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J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle
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William Blake and Geoffrey Keynes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ralph L. Rusk
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess An Autobiography
by Emily, Nee Princess of Oman and Zanzibar Ruete
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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. Small 8vo size (18x12cm), pictorial blue cloth, 307pp, 4pp catalogue. Frontis with tissue guard. Endpapers pasted to pastedowns. Wear to extremities. Originally published in German as "Memoiren einer arabischen...
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Your Price $450.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Practical Treatise on Strengthening and Defending Outposts, Villages, Houses, Bridges with Practical Treatise on the Attack of Military Posts, Village, Intrenchments with Practical Treatise on the Dut
by J. Jebb
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London: William Clowes & Sons., 1857, 1859, 1860. Three vols bound in one, (the last one being A Practical Treatise on the Duties Required to be Performed by Officers & Soldiers of the Army at a Siege). All three volumes have etched frontispieces...
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Your Price $150.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Joe Beeler Portfolio & F F F Frank Polk
by Joe Beeler
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Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1978. Black cloth portfolio stamped in sliver with 20 reproductions of the pen & ink cowboy drawings of Joe Beeler, each numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. Tissue guards for each plate. WithUncommonly Frank...
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Your Price $1400.00
Rare Books - Portfolio
Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual
by C Leo Hitchcock
Publisher Comments
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....
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Your Price $60.00
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Ralph Lauren
by Ralph Lauren
Publisher Comments
Ralph Lauren isn't easy to define. Unlike many designers, he is not known for a single signature look, but rather for his sweeping dreams of American living. Over the course of his career, the images of luxury, adventure, and beauty that he created have...
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Your Price $100.00
Rare Books - Slipcase
The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush
by George Scott Robertson
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London: Lawrence & Bullen, LTD, 1896. First edition. Large 8vo. xx 658pp. Illustrated throughout with several plates and cuts. Large fold out map at the back of the book. Publisher's cloth with gilt letters on the spine and pictoral artwork on the face...
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Your Price $500.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
The Making of Tintin: Mission to the Moon
by Herge and Benoit Peeters
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London: Methuen Children's Books, (1989). Quarto, 23x30cm. 154pp. First edition. Original glazed pictorial paper over boards. No dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout. Text in English, translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper...
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Your Price $500.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Ralph 124C 41+ 1st Edition
by Hugo Gernsback
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Boston: Stratford Company, 1925. Publisher's cloth gilt. Ex-library with the expected imperfections. Corners bumped, rubbed. Light rubbing and fraying to head and tail of spine. Binding sound, text clean, with 11 black and white plates. A pioneering work...
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Your Price $125.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
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