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1977réf. BBL1380Wiesbaden:: Steiner 1977. 1977. 8vo. 456 pp. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Rare. ISBN: 3515026835 "Willy Hartner was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as professor from 1940 as ordinary professor German academic terminology from 1946." Wikip. "Willy Hartner's work is characterized by its great range both linguistic and cultural. He would frequently take what seemed at first sight to be a small and isolated fact but by turning it over long and carefully in his mind analysing it from many points of view and blending in a little judicious speculation--some of his critics would say 'injudicious' - he revealed hidden and unexpected links with the help of which it might be explained. An excellent example of this style of argument is to be found in his book on the golden horns of Gallehus. In this last connection it is worth remarking that he gave regular courses on Old Norse literature at Frankfurt and that indeed he was elected a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy. This was one of many honours which fell to him before his death--another was membership of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He was twice president of the International Academy of the History of Science." see: J.D. North Obit. Annals of Science 1982 39:2 pp. 115-116. Steiner, 1977. unknown books
1994réf. 22027Munich: Schirmer/Mosel 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 4to. Black paper-covered boards in photographic black-and-white dust jacket. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. SIGNED by Rizzo on ffep and dated 17 5. 94. 63 plates in color and black and white. 94 pp. All text in French including introduction by Jean-Pierre de Lucovitch. Includes an index of photographs identified by subjects and dates with Rizzo's comments. Includes portraits of Picasso Brigitte Bardot Marilyn Monroe John Steinbeck Maria Callas and numerous other artists and performers. Schirmer/Mosel hardcover books
1885réf. 13946Berlin: Hirschwald 1885. hardcover. very good. Text illustrations and 10 fine folded lithographic plates one in color. 32 pages pp. 494-525 IN Archiv fur klinische Chirurgie. 1885. Volume 31. Whole volume offered Complete. Thick 8vo 1/2 brown calf worn. Berlin: August Hirschwald 1885. Very good. The first description of Trendelenburg's elevated pelvic position. G-M 6091. Hirschwald unknown books
1989réf. 30383Caracas: Fondo Editorial Tropykos 1989. 21.5 cm. Tomo I. La Obra de Juan Calzadilla. 227p. wrps. N.B. only volume published to-date. Bibliography of noted Venezuelan art historian and critic works with several indices for easier use. Fondo Editorial Tropykos unknown books
1973réf. 2311361New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1973. Reissue. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Wrapper rubbed one inch tear and creases on rear wrapper bookplate on title page. 1973 Stapled Binding. 79 pp. One of America's top trainers gives you complete directions for making your dog obey you in the home in your car on the street. includes all basic commands plus dog care and feeding. Many illustrations. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1953réf. 2311930New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1953. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Glanzman Louis. No jacket. A bit musty a few minor stains on page base. 1953 Hard Cover. 209 pp. Numerous illustrations & illustrated endpapers by Louis Glanzman. "Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
2003réf. 9063New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo. 176 pp. Hardcover. In publisher's dust jacket. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux hardcover books
1980réf. 1987London: Pan Books 1980. First Edition / Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Known as The Brandt Report this leather-bound presentation copy was inscribed by former German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Secretary of State Robert McNamara. Additional signatures by Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Secretary of Commer. Octavo 304pp. Brown leather covers title in gilt on spine and cover. Inscribed on the front end paper by the following people: Chancellor Willy Brandt Katharine Graham Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson and Sir Sonny Ramphal the Secretary-General of Guyana. The Brandt Report was an independent commission report that analyzed income disparities between the "North-South Divide." It advocates for the transfer of manufactured goods to developing countries to stimulate trade and improve economic conditions. From the personal library of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Provenance: The Robert McNamara Estate & Diane Byfield McNamara Book Collection The Potomac Company October 2019. Pan Books unknown books
1986réf. 20552Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget 1986. Hardcover. Octavo 22.5 cm pp. 1373. Blue cloth boards no jacket. Endpapers are a map of the North Sea. Light edge wear and smudging. Kunnskapsforlaget hardcover books
1985réf. 16875No Place: Association Francaise Pour La Diffusion Du Patrimoine Photographique 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Seven pages of text in French 92 pages of plates.Wraps slightly rubbed and soiled; internally fine. Association Francaise Pour La Diffusion Du Patrimoine Photographique paperback books
1971réf. 68372New York: Harper and Row. Very Good. 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in a slightly scuffed but nice dust jacket. . Harper and Row hardcover books
1969réf. S12245New York:: Viking Press 1969. 1969. Sm. 8vo. xiv 529 pp. Figs. index. Paperback; rubbed. Very good. Viking Press, (1969). paperback books
