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The PERSONAL HISTORY Of DAVID COPPERFIELD

The PERSONAL HISTORY Of DAVID COPPERFIELD by Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]

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Title
The PERSONAL HISTORY Of DAVID COPPERFIELD
Author
Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]
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Tavistock Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Bright gilt, a pleasing & enviable Fine copy of Dickens classic tale, now known to be primarily autobiographical.
Description
London: Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1850. 1st volume edition, with 1850 to engraved title & 'Norwich' p. 558, but with 'screwed', p. 132 (Smith I, 9). Custom bound in a deep,and lovely, full russet leather binding by Bayntun, elaborate gilt decorated spine, gilt stamped Dickens bust to front board, gilt facsimile signature to rear board, gilt dentelles, AEG, marbled eps. Bright gilt, a pleasing & enviable Fine copy of Dickens classic tale, now known to be primarily autobiographical.. xiv, [2], 624 pp. Text & plates quite clean [washed sometime prior?]. Illustrated with frontis, vignette title-page & 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/2" David Copperfield is a novel in the bildungsroman genre, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. It is also an autobiographical novel: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", with events following Dickens's own life. Of the books he wrote, it was his favourite. At first glance, the work is modelled on 18th-century "personal histories" that were very popular, like Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews or Tom Jones, but David Copperfield is a more carefully structured work. It begins, like other novels by Dickens, with a bleak picture of childhood in Victorian England, followed by young Copperfield's slow social ascent, as he painfully provides for his aunt, while continuing his studies. The novel has a primary theme of growth and change, but Dickens also satirises many aspects of Victorian life. These include the plight of prostitutes, the status of women in marriage, class structure, the criminal justice system, the quality of schools, and the employment of children in factories.
Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, A Study of the Prehistoric World

Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, A Study of the Prehistoric World by Warren, William

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Title
Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, A Study of the Prehistoric World
Author
Warren, William
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B Street Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce. British edition, published the same year as the first edition in America. Written and initially received as science, Warren posits the North Pole as the source of all life, simultaneously Eden and Atlantis. A contemporary review in Science notes that "The book is very ingenious and learned, but, as it seems to us, conceived and written in the spirit of advocacy rather than in the true scientific spirit....Yet we believe the book may be read with profit, even by the scientific anthropologist". Green cloth covers, wear and loss of cloth to corners, head and tail, worn patches on both joints. Previous owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, in pen on title page. Plates and illustrations in the text. Xxiv, [2], 505pp. 32 page publisher's catalog dated October, 1884.
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Kleurinkten by BERGER & WIRTH

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Kleurinkten
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BERGER & WIRTH
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Ursus Books (United States)
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BERGER & WIRTH. Kleurinkten. 4pp. text and 43 pp. of colour samples. 8vo, 240 x 153 mm, publisher's wrappers. Amdterdam: Berger & Wirth, n.d. An extremely attractively printed trade catalogue for the printers Berger and Wirth, which appears to be unrecorded.
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Lydia Marie CHILD: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, 1836 by Lydia Marie CHILD; Slavery & Abolition

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Lydia Marie CHILD: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, 1836
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Lydia Marie CHILD; Slavery & Abolition
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1836. [Slavery & Abolition] CHILD, Lydia Marie. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition. Illustrated with 2 plates. Coleridge quote on title page. In original blue cloth boards with embossing and gilt to spine. 8vo, 216 pages. Child was a vocal abolitionist, women's rights activist, anti-American expansionist, and proponent of racial equality amongst African and Native Americans. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans was the first written by a white woman in support of the immediate emancipation of slaves without compensation to their enslavers. Child begins by writing about the history of the slave trade as well as harrowing stories on it's detrimental and immoral faculties in order to engage readers to action. One illustrated plate showcases shackles and chains used on enslaved individuals. First published in 1833, Child's work was a prominent contribution to the abolitionist movement, and her writing influenced many notable figures, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass. Missing frontispiece, some foxing to pages, some wear to covers. Small tear affecting a few words in the fist first sentence on page 127. Binding is tight and text is clean and legible. Overall very good condition.
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Severnaia Mongoliia (I). Predvaritelnye otchety geologicheskoi, geokhimicheskoi i pochvenno-geograficheskoi ekspeditsii o rabotakh, proizvedennykh v 1925 godu by Various

