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1972réf. 167796N.p.: N.p. 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. From the collection of practical effects designer and miniatures specialist Greg Jein. A violent neo-noir comedy about a private eye who is sent to investigate a diamond dealer's missing jewels presumed to have been stolen by a US Army colonel. Set and shot on location in New York. Blue wrappers with the title and an old dealer annotation in manuscript ink and pencil respectively on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 2 1972 noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 8229 with credit for uncredited screenwriter Sam Pessin. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown books
1968réf. 145862Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Single manuscript notation on the title page. The story of two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 17 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown books
1937réf. 7245London. The Studio Ltd. 1937. Beautifully bound by Zahnsdorf in gilt titled full snowy vellum. Lovely gilded endsheets. t.e.g. 4to 8.5" x 12". This edition on hand-made paper is limited to 215 numbered copies of which this copy is number 8. Lavishly illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates reproducing the most decorative examples of early English illuminated manuscripts. A most desireable and well regarded study. An elegant presentation. Usual slight vellum bowing to front cover. Covers mildly soiled spine slightly darkened. A lovely copy of this elusive limited issue.Featured Art. The Studio Ltd. hardcover books
1839réf. 66486Nashville TN: Executive office 1839. First edition. 4to 28 cm. 2 pp. Printed broadsheet address to "Fellow-Citizens of Tennessee announcing his candidacy for re-election as Governor of Tenness while explaining that the duties of the office will keep him from attending a statewide series of appearances with his opponent James K. Polk: "The attempt to make the tour of the State might and I fear would result in serious injury to the interests of the people as well as the inconveniences to which absence of the Executive would subject those who have immediate business with his department." The balance of this two-page address deals with Cannon's performance as governor the first Whig to hold the office especially emphasizing his opposition to the Jackson and Van Buren policies that brought about the Panic of 1837. Cannon was unable to keep his word on the campaigning however and "Newton and Polk undertook a joint canvass of the state but Cannon was no match for Polk whose ability as a stump speaker and powers of ridicule compelled the slower less magnetic Cannon to refuse to continue to speak from the same platform . Cannon was defeated and his public career ended" DAB. Not in American Imprints or Allen Tennessee Imprints 1791-1875. Not recorded on OCLC. Old folds with some breaks resulting in the loss of a few letters not affecting the sense of the sentences involved and a poor repair along one split obscuring a half dozen words. Good copy of an apparently unrecorded Tennessee imprint. Executive office unknown books
1898réf. 393841898. Cannon Walter B. 1871-1945. 1 The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays. In Am. J. Physiol. 1 no. 3 May 1898: 359-382. Text illustrations. Whole number 283-410pp. 2 with Albert Moser The movements of the food in the oesophagus. In Am . J. Physiol.1 no. 4 July 1898: 435-444. Text illustrations. Whole number 411-522 vi pp. Together 2 numbers largely unopened. 249 x 175 mm. Original wrappers chipped spines worn and/or repaired. Offered with Vol. 1 no. 1 of the American Journal of Physiology January 1898 in original wrappers silked some chipping and fraying. 144pp. Library stamps on front wrappers of all numbers. All 3 numbers preserved in a quarter morocco box. 1 First Edition journal issue. Garrison-Morton 3519. Introduction of bismuth meal for x-ray examination of the digestive tract. Cannon's discovery enabled him to increase our knowledge of the physiology of digestion and also introduced a widely used clinical method of diagnosis of gastric ulcer and malignancy of any part of the gastrointestinal tract. 2 First Edition journal issue. Cannon was the first to use x rays to study the digestive system; his work laid the foundations of gastrointestinal radiology. The present paper written while Cannon was still a medical student describes Cannon's first experiments with x-rays to examine the mechanism of swallowing including his first public demonstration by means of x-rays of the phenomena of deglutition. This ground-breaking work was undertaken less than a year after Roentgen's discovery of the x-ray. DSB. . unknown books
1883réf. 55875Ogden City Utah: Ogden Herald Publishing Company Printers 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Good . 214pp. Octavo 21 cm 1/4 brown cloth with light blue printed paper over boards. General mild rubbing to boards; contemporary owner's name in pen at the head of the front board; subtle dampstaining to top edge of rear board; hinges reinforced; presentation slip mounted to front pastedown dated "1939." An early directory of this Northern Utah town that served as the main railroad hub of the Intermountain West. Contains lots of great period advertising. This work also contains short histories of the people and organizations. Flake/Draper 3772. Auerbach 519. Ogden Herald Publishing Company, Printers hardcover books
