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Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company. Very Good; Solid clean copy, with light spine fading and front cover . spots. 96 pages with 16 pages of ads following.. 1906. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 96 pages .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Co. Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression . of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards and a touch of wear to . the gilt lettering on the spine. Some water spotting to pages with no . damage to text. Bookplate on front pastedown: Charles Slocum of Defiance, . Ohio.. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. A transcript of a court case testing the Fugitive Slave Act, involving a slave that had escaped from Kentucky to Oberlin, Ohio, and the attempts by the slaveholder to recapture said slave. Fascinating look into pre-Civil War history. .

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Jacket has one tiny spot of wear top . edge at spine; protected in mylar.. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. ; 8 x 5 x 1 inches; 219 pages .

London: Sam Briscoe. Very Good; This is the first volume of a four-volume set. Important for . containing Dryden's Life of Lucian. With an engraving of the bust of . Lucian by W. Faithorne facing engraved title page. (MacDonald 141) . Repaired shallow chip to first page ; negligible foxing. Rebound in . quarter-leather with marbled-paper boards.. 1711. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Lucian of Samosata was an Assyrian satirist and rhetorician best known for his extensive use of sarcasm in ridiculing superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Lucian's works had a major impact on Western literature and inspired such writers as Thomas Moore, Shakespeare, Francois Rabelais, and Jonathan Swift. John Dryden was an English poet, translator, and playwright appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He dominated English literature in Restoration England to such an extent that the period became known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. .

London: Robert Holden & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Clean tight copy in brown cloth binding, . with some rubbing to board edges. Signed by Claude Houghton on front . endpaper. With the bookplate of actor Jean Hersholt, best known for . portraying the grumpy grandfather opposite Shirley Temple in the film . "Heidi"; signed by Hersholt.. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The narrator makes an obsessive study of his "next door neighbour", unaware of the fact that he is the doppelganger of the man he thinks he is observing. An intriguing study in abnormal psychology. ; 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches; 277 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; Signed by the author on blank preliminary . page. Abrasion top edge front panel jacket.. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox, but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department known as The Basement, and with the President's permission, is about to take revenge. ; 8.9 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 295 pages; Signed by Author .