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The fables of La Fontaine. Translated by Marianne Moore
New York:: Viking Press,, 1954. 8vo. xlvi, 356 pp., plus 12 pp. publ. ads. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettrng (vry minor dmpstn bk uppr crnr), still a nice copy. First edition, 2nd printing of this excellent translation, by noted poet Marianne Moore of the Fables choisies, first written in the 17th century. ... (more information)
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The power and the glory. A romance of the great LaSalle
New York:: A.L. Burt Co.,, [c. 1925]. 12mo. viii, 339, [1] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (edgewear, mnr spttng), w/ d.j. cover art of La Salle & Iroquois (mnr edgewear, rubbng), VG-/VG-. Reprint edition of this famed historical novel about Robert Cavelier La Salle (1643-1687), French-Canadian explorer and adventurer. Very scarce in jacket. ... (more information)
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La vie de Pythagore de . . . Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire par A. Delatte
Hildesheim:: Georg Olms Verlag,, 1988. 12mo. 270, [2] pp. Green cloth, gilt lettrng, F. First reprint edition of this critical biography of the Greek text of DiogenesÕ life of Greek philosopher, Pythagoras. This work was first printed in 1922 in the series Memoire couronne par la classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Prix Grantrelle, XIVe periode, 1919-1920). ... (more information)
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The Marquis de Lafayette. Bright sword for freedom. Illustrated by Mimi Korach
New York:: Random House,, [1958]. 8vo. [8], 182 pp. Numerous illusts. Blue cloth, w/ d.j. (mnr creasng, edgewear), NF/VG-, w/ TLS from Hodding Carter on The Delta Democrat Times stationary laid-in. First edition, stated of No. W-34 in the Landmark series, with typed letter signed laid-in. ... (more information)
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Lafayette in the French Revolution. From the October Days through the Federation
Chicago:: Univ. of Chicago Press,, [1973]. 8vo. xi, [1], 586, [2] pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, NF. First edition. ... (more information)
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Oregons iron dream. A story of old Oswego and the proposed iron empire of the West
Portland, OR:: Binfords & Mort,, [1958]. 8vo. [8], 156 pp. Numerous photos, illusts., maps on endpapers. Gray cloth, brwn lettrng & illust., w/ d.j. (mnr edgewear, mnr wear to crnrs) VG/VG-. First edition of this history of Lake Oswego, Oregon. ... (more information)
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol horde. Illustrated by Elton Fax
New York:: Random House,, [1954]. 8vo. 182 pp. Numerous text illusts., map. Blue cloth, red & blk decrtn & lettrng, w/ d.j. (very mnr shlfwr, slgt rubbng), NF/VG, w/ TLS laid-in describing the book. First edition, 4th printing of No. W-12 in the Landmark series, with an insightful letter signed by Harold Lamb laid-in. ... (more information)
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The march of the barbarians
Garden City, NY:: Garden City Publishing Co.,, [1943]. 8vo. xv, [1]], 389, [1] pp. Maps on endpapers. Green cloth, illust. & lettered in blk, slght shlfwr, NF. Reprint edition of this fast-paced history of the expansion of the Mongol Empire over much of Asia, Russia, India, and Europe. ... (more information)
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Kangaroo
New York:: John Day Co.,, [1953]. 8vo. [8], 247, [1] pp. Tan cloth, red lettrng, w/ d.j. (vry mnr shlfwr), NF/VG. First edition of this savagely realistic account of the life of Big Red, a bush kangaroo. ... (more information)
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The walking drum
New York:: Bantam Books,, [1984]. 8vo. [4], 423, [1] pp. Half-cloth, w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine), VG/G-. First edition, 1st printing. ... (more information)
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Jubal Sackett
New York:: Bantam Books,, [1985]. 8vo. 375, [1] pp. Double-page map. Half-beige cloth over beige boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j., w/ ownrshp bkplate on ffep. First edition, 2nd printing of this last in the Sackett saga. ... (more information)
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Three knocks on the wall
New York:: Atheneum,, 1980. 8vo. 182 pp. Beige cloth, w/ d.j. cover art by Kinuko Craft (ex-lib mrkngs on endpapers, spine), still G/G copy. First edition of this excellent novel on small town life in Oregon during World War I, by this famed Portland author. ... (more information)
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The variational principles of mechanics. . . Mathematical Expositions No. 4
Toronto:: Univ. of Toronto Press,, [1964]. 8vo. xxv, [1], 375, [1] pp. Text diagrams. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr rubbng, shlfwr, ex-lib mrkngs on title, frnt cvr), G- copy from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. Third edition. ... (more information)
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Winning the war with ships. Land, Sea, and Air -- mostly land. Introduction by Charles A. Lindbergh
New York:: Robert M. McBride Co.,, [1958]. 8vo. xii, 3-310 pp. Numerous photo illusts. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr chppng, edgewear, couple sml clsd tears), VG/G. First edition of this work examining the incredible contribution of the massive ship building program for the Navy and Merchant Marine in World War II. ... (more information)
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Grundlagen der Analysis (Das Rechnen mit Ganzen, Rationalen, Irrationalen, Komplexen Zahlen). Ergnzung zu den Lehrbchern der Differential und Integralrechnung. Forewords translated by F. Steinhardt
New York:: Chelsea Publishing Co.,, 1946. 8vo. xx, 139, [1] pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettering (slght wear), a near fine copy from the library of Lyman J. Harris sml embssd stmps on ffep & title. First American edition. First translation into English of the forewords and with the addition of an German-English vocabulary not appearing in the original 1930 edition. ... (more information)
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The classical theory of fields. [Volume 2 of Course of Theoretical physics]. Translated from the Russian by Morton hamermesh
London:: Pergamon Press/ Addison-Wesley,, 1962. 8vo. ix, [1], 404 pp. Numerous diagrams, equations. Gray-blue cloth, red & gilt lettrng on spine (mnr shlfwr, ex-lib mrkngs on title, rmnts on spine), still good copy from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. Second edition in English, substantially revised & expanded, of this classic work on electromagnetic and gravitational fields. ... (more information)
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Engineering in the ancient world
Berkeley & Los Angeles:: Univ. of California Press,, [1978]. 8vo. 224 pp. Numerous text illusts. Half-gray cloth over blk boards, blk lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition. ... (more information)
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WomanÕs Day book of American needlework
New York:: Simon and Schuster,, 1963. Folio. 208 pp. Colour frntsp., 140 colour and 50 blk & wht. illusts. White cloth, blue lettrng & decrtn, w/ d.j. (slght shlfwr, edgewear), VG/VG-. First edition of this comprehensive history from Colonial times to the present by the daughter of the famed writer of the Little House series. ... (more information)
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My own Fairy book. Namely, cetrain chronicles of P)antouflia, as, notably, the adventures of Prigio, Prince of that country. . . his sojourn with the Queen of Faery
New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, [ca. 1915]. 8vo. 259, [1] pp., plus 10 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp., numerous text illusts. Illust. green cloth, w/ fairy motifs on frnt cvr & spine, blk lettrng, VG, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. Reprint edition. ... (more information)
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The adventures of a bush pilot
[Newport, NH]:: Richard LaPorte,, [1999]. 8vo. [10], 219, [1] pp. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF, inscribed by author on title. Second printing, signed. ... (more information)
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