Partridge EricABAA
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1963Best.-Nr. 28298London: Andre Deutsch 1963. Hardcover. Very good. 119pp. very good hardback in a slightly tanned jacket. Ink name on front pastedown. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1839Best.-Nr. 18146Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1839. 8vo. 19 pp. Referred to the Committee on the Militia and ordered to be printed and that 5000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate." The memorialists assert that the plan would "render a standing army beyond a small peace establishment just sufficient to protect our necessary fortifications arsenals &c. totally unnecessary and place the military defence of the country where the framers of the constitution evidently intended it to be placed in the hands of the people themselves the only safe guardians of our national independence and of our civil and religious liberties." Government document: 25th Congress 3d Session. Senate. 197. Removed from a nonce volume. Ink numeral at top right corner of p. 1. Very good. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 132844New York: Bonanza 1960. hardcover. very good/very good. 247pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; chipped. New York: Bonanza Books 1960. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Bonanza unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 58435New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1963. Hardcover. Black cloth boards gilt printing to spine 119pp. about Fine. . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1823Best.-Nr. WRCAM28193New York: H. Wallis and Company 1823. 2288pp. plus folding table. Contemporary calf rebacked with original backstrip laid down red gilt morocco label. Slightly rubbed. Very good. Contains "the most improved methods pursued in the West of England.a correct description of Sulphuring Woollens and Chemical Bleaching of Cottons" with many dye recipes. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 13674. RINK 1864. H. Wallis and Company unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. S8375Offprint from:: Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 194 no. 1 1952. 1952. 8vo. 269-278 pp. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Yanofsky was a pioneer geneticist who "showed that suppressor mutations result in the reappearance of an enzyme that has been missing from a mutant organism." McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science p. 621. He carried out numerous studies of tryptophan and Neurospora crassa and made significant contributions to the science of genetics. David Bonner Yanofsky's teacher was also an accomplished geneticist who worked extensively on the subject at Yale. Horowitz was a pioneer Caltech geneticist. WITH: PARTRIDGE & Norman H. GILES. "Identification of Major Accumulation Products of Adenine-Specific Mutants of Neurospora." Offprint from: Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics vol. 67 no. 1 1957. 8vo. 237-238 pp. Single leaf. WITH: PARTRIDGE. "Altered Properties of the Enzyme Adenylosuccinase Produced by Interallelic Complementation at the AD-4 Locus in Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications vol. 3 no. 6 1960. 8vo. 613-619 pp. Figs. Self-wraps. Signature of Horowitz rubber stamp of Norman H. Giles. WITH: PARTRIDGE & GILES. "Sedimentation Behaviour of Adenylosuccinase Formed by Interallelic Complementation in Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Nature vol. 199 no. 4890 1963. 8vo. 304-305 pp. Self-wraps. Initials of Horowitz. WITH: PARTRIDGE & GILES. "Comparative Biochemical Studies of Allelic Inositolless Mutants in Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: American Journal of Botany vol. 40 no. 10 1953. 8vo. 778-787 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers; extremities chipped. Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 194, no. 1, 1952. paperback books
1578Best.-Nr. 314592Luton England 1578. 450 x 320 mm. Ink on parchment. Old folds wax seal partially intact on parchment hang tag. Contemporary annotations on verso. 450 x 320 mm. Bedfordshire history. An indenture between Thomas Cheyney of Bramanyer in the parish of Luton in the Countie of Bedford and John Partridge who is described as a yeoman -- which is a comparatively wealthy non-titled farmer. It is compartively unusual to see a seal survive on such a document. The hand is distinct uses several common and some less common abbreviations derived from Latin documentary hands and the document uses gothic lettering for emphasis in places. unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 52465London: George Routledge & Sons ltd 1947. Third edition revised 12mo pp. ix 3 260; green cloth gilt; near fine in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Partridge to Laurie Atkinson contributor of a number of terms and phrases to his projects and with a peppering of annotations by Partridge noting on the list of his works which titles are out of print and which are in later editions and crossing out the price on the dust jacket. George Routledge & Sons ltd hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 50711Victoria: Melbourne University Press 1987. First edition thus and first separate edition 8vo pp. 6 146; 1 full-page map; black cloth gilt title direct on spine fine in fine dust jacket. Originally published in 1929 in Three Personal Records of the War by the Scholartis Press. Melbourne University Press hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 50703London: Hamish Hamilton 1952. First edition small 8vo pp. 14 146; red cloth boards silver title on spine; fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed to the dedicatee by Partridge: "To John W. Clark with the wish that it was worthy of him Eric Partridge 30 May 1952." Clark professor at the University of Minnesota was an old friend of Partridge and a sometimes collaborator. One small correction to the text in Partridge's hand. Hamish Hamilton hardcover books