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Severnaia Mongoliia (I). Predvaritelnye otchety geologicheskoi, geokhimicheskoi i pochvenno-geograficheskoi ekspeditsii o rabotakh, proizvedennykh v 1925 godu
Author
Various
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1926. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. [1], 4-163, [1]; olive-green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with numerous photographs, tables, drawings and maps, including large fold-out ones; a few chips and nicks to edges of wraps with minor loss of paper; small rubbed spot to title page verso; in about very good condition. An ambitious endeavour, the book was the first, stand-alone tome of three, presenting a series of expeditions and studies by several prominent Soviet scientists in Mongolia, up to that time largely unknown and scarcely described in Russia. The trips had been prompted by and authorized after famous explorer Petr Kozlov's (1863 - 1935) discovery of an unprecedented number of Xiongnu royal burials and his bringing numerous artifacts back to Russia in 1924.
HOBBY MASTER 1:48 AIR POWER SERIES F4U CORSAIR WITH ORIGINAL BOX (HA8214)

HOBBY MASTER 1:48 AIR POWER SERIES F4U CORSAIR WITH ORIGINAL BOX (HA8214)

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HOBBY MASTER 1:48 AIR POWER SERIES F4U CORSAIR WITH ORIGINAL BOX (HA8214)
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
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Hobby Master. Hobby master 1:48 Air Power Series F4U Corsair in Very Good Condition. Includes original landing gear, stand, and pilot figurine. Sliding windshield appears slightly warped but appears repairable. Box in Good condition, with shelf wear and rubbing to edges and corners. Shelved PS1100. 1412504. Special Collections - Upstairs.
West Side Association. New York, 1870-1871. Proceedings of Six Public Meetings Held on the 22d December, 1870, 11th January, 1871, 8th February, 1871, 8th March, 1871, 12th April, 1871, 26th May, 1871

West Side Association. New York, 1870-1871. Proceedings of Six Public Meetings Held on the 22d December, 1870, 11th January, 1871, 8th February, 1871, 8th March, 1871, 12th April, 1871, 26th May, 1871 by West Side Association of the City of new York

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West Side Association. New York, 1870-1871. Proceedings of Six Public Meetings Held on the 22d December, 1870, 11th January, 1871, 8th February, 1871, 8th March, 1871, 12th April, 1871, 26th May, 1871
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West Side Association of the City of new York
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: J. Adnah Sakett, Law, Book and Job Printer, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, reports individually paginated. Original cloth. 24 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. "1" in gilt on backstrip. Slip tipped to front free endpaper presenting this copy to J. Watts De Peyster.
Mediations in Green

Mediations in Green by Wright, Stephen

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Mediations in Green
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Wright, Stephen
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McBlain Books (United States)
ISBN
9780684180090
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Very Good
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very Good. Fiction. 362p. Softcover. 21cm. Backstrip slightly soiled.
Small Archive of a Mail Order Chicken Farm

Small Archive of a Mail Order Chicken Farm

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Small Archive of a Mail Order Chicken Farm
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Near fine.
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Seneca, NY: Old Homestead Poultry Yards, 1900. Near fine.. Small collection of stationary and labels from the Old Homestead Poultry Yards in Seneca Falls, New York. The farm raised white leghorns and buff leghorns, "Fowls of High Degree." The farm sold chickens for hatching, as the included shipping labels indicate. The included stationary has striking engraved details including illustrated roosters, chicks, and eggs. Includes: Single sheet blank blue letterhead (8.25" x 11"); ten blank blue envelopes with Old Homestead logo (6.5" x 3.5"); two cards advertising poultry books (3.25" x 5.25"); two egg delivery cards (4.5" x 5.25"); one pink illustrated egg delivery label (7.75" x 4.25"). Minor toning and edge-wear.
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GOLDEN HORN by YEATS-BROWN, Francis

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GOLDEN HORN
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YEATS-BROWN, Francis
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
London: Gollancz, 1932. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 287. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf, and a letter of presentation to Faith Baldwin taped in... "I have a feeling that I have failed to inculcate the moral which I had in mind: in fact, parts of the book have been revised so much that I fancy the moral has been mislaid!!..." A TLS with a line in holograph, signed. Cover little worn and torn, o/w VG. Maj. Yeats-Brown wrote this as an autobiographical account of his experiences in the Balkans and Middle East from 1908-1918.
Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry

Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry by Hoeflich, Michael H., Editor

