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1892ref. 6287Manchester: RIchard Gill 1892. 8vo off-print from the Transactions of the Lancashire and Chesire Antiquarian Society in the original printed tan wrappers 12 plates those from rubbings and photographs loosely laid in as issued. RIchard Gill unknown books
1898ref. 15223London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press 1898. 4to pp. xx 65 2; 17 facsimiles in the text and a duplicate set of 17 plates at the back; Bound with: The First Paris Press: An Account of the Books printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne 1470-1472. By A. Claudin. London: Bibliographical Society Chiswick Press 1898. pp. vi 100 1; gravure frontispiece and 10 full-p. facsimiles errata slip; together 2 vols. in 1 orig. brown printed wrappers preserved for each title; together in contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt lettered on spine; minor scuffing and fading of spine else very good. Issued as nos. 5 and 6 in the Bibliographical Society's Illustrated Monographs series. printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press unknown books
1699ref. 1418375London: Peacock in St Paul's 1699. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8 325 7 pages. In Good minus condition. Volume is bound in brown leather ex-library copy with stamp on top edge of textblock and front free end paper. Heavy wear to edges results in exposure of boards in several places one large gash in leather about one inch long at upper spine. Paneled spine worn off at head and tail leather is cracking. Front board held on by one remaining sewing guide rear board is more securely attached. Front paste down endpaper has several open tears. Front free endpaper bears lots of inscriptions in ink from various previous owners. Textblock is heavily age toned foxing throughout. Divot to fore edge of textblock runs from pages 235-292. Chipping and marginalia throughout. Shelved in ND-HV. 1418375. FP New Rockville Stock. Peacock in St Paul's hardcover books
1891ref. 55038Southampton: To Be Had at Ye Olde Boke Shoppe 1891. original quarter leather with cloth-covered boards top edge gilt. large 8vo. original quarter leather with cloth-covered boards top edge gilt. vi 80 lxiii 3 pages. Besterman 2794. About 2500 entries in three lists: Hampeshireiana from the 16th to 19th centuries mostly 18th and 19th "books and periodicals containing references to Hampshire" and a list of Hampshire newspapers current and defunct by "F.A. Edwards" who seems to have been associated with the Hampshire Independent. An earlier much smaller Biblioteca Hantoniensis appeared in 1870 under the name of Gilbert. Backing is rubbed and cracked with head and tail worn away and splitting along shoulders. Front cover and front free endpaper are detatched. Staining discoloration of covers. To Be Had at Ye Olde Boke Shoppe unknown books
1928ref. 017074New York: Covici Friede 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Tall 8vo. 184pp Sharp Limited Edition #57 of only 275 published of this classic poem about an African American boxer made into the 1949 Film Noir of the same title starring Robert Ryan. Bound quarter tan cloth over decorated paper-covered boards. Titles on paper spine label. Beautifully illustrated by Alexander King. Square tight and clean throughout with just a touch of page edge toning. Minor wear to edges and tips. Spine label missing. Spine cloth toned and a bit scuffed. Signed by the author on the limitation page. A solid collectable copy of an uncommon title and at a great price. Covici Friede hardcover books
1929ref. 012423New York: The Fountain Press 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall slim 8vo. Unpaginated Beautiful Limited Edition #48 of only 417 copies printed of which only 375 were for sale. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Remarkably well-preserved. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Laid in is an original purchase receipt from the Random House Bookstore in New York City. A gorgeous collectable copy of a very uncommon title. The Fountain Press hardcover books
1928ref. 012420New York: Covici Friede 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 8vo. 184pp Sharp First Trade Edition of this classic poem about an African American boxer made into the 1949 Film Noir of the same title starring Robert Ryan. Also published in a signed limited edition. Square tight and clean throughout with some fairly mild page edge toning. A touch of softness at the spine ends but quite minor. Solid unclipped dust-jacket $2.00 has a few chips to top edges and toning to edges and spine. Still solid and complete with no tears or creases. An attractive collectable copy at a great price. Covici Friede hardcover books
1928ref. 012424London: Martin Secker 1928. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall slim 8vo. 100pp Solid First British Edition one of only 2000 unnumbered copies published. Bound in purple cloth with titles in gold on spine. Square and tight with some light scattered spotting to the prelims. Wear to spine ends edges and tips. Light soiling. Lacking dust-jacket. An attractive collectable copyat a great price. Martin Secker hardcover books
