Item 214297Painters of the Desert.
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Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More Item Details for Painters of the Desert Add to Wish List
Item #214297
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Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine, 1960. Second printing. Read More Item Details for Painters of the Desert Add to Wish List
Item #214297
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London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge Farrington Street. New York: 56, Walker Street, 1862. Cruikshank, George. Read More Item Details for Guy Fawkes: or, The Gunpowder Treason, An Historical Romance Add to Wish List
Item #262772
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London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First Edition. Signed By M.R. Halliwell-Phillips the gift of J.O.H-P. June 4, 1881." also signed Mrs. Ainsworth at half-title. Read More Item Details for Rookwood. A Romance Add to Wish List
Item #334953
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Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. "A 'Natural History' of the Native Tribes who in India render us Service" Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a...... Read More Item Details for Behind the Bungalow Add to Wish List
Item #236658
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Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1781-1782. First edition. The Aitken Bible, First English Bible Printed in America. The Aitken Bible is one of the most celebrated American bibles, being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged..... Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments,: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues … Add to Wish List
Item #366519
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New York: August 1911. Aitkin (1877-1956) was an early film producer and distributor during the silent film era, noted for his worth with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith. The Western Film Exchange was founded in Milwaukee in July 1906 by John R. Freuler and Aitkin for the purpose of mass-producing..... Read More Item Details for Typed document signed, an agreement between Western Film Exchange of New York and Frank Meyer, concerning the terms of a loan Add to Wish List
Item #353283
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New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1933. Early reprint. Read More Item Details for Jungle Portraits Add to Wish List
Item #353417
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“London [i.e., Newcastle?]: [s.n.], Printed in the year 1744”. Pirated edition (?). Bound with 3 others: [ANONYMOUS]. Lucius and Celadon: or, a Dialogue on the Existence and Immortality of the Soul. [4], 68 pp. 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I. Thompson and Company, for Thomas Slack, 1755. ESTCN33841; Apparently..... Read More Item Details for The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books Add to Wish List
Item #229557
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Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More Item Details for Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons] Add to Wish List
Item #333028
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Berlin: S. Efron, [n.d., 1920]. Nice copy of this emigré edition of these poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Originally published in 1913. Read More Item Details for Chetki. Stikhi Add to Wish List
Item #326974
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New York: Izd-vo im. Chekhova, 1952. Read More Item Details for Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems] Add to Wish List
Item #333036
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[Peterburg]: [Alkonost], 1922. Third edition, published in 1922. First published in 1917, it was Akhmatova’s third book, written during the disintegration of her marriage and as a world war raged on, it is a deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Uncommon edition. Read More Item Details for Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book] Add to Wish List
Item #339644
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London: KPI, [1986]. Second edition. Read More Item Details for Islamic Peoples of the Soviet Union Add to Wish List
Item #320753
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[N.p., North Africa: early to mid-18th century C.E.]. The well-known handbook of rituals and prayers associated with the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. This devotional work by Al-Jazuli (d. 1465) was intended to remind the reader of the importance of prayer and its benefits, and also to render such..... Read More Item Details for Kitab Dala’il al-Khairat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salah ‘ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar [Guidebook of Benefits and Illuminations of Prayers to the Chosen Prophet] Add to Wish List
Item #267230
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Ipswich: East Anglian Times, 1951. First edition. These tales were told by Sheikh Sulaiman al-Kretli and were put together by John Gayer-Anderson's brother T.G. Gayer-Anderson after his brother's death. He owned the house Bait al-Kretliya which with all his Islamic treasure reverted back to the Egyptian State on his death..... Read More Item Details for Legends of the Bait Al-Kretliya as Told by Sheikh Sulaiman al-Kretli and put into English by R.G. "John" Gayer-Anderson Pasha Add to Wish List
Item #44175
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Spring Hill, AL [but printed in Marion, Alabama?]: November 13, 1849 [postmarked Feb. 16]. A handbill published by the Bethel Baptist Association, a group of Baptist churches in Alabama whose principal object was "extending to planters and other slave-holders ... the offer of the Association's active co-operation, in the work..... Read More Item Details for To Planters and Other Slaveholders [caption title] Add to Wish List
Item #352786
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[Washington, D.C: 1840]. Read More Item Details for [drop-title] Petition of Albin Michel, in behalf of the heirs of Madame de Lusser, praying the confirmation of a grant of land in Mobile, in the state of Alabama. January 9, 1840. Ordered to be printed, to accompany bill S. No. 55 Add to Wish List
Item #233659
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Paris: A l'Emancipatrice, 1917. First edition. Alain was the pseudonym of French educator and philosopher Émile-Auguste Chartier (1868-1951). He was a professor at the Lycée Henri IV, Paris, from 1909 to 1933 and had a profound influence upon the thinking of his students, who included Simone Weil, Raymond Aron, André..... Read More Item Details for Quatre-vingt-un chapitres sur l'esprit et les passions. Par l'auteur des Propos d'Alain Add to Wish List
Item #339451
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Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Read More Item Details for La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo Add to Wish List
Item #322556
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Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. Early edition (Title pages dated 1859 have been seen but the text includes events of 1860). Author and playwright de Alarcon had enlisted in the Spanish army following a failed production in 1857; he wrote this important account of the Spanish..... Read More Item Details for Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa ... Con Vistas de Batallas, de Ciudades y Paisajes, Tipos, Trajes y Monumentos, con el Retrato del Autor y de los Principales Personajes Copiados de Fotografias y Croquis Ejecutados en el Memo Teatro de la Guerra Add to Wish List
Item #354208
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New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1944. Kredel, Fritz. One of 500 copies printed by hand by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press. The first book the Hammers printed at Wells College. Holbrook notes that the charming Kredel woodcuts are colored “in some copies”, as here —..... Read More Item Details for The Three-Cornered Hat Add to Wish List
Item #256803
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September 6, 1941-1944. Starting in Maryland and progressing to 'The Good Old 41st C.B." Transportation Group, with names and addsresses c 25 fellow 41sters. Read More Item Details for Alaska Add to Wish List
Item #264615
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Seattle: Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co, 1936. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map, perfectly traced from the original, illustrates the Bluff Quartz claims region in which the company sought to operate. An interesting overview of this large-scale..... Read More Item Details for The Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co. [cover title] Add to Wish List
Item #354284
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[N.p.]: 1927. Short history of Alaska by missionary H.P. Corser, author of Totem Lore and Through the Thousand Islands of Alaska. Read More Item Details for Seventy-Six Page History of Alaska Add to Wish List
Item #316504
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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 Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller Add to Wish List
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