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1755Best.-Nr. 11092London: William Bowyer. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Bound in the original brn leather; Covers are plain but with slight catheral embosssing; spine is also plain with five raised bands ; cover professonally reattached missing end pages and frontpiece but has title page including errata pages at end; all cover edges are rubbed some leather missing; leather treated with Klugel G; Title page had leather stains but not other pages'; No endsheets or frontipiece; text easily read; author was the well known Anglican cleric and theologian who with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield founded Methodism.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 765 pages . First Edition. Hardcover. 1755. William Bowyer hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 44686HEYNE WILHELM 1999. 1. softcover. Star Trek: Classic - Tag der Ehre HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1891Best.-Nr. 291050Sackett & Williams 1891. Map. Original color lithograph. 20.25 x 17.5 inches. The Aleutian Islands are included as an inset in this unusual map of regional linguistic data. Special attention given to the West Coast. Henry Gannet produced the Seventh Annual Report for the Bureau of Ethnology. Repairs to original folds. Sackett & Williams unknown books
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1932Best.-Nr. 130968Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script as it was a rewrite issued during shooting. AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20 1932 date on the script revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23 Sep 1932 HR announced that the script was being rewritten. According to a HR news item on 4 Oct 1932 Lowell Sherman walked off the set after a pay dispute and was replaced by Wesley Ruggles. Hopkins quit the production in early Nov 1932 claiming the role was not suitable for her. Gable was on loan from M-G-M for this film. Gable and Lombard were married in 1939. This was their only co-starring film." Based on the best selling novel "No Bed of Her Own" by Val Lewton. Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. While hiding out he meets lonely but somewhat wild librarian Lombard. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city where Gable continues his grifting ways unbeknownst to his new wife. Salmon self wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 1278 and MASTER FILE dated October 20 1932 with credits for story writers Goulding and Glazer screenwriter Watkins and continuity writer Anges Brand Leahy. Brief holograph annotations on the front wrapper mostly related to filing. Title page integral with front wrapper. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 2 the second page of a summary. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine overall side-stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 2602H-97999A-63BSigma Pi Phi Fraternity 1993. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. This Hard to Find Collectible Book is in Very Good condition - 2 SMALL DOTS ON SIDE PAGE EDGES REST VERY CLEAN AND SHARP. See our picture for exact item you will receive. All items ship within 24 hours. Packaging is 100% Recyclable. Most items purchased from Charitable organizations. A portion of each sale is also donated to a monthly charity check your package for this month's charity. Reuse-Recycle-Rebook! Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity hardcover
1855Best.-Nr. 1677Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson Printer 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Good. John Wesley Powell's copy of Volume II of these 1853-54 reports with his stamp faintly in purple ink on the title page. A good only copy with dampstaining throughout but collectible in light of its owner who famously would go on to survey and provide his own report on the Grand Canyon. These 1853-54 reports were issued somewhat haphazardly in 12 volumes apparently as they were received rather than by region. Volume II contains the following: 1 "Report by Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith Third Artillery upon the Route near the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Parallels Explored by Captain J.W. Gunnison Corps of Topographical Engineers" Gunnison was killed on the journey; 2 "Report of Lieutenant E.G. Beckwith . . . upon the Route near the Forty-First Parallel"; 3 Report of a Reconnaissance from Puget Sound via South Pass to the Mississippi River by F.W. Lander Civil Engineer"; 4 "Report of Brevet Captain John Pope Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Red River the Colorado and the Rio Grande"; 5 "Report of Lieutenant John G. Park Corps Topographical Engineers upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Rio Grande and Pimas Village on the Gila"; and 6 "Extract from Report of a Military Reconnaissance Made by Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Emory U.S. Army of