1915réf. 46605NY: McBride Nast and Company 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Some offsetting and foxing to prelims else a very good example that shows some light rubbing to the boards small spot to the rear and minor wear to the extremities. McBride Nast and Company hardcover books
1953réf. 2307557New York: Galaxy 1953. Soft Cover. Very Good. Pages lightly toned minor chip along bottom edge of front wrapper. 1953 Soft Cover. 160 pp. CONTENTS: The Defenders by Philip K. Dick; The Inhabited by Richard Wilson; Teething Ring by James Causey; Life Sentence by James McConnell; Prott by Margaret St. Clair; Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak; For Your Information by Willy Ley; Editors Page by H.L. Gold; Galaxy's Five Star Shelf by Groff Conklin. Galaxy paperback books
1941réf. 140939786New York: Modern Age Books 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xii 305 pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. A Very Good copy with toned pages light wear in an attractive example of the uncommon dust jacket Very Good unclipped chipped at extremities a few tape mends on verso small area of white paint spray on spine panel. The copy of biologist W. Franklin Dove 1897-1972 inscribed to him by his wife and dated 25 Dec. 1942 on front free endpaper; a few marginal penciled notes probably by Dove throughout. Dove was involved in "unicorn research" a number of strange experiments attempting to surgically recreate the horn of the fictional creature the unicorn. Madeline McCurry Schmidt wrote of Dove in a 2011 blogpost for the distinguished Scientific American magazine: Dr. W. Franklin Dove spent years of his career creating unicorns. Unicorn goats unicorn cows. Even tri-horned animals roamed Dove's barns. Dove created these strangely-horned animals by removing immature "horn buds" from the heads of young animals and implanting the horn buds to a different location on the skull. He wanted to prove that horns did not grow straight out of the skull; instead horn tissue developed separately and fused to the skull as it grew. Understand that Dove was no crackpot scientist. Dove was a biologist at the University of Maine who studied animal production in the early 20th century. He had all the right collaborators and the right publications. Dove was a serious scientist. It's not the "seriousness" of Dove's endeavors that animal rights advocates might take issue with but moving on Nigel Suckling wrote of Dove's notorious"unibull" creation: in 1933 Dove took a day-old Ayrshire calf surgically removed its horn buds trimmed them to fit together and replanted them in the centre of its forehead. As the young bull grew the buds fused and produced a single solid straight and pointed horn a foot or so in length which proved equally useful for fighting and uprooting fences far superior in fact to the usual brace of curved ones when it comes to confronting a rival. Dr Dove's Unicorn bull became the leader of its herd and was very rarely challenged by other males. This result inspired at least recent one neuroscientist to examine the relationship of anatomy to behavior. A notable work of zoology that extends into realms of cryptozoology with a very unusual association that brings in the related subfield of experimental zoology. Modern Age Books unknown books
1910réf. 140938515London: George Harrap 1910. First THUS. Very Good. Limited edition of 525 copies hand-numbered 91 in blue signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Quarto. Original full tan calf decorated in gilt illustrated with 20 beautiful tipped-in color plates top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Very Good with scratch in front cover wear along edges of leather internally near fine bookplate ghost on paste down. All plates present. A wonderful visual exploration of Coleridge's classic poem with intricate ink illustrations and every plate a hazy dream-like wash of color. George Harrap unknown books
1989réf. 46447Paris: Editions Eole 1989 . # 90 of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Paris: Editions Eole 1989 . # 90 of an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Inscribed and signed by the author with a signed note laid-in. Illustrated with b/w photographs and a few color plates. 127 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper covered boards. A very good copy. Very good/No jacket issued. Editions Eole hardcover books
réf. D2528London: G. G. Harrap n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. GIlt-ruled half morocco and decorative green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and detail on spine 5 raised bands t. e. g.; illustrated throughout with four-color lithographs and full-color tipped-on plates. A lavish production. Spine a bit sunned; some light scuffing along joints and edges of boards; a little faint browning on prelims and terminals otherwise internally bright and clean. A lovely copy. G. G. Harrap hardcover books
réf. D2547New York: Dodd Mead n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth lettering stamped in gilt on upper board and spine. Illustrated throughout with 4-color lithographs and full-color tipped-on plates. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; some very light soiling along edges of boards. Plates are bright and lovely and colors remain true. Dodd Mead hardcover books
