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Perfumes of Araby: Silhouettes of Al Yemen
by Harold Jacob
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London: Martin Secker, 1915. 8vo, 170x225mm. 264pp. First edition. Bound in original cloth with title stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Top edge stained. Boards soiled. Corners bumped. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front paste-down...
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Your Price $300.00
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Practical Treatise on Strengthening and Defending Outposts, Villages, Houses, Bridges with Practical Treatise on the Attack of Military Posts, Village, Intrenchments with Practical Treatise on the Dut
by J. Jebb
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London: William Clowes & Sons., 1857, 1859, 1860. Three vols bound in one, (the last one being A Practical Treatise on the Duties Required to be Performed by Officers & Soldiers of the Army at a Siege). All three volumes have etched frontispieces...
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Your Price $150.00
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Arizona as it is; or, the Coming Country Compiled From Notes of Travel During the Years 1874, 1875, and 1876 1st Edition, Inscribed
by Hiram C. Hodge
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New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1877. 1st Ed., 12mo, 273pp. Green cloth. Frontis, map and plates all present. Corners bumped, rear hinge cracked, bookseller label on front paste down. Otherwise, occasional smudges and soiling but all very minor. Tissue...
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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
by Bill Mollison
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Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people...
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Your Price $104.45
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk
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The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet...
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Your Price $90.00
Rare Books - Slipcase
Chow-Chow: A Journal Kept in India, Egypt and Syria, 1st Thus
by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland
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London: Eric Partridge, 1930. 8vo, 220x145mm. xxv + 408pp. First thus. Bound in the original navy cloth, spine gilt. Top edge gilt. This is a reprint of the 1857 original. 2 volumes bound together. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by H.G...
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Your Price $120.00
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
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Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1913) Octavo, 18 x 23 cm. 340pp,[8pp]. Later printing, after 1935, as per Hanff & Greene: endpapers and all illustrations in black & white only. Original red cloth, spine stamped in black, with a color pictorial paper...
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Your Price $100.00
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Captain Gault 1st U.S. Edition
by William Hodgson
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New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1918 First U.S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-295 [296: blank], original dark green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Hodgeson is often cited as one of the early progenitors of the kind of stylized modern...
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Rare Books - Hardcover
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