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  • "Room to Rhyme" Christmas card. Inscription
    Seamus Heaney
    "Room to Rhyme" Christmas card, 2003
    Dundee: University of Dundee
    Inscribed by Heaney.
    $ 400.00 Sold
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    Seamus Heaney, "Room to Rhyme" Christmas card, 2003
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    $ 400.00
  • Robert Frost, Aforesaid, 1954
    Robert Frost
    Aforesaid, 1954
    New York, Henry Holt
    First edition. One of 650 copies signed by Frost.
    $ 400.00 Sold
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    Robert Frost, Aforesaid, 1954
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    $ 400.00
  • Phaedrus, Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque, 1713
    Phaedrus
    Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque, 1713
    London: Jacob Tonson and John Watts
    $ 250.00 Sold
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    $ 250.00
  • Phaedrus, Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri V, 1750
    Phaedrus
    Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri V, 1750
    London: I. Brindley
    $ 150.00 Sold
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    Phaedrus, Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri V, 1750
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. Eine Tragödie, (1965)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Faust. Eine Tragödie, (1965)
    Leipzig: Offizin Andersen Nexö
    $ 25.00 Sold
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. Eine Tragödie, (1965)
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  • In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World. Illustration
    Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (illus.)
    In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World, 1988
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
    One of 100 copies specially bound and signed by Hamilton and Moser.
    $ 150.00 Sold
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    Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (illus.), In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World, 1988
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    $ 150.00
  • In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World. Bindings
    Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (illus.)
    In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World, 1988
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
    One of 100 copies specially bound and signed by Hamilton and Moser. Together with a copy of the trade edition.
    $ 175.00 Sold
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    Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (illus.), In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World, 1988
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  • Lysistrata. Title-page spread
    Laurence Housman
    Lysistrata. A Modern Paraphrase from the Greek of Aristophanes, 1911
    London: The Woman's Press
    Inscribed, with an original poem, by Housman.
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    Laurence Housman, Lysistrata. A Modern Paraphrase from the Greek of Aristophanes, 1911
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  • Margaret Fuller, One World at a Time, 1922
    Margaret Fuller
    One World at a Time, 1922
    NY: The Century Co.
    First edition.
    $ 350.00 Sold
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    Margaret Fuller, One World at a Time, 1922
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    $ 350.00
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy. Binding
    Alice Walker
    Possessing the Secret of Joy, 1992
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
    One of 250 copies, signed by Walker.
    $ 75.00 Sold
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    Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, 1992
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    $ 75.00
  • Edward Gorey, Poster for The War of the Worlds, 1960
    Edward Gorey
    Poster for The War of the Worlds, 1960
    NY: NYRB
    $ 425.00 Sold
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    Edward Gorey, Poster for The War of the Worlds, 1960
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    $ 425.00
  • Publii Terentii Afri, Comoediae; Phaedri, Fabulae Aesopiae; Publii Syri, Sententiae. Binding
    Philip Smith
    Publii Terentii Afri, Comoediae; Phaedri, Fabulae Aesopiae; Publii Syri, Sententiae, 1726
    London: Cornelius Crownfield
    $ 3,500.00 Sold
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    Philip Smith, Publii Terentii Afri, Comoediae; Phaedri, Fabulae Aesopiae; Publii Syri, Sententiae, 1726
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    $ 3,500.00
  • Gustave Flaubert, Salambo, (1931)
    Gustave Flaubert
    Salambo, (1931)
    Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press
    One of 500 copies.
    $ 300.00 Sold
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    Gustave Flaubert, Salambo, (1931)
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  • The Leader of the People. Text page
    John Steinbeck
    The Leader of the People, 2016
    Louisville: Contre Coup Press
    One of seventeen copies.
    $ 800.00 Sold
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    John Steinbeck, The Leader of the People, 2016
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    $ 800.00
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne; Barry Moser (illus.), The Scarlet Letter, A Romance, 1984
    Nathaniel Hawthorne; Barry Moser (illus.)
    The Scarlet Letter, A Romance, 1984
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
    Signed by Moser.
    $ 100.00 Sold
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne; Barry Moser (illus.), The Scarlet Letter, A Romance, 1984
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