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Recent Arrivals from Yamhill Book Company
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Jerry of the Islands, First edition, First state, 1917
by Jack London
- Condition
- Used - A few ink marks on the lower spine; spine ends a little bumped; small scratch on the bottom of the front binding. Else very good
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition, first state
- Published
- 1917
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$267.94
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1917, First edition, first state with 2 typographical errors in the text as noted by Sisson & Martens: on page 45, line 4 "jnmping" for "jumping" and page 323, line 7 "Vila" for "Villa"; April 1917 (same year on the title page and copyright page). Bound in reddish brown cloth with black dog decorations and bright gilt titles. Illustrated frontis,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Son of the Sun, 1912, First edition, First printing
by Jack London
- Condition
- Used - Spine ends slightly bumped. Otherwise very good copy of this scarce title in a mylar protective cover.
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Published
- 1912
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$459.25
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333pp with 4 full-page Illustrations by A.O. Fischer and C.W. Ashley. Publishers decorated blue cloth with ship on front board. First edition, first printing with same date on title page and its verso. Octavo.
A collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Jack London, , 1921, 1st Am. edition
by Charmian Kittredge London
- Condition
- Used - Spine cracked, sunned and rubbed, some staining of cover, hinges cracked; else very good.
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1921
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$612.36
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Two volumes. xvi, 422; viii, 414. Illustrated with several plates from photographs; frontispiece portraits with tissue-guards. Photograph of Jack and Charmian London mounted on front free endpaper of volume II. 22.5x15 cm (9x6"), green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Both inscribed on front free endpaper, by bookseller Russ Kingman (owner of The World of Jack London Museum… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mervyn Peake illustrator, Grimm's Household Tales, 1946, 1st edtion thus
by The Brothers Grimm
- Condition
- Used - Dust jacket has some small tears along the edges, small piece missing at top of spine, else very good in very good dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket has some small tears along the edges, small piece missing at top of spine, original price on jacket flap. Very good
- Edition
- First thus, first impression
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$482.30
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7 x 8.25 inches (17.5 x 21.5 cm), 303pp., octavo. Hardback cloth with dust jacket. First edition thus, first impression. 56 drawings by Mervyn Peake in black and white in the text and five color illustrations (including double-title page) on inserted plates, publisher's decorated yellow cloth stamped in black. A collection of drawings classic folk tales, derived largely from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Decorative Textiles
by George Leland Hunter and Henry W. Frohne
- Condition
- Used - Some rubbing at base of spine; lacks slipcase; else very good.
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited first edition
- Published
- 1918
- Binding
- Original blue cloth with gilt titles
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$206.70
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Decorative Textiles: an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers, George Leland Hunter and Henry W. Frohne.
1918, Limited edition. J. B. Lippincott Co., Grand Rapids: The Dean-Hicks Co., Philadelphia. xxii, 458 pp., 580 monochrome illustrations,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$206.70
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The Captives of Abb's Valley: First edition, 1854
- Condition
- Used - Previous owner's name on front pastedown; light browning at the edges of some pages; some spots on back end pages. Else very go
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1854
- Binding
- Blind-stamped cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$459.25
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The Captives Of Abb's Valley: A Legend Of Frontier Life, James Moore Brown, Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath-School Work: Philadelphia, 1854. 6 x 4, 168pp, blind-stamped cloth, gilt title and decoration on spine, illustrated.
Based on first-hand narrative accounts, James Moore Brown tells the extraordinary story of his mother' s family, who were attacked and enslaved by the Shawnee tribe… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales, 1937, illustrated Maxfield Parrish
by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith (editors)
- Condition
- Used - Dust jacket price clipped; some wear at the edges. A few scratches on the front board. Else very good in very good dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket price clipped; some wear at the edges.