the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel Lying between the Mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers." Among several of the later reports are botanical sections by Asa Gray and John Torrey. These are replete with nice line-drawing botanical plates. In the first Beckwith report J.M. Stanley provides a series of beautiful vista illustrations in color of the Gunnison route. Near the rear are a fold out map and a fold out geological section depicting the stretch between the Colorado River "Red River and the Rio Grande. A contemporary binding of red cloth and quarter/corner leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Red marbled endpapers. Again good only with dampstaining to all corners of the pages top and bottom see photos. The pages have some light waviness to them but turn fine and are readable the text itself mostly free of staining. Mottling on front board wrinkle on rear. Rubbing to board edges and nicks to spine corners as one might expect for a heavy book of this age. Despite its condition still a special copy--Powell's. The inclusion of the Colorado River in the fourth report in the volume would have ultimately been of special interest to him and one imagines the example of these reports would have influenced his own. A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer hardcover
Best.-Nr. Z1-S-013-02787Kessinger Publishing. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Kessinger Publishing unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-C-084-03070Dawson PublishingFolkestone. Used - Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Dawson Publishing,Folkestone unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-S-006-02352General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 92184good condition with some wear & soiling to the covers- the covers are blank- there is some rusting at the staples - there are some pencil marks Knights of the Ku Klux Klan paperback
1797Best.-Nr. 060031London: G. Whitfield 1797. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. LONDON : 1797. New Edition. First published in 1780. A nice early edition; eighteenth century editions are hard-to-find. Hardback. Original calf-leather; gilt decoration to full spine not lettered; neatly professionally restored with original spine laid-down to matching calf; hidden. Original end-papers. Tight bright and clean. Minor wear only. Neat owner name; Edith Forest 1798. No internal markings. Tight bright and clean. Nice and attractive copy. VERY GOOD INDEED. 522 xvii pages. Indexes. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog T124130. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: G. Whitfield. SCARCE. G. Whitfield hardcover
1747Best.-Nr. GT435Scotland: Various 1747. Original Printings . Hardback. Vg. small 8vo. Eleven rare 18th Century religious pamplets and sermons bound in a contemporary binding with a calf spine and marbled boards. All rare. 1. A SERMON by The Late Reverend Mr William Wilson Edinburgh 1742 Printed by David Duncan at sold at his House 48pp; 2. CALAMITY REPELLED AND FALSEHOOD DETECTED Being An Answer to A Pamplet Intitled 'Seceding Presbyterianison Delineated To The Reverend John Potts at Kelso by WILLIAM HUTTON Minister of the Gospel at Dalkeith Edinburgh 1753. 3. THE BABBLER Or The Fate of the faithful Ministers of Christ A SERMON Preached October 15th 1769 at The Ordination of the Reverend Mr Alexander Shanks. Jedburgh by Andrew Moir. Edinburgh 1761Sold by R. Fleming and J. Wood. 43pp: 4. JACOB WRESTLING WITH GOD 10th Edition Edinburgh 1765 by Thomas Taylor Pastor at Cambridgeshire xii preface 152pp: 5. A SERMON Preached in the West/Wall Seven Dialds on Sunday Nov. 24 1765. by John Wesley The fourth edition Newcastle 1766. 22pp: 7. A SERMON ON PSALM XCII.12 by Robert Shirra Minister to the Gospel at Kirkcaldy Willialm Smith Glasgow 1767. 48pp. 8. TWO SERMONS Preached on Sabbath and Monday at the Celbration of Sacrement of the Lord's Supper at Orwell August 6 1738 David Duncan Edinburgh 1747 73pp.: 9. A SERMON PREACHED TO THE MONAGHAN VOLUNTEERS September the 19th 1779 by Rev. Felix Quinn Of The New Direction Monaghan Dublin 48p: 10. DIALOGUES BETWEEN STUDENTS At The College which Contain a Defence of the Leading Doctrines of Christianity 104pp by John Rogers Pub. J. Brown Monaghan. 1787: 11. A SERMON Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. William McAuly at TULLYALLEN January 16th 1791 by Andrew Caldwell Monagham 1791 Printed by John Brown: at CLINTIBRET. 12 CHRIST'S WARNING TO THE CHURCHES TO BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS by Joseph Lathrop Pastor of a Church in West Springfield North America pub Edinburgh for Ross and Blackwood 64 North Bridge Streeet 1802.58pp. RARE SECCESSION CHURCH ITEMS The First Succession was an exodus of Ministers and members from the Church of Scotland in 1733. They formed the Associate Presbytery and later the United Secession Church. Various hardcover
