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[ABBOTT, EDWIN A.].
Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions. By A
Square.
Illustrations by the author. 12mo, original flexible pictorial yellow cloth, spine
gilt-lettered, all edges stained red, light overall soiling, mild rubbing to spine tips; discreet
ownership label tipped to front pastedown corner, fore-edge chip on penultimate leaf,
housed in
1
/
2
cloth folding case.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885
[600/900]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
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An uncommonly clean, sound copy. A signal text in positing an
extra-dimensional apprehension of the world, a self-awareness that came to characterize the
modernist and post-modernist perspective.
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ALLAIN, MARCEL.
Fantômas Captured.
Translated by A.R. Allinson. 8vo, pub-
lisher’s navy cloth; slight lean, bump to bottom of rear board; dust jacket, toned, corners
clipped, edgewear with a few nicks and short closed tears; contemporary ownership
inscription on front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION
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Philadelphia: David McKay, (1926)
[150/250]
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AMBLER, ERIC.
Journey Into Fear.
8vo, publisher’s salmon cloth stamped in
blue, slightly spotted, spine tips and corners rubbed with light exposure; dust jacket,
unclipped, edgewear with a few small nicks and abrasions primarily to spine panel head
and foot, dampstain evident on verso only, endleaves toned, else clean and unmarked.
FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION
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NewYork: Knopf, 1940
[700/1,000]
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CENTURY LITERATURE
Public Auction Sale 2388 June 17, 2015 1:30 pm
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