Washington, D.C: November 22nd, 1899. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts, the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller
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Washington, D.C: GPO, 1916; 1917; 1923. Three copies of the first three issues of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 1, published to "give prospective settlers in Alaska, and particularly homesteaders, information on subjects which will be of more or less vital interest to them." Includes sections on climate..... Read More about Information for Prospective Settlers in Alaska
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nd (c. 1897). Read More about Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields
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Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7..... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...
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Philadelphia: John Y. Huber, 1892. Second edition. Read More about A Summer in Alaska
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Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Read More about A Summer in Alaska. A popular account of the travels of an Alaska exploring expedition along the...
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Sitka: November 26, 1867. This must be amongst the earliest U.S. elections in Alaska, with the purchase being finalized in October 1867. Shortly thereafter, with the blessing of the transition military commander, the townspeople of Sitka drew up a charter, elected a governing council, and named Dodge mayor. This document..... Read More about Manuscript document signed by Storer and others, attesting that Storer had been elected...
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Washington, D.C: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl, though it was not issued with the speech..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1904. Read More about Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. United States Atlas. Maps and Charts accompanying the Case and Counter...
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[Chicago: Pool Bros., Inc.], circa 1920. Details the sights and towns along the railroad and steamer route, with timetables and prices for excursions, and with a small map of the line from Skagway to Dawson. Read More about A Hand Book of Vacation Trips in Alaska, Atlin and the Yukon on the White Pass and Yukon Route
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1889. Read More about Investigation of the Fur-Seal and Other Fisheries of Alaska. Report of the Committee on Merchant...
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Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Read More about Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the...
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. Alastair. No. 556 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed by Alastair. Immaculate Copy. Read More about Sebastian Van Storck
Price: $900
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1927. Alastair. One of 1050 copies SIGNED at plate facing p. 54. Read More about Sebastian Van Storck
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London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1928. Possibly a remainder binding. This volume includes the limitation (of 1850 copies), but is not numbered. Read More about Manon Lescaut translated from the French of the Abbé Prévost by D. C. Moylan. Introduction by...
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London: John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, [1927]. First edition. The interesting and amusing account of the Gordon's journey through Albania during the summer of 1926, The authors had written other volumes about their journeys in Spain, the Balkans, Languedoc, Sweden and Lapland. Read More about Two Vagabonds in Albania
Price: $300
[Albany: 1860]. Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860, assembled by student Horatio Colony (1835-1917). Opened in 1851, Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s..... Read More about Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty
Price: $1,500
New York: April 18, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten Portrait of Albee, 1961. Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
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New York: April 18, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
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Lyon: Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, 1757. First edition. Biographical dictionary of French preachers, with useful bibliographical content. Read More about Dictionnaire portatif des prédicateurs françois : dont les sermons, prônes, homélies,...
Price: $150
New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More about The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an...
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Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for..... Read More about ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson
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1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
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Lyon & Paris: Éditions Archat, [1937]. First edition. Read More about L'Afrique du Nord française dans l'histoire. Introduction geographique de R. Lespes....
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Genova: Presso Ivone Gravier, Stampatore-Librajo, 1811. Read More about Nuovo Dizonario Italiano-Francese
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Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Martha Albrand”
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[Berlin, Charlottenburg]: [c.1908]. Includes dated drawings of on the Spree River, as seen from the gardens behind the Fredericks Palace, Berlin (May 20, 1908) and King William's Hunting lodge in Grunwald (May 21, 1908), as well as statues, landscapes, and architecture in Charlottenburg and Grunwald. Read More about Album of 37 pencil drawings of German scenes with captions in English, early ones of Charlottenburg
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Eagle Lake: 1938. This album depicts mostly members of the hunt on the water. Their names are identified on the front pastedown> John CaSSIDY, M.H. (Master of the Hunt?), Bert Meaderr, Bob Greenaway, Arthur Newton, Dave McIntosh; Guides Arthur Oulette, Henry Pleurde. Each photo has a caption. Read More about Album of a deer hunt on Eagle Lake, 1938
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vp: Most ca. 1861-1864. Pro-Union Covers in Contemporary Album. An album of nearly 100, unadressed pro-Union pictorial envelopes assembled during the war and housed in a contemporary album made for the purpose. The illustrations on the envelopes are done in the style of caricature, and bear an array of pro-Union..... Read More about An album of Civil War Patriotic Pictorial Covers with pro-Union designs and slogans
Price: $3,750
[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More about Album of Indian miniatures
Price: $3,000
![Item #256937 Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/256937.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651743)
Venice: Baldassar di Costantini; [Comin de Tridino de Monferrato], 1544; 1540. First Italian edition of Alciati;Fourth Italian edition of Puteo. Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling. Two early works on duelling bound together. The Alciati was first published in Latin as De Singulari Certamine (1543) and appears here in its..... Read More about Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello....
