Paris: Librairie d'Education nationale, Alcide Picard, ca. 1900. Quatrième édition, large 4to, pp. 324; plain woodcut frontispiece, 4 plates, text illustrations and maps throughout, many full-page; original red cloth gilt; some fraying to edges and spine head, occasional spotting, pages uniformly toned; very good and sound. Forms part of the...

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Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,318pp.; photographic frontispiece, three leaves of plates. Jacket quite dust-soiled and worn along the edges with a number of closed tears, some with subsequent creasing, splitting to top and bottom two inches of front...

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Menil la Tour: March 3, 1919. 13 pages, written on rectos only; American YMCA American expeditionary Force letter head printed in red and blue; previous fold; original censored envelope addressed to Mrs. William B. Ballou of Seattle, Washington, postmarked and censored; about fine. A quite rich in detail account of both...

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Barcelona: Establecimiento Tipográfico la Academia de Evaristo Ullastres, 1880. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.75cm.); contemporary full tree calf, black gilt spine labels, marbled endpapers; [2],xii,[2],838pp. & 20 leaves of plates of which three are comprised of mounted original photographs and 12 are color chromolithographs. Leathera bit rubbed along extremities with...

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Paris: Gallimard, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 369pp. Some minor foxing and tiny soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed with an autograph quote signed by Gary on half title addressed to Edmond and another...

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Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...

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Pontarlier: Typographie Alexandre Faivre Fils, 1843. First Edition. Paperback. Small octavo; [2],36pp.; recent grey wrappers; fine. Signed and inscribed by the author "Souvenirs d'affection" on title page. Apparently unrecorded personal account of a journey begun in September, 1842, to Italy by way of Switzerland, published to be distributed amongst the...

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York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift inscription from...

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Paris? Typ. Charles de Mourgues frères, 1855. First Edition. Broadside flyer (26.5x20.5cm.); a few tiny chips and brief splitting from previous folds, else Very Good and sound. Notice to the citizens of Paris warning them of funeral directors illegally offering lower-cost funerals than the mandated price list of their local.....

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Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. Hardcover. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly...

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[Sanktpeterburg': Tipografija Imperatovskoj Akademii Nauk'], 1882. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 86, [1]; 15 plain folding maps, 6 figures, tables; printed self wrappers; edges uncut and rather brittle, textblock mostly unopened; very good. At head of title (in Russian): "Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago Geograficeskago Obscestva. Po Obscei Geografii, Tom' XII, No...

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Chevy Chase, MD: Double Dummy Card Holder Co., 1905. First Edition. Complete game set including original green cloth clamshell box (25x14x3cm.) printed in white, string-bound "You & I Score Pad" printed in red and black (23.5x6.5cm.) with small blue pencil attached at end of string, and matching green cloth dummy.....

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