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The Effayes [Essays] or Counsels CIVILL & Morall of Francis Bacon
by Bacon, Francis; Christopher Morley (Introduction)
- Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Collector's edition
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. Collector's edition. Hardcover. Still stiff to open bound in full leather with elaborate gilt decoration, silk-moire endpapers, all edges gilt, and a ribbon marker still folded as it came from the publisher. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever Written; 190 pages . Item Price
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Shards of Light: Fables, Essays, Sonnets & Humor. Shards of Light: Fables, Essays, Sonnets Humor
by Millar, Neil
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1981
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780930616045
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Cambridge, MA: Foursquare Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0930616049 . Tight bright book, unmarked but for inscription to half-title page; in crisp dust jacket. ; 191 pages . Item Price
$30.00
Alfred Brendel on Music: Collected Essays
by Brendel, Alfred
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Printing
- Published
- 2001
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9781556524080
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Chicago Review Press / A Capella. Fine. 2001. First Printing. Softcover. 1556524080 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy covers; about new. ; 5.75 X 1 X 9 inches; 432 pages; In this definitive collection of a renowned pianist's writings? Some of them never before published in English? Alfred Brendel brings the clarity and originality of expression that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
by Wolcott, James
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- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 2013
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385527798
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Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385527799 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket; about new; 6.75 X 1.5 X 9.5 inches; 512 pages . Item Price
$20.00
The Ghost in the Machine
by Koestler, Arthur
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Published
- 1968
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- Hardcover
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New York: MacMillan. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Tight clean square book in clean blue cloth, unmarked but for name to front endpaper; in glossy dust jacket (6.95) with crease to front flap and 1 cm edgetear to rear panel. ; 384 pages . Item Price
$34.00
The Common Man
by Chesterton, G K
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- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
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- First Edition; First Printing
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- 1950
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London: Sheed & Ward. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Tight book unmarked but for numbers to top corner of front endpaper; in blue cloth; in dust jaket with edgetears. ; 279 pages . Item Price
$20.00
Everything in its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
by Sacks, Oliver
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- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 2019
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780451492890
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Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0451492897 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket; about new. ; 5.79 X 1.08 X 8.57 inches; 288 pages . Item Price
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Selections from the Contributions to "The Irish Homestead": V. 1 & V.2 (Collected Works of G. W. Russell - "A. E." ) 2 Volumes
by Russell, George William ("a. E." ) ; Henry Summerfield
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- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
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- First Edition; First Printing
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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$45.00
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Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Two volumes tight and clean in blue cloth; front blank endpaper excised from each. ; During its existence, A. E. Contributed, often anonymously chiefly while he was its editor, to well over 1,000 issues of the Homestead and 400 of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics
by Zunz, Olivier & Alan S. Kahan
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 2002
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780631215462
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$22.00
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Wiley-Blackwell. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. 0631215468 . Stiff unmarked book in barely rubbed covers. ; 152.4 X 30.5 X 231.1 millimeters; 384 pages . Item Price
$22.00
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
by Shapiro, Ben
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- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Published
- 2019
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- Hardcover
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- 9780062857903
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Broadside Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2019. Hardcover. 0062857908 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket; 6 X 0.97 X 9 inches; 288 pages . Item Price
$14.00
Accepting the Universe: Essays in Naturalism
by Burroughs, John; George W Lugg
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- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- commemorative edition
- Published
- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780935834581
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Rainbow Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. commemorative edition. Hardcover. 0935834583 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket llightly sunned. ; 8.6 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches . Item Price
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Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Science and Culture
by Keller, Evelyn Fox
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1993
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780415905251
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Routledge. Fine. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0415905257 . Stiff crisp unmarked book with just a hint of shelflife. ; 9.3 X 6.1 X 0.5 inches; 208 pages . Item Price
$16.00
Soundings
by Press, Harvill
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1998
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- Softcover
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- 9781860465109
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Harvill Press. Fine. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1860465102 . Stiff crisp unmarked book. ; 8.5 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches; 214 pages . Item Price
$14.00
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. the First Series and the Second Series
by Emerson, Ralph Emerson; Edward F. O'Day
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- Used - Fine
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- Collector's edition
- Published
- 1979
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- Hardcover
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$35.00
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Easton Press. Fine. 1979. Collector's edition. Hardcover. Tight unmarked book bound in full-leather with ornate gilt decoration to both boards and spine; 5 raised bands. Deep-red silk moire endpapers. All gilt edges. Specially commissioned frontispiece of Emerson. An impressive production ; 262 pages . Item Price
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Hard-Headed and Big-Hearted: Writing Newfoundland
by Pierson, Stuart & Stan Dragland
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 2006
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9781894463911
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St. John's NL: Pennywell Books. Near Fine. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1894463919 . Tight unmarked book in glossy covers. Signed by Dragland on the title page. ; 8.7 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches; 437 pages; Signed by Editor . Item Price
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21 Lessons for the 21St Century
by Harari, Yuval Noah
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- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
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- 2018
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- Hardcover
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- 9780771048852
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Signal. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2018. Hardcover. 0771048858 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches; 400 pages . Item Price
$15.00
Great German Short Novels and Stories
by Zweig, Stefan; Thomas Mann, Goethe; Heine; Schnitzler; Et Al
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
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- N.D.
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- Hardcover
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Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Tight clean book, in blue cloth with bright red-blocked titles, front and spine; in dust jacket with slight edgewear. Blue backed titles set in a vine motif. "95 cents a copy" to front flap; red top edge. ; Modern Library; Vol. 108; 475 pages . Item Price
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The Red and the Black
by Stendhal; (C. Scott Moncrieff, translation)
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- 1953
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- Hardcover
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Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Tight clean book, in blue cloth with blindstamped ml to front board; in glossy red and black dust jacket with 2 short edgetears. Library stamp to front and rear pastedowns. ; Modern Library; Vol. 157; 630 pages . Item Price
$14.00
Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas
by Zweig, Stefan; Thomas Mann, Goethe; Heine; Schnitzler; Et Al
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- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
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- N.D.
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- Hardcover
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Modern Library. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Clean book, in gray cloth with bright green-blocked titles, front and spine; in dust jacket with 1" loss to top of spine." 95 cents a copy" to front flap. ; Modern Library; Vol. 90; 384 pages . Item Price
$18.00
Droll Stories
by Balzac, Honore De
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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- N.D.
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- Hardcover
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Modern Library. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Tight clean book, in red cloth with bright black-blocked titles, front and spine; in dust jacket with edgewear. Three monks illustrated on front of jacket. ; Modern Library; Vol. 193; 553 pages . Item Price
$14.00