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El Dorado, Being a Narrative of the Circumstances which gave rise to reports . . . of a Rich and Splendid City in South America, . . . Including a Defence of Sir Walter Raleigh, etc. (1844)(1st edition, 1st issue)
by J. A. Van Heuvel
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- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First
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- 1844
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$500.00
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First edition, first issue, hardcover, 1844, New York. True first issues are uncommon and are discussed in the Notes section below. Overall condition is Very Good but not without defects. Old plain gray paper boards, possibly original, certainly 19th century. Boards have a general patina and small ink stain on back. Binding is sound. Endpapers are an odd yellow with… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
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The Drama of Drunkenness; or, Sixteen Scenes In the Drunkard's Theatre (1858)(1st edition)
by American Sunday-School Union
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- Used - Good
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- First
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- 1858
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$125.00
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1858 first (and only) edition. Hardcover in original brown and gilt blindstamped boards. Overall condition is Good. Boards show moderate general wear, binding is sound. Interior has partially removed Sabbath School bookplate and old seller's pencil note. Missing one front blank. All else complete. Paginates: blank, 67, 2 blanks, with 16 plates included in pagination. The plates are on stiff… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
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Thrilling Adventures at Sea or Noted Shipwrecks and Famous Sailors. (1885)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1885
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- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$60.00
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Hardcover, 1885, Philadelphia. Condition is very good: decorative blindstamped and gilt boards. Front hinge is open at gutter but binding is not affected, just a crack in the paper. Interior is excellent: a few smudges are seen but no writing, tears or folds. Paginates complete with 300 pages plus all blanks. Includes 73 full page plates and many more images… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
![Betsey Jane Ward [Better-half to Artemus], Hur Book of Goaks (1866)(1st ed.)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/219/783/1429783219.0.m.jpg)
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Betsey Jane Ward [Better-half to Artemus], Hur Book of Goaks (1866)(1st ed.)
by William Comstock
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
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- 1866
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- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$100.00
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First edition hardcover. 1866, New York. Condition is Very Good: Library sticker on spine, pencil note on copyright page, no other library markings. Some pencil notes on front blank, none elsewhere. Occasional foxing in text. Binding is sound. Light general wear to boards. A nice copy of an uncommon book. Author aims to offend as many people as possible and… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
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Argonauticon Americanorum, sive, Historiae periculorum Petri De Victoria, ac sociorum eius, libri XV. (1647)
by Joannis Bisselii (Johannes Bissel); Pedro Gobeo de Victoria
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- Used - Good-
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- First
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- 1647
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$415.00
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First edition bound in vellum. Munich, 1647. Condition is Good. Primary condition issue is missing spine. Text block binding remains sound. Vellum boards with Yapp style fore-edges and typical vellum warp. Interior has modern stamp (R151) on interior front pastedown, ffep with pencil notation and older ink info, title page with old library stamp, prior ownership inscription dated 1699, half… Read more about this item Item Price
$415.00
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The Shipwreck (No. 43: Sunday School Tracts.)(circa 1809)
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- Used - Good
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- 1809
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$180.00
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Pamphlet circa 1809. The wreck of the HMS Centaur in September, 1782 is a famous event with many accounts. The Centaur left Jamaica for England and sank in a hurricane. The survivors drifted for 16 days before arriving in the Azores. Twelve survived while 400 were lost. Pamphlets of this type were sometimes sold separately and sometimes bound in volumes.… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
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A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies, in 1817. (1821)(1st English edition)(plus 1950 translation)
by Edouard de Montulé
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1821
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$425.00
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1821, London, first edition in English. Modern fine binding of half leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. An underappreciated volume likely due to this first English translation. The modern translator, Seeber, describes this translation as the "product of a prosaic and incompetent literary hack" (please tell us how you really feel). It also omits about 40% of the original… Read more about this item Item Price
$425.00
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Sopra Lo Scorbuto Dissertazione Del Signor Dottor Giovanni Verardo Zeviani Coronata Dalla Reale Accademia Delle Scienze e di Belle-lettere di Mantova. (1770)(AKA: Lecture on Scurvy.)
by Giovanni Verardo Zeviani
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1770
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- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$600.00
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First edition, second printing, Verona, 1770. This enlightened physician correctly recommended citrus for treatment of scurvy. Little noticed then and now as his name is nearly forgotten. A very rare item. I do not locate any translation in English. WorldCat locates 3 copies. See OCLC: 14316323; 869038856. Pamphlet bound in modern grey boards, title on spine. Condition is Very Good:… Read more about this item Item Price
$600.00
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A Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo, a Native of the Marquesas Islands; Who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School, in Cornwall, Conn. (1825)(1st printing)(American Tract Society #19)
by Anon; Harlan Page (engraver)
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- Used - Fair
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- First
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- 1825
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$750.00
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Pamphlet, 1825, Andover, Mass. Early edition. Condition is Fair: wraps show significant general wear, top outer corner of blank and last wrap missing causing loss of part a letter. Interior has ownership inscription on front blank with date of 1827, old prior seller's price on blank. No other writing or markings. Spine reinforced with paper in distant past. Paginates: wraps,… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Aleck; The Last Of The Mutineers; or The History of Pitcairn's Island. Third Edition. (1848)
by [Nathan Welby Fiske]
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Third
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- 1848
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$200.00
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1848, third edition, hardcover, Boston. Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt decoration on spine. Condition is Very Good: modest wear to boards, most at spine tips and corners. Interior has some pencil notes of prior owner on title page. Minimal foxing, no tears or folds. Binding is sound. Paginates: blanks, 162, blanks. 8 plates included in pagination. An uncommon book. Please… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
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The Welsh Question and Druidism. Third Edition. (1887)(actually 1st ed.)
