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[ODDITIES]. Group of 4 First Editions of Books About Oddities or Cheats. [V.p., ca. 1843-2001]. 8vos and 4tos. Publisher's bindings, one title in jacket (occasional rubbing, soiling, occasional ownership markings. Very good or better. Titles include: Curiosities of Human Nature by the author of Peter Parley's Tales (Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1843), The King of the Beggars Bampfylde-Moore Carew (1931, Clarendon Press, first edition thus), A Collection of Scientific Articles… That Gigantic Aquatic Monster known as the Sea Serpent (by John Gordon, 1926, first edition, one of 200 copies), Jay's Journal of Anomalies (by Ricky Jay, 2001, first trade edition in jacket).