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Banned Books

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    Konstantinopel und das westliche Kleinasien:

    BAEDEKER, Karl.
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    With censorship slip.. First edition of this scarce title with the rare censorship slip warning travellers to hide the book from the authorities.Th...

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    The Dark.

    MCGAHERN, John.
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    The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...

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    The Ginger Man.

    DONLEAVY, J.P.
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    First edition of the author's first novel; a debauched comedy set in post-war Dublin, following the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield.First e...

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    Lollipop.

    [SOUTHERN, Terry & HOFFENBERG, Mason] KENTON, Maxwell (pseud).
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    Second edition of Lollipop by Maxwell Kenton, the joint pseudonym of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, who co-authored this highly sexual satir...

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    Opere di Galileo Galilei

    GALILEI, Galileo.
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    Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...

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    Die Geschichte von der Liebe der schönen Seneschallin Blanche, anders Die lässliche Sünde...

    BALZAC, Honoré de.
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    The Catholic Church placed Balzac's work on their list of Banned Books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1841, where it remained up until the In...

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    Animal Farm.

    ORWELL, George.
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    The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russia...

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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    GIBBON, Edward.
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    First great history of Rome's fall. A beautiful six-volume set of this classic work. Gibbon's (1737-1794) History of the Decline and Fall of the Ro...

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  • Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.

    RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.
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    The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...

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  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit

    POTTER, Beatrix; SENDAK, Maurice.
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    Maurice Sendak meets Beatrix Potter. An excellent production reproducing 34 of the original 41 plain illustrations from the edition of The Tale of ...

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    Works

    BROWNE, Sir Thomas.
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    Includes: Biographical memoirs of Browne; Personal Correspondence; Religio Medici; Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Garden of Cyrus; Hydriotaphia; Brampton ...

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