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2012rif. 11180New York: Modern Library 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Teresa Carpenter. Fourth Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket unclipped $26.00. Quarter white cloth with beige paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A selection of journal entries for each day of the year drawn from four hundred years of writing. Modern Library hardcover books
1859rif. 50277Holy Island Scotland 1859. Bifolium. 4pp. 183 x 114 mm. A few pin-holes small marginal tear but very good. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious--he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's correspondent was the wife of police magistrate and author John Paget. On the death of his mother-in-law: I feel sure that you will be sadly interested in learning that we received two days ago the unexpected intelligence of the death of Mrs. Powell which took place quite suddely on the night of the 30th. She had been failing for some time and seemed to suffer much from disappointment in regard to the affair of the pension having a great wish to be independent of the assistance of her friends and strongly desiring that her father's service to the nation should be acknowledged . . . There was not the least indication of suffering quite the contrary . . . So that I quite believe that she must have passed from the unconsciousness of sleep into that of death. For her and for all those who were interested for her I am satisfied that this will be felt the most desirable termination . . . . unknown books
1970rif. 83116NY: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey/Ballantine 1970. First edition. 158 pp. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. NY: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey/Ballantine unknown books
2006rif. 81922Providence: Burning Deck 2006. First trade edition. 68 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Providence: Burning Deck unknown books
1867rif. 50777Paris: Baillière 1867. Herpin Théodore 1799-1865. Des accès incomplets d'épilepsie. xiv 207pp. Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils 1867. Bound with: Leroy d'Étiolles Raoul 1823-95. Des paralysies des membres inférieures ou paraplégies: Recherches sur leur nature leur forme et leur traitement. Première partie all published. iv 325 1pp. Paris: Victor Masson 1856. Presentation Copy inscribed in pencil to Ricord on the title: "A mon excellent maître Mr le Docteur Ricord hommage de haute considération son affectioné Dr. Raoul Leroy d'Étiolles." Bound with: Charpentier Alphonse 1836-99. Contributions à l'histoire des paralysies puerpérales. 4 223pp. Paris: Adrien Delahaye 1872. Together 3 works in 1. 213 x 133 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco marbled boards light wear to spine. Minor toning but very good. First Editions of all three works. Leroy d'Étiolle's work on paraplegia is scarce with only one copy BM Lyon cited in OCLC. Charpentier's treatise discusses maternal postpartum paralysis a condition caused by injury to the pelvic nerves during delivery. . Baillière unknown books
1988rif. 65603Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. First edition. 246 pp w/notes & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
1911rif. 58754London: George Allen 1911. First separate UK edition. 67 pp. Light foxing to the fore-edge and preliminaries else fine; an unusually crisp copy with the spine still snowy white. First separate British edition originally published in FROM ADAM'S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA 1892 with a new Preface by the author. Attractive bookplate of Ileene Knox. London: George Allen, unknown books
1925rif. 58755London: George Allen & Unwin 1925. First edition. Spine slightly faded else nearly fine. First edition of these two complementary studies of Shelley both focusing on his psychosexual nature. Carpenter in the first part of the book is "impelled to conclude that the poet's nature was really intermediate or double in character -- INTERMEDIATE as between the masculine and feminine or DOUBLE as having that twofold outlook upon the world. The time has gone by when a remark of this kind could be interpreted as derogatory." In the second part Barnefield brings forward "considerable positive evidence from Shelley's life and writings to show that in him was a strangely double nature and that there was certainly a homosexual COMPONENT in his make-up." London: George Allen & Unwin unknown books
1879rif. 41099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown books
1960rif. 88661960. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1960. 8vo 48pp. In cream-colored wrappers with printers' logos in red title in black. Covers lightly soiled spine sunned. Very good. § First edition. "An exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18 1960. unknown books
1984rif. 41489NY: Oxford University Press 1984. First US edition. 586 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short tears. Promotional flyer laid in. NY: Oxford University Press, unknown books
2002rif. 37897Berkeley: Etherdome 2002. First edition. 40 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. TLS from the publisher poet Elizabeth Robinson laid in. Berkeley: Etherdome, unknown books
1978rif. 37926Newcastle: Blue Oak Press 1978. First trade paperback printing. 105 pp. Two light stains to frontx cover inked notes to recto of last leaf; in all very good in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Everson on the half-title page “For Sylvia Smith / Best wishes / Bill Everson / May 24 79 / Newcastle.” Newcastle: Blue Oak Press paperback books
1988rif. 19328Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. First edition. x 246 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a smudge to the front flap and some light tanning to spine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, unknown books
