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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray. Hardback American first edition published by George Braziller in 1985. Very good condition in very good plus jacket, with just slightly bumped corners and spine ends. $75
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Oraciones Selectas De Ciceron, by Cicero. Hardback published by Imprenta de Ulloa in 1777. Bilingual (Latin and Spanish). Condition is good minus; titles are hand-written on spine of binding; light wear and soiling to binding, corners bumped, spine top chipped 1/2-inch, hinges cracking, previous owner's plate on front pastedown, light foxing throughout. $150
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Myths and Legends (9 volume set) by Lewis Spence et al. Published by David D. Nickerson & Company circa 1900. Limited and in very good condition. Set is numbered 338/1,000; each volume includes a color frontispiece and additional black and white plates; all volumes lightly sunned on spine, minor soiling to binding and some pages, light edge wear to bindings, previous owner's plate on front pastedowns, pages yellowing slightly. $175
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Bam Citadel : A Three Dimensional Commemorative by Hamid N. Zadeh. Published by Geomancy in 2006. Includes 12 laser-cut pop-ups, produced entirely by hand; this gorgeous book is limited to 1,200 copies; our copies are still in the box; includes tipped-in color photos to accompany each pop-up; a true work of pop-up art! $75
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Queen of Blood by Charles Nuetzel. Limited edition hardback published by Centipede Press in 2015; #2 in their "Vintage Horrors" series. Fine in fine jacket. Numbered 33/250, signed by both Nuetzel and Baldwin. $175
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Foil and Sabre: A Grammar of Fencing in Detailed Lessons for Professor and Pupil by Louis Rondelle. Published by Estes and Lauriat in 1892, bound in flexible leather, in good condition, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Light wear to binding, 1/2-inch chip at spine top, previous owner's initials engraved on front cover, light soiling to some pages, binding just starting to crack. $200
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Have you ever noticed the big safe full of books behind Iliad's front counter? We get asked about it frequently. "Is it really old?" is a common question (the answer: no, we bought it new just a few years ago). But most customers want to know what kind of books merit storage in a safe (we think of these as the rarest of our rare books), so in this column we'll pick one book every month and tell you about it. This month's book is...
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You're Only Old Once!: A Book for Obsolete Children, by Dr. Seuss, first edition hardback in dust jacket published by Random House in 1986. In near fine condition with near fine jacket, no real flaws. Signed and inscribed by Dr. Seuss. $350
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Apollo demonstrates his superior string catching skills!
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