1955Best.-Nr. 52466London: Faber & Faber 1955. Third impression originally published in 1953; 12mo pp. 107 1; blue cloth gilt in pictorial dust jacket; light spotting to edges else near fine. Inscribed by Partridge to Anthony Clarkson "with whom it has been a pleasure for me to do businesss." Additionally Partridge has crossed out the jacket price and has made a small notation on the list of other works noting one title as out of print. Faber & Faber hardcover books
1957Best.-Nr. 52429London: Phoenix House 1957. First edition 12mo pp. 46 2; original printed wrappers lightly soiled else very good in original yellow wrappers printed in black. Inscribed by the author to "Richmond" on half title dated 18 April 1957. A complaint against bureaucratic and communist language. An uncommon Partridge title. Phoenix House unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 51183n.p. i.e. Paris: privately printed at the Lecram-Press n.d. 1932. Second edition limited to 700 copies after 300 copies in the first square 8vo pp. 225 3; gray paper-covered boards printed labels on upper cover and spine paper cracking at the bottom of the spine underlining in pencil throughout; very good. A privately printed pseudonymous and erotic novel from the author publisher and lexicographer Eric Partridge. He requested that his authorship of the book be kept secret until his death stating in a letter to William R. Cagle "When I'm gone I'd like it slipped unobtrusively among my books. It belongs to an unregenerate period of my life; not that I'm ashamed of it." privately printed [at the Lecram-Press], n.d. hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 52451New York: Macmillan Co 1958. First American edition small 4to pp. xix 1 970; about fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket and with one longer tear in the back panel without loss. Laid in is a 1-page A.L.s. from Partridge to "Amici cari mei" enclosing a 'corrigenda' and an 'addenda' which "will make your copies of Origins as 'good' as the 2nd edition." These corrigenda and addenda are not printed but typed presumably by Partridge on 8" x 11" paper and contain a few amendations in pencil and ink. Macmillan Co unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 51197London: Hamish Hamilton 1958. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 196; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed to "Laurie Atkinson a learned and generous contributor to a noble cause with many yet far too few thanks from Eric Partridge for his valuable notes. 17/iii/1959." Also with a postcard to Atkinson laid in written less than two weeks later saying Partridge is "working on your material now; have just begun it; so the additional matter is v. useful." As usual Partridge has scribbled through the price on the jacket flap. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 52407London: Fredrick Muller Ltd 1948. First edition small slim 8vo pp. ix 1 176; original black cloth shadow on front free endpaper very good in dust jacket with spotting on verso and small loss of a square inch out of one corner of the upper panel. Inscribed by Partridge to his friend and collaborator "John W. Clark scholar and friend with compliments Eric Partridge 25 Dec. 1949." The book "covers not only the war of 1939-1945 but also more particularly the influence of wars and warfare on the vocabulary." jacket blurb. Fredrick Muller Ltd hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. 52446London: George Routledge & Sons 1937. First edition 8vo pp. ix 1 317 2; photographic frontispiece portrait; endpapers spotted; a very good copy in original terracotta cloth in a chipped dust jacket with spine a bit spotted. Partridge's friend Alan Steele's signature on upper free endpaper. Twenty-seven essays by the noted New Zealander mostly unpublished in book form. George Routledge & Sons hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 51195London Melbourne and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984. First printing of the 8th edition small thick 4to pp. xxix 1 1400; text in double column; fine in original blue cloth gilt lettering on spine and a near fine dust jacket. Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 52453London: George Routledge & Sons 1933. First edition large 8vo pp. ix 1 476; original red cloth spine faded light wear to extremities else very good. With the bookplate of Partridge's friend collaborator and author John Brophy and with a letter laid in from Brophy to 'Dear Preston Here's Partridge's book on slang which I understandb Gueden wants to borrow. I hope you'll be able to get my articles in reviewing in the paper on Sunday." George Routledge & Sons hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 52439London: Hamish Hamilton 1953. First edition 8vo pp. x 230; original blue cloth tan and red dust jacket with a couple shallow chips at spine and small closed tear on lower panel. Inscribed May 8 1953 from Partridge to his friend Alan Steele on the front free endpaper and with the dust jacket price crossed out in his hand. Hamish Hamilton hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 52436London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1972. Later printing after the 4th edition 12mo pp. ix 1 261 1; green cloth; boards bowed top edge lightly soiled else near fine in a near fine price-clipped pink dust jacket. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd hardcover books
1951Best.-Nr. 52444New York: Philosophical Library 1951. First American edition 8vo pp. x 341 1; fine in a slightly worn jacket. Two World Wars new technologies and the global spread of English made for substantial changes in English in the 20th century. Philosophical Library unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 52427New York: Books for Libraries Press 1971. Reprint edition 8vo pp. 256; original yellow cloth black title on spine; light spotting to upper edge else fine. Books for Libraries Press hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 52452Oxford: Clarendon Press 1940. 8vo pp. 2 175-196 i.e. 24pp. in all; original printed wrappers unopened; fine. Issued as Tract no. LV in the publisher's Society for Pure English series. Clarendon Press unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 51224London: Scholartis Press 1928. 8vo pp. 8; self wrqppers; stapled as issued; near fine Announcing works by Partridge as well as 20 or so Scholartis Press titles together with works in preparation. Scholartis Press unknown books
