1960rif. 504041Amherst Massachusetts: Amherst College 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Near fine with some toning and light edgewear. An early title by W. D. Snodgrass containing the first appearance of three out of four poems. Amherst College unknown books
1967rif. 21479New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Five volume set of first edition/first printings in Near Fine seemingly unread condition traces of sunning. Books designed by Betty Anderson legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century and from her collection as evidenced by her small and unobtrusive inventory number; This anthology of literary criticism features essays on poetry prose and religious writing from the seventeenth century. The authors explore topics such as the development of poetic form and style the use of rhetoric and allegory and the effects of religious reform on literature.; The Borzoi Anthology of 17th Century English Literature; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
1921rif. 44188Berlin: Propyläen 1921. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Signed original frontispiece lithograph Reiterkampf on Japan paper. 359/1500. Small Folio. Original half cloth over red paper-covered boards with black vignette on cover. Black top edge. Frontispiece lithograph. Title page in green and black with publisher's device. Historiated initials. This Apache novel "Le coureur des bois" was published under the pseudonym Gabriel Ferry Graf Louis de Bellmare in 1850. A German translation by Füllner followed in 1851 but it took the edited German version by Julius Hoffmann to gain popularity in Germany. Illustrated with 66 lithographs by Max Slevogt nine of them full page. Rümann 20a. Schauer II 84. First edition with this sequence of illustrations. Text in German Gothic script. Some wear along edges of binding; covers rubbed with spine lightly frayed at head and tail of spine small closed tears at front joint. Spine foxed and sunned. Block age toned along edges not affecting images. Starting at inside back cover. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. Propyläen hardcover books
1850rif. 56025Paris: L. Maison 1850. With a Large Map of California Second edition published the same year as the first and identical except for the "Deuxieme Edition" statement at the head of the folding map. It is illustrative of the worldwide interest in the Gold Rush that brought so many gold-seekers to California including from France. Cowan calls it "the most complete and extensive work descriptive of California published in France at this time." "Ferry based his text on many sources and quoted extensively from Jacques Antoine Moerenhout. He included chapters on New Helvetia the gold region and methods of mining" - Kurutz. Also included are chapters on travel to California different routes to take etc. The large detailed map shows "Nouvelle Californie" i.e. the entire region comprising present-day California New Mexico Arizona Colorado and Nevada. The map is quite detailed showing missions Indian tribes ranchos etc. and is based on Duflot de Mofras. The plates include a view of San Francisco Sutter's Fort and other maps including one of the San Francisco Bay area. A handsome and detailed French book on California. 4386pp. plus eight engraved plates and maps including a large folding map. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Boards moderately rubbed and worn at edges corners and joints. Light foxing and tanning throughout. Folding map with expertly repaired closed tears. Very good. KURUTZ 236. COWAN p.207. MONAGHAN 689. WHEAT GOLD REGION 155-156. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 75 ref. SABIN 24198. HOWES F101 "aa." hardcover books
1960rif. 1414901Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1960. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 64 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is cream with green and blue lettering. Mild bumping to edges of covers. Mild chipping to edges of covers. Mild scuffing to covers. Creasing to covers concentrated to hinges of spine. Age-toning to covers and spine. Text block clean. Shelved in Poetry. 1414901. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1999rif. 427117Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Complimentary copy with letter laid in from The Academy of American Poets. This title received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. University of Chicago Press hardcover books
1964rif. 133262New York: Dell Publishing 1964. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. Cover yellowed. Dell Publishing unknown books
1966rif. 342708New York: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1966. Pamphlet. 39p. stapled wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. wraps lightly edgeworn small stain on fore-edge else very good condition. An Occasional Paper on the Role of Mass Media in the Free Society. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions unknown books
1856rif. 144519New York: Harper 1856. hardcover. near fine. 344pp. ads. 8vo original blind stamped red cloth. New York: Harper 1856. First American Edition. A near fine copy. Historical novel on Mexico. Author who was French spent seven years in Mexico. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Harper unknown books
1959rif. 455823Santa Barbara California: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1959. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 122pp. Printed wrappers. Trifle edgeworn else fine. "Notes" by Ferry followed by a printed discussion. "A contribution to the discussion of the Free Society by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions unknown books
