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A later example of Carver's work, depicting the loneliness of human experience
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Cathedral

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Moderate foxing to the top edge of the text-block, otherwise book appears..... (Item #4545)

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An allegory on the ethics of leadership, and one of Shakespeare’s favored source texts
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Il Cortigiano, or the Courtier...

London: Printed for W. Bowyer, 1727. Early English Edition. With English and Italian text in parallel columns. Bound in contemporary full cambridge-style paneled calf, rebacked to style. With frontis portrait..... (Item #4745)

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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini...

New York: Brentano's, [1906]. First Thus. Two octavo volumes (234 x 149 mm.). Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt..... (Item #3588)

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A mother advises her son -- and all sons by proxy -- on avoiding hasty sexual relationships and strategically finding a companionate marriage
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London: W. Cadell and T. Davies, 1803. First edition. Contemporary tree calf, recornered and rebacked to style with gilt and morocco label to spine. All edges speckled blue. Original endpapers..... (Item #4256)

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A Bluestocking advises the rising generation of women to take charge of their own educations and pursue scripture, economy, geography, literature, and history
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Letters on the Improvement of...

London: H. Hughes for J. Walter; E. and C. Dilly and J. Walter, 1775. Early Edition. Fifth Edition of Chapone's Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (volumes I-II) and..... (Item #4811)

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Works that influenced every major luminary of English literature to come after them
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The Workes of our Ancient...

London: Adam Islip, 1602. First Thus. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer, and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio (pages 327 x 212 mm) collating..... (Item #4734)

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First English edition of this French humanist's advice for princely conduct
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A Most Excellent Hystorie, of...

London: Printed by H. Bynneman, 1571. First English language edition. A translation of L'histoire de Chelidonius Tigurinus sur l'institution des princes chrestiens, & origine des royaumes by Pierre Boaistuau. With..... (Item #3026)

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Using the words of Southern slaveholders to expose the human toll and philosophical hypocrisy of slavery in the US
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The Evils of Slavery, and...

Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1836. First edition. Original printed self-wraps, measuring 180 x 110mm and complete in 20 pages. A Near Fine copy of a scarce and delicate pamphlet, with some..... (Item #4876)

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Churchill's pro-imperialist account of time in East Africa, focusing on the development of the railway as a means for Britain to extract wealth from the region
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My African Journey

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy, with offsetting to endpapers and scattered foxing throughout. Occasional..... (Item #4896)

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Churchill's only full length fictional work, a fantasy romance of revolution and uprising
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Savrola: A Tale of Revolution...

London: Longman, Green & Co, 1900. First edition. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards. A Near Fine, complete copy, with a previous owner's name on the half-title. Churchill's..... (Item #4887)

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Documenting some of Churchill's most powerful and memorable speeches
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War Speeches: Into Battle; The...

London: Cassell and Company, 1941 - 1946. First editions. Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. All volumes Near Fine with occasional foxing and some volumes with..... (Item #4906)

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"Almost nothing else in children’s literature equals Pinocchio for wildness of invention”
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New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1892. First American edition. Published simultaneously with the British Unwin edition, using the same sheets, but with a canceled title page. Part of the Children's..... (Item #1567)

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