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The Miseries of Human Life, or the Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive, with a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs Testy.to which are Now Added Posthumous Groans By T.T. And S.S. (Vol 2 only)
by Beresford, James
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 11th Edition
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- 1826
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- Hardcover
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$47.50
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London: P Wright and Son, 1826. odd volume, vol 2 only (of two), 332pp, engraved frontis, cloth-covered boards bumped, text sound and clean. Mildly satirical, humorous work, the author's best-known (a clergyman by profession, he also wrote some religious works and translations).. 11th Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
$47.50
A Friend in the Dark The Story of a 'Seeing Eye' Dog
by Knight, Ruth Adams
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- Used - Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
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- 1937
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$47.50
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. 65pp/illus. Blue cloth boards with paste-on illustration to front cover and spine. Very lightly discolored inside both covers. A heartwarming story about the relationship between a blind person and his guide dog. Written by an American in 1937, this was less than 10 years since the first guide dog was brought to America,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Creation, Or the Power Behind Evolution, Disclosing the Unity of Matter and Force
by Miner, S. E
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- Used - Very Good(-)
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1887
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$34.50
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Burlington, IA, U.S.A.: Burdette Co, 1887. 292pp. Cloth torn away from board on cover. Text tight and clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good(-)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
$34.50
The Social Unrest: Studies in Labor and Socialist Movements (1st Printiing)
by John Graham Brooks
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Printing
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- 1903
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$124.50
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New York: MacMillan, 1903. 394pp Original 1903 printing. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Item Price
$124.50
God And Man At Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom"
by Buckley, William F
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good
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- 3rd Printing
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- 1951
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$275.00
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Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery, 1951. 240pp. This is Buckley's first book "based on his undergraduate experiences at Yale University. In the book, he criticized Yale and its faculty for forcing liberal ideology on its students. He criticized individual professors by name for their stomping out of students; religious beliefs through their teaching. Buckley claimed in the book, also, that… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Psychological Mechanisms of Language: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy Held on 11 and 12 March 1981
by Longuet-Higgins, H. C.;Lyons, John;British Academy;Royal Society (Great Britain);Broadbent, Donald E
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780854031726
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$57.50
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Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society, 1981. 207pp. DJ has light edgewear. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Item Price
$57.50
Splendid Symbols: Textiles and Traditions in Indonesia
by Gittinger, Mattiebelle
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket - Wraps
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1979
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- Paperback
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- 9780195889567
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$97.50
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New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 1979. 240pp/illus. 184 full-p. ills, text-ills, figs., glossary of terms used, extensive bibliogr., sketch-map on endpapers. Splendid catalogue depict. num. examples of traditional and ceremonial clothing fr. all over Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok,Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Solor, Lomblen, Timor, Roti, Savu, the Moluccas(Kisar, Tanembar, Ceram), Celebes, Sangir and Talaud Islands, Borneo. Clean. 1st… Read more about this item Item Price
$97.50
The Happy Hypocrite (First Illustrated Edition)
by Beerbohm, Max
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket
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- 1915
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$157.50
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1915. 70pp/illus. Full heavy clother with lovely decorative cover in blue, pink, gold and light blue. Light wear to extremities Spine slightly soiled. Back board's cloth is wavy. Decorative endpages. Half-title and front flyleaf are slightly foxed. Many full color, tissue guarded illustrated plates. Has card pocket inside back cover. Mostly clean..… Read more about this item Item Price
$157.50
In Cold Blood - 1st Printing
by Capote, Truman
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st Printing
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- 1965
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$745.00
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New York: Random House, 1965. Stated "First Printing" with "1/66" and "$5.95" inside the front flap of the dust jacket; Four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and… Read more about this item Item Price
$745.00
The Power of Print - and Men: Commemorating the Fifty Years of Linotype's Contribution to Printing and Publishing
by Dreier, Thomas
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition
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- 1936
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$59.50
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Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1936. 165pp/illus. Cloth and decorated boards. Design and decorations by W.A. Dwiggins. First edition of this commemoration of the fifty year history of linotype use. Clean. 1st Edition. Decorative Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
$59.50
International Encyclopedia of Learned Societies and Academies
by Kiger, Joseph C. (ed)
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780313276460
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- 1
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$124.50
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Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Greenwood Pub Group, 1993. 375pp. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Item Price
$124.50
The Complete Strategist
by Williams, J. D
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 1966
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- Hardcover
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- 9780070703964
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$27.50
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. 268pp/illus. A Rand corporation research study. Clean. 2nd Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$27.50
No Road Maps
by Allen, Margaret P
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780815804932
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Hanover, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Christopher Pub House, 1993. 135pp/illus. "A warm and lighthearted account of flying and families and farming; about restoring homes and building libraries; about the Civil War in a small Southern town and World War II in an 8th grade classroom". Stamped "Review Copy" on title page. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
$27.50
A Question of Colour?
by Griffiths, Peter H. S
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$49.50
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London, England: Leslie Frewin, 1966. 240 p. 8 plates (incl, ports. ) tables. Early book on immigration in theUK. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$49.50
Book Selection and Censorship in the Sixties
by Moon, Eric (ed)
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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- 9780835202053
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$74.50
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New York: Bowker, 1969. 421pp.An anthology of articles about book selection and censorship written for Library Journal during the decade of the 1960's. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
$74.50
The Old Town and the Royal Castle in Warsaw
by Badyga, Jerzy A.;Zachwatowicz, Jan
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- Second Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9788321333571
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Warsaw, Poland: Arkady, 1992. 63pp text with 130 color photos. English text. Clean. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Item Price
$57.50
A Pictorial History of the Carousel
by Fried, Frederick
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good (+)
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$72.50
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New York, U.S.A.: Bonanza, 1964. 231pp. A tight clean copy with bumped corners in a brignt attractive dust jacket. Lavishly lllustrated with black and white drawings and photographs and posters. The book includes 6 appendices and an index. Gift inscription on ffep. Light edge-wear to dj.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read more about this item Item Price
$72.50
The Rack
by Ellis, A. E
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition 2d Prntg
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- 1958
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$49.50
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London: Heineman, 1958. 414pp. Clean. First Edition 2d Prntg. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$49.50
Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of Terrible Superstition
by Sabine Baring-Gould
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good (+)
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780883560082
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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$44.50
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Causeway Books, 1973. 266pp/frontis. DJ has light wear. Text clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$44.50
Sir Guy of Warwick
by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1905
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- Hardcover
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$34.50
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Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Co, 1905. 256 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bror J. Olsson-Nordfeldt and Ben Cohen. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
$34.50