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In Cold Blood.
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To Place. 1-11 plus the Inner Geography supplement (all published to date).
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Grazhdanskaia Voina [The Civil War].
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Neft' [Oil].
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Measuring the Viscosity of Water at High Temperature.
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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The Western Lands.
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Die Möglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt [The Possibility of Interplanetary Travel].
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Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, de Diverses Couleurs et Figures Extraordinaires,
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Some Notes on the Country above Baghdad.
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Hotels of Europe and America, Asia, Australalasia & Africa
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Ruins of Desert Cathay.
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'Curry & Rice,'
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Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor.
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
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Account of the Empire of Marocco,
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Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the colonies of Western Africa,
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Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo.
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The Life of Sir Albert Hastings Markham.
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MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
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In Cold Blood.
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Die Möglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt [The Possibility of Interplanetary Travel].
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The Road Goes Ever On.
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A Suitable Boy.
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Absolute Friends.
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A Most Wanted Man.
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The Constant Gardener.
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Six Against The Yard...
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Limits and Renewals
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The Five Nations.
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The Limited Commemorative Edition of the Works.
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Traffics and Discoveries.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937.
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A Meeting by the River.
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Fractals. Form, Chance and Dimension.
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By Laura MasseyYou might be surprised to learn that the word evolution doesn't appear in any of the first five editions of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. We'll take a look...
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The Big World of Tiny Books : Miniature Books f...
Exploring the miniature Qur'ans of David Bryce and Hans Steinbrener, published from the 1890s through the 1960s, including their remarkable use as talismanic pendants by British-Muslim troops during the First...
Near East & IslamicThe Big World of Tiny Books : Miniature Books f...
By Roxana KashaniExploring the miniature Qur'ans of David Bryce and Hans Steinbrener, published from the 1890s through the 1960s, including their remarkable use as talismanic pendants by British-Muslim troops during the First...
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The Decline and Fall of Empires
This week marks 250 years since the first publication of Edward Gibbon’s (1737-1794) era-defining History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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