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A Tale of a Tub by Swift, Jonathan

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Title: A Tale of a Tub
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Nutt, 1704. First Edition. Near fine. First printing with the uncorrected text and the blank space on page 320 where the word "uterinus" was later inserted (a 2nd and 3rd edition were published the same year). His first major book, a classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified in the quarrels between Saint Peter, Martin Luther, and Jack Calvin. 19th century full, straight grain morocco. A near fine copy, clean, sound and complete with the Treatises leaf at the front and the final blank, and though it is not a scarce book, it is quite so in this splendid condition. Ref: Teerink-Scouten 217. Rothschild 1992.

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MILTON W. STREETER, THE JEALOUS AND INFATUATED MURDERER, WHO MURDERED HIS BEAUTIFUL AND YOUNG WIFE, ELVIRA W. STREETER, AT SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS., A FEW MONTHS SINCE: CONTAINING ALL THE INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE- ALL THE PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER- HIS TRIAL, WHICH OCCURRED RECENTLY, SENTENCE, &C by Tingley, H.F.

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Title: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MILTON W. STREETER, THE JEALOUS AND INFATUATED MURDERER, WHO MURDERED HIS BEAUTIFUL AND YOUNG WIFE, ELVIRA W. STREETER, AT SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS., A FEW MONTHS SINCE: CONTAINING ALL THE INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE- ALL THE PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER- HIS TRIAL, WHICH OCCURRED RECENTLY, SENTENCE, &C
Author: Tingley, H.F.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Pawtucket, R.I.: A.W. Pearce, Printer, 1850. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 96pp. Full-page illustration of the murder scene. The rear wrapper advertises, "Agents Wanted to sell this book in all parts of the United States and the British Provinces, and in all parts of Europe where the English language is spoken." Very Good plus. "Streeter's wife decided to leave him because of his insane threats and suspicions. When she started a suit to do so, he cut her throat as well as his own, though he survived. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment" [McDade]. Phrenological information is provided. "The disordered mind of Milton W. Streeter" is described in detail. As Cohen points out, the book is "An early psychological approach to a domestic murder, in which the reader's sympathy is developed for both the victim and the murderer, the latter having been deprived of a Christian upbringing" [Cohen]. McDade 945. Cohen 13053. Sabin 95848.

Early Days in the Mogollons (Muggy-Yones). Tales from the Bloated Goat. by Hoover, H. A. [ Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog]

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Title: Early Days in the Mogollons (Muggy-Yones). Tales from the Bloated Goat.
Author: Hoover, H. A. [ Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog]
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1958 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Designed and produced by Carl Hertzog. Pp. 61, [3]. Map, portraits, vintage photographs throughout. Pink pictorial wrappers, stapled, stamped in black. Two minor and tiny tears to fore-edge of wrappers, one minor tear at upper staple. Minor creasing at yapped edges, but a fine copy. First edition. Presentation, signed by the designer and printer, Carl Hertzog. The Bloated Goat was a tavern in Mogollon, New Mexico that the old-timers in the region used to frequent to swap yarns about the turbulent days before New Mexico was a state and Mogollon a ghost town. These are stories of good men and badmen, stories of gold and of animals; from memory and from the author's diaries. "Has some material on the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy, Elza Lay, William H. Antrim, Billy the Kid's stepfather, and stage robberies" (Adams). [Adams, Six-Guns: 1019]. .

A Stretch of the River by Richard Bissell

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Title: A Stretch of the River
Author: Richard Bissell
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); [6], 242pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.75). Boards full bound in peachy-beige cloth with maroon stamping on spine. Dust jacket lightly soiled and toned with minor scuffs, one minor tear to joint, and bumping to all margins. Verso lightly toned, mostly on spine. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor soiling to covers and top edge. Spine hinge shows some foxing that is also present at the endsheet gutters. Endsheets show some offsetting but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. A crew on a coal ship sail up and down the Mississippi River, captained by Jim Sargent, described as a good man and a homesick steamboat captain.

Willy Weber: Metal Reliefs / Metallreliefs (First Edition) by [Willy Weber]

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Title: Willy Weber: Metal Reliefs / Metallreliefs (First Edition)
Author: [Willy Weber]
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: London, Zurich, and New York: Gimpel Fils, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. First Edition. Text in German and English. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Willy Weber's work which ran from May 2, 1973, through January 5, 1974. 4.25 x 6 inches. Spine lightly faded, else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.

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Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross

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Title: Neptune's Brood
Author: Charles Stross
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780425256770
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition with complete number line; Fine copy with a fine dust jacket. In archival protection.

Cambridge Street Literature by Ward, Philip

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Title: Cambridge Street Literature
Author: Ward, Philip
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
ISBN: 9780900891526
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge: The Oleander Press of Cambridge, 1978. Paper Boards. Near Fine. Paper Boards. 8vo. Very clean blue paper covered boards with blue title to front board and spine. Slight wear to spine ends. Interior is very clean. Tight binding. 64 pages. BOB/111204.

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