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London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good +. xvi, 448 p.: frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates (including 1 folded map); 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second spine compartment with gilt-tooled title: Life of Ld. Exmouth. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on raised bands. Double gilt-ruled borders on both boards; gilt-tooled decoration on board edges and turn-ins. All page edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Brown ribbon bookmark (separated from binding). The frontispiece portrait of Admiral Viscount Exmouth was engraved by W. Finden from a painting by W. Owen. The life of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833), a British naval officer who fought during the American Revolution (when he was taken prisoner at Saratoga), the French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic wars. He is familiar to fans of C. S. Forester's Captain Horation Hornblower series. In…
Read More Los dichos y hechos del Rey Phelipe II. Llamado con justa razon, el Prudente . . Al fin deste Librito se pone una Breve descripcion del Pays-Baxo. by PORREÑO, Baltasar - 1666
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Los dichos y hechos del Rey Phelipe II. Llamado con justa razon, el Prudente . . Al fin deste Librito se pone una Breve descripcion del Pays-Baxo.
by PORREÑO, Baltasar
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(4) ff., 352, 82 pp., (1) f. The first edition appeared in 1628, and Porreños's biography of Philip II is important in that it was written a few years after the king's death. The second work, written by Emanuel Sueyro, first appeared in Antwerp in 1622. With the library stamp of the Duke of Palmela on the title page and the book plate of John Bury. Palau 233069 & 324881. Salvá 2129. Peeters-Fontainas 1076. Heredia 7553.
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- Date Published 1666
- Keywords History Spain Netherlands
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The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
by Osler, Edward
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LUST FOR LIFE, A Novel Based on the Life of Vincent Van Gogh. This classic story is the Modern Library #11. 1939, Stated first modern library edition, 265 Titles Listed Back of DJ with 95 Cents
by IRVING STONE, INNER DJ FLAP PriceClipped but 95 Cents Intact Light wear crease, Blank Endpapers FOXED
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MODERN LIBRARY with #11 DJ SPINE, 1939 HBDJ, 1939, Stated first modern library edition, list on the inside verso & back of the DJ numbers is titled: Which of these 265 outstanding books do you want to read? Very Good in Good+dust jacket. 1939. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. DJ, edgeworn and moderately chipped, is in new mylar cover. Minor foxing. ; 12mo 489 pages; Pree ZipCode Coupon on back of DJ, FADED light green Topstain. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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George Alfred Henty: the Story of an Active Life
by Fenn, George Manville
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London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1911. No dustwrapper, some fading to the spine of red cloth-covered decorated boards but gilt titles thereon are still bright. Some shelf-wear to spine ends and corners, and old water staining to back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A biography of G A Henty, the popular Victorian author of adventure stories for boys, by an author of similar tales. This was Manville Fenn's final book. Originally published in 1907, this is a ''New Edition'' from 1911. 370pp, 2 b&w illustrations, many of them previously appearing in Henty's novels.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Me and My Guitars: A Russ Cochran Book Text By Chet Atkins and Michael Cochran
by Atkins, Chet
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184 pp, 9 x 12 inches. First edition/first printing. The "most comprehensive and enlightening book on Chet Atkins ever published," from the introduction.Over sixty guitars from Atkins's collection, starting with his first acoustic up through the Gretsch, D'Angelico and Gibson models including prototypes. Atkins discusses each guitar in detail and describes his musical journey, while showing a deep technical knowledge of guitars and electronics. Amazing journey through the life and guitars of one of the finest instrumentalists in the history of popular music. Out of print and rare. Very slight wear at base of spine, otherwise would be rated Fine. Ultimate gift for the Atkins fan.
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Lost Pony Tracks
by Santee, Ross
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New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953, hardcover, 303 pp, First Edition with (A) on copyright page, First Printing, Very Good in Fair dustjacket, Signed by the Author, his full name without inscription, on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean, light signs of erasure to front endpapers, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge chips to corners and spine-ends, small scuffs, fading to spine, tape repaired tear to fold at rear of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The former Arizona horse wrangler and author of Apache Land, The Bubbling Spring, and Hardrock and Silver Sage reminisces about everyday life on the vast open ranges of the American West, perhaps the most authentic picture of cowboy life ever put down on paper. Profusely illustrated throughout with 26 drawings by the author.
