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Crocodile on the Sandbank 1st Edition Powder Burn 1st Edition
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by Elizabeth Peters
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by William D. Montalbano and Carl Hiaasen
The Agony and the Ecstasy Signed Limited Edition L'Oeuvre Romanesque de Stendhal 11 Volumes, Limited Edition
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by Irving Stone
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by Henri-Marie Beyle as Stendhal


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

We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American & Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and Their Captivity We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American & Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and Their Captivity
by Mariano Villarin

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Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1990 1st edition,brown cloth-covered boards,335pp Fine/G(book is Unread & As New; DJ-1/2" closed tear upper right corner & 1/4" closed tear upper left corner of front panel,slight rubbing of corner tips & spine,slight... (read more)
 
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Americana

Life of David S Terry Presenting an Authentic Impartial and Vivid History of his Eventual Life and Tragic Death Life of David S Terry Presenting an Authentic Impartial and Vivid History of his Eventual Life and Tragic Death
by A E Wagstaff

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San Francisco, CA: Continental Publishing Co, 1892. Thick 8vo, 526pp, illustrated plates. Green cloth with gilt stamped titles, decorated endpapers, pictorial frontis. Smudging due to old water damage on the bottom of both boards. Binding remains solid... (read more)
 
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Gardening

Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual
by C Leo Hitchcock

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This manual is essentially a condensation of the five-volume work, 'Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest.' The sequence of families is the same in the two works except for the transposition of the monocotyledons and dicotyledons.... (read more)
 
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Exploration and Travel Writing

Cellarius Atlas
by Andreas Cellarius

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First published in 1660 in Harmonia Macrocosmica, the complete 29 double-folio maps and dozens of unusual details reproduced here depict the world systems of Claudius Ptolemy, Nicolas Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe, the motions of the sun, the moon, and the... (read more)
 
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Exploration and Travel Writing

The Log-Book of Willm. Adams, 1614-1619, and Related Documents: Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Volume 13, 24th Session, 1914-1915, Part 2 The Log-Book of Willm. Adams, 1614-1619, and Related Documents: Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Volume 13, 24th Session, 1914-1915, Part 2
by C.J. Purnell

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London: Published by the Society, no date [c. 1915]. 8vo, 260x170mm. pp155-302 + ix. First edition. Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, Volume XIII, Twenty-Fourth Session, 1914-1915, Part II. Quarter bound in green and tan cloth... (read more)
 
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Children's and Illustrated Classics

Beebo and the Funny Machine Beebo and the Funny Machine
by Philippe Fix

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. Hardcover, pictorial boards. Reprint. Light wear to corners; small chip to head of spine. Very light foxing to prelims; otherwise internally clean, illustrations bright. A very good copy of one of the scarcer Beebo titles. cc/... (read more)
 
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Science Fiction

I Will Fear No Evil 1st Edition I Will Fear No Evil 1st Edition
by Robert A. Heinlein

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. (1970) First edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the face and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Boards and text block are in very good condition with no dicernable blemishes. The dust jacket is worn at the extremities... (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
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Charles Bukowski
James Lee Burke
Robert Burns
William Burroughs

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Raymond Carver
Cervantes
Betty Crocker
R. Crumb
James Crumley

Charles Dickens
Philip K. Dick
Walt Disney
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Edmund Dulac

Dave Eggers
Albert Einstein

William Faulkner
Robert Frost

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
Victor Hugo
Zora Neale Hurston

John Irving
Washington Irving

James Joyce

Franz Kafka
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling

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

Thomas Mann
Cormac McCarthy
Larry McMurtry
Herman Melville
Thomas Merton
James Michener
John Milton

V. S. Naipaul
Gloria Naylor

Patrick Obrian
Eugene Oneill

Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Thomas Pynchon

Will Rogers
Philip Roth
J. K. Rowling
Arundhati Roy

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

Mark Twain

John Updike

Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut

Tennessee Williams
Virginia Woolf
Frank Lloyd Wright

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