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Shel Silverstein: Author: The Giving Tree Publishing info: 1964, HarperCollins NY Edition: later printing Subject: fiction Additional info: Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unfo

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Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received: Title: Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received Author: Donald TRUMP - Signed 1st Edition Date: 2005 Publisher: Crown Publishers, NY Edition: first edition Additional Information: Once at a charity

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1872 Thomas Huxley Man’s Place in Nature EVOLUTION: 1872 Thomas Huxley Man’s Place in Nature EVOLUTION Charles Darwin Apes Biology “Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.” – Thomas Huxley Charles Darwi

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1898 Thomas Huxley EVOLUTION Essays Darwin Biology: 1898 Thomas Huxley EVOLUTION Essays Darwin Biology Philosophy Ethics Science 5v “Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.” – Thomas Huxley Charles Darwin

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1897 1st ed Pink Fairy Book Snow Queen Andrew Lang: 1897 1st ed Pink Fairy Book Snow Queen Andrew Lang Illustrated DISNEY Frozen “Once upon a time…” Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection

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1895 1st ed Fairy Tales Far and Near Quiller-Couch Blue: 1895 1st ed Fairy Tales Far and Near Quiller-Couch Blue Beard Chicken Little “Once Upon a Time…” Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was a well-known late 19th-century British fairy tale author who retold

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Title: Once Bitten Twice Shy

Description: FIRST EDITION. 'A Tale of Peter the Great' Publishers pictorial cloth with white title. Gilt title, vignette to spine. Minor spotting. Colour frontispice plate. 1 full-page colour plate. A scarce copy.

Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons., London

Author: Fred Whishaw

Date Published: ca.1900

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Good

Weight: 653g

Reserve: $10.00

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