1929ref. 012434Chicago: Covici Friede 1929. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo. 120pp Beautiful Second Trade Edition #1590 of only 2000 copies published. Bound in publisher's buckram with titles stamped in gold on spine. Square and tight with no discernible wear. A hint only of toning to page edges as well as a small area at the spine. Remarkably well-preserved. Included is the very scarce glassine dust-jacket which has some chips and a couple of pieces of reinforcing tape but solid and complete. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price. Covici Friede hardcover books
1968ref. 012450Freeport ME: Bond Wheelwright 1968. First Combined Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 308pp Sharp First Trade Edition of this trio of March classics. Square tight and clean throughout with some mild bumping to spine ends and some light scattered spotting to edges. Solid unclipped dust-jacket $10.00 has rubbing to surface and edges. A few tiny nicks and closed edge-tears. Still bright solid and complete An attractive collectable copy at a great price. Bond Wheelwright hardcover books
1504ref. 5444Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa June 1504. THIRD OR FOURTH EDITION of the two editions of 1504 priority has not been determined. THE FIRST TO BE EDITED BY LUCA GAURICO. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study surrounded by books lecturing his students one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy crisp and bright. There is a very light stain on the title page a bit of soiling in the gutter of leaf A3 and a discreet paper repair to the fore-edge of the final leaf. "The 'Perspectiva communis' was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" DSB. It was first printed in Milan around 1482 then in 1503 it was included in a collection by Thomas Bradwardine "Praeclarissimum mathematicarum opus"Valencia. This 1504 edition the first edited by Luca Gaurico can be considered the third although another edition of the pre-Gaurico version was also published in 1504 at Leipzig. A mathematician from Naples and teacher of Scaliger Gaurico who also edited the works of Archimedes and Ptolemy completely revised the text. "The work on which Pecham's fame has chiefly rested is the Perspectiva communis probably written between 1277 and 1279 during Pecham's professorship at the papal curia. In the first book Pecham discussed the propagation of light and color the anatomy and physiology of the eye the act of visual perception physical requirements for vision the psychology of vision and the errors of direct vision. In book II he discussed vision by reflected rays and presented a careful and sophisticated analysis of image formation by reflection. Book III was devoted to the phenomena of refraction the rainbow and the Milky Way. "The central feature of Pecham's optical system and the dominant theme of book I of the 'Perspectiva communis' is the theory of direct vision. Here as elsewhere Pecham endeavored to reconcile all the available authorities-Aristotle Euclid Augustine al-Kindi Ibn al-Haytham Ibn Rushd Grosseteste and Bacon. Following Ibn al-Haytham Pecham argued that the emission of visual rays from the observer's eye is neither necessary nor sufficient as an explanation of sight; the primary agent of sight is therefore the ray coming to the eye from a point on the visible object. But in an attempt to follow Aristotle al-Kindi and Grosseteste as well Pecham argued that visual rays do nevertheless exist and perform the important but not always necessary function of moderating the luminous rays from the visible object and making them "commensurate with the visual power." Thus Pecham like Bacon resolved the age-old debate between the emission and intromission theories of vision in favor of a twofold radiation although to be sure priority was given to rays issuing from the visible object. "The rays issuing from points on the visible object fall perpendicularly onto the cornea and penetrate without refraction to the sensitive ocular organ the glacial humor or crystalline lens; nonperpendicular rays are weakened by refraction and therefore can be largely ignored. Since only one perpendicular ray issues from each point of the visible object and the collection of such perpendicular rays maintains a fixed order between the object and the eye a one-to-one correspondence is established between points on the object and points on the glacial humor and unconfused perception of the visual field is thus achieved. Vision is not "completed" however in the glacial humor. There is a further propagation of the rays or species through the vitreous humor and optic nerve to the common nerve where species from the two eyes combine and eventually to the anterior part of the brain and the "place of interior judgment." "Pecham's optical system included significantly more than a theory of direct vision. He briefly discussed the doctrine of species; treated at length the propagation of rays; and developed a theory to explain how solar radiation when passing through noncircular apertures gives rise to circular images. He expressed the full law of reflection and applied it to image formation by plane spherical cylindrical and conical mirrors; in this analysis he revealed an implicit understanding of the nature of the focal point of a concave mirror. Although he did not possess a mathematical law of refraction he successfully applied the general qualitative principles of refraction to the images that result from refraction at plane and circular interfaces between transparent media