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1) Jimmie Dale and the missing hour. The Gray Seal and the Tocsin again join forces in a thrilling battle against the underworld
PACKARD, Frank L

Garden City, NY:: Crime Club,, 1935. 8vo. [8], 310 pp. Text illusts. Black cloth, green lettrng & decrtn to spine, frnt cvr (vry mnr tidemrk to ft of spine, mnr shlfwr, edgewear), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng, edgewear, creasng), still G/G- copy, w/ Burt d.j. First Crime Club edition, stated of this Jimmie Dale mystery thriller. ... (more information)

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2) The mountains of Rasselas. An Ethiopian adventure by
PAKENHAM, Thomas

New York:: Reynal & Co.,, [1959]. 8vo. 192 pp. Numerous photo illusts., maps. Red cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. (slght dustsoilng), VG/VG. First edition of this authorÕs famed trek to uncover the legendary mountain prison of the royal princes of Ethiopia. ... (more information)

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3) Additions to the Palaeontology of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin regions of North America. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington
[PALAEONTOLOGY -- FOSSILS]. KELLOGG, Remington, MERRIAM, John C., CHANEY, Ralph W. & MASON, H.L

Washington, DC:: Carnegie Institution,, 1927. Tall 8vo. 158 pp. Numerous photo plates, illusts., diagrams. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng, NF copy from library of former Oregon State Geologist, Paul Lawson. First edition of this exceedingly scarce work containing sections on Skull of a fossil sperm-whale from the temblor miocene; fossil pinnipeds from California; A Hyaenarctid Bear from the Later Tertiary of the John Day Basin; Geology and Palaeontology of the Crooked River Basin. . . with a chapter on the Terti... (more information)

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4) MissouriÕs ice age animals. Educational series number one
[PALAEONTOLOGY -- FOSSILS]. MEHL, M.G

Rolla, MO:: Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources,, [1962]. Oblong 4to. xi, [1], 104 pp. Numerous plates, photos, illusts., diagrams. Cloth-backed printed softcvrs, NF copy from library of former Oregon State Geologist, Paul Lawson. First edition. ... (more information)

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5) Foraminifera. Their classification and economic use. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, with an illustrated key to the genera
[PALAEONTOLOGY]. CUSHMAN, Joseph A

Cambridge:: Harvard Univ. Press,, [1980]. 8vo. viii, [2], 605, [1] pp. 55 plates. tables. Brick-red cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (price-clppd), NF/VG. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged of this invaluable guide to the fossilized forms of small marine protozoa, especially as pertains to their value to the petroleum industry. ... (more information)

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6) The flora of the Dakota Groupa. A posthumous work. Edited by F.H. Knowlton. United States Geological Survey. Volume XVII
[PALEOBOTANY]. LESQUEREUX, Leo

Washington:: G.P.O.,, 1892. Folio. 400 pp. 63 plates, tables. Drk Brown cloth, gilt lettrng on spine (mnr bmpng to crnrs, edgewear, ex-lib mrkngs on endpapers, spine), still G copy. First edition of this invaluable work. ... (more information)

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7) Fossil flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri. United States Geological Survey. Volume XXVII
[PALEOBOTANY]. WHITE, David

Washington, DC:: G.P.O.,, 1899. Folio. x, [2], 467, [1] pp., plus 10 pp. publ. ads. 73 plates, tables. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr rubbng, wear to crnrs, hd & ft of spine), still VG copy. First edition of this excellent work. ... (more information)

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8) The plains of Camdeboo
PALMER, Eve

London:: Scientific Book Club,, [1966]. 8vo. 320 pp. Brown boards, blk lettrng (mnr shlfwr), w/ d.j. (slght bmpng hd & ft of spine), VG/VG. First SBC edition of this scientific and botanical travel trek across the great desert in South Africa. ... (more information)

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9) Victims. A true story of the Civil War
PALUDAN, Phillip Shaw

Knoxville, TN:: Univ. of Tennessee Press,, [1981]. 8vo.xvi, 144 pp. Blue cloth, red & blk lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr creasng, scuffng, wear), NF/VG-. First edition of this detailed examination of the Shelton Laurel Valley, North Carolina, massacre by the Confederate Army in 1863. ... (more information)

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10) Signal analysis
PAPOULIS, Athanasios

