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  1.  Stamp Collecting as a Pastime / Nankivell, Edward James, 1848-1909
    VI. ITS HISTORICAL FINGER POSTS VII. STAMPS WITH A HISTORY VIII. GREAT RARITIES IX. THE ROMANCE ... in the great rarities, finds new issues a source of perpetual enjoyment. They follow one another month  details...
  2.  Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with extracts from his journals and correspondence. / Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892
    to you and the rest of the family. I dined with him yesterday, on venison, which is a great rarity here ... in the eyes of men of activities and affairs. In such a life, a new book is a great adventure, a new poem  details...
  3.  Behind my library door : some chapters on authors, books and miniatures / by G. C. Williamson. / Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
    (especially for a blue) which were not known to his competitors. His work in this country is of great rarity ... a number of oxen, those great white beauties with large appealing eyes, with which the traveller in Italy  details...
  4.  Across The Plains / Stevenson, Robert Louis
    formed; her features were more than comely; she had that great rarity - a fine complexion which became ... , our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part  details...
  5.  Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 / Various
    ; and to any catalogues which may reach us containing books of great rarity and curiosity. Had we entertained ... that in so short a space of time so great an improvement had been made. One friend told me that in earlier life  details...
  6.  Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 / Various
    for these lines than the _Musarum Deliciae_; a fact which I learn from a volume now open before me, the great rarity of which will excuse my transcribing the title-page in full:-- "Apophthegmes, that is to saie ...  details...
  7.  The Beautiful Lady / Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
    but exquisite, it was that great rarity--goodness made charming. The peregrination of the American trousers ... which trembled with embarrassment at this too great conspicuosity! Those mournful hours passed, one by the year  details...
  8.  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 / Various
    of a boarded house or glass window was a great rarity; a cordial welcome to any connected with the American ... and distinct learned professions, or faculties, to so great an extent as in modern times. The compass  details...
  9.  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti / Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893
    show him jewels, cornelians, medals, and such-like objects of great rarity, as knowing ... , in elections and nominations of officers, to add the Christian names of the father, grandfather, great  details...
  10.  Bits about Home Matters / Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
    had not known. All eyes fastened on the orange. It was evidently a great rarity. I watched to see if this test ... and a great many women would be astonished at being told that simple humanity requires them to gratify every  details...

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