1913Best.-Nr. 18002Berkeley: University of California Press 1913. First edition of the economist's magnum opus. Quarto bound in full green leather slipcase. With numerous charts and graphs throughout. In near fine condition with a small library blind-stamp to upper right corner of title page. One of the most prominent American Institutionalists Wesley Clair Mitchell almost singlehandedly constructed its concern with "business cycle" analysis. Mitchell was a professor at Columbia and one of the first directors of the New School for Social Research His magnum opus Business Cycles appeared in 1913. The Preface begins: This book offers an analytic description of the complicated processes by which seasons of business prosperity crisis depression and revival come about in the modern world. The materials used consist chiefly of market reports and statistics concerning the business cycles which have run their course since 1890 in the United States England Germany and France. University of California Press hardcover books
1864Best.-Nr. 2790Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander & Co 1864. First Edition. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black 9.25 x 5.75 inches i-iv 21-30 31-32 39-52 53-54 61-74 75-76 85-100 pages i.e. 64 pages as published. Full-page woodcut illustrations included in the pagination. Copyright date on the title page of 1863; the dated preliminary text dated January 15 1864. Somewhat worn some staining and light foxing especially toward the rear; a good sound copy. Fact or fiction the present account celebrates the covert role of women as gatherers of military intelligence during the Civil War. The spectacular illustrated cover is given a full-page reproduction by Alice Fahs' in her "The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865" p. 243. The text is accompanied by a number of naive woodcuts and presents the account of "Maud Melville" the non-de-guerre of "Pauline D'Estraye" who is herself a fictional character invented by "Wesley Bradshaw" pseudonym of Charles Wesley Alexander. The layers of literary deceipt are appropriate for a spy-thriller such as this. "There is little evidence that the author's Civil War characters were based on real people. However at the beginning of 'Pauline of the Potomac' 1862 Bradshaw hinted at the fact asserting that in the tale he had merged stories from real wartime incidents. Some believe that the character of Pauline D'Estraye was Pauline Cushman 1835-1893 actress and Union spy who was born in New Orleans to a Spanish political refugee and a Frenchwoman. At age 18 she went to New York to earn her living and was recruited there by the manager of the New Orleans Varieties for his show. She and her husband another performer toured throughout the country. When the Civil War erupted he enlisted in the Union army as a musician; she continued to perform until commissioned as a secret agent by the federal government in 1863 with instructions to penetrate as far south as possible. Apprehended by Confederate forces near Tullahoma Tennessee she was tried and sentenced to hang in June 1863. Fortunately for her she was left behind when the advancing army of General William S. Rosecrans forced the Confederates to retreat. Although her usefulness as a spy came to an end she returned to the stage lecturing throughout the North in a federal uniform to great acclaim. Cushman's glamorous but slightly shady profession in addition to her feats of espionage was ideal material for the dime novels of the day. "Maud of the Mississippi" is one of several such novels that appeared during the war years. The heroine Maud Melville gathers intelligence for General Grant as she performs as an actress in towns along the lower Mississippi River. ¶ Fact or fiction Gen. Grant's woman spy Maud Melville was a coquettish young woman with nerves of steel and a genius for military strategy. She is sent by Grant into Vicksburg as a spy; her efforts help the Union army capture the city. Hints that she has captured the affections of General Pemberton are offset by her evident piety; Maud meets with such success that the present account concludes with the promise "Her daring exploits during General Grant's subsequent campaign and her final discovery and capture by the rebels in Georgia which are far more exciting than her previous adventures will be published immediately in a second volume of the same style and price as this book." Scarce: we have located only one copy in on the market since 2008 namely in M & S Rare Books Catalogue Eighty Four item 16 - this copy REFERENCES: Women in the American Civil War ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank vol. I p. 99. Thomas Ruys Smith River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain p. 188. C.W. Alexander & Co unknown books
