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1910140938515London: George Harrap 1910. First THUS. Very Good. Limited edition of 525 copies hand-numbered 91 in blue signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Quarto. Original full tan calf decorated in gilt illustrated with 20 beautiful tipped-in color plates top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Very Good with scratch in front cover wear along edges of leather internally near fine bookplate ghost on paste down. All plates present. A wonderful visual exploration of Coleridge's classic poem with intricate ink illustrations and every plate a hazy dream-like wash of color. George Harrap unknown books
1947149524Basle: Amerbach Publishing Comp 1947. Softcover. G Ex-library with label and bookplate and marks; cover slightly soiled; page edges are tanning; plates and texts are clean. Pink illus. wraps French flaps 11 pp. of text plus 24 pp. of colored plates. An introduction presents the 24 colored plates of Minnesingers from this medieval manuscript. Amerbach Publishing Comp unknown books
19411311700New York: Modern Age Books 1941. First Edition presumed. Hardcover. Hardcover Crown Octavo; VG-/VG; DJ shows notable shelf ware open tears on corners edges and head of spine age toned with rubbing on all sides price clipped on front inside slip; Text block age toned but clean text and illustration legible and clear; pp 305. 1311700. FP New Rockville Stock. Modern Age Books hardcover books
1941140939786New York: Modern Age Books 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xii 305 pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. A Very Good copy with toned pages light wear in an attractive example of the uncommon dust jacket Very Good unclipped chipped at extremities a few tape mends on verso small area of white paint spray on spine panel. The copy of biologist W. Franklin Dove 1897-1972 inscribed to him by his wife and dated 25 Dec. 1942 on front free endpaper; a few marginal penciled notes probably by Dove throughout. Dove was involved in "unicorn research" a number of strange experiments attempting to surgically recreate the horn of the fictional creature the unicorn. Madeline McCurry Schmidt wrote of Dove in a 2011 blogpost for the distinguished Scientific American magazine: Dr. W. Franklin Dove spent years of his career creating unicorns. Unicorn goats unicorn cows. Even tri-horned animals roamed Dove's barns. Dove created these strangely-horned animals by removing immature "horn buds" from the heads of young animals and implanting the horn buds to a different location on the skull. He wanted to prove that horns did not grow straight out of the skull; instead horn tissue developed separately and fused to the skull as it grew. Understand that Dove was no crackpot scientist. Dove was a biologist at the University of Maine who studied animal production in the early 20th century. He had all the right collaborators and the right publications. Dove was a serious scientist. It's not the "seriousness" of Dove's endeavors that animal rights advocates might take issue with but moving on Nigel Suckling wrote of Dove's notorious"unibull" creation: in 1933 Dove took a day-old Ayrshire calf surgically removed its horn buds trimmed them to fit together and replanted them in the centre of its forehead. As the young bull grew the buds fused and produced a single solid straight and pointed horn a foot or so in length which proved equally useful for fighting and uprooting fences far superior in fact to the usual brace of curved ones when it comes to confronting a rival. Dr Dove's Unicorn bull became the leader of its herd and was very rarely challenged by other males. This result inspired at least recent one neuroscientist to examine the relationship of anatomy to behavior. A notable work of zoology that extends into realms of cryptozoology with a very unusual association that brings in the related subfield of experimental zoology. Modern Age Books unknown books
193218586Philadelphia: David McKay 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth silver front cover panel with cloth inset illustrated by Pogany. Fine. 192 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Will Pogany. Signed presentation copy "To Herbert Morrison from his old friend Hollywood 1937." Morrison Life Peer Baron Morrison of Lambeth was a member of the Labour Party serving as Foreign Secretary 1951 and as a Deputy Prime Minister. During World War II he served as Home Secretary. Morrison also created the London greenbelt system and was responsible for the unified London transport system. Crisp fresh and very bright copy. No dust jacket but believe not issued by publisher. David McKay hardcover books
1991Embry 170606Pantheon 1991. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Pantheon, 1991. First edition, first printing. unknown books
