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[pb.2374] James, Henry. CONFIDENCE. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo. in publisher's green cloth over beveled boards,
spine lettering gilt with Houghton, Osgood & Co. at the foot, brown coated
endpapers. no owner's names nor marks of any kind. An exceptionally fine,
bright copy. [BAL 10549] $650.00
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[pb.3355] Piper, Watty. THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD. New York; (1930):
The Platt & Munk Co., First Edition. This little classic was one of the
most popular stories ever published and still remembered by many today
because of its simplicity. It was an inspiration for all children,
charmingly told and illustrated of what can be accomplished by the will to do.
no pagination,(21pp.) color pictorial endpapers, illustrated in color by
Lois L. Lenski, bound in red cloth, color illustration mounted to upper board,
color pictorial endpapers. A splendid copy in its original unclipped
pictorial dust jacket with no names, scribbles or major tears The dust
jacket shows only minute wear to bottom edge of front panel and a tiny bit
of chipping to spine ends with two small old tape mends to underside of
jacket evidently to prevent further chipping. [pb.3355] See pictures on
our website. $2,500.00
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[pb.3245] Burke, James Lee. HALF OF PARADISE. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co. , 1965.
First Edition. SIGNED by the author, 312pp., bound in light brown cloth lettered
in dark brown, spine lettering white over brown, faint smudge to foot and very
light damp stain on lower joint near head, in all a very good copy in very good,
unclipped dust jacket with light damp stain to rear panel and light edge wear.
$2,200.00
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[pb.3148] Wood, Nicholas. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAIL-ROADS, AND INTERIOR
COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL; WITH ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS, AND TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE
VALUE OF CANALS AND RAILROADS . London: For Knight and Lacey, 1825. First Edition.
Octavo. 314pp., plus 6 wonderful large folding illustrated plates depicting
various mechanical parts used to explain Wood's mechanical experiments.
Bound in full contemporary speckled calf, central gilt stamped arms,. joints
professionally re-enforced, a very nice clean copy of this important work on
locomotive engineering. Wood and Tredgold both published works in the same year
and are the first comprehensive works on railroad engineering. See. Dibner.
Heralds of Science 182. $1,500.00
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[pb.0140] Schoolcraft, Henry R. And [Lt. J. Allen]. EXPEDITION TO NORTHWEST INDIANS.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1834. First Edition. Octavo. Doc. no. 323,
23rd Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives. 68pp. with large folding map;
bound in late 19th century 3/4 black morocco over black cloth, marbled endpapers,
all edges marbled, some foxing to text, binding fine. This important work is rare
on the market; only 4 copies appear in the auction records. Map is fine. $5,500.00
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[pb.2172] Steinbeck, John. THE LONG VALLEY. New York: [1956]: The Viking
Press/compass Book No. C1, Signed. Inscribed by Steinbeck on the title page thus:
"For Naomi/with love/John Steinbeck", a fine copy bound in original pictorial
wraps warmly inscribed. [Goldstone and Payne A11J] $4,000.00
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