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The Golden Cowrie -1st edition

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Frances Horwich, We Love Grandpa, 1stEd. 1955, Dorothy Grider illustrations: "We Love Grandpa" by Dr. Frances R. Horwich, illustrations by Dorothy Grider, published by Golden Press, 1955, 1st edition. Illustrated hard boards, 6.3/4" x 8"; c.24 unpaginated pages, very good cond

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1st Ed. 1965 Dr. Seuss Fox in Socks w/ Dust Jacket,: This is a fun 1st Edition book from Random House, Beginner Books for Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks published in 1965. Comes with the original dust jacket.

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1858 1st ed California Life Illustrated Golden Gate: 1858 1st ed California Life Illustrated Golden Gate Gold Mining San Francisco We do not find another example of this 1st edition for sale anywhere else! Item: #6194 Price: $350 Main author: Willia

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Little Golden ABC, 1st US Ed. 1951, Cornelius DeWitt illustrations: "The Little Golden ABC", pictures by Cornelius DeWitt, published by Golden Press, New York, 1951. First Edition. Illustrated hard boards [a little wear and small surface damages: see photos], 6.3/4" x

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Farm Stories, lg children’s book, 1946 1st ed.: Farm Stories by K. and B. Jackson; illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Large first edition children’s book with 100 pictures in full color. A Giant Golden Book. A rollicking collection of stories about

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Bartram 1st Edition of his Southern Travels: BARTRAM, William (1739-1823). Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the

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Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods 1st Edition: First Edition, First Printing, the ads dated "June 1854" and printed prior to the July 1854 publication of the book. Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond at p. 306, with original ribbed brown cloth

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JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1st Edition: 1st Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1st Edition: "The Grapes of Wrath." Pictorial tan cloth and unrestored dust jacket, with price (partially visible) and first edition text. Viking, (1939). Previous owner Edna Louise Husted, Los Angeles California.

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1885 1st edition Adventures of Huckleberry Finn twain: 1885 1st edition Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Tom Sawyer FAMOUS “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” - Legacies of Genius. “All modern literat

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1885 1st edition Mark Twain: 1885 1st edition Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer FAMOUS “The most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” - Legacies of Genius. “All modern literat

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John Steinbeck Signed Illustrated 1st Edition of "The Red Pony" (1945): John Steinbeck Signed Illustrated 1st Edition of "The Red Pony" (1945) Signed copy of "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck. New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First illustrated edition. Large octavo, [1]-1

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John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. 1st edition 1937: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, [1937]. First edition, first issue ("pendula" on page 9, and the bullet between the page numbers on page 88). Publisher's beige cloth, upper b

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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1st Edition: Copyright date 1884, published by Charles L. Webster bearing printing date 1885. 1st edition early issue, lithographic frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait of the bust of Mark Twain by K

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The Golden Cowrie - Larsen Oliver + Boyd Edinburgh + London 1961. First Edition 1961 Printed in Switzerland. No jacket.

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