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The Old Law And The New Order
by Alger, George W. , Ownership Signature Of Helen Magill, Mrs. Andrew Dickson White
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- 1913
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$425.00
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Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 296 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Corners. "There Is No Present Fact In Th Actual Workings Of The American Governmental Machinery Which Is More Obvious Than The Great Increase In Power And Influence Of Executive Authority" [I… Read more about this item Item Price
US$425.00
Le Livre Sur Le Theatre Kamerny 1914 - 1934
by Derjavine, Constantine
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- Used - Very Good +
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- 1934
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$400.00
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Leningrad: Les Editions De L'etat Pour Les Belles Lettres / Gosidarstvennoy Izdatelistvo "Chudozhestvennaya Literatura, 1934. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Illustrated By Photographs And Drawings; Woodcut Initials. 9 5/8" Tall. 240 Pp. Yellow Cloth. Errata Slip And Publisher's Price Slip. "The Russian Kamerny Theater Was A Small, Intimate Theatre Founded In Moscow In 1914 By… Read more about this item Item Price
US$400.00
Albanian Wonder Tales
by Wheeler, Post; Color Frontispiece And B/W Drawings In Text By Maud And Miska Petersham
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good + DJ
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- Book Club Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1936
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$175.00
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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company / Junior Literary Guild, 1936. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + DJ. Xx, 282 Pp. Blue Boards With Black Lettering, Illustrated Endpapers, Junior Guild At Base Of Spine Of Book And Dj, Orange-Red Background To Spine [Doubleday Doran Trade Edition Has A Yellow Spine], Doubleday And Junior Literary… Read more about this item Item Price
US$175.00
The Technic of Operations Upon the Intestines and Stomach
by Gould, Alfred H. (Henry) , With F. B. Harrington
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- Published
- 1906
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- Green Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$350.00
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Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine. 190 Illustrations, Several In Colors, Some After F. T. Murphy, J. H. Barbet. 302 Pp. + 16 Pp Ads At Rear. Green Cloth, Spine Gilt, Beveled Edges, Buff Endpapers. First Printing, With 1906 Daae On Title Page. Gould Was A Very Prominent… Read more about this item Item Price
US$350.00
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volumes I, Ii, Iii, Iv (Complete)
by Sandburg, Carl
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- Used - Fine Books
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- First Edition [stated]
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- 1939
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$750.00
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. First Edition [stated] . Hardcover. Fine Books. Four Volumes, Blue Cloth, Gilt, Copyright 1939. First (Trade) Edition Stated, After 500 Copies Of A Limited Edition. All Four Volumes Fine. Volume I Signed By Sandburg On Half Title Page Without Inscription. No Slipcase.
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US$750.00
The Return Of Dr. Fu-Manchu
by Rohmer, Sax [Pen Name Of Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward,1883 - 195], Inscribed To Friends Friends By Elspeth (Elizabeth) Knox And Sax Rohmer
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Published
- 1930
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$2,500.00
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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1930. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 7 5/8" Tall. Frontispiece From A Scene In The Paramount Picture. 332 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Red And Black. 1930 Movie Tie-In Edition, With Frontispiece Of A Scene From Paramount's 1930 Movie Staring Warner Oland. Wear And Darkening To Spine, Fraying At Top… Read more about this item Item Price
US$2,500.00
The Odyssey Of Homer
by Translation By T. E. Lawrence / T. E. Shaw, With His 3 Page "Translator's Note" At End, Design By Bruce Rogers
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1932
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$12,500.00
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London Uk: Emery Walker, Wilfrid Merton And Bruce Rogers, 1932. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. One Of The Most Famously Well Produced Books Of The 20Th Century. Unpaginated, One Of 530 Copies Only. Bound In Full Black Niger Morocco With Top Edges Gilts And Gilt Spine Lettering, Deckled Edges. Printed On Special Paper Made By J.… Read more about this item Item Price
US$12,500.00
The Prose Of Oscar Wilde [Two Books, Different Issues, One With De Profundis Etc. Added]
by Wilde, Oscar; Decorations And Type By Frederic W. Goudy
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st & 2nd Issues
- Published
- 1916
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- Full Leather, Gilt
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$350.00
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New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1916. First Edition Thus, 1st & 2nd Issues . Full Leather, Gilt. Near Fine/Fair. Ix, 706, + 3 Pp Catalogue Of Wilde's Works At End; Ix, 806 Pp. Two Volumes, Both With Top Edge Gilt. 1: Shorter Volume Is 706 Pp., Red Leather With Heavy Gilt Design By Goudy, Purple Endpapers, Half Title,… Read more about this item Item Price
US$350.00
[Maps Of Iceland]: Uppdrattur Islands. Adalkort Bl. 1 Nordvesturland; 2 Midvesturland; 3 Suvesturland; 4 Midnordurland; 5 Mid-Island; 6 Midsudurland; 7 Nordausturland; 8 Midausterland; 9 Sudausturland [9 Volumes Altogether]
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1981
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- Soft cover
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$250.00
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Geodaetisk Institut 1981,1984, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Nine 28" X 20" Folding Maps #1 - #9 In Original Card Covers, A Few 1981, Most 1984, No Marks, Near Fine.
