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Featured items that Clausen Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2010.
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Clausen Books
Doug and Pam Clausen
2131 N. Weber St. Colorado Springs CO 80907
888-412-7717 719-471-5884
www.clausenbooks.com
bookmail@clausenbooks.com
Rare and unusual books
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Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London) Printed for Henry Baldwin by Charles
Dilly. 1785. First Edition, with errata leaf at the end announcing
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson in preparation. Enclosed in custom
clamshell. $850.00
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Burns, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. 8vo, full
green crushed levant morocco, gilt (MacDonald); Edinburgh: 1787.
Printed for the Author and Sold by William Creech. First Edinburgh
Edition (the word stinking corrected to the word
skinking). bookplate of American railroad financier Samuel F. Barger
on fep. $2,000.00
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Hitler, Adolph. My Struggle. with 24 illustrations. (London) Hurst &
Blackett, Ltd. 1933. First English Edition. lacks dust jacket. $150.00
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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. (London) 1668.
First Edition, Second Issue. Samuel F. Barger copy with bookplate on
fep; full red, levant morocco; five raised bands separating six
compartments, decoratively stamped in gilt; boards triple-ruled in
gilt; front board detached but present; blank end papers, with front
pastedowns bordered in gilt dentelle. $25,000.00
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Poe, Edgar Al. The Raven and Other Poems. NY) Wiley and Putnam,
1845. 12mo; the First Edition, First issue, with "T.B. Smith,
Stereotyper" on copyright page; 12mo. Considered by many to be the
most famous poem in American history, by the literary master of
nineteenth century; hand-bound by Zaensdorf in full dark green levant
morocco with five raised bands; From the collection of American
aviation pioneer Courtlandt Field Bishop, with Bishop's bookplate on
the front end paper. 91p., plus ads. $20,000.00
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