193431873New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Orange cloth a near-fine copy jacket with light edge wear small chip at the top of the spine affecting "THE" <br/><br/> Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1934126391New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederick A. Blossom. Illustrations by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. A very good plus copy in orange cloth binding with some very slight soiling and a tiny bit of fraying to the spine ends. No dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
191327714London: Chappell PN 25470 1913. Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated wrappers. i title ii printer's statement iii dramatis personae iv contents 162 ii publisher's advertisements pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; upper detached and with minor tear; spine torn at head and tail; former owner's signature in pencil to upper. Upper inner corners creased; light foxing and composer's facsimile signature handstamp to title; small tear to one leaf not affecting music. Probable First Edition. Chappell [PN 25470] unknown books
1954162048Boston: Little 1954. Octavo cloth. First edition. "Space travel to an unknown planet where an ever-changing utopia has developed." - Lewis Utopian Literature p. 103. Political satire in which Hieronymus Meeker and other crew members of an expedition to Mars end up on an unknown planet which they call Thalia where they travel to and escape from three dystopian lands losing a crew member here and there before reaching the utopian Oplikland. The land of the Vimliks who believe in the equality of all races and the superiority of the Vimliks is America as a machine dystopia in which citizens are sanitized and brainwashed to "believe in Vimlikland and in the way of life for which it stands ." Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 620. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 251. Reginald 07918. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with touch of wear at edges and 11 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel. #162048 Little unknown books
1954145183Boston: Little 1954. Octavo cloth. First edition. "Space travel to an unknown planet where an ever-changing utopia has developed." - Lewis Utopian Literature p. 103. Political satire in which Hieronymus Meeker and other crew members of an expedition to Mars end up on an unknown planet which they call Thalia where they travel to and escape from three dystopian lands losing a crew member here and there before reaching the utopian Oplikland. The land of the Vimliks who believe in the equality of all races and the superiority of the Vimliks is America as a machine dystopia in which citizens are sanitized and brainwashed to "believe in Vimlikland and in the way of life for which it stands ." Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 620. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 251. Reginald 07918. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #145183 Little unknown books
196990408NY:: Weybright and Talley. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. B0006BZAJY . Illustrated with maps and drawings. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Weybright and Talley, hardcover books
1969ULEYDRI00AFWeybright and Talley 1969. Very Good. Ley Willy. The Drifting Continents. NY: Weybright and Talley 1969. 90pp. Indexed. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Very good with former owner's name and soiling on top edge of text block. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with chipped edges and a few short closed tears along folds. Weybright and Talley hardcover books
191546606NY: McBride Nast and Company 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Some offsetting and foxing to prelims esle a very good example that shows some light rubbing to the boards and minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> McBride Nast and Company hardcover books
195362623Madrid: Imp. Viuda de Galo Saez 1953. Paperback. Good. 231p. 22cm. Wrapper browned and missing lower half of backstrip. Contents sound. Unopened. INSCRIBED in an unknown hand "Homenaje del autor". Spanish text. Errata slip laid in. <br/><br/> Imp. Viuda de Galo Saez paperback books
199422027Munich: Schirmer/Mosel 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 4to. Black paper-covered boards in photographic black-and-white dust jacket. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. SIGNED by Rizzo on ffep and dated 17 5. 94. 63 plates in color and black and white. 94 pp. <br/><br/>All text in French including introduction by Jean-Pierre de Lucovitch. Includes an index of photographs identified by subjects and dates with Rizzo's comments. Includes portraits of Picasso Brigitte Bardot Marilyn Monroe John Steinbeck Maria Callas and numerous other artists and performers. Schirmer/Mosel hardcover books
1988Embry 169509Methuen & Co. 1988. Book Club edition. Inked name and address else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Methuen & Co., 1988. Book Club edition. unknown books