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US$250.00
St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine For Boys And Girls. Volume I November 1873 - November 1874
by Dodge, Mary Mapes (Editor), With Mary E C Wyeth, Frank R Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louisa May Alcott, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,John Hay, William Cullen Bryant, Etc. [In]
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1874
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$292.50
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New York: Scribner & Co. 1873 1874, 1874. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound Volume I November 1873 - November 1874. Half Brown Leather Over Brown Pebbled Cloth. Original Buff Endpapers, Page Edges Colored Red. Very Well Preserved With Just A Touch Of Wear. Hinges Tight, Binding Solid, Pages Square. Tiny Shallow Chip At Bottom Of… Read more about this item Item Price
US$292.50
The Development Of Secularism In Turkey
by Berkes, Niyazi
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$225.00
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Montreal: Mcgill University Press, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Xiii, 537 Pp. Cloth, Brown Endpapers. First Printing, 1964. One Of Only 1500 Copies. Near Fine, Traces Of Rubbing, Gilt Bright, No Marks Or Stains. No Dj.
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US$225.00
Manuscript Notebooks and Bibliography of Edmund Mitchell (1861- 1917)
by Mitchell, Edmund
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- Used - Good
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- Original Manuscript
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- 1886
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- Hardcover
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$585.00
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Lansdowne, Paignton, Devon Circa 1886 -1898: Unpublished, 1886. Original Manuscript . Hardcover. Good. Two Handwritten Notebooks Kept By Nineteenth Century Writer Edmund Mitchell, Novelist, Journalist, Etc. With Logs Of His Numerous Magazine Publications, Aphorisms, Notes To Himself, Sketches For Stories, Etc. Mitchell Was A Prolific English Writer Who, After A Prolonged Stay In British India, Settled In Los… Read more about this item Item Price
US$585.00
Tactical Exercise (Shorter Stories Including "Love In The Ruins")
by Waugh, Evelyn
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- Used - Near Fine Book
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Published
- 1954
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- Green Cloth
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$292.50
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition, Second Printing . Green Cloth. Near Fine Book/Near Fine. First Edition Stated, Hardcover. Green Cloth, Gilt. Clean Copy, No Marks, Gilt Brilliant. Dj Priced $3.95 With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, Some Toning To White Color On Spine.
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US$292.50
Life On The Mississippi (First State, Intermediate "B")
by Twain, Mark
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- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
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- 1883
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$585.00
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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Illustrations Throughout. 624 Pp. Publisher's Original Brown Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black, Grey Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. B.A.L. L First State, Intermediate "B" Lacking Illustration Of Twain In Flames On P. 441, Incorrectly Showing "St. Louis Hotel" Beneath Illustration On P.443, And… Read more about this item Item Price
US$585.00
Tidal Dynamics: Coastal Flooding And Cycles Of Gravitational Force
by Wood, Fergus J.
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1986
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9789027719102
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$292.50
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Dordrecht / Boston / Lancaster / Tokyo: D Reidel Pub Co, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Xli, 558 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Silver. Fine, No Wear, No Names Or Marks Or Stains Or Foxing.
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US$292.50
West Coast Hard-Edge / Four Abstract Classicists [Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, John Mclaughlin)
by Preface By Lawrence Alloway
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1960
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- Soft cover
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$405.00
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London Uk: Ica In Collaboration With Uscis / Graphis Press, 1960. Soft cover. Fine. 4 B/W Plates. Salmon Card Wrappers, 4 Pp Text On Green Paper, 4 Full Page B/W Illustrations (One Work By Each). Fine, No Wear Or Marks Or Damage. Catalogue For A Show In London Based On The Usa " Four Abstract Classicists" Exhibition. … Read more about this item Item Price
US$405.00
Martial: The Twelve Books Of Epigrams. (Series: Broadway Translations)
by Martial (Martialis, Marcus Valerius); Translated By J. A. Pott, Partially Revised Byw. R. Smale, Completed And With An Introduction By F. A. Wright
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1925
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$292.50
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George Routledge & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co. ( Circa 1924 / 1925 / 1926), 1925. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xiv, 402 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine, White Paper Label Printed In Black, Green Cloth Covers With Similar Label. Undated, Worldcat Of Library Of Cvongress Shows Theoretical Dates Of 1924, 1925, And 1926.… Read more about this item Item Price
US$292.50
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
by Richie, Donald
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- Used - Fine Book
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
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- 1965
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- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$225.00
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Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing . Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good. B/W Photographs Throughout. 218 Pp. + List Of Plates At Rear. Tan Cloth. First Printing. Book Is Fine. Dj Priced $11.00 With Light Wear, And Half Inch Worn Tears At Each Side Of Top Of Spine And Two Shorter Tears… Read more about this item Item Price
US$225.00
(First Printing, But With Front Cover Lacking) The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem : Being A Reprint Of A Series Of Articles Appearing In The Dearborn Independent From May 22 To October 2, 1920
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- Used - Fair
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- 1920
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- Soft cover
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- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$250.00
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Dearborn Publishing, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fair. 235 Pp. Stapled Wrappers, But Spine And Front Panel Lacking, Only The Loose Green Card Rear Cover Remains. Book Lightly Used, Paper A Little Aged, A Few Marginal Emphasis Notes In Pencil, And Seven Page Numbers In Pencil On Front Free Endpaper. Damp Staining To Lower Spine Edge… Read more about this item Item Price
US$250.00
Kashmir the Pageant of the Seasons
by Khullar, Rupinder Introduction By Rita Dar
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- Used - Near Fine Book
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1987
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- Dark Brown Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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US$405.00
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Bangkok, Thailand: J.s. Uberoi, Media Transasia Ltd., 1987. First Edition . Dark Brown Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 11 1/2" x 11 3/4. Color Photographs Throughout By Rupinder Khullar. 114 Pp. Brown Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Edition. Scarce. Inscribed By Rita Dar (Niece Of Jawaharlal Nehru) To Her Friend The Actress Marie Windsor And Her… Read more about this item Item Price
US$405.00