1960rif. 562897Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University 1960. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue. Illustrated wrappers. Foxing to the edges toning to the spine toning and rubbing to the wrappers very good. Author's first collection of poetry. Wesleyan University unknown books
2008rif. 419326Orlando: Harcourt 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Near fine spine cocked in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Novel. Harcourt hardcover books
1945rif. 589651New York: View Inc 1945. Softcover. Very Good. Series V No. 5. Cover Illustration by Andre Masson. Quarto. 22pp. Stapled wrappers. Wraps moderately rubbed and soiled light edgewear rubbed and lightly creased along the spine very good. Includes contributions by Kurt Seligmann Paul Bowles Jean Ferry Charles Henri Ford and others. View was an avant-garde literary and art magazine by writer and artist Charles Henri Ford. Published in New York from 1940 to 1947 the magazine focused primarily on the contemporary avant-garde and Surrealist scene. View, Inc unknown books
1975rif. 239449New York: Danad Publishing 1975. Magazine. 100p. including covers 8.5x11 inches photos ads art reviews columns dance film theatre very good arts and entertainment magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Originally Dance Magazine. This issue's cover story is on Verdon's struggle to win the rights to the Roxie Hart play and character which she and Fosse premiered as a musical in 1975. Also profiles of Bryan Ferry and Anthony Hopkins the passing of Susan Hayward and a Brazilian "Cockettes" troupe. Danad Publishing unknown books
1953rif. 26826Paris: Arcanes 1953. 172 p. ill. ; 20 cm. "Il a été tiré 1.000 exemplaires se décomposant comme suit: 5 exemplaires sur Arches numérotés de 1 à 5 20 exemplaires sur Marais numérotés de 6 à 25 ces 25 exemplaires sont signés par l'auteur et 975 exemplaires sur Offset Neige Libert numérotés de 26 à 1.000. Il a en outre été tiré quelques exemplaires sur Arches pour l'auteur les collaborateurs et amis des Editions Arcanes"--Colophon. Copy number 279. Fine. Arcanes unknown books
1950rif. 27591Paris: Les Cinéastes Bibliophiles 1950. First edition. 160 p. Wrappers uncut and unopened slightly dusty. One of 55 nominative copies from an edition originale of 100 copies on Marais paper this copy printed for Pierre Larouche. Les Cinéastes Bibliophiles unknown books
1948rif. 26688Paris: L'Air du Temps 1948. First edition. Original wrappers 20 x 12 cm; 43 pages unopened; slight spotting to text paper otherwise fine. Complete with the separate leaf bearing a quote from André Breton's review in Le Figaro Littéraire. This is copy number 36 of 155 including 25 h.c. on Arches. L'Air du Temps unknown books
rif. B304372-2New York The Noonday Press/ Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997. xi 1 99pp. Wraps. New York (The Noonday Press/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1997. paperback books
1925rif. 17321925-1955. First editions. 1925-1955 UNIQUE ARCHIVE OF 450 OFFPRINTS FROM LEGENDARY HARVARD PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LAB CONTAINING MANY LANDMARK PAPERS. This archive of research conducted and published by the faculty of Harvard Medical School's physical chemists between 1925 and 1955 is from the library of John T. Edsall. Along with his colleague Edwin J. Cohn both leaders of the research laboratory during this period he authored many of the papers with his signature on a number of the individual offprints as well as on the flyleaf of 4 of the volumes. Offered are nine hardcover volumes containing a total of 450 offprints each 10 1/4 inches tall brown buckram cloth binding gilt title to spines. Vols. I-IV front paste-down with bookplate and handstamp of University Laboratory of Physical Chemistry related to Public Health Harvard University Medical School back paste-down with library pocket containing blank library card. Vols. V-VIII with ink inscription "John T. Edsall/ Department of Physical Chemistry/ Harvard Medical School/ Boston" front free endpaper. Typescript table of contents and author index to each volume. Vol. I 1925-1933 24 offprints several signed by John T. Edsall with his marginal ink notes; Vol. II 1934-1936 37 offprints Vol. III 1937-1939 50 offprints; Vol. IV 1939-1942 43 offprints; Vol. V 1943-1945 76 offprints containing: entire issue of J Clin Invest July 1944 with 3 Garrison-Morton titles French language Belgian review of blood transfusion includes paper by EJ Cohn clinical use of products of human blood fractionation by Charles A. Janeway albumin in shock gamma globulin in measles immunity in mumps by John F. Enders JEM 1945 wartime radio talk on blood and blood derivatives by EJ Cohn US Patent 2385802 for process for manufacture of plastics obituary of David L. Edsall Dean of Harvard Medical School and father of JT Edsall; Vol. VI 1946-1947 48 offprints including: CA Janeway on blood derivatives "a new public health field" LK Diamond on anti-Rh isoagglutinin reagents G Scatchard on osmotic pressure FHL Taylor on the coagulation defect in hemophilia J Stokes on gamma globulin in mumps and hepatitis George Minot on anti-hemophilic globulin review by EJ Cohn on history of medical research; Vol. VII 1948-1949 43 offprints including: Irving S. Wright transactions of first blood clotting conference New York 1948 JT Edsell preservation of formed elements and proteins of the blood JT Edsall unclassified manuscript on large asymmetrical molecules distributed to US government and military laboratories 100 copies; Vol. VIII 1950-1951 63 offprints including Lewis Barness on nephrotic syndrome historical sketch of the Department of Physical Chemistry