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ELEONORA
by Poe, Edgar Allan (introduction By Richard Wilbur)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1979
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen Press, 1979. 27, (3) pages. The book was designed by Michael McCurdy, with an original wood engraved frontisiece by Fritz Eichenberg and an introduction by Richard Wilbur, former U. S, Poet Laureate and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. One of an unspecified limited edition made available to members of… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
BANQUET
by Brown, Rosellen; Maxine Kumin; Jean McGarry;; Joyce Carol Oates; Lynne Sharon Schwartz (edited By Joan Norris)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$75.00
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Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen Press, 1978. 101, (3) pages. Hardcover, hand-printed and housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase. A collection of 5 original short stories, one by each of the authors. Limited edition: number 104 of 225 copies, signed by each of the six authors and the illustrator on the colophon page. The book was designed… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
ELEONORA
by Poe, Edgar Allan (introduction By Richard Wilbur)
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1979
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen Press, 1979. 27, (3) pages. The book was designed by Michael McCurdy, with an original wood engraved frontisiece by Fritz Eichenberg and an introduction by Richard Wilbur, former U. S, Poet Laureate and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. One of an unspecified limited edition made available to members of… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
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IS THIS TOMORROW: America Under Communism
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1947
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- Paperback
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$275.00
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St. Paul, Minnesota: Catechetical Guild, 1947. 48 pages. 4to. An original 1947 anti-communist propaganda comic book that contained violent images which made it a target of PARADE OF PLEASURE ( page 102). Three variant covers were published: A) with no price on the front cover; B) with a circle on the front cover containing a price of 10 cents; and… Read more about this item Item Price
$275.00
ORIGINAL CLIPPED SIGNATURE OF KATE GREENAWAY
by Greenaway, Kate
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1887
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$350.00
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London: Unpublished, 1887. Famed children's illustrator Kate Greenaway's autograph on laid paper, apparently clipped from a larger piece of stationery. Written at her home in Hampstead in the famous illustrator's hand in black ink: "Kate Greenaway, 17 September 1887, 50 Frognal, Hampstead, London--N.W." The signature is bold and bright, and the paper is clean and unwrinkled. The autograph is guaranteed… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
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THE GENERA INSECTORUM OF LINNAEUS: Exemplified by Various Specimens of English Insects Drawn from Nature by James Barbut
by Barbut, James
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- Used - About Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1781
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$850.00
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London: Jacques Dixwell and John Sewell, 1781. (6), xvii, (3), 371, (20) pages. Complete with 20 hand-colored plates and 2 foldout black & white anatomical plates. Parallel text in both French and English. Both the printed French title page and the engraved English title page are present. All engravings were engraved by James Newton, from drawings by Barbut. James Barbut… Read more about this item Item Price
$850.00
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THE PRINCE OF WALES and Other Famous Americans
by Covarrubias, Miguel
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$150.00
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1925. First edition with variant binding. A book of 65 caricatures (of authors, actors, musicians, and others) by the artist Miguel Covarrubias. Among those caricatured are Picasso, Babe Ruth, Stravinsky, Valentino, Will Rogers, Gershwin, Dreiser, Fred & Adele Astaire, Covarrubias himself, Carl van Vechten (who wrote the preface), and 55 others. The book is in… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq., of London, by the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856
by [Homer, Winslow]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1856
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$145.00
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Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Sons, Printers, 1856. 195 pages. Octavo. Binding is embossed cloth. Frontispiece is a steel engraved portrait of Peabody (foxed and offset onto title page). There are 17 original tinted lithographs, printed by J.H. Buford, for whom the important American artist Winslow Homer worked as an apprentice lithographer. Two of the lithographs… Read more about this item Item Price
$145.00
THE SECOND MINUET
by Besly, Maurice (foreword By Alec Waugh)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1929
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$295.00
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Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1929. vi, 37 pages. First half of the book includes lyrics to popular ballads by the English composer Maurice Besly. The remainder of the book includes humorous epigrams about famous musicians and writers. Some of the epigrams are accompanied by the superb caricatures of the Swedish artist Einar Nerman. Very SCARCE: OCLC… Read more about this item Item Price
$295.00
THE WILLOWDALE HANDCAR or THE RETURN OF THE BLACK DOLL
by Gorey, Edward
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1962
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1962. Unpaginated. First printing, published in 1962, with $1.50 price on front cover. The book is in very good condition: clean, square, and tight. There is a very faint 1" strip of fading along the spine on the front cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey. 16mo… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
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A SAMMELBANDE OF 1830s SHEET MUSIC
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- Used - About Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1835
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$700.00
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Various Publishers, 1835. 60 pieces of sheet music on 160 leaves gathered in a bound volume (3/4 leather over marbled paper-covered boards). Folio. On the front cover is a leather patch stamped with the name of the original owner of this collection--Scota Ann Warden. Interestingly, published in the August 1940 issue of Evergreen: A Monthly Magazine of… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.00
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GUNNERMAN'S GOLD
by Bigelow, Horatio
