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London: Harper & Bros., 1904. First Separate Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. F. Strothman. Title page reads: London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers : : MCMIV. Red cloth boards with yellow title and full color printing of Adam at his journal with 2 monkeys. Seven gatherings with printer's signature marks. Covers soiled from handling. Sunning to spine. Heavy paper with mild foxing on a few pages. 89 pp. Duodecimo, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall. A comic short story of what it might have been like for Adam when the world was new.
Through the Sub-Arctic (Subarctic) Forest, a Record of a Canoe Journey from Fort Wrangel to the Pelly Lakes and Down the Yukon River to the Behring Sea by Pike, Warburton - 1896
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Through the Sub-Arctic (Subarctic) Forest, a Record of a Canoe Journey from Fort Wrangel to the Pelly Lakes and Down the Yukon River to the Behring Sea
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London; New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 295pp, + xv. Brown cloth, gilt & black stylized lettering, pictorial moose insert. Spine head & foot have small tears, light corner wear, slight loss of color at base of front cover (tape removal?), spine slightly darkened. Frontispiece plus 16 B&W illustrations, 2 fold-out maps with color. Contemporary name and date in pencil on free end paper, two lines of writing on back end paper..
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- Keywords CANADA ALASKA SUB-ARCTIC EXPLORATION ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATIONS YUKON RIVER ALEUTIAN ISLANDS BERING SEA
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Extracts from Adam's Diary: translated from the original MS
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Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey. Evreux. La Librairie Illustrée. Paris. [1888] Quarto. xii, 690pp. (1) Imprim. 8 tissue guarded coloured plates, numerous engraved full page illustrations and text engravings. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards. Spine in six compartments, gilt lettering, motifs and rules. Marbled endpapers. Some toning to half-title and last few pages. Slight shelfwear to edges and corners.John Grand-Carteret (1850-1927) Art historian and collector.Due to the weight of this volume, we regret an additional postage overseas charge may apply. Please contact us for details.
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Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880
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London: André Deutsch, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. Signed Sixth Impression of "one of the very best Booker winners." (The Guardian). 8vo: [6],208pp. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth, spine stamped in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Jenny Tylden-Wright, priced £9.95. Signed by the author on the title page, without inscription. About Fine (former owner's name in ink on fly-leaf), firmly bound, contents clean and bright; about Fine jacket (barely perceptible degree of browning to top edge), vividly colored. Moon Tiger, Lively's tenth novel for adults, spans the years before, during, and after the Second World War. It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time, beginning as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and developing into a novel of love, incest, and the desire to be recognized as an independent freethinker. Lively explained to the BBC that the curious object that gives Moon Tiger its title…
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Imprimerie de Charles Hérissey. Evreux. La Librairie Illustrée. Paris. [1888] Quarto. xii, 690pp. (1) Imprim. 8 tissue guarded coloured plates, numerous engraved full page illustrations and text engravings. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards. Spine in six compartments, gilt lettering, motifs and rules. Marbled endpapers. Some toning to half-title and last few pages. Slight shelfwear to edges and corners.John Grand-Carteret (1850-1927) Art historian and collector.Due to the weight of this volume, we regret an additional postage overseas charge may apply. Please contact us for details.
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Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880
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Philadelphia, 1880. Champagne bottle-shaped die cut, (19 x 7 cm.), 12 pages, plus card cover. Chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, bound with a brass grommet. Decorative blue and white silk cord and tassel. The text outlines the Officer and Trustees, Conductors, The Programme (a series of Marches and Promenades, Quadrilles and Waltzes), Supper is served in the foyer. Fine.
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London: André Deutsch, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. Signed Sixth Impression of "one of the very best Booker winners." (The Guardian). 8vo: [6],208pp. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth, spine stamped in gold; illustrated dust jacket by Jenny Tylden-Wright, priced £9.95. Signed by the author on the title page, without inscription. About Fine (former owner's name in ink on fly-leaf), firmly bound, contents clean and bright; about Fine jacket (barely perceptible degree of browning to top edge), vividly colored. Moon Tiger, Lively's tenth novel for adults, spans the years before, during, and after the Second World War. It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time, beginning as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and developing into a novel of love, incest, and the desire to be recognized as an independent freethinker. Lively explained to the BBC that the curious object that gives Moon Tiger its title…
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Through the Sub-Arctic (Subarctic) Forest, a Record of a Canoe Journey From Fort Wrangel to the Pelly Lakes and Down the Yukon River to the Behring Sea
by Pike, Warburton
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London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First Edition. 1st Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 295 pages. Plus 32 pages of new books and announcements by publisher Edward Arnold. Light shelf wear, corners rounded, top page edges dust stained. Two folding maps without tears. Gilt and black titles with moose inset on the front cover, gilt titles on spine. 17 illustrations plus two maps. An extraordinary 4000 mile adventure from Fort Wrangel to the Pelly lakes then down the Yukon river to the Behring Sea. Completely self contained in that the only supplies available where from the land, hunting & fishing sometimes abundant game still left him in periods of near starvation. The hardships he went through form a fine test of the true explorer's spirit.
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