by Griffith
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
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- 1887
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$85.00
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Hardcover volume, 1887, London. Condition is Very Good: Boards show light general wear, some fading to spine. Binding is sound. Interior has no writing or markings of any kind. Some light foxing, rare smudges. Paginates: [1], iv, 179, 4 unpaginated plates. Author is arguing for the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales. He does this by discussing the… Read more about this item Item Price
$85.00
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Sea and Sail; or Marvelous Adventures on the Ocean. (1877)
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1877
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$75.00
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Hardcover, 1877, New York. Condition is Very Good: modern brown cloth with paper label on spine. New endpapers, original endpapers retained. Author covers pretty much every sea story ever told. Packed with illustrations. No writing, markings, or issues. Binding is tight. Paper is brittle some corners are off, early pages showing early cracks. Paper should not crack further with proper… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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A Kansas Hell, Or Life in the Kansas Penitentiary. (1st ed.)(1889)
by John N. Reynolds
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
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- 1889
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$150.00
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First edition, hardcover, 1889. Condition is Very Good: burgundy blind stamped cloth with title on spine. Boards show general wear. New endpapers. Binding is sound. Interior has a few old corner folds, and rare pencil marks, no vandalism. Collectible copy in like condition. See generally Adams Six-Guns 1840 which refers to author's follow up book "Twin Hells." Paginates: blank, frontis,… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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Life, Trial, & Confession of Frank C. Almy (1st edition, circa 1892)
by [John J. Lane?]
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
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- 1892
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$195.00
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First edition pamphlet, circa 1892. Condition is Very Good: Some toning around edges of wraps. Small chips, small closed edge tears and minor corner wear on some pages. Staples with some rust. No interior writing or vandalism. Pages are bright. Wraps are attached but delicate especially in front. Paginates: wraps, (1)-32. Somewhat uncommon pamphlet. WorldCat locates approximately 20 physical copies.… Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
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Arizona Justice (1958)(UK 1st edition)
by Gordon Donalds (Gordon Donald Shirreffs)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First UK Edition
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- 1958
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$40.00
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First UK edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. Condition of dust jacket is Good: shows much general wear especially along edges but no large chips or tears. Price clipped. Volume is Very Good: boards with slight bow, edges toned, prior seller's pencil note on front blank, binding is sound. An uncommon UK edition of this title.… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
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The Opening of the Adirondacks (1865)(1st ed.)
by [C. H. Burt]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First
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- 1865
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$325.00
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First edition, hardcover, New York, 1865. Condition is Very Good: primary condition issue is presence of a modern professional reproduction of the folding map. There is mild to moderate foxing seen on the plates, very little in the text. Some occasional old corner folds. No writing, vandalism or other issues. Binding is sound. Paginates: blanks(2), map, (i)-(viii), (9)-82, blanks(2), 8… Read more about this item Item Price
$325.00
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Cold Weather Operations Survival - Quick Reference Booklet (1970)
by Alaska Oil and Gas Association
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1970
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$30.00
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First, last and only edition of this softcover pamphlet. Condition is Very Good: Covers show signs of general use. Interior is unmarked. 28 pages. A collectible item. I am unable to locate the existence of another copy anywhere. Not in WorldCat, not found in any search, none found for sale. Probably acquired new by my father. A great item for… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
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The Northmen in New England, or America in The Tenth Century (1st edition)(1839)
by Joshua Toulmin Smith
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- Used - Good
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- First
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- 1839
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$165.00
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First edition, hardcover, Boston, 1839. Original decorative cloth boards. Condition is Good: primary condition issue is moderate to heavy foxing throughout. No interior writing, marks, folds or vandalism. Binding is somewhat cocked. Front hinge is starting but should do fine with normal use. Maps are tissue paper with small tears at top of hinge not affecting maps in any way.… Read more about this item Item Price
$165.00
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Das Evangelium des Johannes nach der deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luther's. Neu durchgesehen nach dem vom Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchenausschuss genehmigten Text.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$10.00
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German language pamphlet of Gospel of John published during World War II. Condition is very good, gift inscription on inside front blank. 63 pages plus map. No date in pamphlet. I got the date from a German bookseller and it works with what I know of the provenance (Uncle Jimmy). Map of the Holy Land in back is dated 1941.… Read more about this item Item Price
$10.00
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Easter Island: A Stone Age Civilization of the Pacific. (1st edition)(1957)
by Alfred Metraux; Michael Bullock (translator)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1957
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tucson, Arizona, USA
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$30.00
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First UK edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. 1957. Dust jacket has small chips to corners and wear at folds, not price clipped. Volume has no interior writing, marking, folds or vandalism. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Notes: While reprints are common true first UK editions are scarce especially in this condition. Item Price
$30.00
