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A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Welcome Historical Medical Library.
Martino Publishing
1996
8-1/2 X 11 Inches
Revised Edition.

No Jacket, Fine
1888262044



2 Vol. Set, Fine condition. Revised Edition, as reprinted including handwritten marginalia, corrections and amendments from the library's original working copies. Limited to 400 copies. Vol. I. Books Printed Before 1641. Vol. II. Books Printed From 1641-1850, A-E. Does not include accessions from 1962 for Vol. I or 1966 for Vol. II, introductory note by John Symons. Oversized set. 8 lbs. ISBN 1888262044. #2357

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Photogravures of Nineteen Pictures in the Louvre

Place Not Indicated., 
5.75 x 8.5 Inches
Not Dated.
Hardcover
Very Good


Hautecoeur

Unpaginated. [ca. pre-1906] Very Good condition navy blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front cover, boards affixed with vintage 3-hole binding technique. Light rubbing to corners. Clean and unmarked but for gift inscription on front blank dated Dec. 21st, 1906. one plate has a one inch closed marginal tear and crinkled dogear, image not affected. Nineteen photogravures from artwork displayed in the Louvre, each attributed to "Ed.Hautecoeur, Photo". Contents: The Virgin and Angels (No.1260) Salle VII by Cimabue; Coronation of the Virgin (No.1290) Salle VII by Fra Angelico; The Nativity (No.1343) Salle VII by Fra Phillippo Lippi; The Virgin, Infant Jesus and St. John (No.1296) Salle VII by Botticelli; The Visitation (No.1321) Salle VII by D. Ghirlandajo; The Virgin of Victory (No.1374) Salle VI by Mantegna; The Virgin of the Rocks (No.1599) Salle VI by da Vinci; St. Michael and the Dragon (No.1502) Salle VII by Raphael; La Belle Jardiniere (No.1496) Salle IV by Raphael; Pastoral Concert (No.1136) Salle IV by Georgione; The Entombment (No.1584) Salle IV by Titian; Wedding Feast of Cana (No.1192) Salle IV by Veronese; Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (No.1117) Salle IV by Correggio;The Adoratio of the Shepherds (No.1721) Salle I by Ribera; Assembly of Artists (No.1734) Salle VI by Velasquez; The Kitchen of the Angels (No.1716) Salle VI by Murillo. #2340.

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Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
The Most Beautiful Molecule
Aurum Press Ltd.
London, 1995
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First British Edition
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
1854103032



8vo. ix. 340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket, clean and unmarked. The inside story of the remarkable discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, carbon-60. Written to delight and inform the layperson and scientist alike. Chapters: Introduction, Prologue-The Dome of Discovery, 1. Making Molecules, 2. September 1985, 3. The Search for the Yellow Vial, 4. On Symmetry and the Sexagesimal, 5. The Fuller View, 6. The Chemical Senses, 7. The Chemist-stylites, 8. September 1990, 9. The Peak Perfection, 10. "My Lords, What Does It Do?", 11. The Molecular Architects, Epilogue: Spot the Ball, Notes and References, Index. ISBN 1854103032. #1015.

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Aldridge, James
Mockery in Arms
Little, Brown and Co.
Boston, 1975
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First American Edition
Hard Cover
Very Good, Near Fine
0316031216



8vo. 382 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth spine, white endpapers. Dustjacket with light edge and corner wear, 1/2 inch closed tear and two small chips on back panel, in archival cover. Publishers slip laid in. ISBN 0316031216. #721.

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Alexander, Rosemary
The Essential Garden Design Workbook
Timber Press
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., 2004
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Printing
Soft Cover Flexibind
Near Fine
0881926647



292 pgs. Near Fine conditiom "turtleback" rigid softcover, flexibind, clean and unmarked with a shallow bump to bottom of spine. Well presented and clearly illustrated. Contents: Introduction,; Research, Preparation and Site Appraisal; Developing the Design: Focusing on the Ground Plane; Finalizing the Garden Layout Plan; Creating a Planting Plan; Visualizing and Constructing the Design; Keeping a Plant Notebook; Core Plant List; Plant Hardiness Zones; Glossary; Recommended Reading, Index. 2005 Silver Media Award of the Garden Writers Association. ISBN 0881926647. #1770.

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Alfred De Musset
A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut. A Proverb.
The Rodale Press
London, 1955
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition Thus
Hard Cover
Very Good, Very Good


Alistair Grant

8vo. 44 pgs. Very good hardcover with very good glassine jacket as issued. Printed in England at The Chiswick Press. Printed translucent glassine jacket has a few small closed edge tears and tiny chips, slight age toning along edges, with British price on front flap. Bi-toned Illustration on front board, very slight fading to board and spine edges, light foxing to text block edges and endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked. #1025.

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Allen, C.L.
Bulbs and Tuberous-Rooted Plants. Their History, Description, Methods of Propagation and Complete Directions for Their Successful Culture in the Dwelling and Greenhouse.
Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc
New York, 1923
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall
Later Printing
Hard Cover
Very Good




12mo. vi.311 pgs. Very Good green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine. Clean, binding sound, no markings or writing internally. Very slight rubbing to cloth at corners, faded area to cloth along right edge of front board and an unobtrusive water spot to the top edge of the text block-not visible on pages inside. Illustrated throughout with nicely rendered, detailed drawings. Plant descriptions and cultivation information are arranged alphabetically by genus, from Achimenes to Zephyranthes, with common names interspersed and cross referenced to the genera. A section on diseases and other enemies. Index. #1594.

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Anderson, Christopher
Jagger. Unauthorized.
Delacorte Press.
New York, 1993
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
038530825



8vo. 440 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with minimal shelf wear. First Edition July 1993. Biography of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Illustrated with a center section of black and white photos. Based on years of research and countless interviews with family, friends, neighbors,, lovers and fellow musicians. Insights include Jagger's bisexual history, marriages to Bianca Jagger and Jerry Hall, his affairs with Marianne Faithful, Carly Simon, Linda Rondstadt and sexual escapades with numerous fans, including Madonna. Also covered ar substance abuse and drug trials, business dealings, his financial genius, band politics, scandals, the bloodbath at Altamont, musical hits and record-breaking tours.ISBN 038530825. #354.

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Anderson, Edgar
Corn Before Columbus.
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company
Des Moines, Iowa, 1947
6 x 9 Inches
No Additional Printings Indicated
Softcover Pamphlet
Good




24 pgs. Good condition softcover pamplet. Pages are separated from paper cover, all present. Owner name and author name on front cover, author initial underlined on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked throughtout. A history of Zea Mays from prehistoric and pre-Columbian times as evidenced by archaeological and anthropological data and specimens. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Bibliography. #2343.

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Anderton, Stephen
Urban Sanctuaries : Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener
Timber Press, Incorporated, in Association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Portland, OR, U.S.A., 2001
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
First Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Fine
0881925020



4to. 144 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Jacket with small wrinkle near top edge of spine, else as new. A richly illustrated source of inspiration for building a special garden retreat-for both urban and suburban gardeners alike. Contents: Introduction. Part I: The Body of the Garden. Space and scale, light, soil, water, planting style. Part II: The Spirit of the Garden. Magic and mystery, the natural approach, the gardener's garden, devoted to water, minimalist style, rooms with views, roof and balcony retreats, family havens, directory of plants, index, acknowledgements. ISBN 0881925020. #1496.

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Anthon, Charles [Euripides]
An English Commentary on The Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides, with the Scanning of Each Play, from the Latest and Best Authorities
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York, 1877
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall
First Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




453pgs+adv. Very Good green cloth hardcover, red text block. This is the original hardcover 1877 Harper edition, not the modern reprint. Clean, sound and unmarked but for the neatly penned 1878 owner inscription of Harry Thurston Peck (see below) on the front free endpaper and the later owner blindstamp of Orlando D'Amato at the bottoms of the front endpaper, blank, title page, pgs 1 and 2. Light rubbing to cloth at edges and corners. An English commentary on the tragedies of Euripides, each section has an argument, outline of the play followed by linear references to passages in various acts and scenes, and with passages in ancient Geek with explanations and notes. The Rhesus is the only extant Greek drama whose plot is taken from the action of the tenth book of The Iliad. Euripides, however, places the scene in the Trojan camp. Contents: Notes on The Rhesus, Notes on The Medea, Notes on The Hippolytus, Notes on The Alcestis, Notes on the Heraclidae, Notes on The Supplices, Notes on the Troades, Scanning of the Preceding Plays. Personal copy of American classical scholar Harry Thurston Peck, professor of Ancient Languages at Columbia College, and editor-in-chief of various publications such as Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, International Cyclopedia and The Bookman. #2266.

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Anthony, Piers
Harpy Thyme
Tom Doherty Associates Book
New York and Cleveland, 1994
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0312853904

Darrell Sweet

8vo. 318 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Clean and unmarked. Yellow boards black with copper lettering at spine. Beautifully color illustrated endpapers. Jacket art by Darrell Sweet. A book in the Xanth series, Gloha, offspring of a goblin and a harpy, goes on a quest in search of truth, friendship and hopefully her one true love. ISBN 0312853904. #126.

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Arcati, Krystyna
The Healing Power of Plants. A Beginner's Guide.
Headway. Hodder & Stoughton
London, England, 1998
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Printing
Softcover, Pb
Very Good+
0340711485



108pgs. Very Good+ condition softcover, pb. Trace of bottom shelf wear, clean and unmarked. A handy and engaging little manual, with chapters on historical uses of flowers and plants, health, beauty and cosmetics, flowers and meditation, looking at colour, the healing garden, plants and flowers for decoration,further reading. With instructions, recipes and formulae, references and useful addresses. ISBN 0340711485. #2290.

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Arditti, Joseph
Micropropagation of Orchids. Second Edition. Vols. I and II.
Blackwell Publishing
UK, 2008
Small 4to., 8x10 Inches
Second Edition
Cloth Hardcovers in Slipcase
Fine
1405160889



Vol. I. xxi. pgs 1-756, Vol. II. ix. pgs. 757-1523. Fine condition, as new from publisher. Green cloth hardcovers in matching slipcase, with ribbon markers bound in headbands and gilt and silver decoration to front boards and spines. Illustrated throughtout. Sections: History; General Outline of Techniques and Procedures; Methods for Specific Genera [110 genera, Acampe through Vuylstekeara]; Summary: Culture Conditions, Media Components, Applications of Orchid Tissue Culture, Negative Aspects of Micropropagation; References; Appendices: General Information on Supplies, Equipment, Terms and Reagents, Sources of Supplies and Equipment, Some Sites of Iinterest on the World Wide Web, Light, Formulary, Atomic Weights, Concentrations, Exponents, Greek and Roman Letters, Ions, Measurements, Molecular Weights, Prefixes, Valences, Units and Solutions, Additional Information, Plant Preservative Mixture, Glossary, Index. Note: oversized set, 10 lbs. ISBN 9781405160889 and ISBN10 1405160889. #2351.

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Asratyan, E.A.
I.P. Pavlov. His Life and Work.
Foreign Languages Publishing House
Moscow, 1953
Small 8vo.
First English Language Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




163 pgs. Very Good, blue cloth hardcover, attractive beveled boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, binding very sound. Light edgewear to cloth, a few underlines on three pages internally, two pages have a diagonal crinkle to bottom corner, otherwise clean and unmarked. Translated from the Russian edition of 1949. Illustrated with black and white photos and several line drawings. Contents: Foreword, A Short Biography, Pavlov as Man and Citizen, Pavlov as Scientist and Teacher, Pavlov's Scientific Work, Pavlov's World Outlook and the Significance of His Theory for Dialectical Materialism. #1915

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Bacon, Leonard
Animula Vagula.
Harper & Brothers, NY. Copyright 1926.
New York, 1926
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall
First Edition.
Hard Cover
Very Good




12 mo. 37 pgs Very Good condition hardcover. Stated First Edition. Green cloth with paper title pieces on spine and front cover. Some edge chipping to paper of title on spine, not obtrusive to lettering. Very lightly foxed endpapers, with owner name on front endpaper, else clean, sound and unmarked. Introduction followed by 27 poems. Other works by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet include The Heroic Battles of Servia, The Cid, Ulug beg, Ph.D.s, Guinea-fowl and Other Poultry, Lost Buffalo and Other Poems, Sunderland Capture and Day of Fire. #541.

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Baker, Nicholson
Vox
Random House
New York, 1992
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Third Printing.
Cloth
Very Good, Fine
0394589955



8vo. 165 pgs. Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth hardbound, very clean and tight. Black dust jacket has some very light rubbing along bottom right front edge and a small punctured tear near bottom left near spine. A man and woman meet on an adult party line group and move on to an extensive private erotic fantasy. ISBN 0394589955. #873.

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Baker, Nicholson
Vox
Random House
New York, 1992
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Advanced Readers Edition
Softcover, with paper Sleeve
Near Fine, Near Fine
0679738819
Advanced Readers Edition

Signed by Author
8vo. 166 pgs. Near Fine Softcover in Near Fine brown paper sleeve. Book is clean, crisp, unmarked, SIGNED by author on title page. Wrapper has a trace of shallow crinklling to the fold on the right side, else pristine. This is the "Advanced Readers Edition" of the first edition. Sexually provocative. A man and woman meet on an adult party line group and move on to an extensive private erotic fantasy. ISBN 0679738819. #2315.

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Bald, R.C.
Seventeenth-Century English Poetry [Harper English Literature Series]
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York, 1959
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good+




vii. 591 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover, very clean and unmarked with minimal external wear or internal signs of use. There is a marginal 1/4 x 1/2 inch hole (paper defect) pg 543-544, no text is missing or affected. The texts reproduced are sourced directly from the original manuscript or the best early edition with a minimum of editing. Biographical and critical headnotes include the significance of each author's work to his time period and concise bibliographies with important editions, monographs and articles. Foreword by Karl J. Holzknecht is followed by a lengthy introduction. Poets and Authors: George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Sir Henry Wotton, John Donne,Ben Jonson, Phineas Fletcher, Richard Corbet, Sir John Beaumont, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Henry King, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Thomas Randolph, Sir WIlliam Davenant, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John Suckling, William CArtwright, Richard Crashaw, John Cleveland, Sir John Denham, Richard Lovelace, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Minor Poets Before 1660, Songs From Plays Before 1660, Samuel Butler, Charles Cotton, John Dryden, Thomas Traherne, Sir Charles Sedley, John Wilmot, Earle of Rochester, John Oldham, Minor Poets 1660-1700, Poets From Songbooks and Miscellanies, Songs From Plays 1660-1770, Index. #1847

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Balzac [Honore De Balzac]
Eugenie Grandet
Nelson
Paris, 1932
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Decorated Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




271pgs + adv. Very Good condition cloth hardcover, decorative binding. Minimal overall wear with a trace of rubbing at edges and corners and a shallow ding to cloth in front gutter where front board meets mid spine. Binding sound, light foxing to endpapers, a few scatterd notations and underlines in French. Text is in the French language. A novel centering around a village miser, Felix Eugenie, his obsession with gain at all costs, and the effect of his miserliness on his wife, his daughter Eugenie, his family and fellow villagers. Set in early nineteenth century Napoleonic France in a town called Saumur. Appended at the end of the text are 12 pgs of advertisements for other titles by Nelson Editeurs. #2275.

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Barker, Clive
Sacrament
HarperCollins
New York, 1996
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition/First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
006017949X

Gene Mydlowski

8vo.447 pgs. Fine Hardbound in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with no discernable defects. A story about a wildlife photographer, Will Rabjohns, who has made his reputation photographing endangered species, and a fateful trip to the Arctic where a mystical encounter with a bear leaves him all but dead. A journey of self-discovery leads him back to AIDS-plagued San Francisco, New York, and the Scottish moors, where he penetrates the ultimate mystery, "The "Domus Mundi" and discovers the secret that links his destiny to that of all the innumerable creatures on the planet. ISBN 006017949X. #362.

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Barnes, Linda
Steel Guitar
Delacorte Press
New York, 1991
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition Nov. 1991
Hard Cover
Very Good, Near Fine
0385300131



8vo. 257 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. White boards, black spine with gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Light edgewear. Dust jacket has 1/4 inch closed tear at bottom spine corner, two tiny closed tears at top rear. Author of COYOTE. The fourth of the Carlotta Carlyle mysteries, set in Boston. Blues singer Dee Willis comes back into Carlotta's life. ISBN 0385300131. #125.

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Barr, Amelia E.
A Border Shepherdess. A Romance of Eskdale.
Dodd, Mead & Company
New York, 1887
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Decorated Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




325pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, blue cloth decorated with silver thistle design on front and spine. Spine darkened, edges slightly rubbed, a few faint red spots to front board. Internally clean and sound. A nineteenth century romance set in the Cumbria Lake District near the border of England and Scotland. By the author of Jan Vedder's Wife, A Daughter of Fife, The Bow of Osage Ribbon, The Squire of Sandal-Side. #2289.

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Basch, Rachel.
Degrees of Love
W.W. Norton Co.
New York, 1998
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0393046257


Signed by Author
8vo. 281 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, SIGNED by author on half-title page. Author's first novel. Removable "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. A young couple's world starts to unravel when their eighteen month old child is accidentally burned, and the report of an emergency room physician prompts the state to take temporary custody. ISBN 0393046257.#491.

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Batcheller, Frances N. Et al
Handbook on Gesneriads (African-Violets, Gloxinias and Their Relatives) Plants & Gardens Vol. 23 Spring (May) 1967.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
New York, 1967
6 x 9 Inches

Softcover Pamphlet
Very Good




81 pgs. Very Good condition staple bound softcover with light overall shelfwear, internally clean and unmarked. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Contents and contributors included: Cultural Notes for Achieving Extreme Beauty in Plants - Henry Teuscher, Afican-Violets - Alma Wright, Fluorescent lighting - Frances N. Batcheller, Gesneriads in the Greenhouse - Cornelius Ackerson, Dictionary of Gesneriads - Frances N. Batcheller, Episcias - Peggy Schulz, Columneas for Versatility - M. Carleton L'Hommedieu, Achimenes - Paul Arnold, Plant Huunting in the Tropics - Thomas E. Talpey, Streptocarpus - R.D.A. Bayliss, Florist Gloxinias and Their Kin - Carl D. Clayberg, Gesneriads as a Family - B.L. Burtt, The Little oNes - Ruth Katzenberger, Growing and Showing - Olive S. Hull and William Henry hull jr., Propagating Gesneriads - Frances N. Batcheller, Pests and Diseases - Michael J. Kartuz, Hybridiziing Gesneriads - Robert E. Lee, Chromosome Numbers in the Gesneriaaceae - Robert E. Lee, Classification of Gesneriad Genera - Robert E. Lee, Suppliers, Books and Organizations Concerned with Gesneriaceae. #2347.

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Bawden, F.C.
Plant Viruses and Virus Diseases
Ronald Press Co.
New York, 1964
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
4th Edition
Cloth
No Jacket, Very Good




8vo. vii. 361 pgs.Very Good condition blue cloth hardbound, no jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked with exception of owner name on front pastedown, light foxing to fore edge and several tiny check marks in table of contents. Sections include: symptomology - changes in appearance, physiological changes and host-plant metabolic changes; methods of transmission; assay methods; composition of virus particles; morphology of viruses;; inactivation; multiplication; movement; genetic variability; classification; control.#951.

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Beahm, George, Editor.
The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion
Andrews and McMeel, MO. 1996. First Edition.
MO, 1996
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition.
Softbound Pb
Fine
0836210360



8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition softcover. A biographical, bibliographical resource and reference guide. Thematically organised in five sections plus appendices: The Real World of Anne Rice, The Unreal World of Anne Rice, On Anne Rice, Chiaroscuro - Anne Rice and the Cinema and A Look at the Books. ISBN 0836210360. #676.

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28 1957
Beauchamp, William M.
Earthenware of the New York Aborigines. Bulletin of the New York State Museum Vol. 5 No. 22. October 1898.
University of The State of New York
Albany, NY, 1898
Small 4to.

Softbound Pb, Pamphlet Bound.
Very Good




[73pgs] Very Good condition pamphlet-bound monograph on Indian artifacts. Light edge and corner wear and surface smudging, binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Text is followed by section of full page drawings and photos of earthenware artifacts. Contents:Introduction, Earthenware of the New York Aborigines, Clay Tobacco Pipes, Miscellaneous, Addenda, Index.. #1957.

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Bechteler, W. (editor)
Transport of Suspended Solids in Open Channels : Proceedings of Euromech 192, Munich - Neubibiberg, 11-15 June 1985
A. A. Balkema
3000 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1986
Small 4to.
First Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine.
9061916445



Sm. 4to. x.268 pgs. Near Fine hardcover, clean and unmarked. Proceedings of this symposium are orgainized in the following sections: Flow structures as related to suspended sediment transport, particle-fluid dynamics; Concentration distribution and transport of suspended load under steady flow conditions; Reservoir sedimentation, settling basins; Resuspension, suspended and bed-load interaction; Suspended sediment transport under nonsteady flow conditions; special topics. ISBN 9061916445. #1221.

Price: 44.00 USD
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Beebe, William
The Log of the Sun. A Chronicle of Nature's Year.
Garden City
New York, 1927
Small 8vo.
Later Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good


Walter King Stone

x.321pgs. Very Good condition green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front and spine. Top of text block edge is red. Clean, sound, attractive with minimal shelf wear, unmarked except for previous owner name neatly penned to front free endpaper. Color frontis by Walter King Stone. A series of 52 essays, arranged by month, presenting familiar subjects from unusual points of view. Bird's-eye, mammal and insect perspectives on facing storms and night and cold and seasonal changes. Portions of the text have been published previously in "Outing", "Recreation", "The Golden Age", "The New York Evening Post" and "The New York Tribune". #1816

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Belcher, R. and Nutten, A.J., Eds.
Quantitative Inorganic Analysis. A Laboratory Manual.
Butterworths Scientific Publications
London, 1955
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cloth
Very Good




8vo. 337 pgs. Very Good condition. Green cloth with light edge/corner wear, small 1/8 inch fray to cloth at top of spine. Chemistry classic with sections on laboratory apparatus and technique, gravimetric analysis, titrimetric analysis, colorimetric anaysis and some industrial applications in the analyses of steels, brasses, limestone and feldspar. #474.

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Benedict, Madeline
Sudden Door
The Golden Quill Press.
New Hampshire, 1960
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Hard Cover
Very Good+, Near Fine



Signed by Author
64 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ condition jacket. Blue cloth boards, white leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners. White dustwrapper with uncut front flap, blue decoration and lettering. Upper edge of jacket has a tiny closed tear and corner chip. SIGNED and inscribed "Cordially ever, Madeline Benedict" on front endpaper. Clean and unmarked. By the author of "Spring Will Not Fail" and "Fleet as the Swallow's Dip". #542.

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33 497
Benet, Stephen Vincent.
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet. Vol. II : Prose.
Farrar & Rinehart
New York, 1942
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Hard Cover
Very Good




8vo. 483 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth boards with pink title panel on spine. Gilt lettering to spine, slightly faded. FR colophon on copyright page. Very faint water spots to cloth of top front board. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Includes Stories of American History, Spanish Bayonet, Tales of Our Time, Fantasies and Prophesies. #497.

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34 1723
Benson, Lyman D.
The Cacti of Arizona
University of Arizona Press
Tucson, AZ, U.S.A., 1977
4to - 9¾ Inches-12 inches tall
Third Edition.
Soft Cover
Very Good+
0816505098

Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton

xvii. 218 pgs. Very Good+ condition softcover, very light shelf wear to front corner, clean and unmarked. Third edition with new taxa and updated nomenclature. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photos, detailed drawings by Lucreatia Breazeale Hamilton, tables and maps. Contents: List of Tables; List of Illustrations; List of Genera, Species and Varieties; Introduction: The Structure of Cacti, Juvenile Forms, How to Identify Cacti, Problems in Identifying and Naming Cacti, The Geographic Distribution of Cacti, The Natural Vegetation of Arizona; New Taxa and Nomenclatural Recombinations; Classification of Cacti-Key to the Genera: Opuntia (Prickly Pear Cholla), Cereus, Echinocereus (Hedgehog Cactus), Mammillaria, Ferocactus (Barrel Cactus), Echinocactus (Barrel Cactus), Sclerocactus, Pediocactus, Epithelantha (Button Cactus), Neolloydia, Coryphantha; Culture and Care of Arizona Native Cacti: General Considerations, Special Groups; Index. ISBN 0816505098. #1723

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35 2259
Benton, Joel
Emerson as a Poet
M.F. Mansfield & A. Wessels
New York, 1883
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall

Cloth Hardcover
Good




168pgs. Good condition rust colored cloth hardcover. Gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge gilt. Binding sound. Light to moderate rubbing of cloth at edges and corners, top of spine edge frayed, faded area of cloth at bottom of front cover. A two inch semicircular clear water spot is visible at the bottommargin, along outer corner of most pages, text not affected. Owner name [Edith True] on front endpaper, attractive frontis portrait of Emerson, tissue intact. Sections: Dedication, Prefatory Note, Emerson as a Poet, The New Poms of Emerson, Appendix, Concordance to Emerson's Poetry, Emerson as a Magazine Topic, Some Books About Emerson. By the author of "In the Poe Circle" and other biographical works, a native of Amenia NY. #2259.

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Berch, S.M., B. Baumbrough, J. Battigelli, P. Kroeger, N. Strub and L. De Montigny
Preliminary Assessment of Selected Communities of Soil Organisms Under Different Conifer Species [Ministry of Forests Research Report No. 20]
Crown Publishers, Inc.
British Columbia, 2001
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall

Pamphlet Bound Softcover
As New
077264490X



27pgs. As New condition softcover. This study used the second-growth plantations of Douglas-fir, western hemlock, Sitka spruce, and western redcedar of the Ministry of Forests Experimental Project 571 (species-espacement trial established in 1965-1966 on southern Vancouver Island) to take a preliminary look at the effects of different conifer species on collembolan, oribatid mite, and macrofungal species. Preliminary evidence suggests that the species of conifer has more effect on macrofungus community than on forest floor mite or collembolan communities. ISBN 077264490X. #2297.

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37 1678
Berliocchi, Luigi
The Orchid in Lore and Legend.
Timber Press
Oregon, 2001
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Second Printing.
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0881924911



8vo. 184 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Translated by Lenore Rosenberg and Anita Weston. Firsy published in1996 as "Il flore degli dei, l'orchideadel mito alla storia" by Nuovo Equilibri, Viterbo, Italy. Foreword by Henry Oakley. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white period engravings and paintings and full page color plates from Warner and Williams "The Orchid Album". An account of the discovery of the orchid and it's place in literature, religion, the arts, magic, cuisine, lore and legend. Also included is an account of the most popular genera and their cultivation. Chapters: myths and legends, from prehistory to history, patrons and hunters, arts and customs (literature, art, magic, religion, medicine, edible orchid products), the plant (habitat, plant structure and behavior), the genera (Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Epidendrum, Enciclia, Laelia, Miltonia and Miltoniopsis, Odontoglossum, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum and other slipper-orchids, Phalaenopsis, Vanda, European Orchids), growing orchids, sources, index of orchids. ISBN 0881924911. #1678.

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38 591
Bernard, April
BLACKBIRD BYE BYE.
Random House.
New York and Cleveland, 1989
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition/First Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
0394535369



66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Clean and unmarked. Very shallow bump to upper front corner. Faint wrinkle to upper edge of rear panel of dust jacket, no chips or tears. Complex and eclectic, this collection explores a wide range of characters " from gangsters to politicians, from artists to beggars to young lovers". The Staions of the Cross become "a contemporary journey in pain and doubt". Winner of The Academy of American Poets' 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.

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39 1661
Blackstone, Bernard
Virginia Woolf. Writers and Their Work : No. 33.
Longmans, Green and Co.
London, 1956
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
Revised Edition.
Softbound Pb, Pamphlet Bound.
Very Good




48 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound, paper wraps. Light tea colored spot to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Sepia toned frontis portrait of the author. A biography and select bibliography, with an index of essays and stories. No. 33 in the bibliographical series of supplements to "British Book News" on Writers and Their Work. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. #1661.

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40 2353
Blake, John B.
Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine.
Martino Publishing
1998
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
Later Reprint
Cloth Hardcover
As New
1578980860



501 pgs. Fine condition tan cloth hardcover, As New, clean, crisp, unmarked. Martino Limited Reprint Edition, limited to 100 copies. List of works printed from 1701 through 1800 which are held in the History of medicine Collection of the National Library of Medicine. Approximately 25,000 items, both monographs and serials, are included which had not been recorded in either the Index-Catalogue or The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 imprints. ISBN 1578980860 #2353

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41 471
Blanchaud De, L., Compiler.
Progressive French Idioms. Heath's Modern Language Series.
D.C. Heath & Co.
Boston, 
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
[nd]
Cloth
Good to Very Good




12mo.119 pgs.Good to Very Good hardcover. Green cloth with light overall shelf wear. Binding sound. Owner name and bookplate on front endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Not dated, early to mid 20th century. Arranged in six sections, A through F: Grammatical Idioms, Elementary Idioms, Common Idioms, Advanced Idioms, Some Common Proverbs, Some Common Similes. Appendix A: Construction of Some Common Verbs. Appendix B: Paronyms ans Notes. #471.

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42 1735
Block, Robert
Collecting Early Machine-Made Marbles : The M. F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2003
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall

Glossy Hardcover
Fine
0764318276



158 pgs. Fine condition glossy hardcover. Detailed color photos. Text by renowned marble authority. From the cover: With this book, readers will discover machine-made marbles from the early 1900 to the 1930's that revolutionized the glass marble industry. Over 700 beautiful color photos display marbles produced by the Ohio-based companies M.F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company. Among those displayed are bricks, cobras, guineas, opaques, slags, single pontil slags, swirls, hand-gathered swirls and early slag traditionals. Text includes descriptions, history and methods of manufacture. ISBN 0764318276. #1735.

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43 1356
Bloomfield, Arthur
A Bibliography of Internal Medicine : Communicable Diseases
Martino Publishing
Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A., 2000
8vo
First Printing Thus
Hard Cover
Fine
1578982391



8vo. viii. 560 pgs. As New fine condition hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. This is a facsimile of the 1958 edition published by the University of Chicago Press. Bibliographical entries are arranged within categories of specific diseases, with an abstract of the contents for each cited publication. These communicable diseases are covered: Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Bacillary Dysentery, Plague, Brucella Infection, Pneumococcal Pneumonia, Scarlet Fever, Erysipelas, Rheumatic Fever, Meningococcal Infection, Gonorrhea and Gonococcal Infection, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Diptheria, Tetanus, Typhus, Syphilis: Part I. From John Hunter to the Discovery of the Treponeme (1905), Syphilis: Part II.From the Discovery of the Treponeme (1905), Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, Poliomyelitis: 1800 to Experimental Transmission (1909), The Common Cold, Measles, Smallpox, Vaccinia, Rabies, Yellow Fever, Herpes Zoster, Mumps, Whooping Cough, Author Index. ISBN 1578982391. #1356.

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44 792
Bogen, Nancy
Klytaimnestra Who Stayed at Home
Lintel Press
Roanoke, Va., 1988
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Hardcover Printing
Hard Cover
Very Good, Very Good
0931642221

Alan Henderson
Signed by Author
8 vo. 240 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Grey cloth, faint foxing to upper text block edge else clean and unmarked. Front endpaper SIGNED: "#55 of 200 Nancy Bogen". Dust jacket in protective cover with light edge and corner wear, small chip top spine and lightly soiled spot bottom rear panel. Author's first novel, first printing thus. First printed as a paperback by Twickenharm Press, 1980. A classic Greek tale with a satiric twist- a novel about the Trojan War from a modern woman's point of view. ISBN 093164221. #792.

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45 2364
Bolton, Sarah K.
Famous American Authors
Thomas Y Crowell and Company.
New York, 1887
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Decorated Cloth Hardcover
Good to Very Good




vii.398 pgs. + advertisements. Good to Very Good condition decorated green cloth hardcover, gilt to front and spine. Rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, light foxing and Sunday School gift inscription on the front endpaper dated 1891. Small chip to paper over rear hinge, uniform age toning of text block. Illustrated with portraits throughout. Biographies for these writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, William Hickling Prescott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Richard Henry Stoddard, Edmund Clarence Stedman, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Richard Watson Gilder, Will Carleton, George W. Cable, Samuel Langhorn Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner. Laid in is a publisher's advertisement for the books Silent Times: A Book to Help in Reading the Bible into Life and Her Majesty's Tower. #2364.

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46 804
Borbely, Alexander
Secrets of Sleep.
Basic Books
New York, 1986
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First American Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Fine
0465075924



8vo. 228 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Clothbound in price-clipped but otherwise fine dust jacket. Contents include a detailed history and mythology of sleep, scientific investigations of the stages of sleep, dreams, sleeping pills, sleep in animals,sleep and the brain,sleep deprivation, endogenous sleep molecules, sleep as a biorhythm, sleep disorders. ISBN 0465075924. #804.

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47 2354
Borst, Raymond R.
Henry David Thoreau. A Descriptive Bibliography. [Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography]
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburg, 1982
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Cloth Hardcover
Fine
0822934450



xvi.232 pgs. Fine condition hardcover, as new, clean, crisp, unmarked. Publishers slip laid in. Contains complete descriptions of primary editions, a list of subsequent editions, information on the books, pamphlets and magazines containiing first printing material and illustrations of all Thoreau's first edition title pages, bindings and dust jackets. ISBN 0822934450 #2354.

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48 147
Bova, Ben
Orion and the Conqueror
Tom Doherty Associates (TOR)/ St. Martin's Press.
New York and Cleveland, 1994
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
031285447

Boris Vallejo

8vo. 350 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. February 1994 First edition. Black boards and spine, gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Jacket illustration by Boris Vallejo. ISBN 0312854471. #147

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49 2300
Bowditch, Henry I.
The Past, Present and Future Treatment of Homeopathy, Eclecticism, and Kindred Delusions Which May Hereafter Arise in the Medical Profession, As Viewed From the Standpoints of the History of Medicine and of Personal Experience.
Cupples, Upham & Company
Boston, 1887
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall

Pamphlet Bound Softcover
Very Good




20pgs. Very Good condition. Vintage staple bound pamphlet. Light general age-toning to paper. Name of prior owner (F.(?) I. Knight) on a small stamp on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch was a prominent Boston physician and abolitionist, Harvard Professor, Secretary and President of the American Medical Association, founder and first chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. He was also a member of Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League, a secret society founded in 1854 to aid runaway slaves and resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 by whatever means necessary, including kidnapping the kidnappers themselves. In this address celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Rhode Island Medical Society, he makes a case to his medical colleagues ("Orthodox or Old Code Physicians") for tolerance and broadmindedness in accepting the methods of practitioners ("Heterodox or New Code Practioners") of Homeopathy, also known at the time as Thompsonianism, Botanic Medicine and Eclecticism. #2300.

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50 376
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Francis Bacon. The Temper of a Man.
Little, Brown and Co., Boston. 1963. First Edition.
Boston, 1963
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Cloth
Very Good, Very Good




8vo. 245 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good jacket. Maroon cloth, illustrated frontis portrait. Dust jacket has several small closed tears and chips, with protective cover. Illus. with black and white plates. Biography of Sir Francis Bacon in five parts: Prologue, Lord Bacon's Reputation; An Elizabethan Eden 1561-1579; The Struggle to rise 1579-1613; Bacon Ascending 1613-1620; impeachment 1621; A Noble Five Years 1621-1626. #376.

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51 522
Bower, Muriel
Foil Fencing. Wm. C. Brown Sports and Fitness Series.
Wm. C. Brown, Iowa. Copyright 1985, Fifth Edition.
IOWA, 1985
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Fifth Edition.
Softbound Pb
Very Good
0697003698



8vo. 110 pgs. Very Good condition softcover. Selection and care of equipment, basic skills, conditioning, bouting, rules and etiquette. ISBN 0697003698. #522.

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52 1591
Boyd, Ernest
Literary Blasphemies
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London, 1927
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Edition
Hard Cover
Fair, Very Good




8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented for William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Thomas Hardy. Excerpt from the chapter on Walt Whitman: "Walt Whitman was the first of the literary exhibitionists whose cacaphonous incongruities and general echolalia are the distinguishing marks of what is regarded as poetry in aesthetic circles today". From the chapter on Edgar Allan Poe: "The high status of Edgar Allan Poe to-day [sic] seems to be largely another manifestation of that modern American delight in sin whereby the intelligentsia demonstrate their emancipation from the simple code of their rude forefathers. He is invested with the same glamour of sympathetic wickedness to which may be traced the benevolent smiles that greet all violations of the Eighteenth Amendment in cultivated and enlightened society". From the chapter on John Milton "In a sense his fame is even more inhumanly secure, his reputation more sacrosanct, because he liked biblical subjects in his moments of relaxation from the writing of those dreary political pamphlets which actually occupied the best years of his life and are as extinct as the conditions out of which they arose". Of Lord Byron, it was said that Byron "understood the rights of man, but he seems never to have heard of the rights of woman". In a remark to Lady Blessingham"I have not quite made up my mind that women have souls". Also mentioned is Harriet Beecher Stowe's efforts to vindicate Lady Byron after their marital separation and to bring to light Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister. Of Shakespeare, the author writes: " He has no message for mankind and his humor is frequently so feeble that a bad burlesque show is brilliant in comparison...If he is irresistible it is because he is a musician of words so lovely that the English tongue is forever illuminated by his use of it".#1591.

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53 1527
Braithwaite, Richard Bevan
Scientific Explanation. A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based Upon the Tarner Lectures 1946.
Cambridge University Press
New York and London, 1957
8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Second American Printing
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good, Very Good




xii. 376 pgs. Very Good condition navy cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean, sound, unmarked with minimal shelwear. Jacket price intact, light edgewear, sunning to paper at spine. Based upon the Tarner lectures given by the author in 1946, its primary purpose is to explain, by way of detailed examples, the logical features common to all the sciences. Contents: Introductory, Scientific deductive systems and their representations, The status of the theoretical terms of a science, Models for scientific theories; their use and misuse, Statistical hypotheses, probability statements and class-ratio arithmetic, The meaning of probability statements within a scientific system, the choice between statistical hypotheses, the justification of induction, laws of nature and causality, Causal and teleological explanation, explanation of scientific laws, index. #1527

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54 2285
Brandt, Johanna
The Grape Cure
St. Marks Printing Corp, The Harmony Centre
1953
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall

Hard Cover
Very Good




191 pgs. Very Good condition dark blue hardcover, gilt lettering to front and spine. Rubbing at edges and corners. Wave shaped previous ownership stamp on bottom edge of text block, initials of previous owner on front blank and half-title pages, text is clean and unmarked. Originally published under the auspices of Harmony Centre, Inc. in 1928, this later printing presents a dietary strategy for combating cancer based on grapes and other fruit used by and popularized by Johanna Brandt, and still drawn from today. Chapters include her story of the discovery, test cases, directions, supplementary dietary and cookery information, analysis of grapes, addenda, testimonials and references. #2285.

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55 2044
Brautigan, Richard
An Unfortunate Woman.
St. Martin's Press
New York, 2000
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First American Edition
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0312262434



8vo. 110 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine red wrap-around sleeve, as issued. Told in the form of a journal, a chronicle of the protagonist's experiences as he deals with the suicide of a woman and the death from cancer of a close friend. Published from the original manuscript after the author's death. ISBN 0312262434.

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56 1342
Brookes, Martin
Get a Grip on Genetics (Get a Grip on...Series)
Time-Life Education, Incorporated
Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., 1998
8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
First Printing
Soft Cover, Stiff Wraps
Fine
073700035X

Andrew Kaulman, Andrew Kulman

8vo. 192 pgs. Fine softcover, clean and unmarked, in stiff wraps with matching illustrated paper cover. Kraft-paper colored pages with black print, with illustrations and drawings scattered informally alongside each topic. Content is presented clearly and imaginatively, useful and entertaining for novice, student and scientist alike. "From Mendel and the garden peas to the world-embracing Human Genome Project, discover what you need to know about what genes are and what they do. This book moves from the earliest experiments to the discoveries of Watson and Crick to modern efforts to identify the function of every human gene." Includes index. For similar illustrative style and subject matter, see also book numbers 1343 (Get a Grip series on Evolution) and 1856 (Darwin for Beginners). ISBN 073700035X. #1342.

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57 2367
Brother Azarius [Francis Patrick Mullaney]
Books and Reading
The Cathedral Library Association
New York, 1894
Small 8vo. 7.75 Inches Tall
Fourth Edition Enlarged
Hard Cover
Good




x.212 pgs. Good condition harcover, green cloth spine, white boards with external edge wear and smudging to boards. Top edge gilt, gilt lettering to spine and front. Internally clean and unmarked but for sporadic shadowing caused by occasional inclusion of pressed flowers (some still present and preserved between the pages). Binding sound, with paper over rear hinge starting.Brother Azarius [pseudonym for Patrick Francis Mullaney, 1847-1893] of the Brothers of the Christian Schools was an Irish American educator and essayist. Contents: A memoir by Johns A. Mooney and Preface is followed by topics on the scholar and desultory reader, purposes in reading, method in historical reading, the books to be read, the labor of book-making, how to cultivate attention, reading with a purpose, memory, the art of forgetting, books that one outgrows, Ruskin and Carlyle, honest research, our Catholic herigae, limitations of a book, perseverence in reading, what to read, the Catholic novel, novel reading, criticism and philosophy, poetry and culture, Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, English literature rootedin Catholic soil, Orestes A. Brownson, Father Hecker, Monsignor Corcoran, how to read Dante, the motive of George Eliot's novels, Kathleen O'Meara, Mr. Augustine Birrell and criticism, a peep into Tennyson's workshop. The author was a respected literary scholar and frequent contributor to Catholic World, American Catholic Quarterly Review and American Ecclesiastical Review. In "An Essay Contributing to a Philosophy of Literature" he suggests that literature draws its life and excellence from religion. #2367.

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58 2063
Brown, Leslie
Birds of Prey.
Chancellor Press
London, 1997
Sm 4to
First Thus
Hard Cover
Very Good, Near Fine
185152732X

Ian Willis

Sm. 4to. 256 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, clean and unmarked. Matching dustjacket is very good with two small closed tears along top edge, one triangular 1/4 inch chip near bottom right corner of front panel, in new archival cover. Contents: Classification and distribution, habitats and their inhabitants, anatomy, structure and way of life, hunting and feeding methods, migration and nomadism, breeding biology, the ecology of predation, conservation and protection, appendices, bibliography, index. ISBN 185152732X. #2063.

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59 1547
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Sonnets From the Portugese
Peter Pauper Press
Mount Vernon, New York, 
12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
Edition Not Stated.
Hard Cover
Good to Very Good, Good to Very Good


Mary Jane Gorton

12mo 60 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover in Good to Very Good dust jacket. Jacket has some foxing and smudging primarily along edges, spine area darkened, no chips or tears, price is intact. Book has some age darkening along edges, endpapers lightly foxed. Front endpaper with bookplate featuring a hand planting a seedling. Internally clean and unmarked. With three-toned illustrations throughout by Mary Jane Gorton. #1547.

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60 2318
Bryant, William Cullen
Thanatopsis and Among The Trees (Two Volumes)
H.M. Caldwell Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and Boston, 1874
9x7 Inches
No Additional Printings Indicated
Decorated Boards
Good +


W.J. Linton, David Scott, William Blake, Isaac Taylor, Harley, Jervis McEntee

Unpaginated. An unusual pair of Good+ condition Victorian era poetry gift books, cloth hardcovers with gilt title decorations and pictorial designs on front boards and decorated endpapers. Scattered light foxing and smudging internally, and moderate rubbing to corners of both books. "Among the Trees" is in a bit rougher condition, with more external wear and interior and exterior soiling and spotting than "Thanatopsis". Owner name on front endpaper of "Among the Trees", spine cloth rubbed bare in spots along front gutter with scattered but faint dampstaining along some interior margins. Bindings of both books intact but shaken in a few places, hinges not cracked and underlying mesh holding well. Verse and engravings appear on each recto of both books. Beautifully executed illustrations designed and engraved by W.J. Linton and Harley after the artwork of William Blake, David Scott, Isaac Taylor and Jervis McEntee. #2318.

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61 1697
Buck, Robert N.
Weather Flying.
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
Fourth Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Fine
007008761X



xxii. 282 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Book is clean and unmarked with no defects. Jacket with a trace of rubbing to to paper edge at lower spine, else fine. A practical book on flying in all kinds of weather. Introduction by Wolfgang Langewiesche. Chapters: Weather Flying, A Little Theory for Weather Flying, Some Thoughts on Checking Weather, How to Check the Weather, Weather Information, Checking Weather Details, Checking Weather for the Route, Equipment Needs for Weather Flying, Temperature, An Important Part of Weather Flying, Some Psychology of Weather Flying, Turbulence and Flying In It, VFR - Flying Weather Visually, About Keeping Proficient Flying Instruments, Thunderstorms and Flying In Them, Ice and Flying It, Taking Off in Bad Weather, Weather Flying En Route, Landing in Bad Weather, Teaching Yourself to Fly Weather, Something on Judgment, Suggested Reading, Index. ISBN 007008761X. #1697.

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62 1243
Burckhardt, Jacob
RUBENS. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence.
Phaidon Publishers Inc. (distributed By The Oxfurd University Press)
New York, 1950
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Hard Cover
Good to Very Good, Very Good




12mo. 374 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. Blue decorated cloth, clean and unmarked. Jacket has several small edge tears and rubbing to paper at edges. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence. Edited by H. Gerson. Contents: Editor's Introduction, Synopsis by Burckhardt, Recollections of Rubens, Notes, Selected Letters of Rubens, Plates, Index of Collections, Index of Ruben's Works. Nicely illustrated throughout. Burckhardt's essay is translated by Mary Hottinger. The translation of selected letters is by R. H. Boothroyd and I. Grafe. #1243.

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Burke, James Lee
Cadillac Jukebox
Hyperion
New York, 1996
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Very Good+, Very Good
0786861754

Victor Weaver, Dave Henderson

8vo. 297 pgs. Very Good hardcover in Very Good+ dust jacket, jacket is pristine but for a small 1/4 inch closed tear to top back panel, protected in removable archival cover. A gently read copy with very light overall shelf wear, wherein Dave Robicheaux comes to the aid of local politician Aaron Crown and gets entangled with a Mafia princess, a psychedelic guru, a psychopath and a former lover, now governor's wife. Settings include the New Orleans Garden District and Old Mexico. ISBN 0786861754. #588.

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Burke, James Lee
Sunset Limited
Doubleday
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1998
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
0385488424

Honi Werner, Mario J. Pulice

309 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and and unmarked, very shallow bump (fold of edge) to lower spine, else fine. Dave Robicheaux gets a tip on a forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader. ISBN 0385488424. #1745.

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Burke, James Lee
Cimarron Rose
Hyperion Books
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1997
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0786862580

Victor Weaver, Dave Henderson

288 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean, unmarked, pristine. James Lee Burke introduces a new series set in the American West. ISBN 0786862580. #1763

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66 1343
Burnie, David
Get a Grip on Evolution (Get a Grip on...Series)
Time-Life Education, Incorporated
Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., 1998
8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Soft Cover, Stiff Wraps
Fine
0737000368

Andrew Kulman, Andrew Kulman

8vo. 192 pags. Fine softcover, clean and unmarked, in stiff wraps with matching illustrated paper cover. Kraft-paper colored pages with black print, with illustrations and drawings scattered informally alongside each topic. Content is presented clearly and imaginatively, useful and entertaining for novice, student and scientist alike. "Ever since Darwin, the question of ancestry, human and animal, has been hotly disputed, and a merry trail of claims, hoaxes and confusion has kept us all entertained. Until the 18th century, everyone knew where they stood on the ladder of nature, with jellyfish at the bottom, humans at the top and guinea pigs somewhere in between. But as more evidence was gathered from living things and fossils, the great chain of being started to get a bit fuzzy. And then Darwin went off to the Galapagos Islands and the fun began."" Includes index. For similar illustrative style and subject matter, see also book numbers 1342 (Get a Grip series on Genetics) and 1856 (Darwin for Beginners). ISBN 0737000368. #1343.

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Burroughs, John
Winter Sunshine [with ephemera]
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Boston, 1883
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Hard Cover
Very Good+




12mo. 255 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover, chocolate brown cloth, clean and unmarked. Very slight rubbing of cloth at spine edges and corners, with black and gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Pristine interior. Black endpapers. Frontis illustration of buntings, tissue intact. Contents: Winter Sunshine, Exhilaration of the Road The Snow-Walkers, The Fox, A March Chronicle, Autumn Tides, The Apple, An October Abroad-Mellow England, English Characteristics, A Glimpse of France, From London to New York. Laid in is a vintage newspaper clipping from March 28 (year not present) mentioning a visit to Washington and a dinner with Dr. Elliot Coues, a bird-writer connected with the Smithsonian.#1106.

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68 2292
Butcher, S.H. [Aristotle]
The Poetics of Aristotle Edited with Critical Notes and a Translation
Macmillan & Co. Ltd
New York and London, 1907
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
Fourth Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Good

Ex-Library


xxviii.111pgs. Good condition green cloth hardcover, Fourth Edition 1907, Ex-Library with the usual marks and stamps, externally rubbed and shelfworn. Binding sound, text clean. Contains prefaces to the second, third and fourth editions. Contents: Editions, Translations, Etc, Analysis of Aristotles Poetics, List of Abbrevistions, Text and Translation of the Poetics, with English text on the righthand pages, original Greek with footnotes and references to Arabic and Syrian translations on the lefthand pages. #2292.

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69 291
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Modern Library. Boni & Liveright, Inc.
New York, 
16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
[nd]
Leatherette
Very Good




16mo. 410 pgs. Good to Very Good condition, flexible dark green leatherette boards, gilt lettering to spine and cover, Bernhard endpapers, owner name front endpaper. Small ink line on top of text block near spine. #291.

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70 1937
Cabell, James Branch
The Cream of the Jest. Introduction By Harold Ward.
The Modern Library
New York, 
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall

Leatherette
Very Good




xii.250pgs. Very Good condition. Dark Green leatherette binding no. 4, Bernhard endpapers [circa 1925-1929] with gilt to spine. Light wear to edges, bottom spine edge frayed, spine slightly crinkled. Owner names on front blank. List of Modern Library titles after text. #1937.

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71 1985
Campbell, Harry
Aids to Pathology
William Wood & Co.
New York, 1923
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall
Fourth Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




viii.248pgs. Small blue cloth hardcover, black lettering to front and spine, clean, sound, unmarked, minimal shelf wear consisting of very light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine edges. A few dog-eared page bumps. Illustrated with occasional line drawings, diagrams, tables and charts. Contents: The Bricks of the Body, Varieties of Degeneration, Pigmentation, Necrosis, Atrophy, Hypertrophy, The Blood and Its Diseases, Inflammation, Fevers, Immunity, Nature's Lines of Defence, Oedema and Dropsy - Thrombosis - Embolism, The Granulomata, Tumours (Neoplasms), Diseases of the Veins, Diseases of the Arteries, Wound-Shock, Collapse, Diseases of the Pericardium, Diseases of the Heart, Diseases of the Lungs, Diseases of the Nervous System, Lumbar Puncture, Diseases of the Kidneys, Diseases of the Liver, Diseases of the Gall-Bladder and Bile-Ducts, Diseases of the Pancreas, Diabetes Mellitus, Diseases of the Endocrine Glands, Syphilis, Chronic Alcoholism, Diseases of Bone, Diseases of the Joints, Deformities, Sapraemia - Septicaemia - Pyaemia, Animal Parasites, Fatigue, Heat Stroke, Index. #1985.

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72 1971
Campbell, John W., Jr.
Who Goes There?
Shasta Publishers
Chicago, Ill., 1951
Small 8vo.
Second Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Good to Very Good, Very Good


Malcolm Smith
Signed by Author
230pgs. Very Good tan cloth hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. This is the second edition, following release of the R.K.O. motion picture "The Thing From Another World", set in Antarctica and starring James Arness as the alien creature. The movie was based on the title story "Who Goes There?". Jacket art by Malcolm Smith reflects the movie tie-in. Light rubbing to cloth on lower spine edge and bottom corners. Top edge of textblock colored green. Jacket has original price intact and paper is a bit rubbed along edges and corners, small chips at spine ends and corners, one inch closed tear at left bottom corner of front panel. Two smaller closed tears at top edge of rear panel. There are cellophane tape shadows on inner side of jacket at each upper corner. Tape no longer present, and jacket quite presentable, protected in clear archival cover. Internally clean and binding sound. Following an informative commentary in the introduction by the author, the stories in this anthology are: Who Goes There?, Blindness, Frictional Losses, Dead Knowledge, Elimination, Twilight and Night. #1971.

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Candee, Helen Churchill
The Tapestry Book
Tudor Publishing Co.
New York, 1935
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cloth
Very Good




8vo. xvi. 275 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Cream cloth with decorative front board, light general soiling, light spotted foxing to spine and bumping to corners. Owner name and date penciled on front endpaper. Scattered light foxing throughout text and several plates.Color frontis, tissue intact, of Herse and Mercury, Italian Renaissance, W. de Pannemaker, weaver. Foreword describes a brief history of tapestry, the loom, weavers, dyers, guilds and periods. Following are over 100 plates illustrating chapters including antiquity, French and Flemish, High Gothic, renaissance, Gobelins, Beauvais, Aubusson, Savonnerie, Mortlake. Also featured are sections on identification, borders, tapestry marks. #848.

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Canfield, Dorothy
Seasoned Timber
Harcourt, Brace and Co.
New York, 1939
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, Second Printing
Cloth
Good to Very Good




8vo. 485 pgs. Very Good hardcover. Illus. frontis. Cloth is tan, attractive coarse linen texture with green and brown title piece on spine. Owner name on front paste down. Small letter "B" stamped on front pastedown, bottom of title page and edges. Light foxing to endpapers, text clean and sound. Headmaster Timothy Hulme is in a serious quandry after the academy is willed one million dollars with the stipulation that Jewish, female, and local students must be winnowed out. Intertwined with the flavors of Vermont life and geography. By the author of "Understood Betsy" and "Fellow Captains" (as Dorothy Canfield Fisher, with co-author Sarah N. Cleghorn). #103

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Carroll, Lewis
Alice in Wonderland and Other Favorites. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, The Hunting of the Snark.
Washington Square Press
New York, 1960
16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall

Softbound Pb
Very Good


Sir John Tenniel

vi.274 pgs. Very Good condition softcover vintage pb, clean and unmarked. Rubbing to covers at edges and corners, age-toning to page edges, binding sound, spine not creased. With 92 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Includes a biographical note on the author.[Lewis Carroll ia a pseudonym for C.L. Dodgson] #1715.

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Cauthen, Irby B., Jr.; Dameron, Lasley J.
Edgar Allan Poe : A Bibliography of Criticism, 1827-1967 (Bibliographical Society Ser.)
University Press of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A., 1974
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cloth
Near Fine
0813904986



8vo. xvi. 386 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover, as unread, with a trace of external shelfwear. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Contents: Preface, Abbreviations, Checklist of Poe Criticism Composed in English 1827-1967, Checklist of Poe Criticism in Foreign Languages, 1827-1967, Index. #2135. ISBN 0813904986

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Caveney, Graham
Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsberg
Bantam Books.
New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999
8vo
First American Edition
Hard Cover
As New, As New
0767902785



8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.

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Chambers, Thomas King
A Manual of Diet in Health and Disease
Henry C. Lea
Philadelphia, 1875
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Stated
Hardcover, Textured Cloth
Very Good




310 + 32 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, textured brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends a bit frayed and corners rubbed, light foxing to foredge. Internally clean, sound, unmarked but for previous owner iniscription of Geo. L. Andrew 1875 on front endpaper. Interspersed with occasional tables and charts of diets and regimens, cookery instructions and recipes. Appended to the text is a 32 pg indexed catalog of books published by Henry C. Lea related to various subject areas of the medical sciences. Contents arranged in three parts: I. General Dietetics: Theories of Dietetics, On the Choice of Food, On the Preparation of Food, On Digestion, Nutrition; Part II. Special Dietetics of Health:Regimen of Infancy and Motherhood, Regimen of Childhood and Youth, Commercial Life, Literary and Professional Life, Noxious Trades, Athletic Training, Hints for Healthy Travellers, Effects of Climate, Starvation, Poverty, and Fasting, The Decline of Life, Alcohol; Part III. Dietetics in Sickness: Dietetics and Regimen of Acute Fevers, The Diet and Regimen of Certain Other inflammatory States, The Diet and Regimen of Weak Digestion, Gout and Rheumatism, Gravel, Stone, Albuminuria and Diabetes, Deficient Evacuation, Nerve Disorders, Scrofula, Ricketts and Consumption, Disease of Heart and Arteries, Alphabetical Index. #2365

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79 957
Chao, Patricia
Monkey King
HarperCollins Publishers
New York, 1997
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
006018681X



8vo. 310 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Author's first novel. A story of recovery, memory and enlightenment as a young Chinese woman, after a mental breakdown and hospital sojourn, explores her past and the secrets in her extended Chinese family in order to come to terms with her hidden demons. ISBN 006018681X. #957.

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Chapman, Frank M.
Bird Studies With A Camera with Introductory Chapters on the Outfit and Methods of the Bird Photographer.
D. Appleton & Co.
New York, 1900
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Hard Cover
Very Good


Frank M. Chapman

12mo. xiv. 218 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board, decorated on front board with a black and silver illustration of a row of baby chickadees perched atop a branch. Light rubbing to cloth at spine edges, else very little shelfwear, clean, sound, unmarked. With over one hundred photographs from nature by the author, a noted ornithologist and naturalist. #1109.

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Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde. Edited By John Warrington.
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
London, 1953
12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
First Printing
Hard Cover
Good, Very Good




12mo. viii.337 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Good dust jacket. (No. 992 in Everyman's Library Series). Red cloth boards, decorated endpapers, gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Matching red-shaded jacket with general rubbing and wear to paper along edges and small chips at corners and spine ends, price-clipped. #1565.

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82 1978
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Troilus and Cressida. Rendered Into Modern English Verse By George Philip Krapp.
Random House
New York, 1932
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




xix.309pgs. Very Good condition maroon cloth hardcover with black and gilt decorated title pieces on front board and spine. Not illustrated. Clean, sound and unmarked with light rubbing to cloth along spine edges and corners. Contents: Introduction, Proem, I. The Temple Door, II. The Attack, III. Surrender, IV. Charge and Countercharge, V. The Betrayal. #1978.

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83 1190
Church, Forrest
Lifecraft : The Art of Meaning in the Everyday
Beacon Press
Boston, MA, U.S.A., 2000
8-1/2 X 11 Inches
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
0807077127



8vo. 121 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Fine dust jacket. A spiritual guide for approaching everyday life written by a minister at All Souls Church in New York City. Author challenges us to imagine ourselves as a "consortium of personae" approaching our lives as a series of works in progress. ISBN 0807077127. #1190.

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Clagett, Marshall
Giovanni Marliani and Late Medieval Physics.
Columbia University Press
New York, 1941
8vo
No Additional Printings Indicated.
Hard Cover
Very Good



Signed by Author
8vo. 182 pgs. Very Good condition dark green cloth hardcover, light wear to corners, binding sound. Light foxing to inner margin of frontis portrait and title page. Light shelf wear to edges and corners, faint ink smudge on lower front board. Signed, inscribed and dated by author on front endpaper: "To Tom from Marshall, April 25, 1941". Apart from author's inscription, book is internally clean and unmarked. Contents: Preface, Life and Works, Reaction: Early Speculations on Heat, The Reduction of Hot Water, Body Heat and Antiperistasis, The Uniform Equivalence of Uniformly Accelerated Motion, The Peripatetic Law, Vulgar Fractions, Conclusions, Appendix I Swineshead (commentary and bibliographical data), Index. From the preface: This study has as its purpose the investigation of certain physical concepts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by means of the problem method. This method, so universally used in the science of today and so rarely employed in studies of late medieval thought, is necessary to provide the material from which generalizations can be drawn. Some of the material presented here will seem of little significance in the light of modern science. It is only too obvious, however, that we can never have a faithful representation of the natural philosophy of any period without presenting its "error" conjointly with its "truth". Although Giovanni Marliani is perhaps less important from the standpoint of the proportion of "truth" to "error" than some of his fourteenth century predecessors (e.g. Bradwardine, Swineshead, Dumbleton, Buridan, Oresme), he was considered by his contemporaries as an outstanding figure int he academic world. Consequently, a study of his ideas is of some value in appreciating the general outlook of the Italian university in the middle part of the fifteenth century. #1365.

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Clarke, W.W.
Pennsylvania Beekeeping. Circular 544.
Pennsylvania Cooperative Extension Service

8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall

Softcover, Paper Wraps
Very Good




63 pgs. Publication place and date not stated. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound (staples). Slight rubbing to paper along spine and bottom edge of rear cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Contents: The colony and its organization, Making a start, Package bees, Spring Management of bees, Requeening, Swarm control, Fall management of bees, honey production, Individual management practices, Laying workers, Robbing by bees, Making Increase, Bees for pollination, Rendering Beeswax, Bee diseases, Suggestions for Marketing, Summary of management practices around the calendar, Glossary. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos, tables and drawings. #1895.

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86 2309
Cleghorn, Sarah N. , Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Fellow Captains
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
New York, 1916
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall
First Edition
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good+




153pgs. Very Good+ condition tan cloth hardcover, clean and unmarked, with sound binding, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Slight edge and corner wear. A vintage book of essays and verse by two prolific Vermont writers, activators and educators. Sarah Cleghorn and Dorothy Canfield Fisher collaborated to produce this vintage but still relevant guide to achieving inner tranquility, self-realization and health. A small group of women meet periodically to share their personal strategies for dealing with life's difficulties. Their coping techniques include visualizations, affirmations and building a personal mental "bank account of strength" invested with happy memories and positive experiences. Other titles by these authors include "Nothing Ever Happens and How It Does" and "Understood Betsy". #2309.

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87 1880
Clement, Catherine. Translated By Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz.
Theo's Odyssey
Arcade Publishing
New York, 1999
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First North American Edition
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
1559704993



593 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, clean and unmarked. First English Language Edition. Translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz. A story of healing as an ill little boy explores the many forms of religious faith while travelling with his aunt. He learns the tenets and philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, yoga, animism, voodoo and more. From the publisher: "This is a hugely enjoyable story about how and why people believe in their God, told with wit, clarity, and infectuious enthusiasm". By the author of "The Feminine and the Sacred", "Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture", "Opera: The Undoing of Women", "Discoveries: Ghandi", "Edwina and Nehru", "Dona Gracia Nasi", "Claude Levi-Strauss", "Afrique Esclave", "Bleu Panique", "Adrienne Lecouvreur, ou, Le coeur transporte (Elle etait une fois)", "La Senora", "Por Amor a la India", "Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise ", "The Newly Born Woman", " El Viaje de Teo", "The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan". ISBN 1559704993. #1880.

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Clodd, Edward
Thomas Henry Huxley
Dodd, Mead & Company
New York, 1902
Small 8vo. 7.5 Inches Tall
First Edition.
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




xii. 252 pgs. Very Good condition green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front and spine. First Edition stated on copyright page. Rubbing to cloth at corners, spine and spine ends. Paper over rear hinge cracked, but underlying binding remains very sound. An undated review by Booklovers Bulletin affixed to lower portion of rear endpaper. Occasional small tick or proofreader's marks on several early pages and pencil checkmarks for some topics in rear index. A thorough biography of the life and endeavors of Thomas Henry Huxley, including his thoughts on a diversity of topics from astronomy, history and science to evolution, and philosophy, including the ever-controversial topic of science and religion. Contents are divided into these sections: Chronology, The Man, The Discoverer, The Interpreter, The Controversialist, The Constructor, Note on the Doctrine of the Unknowable, index. #2331.

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89 834
Clute, John
Science Fiction.The Illustrated Encyclopedia.
Dorling Kindersley
London, 1995
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
First American Edition
Cloth
Fine, Fine
0789401851



4to.312 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for Non-fiction. An informative, richly illustrated reference covering a diversity of multi-media sci-fi aspects including a chronology, bibliography of sci-fi literature, biographies of 19th and 20th century authors, historical contexts, themes associated with the chronology of the genre, pulps, classics, illustration trends, films and television. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book. ISBN 0789401851. #834.

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Coats, Alice M.
The Book of Flowers. Four Centuries of Flower Illustration.
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
New York, 1973
Folio - over 12 Inches Tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Cloth Hardcover
Very Good+, Very Good+
0070114803



208 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Oversized 11x14.5 inches folio. Attractive silky green cloth with imprint of an iris plant on front board. Jacket has trace of rubbing along upper edge, clean and unmarked with no chips or tears. Owner name on front endpaper and small 1/16 x 1/2 inch very light spot to bottom of fore-edge, text not affected. Copyright 1973 by Phaedon Press Ltd. London, printed in Holland. Amply Ilustrated throughout with full page color and black and white plates covering the period 1485 to 1850, ninety percent of which had never been reproduced since the original volumes appeared and most of which appear here in their original size. Contents: Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Species of Flower-Book, The Sixteenth Century: The Herbals, The Seventeenth Century: The Florilegiums, The Eighteenth Century: Botany Beautiful, The Nineteenth Century: The Climax, Plates and Notes, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0070114803. #2333.

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91 1879
Collins, Hunt (Ed McBain, Evan Hunter]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow. [Pyramid Giant G214]
Pyramid Books
New York, 1956
12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall

Softcover, Pb
Very Good


Bob Lavin

190 pgs. Very Good condition vintage paperback. Slight rubbing to paper at spine edges and a shallow partial crease to front cover vertically along woman pictured, else externally pristine, square and tight. Text block edges are red. Internally clean and unmarked, paper uniformly age-toned. First four pages have a small 1/2 inch closed edge tear to right margin. Cover art by Bob Lavin. From the back cover: "The Vikes were in the saddle riding high-peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only one man stood between them and a world gone mad...". #1879.

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92 1506
Conner, Wendy Simpson
The Beaded Lampshade Book : Techniques for Beadlovers (The Beading Bks.)
Interstellar Publishing Company
San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 1995
8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
First Printing
Softcover, Spiral Bound
As New
0964595710



8vo. 52 pages. As New spiral-bound softcover, illustrated throughout with photos and detailed drawings. Contents: types of beads, bugle beads, seedbeads, stringing media, needles, cements, fringing styles, full color photos, types of frames, measuring your lampshade, lampshades: cemented shades, tigertail lampshade, freeform woven, woven mesh, sewing maching lampshade, comanche stitch lampshade, peyote stitch cutout, crystal & wire, African woven, diamond stitch, art deco, Turkish, butterfly. ISBN 0964595710. #1506.

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93 1638
Cooley, Martha
The Archivist. A Novel.
Little Brown & Company
New York, NY, U.S.A., 1998
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
As New, As New
0316158720



8vo. 326 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket. Clean, crisp, unmarked first edition. A literary novel centered arount Matthias, a librarian, his unsettled memories following World War II and his wife's mental illness, and a young woman interested in the library's extensive collection of letters by T.S. Eliot. Author's first novel. "An intricate and compelling tale of the way in which guilt and passion may quickly unravel the inner life of an orderly man." ISBN 0316158720 #1638.

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94 486
Cornwell, Patricia
From Potter's Field
Scribner
New York, 1995
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
4th Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
0684195984



8vo. 412 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine dust jacket, clean, tight and unmarked, no rubs or tears. Dark grey cloth spine, light grey boards with copper lettering to spine and blue endpapers. Dr. Kay Scarpetta again meets Gault. ISBN 0684195984. #486.

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95 596
Cornwell, Patricia
From Potter's Field
Scribner.
New York, 1995
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
0684195984



8vo.412 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and and unmarked. No rubs or tears, minimal trace of shelfwear along upper edge. Dark grey cloth spine, light grey boards with copper lettering to spine and blue endpapers. Dr. Kay Scarpetta again meets Gault. ISBN 0684195984.#596.

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96 782
Cornwell, Patricia
Point of Origin
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York, 1998
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition, First Printing
Hard Cover
Near Fine, Near Fine
0399143947



8vo. 356 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering, maroon boards. No tears or rubs, minute trace of shelfwear along bottom edges. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta mystery. A killer uses fire to mask his crimes and Kay's Nemesis Carrie Grethen is involved. ISBN 0399143947. #782.

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97 730
Cowan, James.
A Troubadour's Testament
Shambala
Boston, 1998
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
First Edition
Hard Cover
Fine, Fine
1570623392



8vo. 198 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, pristine condition. A magical journey through twelfth-century Provence in search of the spiritual power of perfect love. By the author of "A Mapmaker's Dream". ISBN 1570623392. #730.

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98 2345
Cox, Ian. Editor
The Scallop. Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
The Shell Transport and Trading Company Limited
London, 1957
4to - 9¾ Inches-12 inches tall
No Additional Printings Indicated
Decorated Cloth Hardcover
Very Good




135 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, red cloth attactively decorated with gilt in shell motif. Several smudges to front board and light rubbing at edges and corners. Decorated endpapers with identification keys to the shells depicted on them. Owner name on half-title, else clean and unmarked. Generously interspersed with color photographs and illustrations. Contents: Foreword - Lord Godber; Shell: A Word's Pedigree - B. Woledge; The Living Scallop - W.J. Rees; A Symbol in Ancient Times - Sir Mortimer Wheeler; The Badge of St. James - Christopher Hobler; The Cradle of Venus - James Laver; Escallops in Armory - Sir George Bellew; An Excursion iinto the Americas - Adrian Digby; The Scallop at the Table - Paul Gautier; List of Illustrations. #2345.

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99 1892
Cox, Jeff.
Landscaping With Nature. Using Nature's Design to Plan Your Yard.
Rodale Press/St. Martin's Press
Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1991
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
Later Printing
Glossy Hardcover
Very Good+
0878579117



vii.344 pgs. Very Good+ in glossy pictorial boards as issued, clean and unmarked with a slight bump to the lower left corner of back board. Illustrated with color photos, drawings and diagrams. Sections include learning from nature, elements of natural garden design, providing food, cover and water for wildlife and natural water garden design. Chapters: Introduction-Partners With Nature; Learning From Nature; Features of the Landscape; Creating a Natural Garden; Landscaping with Nature; Plants in the Natural Landscape, Elements of the Natural Garden; Wildlife and Water in the Natural Garden, A Last Word; USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; Further Reference, Photo Credits, Index. ISBN 0878579117. #1892.

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100 1778
Cox, Jeff.
Landscaping With Nature. Using Nature's Design to Plan Your Yard.
Rodale Press/St. Martin's Press
Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1991
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall
First Printing
Glossy Hardcover
Very Good+
0878579117



vii.344 pgs. Very Good+ condition in glossy pictorial boards as issued, clean and unmarked, with a slight bump to the edge of the upper right corner of the front board. Illustrated with color photos, drawings and diagrams. Sections include learning from nature, elements of natural garden design, providing food, cover and water for wildlife and natural water garden design. Chapters: Introduction-Partners With Nature; Learning From Nature; Features of the Landscape; Creating a Natural Garden; Landscaping with Nature; Plants in the Natural Landscape, Elements of the Natural Garden; Wildlife and Water in the Natural Garden, A Last Word; USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; Further Reference, Photo Credits, Index. ISBN 0878579117. #1778.

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