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The Murchison Murders 1st US Edition Kite Runner 1st Edition
Hardcover
by Arthur W. Upfield
Hardcover
by Khaled Hosseine
N by E, Signed Limited Edition Bacstrom's Alchemical Anthology Limited Edition
Slipcase
by Rockwell Kent
Hardcover
by J. W. Hamilton-Jones


In the late-night hours of June 27, 1787, Edward Gibbon came to the end of a twenty-three-year journey. His six volume work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, had come to a close. The History was published in quarto format from 1776 to 1789; our octavo set was published from 1783 to 1791. Covering over fourteen hundred years (180-1590) Gibbon' s work was — and still is — the history of one of the greatest civilizations ever known. Add to Gibbon's tireless scholarship the unmistakable voice of... (read more)

Middle East

Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay
by Mme A R de Lens

Notes
Paris; Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste; 1925. Brown wraps stamped in red, wear to corners, spine darkened. 95 pp including index. Mme de Lens was the daughter and granddaughter of French physicians: "Mme A R de Lens ne pouvait manquer de s... (read more)
 
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Military

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan 2 Volumes 1st Edition Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan 2 Volumes 1st Edition
by P. H. Sheridan

Notes
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. 2 volumes. Octavo, 15x23cm. xiii,[i],500pp; xi,[i],486pp. First edition. Original pictorial green cloth, front boards and spines stamped in gilt. No dust jackets. Floral patterned endpapers. Cloth stained... (read more)
 
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Americana

Laws, Resolutions and Memorials of the State of Montana Passed at the Second Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly Laws, Resolutions and Memorials of the State of Montana Passed at the Second Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly

Notes
Helena, MT: Journal Publishing Co., 1891. Full leather with two morocco spine labels, 8vo, 388pp. Head of the spine is chipped, corners bumped, minor edgewear. Binding solid. Includes the laws of the state and its constitution. VG. JTN/Amerc.... (read more)
 
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Gardening

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison

Publisher Comments
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people... (read more)
 
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Medical

The Atlas of Anatomy
by J M Bourgery

Synopsis
Anatomically correct We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797?1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical... (read more)
 
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Exploration and Travel Writing

Notes From a Journal of Research into the Natural History of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S. Notes From a Journal of Research into the Natural History of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S.
by Arthur Adams

Notes
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. Octavo. Cloth decorated in blind, with gilt illustration to the front. Rebacked in brown calf. Corners bumped; cloth faded and rubbed. 225-532pp + 8pp(ads). New endpapers. Bookplate to the front paste down and... (read more)
 
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Children's and Illustrated Classics

Atomics for the Millions Signed 1st Edition Atomics for the Millions Signed 1st Edition
by Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff and Hyman Ruchlis and Maurice Sendak

Notes
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947. Octavo, 160x232mm. xiv + 281pp. First edition, second issue: wartime statement on the copyright page, but with plain endpapers. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the title page. In the original navy cloth stamped... (read more)
 
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Science Fiction

Enemy Ace War Idyll Signed Limited Edition Enemy Ace War Idyll Signed Limited Edition
by George Pratt

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NY: DC Comics Inc. 1991 First Lmtd Ed Unpaginated 593/2000 Three quarters bound w. black cl. over red cl. with gilt lettering on front board. Features pages from the journal of DC's Hans von Hammer, "the celebrated German ace of World War I." The journal... (read more)
 
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Edward Abbey
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Karl Baedeker
James Baldwin
L. Frank Baum
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Ambrose Bierce
William Blake
Jorge Luis Borges
Ray Bradbury
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Bukowski
James Lee Burke
Robert Burns
William Burroughs

Lewis Carroll
Raymond Carver
Cervantes
Jean Cocteau
Joseph Conrad
Betty Crocker
R. Crumb
James Crumley
Countee Cullen

Charles Dickens
Philip K. Dick
Walt Disney
Arthur Conan Doyle
Roddy Doyle
Edmund Dulac

Dave Eggers
Albert Einstein
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison

William Faulkner

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Allen Ginsberg
Nadine Gordimer
Edward Gorey
Sue Grafton
Robert Graves
Graham Greene
Zane Grey
David Guterson

Jane Hamilton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert A. Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Langston Hughes
Victor Hugo
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley

John Irving
Washington Irving

James Joyce

Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
Jon Krakauer

D. H. Lawrence
Ursula K. Le Guin
Jack London
Barry Lopez
HP Lovecraft

Thomas Mann
Larry McMurtry
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
James Michener
A. A. Milne
John Milton

V. S. Naipaul
Gloria Naylor

Patrick Obrian
Eugene Oneill
George Orwell

Edgar Allan Poe
Marco Polo
Beatrix Potter
Ezra Pound
Thomas Pynchon

Will Rogers
J. K. Rowling
Arundhati Roy
Kristine Rusch
Salman Rushdie

J. D. Salinger
Carl Sandburg
Walter Scott
Dr. Seuss
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Gary Snyder
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Gertrude Stein
Robert L. Stevenson

Paul Theroux
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler

John Updike

Gore Vidal
Voltaire
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker
Tennessee Williams
Virginia Woolf
Frank Lloyd Wright

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