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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." Christopher Morley to his friends, published posthumously.

1870s Panoramic Birds-Eye-View Triptych Photograph of Smyrna, Turkey

RUBELLIN, Alphonse

[Kootenay / California Gold Mine] Archive & Manuscript...

The Siskiyou Copper Company et...

Great and Small Game of Africa : An...

BRYDEN, H.A. (General Editor) et...

[Artist's Lithograph Book] Paul et Virginie

DE SAINT-PIERRE, Bernardin (with Original...

(Kanawha [W. Virginia] American Civil War) Lovell's General...

Hodgins, J. George

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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[Indigenous, Rockies] Photograph of Cree Indian Camp Medicine...

Bailey Brothers & Unknown Photographer

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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Periodychna Systema Sliv (Periodical System of Words, Avant...

Iov, Ivan (Ukrainian Poet)

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine: Dolia, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Printed wraps, 4to (11-5/8 inches tall), pp. 126. Light wear to covers. Interesting work by this Ukrainian poet, artistically executed in various fonts and sizes. Printed facsimile inscription (assume) on title page reads roughly "For a creative success, for many years, for happiness.....

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Tales of the South Pacific (Books into Film...

Michener, James A.

Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd., 1951. First Australian Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards, title stamped in black onto spine, 8vo (8-1/4 inches tall), pp. v, (viii), 309, stated first Australian edition, having "1st Australian Edition 1951" printed on the copyright page, immediately following "Twelfth Printing 1950" and.....

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[Kootenay Indigenous Photo] Party of Indian Hunters

Unknown Photographer

Mounted Photograph. Caption title. A circa late 1800s albumen photograph measuring 3 x 5-1/4 inches wide, mounted onto a cabinet card measuring 4-1/4 6-1/2 inches wide and captioned along bottom in black ink "A party o[f] Indian Hunters. B.C.". Image is faded, card is toned. We believe this image to.....

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L'Enfant et les Sortilèges : Fantaisie Lyrique en...

Ravel, Maurice and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette...

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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[Boxing] The Abysmal Brute

London, Jack

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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