of various densities. In his discussion of the rainbow Pecham again attempted to reconcile different theories. He argued that all three kinds of rays rectilinear reflected and refracted concur in the generation of the rainbow. "Pecham's 'Perspectiva communis' is still extant in more than sixty manuscripts and went through twelve printed editions including a translation into Italian between 1482 and 1665. It was used and cited by many medieval and Renaissance natural philosophers including Dominicus de Clavasio Henry of Langenstein Blasius of Parma Lorenzo Ghiberti Leonardo da Vinci Albert Brudzewski Francesco Maurolico Giambattista della Porta Girolamo Fabrici Johannes Kepler Willebroad Snellius and G. B. Riccioli. It was lectured upon in the late Middle Ages at the universities of Vienna Prague Paris Leipzig Cracow Würzburg Alcala and Salamanca."DSB. Giovanni Battista Sessa, June hardcover books
1994ref. 1418088New York: Pantheon 1994. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii 110. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket spine blue with white lettering protected in mylar covering price uncut: "U.S.A $22.00". General shelf wear. Bumping to top front edge of dust jacket. Mild staining to front cover of dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed flat by Spiegelman on front free end-paper. Shelved in Poetry. 1418088. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Pantheon hardcover books
1762ref. 26181Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. Very Good-. Boston: Fowle and Draper 1762. First Edition. Slim octavo; 19th century glazed boards gilt calf spine label later endpapers; 1236pp. A4 B-F4 collated and presumed complete; decorative head- and tail-pieces. Boards scuffed at extremities with exposure at corners spine partly perished some soil to rear board and textblock else a Good or better internally sound copy. Two sermons issued together with separate title pages and pagination but continuous collation attributed to Edmund March ca. 1704-1791. Quite uncommon none in the trade as of April 2023; last seen in the auction record in 1917. ESTC W14481; EVANS 9168 & 9169; SABIN 28443. Fowle and Draper unknown books
1977ref. 349585Sacramento CA: Creative Editions 1977. Paperback. xvi 129p. wraps light handling wear else very good condition. Creative Editions paperback books
1929ref. 013024NY: Covici Friede 1929. 2nd Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The second edition that Covici published with Friede following Covici's 1928 first edition limited illustrated by Reginald March. Colophon states second trade edition 2000 copies this copy hand-numbered 653. This edition not illustrated dropped provocative 8-lines in two stanza at the end of page 22. Inserted loosely here at page 22 is a publisher's note that prints what was dropped which concludes "And he almost came." 8vo tan rough cloth titles stamped in gold on spine lacking dustjacket leaves gently toned about edges. Solid unsophisticated copy and rarely found with inserted addendum page. Covici Friede hardcover books
2020ref. 1405098New York: Minotaur Books 2020. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 389 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Pink spine with orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$26.99/ $36.50 CAN." has mild shelving wear. Boards have bumping to spine ends. Textblock has mild age toning to edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1405098. Special Collections - Downstairs. Minotaur Books hardcover books
1899ref. 2348653Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company 1899. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled edges exposed a few internal holes to cloth spine pages toned binding a bit shaken but holding publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece color pictorial boards engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore; A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine A Sleeping-Car Story; High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody. Lothrop Publishing Company hardcover books
1867ref. 2343748Albany: Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House 1867. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Top half of last few pages and bottom corner of first two pages stained endpapers foxed corners rubbed. 1867 Hard Cover. iv 562 4 pp. 8vo. A collection of medical papers by various authors with discussions of: urinary calculi; capillary blood vessels; empyema; spotted or congestive fever; cerebro-spinal meningitis; chlorosis; vomiting of fat; hernia; medical use of electricity; chronic metritis; still-births; ligation of the primitive carotid artery; cholera at quarantine at the Port of New York; physiology of the retina; tenant houses; spontaneous evolution of the foetus; continued fever of New York City; cystitis and rupture of the bladder treated by cystotomy; consanguineous marriages; fatal hemorrhage succeeding pneumonia; diploteratology. Illustrated with black-and-white plates lists of members following articles. Garrison-Morton 534.64 referencing three separate articles published 1865-1867: "Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House hardcover books