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London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of these Letters of a Portuguese Nun in only 5 letters. Her purported love affair with the French officer Noël Bouton, Marquis..... Read More about Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated by W.R. Bowles
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. My Boys, Etc
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. Shawl-Straps
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. Shawl-Straps
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Read More about AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG: My Boys, Etc
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First British Edition, Low's copyright cheap ed. of American books. Scarce, OCLC locates only one copy, in Germany. Read More about Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Price: $300
Newark: William Tuttle, [1811]. First Issue of the 1st NJ Register. Read More about Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for . 1811
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[Saratoga Springs: ca. 1860-1875]. Alden was active in the 1860's and 1870's with studios in Springfield, MA and Providence, RI. Here he captures members of the Morton family, in fine dress; they are most likely on holiday enjoying Saratoga's races and spas. Iron was an unusual medium for the stereograph..... Read More about Two tintype stereographs taken at Saratoga Springs of Morton family
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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALDIN. Inscribed obn ffep "To Mrs. George Philips from Cecil Aldin." Read More about Berkshire Vale. Poems by …
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New York: Dutton, 1909. Aldin, Cecil. First American Edition. Read More about Bachelors and A Bachelor's Confessions
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New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More about Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with ...
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London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. The following 12 volumes have one or both boards detached: I Young, III Milton, I Pope, Parnell, Akenside, Shakespeare, Collins, I & II Butler, II Young, Falconer, Goldsmith. Read More about The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
Price: $600
London: George Bell and Son, 1893. Read More about The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
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London: Faber and Faber, [1965]. First Edition. Read More about Best Science Fiction Stories of
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1982-1985]. First British editions. First two simultaneous with, and the last preceded by, the U.S. edition. Read More about Helliconia Trilogy] The complete trilogy, comprising: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and...
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1976]. First Edition. Signed. Read More about The Malacia Tapestry
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. First edition. Signed "Henry Cabot Lodge. A Memory March 22nd 1907" on flyleaf and below a card from Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich giving this book. On pastedown is the bookplate of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and his cut signature. Read More about The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Price: $125
59 Mount Vernon Street, Boston: May 7, 1905. "You did me a favor in asking me to write in this book. Sincerely yours, T.B. Aldrich" Read More about Autograph letter signed ("T.B. Aldrich"), to Rev. James E––
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New York: Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sept 29, 1893. Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed. To Mr. (Whitelaw) Reid. Thanking him for four days at Ophir Farm
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N.p: n.d. [ca. 1892?]. Two lyrics, literally back-to-back, expressive of the poet’s yearning for escape. Read More about Autograph manuscript copies of select stanzas from his Poems "Insomnnia" and...
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[Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896]. Hadaway, W.S. First Edition, Small paper copy. Read More about Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Adaptation of Aldrich’s epic dramatic poem Judith and Holoferne, and the basis for two films, most importantly D.W. Griffith's 1914 version, which was his first feature length film and the film that laid the foundations for his furture extravaganzas..... Read More about Judith of Bethulîa, A Tragedy
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[Massachusetts]: Reprinted with the Author’s Permission, and Sold at the Fair of the MAssachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1880. First Separate Edition. Author’s Own Copy (?). With the bookplate and tipped in signature of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Read More about The Little Violinist
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[Boston]: 59, Mount Vernon Street, [1883]. Read More about Manuscript fair copy of "Books and Season " 14 lines, Signed in full. Published as...
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Letterhead, nd. AN UNTIMELY THOUGHT. I WONDER what day of the week— I wonder what month of the year— Will it be midnight, or morning, And who will bend over my bier? —What a hideous fancy to come As I wait, at the foot of the stair..... Read More about Manuscript Fair Copy of the part of the Poem "An Untimely Thought." 10 lines, unsigned....
