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James Thurber The Wonderful O 1957 First Ed/3rd Marc Simont illustration HC/DJ

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Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883, 1st Edition, illustrated: "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain. Elaborately illustrated throughout with over 300 illustrations, published by James R. Osgood & Co., 1883, First Edition Second State. Tailpiece of Twain in fla

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Slim Aarons A Wonderful Time First Edition in DJ: Aarons, Slim, A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, 1974, first edition, Harper and Row, hardcover, 4to., in dust jacket, illustrated. One of the most influential American interior

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1727 PECK'S HISTORY OF STANFORD ENGLAND ILLUSTRATED: Peck, Francis, Academia Tertia Anglicana; or, the Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton Shires London: James Bettenham, 1727 First Edition of Peck's history of Stanford.

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Jerusalem Bible, 1st Edition 1970, Salvador Dali illustrations: "The Jerusalem Bible" [a new translation of Hebrew and Greek of Old and New Testaments into contemporary English]; First Edition with illustrations by Salvador Dali, published by Doubleday, New York i

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1880 Gustave Dore Bible Gallery Illustrated: 1880 Gustave Dore Bible Gallery Illustrated Old/New Testament ART Bible Scenes Gustave Dore first began publishing Bible illustrations in 1865 in France, but because of their immense popularity, they

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1790 1ed James Bruce AFRICA Voyages of Ethiopia Egypt: 1790 1ed James Bruce AFRICA Voyages of Ethiopia Egypt Illustrated Hottentot 9v First French edition of James Bruce’s expedition in Ethiopia! James Bruce was an 18th-century Scottish voyager known pr

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Melville's Moby Dick Ill. by Rockwell Kent, 1930 1st ed: The classic Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. First trade edition published by Random House, 1930. No dust jacket. Dimensions are 7.5 in h x 5.75 in w x 2 in d. Cond

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Mark Twain, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court 1890, illustrated: "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain with 220 illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, first edition published by Charles Webster, New York, early printing with "1890" on the botto

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1795-1803 JAMES COOK TRAVELS 13 VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED w/ 200 ENGRAVINGS antique: REIZEN RONDOM DE WAERELD, door JAMES COOK, vertaald door J.D.PASTEUR (Translated by J.D. Pasteur) Leyden, Amsterdam and The Hague, Honkoop Allart and Van Cleef, 1795-1803 First edition in Dutch Langua

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James Thurber The Wonderful O 1957 First Ed/3rd Marc Simont illustration HC/DJ

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THE WONDERFUL O by James Thurber
Illustrated by Marc Simont
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
First Edition, Third Printing 1957
Simon and Schuster, New York
Book is in near fine condition, with bright and tight pages, boards very clean, tips sharp, binding tight.
No missing, loose or torn pages, no writing, no former owner bookplate.
DJ shows wear, has a few small closed tears and tears to lower spine end.
Please see photos for exact condition.

Reserve: $120.00

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James Thurber The Wonderful O 1957 First Ed/3rd Marc Simont illustration HC/DJ

Name: James Thurber The Wonderful O 1957 First Ed/3rd Marc Simont illustration HC/DJ
Brand: James Thurber
SKU: 146005360
Price: 120 USD
Availability: InStock