- Edition
- First Maxfield Parrish edition
- Published
- 1937
- Binding
- Illustrated hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$306.14
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1937 (1909). First Maxfield Parrish edition. 340 pages plus a preface. Illustrated endpapers. Ten classic stories of fantasy perfectly blended with full color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Beautiful illustrated cover. Dust jacket and archival cover. Hardcover. Spine and binding tight and solid, the covers and interior are clean and bright with no writing or markings anywhere. A 1937 edition shows… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mary Stewart (Queen of Scots), Limited Edition of 200, 1893, bound by Zaehnsdorf
by John Skelton
- Condition
- Used - Nicks to edges, rubs, long scratch on front cover, slight color retouches to edges and joints and to the scratch; hinges tender,
- Edition
- Limited first edition
- Published
- 1893
- Binding
- Period full dark blue levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$911.00
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1893. Folio , (4to) 12½x9½. Limited edition, extra Illustrated, with 61 plates (some sepia-tone), 3 are hand-colored (including frontispiece), with tissue-guards; also 14 small illustrations within the text and decorative initials; mostly photogravures and etchings from drawings and paintings, period full dark blue levant morocco, gilt-stamped armorial vignette surrounded by four crowned capital M's on the front cover, raised bands,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$911.00
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Tales of Irish Life, Whitty, Illus George Cruikshank, 1824, 1st edition, Scarce!
by Michael James Whitty
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- Used - Boards a little soiled; slightly cracked along the front hinge. Uncommon work, rare in the original boards, this copy with conte
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1824
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$1,982.77
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Tales of Irish Life. Illustrative of the Manners, Customs,and Condition of the People. With Designs by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. [8], iv, 242 + [2] ad; [4], 249, [1] + [2] ad pp. With six woodcuts by George Cruikshank, three in each volume. (12mo) 17.5x10.5 cm. (6¾x4"), original boards, paper spine labels. First Edition.
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Michael James Whitty (1795 -… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,982.77
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The Instruction of Ptah-hotep and the Instruction of Ke'gemni:
by Battiscombe G. Gunn (Translator)
- Condition
- Used - Water stain to portion of covers, intruding to endpapers; internally very good.
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1906
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$1,531.02
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Translated from the Egyptian with an introduction and appendix by Battiscombe G. Gunn. 75, [1] + [4] ad pp. 16.5x11.8 cm (6½x4¾"), cloth. First edition, 1906. Very scarce.
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Very rare printing of ancient Egyptian wisdom text, which many scholars deem to be the "oldest books in the world." The Maxims of Ptahhotep. Ptahhotep was the city administrator and vizier… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,531.02
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Report of a Military Reconnaissance in Alaska, made in 1883., maps, 1st edition
by Frederick Schwatka
- Condition
- Used - All twenty maps are in near fine to fine condition, a few minor tears. Some wear along the binding edges and spine ends. Else ve
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1885
- Binding
- Three-quarter leather and marbled boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$306.20
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Report of a military reconnaissance in Alaska, made in 1883 -- Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in answer to Senate resolution of April 18, 1884, the official report of Lieutenant Schwatka of his military reconnaissance of 1883 in Alaska. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. 1st Edition. 1p.l.,121pp. Octavo. illustrations from photos and drawings, and 20 folding maps at… Read more about this item Item Price
A$306.20
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Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, 1869, First American Edition
by Frederick Whymper
- Condition
- Used - Bookplate on front pastedown; previous owners name on front free endpaper; wear to spine ends; corners bumped; tissue guard miss
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 1869
- Binding
- Brown cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$382.78
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Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America--Now Ceded to the United States--and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific. 1869, First American edition, New York, [xviii], 353pp. Illustrated frontispiece (tissue guard missing, fold out map, wood engravings. Brown cloth binding with gilt image on front and gilt title and decorations on spine. The first five… Read more about this item Item Price
A$382.78
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Inside Passage to Alaska: 1792 - 1920 (Vol 1 and 2), 1924, 1st
by William Watson Woollen
- Condition
- Used - Volume 1 342pp. fine; volume 2 318pp., has stamped on the front free endpaper the word
- Edition
- First edition, limited
- Published
- 1924
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$1,071.69
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The Inside Passage to Alaska 1792-1920 with an Account of the North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet. Two volumes. Vol 1 342pp. with frontis plus six plates; Vol 2 318pp. with map and ten plates. (8vo) original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, deckled fore-edge (some pages still uncut). First Edition. Edited from Woollen's… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,071.69
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Forty Years a Pioneer: Business Life of Dorsey Syng Baker, 1848-1888, SIGNED 1st
by W.W. Baker
- Condition
- Used - Touches of rubbing to extremities; faint age-toning to pages; near fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Lacks dust jacket
- Edition
- First, Limited
- Published
- 1934
- Binding
- Period Buckram
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$497.61
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[12], 257 pp. Illustrated from photographs, sketches, etc.; engraved frontispiece portrait; illustrated map endpapers. 23x15 cm (9x6") period buckram lettered in gilt. Number 195 of 200 copies. First Edition. VERY SCARCE (no other copy currently available).