réf. 04915London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1916. An Exceptionally Fine Riviére Rubáiyát Illustrated by Willy Pogany RIVIÉRE & Son binders. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany. The illustrations and decorations in this edition of Fitzgerald's translation of the "Rubáiyát" are by Willy Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. ca. 1916. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 207 x 140 mm. Text printed in blue and black. 112 unnumbered pp. With sixteen tipped-in color plates within decorative borders by Willy Pogany and numerous text illustrations printed in blue. Bound ca. 1916 by Riviére & Son stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full vermillion crushed levant morocco. Front cover with a central oval panel of green morocco with Eve the serpent and the tree of life inlaid in various color morocco's. This central panel is surrounded by a gilt floral border of flowers and bunches of grapes which in turn is surrounded by a border lettered "Oh Thou Who Man of Baser Earth Didst Make / And Who With Eden Didst Devise The Snake / For All The Sin Wherewith The Face Of Man / is Blacken'd. Man's Forgiveness Give - And Take". Rear cover with an oval panel featuring the snake twined around a large chalice also surrounded by a gilt floral border of flowers and bunches of grapes which in turn is surrounded by a border lettered "Oh Thou Who Man of Baser Earth Didst Make / And Who With Eden Didst Devise The Snake / For All The Sin Wherewith The Face Of Man / is Blacken'd. Man's Forgiveness Give - And Take". Spine with five raised bands decoratively paneled tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges decorative gilt turn-ins decorative floral endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in the original felt-lined red cloth over boards slipcase. A very fine example. Willy Pogany had previously illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909 but these later illustrations are quite a different interpretation more westernized and modernized than the earlier ones. "Had Omar Khayyam the old tentmaker visioned the beauty of his verses centuries later in Western dress as embroidered by a Hungarian artist he might have had a new conception of the meaning of immortality. For Pogany the Hungarian had made Omar the Persian live again." Willy Pogany and his Work. eight-page leaflet. Willy Pogány born in Szeged Hungary in 1882 studied at Budapest Technical University and in Munich and Paris. His reputation as a muralist painter and illustrator was well established in Paris London and Munich before arriving in the United States in 1915 at the age of thirty-three. Skilled in an unusually wide range of media he had won gold medals at exhibitions in Budapest Leipzig and at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition. "Among Pogány's many murals are those for the Heckscher Children's Theatre in New York City and the Niagara Falls Power Station. As a painter he did portraits of famous people in all walks of life. An expert on scenery design and lighting effects Pogány also designed sets for ballets and operas including "Le Coq d'Or" and for many films such as Modern Times for Charlie Chaplin as well as animated cartoons based on his children's books. "Among his other artistic endeavors Pogány was an accomplished book illustrator. It was this phase of his career especially as an illustrator of children's books which gives this collection special relevance for Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries. Pogány designed and illustrated more than 150 books. His illustrations include those for the Rubaiyat and the Sonnets from the Portuguese The Song Celestial The Adventures of Odysseus Gulliver's Travels and many others both classic and original. "Working tirelessly right up until the end Willy Pogány died in 1955" University of Oregon Guide to the Willy A. Pogány Papers 1910-1967. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., [1916] unknown books
2002réf. 57277Oxford:: Meyer & Meyer Sport. Very Good. 2002. Hardcover. 1841260053 . Illustrated. First edition thus. One ink marking on the margin of page 62 else very good in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket. . Meyer & Meyer Sport, hardcover books
1966réf. 21722ENew York: Signet 1966. First Edition - Paperback Original. Signed by the author Willy Ley to his publisher: “For Kurt Enoch with my best wishes Willy Ley”. Illustrated. Very good copy with a touch of handling and edge wear. From the front cover: “The full fascinating story behind the July 1965 American space flight that revolutionized science’s traditional concept of Mars - including the first close-up photographs ever made of the far-off planet.” From the library of Dr. Kurt Enoch 1895-1982 who was a noted German publisher forced to flee the Nazis landing in New York in 1940. In 1948 Dr. Enoch co-founded and became President of New American Library - Signet Books which became one of the successful and acclaimed post-war publishing houses. Enoch went on to become one of the most highly regarded figures in American book publishing. Signet #P2932 Signet paperback books
1952réf. 18987ENew York: Galaxy Publishing Corp 1952. Original issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine Vol. 5 No. 1 October 1952. With a wonderful color drawing by Willy Ley ‘The World of October 2052’ on the front and rear covers of caricature images of the leading science fiction writers of the day gathered together to celebrate Galaxy Magazine’s birthday with robots serving cake and cocktails and with little space ships and alien beings enjoying the festivities as well. The illustration includes Ray Bradbury Fritz Leiber Robert A. Heinlein Damon Knight Isaac Asimov Poul Anderson Theodore Sturgeon and more. featuring the work of Theodore Sturgeon Hal Clement Eric Frank Russell Jerome Bixby Jack McKenty Dave Dryfoos John D. MacDonald Willy Ley H.L. Gold and Geoff Conklin. With “09/11” written at the top of the front cover in 1/4” numbers else a near fine bright copy with a hint of use in printed wrappers. Galaxy Publishing Corp unknown books
1994réf. 263339New York: Abbeville 1994. First. paperback. fine. Numerous color plates. 4to pictorial wrappers. New York: Abbeville 1994. Second Edition. Fine. Abbeville unknown books
1980réf. 263345New York: Harlan Quist 1980. First. paperback. fine. Numerous color plates. 4to glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Harlan Quist 1980. First Edition. Harlan Quist unknown books