Harvard Medical School 1920-1950; Vol. IX 1952-1955 66 offprints including A discussion on the structure of proteins with contributions by WT Astbury Robert Corey Linus Pauling John Randall William Bragg Max Perutz John Bernal John Edsall. JOHN TILESTON EDSALL 1902 - 2002 was an early protein scientist who contributed significantly to the understanding of the hydrophobic interaction. For more than half of the twentieth century John T. Edsall class of 1923 was a guiding spirit and constant contributor to the rise of biochemistry at Harvard and in the world through his research teaching mentoring writing editing and moral influence. Following graduation from Harvard College he entered Harvard Medical School but anticipating an academic career he then spent two years studying biochemistry at Cambridge University before returning to Harvard for a MD degree in 1928. Edsall's devotion to teaching was extraordinary. In 1928 he became a Tutor in the newly formed concentration of Biochemical Sciences and continued in this role for forty years serving as Head Tutor for more than twenty years. In 1954 he moved to the Biological Laboratories. While he found the last two years of medical school disappointing he compensated by joining Edwin J. Cohn's Department of Physical Chemistry where some of the earliest studies on protein physical chemistry were underway. Thus began a long research career devoted to proteins and their constituent amino acids. His early work contributed mightily to establishing proteins as uniquely structured large molecules deserving the same intense study that had become commonplace in the chemistry of small molecules. John's early studies dealt with the size and shape of the principal proteins in muscle and blood their states of ionization the role of constituent polar and hydrophobic amino acids in stabilizing protein structure and the vital role of ever-present water. He was the first to describe the phenomenon that is the central feature of hydrophobic interactions. No one contributed more than Edsall to the establishment of high standards and effective communication in protein science. In 1944 he co-founded Advances in Protein Chemistry an annual cutting-edge review written by experts. He continued as editor for fifty years leaving a vast legacy of judicious selection and authoritative presentations. He further left his imprint on the scientific literature in biochemistry by editing the Journal of Biological Chemistry the leading publication in the field for a decade. EDWIN JOSEPH COHN 1892-1953 was a protein scientist. A graduate of the University of Chicago 1914 PhD 1917 he made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins. In 1928 as group leader at Harvard Medical School Cohn was able to concentrate by a factor of 50 to 100 times the vital factor in raw liver juice which had been shown by Minot and Murphy to be the only known specific treatment for pernicious anemia. Cohn's contribution allowed practical treatment of this previously incurable and fatal illness for the next 20 years. Cohn became famous for his work on blood fractionation during World War II. In particular he worked out the techniques for isolating the serum albumin fraction of blood plasma which is essential for maintaining the osmotic pressure in the blood vessels. Transfusions with purified albumin on the battlefield rescued thousands of soldiers from shock. After the war Cohn worked to develop systems by which every component of donated blood would be used so that nothing would be wasted. hardcover books
1999rif. 535657New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1999. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Glossy peach wrappers. 102pp. Fine with publisher's material laid in. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
2002rif. 585636New York: The Friends of the Amherst College Library / The Oliphant Press 2002. Unbound. Fine. Handbill. Measures 6" x 9". Fine with a horizontal crease as issued in original mailing envelope. From an edition of 850 copies. The Friends of the Amherst College Library / The Oliphant Press unknown books
1957rif. 542458Providence Rhode Island: Brown University Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 320pp. Pastedown glue showing through a bit spine ends lightly rubbed else fine in a near fine dust jacket with spine lightly age-toned. Brown University Press hardcover books
1983rif. 520184New Brunswick New Jersey: Raritan: A Quarterly Review 1983. Softcover. Fine. Offprint. 2 1adspp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Inscribed by Ferry on the cover: "To Bob love David." Ferry was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2011 and was also awarded the National Book Award for Poetry for his book Bewilderment in 2012. From Raritan: A Quarterly Review Spring 1983. Raritan: A Quarterly Review unknown books
1983rif. 1397212Chicago Illinois: Chicago University Press 1983. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 54 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is black with gray lettering. Wraps have moderate rubbing wear along spine and joints and a spot of glue residue on rear cover. Text block fore and tail edges have light foxing and soiling head edge has moderate foxing. Signed on title page by David Ferry. 1397212. Special Collections. Chicago University Press unknown books
1978rif. 2309627Los Angeles: Republic Corporation 1978. First Edition. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 11x8x0. Parrish Maxfield. 1978 first edition - a paperback original. Wrapper edges lightly rubbed. 50 pp. Exhibition catalogue featuring the photographs of Maxfield Parrish with Sue Lewin as his model. Republic Corporation paperback books