1775Best.-Nr. WRCLIT66505Dublin: Printed by William Kidd for William Whitestone 1775. 67-311pp. Small octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Typographic decorative title border. Early ink name on half-title half-title neatly detached faint tanning and occasional minor spots but a very good copy printed on unusually heavy paper. First Dublin edition. A Limerick edition is tentatively dated the same year and the first London edition followed in 1776. Wesley's prefatory "Advertisement" is dated at Cork 8 May 1775 and refers to requests that the sermon be rendered in print before he left that city requests that he was unable to fulfill due to circumstance. Scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies 3 of them in North America and OCLC does not expand that count. ESTC T45856. BAKER 306. Printed by William Kidd, for William Whitestone unknown books
1762Best.-Nr. WRCLIT66501Dublin: Printed by S. Powell 1762. 111pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Slight tanning but a very good copy. First edition published in the same year as the London edition which is denoted the "Second Edition." An uncommon edition: ESTC locates four copies in North America and six in the British Isles 3 of them at Manchester. OCLC only adds a handful of additional possibilities. NCBEL cites only this edition. ESTC T16613. BAKER 211. NCBEL II:1632. Printed by S. Powell unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 432413San Francisco: no publisher 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Legal brief. 14 Mimeographed folio leaves printed rectos only stapled at the top and folded in thirds. A little age-toning and small chips in a couple of margins final leaf detached but present sound and very good. Long brief by Charles R. Garry. Wesley Robert Wells was an African-American man convicted of minor crimes of theft and imprisoned but because of an altercation with a guard who was unhurt was given the death penalty. The attorney Charles R. Garry worked tirelessly to have the sentence commuted and after 40 years Wells was released from prison little more than a year before he died of a heart attack. Garry who eventually was central to the defense schemes of various Black Panthers referred to Wells as "The First Black Panther." This was obviously issued as part of some sort of public relations effort by Garry. Rare. OCLC locates a single copy. no publisher] unknown
2002Best.-Nr. SBBI-L-BJS00459-MIX-20230Encounter Books 2002. paperback. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Encounter Books paperback
Best.-Nr. 058622Berkeley Ca: Pacific Editions / Arif Press 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Box. 36 Pp. #143 Of A Limited Edition Of 165 Copies Of Which 130 Were For Sale. Unique Rag Papers In Two Colors Commissioned From Twinrocker Paper Mill And Hand Bound In Gold Stamped Leater Gray Boards In A Custom Made Box Covered In Gold-Stamped Van Heel Cloth From Holland With A Printed Spine Label. Signed By Thomas And Goldyne On The Limitation Page. Fine. Also With The Prospectus 8 Pp Covers Also Fine. Box Fine But Small Bump To Lower Front Tip. With The Printed Folder Enclosed A Signed Color Print By Goldyne Apparently Issued Only With The 35 Copies Not For Sale. Pacific Editions / Arif Press hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 019614New York: Longmans Green & Co. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner inscription on the half-title page. Near Fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the front endpaper "Sincerely/Amos Alonzo Stagg/December 1927." A scarce early inscription before his writing became shaky by one of the most important figures in American sports. Stagg the first to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame as both player and coach was active in the sport until the age of 98. He is credited with originating more plays and formations than any other man and among other developments is responsible for the forward pass the huddle and numbered uniforms. Stagg also invented the indoor batting cage and pioneered the headlong slide in baseball. In addition Stagg participated in the first public basketball game on 11 March 1892 scoring his team's only basket and the first intercollegiate basketball game on 18 January 1896. He is said to be responsible for the concept of five-man basketball. Of the Grand Old Man of the Game Knute Rockne once said "All football comes from Stagg." Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
1747Best.-Nr. 14807Bristol: A & G. Way prs. 1747. 12mo 17.2 cm 6.75". 8 92 pp. Second edition of John Wesley's rendition of the life of the legendarily pious theologian Thomas Halyburton sometimes given as Haliburton son of a Scots nonconformist minister. Halyburton's writings all published posthumously were promoted by Wesley who provided the introduction for this volume and some editing of Halyburton's autobiography. ESTC N9604. Period-style calf by Grace Bindings signed in blind at inner area of lower rear turn-in framed and panelled in blind rolls with blind-stamped corner fleurons spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped floral decorations. Pages age-toned and paper embrittled with a very few small edge nicks; title-page with a short tear from lower margin into lower inner corner not touching text. Clean interesting. A & G. Way, prs. hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 5099New York: Rand McNally 1947. First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original blue cloth illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "comes to you with greetings from Misty and Marguerite Henry." Near fine in the original dust jacket with a chip to the foot of the spine and wear to the crown. Marguerite Henry's Newbery Honor Book has captivated generations with its thrilling descriptions of true incidents from the tiny island of Chincoteague and its realistic yet wonderfully magical atmosphere. This story of an animal brought into captivity poignantly reveals the powerful opposing forces of humans and nature. Over nearly five decades Henry authored "some four dozen books that introduced young readers to animals in the great outdoors. weaving the romance and history of mankind's association with the animal world into her illustrated texts" New York Times. Of those books Misty of Chincoteague is the best-known and most-loved. The delightful story inspired by a real Assateague horse follows the adventures of the freedom-loving colt Misty and two children who dream of owning her. First printing with "A" on copyright page. With color endpapers and numerous in-text illustrations--many full-page and with two color double-page illustrations--by Wesley Dennis "whose beautiful drawings and watercolor illustrations add great appeal to most of the author's works" Silvey 305. Basis for the 1961 film Misty. Rand McNally hardcover books
1875Best.-Nr. 18600Washington: Government Printing Office 1875. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Near fine. The first edition of Exploration Of The Colorado River Of The West And Its Tributaries published in 1875. Quarto xi 1 291pp 5. Contemporary three-quarter olive morocco raised bands title stamped in gilt over a red morocco label. Maroon cloth boards. Complete with 80 wood engraved views on 72 individual plates. Includes the two fold-out maps at the rear. New endpapers. Bumped fore-edge with a closed tear from p. 240-248 no impact to text. Clean text throughout solid text block. Sabin 64753 Howes P528 Graff 3336 A near fine example. John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 was an American explorer Civil War veteran scientist and public intellectual best known for leading the first successful expeditions through the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in 1869 and 1871-72. Having lost his right arm at the Battle of Shiloh Powell became a symbol of postwar scientific exploration combining firsthand fieldwork with rigorous analysis of the American West. As second director of the U.S. Geological Survey and longtime head of the Bureau of American Ethnology he argued that western settlement should be planned around watersheds and water availability rather than arbitrary political boundaries. Government Printing Office unknown
1879Best.-Nr. 422485Washington D.C. 1879. Very Good. Autograph Letter Signed by John Wesley Powell Director of the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington D.C. together with an accompanying photograph which he sent in 1880 to John S. Billings a surgeon and a statistician on medicine in the U.S. Army. The one page letter is written on "Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology" letterhead dated: "Ap. 27" 1880 and is addressed at the bottom to "Dr. John S. Billings Surgeon U.S.A. Army Medical Museum." Some water staining to the edges and related blurring to the manuscript text still legible and three-inch tear repaired with tape on the verso good only. The Albumen Print measures 9 ½ x 12 inches laid down on a cardboard mount 11 x 16". Contemporary manuscript caption in ink on the bottom margin of the mount: "3824 Photo. Tailed man" and on the back in French which identifies the photograph as a being from the Society of Anthropology in Berlin. Dated "Oct. 18" with "1879" inserted in pencil. Light soiling and toning to the mount with a tear to the top margin of the mount very good. The photograph of a tailed man which Powell takes "pleasure in sending" to Billings is an enlargement of the photo taken in 1879 by Surgeon-General Bernhard Ornstein chief physician of the Greek army. The original photo sent to the Berlin Anthropological Society sparked a decade-long debate about whether such protuberances were "atavistic tails" or "pathological protuberances." Powell was a celebrated naturalist and explorer who despite losing an arm in the Civil War led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon in 1869. When Congress created the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 Powell was named its first director a post he held until his death. John Shaw Billings is best known as the modernizer of the Surgeon General's Library the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. He also started Index Medicus a monthly guide to contemporary medicine that ran until his retirement at the Medical Museum and Library. A nice association. unknown
