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1954réf. 446063London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Marked proof. 12mo. 314pp. Plain wrappers with paper cover label. Spine cocked light general soiling and wear very good. "Kindly Return This Marked Proof" and a date October 6 1954 stamped on the half-title. Over 40 corrections have been recommended in the text in several colors of ink: pink the table of contents and prior blue fountain pen mostly typographical errors and justification issues and several in black ink. In at least four cases the annotations in black request alterations to the text. Admittedly none of the changes are major rewrites-usually a rearrangement of words-but it raises the likelihood that these were done in the author's hand. Variable Winds at Jalma was published in the United States in 1954 by Little Brown and in London the following year. De la Roche 1879-1961 would have been 75 at the time. Variable Winds at Jalna is book 15 of de la Roche's popular 16-volume The Whiteoak Chronicles. Macmillan & Co. Ltd unknown books
1921réf. 441127New York: Cosmopolitan 1921. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Dean Cornwell. Fine in fine dustwrapper with wraparound art by Dean Cornwell. Hubin listed mystery subtitled on the jacket "A Novel of Youth and Mystery." A young woman comes to the whirlpool that is New York City encounters a mystery. Basis for the 1922 silent film of the same name directed by Tom Terriss and featuring Alma Rubens Eileen Huban and Harrison Ford not that one. A beautiful copy. Cosmopolitan hardcover books
1972réf. 111257New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 167pp. Near fine with a previous owner name on the front free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with an abrasion on the front panel and tape repairs. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1962réf. 385571New York: Sheed and Ward 1962. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in edgeworn and lightly soiled wrappers with owners name stamped on half title page tape on bottom of spine and some small surface tears on front cover and spine ends. Sheed and Ward unknown books
1968réf. 385789New York: Weybright and Talley 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First American edition. Near fine in a good or better edgeworn and lightly soiled dust jacket with faded spine and a few closed tears and tape repair on inside the top of spine. Weybright and Talley hardcover books
1998réf. 311051New York: Anchor Books 1998. Softcover. Fine. Bound galley. Fine in wraps. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Anchor Books unknown books
1997réf. 311902New York: Anchor Books 1997. Softcover. Fine. Bound galley. Fine in illustrated wraps. Signed by author. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Anchor Books unknown books
1925réf. 278997New York: Greenberg 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends and a few tears. Villainous gentleman found dead on a yacht off Palm Beach. Greenberg hardcover books
1966réf. 98826London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a single tear on the front spine fold and with drawing by Duncan Grant. Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd hardcover books
1972réf. 73327New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1813réf. S14157Paris :: H. Perroneau 1813. 1813. Title : Extrait des Annales de Chimie fevrier 1813. 8vo. 4 115 1 pp. Half-title 2 folding engraved plates. Modern navy-blue cloth no embellishments!. Fine. Rare. 121 "The same year 1811 Berard's experiments with Francois-Etienne de La Roche won the prize 1812 of the First Class of the University Paris Academy of Science for determining the specific heat of gases using a copper calorimeter." / Francois-Etienne de La Roche or Delaroche was a Genevan physician naturalist chemist botanist and ichthyologist. "De La Roche became infected with typhus bacteria and died in 1813 only just aged 32 during the same epidemic that his father also succumbed to." / Jacques Etienne Berard was a French naturalist chemist and physicist. He was the first professor of toxicology at Montpellier. He was a pioneer in chemical engineering including pharmaceuticals and was managing director of La Paille the manufacturing site that had been founded by Chaptal in 1782. H. Perroneau, 1813. hardcover books
