Paris: A. Durand & Fils. (1925). André Hellé. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. English title : 'The Child and The Enchantments : A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts'. An opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Front cover artwork by André Hellé.....

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Montreal: John Lovell, 1862. Hardcover. An early mention (and perhaps the first book publication) of the proposed state of Kanawha - the breakaway state which became West Virginia - is found in this early Civil War-era printing of a popular school Geography. Yellow printed paper over boards with quarter black.....

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New York: The Century Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth with title and decorations stamped in black and dark green onto upper board and spine, 16mo (6-5/8 inches tall), pp. (iv), 169, (1) ads, tissue-guarded frontis, copyright page with "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at.....

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Vancouver, BC: Bailey Brothers, (c. 1892). Mounted Photographs. Two gold-toned silver collodion POP prints - one of a young indigenous hunter holding a rifle while standing in front of his tipi encampment at Medicine Hat Alberta and the other, a herd of buffalo at Cascade Mtn. in Banff, Alberta -.....

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New York: Viking Press Company, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Blue paper over boards, quarter white cloth spine, 8vo, pp. 513, Index and map. Volume with spine ends softened, one tiny stain at top of front board near head of spine and slightest fade to board edges. Unclipped pictorial.....

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Toronto: Coach House Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Photo illustrated wraps, B&W photos to text, 8vo (8-13/16 inches tall), pp. 107, heavy orange paper DJ with title printed in black onto top panel and spine. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, this director's copy is well used.....

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Chicago, IL: Will Rossiter, 1913. Josef Pierre Nuyttens. Paperback. Illustrated musical score, folio (13-7/8 inches [35.3 cm] tall), pp. 3, (1) ads. Front cover with light edge wear and p.o. name in ink, circular institutional and their deaccession rubber stamps to foot of p. 3. An early aircraft-themed musical score.....

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