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Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry
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Hoeflich, Michael H., Editor
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
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9781616195489
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2018. ISBN-13: 9781616195489. ISBN-10: 1616195487. Hoeflich, Michael H. Editor. Anthology of Nineteenth Century American Legal Poetry. xvii, 281 pp. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2017. ISBN-13: 9781616195489. ISBN-10: 1616195487. Hardcover. New. $59.95 * Despite the demands of a practice undertaken without today's modern conveniences--and electricity--many 19th century lawyers and judges in America found the time, and had the inclination, to write poetry. A good deal of it was about the law-clients, cases, trials-even law books-and the affairs of the day. Other poems address timeless themes such as nature, faith and illness. Some were meant to be humorous. Edited by Michael H. Hoeflich, an expert on 19th century American legal practice, this collection, which includes poems by President John Quincy Adams and Supreme Court Justices Joseph Story and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and a few laymen with an interest in law, offers a window into life in 19th century America as reflected in the practice of law, which by its very nature is entwined in so many stages of life. Includes poetry by John Quincy Adams, David Barker, Irving Browne, William Allen Butler, Francis Dana, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Sidney Lanier, John Pierpont, George D. Prentice, John Godfrey Saxes, Joseph Story, William Wetmore Story, Eugene Fitch Ware, and many others. MICHAEL H. HOEFLICH is the John H. & John M. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. He holds degrees from Haverford College, Cambridge University and Yale Law School. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1980-1988, was dean of the Syracuse University College of Law from 1988-1994, and was dean at the University of Kansas School of Law from 1994-2000. Hoeflich is the author or editor of 15 books including Sources of the History of the American Law of Lawyering (2007), Legal Publishing in Antebellum America (2010), The Law in Postcards & Ephemera 1890-1962 (2012) and more than 115 articles. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Kansas Correspondent of the Selden Society. He was awarded an honorary degree (LL.D.) by Baker University in 2003.
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Vagabonding at fifty from Siberia to Turkestan by Wilson, Helen Calista, and Elsie Reed Mitchell

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Vagabonding at fifty from Siberia to Turkestan
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Wilson, Helen Calista, and Elsie Reed Mitchell
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York: Coward McCann Inc, 1929. First American, 8vo, pp. [6], 335, [1]; frontispiece and 20 plates on 15 leaves; full red cloth gilt; white streaking on upper boards, hinges starting, text clean, very good. Yakushi W178 for the first London edition of 1928.
A Business Career

A Business Career by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHESNUTT, Charles W.

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A Business Career
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHESNUTT, Charles W.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); beige paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine and front cover; xviii,218,[4]pp. Publisher's ISBN sticker on rear cover, else Fine. First printing of one of Chesnutt's "white-life" novels, which were left behind in manuscript at the time of his death. Set in a fictitious Midwestern city, the novel is a melodramatic tale centered around the romance of an older man and a younger woman. Edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. Van Schaik.
The Anaya Reader [Signed]

The Anaya Reader [Signed] by Rudolfo Anaya

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The Anaya Reader [Signed]
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Rudolfo Anaya
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780446670777
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: Warner Books / A Time Warner Company, 1995. Very Good +. New York: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xxiii,[3],562pp. Minute shelf wear to wrapper extremities, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. Boldly signed by the author on title page.
A Group of Five Catalina, California Tourist Brochures

A Group of Five Catalina, California Tourist Brochures

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A Group of Five Catalina, California Tourist Brochures
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
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Avalon, CA: Santa Catalina Island Co. Book. Near Fine. Brochure. 7" x 4". A goup of five tourist brochuresm no date, circa 1950s, Catalina Welcomes You, Enjoy Sightseeing Tours in Catalina, and Enjoy Undersea Gardens published by Santa Catalina Island Co. ; Hotel El Rancho A Pleasant Memory in Avalon California publ. by the Hotel, and Catalina Welcomes You , no publisher. Near Fine to Fine, Catalina Welcomes You with a vertical crease. 2. page map in Catalina Welcome You, and smaller map in the Hotel brochure..
The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian

The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian by ZOLLA, Elémire

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The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian
Author
ZOLLA, Elémire
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780151995608
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 312pp. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. About fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight toning and edgewear.
Bubber Goes to Heaven

Bubber Goes to Heaven by Arna Bontemps; Daniel Minter, illustrator

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Bubber Goes to Heaven
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Arna Bontemps; Daniel Minter, illustrator
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
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Very good
Description
NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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Gut Symmetries by Winterson, Jeanette

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Gut Symmetries
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Winterson, Jeanette
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Very Good
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Granta Books, 1997. Very Good. Winterson, Jeanette. Gut Symmetries. London: Granta Books, 1997. 1st edition. 219pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped spine ends.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped corners and gentle rubbing. In DJ protector..

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