2023réf. 13879New York: Grand Central Publishing 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Leslie Jones in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xvii 268pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in yellow. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A very presentable signed first edition of this hilarious memoir by comic icon Leslie Jones. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hey you guys it's Leslie. I'm excited to share my story with you. Now I'm gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a btch is fifty-five and she's smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I'm talking about my childhood growing up in the South my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn't get murdered what Chris Rock told Lorne Michaels that time I wanted to shoot Whoopi Goldberg on SNL and yeah I'll tell you all about Ghostbusters and the nudes and Supermarket Sweep and The Daily Show . . . I'm sharing it all in these pages. It's not easy being a woman in comedy especially when you're a tall-ss Black woman with a trumpet voice. I have to fight so that no one takes me for granted and no one takes advantage. These are the stories that explain why. Cue the Law & Order theme.Publisher. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1918réf. 11866New York: George H. Doran Company 1918. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company 1918. Later printing without publisher's colophon to copyright page. Octavo. 312 pp. Apricot cloth stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with some spotting and smudging. Binding is sound. Pages unmarked. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1798réf. 70527Paris: de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aine 1798. 16mo pp. 4 xxv 1 115 1; vignette title page; contemporary green morocco elaborate gilt rules on covers smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 a.e.g.; old gift inscription on title page else a very good sound and clean copy. Memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. OCLC locates no copies in the U.S. de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aine unknown books
1956réf. 71352Roma: Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First edition small 4to pp. ix 3 194 plus 82 plates 2 folding each with a descriptive leaf of text; 5 folding maps printed in color in rear cover pocket; one corner bumped else fine in original gray printed boards. The Amne Machin range runs in the general northwest-to-southeast direction in eastern Qinghai Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent areas of the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and the southwestern corner of Gansu's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Rock Honorary Research Associate Far Eastern and Russian Institute University of Washington is one of the great explorers of the last half of the 20th century. He "was first sent to China in the early 1920s by the United States Department of Agriculture U.S.D.A. to collect seeds of a tree that later were used in the treatment of leprosy. His explorations resulted in the introduction of conifers rhododendrons 493 species potentilla and primula to the U.S. Nonetheless biographer Hubert Rhodes wrote in 1956 that Rock's collection process - collecting all plants not just searching for exotics - had important implications and opened possibilities for reforestation in North America's severest northern climates. Rock also introduced blight-resistant chestnuts. He deposited a sizable collection of birds and mammals at the U.S. National Museum the Arnold Arboretum and Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. During his later years botanizing back in Hawaii in the 1950s Rock noted ominously that many native species he had collected earlier in his career had vanished completely . His efforts in linguistics are widely recognized; he spent years collecting and translating 8000 volumes of original Naxi literature including their religious tracts" Hunt Botanical Institute website. Instituto Italiano oer Il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1937réf. 69051Leipzig: Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl 1937. Rare offprint "separatum" from Artibus Asiae volume VII; 4to pp. 85 1; 16 mounted plates at the back a few illustrations in the text; first 2 leaves a bit toned else a very good sound copy in contemporary black wrappers printed paper label on upper cover. Rock 1884-1962 was "captivated by the ritual books he found in the possession of the Naxi religious specialists the 'dongba' while plant hunting in China's borderlands. Rock went on to devote the remaining years of his life to the translation of these books that contained such a treasure house of knowledge a corpus of literature that for Rock offered tantalising glimpses at the indigenous religion of pre-Buddhist Tibet. Rock a voracious autodidact appreciated an intellectual challenge: this was a script that by the time he first encountered it in the 1920s nobody had previously deciphered aside from some exploratory incomplete translations conducted via Chinese by French scholars and explorers. This vast corpus of ritual literature was essentially unexplored territory and this was where Rock liked to tread. Through his assiduous collecting and cataloguing and not without controversy he preserved thousands of these texts in collections now spread throughout the western world . While Rock's first published translations were no more than concise summaries of the stories he discovered within the Naxi manuscripts he later developed a more extensive anthropological style of translation. This meant recording in exacting detail the phonetic reading given by a dongba and then embarking upon a full written commentary. The first translation to use this method was published in 1937 as 'The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shilo the founder of Mo-so shamanism according to Mo-so manuscripts' a seminal work on Dobbaq-sheel'lo the mythical founding father of the dongba religion" see Poupard D.J. Introduction to: A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China Leiden University Press. Only University of Hawaii in OCLC. Verlag der Offizin Richard Hadl unknown books