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Errico Malatesta in 60 anni di lotte anarchiche: Storia - Critica - Ricordi
by Borghi, Armando
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New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Includes black and white photographs and with a selection of letters by Malatesta. Foreword by Sebastian Faure. Small stains to the fore edge not affecting text, tiny chip along upper edge of front cover, library label on first page but non-circulating and not otherwise marked. A well preserved copy of the rather scarce first edition which was printed in Paris. ; Octavo.
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THE LIFE OF MAJOR GEN. FRANCIS MARION: The Most Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, against the British and Tories, in South Carolina and Georgia
by Colonel Peter Horry; M. L. Wheems
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Joseph Allen, 1837. Hardcover. Good. Full leather. Joseph Allen, 1837 printing. Name inside cover. Internally very good, except first two pages have damp stain. Front hinge is weakened and almost split. Hardcover. Ships daily.
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WILLIAM I AND THE GERMAN EMPIRE: A Biographical and Historical Sketch
by G. Barnett Smith
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.
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KESEY
by edited by Michael Strelow & The Staff Of The Northwest Review
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Eugene, Oregon: Northwest Review Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown cloth has gilt title on spine & front cover. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W photographs, manuscript pages, working notes for novels and drawings by Ken Kesey, the writer. VG dust jacket protected with a mylar cover. Author; B/W Photographs, Facsimile; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 197 pages .
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Music by Philip Glass
by GLASS, Philip. Edited by Robert T. Jones
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New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Signed on the half-title page by composer Philip Glass. First edition / First printing. White cloth. Fine in price-clipped, fine dust jacket.
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Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries Vol. II (Froissart's Chronicles)
by Froissart, Sir John
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London: William Smith, 1839. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as published). 7" x 10. History from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Volume 2 of 2. Damage to the spine / backstrip and the back board detached though present but page block still tightly bound. Rough cut paper, pages clean throughout. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK, usually within 24 hours. Please call or email with your questions. This could be a good rebinding / restoration project. A heavier book, please enquire about shipping costs to your destination. 7"x10
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Soviet Russia: Promise or Menace?
by Petersen, Arnold
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New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 62, [2] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen, who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe of the Communists, claiming they had abandoned Marxism. CONDITION: Vertical crease throughout, soiling to wrappers but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good.
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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V Zajetí Slov
by apek, Karel
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Prague: Svoboda, 1969. Later Czech edition. Hardcover. Very good -. 209 pp. Octavo. [20.5 cm]. Blue cloth over boards with stamped illustration of eyeglasses, a pipe, and a pen on front cover. Publisher's pink top stain. Original dust jacket is in very good- condition, intact but foxed, toned, and mildly torn at edges and corners. Water damage to bottom portion of back cover, but textblock and dust jacket are unaffected. Written in his mother tongue, apek writes short essays about specific words and their uses and idiocyncracies. The second portion of the book moves into a broader reflection on the use of phrases and idioms and their cultural significance.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Angola Under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality
by Bender, Gerald J
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xxvii, 288 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, top edge stained red, in white dust jacket printed in plum. Perspectives on Southern Africa, 23. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, rubbing to bottom edge of binding, internally crisp and clean, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor age-toning. Excellent copy.
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Sociologia anarchica
by Gori, Pietro
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Milano: Editrice Moderna, 1947. Third Edition. Printed wrappers. Opere Volume VII. Stain to top edge and to lower corner of text block, old price to back cover. About very good. In the Italian language.; Octavo.
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THE DUTCH BARRIER 1705 - 1719
by Geikie, Roderick & Montgomery, Isabel A. with Trevelyan, G.M. & Geyl, P
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Cambridge University Press, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxi, 418pp, frontispiece map of The Southern Netherlands, 5 Appendices. Bookplate of a former owner on the fep, with his name discretely in ink on the ffep, otherwise a clean, tight copy..
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by Robert M Edsel
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket slows slightest shelf wear, and there is some yellowing of the pages around the edges, but the book binding is tight and clean. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscription reads, "To Richard Best Wishes." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments…
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