19421335112New York: Modern Age 1942. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 223 pages; VG/VG-; light blue spine with white lettering; dust jacket protected by a mylar cover; price uncut "$2.00"; blue top fore-edge; some shelf wear and chipping to the edges of the dust jacket pages clean; shelved in guns and weapons. 1335112. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Modern Age hardcover books
19121167883Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung 1912. Octavo; vg-/wraps; green spine with dark green text; heavy shelf wear and bumping chipping and light soiling to wrap bottom left corner of front cover and first few pages bent light pencil marking on less than 10 pages foxing to first few pages text block otherwise clean; 129 pp; else very good. --TEXT IN GERMAN<br /> <p>shelve in Box A in Netdesk office. 1167883. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung unknown books
199778448NY:: St. Martin's. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0312172346 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 251 pages . St. Martin's, hardcover books
19558633NY: Viking 1955. 1st edition. VG sltly bumped upper corner/VG some edgewear. 293 pp including index illustrations by Olga Ley 8vo. <br/><br/> Viking unknown books
19103693New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1910. First American edition. Publisher's tan buckram over pictorial paper boards spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut pictorial endpapers. 128 unnumbered pp. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates including frontispiece all mounted onto heavy stock card. A few of the tipped-in color plates have a light crease on the lower corner and a couple of the heavy card mounts have been neatly repaired with archival tape. Otherwise this is a very Fine copy in the original brown paper dust jacket decoratively printed in dark brown. Housed in a cloth slipcase. The card mounts in this edition are notoriously fragile.<br/><br/>"Had Omar Khayyam the old tentmaker visioned the beauty of his verses centuries later in Western dress as<br/>embroidered by a Hungarian artist he might have had a new conception of the meaning of immortality. For Pogany<br/>the Hungarian had made Omar the Persian live again" Crowell. Willy Pogany had previously illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909 but these later illustrations are quite a different interpretation more westernized and modernized than the earlier ones. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co unknown books
19303692New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1930. First Thus. First Revised American trade edition. Publishers orange silk cloth front cover lettered in gilt with black and gold illustration spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Original decorative tan paper dust jacket printed in orange. Original tan cardboard box decoratively printed in dark brown. Ink signature on front pastedown. Twelve tipped-in color plates including frontispiece. Text leaves additionally decorated with an additional 46 mounted black and gold illustrations and head and tailpieces in black and white. A very Fine copy.<br/><br/>With the original Thomas Y. Crowell eight-page leaflet describing the work of Willy Pogany loosely inserted. "Had Omar Khayyam the old tentmaker visioned the beauty of his verses centuries later in Western dress as<br/>embroidered by a Hungarian artist he might have had a new conception of the meaning of immortality. For Pogany<br/>the Hungarian had made Omar the Persian live again" Crowell. Willy Pogany had previously illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909 but these later illustrations are quite a different interpretation more westernized and modernized than the earlier ones. Thomas Y. Crowell unknown books
1947042153New York: Viking Press 1947. 1st Printing. viii 374p. b/w illus. dj. Viking Press unknown books
1977BBL1380Wiesbaden:: Steiner 1977. 1977. 8vo. 456 pp. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Rare. ISBN: 3515026835 "Willy Hartner was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as professor from 1940 as ordinary professor German academic terminology from 1946." Wikip. "Willy Hartner's work is characterized by its great range both linguistic and cultural. He would frequently take what seemed at first sight to be a small and isolated fact but by turning it over long and carefully in his mind analysing it from many points of view and blending in a little judicious speculation--some of his critics would say 'injudicious' - he revealed hidden and unexpected links with the help of which it might be explained. An excellent example of this style of argument is to be found in his book on the golden horns of Gallehus. In this last connection it is worth remarking that he gave regular courses on Old Norse literature at Frankfurt and that indeed he was elected a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy. This was one of many honours which fell to him before his death--another was membership of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He was twice president of the International Academy of the History of Science." see: J.D. North Obit. Annals of Science 1982 39:2 pp. 115-116. Steiner, 1977. unknown books
