Recent Arrivals from Xerxesbooks
Recent Arrivals from Xerxesbooks

EXAMINATIONS, AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR EVOLUTION AS ADMINISTRATIVE DEVICES IN ENGLAND
by Montgomery, Robert J
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Glen Head, New York, USA
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1967 University of Pittsburgh. Hardcover octavo. 303p. Chapters on Oxford and Cambridge, State and competitve exams, Secondary exams and technical examinations. Near Fine in Good, price clipped dj, dj has rubbed area on front panel. no owner marks. Hard-to-Find title. . Item Price
$44.00

THE JOURNALS OF WASHINGTON IRVING - volume One (only)
by Trent, William P (ed)
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Boston 1919 first edition. Bibliophile Society. 225p. a few pages yet unopened. Numerous illustrations. Edition limited to 430 copies. VG hinges not cracked; text clean; no owner marks; light cover wear. Brown cloth bakcstrip and tan paper covered boards. . Item Price
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BYRON AND GOETHE , ANALYSIS OF A PASSION
by Butler, E M
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London 1956 first edition. Bowes. Hardcover octavo. 229p. Fine. text clean as new. in VG++ dj. no wear on dj, very slight uneven toning, price clipped. . Item Price
$75.00

ANATOMY OF CRITICISM, FOUR ESSAYS
by Frye, Northrop
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$22.00
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Princeton NJ 1957 first edition. Hardcover octavo.. 383p. Near Fine. no owner marks. no dj. . Item Price
$22.00

A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
by Taylor, Overton H.
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NY 1960 McGraw. Hardcover sm4to. 524p. VG bindng secure; hinges not cracked; small amount of light ink underlining in initial chapters. in fairly good, worn DJ. . Item Price
$29.00

THE PHANTOM CARAVAN OR ABD EL KADER EMIR OF ALGERIA ( 1808-1883)
by Clayton, Vista
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Glen Head, New York, USA
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$65.00
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Hicksville, NY 1975 first edition. Exposition Press. Hardcover octavo. 308p. End paper maps. VG+ end paper maps slightly unevenly toned; no owner marks; no wear. Binding secure. "The adventurous account of one of the greatest leaders of all time - An Arab chieftain who taught the world a lesson in brotherhood." (dj) . Item Price
$65.00

Philips' ABC POCKET ATLAS-GUIDE TO LONDON AND ITS OUTER DISTRICTS - 17th improved edition
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London. no date. c. 1920. George Philip. octavo wraps. Color maps; postal codes; etc. About 100 p. Internally maps are near Fine, just faintly toned; cover is Good plus with some light wear. no owner marks. . Item Price
$25.00

GEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST INDIES AND ADJACENT LANDS
by Cutteridge, J O
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London 1947 new and revised edition. Hardcover sm octavo. Green cloth. Colour maps; 16 halftone photo plates. 326p. no owner marks. VG. no dj. . Item Price
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BRIEF LIVES
by Brookner, Anita
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NY 1990 first US edition. Random. Hardcover octavo. 260p. Fine in Fine dj. As New. . Item Price
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SAUDI ARABIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
by Winder, R. Bayly
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$49.00
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London 1965 first edition. Macmillan. Hardcover octavo. 312p. monochrome photo illustrations. Very Near Fine (text slightly evenly toned) in VG lightly worn DJ. . Item Price
$49.00

LIBERTY OR EQUALITY , THE CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME
by Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von; John P Hughes, ed
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$120.00
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Caldwell, Idaho 1952 first edition. Caxton. Hardcover octavo. Red cloth395p. Text very lightly evenly toned. Near Fine. no owner marks. no dj. . Item Price
$120.00

THE EDGE OF THE DESERT
by Dunbar, Ianthe
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Boston first edition. no date c. 1923. Small, Maynard. Hardcover 4to. Blue cloth with pictorial front board panel in gilt with spine lettering (spine lettering has faded mostly away.) 148p. some text drawings. . Item Price
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OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT THE RISE OF THE TOTAL STATE AND TOTAL WAR
by von Mises, Ludwig
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$350.00
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New Haven 1944 first edition. Yale University. Hardcover octavo. 291p. VG almost no cover wear; hinges not cracked; owner bookplate; one small slight stain on closed page ends. Good dj - light wrinkling, some edge wear ; light edge chipping; price not clipped on dj. Pictures available on request. This book is becoming quite hard to find in the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS
by Wittgenstein, Ludwig; trans by D F Pears and B F McGuinness
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London1961 Kegan Paul. Hardcover thin octavo. Red cloth. 166p. VG. no owner marks. no dj. . Item Price
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MODERN AND AVANT-GARDE FIRST EDITIONS, 14 APRIL 1970
by Parke-Bernet
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NY . Auction sale number 3024. Octavo wraps. Cover eye-catching red , orange and blue design. 39 p. 170 items including work by Thomas Wolfe, William Carlos Williams, Gregory Corso, Saul Bellow, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, and many others. Some illustrations. Near Fine. no marks. . Item Price
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A VISIT TO CEYLON
by Haeckel, Ernst
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New York no date . 19th c "third American edition." Eckler. Hardcover octavo. Frontispiece map of India and Ceylon.337p. with 32 p. publisher ads. Inner hinges tender but not yet cracked; binding secure; spine ends frayed. VG. no dj. . Item Price
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THE RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT
by Feiler, Arthur
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New York 1930 first edition. Harcourt Brace. 272p. Blue cloth with hammer and sickle shown in orange ink on front cover panel and orange lettering on backstrip. VG no owner marks; text slightly evenly toned. no dj. Binding secure; text clean. . Item Price
$28.00

HAVELOCK
by Forbes, Archibald
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London 1891 first edition. Macmillan. Hardcover thin 12mo. Red cloth. Henry Havelock. 223p. Portrait of Havelock as frontispiece. Two owner bookplates ( Towne family.) Good plus, light cover wear; hinges not cracked; bindng secure. Henry Havelock, 1795 - 1857, British General in India. . Item Price
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SEVEN YEARS IN CEYLON, STORIES OF MISSION LIFE
by Leitch, Mary and Margaret
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NY 1890 first edition. American Tract Society. Hardcover Sq.8vo., 170pp., woodcuts. Cover panels are half white pebbled paper (front white portion of panel has mounted elephant in gilt; and half red cloth with Title in gilt and black ink. All edges gilt. Binding secure; hinges not cracked in or out. Text near Fine . slightly evenly toned. No owner… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DIGNITY OF SCIENCE, STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PRESENTED TO WILLIAM HUBERT KANE
by Weisheipl, James A
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1961 first edition. Thomist Press. Hardcover thick large octavo. 526p. Near Fine. no owner marks. in Good, moderately worn and faded, dj. . Item Price
$37.00