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1993Best.-Nr. 240985Caxenovia WI: PDA Press 1993. Magazine. 67p. 7x8.5 inches articles poems features listings very good condition large digest size magazine in white printed wraps. Betty Pearl & Pansy of Betty & Pansy's Gay Travel Guides.Sodom by the Sea: San Francisco. PDA Press unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 278026New York: John Day 1947. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 8vo black cloth d.w. with a small amount of slight chipping d.w. lightly soiled corners of cloth and a small area bottom edge of back cloth cover lightly bumped. New York: John Day 1947. John Day unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 273972Baltimore 1922. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 Baltimore Maryland November 22 1922 to American psychiatrist and staunch Eugenicist Dr. Stewart Paton in full: "I have asked the publishers to send you a copy of my book 'The Biology of Death' which has recently appeared. I hope that you will presently receive it and find it of some interest." Within five years both scientists would come to hate one another with Paton replacing Pearl as the poster boy of Eugenics and the voice of the Eugenics Research Association. Natural folds; fine condition. Pearl rarely comes to market and it speculated that his letters were avoided by collectors due to his anti-Semitism and also the fact that Pearl restricted much of his correspondence to the scientific community. American biologist and father of the controversial science of Eugenics and founder of Biogerontology. He made his case on the world stage with his publication "Breeding Better Men" and delivered the first speech at the very first International Eugenics Congress in London July 1912. In 1927 Pearl shocked the scientific community and his peers at John Hopkins University by renouncing the entire movement. Many thought it too late to correct the damage as he had already endorsed Alexis Carrel's erroneous ideas that "normal cells don%u2019t age" and his own theory for The Rate of Living Hypothesis which enjoyed prominence for nearly 50 years. unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 212769Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited. hardcover. fine. P.H. Polk. Exquisite black & white photographic portraits. Square 4to beige and brown cloth beige cloth slip case. Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited First Edition. A fine copy. One of 1200 signed and numbered copies. A monograph of the work of P. J. Polk one of the most important African-American photographers of the last century. Nexus unknown books
Best.-Nr. 106726hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo cloth. New York 1970. unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 106794New York: John Day 1962. Second. hardcover. very good/very good-. 256pp. 8vo blue cloth slightly worn & torn d.w. new York: John Day 1962. Second edition. very good. John Day unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 137949New York: Bobbs-Merrill 1955. hardcover. near fine/very good. 263 pages. 8vo decorative boards lightly worn d.w. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1955. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Bobbs-Merrill unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 177772New York: Harper 1947. hardcover. good. Profusely illustrated in b/w throughout. 789pp. tall 8vo cloth; corners bumped. New York: Harper & Brothers 1947. Good. Harper unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 541751Cleveland: World Publishing 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Pages toned with owner name on front fly corners and spine ends lightly bumped very good in an edgeworn good only dust jacket with chips at the foot of the spine affecting text and interior dampstains on the spine and front panel. World Publishing hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 44316Athens GA: Hill Street Press 1999. First printing. 8vo pp. iv 118. Illustrated with photographs. About new in dj. Twenty-two short tributes to Welty. Authors include Alice Munro Reynolds Price Richard Wilbur. Hill Street Press unknown books
1906Best.-Nr. 29508London: Fisher Unwin 1906. Beardsley. 8vo pp. 444. Colored picture on the cover by Beardsley. Edges foxed o/w a VG tight copy. The illustration is adapted from the poster design for Unwin's Pseudonym Libraries. Lasner 76c. A novel. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 31205NY: John Day 1963. First Edition. 8vo pp. 478. Part of a bookplate on flyleaf o/w VG no dj. A novel about Korea. John Day unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 23011NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. 8vo pp. 233. A nice copy in little soiled dj. A memoir--anecdotes and opinions. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 31210NY: John Day 1951. First Edition. 8vo pp. 375. Flap of dj laid in. VG. John Day unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 37623NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 241. Appendices bibliography index. A nice copy in somewhat soiled dj. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 29091NY: John Day 1939. First Edition. 8vo pp. 372. Small worm hole at bottom of a few pages o/w VG in worn dj. John Day unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 31199NY: John Day 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 406. VG no dj. A novel. John Day unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 27938NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. 8vo pp. 233. Author's presentation on title. A nice copy in little curled and yellowed dj. A memoir--anecdotes and opinions. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 502572New York: The John Day Company 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Pearl S. Buck. A fine copy in very good dust jacket faded on the spine but else quite bright. An account of a mass murder in Camden New Jersey in 1949 in which thirteen men women and children were murdered. The John Day Company hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 437867New York: John Day Company 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 206pp. Spine lettering rubbed very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest chipping mostly at the spine ends. A dialogue and debate about America between Nobel Prize-winner Buck and Robeson anthropologist author and the wife of Paul Robeson. Warmly Inscribed by Robeson: "For Harry Marinski sic: It will be great fun if you are my next collaborator. Sincerely Essie. Enfield Conn. Mar. 1949." The recipient is likely Harry Marinsky a Russian émigré artist watercolorist and art editor at two popular magazines. John Day Company hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 586767Peterborough New Hampshire: Windy Row Press 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Binding lightly cocked crown slightly bumped boards with a touch of foxing very good in a lightly soiled very good dust jacket with slight tanning particularly to the spine a bit of wear at the crown and a few small chips and tears. Signed by Doug Rook. Poetry. Windy Row Press hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 569274New York: John Day Company 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a very slightly rubbed else about fine dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies retained by The Pearl S. Buck Foundation Signed by both by Buck and Harris. This is copy "A 20" which we surmise was a copy for presentation by the authors. John Day Company hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 577172Athens Georgia: Hill Street Press 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 118pp. Slight toning at edge of boards near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Laid in is a "Happy Birthday Miss Welty" fold-out pamphlet from the publisher with a timeline of Welty's life. Hill Street Press hardcover books
2009Best.-Nr. 574371Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small oblong quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. University Press of Mississippi hardcover books
1951Best.-Nr. 582149New York: A.I.G.A. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 58pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Rubbing at the edges very good. Publisher's complimentary slip laid in. Contains the first book appearance of John Steinbeck's "Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books" G&P B66 and comments by Pearl S. Buck Erskine Caldwell John Dos Passos John Hersey William Carlos Williams and more. A.I.G.A. unknown books