1956réf. 68974Washington D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press 1956. 8vo pp. 16 359 1; text in French; printed gray paper wrappers; wrappers faded at edge and spine text clean and sound near fine. A dissertation for a theology doctorate. The Catholic University of America Press unknown books
1990réf. 64930Bogotá: Ediciones Arte Dos Grafico 1990. First edition limited to 600 copies 300 numbered in arabic numerals and 300 in roman numerals this no. xcv/ccc signed by both Roca and Rendón; small tabular-bound folio pp. 42; line blocks and linoleum cuts throughout some showing through die-cut pages 6 in color; laid in is a hand-printed "Ex libris" bookplate as issued; generally a fine copy in original tan cloth with pictorial linocut pastedown on upper cover publisher's slipcase. Wikipedia notes that Juan Manuel Roca is a Colombian poet essayist prose writer and journalist occasionally included among the "disillusioned generation" of Colombian writers who made their debut in the 1970s. Rendón from Medellín is a draftsman printmaker and a dedicated illustrator of texts a line of work that he pursued along with his widely known work in the linocut medium. NY Public Stanford Vanderbilt in OCLC plus one in Columbia. Ediciones Arte Dos Grafico unknown books
réf. 3747n.p. n.d. 4to trimmed and measuring 21 x 21.5mm. approx. 100 words stains from previous mount on verso else a very good example; in French. Offering apologies on behalf of a Dr. Walker for not having sent Vol. 6 of an unnamed work and saying that he has been preoccupied with scientific questions. Roche 1820-1883 was a French mathematician specialist in celestial mechanics geophysics and meteorology; corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences who proposed the first "earth model" with a solid nucleus. unknown books
1778réf. 25120Genève: Du Villard fils & Nouffer 1778. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. 272; 334; title within printed border; woodcut ornaments; contemporary full mottled calf red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; short crcaks in 2 joints else generally very good and sound. Quérard II p. 440. Du Villard fils & Nouffer unknown books
1977réf. 12010New York 1977. Wraps. Very Good. Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present evidence of light water damage else tight bright and unmarred. Glossy color paper wrappers. illus. b/w color. unknown books
1994réf. 628941Williamsburg Virginia: The William and Mary Quarterly 1994. Unbound. Near Fine. Offprint. Corner-stapled octavo sheets. 1 508-538pp. Final leaf with with a tiny creased tear else fine. Signed by Paul A. Gilie on the first page and with a Typed Letter Signed to noted scholar Graham Hodges sending the offprint along. Hodges is one of several historians thanked on the first page for their critical comments and help. First published in The William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series Vol. LI No. 3 July 1994. The William and Mary Quarterly unknown books
1890réf. 010392Topeka Kansas: C. B. Hamilton & Son 1890. Book. Very Good -. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii 5-277 1 pages 101 leaves of plates : illustrations portraits. Bound in original string-tied pictorial printed wrappers Very Good MInus front wrapper detached missing top 2" and bottom 3/8" of paper at spine otherwise clean and unmarked and a rare survivor both in the paper wrappers and -according to Howes "Most of the edition burned." Howes R390. . C. B. Hamilton & Son Paperback books
1961réf. TB27851n.p.: Arthaud 1961. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with orange text stamped on the front board and on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6 3/4". In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Laid-in at the front of the book is the two color fold-out map. Translated and adapted by Roland Le Grand with the cooperation of Wilfrid Noyce. With 169 heliogravure illustrations. Arthaud hardcover books
1955réf. 399748London: Macmillan 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First english edition. Boards a little bowed and a little mustiness else very good in modestly worn very good dustwrapper. Children's book by the bestselling author. Macmillan hardcover books