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Signed by the author on the title page. Born in 1823, Dorsey Baker studied medicine and practiced briefly in Des Moines before crossed… Read more about this item Item Price
A$497.61
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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. 2: 1779 - 1781, 1961, 1st edition
by Alexander Hamilton
- Condition
- Used - Lacks dust jacket. Else near fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Missing
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$229.66
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Hardcover. 1961, First edition. 710pp. Columbia University Press. Blue-gray cloth, gilt titles. Black-and-white portrait of Hamilton at frontis; black-and-white illustrations.
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In 1955, Columbia University and its University Press created a project to collect, edit, and publish the written records of the life of Alexander Hamilton, America's first Treasury secretary and one of the most important architects of the new… Read more about this item Item Price
A$229.66
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The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites
by de Villeneuve, Hans Andersen, Perrault, etc.
- Condition
- Used - Spine a little sun faded, covers soiled, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Some shadowing on pictorial endpapers. Edges s
- Edition
- First English Trade edition
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Full rust-colored cloth over boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$757.89
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1933, First English Trade edition. 287pp. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, 8 color illustrations on plates, with titled paper guards, and 60 b&w illustrations. Bound in full rust-colored cloth over boards, black lettering and decorations on the front and spine, light brown debossed decorations on front and spine, illustrated endpapers in sepia, colored frontis.
About this book This book includes… Read more about this item Item Price
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History of Oregon Territory...[bound with] Travels in the Great Western Prairies
by Thomas J. Farnham
- Condition
- Used - Faint bumping to corners; toning along top margin of text block, occasional foxing; very good.
- Edition
- First and Second
- Published
- 1844
- Binding
- Morocco and cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$1,217.22
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3 volumes in 1. 80; 112; iv, 96 pp. With frontispiece woodcut map. 22.5x13 cm (9x5¼"), later morocco-backed cloth boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt; fresh endpapers. History of Oregon and Travels in Californias are First Editions, Travels in the Great Western Prairies is Second Edition. About this book Collection of Farnham's excellent works on the American West. The… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,217.22
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Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire. 1822
by David Carey
- Condition
- Used - Spine sunned, joints rubbed, some wear and scratches to leather, front hinge cracked, a semicircular discolored area on the edge
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First edition, early issue
- Published
- 1822
- Binding
- Later full polished brown calf
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$1,071.69
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Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton; with the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of Other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis. David Carey. First edition, early issue, bound without the half-title and the "To the Binder"… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,071.69
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The Constitution of England,1784, Fourth edition
by J.L. De Lolme
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Published
- 1784
- Binding
- One-quarter leather with cloth boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$306.14
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The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government; In which it is compared, both with the Republican form of Government, and the other monarchies in Europe. J.L. De Lolme, Advocate. 1784, Fourth edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Octavo, 8.5 x 5. One-quarter leather with cloth boards, rebound, five raised bands, gilt title. Frontpiece steel engraving of J.L. De… Read more about this item Item Price
A$306.14
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Painters of the Desert, 1960, First. Inscribed Association copy
by Ed Ainswoth
- Condition
- Used - Very Good. Spine ends and top corners a bit bumped, lacks dust jacket. ASSOCIATION copy with a 8-line INSCRIPTION by Ainsworth i
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket missing
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Original orange cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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A$459.33
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Folio, 13.25 x 9.75, 111 pp. Publisher: Desert Magazine. Ed Ainsworth. 1960, First edition. ASSOCIATION copy. Original orange cloth, lettered in gilt. Foreword by Carl Schaefer Dentzel. Illustrations and plates throughout from drawings and paintings (some in color) by various artists, and photographs of them.
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Very Good. Spine ends and top corners a bit bumped, lacks dust jacket. ASSOCIATION copy with… Read more about this item Item Price
A$459.33