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Best.-Nr. 1279585064.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 113078London 1853 4to. 149-154 pp. engr. plate. Disbound. From the library of Thore M. Fries with his library stamp. Not in Stafleu. Volbracht suppl. 130a with wrong date. Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
Best.-Nr. 113069London 1841 4to. 575-579 pp. engr. plate. First leave with tear and the plate is cut down in size and loose. Disbound and with folding marks. With handwritten dedication to Elias Fries from the author! From the library of Thore M. Fries with library stamp. Not in Stafleu. Not in Volbracht. Very fine association copy! Miles Joseph Berkeley 1803-1889 ”The founder of British mycology” systematist with some 6000 species of fungi being credited to him. Berkeley made very important contributions to the field of plant pathology. He composed the account of native British fungi in Sir W. Hooker’s ”British Flora” 1836 and his most important works are ”Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany” 1857 and his ”Outlines of British Fungology” 1860. He also published a large number of articles on mycology. unknown
Best.-Nr. K315977London. Very Good. large octavo. sl. worn orig. dec. cloth 484pp. b/w ills. fldg. frontis Throughout the English Speaking World. With many photographs of interesting people incidents and places. Tender hinge o / w VG hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. 70676NY: Doubleday 1938. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed corners bumped spine sunned else a good example in publisher's black cloth lettered in red. Doubleday hardcover books
1933Best.-Nr. 27608New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1933. Reprint. Hardcover. nice tight clean book with just a touch of shelfwear; the jacket is modestly edgeworn very slight paper loss at base of spine a few short closed tears at the top and bottom edges of the front panel with the one at the bottom having also occasioned some creasing and a tiny surface-scrape in the upper right area of the front panel. "Another page from the career of Mr. Roger Sheringham whose proclivities in the direction of beer and criminology have given him an international following. It concerns the unfortunate sequence of events which began with one of the most extraordinary of murders and involves Sheringham for the firt time in his career on the side against the police." Berkeley who also wrote as "A.B. Cox" and "Francis Iles" featured Sheringham in ten novels published between 1925 and 1934 of which this was the ninth. It was also published in England under the title "Jumping Jenny." . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 419795New York: Doubleday Doran & Company for The Crime Club 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Owner's small bookplate on front pastedown binders glue offsetting on endpapers and pastedowns very good in an about very good foxed and edgeworn dustwrapper with internal tape repair on chipped top spine end. A mystery novel especially scarce in jacket. Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 9780712356534British Library
1929Best.-Nr. 421417Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. First American edition. Fine in a poor stained and chipped but reasonably intact internally tape repaired dustwrapper. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1929Best.-Nr. 71012NY: Doubleday Doran and Company 1929. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Pages tanned else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 70677NY: Grosset and Dunlap 1928. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper else a very good hardback bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in red. Grosset and Dunlap hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 2351723Garden City New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight pages clean bright and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. 273 pp. 8vo. The ransacked flat and the garroted body meant a simple burglary to Scotland Yard. but the Yard overlooked the innocent bit of rope that Roger Sheringham found. The seventh Roger Sheringham mystery novel by popular British crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox who wrote as Anthony Berkeley Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Roger Sheringham stories were Berkeley's most popular mysteries though he also wrote quite a few stand-alones. The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 1403621Garden City: Published for the Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran & Company 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 339 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is black with red print. Boards in black cloth red print; fraying to spine caps and corners mild shelf wear cocked spine. Text block has cracked hinges intermittent spine breaks shaken binding name in ink on half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403621. FP New Rockville Stock. Published for the Crime Club, Inc by Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 66251980. Softcover. VG previous owner stamps inside cover. Wraps. 58 pp. 21 color plates. Catalogue and short essay written by Mark Rosenthal. Also includes some isolated and I suppose important quotations by the artist arranged chronologically. Catalogue lists 34 works. Bibliography. Lovely color plates. paperback books
1963Best.-Nr. 31432Berkeley: University of California 1963. Softcover. VG- light wear and scuffing to cover edges. Black and color illustrated wraps with green lettering;. 55 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Includes works by Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. "Organized by the Committee for Arts and Lectures at the University of California Berkeley." Includes bibliographical references page 15. University of California paperback books
1969Best.-Nr. 83681969. Softcover. G one set of staple holes throughout at RH edge. Color wraps. 51 pp. 7 color 11 bw plates. "Richard Lindner's art derives from very personal sexual obsessive visions. The characters who inhabit his paintings are the robots of twentieth-century urban life.specifically New Yorkers." Includes the essay "Richard Lindner 'the secret of the inner voice'" by Dore Ashton an interview by Dean Swanson the plates an exhibition checklist of 87 works bibliography biography and exhibitions. paperback books
1964Best.-Nr. 42061964. VG. Signed by the author. Black wraps. 24 pp. 2 bw 5 color plates. Introduction by Herschel B. Chipp. Essay by Erle Loran Hans Hofmann and His Work. The included plates highlight the University's holdings of Hofmann's work which at this time numbered 45. Hofmann taught at Berkeley when he was obscure and always held it in high regard; hence the donation of these pictures and money to build a wing with his name on it. In the essay the story of the exhibition and an explanation of the works is provided. paperback books
1928Best.-Nr. 94878New York: J.H. Sears 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears and with a George Bernard Shaw blurb. Biographical novel about Cavell a World War I British nurse executed by the Germans for helping POWs escape novelized by Berkeley from his play and his screen-story for the 1928 silent film of the same name. Little remembered now the film was understandably controversial in its time and was suppressed in some markets and consequently a blockbuster in others. Cavell is memorialized today with a statue just off of Trafalgar Square. J.H. Sears hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 233150The University of North Carolina Press 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x9. NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE PAPERBACK EDITION! Hardcover Second printing published in 1975 with a dust jacket. Both jacket and book show little wear. They are Clean have a good binding with no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. S.U. The University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 19381New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. cloth dust jacket. thick 8vo. cloth dust jacket. xx 565 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Clifton Waller Barrett followed by sections on the Fundamentals Rudiments and Areas in Which to Collect. Includes sections on forgery and forgers. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 318724New York: Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates 1952. First edition. 34 pp. 4to. Plain printed wrappers. Near fine. Contemporary ownership ink stamps to front cover back cover and title page. Provenance: Ink stamp of Samuel Jacobs__; Bookplate of Erwin Tomash. First edition. 34 pp. 4to. Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 76129Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover in jacket. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches bound in blue cloth with pictorial end pages. Complete in 283 pages with some illustrations. . University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1963Best.-Nr. qms435Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina 1963. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters ix 236 pp. Very Good with neat former-owner stamp & signature and former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket with light foxing. From jacket: As plant collector and early systematic botanist John Clayton 1694-1773 Cerk of Court of Gloucester County Virginia occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted soley to Virginia. The University of North Carolina, (1963). hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 34444BERKELEY Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. THE REVEREND JOHN CLAYTON A PARSON WITH A SCIENTIFIC MIND HIS WRITINGS AND OTHER RELATED PAPERS. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia 1965. 8vo. Cloth. xv xlviii 170 pages. First edition. Definitive collection of the writings and letters of the noted seventeenth century Virginia clergyman and local botanist and scientist. Very good. unknown books
1992Best.-Nr. dacs997Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1992. First Edition. Octavo gray cloth hardcover xv 808 pp 1 pp. Frontis. ports. Fine. University Press of Florida, (1992). First Edition. hardcover books