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Boston: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1887 Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Volume II only of a two-volume set. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Irregular pattern of age-browning/discoloration to endpapers, apparently due to manufacturing materials. Otherwise clean and tight. Signature and date (Sept. 22d 1887) of prior owner Francis H. Lee on front endpaper. Lee was a prominent citizen of Salem, Massachusetts who apparently was a collector and historian. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No... more information

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New York: Dell Publishing, 1994. Very Good. Light-to-moderate cover edgewear. Tiny scrape to front title. Clean and tight.. ISBN: 0385309201. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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Peabody, Massachusetts: Chandler-Smith Publishing House, Inc. , 1986. Very Good. Collectible Classic Number 12 from this publisher. Illustrated with some black-and-white photographs; 56 pages. Very light rubbing to cover. Clean and tight.. ISBN: 0916787117. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: New American Library/Penguin Books . 1989. Mass Market Paperback. 0451627342 Very Good. Selections by Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Sarah Orne Jewett, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and many more. Moderate cover edgewear; clean and tight. . ... more information

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961 Children's book, part of the Good Luck Series by this publisher. Scarce. With color frontispiece illustration duplicated on front dust jacket panel. Black-and-white drawings throughout. rear jacket lists nine other titles in series beginning with "The Proud King of Kandy" and ending with "The New Elf and Other Stories." Very faint rubbing to cover extremities. Few minute, faint "fox" specks to front endpapers and upper page blo... more information

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924 Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moralistic commentary on the disadvantaged and the courtroom scene in London at the beginning of the 20th century. Frontis half-tone illustration by Goetze entitled "Despised and Rejected of Men," depicting a montage of characters, including Christ. Cover moderately worn and discolored. Interior clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991 The pioneer subject of this memoir shares recollections of his experiences in a province barely out of the stage coach era. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. ... more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959 Biography. "With the possible exception of Sigmund Freud, no single man more influenced the twentieth century's social attitudes toward sex than Havelock Ellis, author, teacher, prophet, mystic, healer and sexologist." Frontispiece black-and-white photograph portrait of Ellis. Text photograph plates of some of the people in Ellis' life. Light edgewear to dust jacket; slight darkening of spine and upper rear 1/2" of dust jacket panel.. First U.S. Edition.... more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited Very Good/Good. " No date; circa 1981 . . . [A]n annual book on contemporary Italy written and prepared by over thirty distinguished Italian authors . . . Written in English and Italian, this is a book for every reader with an interest in Italy and for everyone of Italian heritage in North America and around the world." Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs. Many advertisements. Dust jacket edgeworn with several short closed tears; spine s... more information

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New York: Plume/New American Library, Inc. , 1979 Very Good. Original copyrights 1944, 1940. Light cover wear, including faint crease rear cover. Pages slightly browned with age.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951 Very Good+. Textured vinyl cover.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: David McKay Company, 1960 Includes regular and irregular verbs, weights and measures, geographical and proper names. Reprint. Moderate rubbing to corners and spine tips. Otherwise clean, tight and unworn in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. ... more information

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Munich: Wilhelm Andermann Verlag , 1961 Very Good+/Good+. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. With thirty colour plates. Translated by Gladys Wheelhouse. Slight darkening to lower cover margin (cream-colored cloth); otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket intact and bright, but with light edgewear, faint dampstains, and some puckering.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915 Black cloth; gilt spine lettering. The Torrens System, "which has been adopted, in whole or in part, in eleven states, with increasing benefit to the owners of property and homes," is explained through this presentation of sixteen articles which appeared as a series in "The Wall Street Journal." Title and facing page bear light, neatly-rectangular shadows of previously laid-in items. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a moderately edgeworn (ti... more information

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Chicago: Self-published, 1943 Very Good. Second edition. Number 13 of Campana's Popular Art Library Series. With black-and-white illustrations. Moderate wear to cover extremities. Clean and tight.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Greenwich House/Crown Publishers, Inc., 1984 Cloth. Reprint; first published in Great Britain in 1981. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Small sticker scar to upper corner front endpaper. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and with 1/2" tear at lower rear corner. . Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. Illus. by The Author and John Wood. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ... more information

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Orono, Maine: Life Sciences and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maine , 1980. Very Good. Technical Bulletin 99. Few black-and-white illustrations. A study of the county's vascular plants.. Trade Paperback. ... more information

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New York: Taintor Brothers and Co. , 1884 Good-/No Jacket. Blind-stamped decorative maroon cloth, with maroon leather spine; gilt spine lettering. With few "new and original" illustrations. Cover extremities very heavily worn; cloth at front cover corners worn to boards; covers lightly rubbed; gilt spine lettering somewhat rubbed. Lengthy prior owner name, address, age in pencil covering front endpaper. Page 430 bears remnants of erased pencil scribbling. Otherwise clean and tight.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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Great Britain: Hilger & Watts Ltd. , 1949 Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Faint wear to spine edges and a bump to both front and rear cover bottom edges; dust jacket lightly edgeworn, with a little bit of tattering to upper spine edge and upper front corner; some age-browning and light discoloration.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936 Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket With Introduction and Notes by Canfield. Light-to-moderate sunning of cover and spine; moderate rubbing of cover extremities. Library marks as follows: spine lettering; bookplate to inside cover; small embossed library seal to title page; small sticker and pocket-removal scars to inside rear cover; small remnant "date due" slip rear endpaper. Interior otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.. Ex-Library First Edition. Hard Cover. ... more information

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