1965Best.-Nr. R150233717Gallimard. 1965. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 250 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
2007Best.-Nr. R200105639City editions. 2007. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 327 pages augmentée sde nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans le texte et de quelques planches photos en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 130-Phénomènes paranormaux. Pseudo-sciences
1869Best.-Nr. 1703Couverture rigide Théodore Thomas - C. Reinwald 1869 Leipzig-Paris 21,5x13,5 cm
Best.-Nr. QWA-9592Alfred Costes, 1921, in-8 br., XXI-604 p., traduit sur l'édition anglaise définitive par Edmond Barbier couverture passée, bon état.
2006Best.-Nr. LFA-126723955Revue trimestrielle de 59 pages, format 145 x 205 mm, brochée couverture couleurs, Editions Saint Rémi, bon état
2000Best.-Nr. LFA-126723339Un ouvrage de 192 pages, format 125 x 210 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs rempliée, publié en 2000, Le Pré aux Clercs, bon état
Best.-Nr. ORD-13388Traduit de l'anglais par J.-J. Moulinié. 2e édition, revue sur la dernière édition anglaise par M. E. Barbier. Paris. Reinwald. 1873. 2 volumes in-8 (152 x 235mm) bradel toile verte, dos orné or (reliure de Lenègre), 2ff., XV, 466 pages et 1f. de catalogue et 2ff., III, 507 pages index alphabétique en fin d'ouvrage. Des rousseurs par endroits mais papier très blanc, bords de feuilles brunis, exemplaire non rogné, plutôt en bon état.
2009Best.-Nr. LFA-126721932Un ouvrage de 298 pages, format 130 x 200 mm, broché, réimpression (2009) de l'édition de 1859, Le Monde - Flammarion, collection "Les Livres qui ont Changé le Monde", bon état
Best.-Nr. LAN161C41GAR1967 / 496 pages. Relié avec jaquette. Editions Everyman's Library.
Best.-Nr. NAT400M1900 / 615 pages. Relié. Editions Nelson and Sons, Paternoster.
Best.-Nr. 7655P., Reinwald, 1875, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile verte éditeur, (2-faux-titre et titre), 8pp., 552pp., quelques figures dans le texte,,20pp.(catalogue de l'éditeur)
1892Best.-Nr. GIT011f6Paris Reinwald et Cie 1892. In-8 broché VIII 165pp + 1f catalogue. Léger manque sur le dos, plus important en bordure de couverture.
Best.-Nr. 1537P., Reinwald, 1877, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane verte, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque), (rousseurs), 15pp., 496pp.
Best.-Nr. 1551East Lansing, Michigan Academy of science, 1909, un volume in 8 relié en pleine toile éditeur, (accroc à la partie inférieure du dos), (3), 181pp., figures dans le texte
1972Best.-Nr. ULAMTIM00ajsCharles H. Belding 1972. Very Good. Lambert Darwin. Timberline Ancients. Muench photographer David. Portland Oregon: Charles H. Belding 1972. 128pp. Illustrated. Folio. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and soiling. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Charles H. Belding hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. UTOOCAN00ajsNorton 1988. Very Good. Toomer Jean. Cane: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds Criticism. Turner Editor Darwin T. NY: Norton 1988. A Norton Critical Edition. 246pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Previous owner's name in ink on title page. Neat underlining and occasional marginalia. Norton paperback books
1962Best.-Nr. 1412756New York: The Viking Press 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 435 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full green cloth binding. Jacket is green with orange and white lettering white titling to spine wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows light shelving wear with rubbing along edges and at corners wrinkling at the head and tail and scuffing along joints. Wrinkling to top corner of front flap. Price unclipped: "$7.50". Boards are sunned along the top and bottom edges and on the spine. Bottom fore corner of rear board is lightly bumped. Text block is moderately age toned and lightly worn along edges. Interior clean. Humorously inscribed by Hyman as Charles Darwin to Susan Sheehan on first free endpaper: "For Susan-- / In friendship / Charles Darwin / March 1964". Shelved in Room X. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1412756. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Viking Press hardcover books
1889Best.-Nr. RDARDES00drpD. Appleton and Company 1889. Very Good. Darwin Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. NY: D. Appleton and Company 1889. 688pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with bumping and fraying. Some penciling on some pages and rear pastedown without obstructing text. The illustrations are very well done and detailed showing even the minutest details of insect wings and other creatures. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
Best.-Nr. 015961London: John Murray; Smith Elder Sixteen volumes uniformly bound. SIGNED BINDINGS BY ZAEHNSDORF BINDERY. The Zaehnsdorf Bindery was one of the leading binders in England founded in 1842 sold in 1947. This set was bound in the early 1900's. All volumes have been rebacked by master binders at Green Dragon Bindery in Shrewsbury MA. Some gutters re-inforced with contemporary papers. Spines are designed in gilt and red titled in gilt. Blue marbled paper-covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Book-plate of IRVING FISHER on pastedown of each volume. Fisher 1867-1947 was an American mathematical economist inventor and eugenicist. Top edges gilt. Crisp and clean throughout. All volumes have been collated complete. One book "A Naturalist's Journal." has a larger format demi octavo. The books and printing details are listed below. Please see photos. 1 "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" sixth edition 34th thousand John Murray 1890 two volumes; 2 "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" second edition 22nd thousand John Murray 1888 two volumes; 3 "The Various Contrivances By Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects" second edition fifth thousand John Murray 1890; 4 "The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom" third edition John Murray 1891; 5 "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms" eleventh thousand John Murray 1888; 6 "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" second edition edited by Francis Darwin John Murray 1890; 7 "The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication" second edition seventh thousand two volumes John Murray 1890; 8 "Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" third edition Smith and Elder 1891; 9 "Insectivorous Plants" second edition John Murray 1888; 10 "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" third edition Smith and Elder 1889; 11 "The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants" fifth thousand John Murray 1891; 12 "The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species" third thousand John Murray 1888; 13 "Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy" new edition 1890. An unusual and likely "one-of-a- kind" collection of Darwin works including the classics "Origin of Species" and "Descent of Man". Charles Darwin1809-1882 was a noted English naturalist geologist biologist widely-respected for his contributions to evolutionary biology. He in interred in Westminster Abbet not far from Sir Isaac Newton. Please see photo. The association with the eugenicist Irving Fisher book-plates adds interest to the set. Postage will be higher due to the size of the collection. . Multiple Editions. 1/2 Cobalt Blue Morocco. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Crown Octavo. John Murray; Smith, Elder Hardcover books
1873Best.-Nr. 21091101New York: D. Appleton and Company 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First US edition octavo size 396 pp. Charles Robert Darwin 1809-1882 was interested in the origins of life from a young age and when the "Beagle" had an opening for a naturalist his interest and reputation for "collecting observing & noting any thing worthy to be noted in Natural History" earned him the post on this voyage which would last for five years and which would become duly famous. It would become 'the key formative event in Darwin's life" and the many species he observed both living and extinct would foster "an intellectual ferment and fortify him to re-evaluate all of natural history" n.b. quote from the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This work "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" is "Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory following 'On the Origin of Species' 1859 and 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex' 1871. Initially intended as a chapter in Descent of Man Expression grew in length and was published separately in 1872. Darwin explores the biological aspects of emotional behaviour and the animal origins of human characteristics like smiling and frowning shrugging shoulders lifting eyebrows in surprise and baring teeth in an angry sneer" n.b. quote from Wiki. He "examined the causes physiological and psychological of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that 'the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited' and that most of the movements of expression must have been gradually acquired. This is the only book by Darwin illustrated with photographs" n.b. quote from the online History of Medicine and the Life Sciences. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full rust-coloured cloth over boards both boards with ruled borders and decorations in black the spine with gilt ruled borders and lettering light yellow coated endpapers with twenty-one in-text illustrations and seven Heliotype plates the plate facing p. 264 being a four-panel foldout fourteen pages of publisher's ads at the rear; octavo size 8" by 5 1/4" pagination: i-iii iv-viii 1 2-374 14-page publisher's catalogue at rear. ___CONDITION: Volume now near fine we had a professional name available upon request restore the joints head and tail of the spine; the boards clean straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and the sole prior owner marking we see a short gift inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper "from name to Prof Lakoff"; some overall light toning to the paper the four-panel fold-out illustration with a shallow crease at the top right margin and the fold between the third and fourth panels apparently having been neatly mended with glue at some point. ___CITATION: Freeman no. 1143; Garrison & Morton no. 4975. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. 16794New York: D. Appleton and Company 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. About Good. Brown cloth heavily mottled some red and green stains. Square bound with some reading wear gilt top edge a tear to the front endpaper. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1900Best.-Nr. 16961New York: A.L. Burt Publisher 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprinted from Second English Edition Revised and Augmented. Illustarted. Very Good. Red cloth faded at the spine lightly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound though the rear hinge is starting clean internally. A.L. Burt, Publisher hardcover books
1900Best.-Nr. 16960New York: A.L. Burt Publisher 1900. Hardcover. Good. Reprinted from Second English Edition Revised and Augmented. Illustarted. Published as part of Burt's Library of the World's Best Books. Good. Brown publisher's binding generally worn. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge hinges cracked but reglued stained at the fore-edge clean otherwise. A.L. Burt, Publisher hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 16963New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete in two volumes. Good. Matching publisher's bindings generally rubbed and worn small white labels at the heads of the spines. Bound with reading wear and forward leans former owner's name inside each marginalia and some notes at the endpapers. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books