2003rif. 49666San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. Near Fine/Very Good. San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 2003. First Edition with full number line. Quarto 28.5cm; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; x116pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page "To Betty w/ heart Betye Saar / 2007." Additionally signed by David C. Driskell. Wonderful art monograph of the late "premier assemblage artist" Betye Saar 1926-2026. "Visiting the racial stereotypes of white artists and illustrators of the past and recasting and changing these racially derisive images into an invasive metaphor for black power is one of the acts of empowerment that Saar has successfully accomplished within the boundaries of cultural subversion" from Driskell's foreword p. vi. Pomegranate unknown books
1939rif. 65520New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii 2 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips Henry Shoemaker. Grancel Fitz James L. Clark Jack O'Connor Carl Rungius Belmore Brown and Kermit Roosevelt among others. Ownership signature of Heyward Cutting on the front endpaper and with his pencil markings in the rear section noting his three recorded trophies of American brown bears taken in Alaska in 1917; Cutting 1890-1926 from a well-to-do New York family earned an early reputation as an explorer and sportsman but was killed in an automobile crash at 35. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth. 6908. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1939rif. 65519New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii 2 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips Henry Shoemaker Grancel Fitz James L. Clark Jack O'Connor Carl Rungius Belmore Brown and Kermit Roosevelt among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett 1875-1946 was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole cf. Wikipedia for a short biography. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth illustrated dust jacket. 11266. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1676rif. 020566Paris: Claude Barbin and Simon Benard 1676 & 1677. First Edition. Hardcover. Library stamp on title and first page of dedication no other markings; binding a bit worn spine chipped with partial loss of spine label. Good example of a scarce book. Small octavo 3-3/4" x 6-1/4" in calf; xxxviii 341 17; xvi 71pages. In the 1670s there was a heated debate among Paris intellectuals concerning whether inscriptions for a proposed triumphal arch in honor of Louis XIV should be in Latin or French. In the first work the author one of the first members of the Academy of Inscriptions argues in favor of the use of French for the inscription. Lucas in his work argues for Latin to be used. In the end the arguments were for naught. While there are four triumphal arches still standing in Paris this particular arch was never constructed. Claude Barbin and Simon Benard hardcover books
1848rif. 61797London: David Bogue 1848. First edition. 12mo. viii 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings cut of fish vignettes etc. frontispiece plate of hand-colored flies. Heckscher 357. With an old Liverpool subscriber's library label on the front pastedown; still a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth spine ends somewhat worn with gilt-stamped illustrated spine dull. 8708. David Bogue unknown books
1954rif. 60628Newport RI: Preservation Society of Newport County 1954. First edition 1/2000 copies. 4to. xiii 216 2 pp. Illustrated portraits plates. Primarily considers furniture including clocks paintings especially portraits and silverware. Very good. Orig. blue-green cloth gilt spine title. #7706. Preservation Society of Newport County unknown books
1937rif. 56454East Aurora NY: Roycrofters 1937. First edition. 12mo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs ten plates map. Carpenter's 1936 Kenyan safari led by white hunters Donald Ker and Sidney Downey hunting buffalo rhinoceros lion and other game. Czech African Hunting p. 32: "This privately printed work was undoubtedly published in a very small quantity." Original gilt-stamped patterned brown boards ribbon marker. Front joint a little rubbed but a very good untrimmed copy mostly unopened. 2817. Roycrofters unknown books
1934rif. 41286Savannah GA: Review Printing Co 1934. Oblong 4to. 43 pp. printed double-page Chinese style. Original cloth-backed printed boards; paper browned else very good. First edition "souvenir edition" #35 of an unspecified limited edition. An alphabet book of Georgia history told in rhyme it is the "first book printed on newsprint made from Georgia Pine Pulp; cover printed on paper made from Georgia cypress." OCLC locates 12 copies but only three outside Georgia Library of Congress Brown Virginia. Review Printing Co unknown books
2022rif. RREZSYN00drpSynth History 2022. Fine. Reznor Trent. Synth History Issue 2. Carpenter John; Sato Hiroshi; Slim Fatboy; A-Trak. NP: Synth History 2022. 155pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine with small sticker on rear cover. A collection of interviews with a number of well known and not so well known creators and their use of synths and creative processes. Synth History paperback books
2004rif. RCARFOR00araNew American Library 2004. Very Good. Carpenter Scott. For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut. Stoever Kris. New York: New American Library 2004. 371pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Signed by Carpenter to previous owner on title page. New American Library paperback books
1979rif. UONEEUG01acmfTwayne Publishers 1979. Good. O'Neill Eugene. Eugene O'Neill. Carpenter Frederic I. Boston: Twayne Publishers 1979. 192pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with yellowed edges. Pocket in rear endsheet. Twayne Publishers hardcover books
