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Bookseller: Baileys Books
Publication Date:1969
Publisher: Galina Press, Dallas
Book Price: $2,800.00
Special binding, hard cover, gold front cover stamping. This special edition signed by all three Apollo astronauts, Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin. Documented. Somewhat rare to have all three sign the same book.
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Bookseller: Old Authors
Publication Date: 1797-1798
Publisher: London
Book Price: $2,300.00
A collection of three rare original military texts, bound into one volume. These tracts are in unusually fine condition, bound in full calf over boards. The leather binding is worn around the edges and the hinges show signs of use but are secure. There is some staining of the endpapers, but the contents are in excellent condition. Digital photographs of specific features can be provided upon request.
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Bookseller: The Family Album, ABAA
Publication Date:1550
Publisher: Alexander und Samuel Weissenhorn
Book Price: $3,750.00
Two volumes in one. Title page in red and black; framed with an impressive woodcut ornamented pictorial renaissance border. Numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Handsome woodcut gothic initials. Some damp and age stain. Isolated page repairs. Thick quarto. 212 x 315 mm.
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Bookseller: Athena Rare Books, ABAA
Publisher: George H. Doran
Book Price: $28,500.00
Published by George H. Doran, this hardcover book is in good condition and does not have a dust jacket. Bound in green cloth with purple lettering, this book contains 16 beautifully illustrated tipped-in color plates.
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Bookseller: Grafton Books
Publication Date: 1941
Publisher: Collins Crime Club, London
Book Price: $825.75
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This is a fine work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie. Published in 1941 in Great Britain, this is a Collins Crime Club Edition and a first edition. The book comes with an eye catching dust jacket and Brodart cover but does have a piece of dust jacket missing on the lower spine.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publisher: George H. Doran
Book Price: $200.00
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Published by George H. Doran, this hardcover book is in good condition and does not have a dust jacket. Bound in green cloth with purple lettering, this book contains 16 beautifully illustrated tipped-in color plates.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1924
Publisher: Thomas Tegg/r. Griffin and Co., Glasgow
Book Price: $950.00
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This 2 (two) volume set was published in 1924. Dark Brown straight grain Morocco Beautifully decorated in gild and blind stamping. 8 raised bands on gild stamped spine.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1795
Publisher: W. Bulmer and Co, London
Book Price: $495.00
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A First (1st) Edition hardcover in Good condition. Full polished Calf boards ruled in gilt title and spine gilt over black gilt devices tooled in six compartments on spine, this includes beautifully marbled end papers.
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1984
George Orwell
Bookseller: Idler Fine Books, ABA, IOBA.
Publication Date: 1949
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Book Price: $8,500.00
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First printing of the First British Edition, original light green cloth, spine lettered in red, in red dust jacket, with the publisher's price listed on the inside front flap, 312pp. The book and dust jacket are in near fine with some tanning to spine of book and jacket; professional restoration along the edges and panels of jacket, highly collectible thus.
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Bookseller: Russell Books
Publication Date: 1876
Publisher: Charpentier et Cie, Paris France
Book Price: $75.00 (SOLD)
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This is a 2-volume set with marbled boards and leather spines, note that end endpapers are browning. This 2 volume edition of Gautier's "Poesies Completes" includes the long narrative poem "Albertus", "Poesies Diverses", "La Comedie de la Mort", the travel-inspired collection "Espana", and "Poesies Inedites - Poesies Posthumes". During his lifetime, Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) produced works of poetry, drama, fiction, journalism and literary criticism.
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The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner, Margaret Armour (translator), Arthur Rackham (illustrator)
Bookseller: Grafton Books
Publication Date: 1910
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London
Book Price: $1403.15 (SOLD)
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Bound in cream vellum with gold gilt lettering and decs. Staining and general wear to front and back covers, and spine. Ribbon missing. Limited edition number 839 of 1150. 34 tipped-in colour plates with tissues intact.
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