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The Odyssey of Homer
by LAWRENCE, T.E.; ROGERS, BRUCE; [ HOMER ]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1932
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- Original morocco
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CA$15,933.25
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London: Bruce Rogers, 1932. First edition. Original morocco. Very Good. A MASTERPIECE OF BOOK DESIGN: T.E. LAWRENCE'S TRANSLATION OF THE ODYSSEY, DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 530 COPIES. IN MAGNIFICENT CUSTOM BOX BY ZAEHNSDORF WITH BEAUTIFUL 1928 PHOTOGRAPH OF LAWRENCE IN THE RAF. Contracted by Bruce Rogers in 1928 to create a prose translation… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by STEVENS, WALLACE
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1954
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- Original cloth, original dust jacket
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CA$7,620.25
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. original cloth, original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY WALLACE STEVENS on front free endpaper: "Wallace Stevens, Hartford, Nov. 6, 1954.". "It was not until 1954 that Stevens agreed to the publication of his collected poems, the idea being that the book's appearance should coincide… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [Alice in Wonderland]. WITH: Original Large Ink Drawing Signed of the Gryphon by Rackham
by CARROLL, LEWIS; RACKHAM, ARTHUR
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- Used - Very Good
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- first Rackham edition
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- 1907
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- Original buckram
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CA$13,162.25
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London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1907. first Rackham edition. Original buckram. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION in exceedingly rare original slipcase. WITH: RACKHAM INK DRAWING of the Gryphon. The book:
"Rackham embarked on his new edition of Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations to rival John Tenniel's, when the book… Read more about this item Item Price
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
by FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1934
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- Framed
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New York, New York, USA
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CA$48,492.50
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Baltimore, MD: np, 1934. First edition. Framed. Very Good. IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ON HIS LITERARY INFLUENCES AND GROWTH AS A WRITER. It is rare that we get to read first hand about a writer's influences, especially during the formative years, but in answer to a letter from the scholar Egbert S. Oliver, Fitzgerald… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]
by LEWIS, C.S. [CLIVE STAPLES]
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- Used - Very Good
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- first edition
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- 1955
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- Custom folder
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New York, New York, USA
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CA$10,806.90
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Cambridge University: np, 1955. first edition. custom folder. Very Good. WONDERFUL C.S. LEWIS LETTER RESPONDING TO A YOUNG FAN ABOUT THE NARNIA SERIES. Dated October 26, 1955, and written on Lewis's Magdalene College stationery, the letter reads in full:
Dear --
Thank you for your nice letter. I am so glad you like the books. There… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. WITH: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1892
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- Original cloth gilt
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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London: George Newnes, 1892. First edition. original cloth gilt. Very Good. FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. The story of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and Strand Magazine began in April, 1891, when Doyle sent three stories, "A Case of Identity," "The Red-Headed League," and The Boscombe Valley Mystery" to The Strand for publication in their… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] on The Lord of the Rings
by TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1954
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- Custom folder
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CA$66,504.00
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Oxford: np, 1954. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. A REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTER: TOLKIEN DISCUSSES HIS SPECIFIC FEARS ABOUT THE TWO TOWERS AND DEFINES "THE FOUNDATION" OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND CONNECTS IT TO HIS LIFE'S WORK. The Fellowship of the Ring (the first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy) was published on July… Read more about this item Item Price
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Typed Letter Signed [TLS] introducing The Lord of the Rings
by TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1953
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- Custom folder
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Oxford: np, 1953. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE PUBLICATION, TOLKIEN ANXIOUSLY INTRODUCES HIS MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TO A FAN OF THE HOBBIT. Tolkien had begun work on The Lord of the Rings in December of 1937 and by early 1950, after over twelve years of labor, the writing was essentially complete.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Miss Virginia Stephen": Large Charcoal Drawing of Virginia Woolf
by WOOLF, VIRGINIA; DODD, FRANCIS
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1908
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- Framed
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CA$110,840.00
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np: np, 1908. First edition. Framed. Very Good. ORIGINAL, HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT DRAWING OF THE YOUNG VIRGINIA STEPHEN BY FRANCIS DODD.
