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		<title>The First James Bond And The Invisible Spy</title>
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Two novels. Two spies. One spy’s  visible, the other’s not.  One is in service to George Washington, the  other in service to snooping on the social set during the reign of George II.  One is the first novel to wholly concern itself with espionage, the  other is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Of The Great Books Of Childrens Literature Is Back</title>
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&#160;

 Hurrah for Peter Parley
Hurrah for Daniel Boone
Three cheers sir, for the gentleman
Who first observed the moon!
- Emily Dickinson, from Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
 Daniel  Boone,  check. The  gentleman  who  first  observed  the  moon  (presumably, Adam),  check.
&#160;
Peter Parley. Who?
One of the great and legendary rarities of American children&#8217;s literature, with only seven copies found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bucolic Paradise For The Working Class, 1825</title>
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One of the rarest British color-plate architectural pattern books of the first half of the nineteenth century, Novel Designs for Cottages, Small Farms &#38; Schools presents architecture as social engineering and provides the genesis for the company town.
It was produced by architect John Hall, Secretary to the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Cruikshank Devastates Dandies</title>
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&#160;Dandies At Tea.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a Yankee Doodle Dandy&#8230;&#8221; (Geo. M. Cohan).

The clothes-obsessed dandy and dandyism phenomenon first appeared in the 1790s, both in London and Paris. In period vernacular, a dandy was differentiated from a fop in that the dandy&#8217;s dress was more refined and sober. But not for long.



Dandy Pickpockets Diving.

During the Regency period in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Edition in the West: A “Pioneering Effort,” with Peking Duck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1687, a book that had been toiled upon by the Jesuits for decades was finally published.  Titled Confucius Sinarum Philosophus  [Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese], it is the first edition of the first western translation of the great Chinese philosopher’s works, which introduced the name Confucius, latinized from the Chinese title, Kong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Jackie Met André: Jacqueline Kennedy’s Gift Book to Malraux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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André Malraux (foreground, left) with Jacqueline Kennedy
and JFK, state dinner at the White House, May 11, 1962.

The personal gift of Jacqueline and President Kennedy to French Minister of Culture André Malraux, in celebration of his visit to Washington, D.C. in May of 1962, has surfaced.
It is a book. Not just any book but a perfect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who the Heck is Herwart von Hohenburg?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The Mensa Isiaca. Engraved plate number one
from Thesaurus Hieroglyphicorum.

No copies have come to auction within the last thirty-five years. OCLC/KVK note only seven copies in institutional collections worldwide, only one of which is complete, in the Bibliothéque National - France. But another complete copy recently appeared out of nowhere and into the marketlace, unheralded, without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When “Little Woman” and “Little Men’ Get Together, Hubba-Hubba</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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True first editions of Little Women and Little Men in the publisher&#8217;s original cloth.

“I plod away, through I don&#8217;t enjoy this sort of thing. Never liked girls, or knew many, except my sisters, but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it&#8230; Sent twelve chapters to Mr. N [Thomas Niles, her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A “Witch” So Rare It’s Scary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Some days I wake up lucky. I now have before me one of the great rarities in American literature, the true first edition of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Water Witch. Published no later than September 18, 1830, the London edition followed in October, and the Philadelphia edition in the the Spring of 1831.
Only sixteen copies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subversive Book Asserts Rule By Law, Not King</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1644, Samuel Rutherford, a Presbyterian theologian, published Lex, Rex, the now excessively scarce, enormously important treatise on limited government and constitutionalism. Only four copies have fallen under the hammer within the last thirty-five years.
Lex, Rex is the first treatment of rule by law, not by men, based upon the separation of powers and covenant [...]]]></description>
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