1971réf. 146784Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1971 film. Based on Frank Pierson's 1970 novel about an ex-con who initiates a cascade of chaos when he decides to rob his upscale apartment building. Actor Christopher Walken's feature film debut as well as a breakthrough role for Sean Connery who was previously stuck being typecast as James Bond. Shot on location in New York. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. About Near Fine with no restoration a few old splashes near the edges some rubbing and scratches three small closed tears in margins and light creases otherwise quite bright and unfaded. Lee The Heist Film. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1889réf. RWOOOFF02JNChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1889. Very Good. Woodruff Wilford. Official Declaration. Cannon George Q.; Smith Joseph F. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1889. 3pp. 8vo. Single folded leaf. Signed by author. Book condition: Very good and very clean with only light bumping to corners and faint yellowing to fore edge. With laid in clipped Wilford Woodruff autograph. Scarce. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unknown books
1882réf. RCANFAI00efJuvenile Instructor Office 1882. Good. Cannon George Q. Faith Promoting Series Numbers 1-9 plus 3 other tracts. 3 volumes. Woodruff Wilford; Little James A; Littlefield Lyman O; Penrose Charles W. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office 1882. 12mo. Book condition: Good with rubbed leather and lightly soiled cloth. Former owner's vivid yellow nameplate on front pastedowns. One page in volume one has a slight tear near spine. Juvenile Instructor Office hardcover books
1971réf. 152448N.p.: N.p. 1971. Shooting Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Sunshine Ladies." The second film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet" preceded by "Student Nurses" 1970 and followed by "Night Call Nurses" 1972 and "Candy Stripe Nurses" 1974. George Armitage's directorial debut and the second film released by Corman's New World Pictures. Set and shot on location in Manhattan Beach and South Bay Los Angeles. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 2 1971 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter George Armitage. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 84. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1936réf. 452221936. Cannon Walter 1871-1945. Collection of 20 offprints as listed below including three with presentation inscriptions and one from the library of Nobel Laureate Archibald Vivian Hill 1886-1977. 1898-1936. Original printed wrappers except for no. 12 or without wrappers as issued. Very good to fine. First/First Separate Editions. Cannon professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School was one of the pre-eminent physiologists of the 20th century making fundamental contributions to our knowledge of digestion the autonomic nervous system homeostasis and stress response. Cannon was the first to use X rays to study the digestive system; his work laid the foundations of gastrointestinal radiology. "His pioneering research done with a series of collaborators examined the nature of swallowing gastric peristalsis the time of passage for different foodstuffs out of the stomach into the duodenum control of the pylorus and peristalsis of the small intestine" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. He spent most of the 1920s researching the autonomic nervous system the part of the nervous system responsible for controlling unconscious bodily functions such as the heartbeat. Cannon also introduced the case system into medical education at Harvard see no. 2 below. Three of the offprints in this collection bear presentation inscriptions from Cannon. Another offprint is from the library of Nobel Laureate Archibald V. Hill who was awarded a share of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his researches on the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. Two more offprints are from the library of the distinguished British physiologist C. Lovatt Evans Hill's successor as professor of physiology at the University of London. 1. with A. Moser. The movements of the food in the oesophagus. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 1 1898. 435-444pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "With the regards of W. B. Cannon." 39375 2. The case method of teaching systematic medicine. Offprint from Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 1900. 21pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "With sincere regards W B Cannon." Stamp of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library on the front wrapper. 39383 3. The movements of the intestines studied by means of the Röntgen rays. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 6 1902. 251-277pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "With the regards of W. B. Cannon." 39383 4. Auscultation of the rhythmic sounds produced by the stomach and intestines. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 14 1905. 339-353pp. Original printed wrappers. 5. The motor activities of the stomach and small intestine after splanchnic and vagus section. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 17 1906. 429-442pp. Original printed wrappers. 39383 6. Oesophageal peristalsis after bilateral vagotomy. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 19 1907. 436-444pp. Original printed wrappers. 7. The acid control of the pylorus. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 20 1907. 283-322pp. Original printed wrappers. 8. with F. T. Murphy. Physiologic observations on experimentally produced ileus. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 49 1907. 11pp. Original printed wrappers. 9. The opposition to medical research. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 51 1908. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. 10. The acid closure of the cardia. Offprint from American Journal of Physiology 23 1908. 105-114pp. Original printed wrappers. Johns Hopkins Hospital library stamp on front wrapper. 11. Some practical applications of recent studies in the physiology of the digestive system. Offprint from Wisconsin Medical Journal 7 1908. 20pp. Text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. 39383 12. The interrelations of emotions as suggested by recent physiological researches. Offprint from American Journal of Psychology 25 1914. 256-282pp. Text illustrations. Lacking wrappers; wrapper imprint pasted to first leaf. 13. Early use of the Roentgen ray in the study of the alimentary canal. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 62 1914. 7pp. Original printed wrappers. 39383 14. with E. M. Cowell John Fraser and A. N. Hooper. The nature and treatment of wound shock and allied conditions. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 70 1918. 104pp. Folding table. Original printed wrappers; holes punched in left margin. Stamp of British physiologist C. Lovatt Evans 1884-1968 on front wrapper. 15. New evidence for sympathetic control of some internal secretions. Offprint from American Journal of Psychiatry 2 1922. 15-30pp. Original printed wrappers. Stamp of British physiologist C. Lovatt Evans 1884-1968 on front wrapper. 16. with Cecil K. Drinker. Carbon monoxide asphyxia: The problem of resuscitation. Offprint from Journal of Industrial Hygiene 4 1923. 463-473pp. Original printed wrappers. 17. The value of animal experimentation to the physician in his daily work. Offprint from Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 188 1923. 8pp. Without wrappers. 18. Chemical mediators of autonomic nerve impulses. Offprint from Science 78 1933. 5pp. Without wrappers. 19. Some implications of the evidence for chemical transmission of nerve impulses. Moscow: State Publishing House for Biological and Medical Literature 1935. 23 1pp. Original printed wrappers. Signature of A. V. Archibald Vivian Hill 1886-1977 co-winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine on the front wrapper. 20. The role of emotion in disease. Offprint from Annals of Internal Medicine 9 1936. 1453-1465pp. Without wrappers. . unknown books
1898réf. 393751898. Cannon Walter B. 1871-1945 and Moser Albert. The movements of the food in the oesophagus. Offprint from Am . J. Physiology 1 1898. 435-444pp. 243 x 172 mm. Original printed wrappers small chip in upper corner of front wrapper minor creasing. Inscribed by Cannon on the front wrapper: "With the regards of W. B. Cannon." Docketed on front wrapper. First Edition offprint issue. Cannon was the first to use x rays to study the digestive system; his work laid the foundations of gastrointestinal radiology. The present paper written while Cannon was still a medical student describes Cannon's first experiments with x-rays to examine the mechanism of swallowing including his first public demonstration by means of x-rays of the phenomena of deglutition. This ground-breaking work was undertaken less than a year after Roentgen's discovery of the x-ray. DSB. unknown books
réf. 140948996Tulsa OK: Crux Publications 1992. First edition. Near Fine. First and only edition. Signed by Christa Tilton inside the front cover and inscribed: "To my favorite Bird! Enjoy reading this. I'm sure it will interest you just a tad." iii 75 2 pp. Staple bound in publisher's gray printed wraps. Near Fine with moderate soiling to covers; interior overall clean and bright. A very early expose of the Bennewitz affair in which a successful American businessman with an interest in UFOs was allegedly manipulated by Air Force intelligence agents into spreading disinformation. Bennewitz eventually suffered a mental breakdown and had to be hospitalized. Author and UFO researcher William Moore part of an informal intelligence/UFOlogist group called The Aviary later claimed that he had been recruited to feed Bennewitz false information in order to destabilize him. Bennewitz's descent into madness was profiled in the 2005 book Project Beta and the 2013 documentary Mirage Men which suggested that the government created UFO hoaxes as a smokescreen for classified activity. Illustrations by Martin Cannon whose book The Controllers is featured in an ad at the rear. Rare with a single OCLC holding at Baylor University. Crux Publications unknown books
1856réf. 1254671856. First Edition. SLAVERY WILLIAMSON Passmore. Case of Passmore Williamson. Report of the Proceedings on the Writ of Habeas Corpus Issued by the Hon. John K. Kane Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania In the Case of the United States of America Ex. Rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson Including the Several Opinions Delivered; And The Arguments of Counsel Reported by Arthur Cannon Esq. Phonographer. Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt & Son 1856. Octavo modern half calf-gilt marbled boards; pp. 191. $2200.First edition of ""the most complete record available"" of the controversial Pennsylvania case on fugitive slaves a core work establishing a precedent ""in federal and state courtsÉ and important cause clÂbre for the antislavery movement"" crucial in asserting a clear path for the following year's Dred Scott decision and provoking a ""legal crisisÉ that led to the Civil War.""""During the fugitive slave controversy the abolitionist underground kicked into high gear."" This momentous shift was propelled by Federal District Judge John K. Kane in the Passmore Williamson case involving the rights of fugitive slave Jane Johnson. ""In July 1855 Col. John H. Wheeler the U.S. minister plenipotentiary designate to Nicaragua traveled to Philadelphia with his slave Jane and her two sons."" When she ""managed to get word out of her desire for freedom"" Black abolitionist William Still famed for his 1872 work Underground Railroad heard of her plight and alerted white abolitionist Passmore Williamson. They arranged to meet at the Philadelphia wharf and Williamson who arrived first immediately told Jane ""she was entitled to her freedom and released her from Wheeler's grasp."" As she fled with her two sons ""a heated exchange and scuffle occurred between Still Williamson and Wheeler who was held down by two of the five Black dockworkers present"" Sinha Slave's Cause 527-28.This triggered a series of major court cases when Williamson was presented with a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Kane and indictments were issued charging Williamson and the Black dockworkers for riot assault and robbery for the theft of slave property in transit. Although Williamson stated Jane and her sons were never in his custody Kane charged him with contempt and sentenced him to jail. As Frederick Douglass joined with others in attacking Kane's ""tyrannical position"" and Williamson petitioned for the contempt charge to be dropped Jane who adopted the surname of Johnson played yet another key role. In an affidavit sworn in Massachusetts she affirmed that she had never been in Williamson's custody stating: ""Nobody forced me awayÉ I always wished to be free and meant to be free when I came North"" Sinha 529. Although Jane was likely considered free under Pennsylvania law the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ""refused to interfere with Williamson's incarceration"" after Judge Kane rejected Jane's affidavit Finkelman Slavery in the Courtroom 40-41. In effect Kane's defense of slave-owner rights ""created a new constitutional rightÑ'transit for property and person'Ñbased on a Constitution written to 'establish a more perfect union.'"" Williamson was imprisoned for nearly six months and became a martyr for the abolitionist cause but ""more importantÉ was the precedent set in the federal and state courts by this case."" Judge Kane's insistence ""that Wheeler had a right to bring his slaves into Pennsylvania and capture them there if they escapedÉ despite state law explicitly prohibiting it"" opened the way for the ""high-water mark of this positionÉ in the Dred Scott case 1857 a year after Kane's opinion"" Finkelman Imperfect Union 260-64; emphasis added. The case of Passmore Williamson and Jane Johnson was ""an important cause clÂbre for the antislavery movementÉ an example ofÑand contributor toÑthe legal crisis and the crisis in federalism that led to the Civil War"" Finkelman Slavery 41. First edition: recorded by court reporter Arthur Cannon: ""contains the most complete record available of the proceedings before Judge Kane in the federal district court and the proceedings in this case before the Pennsylvania Supreme CourtÉ of particular interest is the dissent of Justice John C. Knox"" which is not present in the Pennsylvania Reports. ""In addition to the two published opinions of Judge Kane it also includes Kane's opinions and remarks from various hearings not published in Federal Cases"" Finkelman Slavery 41-2. Blockson 2557. Cohen 13767. Dumond 116. Small numerical marginal notation to first text leaf.Text fresh with tiny gutter-edge pinholes from original stitching occasional light toning. A very good copy. hardcover books
1915réf. 140943594New York: D. Appleton and Company 1915. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Walter Cannon on the front free endpaper "With cordial regards." xiii 311 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with darkened spine lettering worn tips diagonal crease to ffep lacking dust jacket. Quite rare signed. The author was an American physiologist who riginated the concept of homeostasis. This particular work introduced the world to the "fight or flight response." According to an article on him in BrainImmune an online neuroendocrine immunology review "He asserted that not only physical emergencies such as blood loss from trauma but also psychological emergencies such as antagonistic encounters between members of the same species evoke release of adrenaline into the bloodstream. To Cannon the body"s responses to 'fight' are the same as those to 'flight.' Adrenaline exerts several important effects in different body organs all of which from Cannon"s point of view maintain homeostasis in fight-or-flight situations. In the skeletal muscle of the limbs adrenaline relaxes blood vessels increasing local blood flow." Garrison Morton 1200. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1870réf. RCANDES03FPGeorge Q. Cannon 1870. Very Good. Cannon George Q. Deseret News. Volume 19: February 9 1870 - February 1 1871. Ex-libris Franklin D. Richards. Richards Franklin D. Salt Lake City Utah Territory: George Q. Cannon 1870. 616pp. 4to. Book condition: Good with rubbed extremities and exposed corners and foot of spine. Two-inch split in foot of front joint and front hinge cracked but holding. Slight soiling to endsheets though the rest of the contents remains very good and clean. Pages 581 to 592 are misnumbered and one sheet is loose but inserted. Ex-libris Franklin D. Richards with his primitive tiny postal labels attached to some issues. Franklin D. Richards was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Latter Day Saints from 1849 until his death in 1899. This is an important run of the paper chronicling life in the Utah Territory with many interesting ads. A calendar for the year 1871 is bound in the January issue but sewn around the gathering of pages. George Q. Cannon unknown books