DODD'S WORK FROM HIS 1907-1908 SITTINGS WITH WOOLF ARE THE ONLY EXTANT LIKENESSES OF HER FROM THIS PERIOD. FROM THE BENJAMIN SONNENBERG COLLECTION. Virginia Woolf famously hated being an artist's subject. According to her nephew Quentin Bell,… Read more about this item Item Price
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All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain [The Border Trilogy]
by McCARTHY, CORMAC
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First edition
- Published
- 1992
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- Original cloth, original dust jacket
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CA$6,788.95
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New York: Random House, 1992. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITIONS, with All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing signed and inscribed by McCarthy. Inscribed in ink on the half-titles of All the Pretty Horses: "For Darla / All best / Cormac McCarthy"; and The Crossing: "For Darla / All best wishes / Cormac… Read more about this item Item Price
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Over 100 Press Photographs that Helped Define Hemingway's Public Image
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1930
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np: np, 1930. Very Good. THE RISE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM AND MASS-MEDIA HELP MAKE HEMINGWAY ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S FIRST AMERICAN INFLUENCERS. After graduating from high school in 1917, Ernest Hemingway worked as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. This job exposed him to the media's growing addiction to sensationalism and taught him the craft of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Archive Including Autograph Letters Signed; East of Eden; The Red Pony; Travels with Charley; et al.
by STEINBECK, JOHN
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- Used - Good
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- First edition
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- 1959
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- Original cloth, original dust jacket
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CA$131,622.50
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New York: Viking, 1959. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Good. A collection of unpublished letters with outstanding content and inscribed books establishing the close friendship John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine shared with theater director John Fearnley. The correspondence is lengthy, writerly, and warm, and the inscriptions humorous and joyful. The letters, largely undated, map primarily… Read more about this item Item Price
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Albumen Photograph Given to Mary O. Davis
by WHITMAN, WALT
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1878
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- Custom folder
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New York, New York, USA
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CA$9,005.75
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np: np, 1878. custom folder. Very Good. Walt Whitman Albumen Photograph by Napoleon Sarony given to his caregiver and house mate Mary O. Davis. Signed by Davis. To call Mary O. Davis, Walt Whitman's housekeeper is akin to calling a parent its child's babysitter. Perhaps history has undermined Ms. Davis' role simply because the English language lacks the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm]
by ORWELL, GEORGE. [SHEVCHENKO, IGOR; CHERNYATINSKYY, IVAN]
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- Used
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- Very Good
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- First Ukrainian edition
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- 1947
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CA$4,156.50
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Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei, 1947. First Ukrainian edition. Very Good. FIRST UKRAINIAN EDITION OF ORWELL'S CLASSIC POLITICAL ALLEGORY. We offer here the first edition of George Orwell's anti-Stalinist parable Animal Farm to be distributed (secretly and illegally) behind the Iron Curtain. Published in Ukrainian at the initiative of a group of socialist but anti-Stalinist Ukrainian dissidents, the publication of this… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac'Adam
by [SURREALISM; DADAISM]. ROCHE, JULIETTE
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1924
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- Original wrappers
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CA$5,403.45
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Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost, 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal, dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century, French writer and artist Juliette Roche (1884 - 1980) has been long overshadowed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autograph Letter Draft to Alfred Pratt. WITH: Alfred Pratt's autograph letter to Whitman
by WHITMAN, WALT
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1869
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- Custom folder
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New York, New York, USA
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CA$27,710.00
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Washington, D.C.: np, 1869. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. A LOVE LETTER FROM "FATHER WHITMAN" TO A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER. A rare and significant letter to one of the young soldiers Whitman aided at a military hospital during the Civil War. Whitman corresponded with Pratt for some 8 years, beginning after Pratt's hospitalization in 1865.
Whitman's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by ROWLING, J.K.
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition, galley proof
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- 1997
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- Unbound sheets, housed in custom box
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New York, New York, USA
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CA$381,012.50
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London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First Edition, galley proof. Unbound sheets, housed in custom box. Very Good. EARLIEST KNOWN COPY OF HARRY POTTER; NO OTHER COPIES LOCATED. On February 26, 1997, this remarkable complete set of galley sheets was sent to the distinguished children's author and literary critic Fiona Waters. In the cover letter accompanying the galley (included here), Rosamund… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
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- Used - Fine
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- First edition
- Published
- 1888
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Camden, NJ: np, 1888. First edition. Fine. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter… Read more about this item Item Price
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In der Strafkolonie [In the Penal Colony]
by KAFKA, FRANZ
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1919
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- Original three-quarter calf over green and brown paper boards
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CA$5,542.00
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Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919. First edition. Original three-quarter calf over green and brown paper boards. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BINDING OF ONE OF THE ONLY WORKS KAFKA PUBLISHED IN HIS LIFETIME. Franz Kafka was much more prolific in his day job than as a novelist, authoring countless statements, annual reports and accident assessments as an… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
by SCOT, REGINALD. [SCOTT, REGINALD]
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- Used - Very Good
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- First edition
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- 1584
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- Early calf
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CA$207,825.00
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London: [Henry Denham for] William Brome, 1584. First edition. Early calf. Very Good. Extremely rare first edition of this far-reaching exposé that provoked King James, inspired Shakespeare and was the first significant work to document the secrets of illusion and the occult. A magnificent copy from the Biblioteca Lindesiana. The Discoverie of Witchcraft, written by Reginald Scot in… Read more about this item Item Price
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