1972ref. 56634New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Hardcover. 0814907237 . A Fine Advance Review Copy first Edition/First Printing Fine except some mild edge rubbing in a like dust-jacket. There are some inserts and a photograph of author March Cost laid in; The Key to Laurels by March Cost is the story of a young girl Addie who is determined to find her place in the world. Addie is a bright and determined young girl but she feels like she doesn't fit in with the other kids in her neighborhood. She starts to feel like she's missing out on something important and decides she needs to find her place in the world. Addie starts to look for clues to her place in the world in her neighborhood and eventually finds her way to the library. There she meets a librarian Mrs. McIntyre who helps Addie find her place in the world. Mrs. McIntyre teaches Addie about the importance of learning and she helps Addie find her place in the world by giving her a key to the laurels. Addie is happy to find her place in the world and is now able to enjoy her neighborhood and all the opportunities it offers her.; 8vo; 194 pages; Price . The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1943ref. 92659Washington D.C.: Army Air Forces 1943. Paperback. Very Good. 37p. printed on one sideplus 19 folding black & white maps charts illustrations etc. Softcover in original cloth-backed wrapper. 26 cm. Minor cover soil. Pages browned. Name stamp on front cover -- a Captain in 939th Eng. Cam. Bn. Avn. Army Air Forces paperback books
1896ref. 29020London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd 1896. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. VIII 372pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Frontispiece map. Printer's device on title page. Captivating history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris joined by mutinous National Guardsmen seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based on workers' councils. They could not hold out however when more troops retook the city and massacred 30000 workers in bloody revenge. The Paris Commune is often said to be the first example of working people taking power. For this reason it is a highly significant event. This study is complete with its folding map of Paris in 1871. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing along edges. Upper front corner slightly bumped not affecting pages. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Some foxing on very first and very last pages. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd hardcover books
ref. 11288N/A n/d. N/A. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 488 pp. total. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Some age wearing to edges. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Reinforced back hinge with binders tape."With the bookplate and signature of Bruce Bryan the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum of The American Indians in Pasadena California". 14 booklets on different subjects regarding Great Britain including Archaeology Natural History Architecture Surveys Anglo-Saxon Jewelry Abbeys and Castles in South Wales Ancient Cemetry at Saffron Walden Roman-Britain and many more all bound in one volume. Illustrated throughout with b/w lithographic plates fold out maps plans and drawings. A tight copy in good condition. N/A hardcover books
1970ref. M14989Amsterdam & New York:: Excerpta Medica 1970. 1970. Second printing. 8vo. xvi 450 pp. Figs. index. Cloth dust-jacket. Frederick A. Frye bookplate. Good. A testament to the national public health policy the support for medical research and benefitting the health of new born infants. Includes contributions from numerous geneticists. / The editors: Frank Clarke Fraser OC FRSC was a Canadian medical geneticist. Spanning the fields of science and medicine he was Canada's first medical geneticist one of the creators of the discipline of medical genetics in North America and laid the foundations in the field of Genetic Counselling which has enhanced the lives of patients worldwide. Among his many accomplishments Fraser pioneered work in the genetics of cleft palate and popularized the concept of multifactorial disease. / Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and until his death remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man MIM and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMIM. He is widely known as the "father of medical genetics." Excerpta Medica, 1970. hardcover books
1946ref. 2015Washington: GPO 1946. two toned cloth. 8vo. two toned cloth. xix pages followed by the facsimile. Second printing. Illustrated. GPO unknown books
1936ref. 140941960New York: Random House 1936. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Clifford Odets in the year of publication inscribed to actor Fredric March and his wife "For Mr. Mrs F. March with the appreciation of the Group Theater. Sincerely signed Clifford Odets 1/18/36." xiii i 204 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good edges foxed in Very Good dust jacket dulled spine panel light wear and stain at foot. A great association between playwright Odets with one of his more difficult plays and Hollywood actor Fredric March a major star of his day. Odets' thanking March for his patronage of the experimental Group Theater collective who put on this play is a nice bit of Great Depression-era theater context too. The Group Theater would last ten years total; their biggest success would be the following year with Odets' play Golden Boy. Random House unknown books