New York:: McGraw-Hill Book Co.,, [1975]. 8vo. ix, [3], 431, [1] pp. Numerous diagrams, illusts. Colour-illust. boards, mnr shlfwr, VG, from library of mathematician and physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition of this very scarce work on analog & digital signal analysis. ... (more information)

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11) Paris. Travel Lover's Library
[PARIS]. ALLEN, Grant

Boston:: L.C. Page & Co.,, [1912]. 8vo. xviii, 496 pp. Photogravure frntsp., 64 photo plates. Elaborately decortd & illust. green cloth, blue, green & gilt illust. on frnt cvr & spine (vry mnr bmpng to crnrs, slght shlfwr), a NF copy. Revised edition of this sumptuous travelogue to the famed city. ... (more information)

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12) The MGM stock company: the golden era
PARISH, James Robert & BOWERS, Ronald L

New Rochelle, NY:: Arlington House,, [1975]. Thick tall 8vo. More than 350 photo illusts. Black boards, silver lettrng (mnr rubbng), w/ d.j. (edgewear), VG/VG. First edition of this massive reference directory to the famed studio. ... (more information)

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13) The Oregon Trail. Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain life. . . Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
PARKMAN, Francis

Boston:: Little, Brown, and Co.,, 1902. 8vo. xx, 411, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous plates, text illusts., maps. Khaki-coloured cloth, illust. & lettrd in blue, red & gilt, w/ Native American motifs on frnt cvr & spine, NF. Early printing of this informative and classic work on the fur trade, the Native Americans, and the pioneers over the Oregon Trail. ... (more information)

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14) The symmetric Eigenvalue problem
PARLETT, Beresford N

Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Prentice-Hall,, [1980]. 8vo. xix, [1], 348 pp., errata laid-in. Text figures, tables. Brwn tweed cloth, red & gilt lettrng, slght shlfwr, VG from library of mathematician & physicist, John A. Simmons. First edition. ... (more information)

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15) Probability and experimental errors in science. An elementary survey
PARRATT, Lyman G

New York:: John Wiley,, [1961]. 8vo. xv, [1], 255, [1] pp. Numerous tables, text figures. Colour-illust softcvrs (torn bk lwr crnr), reference copy from the library of mathematician & physicist, John Simmons. First edition. ... (more information)

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16) All kneeling
PARRISH, Anne

New York:: Harper & Brothers Publ.,, 1928. 8vo. [8], 322, [2] pp. Black cloth, red lettrng, w/ d.j. cover art by Wenck (hd & ft of spine chppd, cnrs wrn), NF/G. Early printing of this well-received novel of a Philadelphia authoress who moves to New York after initial success. ... (more information)

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17) The porphyry coppers
PARSONS, A.B

New York:: American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,, 1933. Thick 8vo. xvi, 585, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous maps, photos, plates. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettrng (slght shlfwr), VG+. First edition, stated, of this invaluable historical and technical work on copper mining in the Rocky Mountains, including sections on the mines of Utah, Nevada Consolidated, Braden, Miami, Ray Consolidated, Chino, Chuquicamata, New Cornelia, Copper Queen, and more. ... (more information)

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18) Essays. Third series
PARSONS, Theophilus

Boston:: William Carter & Brother,, 1862. 12mo. 304 pp. Brown pebbled cloth, gilt lettrng (vry slght shlfwr, rubbng), still VG copy. First edition of this collection of essays by the son of the famed Mass. Judge, and was an early convert to the new Jerusalem Church, and published several works on Swedenborgianism. ... (more information)

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19) Biological oceanographic processes. Second edition
PARSONS, Timothy R., TAKAHASHI, Masayuki, & HARGRAVE, Barry

Oxford:: Pergamon Press,, [1977]. Tall 8vo. xi, [1], 332 pp. Tables, maps, diagrams. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. Second edition of this excellent work on biological oceanographic phenomena, including sections on plankton, chemical composition, biological cycles, and Benthic communities. ... (more information)

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20) A dictionary of slang and unconventional English. Colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catchreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized. Two volumes in one. Volume I: The Dictionary. Volume II: The supplement
PARTRIDGE, Eric

New York:: Macmillan Co.,, 1961. Thick tall 8vo. xiv, 1364 pp. Quarter red-cloth over white boards (vry mnr bmpng to crnrs, ft of spine, interior toning as usual), VG. Revised and enlarged 5th edition. ... (more information)

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