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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has a couple of folds on some pages, lightly bumped corners and wear to edges that are all difficult to see in the scans. Dust jacket has wear to covers, spine and edges and appears to be faded. FROM THE PUBLISHER In 23 years of publishing, we have never experienced anything quite like the exhilarating yet distracting venture of making this writing into a novel. Editors and proofreaders found they could not stay on task until they had read the entire story. The typesetter reports that he entertained frequent pauses, often pushing himself away from his machine until he could stop laughing. Debates about whether to edit sections that may have been too abusive or profane were decided by video taping a reading of the questionable narrative. The readers always collapsed in tearful giggling. No sections were edited. Escape From Dade City is a ribald odyssey of Wally Winters, a writer who advocates female ascendancy and who becomes trapped in an apocalypse of gender reversals--a tale with haunting surprises that shifts abruptly from the curiously erotic to waggish, then slapstick, humor. An unusual and perhaps surreal characteristic of Escape From Dade City is the accuracy of historical, geographical and social settings. An eclipse happened precisely when it happened in the story. Two years ago the Pittsburgh football team beat West Virginia at the time and by the score in the story. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.…

Hardcover. pp.xxiii, [i], 414 with 6 plates (one fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Early signature and initials to ffep. Occ. light spotting to contents o/w. fine. Original full-calf binding very sound and in good to vg. condition. (Harding 176).

Hardcover. 1st Edition. pp.4, xxxvii, [i], 400 with 6 plates (one fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Occ. spotting and small splash mark to blank top corner of 4 plates o/w. contents fine. More recent binding in half-calf with marbled boards in nr. fine condition. (Harding 176). This is the second edition which contained additions made since the publication of the first edition in 1815.…

Hardcover. pp.xxiii, [i], 414 with 6 plates (one fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Some foxing to contents which are otherwise in very good condition. With signature of John Standly to ffep. More recently, handsomely rebound in period style green cloth over green paper covered boards, all in fine condition. (Harding 176). …

Hardcover. Twelve vols. bound in five with 95 fine hand-coloured, copper engraved, plates. Royal 8vo. Hardback. All title pages and indexes present. Neat repair to three leaves, only very minor spotting o/w. contents fine. More recent quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering and raised bands in most pleasing nr. fine condition. With fine hand-coloured plates by C.M. Curtis and J.O. Westwood. Stephens (1792-1852) was an English entomologist, naturalist and fellow of the Linnaen Society. 'While at the University of Cambridge, the student Charles Darwin became an enthusiastic insect collector. He sent Stephens records of the rarer insects he had captured, and was delighted when 'Illustrations of British Entomology' gave him credit for capturing insects described in 33 entries, quoting his words in all but two of the cases. Darwin recalled in his autobiography 'No poet ever felt more delight at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing in Stephen's Illustrations of British Insects the magic words, 'captured by C. Darwin, Esq.''.…