]
by Lawrence, Jacob
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- Used - Laid into black cloth clamshell dropbox, with red morocco label inset on upper cover. Fine
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- Number 27 of 50 copies
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Saroyan family album
by Avedon, Richard
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- Used - Bound in full orange calf, stamped in gilt on upper cover "Avedon" and lower right "Saroyans'", by Jack Chitgian of Beverly Hill
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- One of three copies for the family
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley
by (Shelley, Mary) Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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- Signed
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- Used - Recent half morocco and cloth. Formerly in the Exeter City Library with stamps. With a number of early, neat pencil annotations
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- First edition
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Ulysses
by Joyce, James
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- Signed
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- Used - Original vellum over boards with gilt Homeric bow after design by Eric Gill, teg, other edges untrimmed, some toning to vellum w
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- No. 99 of 100 copies on mouldmade paper, signed by Joyce
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Leaves of Grass
by Whitman, Walt
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- first
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- Used - Original green cloth, boards with floral decorations in blind, gilt-lettered ornamental title within a triple-fillet border, spi
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- First edition, first issue
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Manuscript Letter Signed, from Thomas Jefferson to English merchants Farrell and Jones, regarding the settlement of the estate of his father-in-law, John Wayles, part of the debt coming from the consignment of a large number of slaves
by Jefferson, Thomas
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- Used - Expertly repaired at fold separations, affecting about than ten words of text. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding ca
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The Sun Also Rises
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- first
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- Used - word stop on p. 181; especially fine dust jacket with portrait of Hemingway on rear; very light shelf wear to edges; quarter mor
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- First edition, first issue
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