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The Manuscript reading in part: The Summer comes and the Summer goes; Wild-flowers are fringing the dusty lanes, The sparrows go darting thro' fragrant rains, And, all of a sudden--it snows Published version reads: "The Summer comes and the Summer goes; Wild-flowers are fringing the dusty lanes, The shallows go..... Read More about Manuscript poem "Snow", Signed. Eight lines
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1882. First edition. Inscribed to the Translator. Presentation copy inscribed "Madame Thérese Blanc from her friend T.B. Aldrich" on fhe half-title. Together with a 2 pp. A.L.S. to Auguste Allion , May 9, 1899 mentioning the success of his book and its translation by Madame..... Read More about Poems
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Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. First edition, first state with “scattered” on page 14 line 20 and “The Uncle Sam Series” on the first leaf of advertisements at the back. Read More about The Story of a Bad Boy
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Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. First edition, First state. Read More about The Story of a Bad Boy
Price: $500
New York: Bantam Books, [July, 1989]. First Edition. SIGNED. Read More about Men from Earth
Price: $300
Munich: Galerie van der Loo, [1967]. #28 of 50 with an original lithographic print, signed and numbered. ONE OF 50. Read More about Pierre Alechinsky. 20 Jahre Impressionen. Oeuvrekatalog Druckgraphik
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Westminster: St Clement Dane, September 15, 1772. ALEHOUSE LICENSE 1772 IN WESTMINSTER. Alehouse license for The Crooked Bill in the parish of St. Clement Danes. The fee for the one-year license was £. 10 each to the proprietors Ambrose Pennington and John Waite. Read More about Alehouse license for Ambrose Pennington and John Waite of The Crooked Bill
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New York: Charles Scribner & Co, 1857. First Edition. Read More about Outlines of Moral Science
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Walpole, NH: Cheever Felch, 1810. Tenth Edition. Read More about A Grammatical System of the English Language: Comprehending a Plain and Familiar Scheme of...
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Read More about Salmon Fishing in Canada
Price: $300
London: J.M. Dent, 1906. First edition. Read More about Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”
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N. P: Archaelogical Institute of America. Mythology Company Publishers, 1936. Fine reprint of the 1916 edition. Scarce in the original dust jacket. Volume 10 in “The Mythology of All Races” Series. Read More about North American Mythology
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More about Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident
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London: James Cochrane and Co, 1835. First edition. "War of the Two-Brothers," with a contemporary letter of Admiral Sartorius. First edition of this lively first-hand account of events in Portugal in 1834 during the so-called "War of the Two-Brothers." The author James Alexander is perhaps best known nowadays as having..... Read More about Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834 ... with Observations on the Present and...
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San Francisco: White Rbbit Press-Open Space 24 Allen Street, March, 1966. First Edition X of 26 copies, signed by author and artist. Read More about the jack rabbit poem
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1934. Kent, Rockwell. First edition. Read More about Candy
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Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and..... Read More about Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait
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Glasgow: Maurice Ogle & Co, 1870-72. Read More about The Poetical Works of…
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London: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, 1814. First edition. Well executed and precisely colored series of plates illustrating the costumes of the constituent nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian empire, including representatives of Upper Austria, Tyrolia, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Sclavonia, Dalmatia, Transylvania, Bukowina, etc., etc., as..... Read More about Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in 50 Coloured...
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[Washington, D.C: Globe Office, c. 1833]. The Alexandria Canal was major significance for water transportation into Virginia. Hardin was an important Kentucky politician, who serves several terms in the Houise of Reps. and led the way for the passage of the bill for construction of the canal. The canal connected..... Read More about Subscription List for "Speech (given in Congress) of the Hon B. Hardin (1784-1852) on the...
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London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More about The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1936. First edition, signed and numbered by the author and limited to 1250 copies. Steven Moore's and Mary McCarthy's copy. With a letter from Steven Moore enclosing this, his personal copy, to her with a copy of her 1936 "Discovery" review of the book..... Read More about Locos. A Comedy of Gestures
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Italy: 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of odes to the American Revolution, printed here in a limited edition of 250 copies. Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet who published several poetical works on the American Revolution. Read More about Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [n.d., ca. 1907]. Early reprint. Rare In Dust Jacket. Read More about Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune
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New York: Hurst & Company, 1900. Reprint. Read More about The Erie Train Boy
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Boston: Whiiemore, Niles and Hall, 1856. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860). Contents. Read More about The Poetry of the East
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![Item #260462 Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes. Algeria, Felix Hautfort](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/260462.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651926)
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1897. Read More about Biskra [At head of title:] Au Pays des Palmes
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Paris: Plon, nd. Inscribed. Inscribed "Pour M. Emile Rossignol/ cordialement/ Massu/7.4.73." Read More about Le Torrent et la Digue. Alger du 13 Mai aux Barricades
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London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854. First edition. Read More about Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social and Natural, of French Africa
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1914. First Edition. Read More about The Real Algeria
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Paris: Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kppelin, 1856. French Colonization. French colonization. In 1830 the French had conquered Algeria and begun colonization primarily with the Governor-Generalship form of goverment backed by the Ministry of War. The printed paper label reads "Imprimerie, Librairie et Papeterie/ de Dubois..... Read More about Carte Topographique des Environs d'Alger d'Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers...
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Paris: Chez Aubert, Place de la Bourse, No. 25, c 1842. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph, heightened with Gum Arabic, : "Morabite. (Garçon de Bains.)"...
Price: $400
