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191458243Decorah Iowa: Udgivernes forlag 1914. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis portraits photos 210p. Cloth. 20cm. Moderate wear. No Jacket. Norwegian text. <br/><br/> Udgivernes forlag hardcover books
1968260603London 1968. unbound. 1 page 8 x 6.25 inches London December 3 1968. In this friendly letter the British actor mentions the theater and discusses his plans for the new year in full: "Dear Grant How very pleasant to hear from you. Thank you for your letter -- though I was sorry to read that you have not been busy in the theatre. I was thinking of you a week ago when I was browsing in the splendid Robert Frost you gave me. The Cocktail Party seems to be a fair success and I imagine I shall be hard at it until the early spring. After that I don't know what I shall do. Before too long I want to return to the crisp air of New York. All good wishes for Christmas. Yours sincerely Alec G." One horizontal fold but still in near fine condition. Float mounted in gray beside a 5.25 x 4-inch photo of Guinness gazing off to the side. Set in a decorative black frame with burgundy trim measuring 13.25 x 16.25 inches. Accompanied by the original handwritten envelope housed in a plastic sleeve neatly mounted to the back of the frame.<br/><br/> unknown books
1991JR1018-038Austin TX: University of Texas Press 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. FIRST EDITION. American Studies Series. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 237 pp. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white bibliographical note index; text clean unmarked. Brick red cloth with silver spine stamping mylar protected dust-jacket. Fine. Francis Parkman Jr. 1823-1893 was an American historian best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie" "Rocky-Mountain Life" and "France and England in North America." These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. Jacobs' biography assesses the influence of Parkman's development and personality on Parkman's histories but also explores Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century United States including the slavery question Native American issues expansion of the suffrage and anti-Catholicism. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1998PW1062Amsterdam:: Rodopi 1998. 1998. 8vo. vi 287 1 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 9042004916 Teich who studied medicine at Masaryk University then later he pursued an external university degree in chemistry at University College Exeter. He was a Czech-British historian of science best known for the series of histories in national context which he co-edited with Roy Porter. Rodopi, 1998. unknown books
190533659Paris: A. Durand & Fils PN D. & F. 6441 1905. Small folio. Original publisher's light gray laid-paper printed wrappers with titling in olive green and black. Unbound as issued. 1f. recto title printed in olive green and black verso "Pour remercier de mois de Juin 1904 A.l.p.M." 15 i publisher's advertisement pp. With "Imp. Chaimbaud et Cie. Paris" and prices for separate numbers 1.75 f. at foot of title. Publisher's small monogrammatic handstamp to lower outer corner of verso of final blank leaf.<br/><br/>Contains:<br/>I. Les Ingénus<br/>II. Le Faune<br/>III. Colloque sentimental<br/><br/>Wrappers very slightly worn creased and chipped; partially split at spine. First Edition first issue. Lesure 104.<br/><br/>Fêtes Galantes premiered by Mme. Eugénie Colonne at a private salon in Paris on 23 June 1904.<br/><br/>"One of the most important musicians of his time Debussy's harmonic innovations had a profound influence on generations of composers. He made a decisive move away from Wagnerism in his only complete opera Pelléas et Mélisande and in his works for piano and for orchestra he created new genres and revealed a range of timbre and colour which indicated a highly original musical aesthetic." François Lesure and Roy Howat in Grove Music Online. A. Durand & Fils [PN D. & F. 6441] unknown books
19671332927Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1967. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine brown with black and white print; DJ has light edgewear else clean and bright; Boards in brown decorative paper clean and strong; Text block has tinted top edge bookplate on front flyleaf light spotting to endpapers else clean and tight; 124 pages illustrated b&w drawings. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1332927. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Michigan Press hardcover books
196970106London: Frank Cass 1969. New edition. Hardcover. Good. frontis illustrations folding map xxiv viii 276p. