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London: John Murray, 1883. Second Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. A very good, complete set in three volumes from the personal library of noted California poet Susan Suntree. Black pebbled leather with five raised bands and a red silk ribbon.Binding is sturdy and square. Gilt title stamping. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to bands, crown, and corners (see photos). Short notations on FFE. Moderate to heavy foxing to all endpapers. Text is clean and bright. Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 July 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slave campaigner and philanthropist, who has been described as the ideal bishop of the Victorian era. He has also been described as one of the most gifted public speakers of his time. A staunch defender of orthodoxy against the new criticism, called 'higher criticism' that identified human authors and agendas within the Biblical text, he also opposed the ideas of Charles Darwin. His debate with Thomas Huxley is…
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Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, D.D. : Lord Bishop of Oxford and afterwards of Winchester, with selections from his diaries and correspondence
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Ecce Coelum; or Parish Astronomy
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New York: American Tract Society, 1867. Twentieth. Hardcover. Very good +. A very good plus, hardcover twentieth edition. Burgundy cloth, embossed boards with some shelf wear. Gilt spine titling. Pencilled location on first free endpaper. Duodecimo 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall.
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Stellar Pulsation: Proceedings of a Conference Held as a Memorial to John P. Cox at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, August 1115,1986 [Lecture Notes in Physics 274]
by A. N. Cox, W. M. Sparks & S. G. Starrfield, eds.
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Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/none as issued. A very good, first edition, first printing. Brown, mustard and white cloth boards. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on top edge, bottom front corner heavily bumped. Text clean and bright. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with formulas, b/w photos, graphs, and drawings. xiv, 422 [2] pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall. Early scientific activities of John Paul Cox, Charles A. Whitney; The evolution of variable stars, Stephen A. Becker; Evolution of cepheids with pulsationally driven mass loss; W. M. Brunish, L. A. Willson; Mixing core material into the envelopes of red giants, Robert G. Deupree; Pulsations of B stars-A review of observations and theories, Arthur N. Cox; Stability of radial and non-radial pulsation modes of massive ZAMS models C, A. P. Odell, A. Pausenwein, W. W. Weiss, A. Hajek; Linear nonadiabatic pulsations of homogeneous ZAMS stars,…
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Coronado's Quest: The Discovery of the Southwestern States
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A near fine first edition. Brown cloth with rampant lion in gilt on cover and gilt title stamping on spine. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Previous owner's name inscribed on first free end paper. Mild toning to end papers. Folding map tipped onto last page, map in very good plus condition, showing a short tear at page edge. xvi, 418 pp. including index.
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Elements of Surgical Diagnosis
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Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Very scarce, very near fine first American edition of a classic medical work still in print in revised editions. Bookplate & previous owner's 1884 inscription on first free endpaper. Red boards and red painted edges. 4 & 1/4 x 6 & 1/2 inches tall. 584 pp. incl. index. Elements of Surgical Diagnosis. By A. PEARCE Gould, M. S., M. B. Lond., F. R. C. S. Eng., Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, etc. Pp. 584. London: Cassell & Company. 1884. A work on surgical diagnosis is of the same use to the clinical student as demonstrations of anat omy are to the anatomical. Systematic text-books are excellent in their way, but for the beginner they are too descriptive and not sufficiently di rective. Mr. Gould has supplied a guide to diagnosis which is sure to be immensely popular with students, for in addition to the careful arrange ment and skilful comparison of facts,…
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Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/near fine. A fine first edition, first printing in a very good plus dust jacket. Complete number line. Navy cloth boards over black quarter cloth. Gilt title stamping on spine. Binding tight and square. In a very good plus, price clipped dust jacket, showing a crease along top front edge, otherwise fine. 363 pp. including index. Reaganomics" was the most ambitious attempt to change the course of American economic policy of any administration since the New Deal. In this lively, well-informed account, William Niskanen describes in fascinating detail the formulaton of the Reagan economic program, the internal debates, the effects of this program on the economy, and the probable future of Reaganomics. A distinguished economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1985, for nine months as acting chairman, Niskanen was at the forefront of the Reagan economic program--as a supporter and…
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Flophouse: Life on the Bowery
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New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Harvey Wang. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Long inscription on front with the name "David" but I cannot and do not verify that it is the author's signature. Light cream colored cloth boards. Dust jacket showing some wear at top and bottom edge, and dust staining to jacket. Photos by Harvey Wang. 259 pp. 8 x 8 inches tall. David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. David has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of numerous books based on Sound Portraits radio stories." ---Publisher's web site
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These were the children
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Menlo Park, CA: Albert Wilson Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Near fine/poor. John Milton Ramm . A near fine first edition, inscribed by the author with a laid in purchase receipt from the self-publishing company and a newspaper clipping of the author's obituary. Even toning. In a poor dust jacket. Jacket is dampstained, has loss, and the back flap, while present, is detached from the rest of the jacket. Jacket spine evenly covered in protective tape. Dust jacket now protected in a clear archival cover. vii, 358 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo Albert Wilson (August 1903 March 8, 1996), was an American botanist, landscape architect, author, teacher and lecturer on gardening and landscaping, and a TV and radio talk show personality who wrote several books popularizing gardening, and an autobiography. An orphan, Wilson's earliest years were spent growing up in a San Francisco, California orphanage, an experience he reminisced upon…
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Spanish Alta California
by Alberta Johnston Denis
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New York: The MacMillan Company., 1927. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Good +/missing. Loren Barton. A good plus first trade edition. Olive cloth boards. Shelf wear to edges and mildly bumped corners (see photo). Endpapers toned. Previous owner's name pencilled on front pastedown. Deckled pages. Rear hinge split, mull intact. 537 pp. including index. Octavo. Alta California: A historical geographic region of New Spain, later Mexico, which today roughly comprises the U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
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The Dwellings of Eternity
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Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2002. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Beautiful, full color, fine English hardcover edition, printed in Italy. Ivory cloth covered boards. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket, now protected in clear, archival, removeable cover. First published in Italian as "Dimore Eterne." 304 pp. plus bibliography. Small folio, 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches tall.
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A different kind of Christmas
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New York: Doubleday, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As new/as new. A fine, as new, first edition (as stated), first printing in a fine (as new) dust jacket. Appears unread. Buckram boards with copper motif stamped on cover and copper title stamping on spine. Lovely red-ruling around black text and copper motif reproduced throughout. Gift quality. 101 pp. Twelvemo. The awakening of a white Southerner to the evil of slavery is the subject of this novella, for readers of all ages. It is a very special novel that sparkles with the same memorable writing that made Roots an American classic.Alex Haley said, All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.A Different Kind of Christmas is the story of Fletcher Randall, a nineteen-year-old white Southerner from North Carolina whose politically powerful father is a plantation owner, and, of course, a slave owner. The time is 1855 and all…
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A Time to Remember: The Autobiography of a Chemist
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine dustjacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Previous owner's name stamped on first free endpaper. Pages are clean and bright. 257 pp. Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington (2 October 1907 10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry" ---Wikipedia
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Indian Killer
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Trade Edition. Boards. Fine/fine. A fine, SIGNED first trade edition in a fine dustjacket. Black paperboards. Gold foil title stamping on spine is fresh and bright. Binding is sturdy and square. SIGNED by Alexie on the title page. Octavo, 6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/4 inches tall. Vigorous prose . . . haunted, surprising characters . . . flashes of sardonic wit . . . [ Indian Killer is] a meditative exploration of the sources of human identity. Richard E. Nicholls, The New York Times Book Review
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Love Poems of Alfred Austin
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London: John Lane, [1920]. Hardcover. Very good. A very good small edition circa 1920. Decorated paper boards showing foxing. Spine heavily sunned. Gift inscription on first free end paper. Purple and green decorated pages with text inset. Foxing throughout. Binding sturdy and square. From the Lover's Library. 109 pp. Thirty-twomo, 3 x 5 inches tall.
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Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
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Lancaster, (PA): International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company / Science Press Printing Company, 1933. Hardcover. Very good/missing. A good plus first edition, first printing, as stated. SIGNED by the author on a pasted-in Korzybski notepaper to journalist and defender Robert H. Allen. Embossed lined blue cloth boards; corners bumped. Title stamping on spine worn and faded. General dust stains to endpapers and edges. Mull showing, but hinges intact, at the half- title page. First free endpaper and title page wrinkled. Binding a bit soft. Offsetting on final index page where Allen's defense of Korzybski is pasted into the final leaf. Dated by Allen present as well on final leaf. 798 pp. including index with drawings and graphs by the author. Octavo, 6&1/4 x 9&1/2 inches tall.. Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ( July 3, 1879 - March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more…
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. As new/as new. A fine first edition, first printing in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Appears unread. 299 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates. Octavo. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany, by historian and best selling author Stephen Ambrose, was a New York Times best selling non-fiction book published in 2001. It details the lives and World War II experiences of pilots, bombardiers, navigators, radio operators and gunners flying B-24 bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force against Nazi Germany. The book entails a recounting of George McGovern's exceptional career as a chief pilot of a B-24 with the 455th Bomb Group in Italy, encompassing 35 bombing missions. With the odds of surviving all 35 missions as low as 50 %, the bomber crews flew during dangerous daylight hours, in risky tight flying formations, and despite bad weather and assaults of heavy, deadly, flak from ground-based German…
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The Animal Story Book
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very good/none as issued. H.J. Ford. A very good first edition. Binding just a bit soft. Gilt on cover is bright. All edges gilt. Midnight blue endpapers. Missing first free endpaper. Number 4848 penciled on rear pastedown. 400 pp. 12mo. The Animal Story Book, part of Andrew Langs original Fairy Book series, has been admired time and time again, enchanting readers with its carefully crafted prose and eclectic assortment of tales, featuring animals from land, sea, and air, from the domesticated dog and parrot to the wild lion and dolphin. Originally published in 1896, this collection of celebrated tales has stood the test of time. Some of the famous stories included are:The Story of Androcles and the LionThe War Horse of AlexanderThe Adventures of PyramusTwo Highland DogsThe Ship of the DesertThe Otter Who was Reared by a CatStories from Pliny
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Comets to Cosmology: Proceedings of the Third IRAS Conference, Held at Queen Mary College, University of London, July 6-10, 1987 [Lecture Notes in Physics 297]
by Andrew Lawrence, ed.
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Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/none as issued. About fine, first edition, first printing. Brown, mustard and white cloth boards. Binding is sturdy, square and tight. Previous owner's name stamped neatly on top edge, otherwise as new. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated with formulas, b/w photos, graphs, and drawings. x, 415 [2] pp. Octavo, 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches tall. These proceedings are concerned with discoveries from the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite IRAS including follow-up projects in theoretical and observational astronomy. In particular, they stress the solar system results from IRAS. A huge range of astronomical topics is addressed including asteroids, comets, dust in the solar neighbourhood, young stars, old stars, the interstellar medium, and the Galactic cosmic background at various wavelengths.. ---Publisher's web siteThe impact of IRAS on asteroidal science, S. F. Dermott, P. D. Nicholson, Y. Kim, B. Wolven, E. F.…
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Berlin: Story of a Battle April - May 1945
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near fine/very good +. A very near fine first edition, as stated, in a very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Brown paper boards over dark brown quarter cloth. Brown topstain. Strong binding. Map endpapers. The only flaw to the book is one mild erasure mark on the map endpapers, not really affecting the map, just appears as a slightly faded spot. Dust jacket has a 1" closed tear at top edge on the front cover and same on the back cover. xii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, index. Octavo The battle of Berlin was one of the last battles of the Second World War in Europe. The war that had proceeded from Berlin returned to the city. Many soldiers and civilians died in widespread house-to-house fighting.On 22 June 1944, two weeks after the Allied landings in Normandy, the Soviet army initiated its campaign against the German forces. On 16 October Soviet troops crossed the German…
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Maya Cities: Placemaking and Urbanization
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1977. Second Printing. Glossy pictorial cover. Very good/very good. George F. Andrews. A very good+ second printing. Glossy blue pictorial board with blue foil stamped architectural drawing. Deep blue end papers, showing fading at top edge. All pages are clean, bright and unmarked. In a very good dust jacket showing shelf wear and a few small closed tears at head of jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. From the private library of Larry Southwick. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, maps and architectural drawings. 468 pp., including index. Quarto, 10 x 9 inches tall. Large and heavy item will be billed at actual shipping charges.
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