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Baldwin Locomotive Works: Illustrated Catalogue Of Narrow-Gauge Locomotives
Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan and Company, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. An exceptionally clean, bright and solid copy. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photographs, line drawings, graphs and schematic drawings. A fine copy in all respects. READ MORE
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Price: $300.00
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Electric Locomotives: Baldwin Locomotive Works Burnham, Williams & Co., Philadelphia, PA., U.S.A. And The Westinghouse Electric And Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, PA., U.S.A.
BARNES, DAVID LEONARD
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Origina dark green cloth lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. Slender 4to. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, schematic drawings (some in color) as well as graphs and charts. A fine example of this scarce and important Railroad volume. READ MORE
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Price: $650.00
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Great Britain and Sea Power
BARTLETT, C. J.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of the first edition. Previous owner signature to the front paste-down and his stamp along the top edge, else fine. This copy is not an ex-library and is in a complete dust jacket. The text block is without underlining or marginal... READ MORE
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Price: $400.00
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Undertones Of War
BLUNDEN, EDMUND
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. In a plain buff dust jacket with borders and lettering in black. An exceptionally clean, bright and lovely example of this superb work, considered along with Sassoon's Memoirs of An Infantry Officer among the finest works to come from... READ MORE
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Price: $700.00
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The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Professor, Shirley, and Combined in one Volume; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with Agnes Grey
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE; BRONTE, EMILY; BRONTE, ANNE Edmund Dulac (illustrator).
London: J. M. Dent, 1922. Leather Bound. Near Fine. Six octavo volumes now bound in full smooth calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. This set appears to have been specially bound for The J. W. Robinson Company of Los Angeles. Their name appears next to the Sangorski & Sutcliffe statement at the front free endpaper. At the rear of each volume... READ MORE
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Price: $2,250.00
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The Tournament. Its Periods and Phases
CLEPHAN, R. COLTMAN
London: Methuen, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Original red cloth, image of jousting knight stamped in gilt on front cover. Lettered in gilt. 195 pp. With preface by Charles J. Ffoulkes, curator of the Armouries at the Tower. Frontispiece in full color and tissue guard and 18 black and white illustrations on twelve plates and three in-text diagrams... READ MORE
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Price: $350.00
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The Rover
CONRAD, JOSEPH
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. In an extremely nice example of the alternate full color dust jacket. With Conrad/Unwin promotional pamphlet laid in. Mild foxing along the top edge, else fine. Agrees with all points as listed in Smith... READ MORE
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Price: $2,000.00
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Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor
FAIRLIE, GERARD
New York: Hillman-Curl, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. The first Bulldog Drummond book with Fairlie's name. At the time of his death Sapper was working with Fairlie on this title. Fairlie completed this one and went on to write many more. The book is in great shape, very tight and straight. There is some browing on... READ MORE
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Price: $350.00
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More Fun For Our Little Friends
GILLIES, MARY
London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy. Original dark green pebbled cloth with blind corner designs. Lettered and illustrated in gilt. With twenty two large illustrations by Edward H. Wehnert. Nineteenth century gift inscriptions on the front paste-down and the front free endpaper. READ MORE
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Price: $250.00
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The Shadow Between His Shoulder Blades
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
Boston: Small, Maynard And Company, (1909). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. In original illlustrated boards, all in shades of gray and black. Illustrations by George Harding. This has to be a very early appearance for Harding whose work first began to appear in The Saturday Evening Post in 1903. Untrimmed edges. The complete dust jacket mirrors the... READ MORE
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Price: $750.00
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Jehol City Of Emperors
HEDIN, SVEN
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1933. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original yellow cloth lettered in dark red. The boards are slightly soiled but the book remains very tight and solid. The complete dust jacket has archival paper tape to the folds and edges of the verso. The red on the spine is just... READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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Californians
JEFFERS, ROBINSON
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the poet's first commercially available book, preceeded only by Flagons and Apples from 1912. The original blue cloth is bright and unmarked. The gilt lettering and design are quite bright. Top edge gilt. Previous owner book-plate loosely affixed to the front paste-down, and... READ MORE
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Price: $250.00
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The Alabaster Hand And Other Ghost Stories
MUNBY, A. N. L.
London: Dennis Dobson LTD, (1949). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Bound in original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine. Some very minor spotting to the fore-edge, else fine. The complete dust jacket is bright and actually quite brilliant. Lovely cover art by Joanna Dowling. Contains 14 Ghost stories written by the author while he was imprisoned... READ MORE
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Price: $400.00
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Death In Goblin Waters
PETERSON, MARGARET
London: Hutchinson, (1934). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / very good. Bound in original blue-green cloth, lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. In the complete and very dramatic dust jacket. Some minor edge-wear and rubbing to the jacket. Two small tape repairs to the verso. The author's final work, which the publisher's make very obvious. A.... READ MORE
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Price: $900.00
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Northwest Passage
ROBERTS, KENNETH
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Two volume limited edition housed in the original illustrated slip-case. Maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edges gilt. White dust jackets are complete though the lettering on the spines is faded by half and there is moderate wrinkling to volume I, very minor wrinkling to... READ MORE
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Price: $1,650.00
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Heath Robinson's Book Of Goblins
ROBINSON, W. HEATH
London: Hutchinson & Co. (1934). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original rough grained navy blue cloth with blind stamp illustration, lettered in gilt. 4to. With 7 colored plates and over 50 other black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. In the complete and remarkable dust jacket. Very minor edge-wear to the jacket. As fine a copy of... READ MORE
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Price: $3,500.00
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Sovereign
SANSOM, C. J.
London: Macmillan, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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The Mystery Of The Papyrus
VALE, G. B.
London: Methuen & Company, (1929). Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Original green cloth, lettered in blue on the front panel and the spine. 8vo. Eight page publishers catalog at rear. 246pp. In the complete and exceedingly rare dust jacket. The front panel of the jacket is bright and in good condition. The spine is faded with text in blue maintained... READ MORE
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Price: $2,750.00
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Histoire du Soldat
VONNEGUT, KURT
NP: Gonfalon Press, 1997. First edition. A fine copy in all respects of this scarce volume. From the limited edtion of 110 copies, this one being number 95. Signed by Vonnegut and the book's creater and illustrator, Michael Fallon. Four color woodblock plates. An interesting history here. The work was initially conceived by Igor Stravinsky during the dark days of... READ MORE
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Price: $600.00
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Captains Of Souls
WALLACE, EDGAR
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, (1922). First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original red cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. Small previous book shop tab lightly tipped in at the hinge of the front free endpaper. In the complete dust jacket which remains quite bright and pleasing. Dust jacket art... READ MORE
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Price: $350.00
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The Children
WHARTON, EDITH
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow. In the complete and very lovely orignal dust jacket. Some very minor spotting along the top edge. Bruccoli state "A" indicating the true first edition, first issue. Parenthetical (1) at the final page and "motors" at... READ MORE
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Price: $800.00
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