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- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
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- Reprint
- Published
- 1990
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780922724352
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$50.00
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Camden, South Carolina: The Premier Press, 1990. xxx), 128 pages + 12 black and white plates. Limited edition: #176 of 3000 copies. Beautifully bound in full dark green leather, with 3 raised bands, gilt ruling, and a front cover gilded vignette of a hunter and his dog; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Reprint of the very scarce… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD: The Twenty-Third Psalm
by Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 9780399207563
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$65.00
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New York: Philomel Books, 1980. (28) pages. First printing, with all the appropriate points: $6.95 price on front flap (2nd prtg is $8.95); beige paper covered boards (subsequent printings are "butterscotch"); 200 Madison Avenue publisher's address (51 Madison Avenue in subsequent printings). Both book and dust jacket are in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus.… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION, May 20, 1865: Lincoln Assassination and Funeral
by [Abraham Lincoln]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1865
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- Paperback
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$195.00
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New York: Harper's Weekly, 1865. 16 pages. Large folio (16 inches by 11 1/4 inches). Original complete issue of Harper's Weekly. Harper's Weekly was the most important American pictorial newspaper in the 19th century. Because the original wood engravings in virtually every issue are highly collectible, complete issues are becoming more difficult to obtain. … Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
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FISH BY SCHALDACH: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish
by Schaldach, William J.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket, as Issued
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- Limited First Edition
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- 1937
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$900.00
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1937. Unpaginated. Limited edition: #141 of 150 copies, signed on the colophon page by Schaldach. The frontispiece is an original etching pencil-signed by Schaldach. William Joseph Schaldach (1896-1982) was a writer on art and outdoor sporting, editor for Field and Stream, and most notably an important American wildlife artist. The… Read more about this item Item Price
$900.00
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THE LOST KING OF OZ
by Thompson, Ruth Plumley
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- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$190.00
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Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925. 280 pages. First state of the first edition, with 12 color plates printed on paper that is coated only on the printed side and with boldface Reilly & Lee imprint on the spine. Illustrations by John R. Neill. The fifth Oz book by Thompson, the successor to L. Frank Baum… Read more about this item Item Price
$190.00
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SELECT VIEWS IN CUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, AND LANCASHIRE
by Wilkinson, Rev. Joseph, and William Wordsworth
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- Used - Very Good
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- Second Edition
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- 1821
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$1,250.00
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London: R. Ackermann, 1821. (6), 46 pages, followed by 48 plates printed only on the rectos. The text, though not attributed in the book, is by the British romantic poet William Wordsworth, who continued to revise it for his own travel book, A Guide through the District of the Lakes. The illustrations are 48 soft ground etchings by… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
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ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHOLOGICA: MEGA BEASTS
by Sabuda, Robert and Matthew Reinhart
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- Used - Fine-
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- First Trade Edition
- Published
- 2007
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- Hardcover
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- 9780763622305
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- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$100.00
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2007. First trade edition of a very elaborate pop-up book that include 6 large and complex pop-ups and 30 smaller pop-ups. The book is the result of collaboration between two of the giants of paper engineering, Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. It is the third volume in the Encyclopedia Mythologica series. Signed by… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
JACKIE: HER LIFE IN PICTURES
by Spada, James
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 2013
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$170.00
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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. 177 pages. Small 4to. First edition thus. A typical Easton Press gift edition, beautifully bound in full red leather, decorated in gilt. All edges gilded. Lovely silk moire covered endpapers. A pictorial biography of Jackie Kennedy. In as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
$170.00
![PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS; [bound with] PARADISE REGAIN'D: A POEM IN IV BOOKS; [and] SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATIC POEM](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/375/217/1436217375.0.m.jpg)
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PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS; [bound with] PARADISE REGAIN'D: A POEM IN IV BOOKS; [and] SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATIC POEM
by Milton, John
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- Used - Collectible-Very Good-
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- Fifth Edition
- Published
- 1691
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- Hardcover
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Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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$1,450.00
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London: Richard Bentley and Jacob Tonson, 1691. 336, 66, 57 pages. Folio (12 1/2" by 7 7/8"). Fifth edition, and the second illustrated edition of PARADISE LOST. The title pages for both PARADISE REGAIN'D and SAMSON AGONISTES indicate that those 2 titles were printed in 1688 by Randal Taylor. Sympathetically rebound in full brown leather. … Read more about this item Item Price
$1,450.00
