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London: Gollancz, 1977. First British Edition. Octavo. 190 pages. One of the masters of created languages and he leads the reader to assume that the nidoror are considerably less intelligent than humans, giving them a language that is narrow in range, simple in grammar before revealing this assumption is wrong..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 900 copies. This volume you will find translations into English during Gutenberg's lifetime in which the name of the inventor of printing has been found within 28 documents. McMurtrie's translations are based on the text published by Schorback..... More
Cambridge, MA. 1895 and 1900. The Observatory. Quarto. Volume XXXII-Parts I and II. Part 1: Investigations in Astronomical Photography, 115pp. with vii full page plates following text the exception of Plate one which was used as a frontispiece. Part 2: Visual Observations of the Moon and Planets with its own..... More
Boston; 1924-1929: Houghton Mifflin Co. Octavo. In 23 unopened volumes. Rafael Sabatini was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. Several of his books were very popular and soon made into plays and film. This is the "Definitive edition" which OCLC records only one library which has the first..... More
Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. First Editions. Quarto. In two volumes. xxix, 708pp. and xvii[709]-1476pp. These two volumes cover everything that is now scientifically known about rattlesnakes, as well as the astonishingly vivid folklore that has developed around them. This set has been the definitive work on rattlesnakes..... More
London: Vizetelly and Co., 1888. Octavo. 317pp., illustrated with 10 etchings from designs by Montader with tissue guards. First published in 1851, this is Murger's classic novel of Bohemian life which is based on a series of magazine sketches later made into a successful play. Nicely bound by Truslove and..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston,, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. 529pp. and 472pp.(2)pp. ads. Large folding route map of Emin relief expedition in volume I. Volume II: contains a large folding map of the routes of the Emin Pasha relief expedition from the River Congo to..... More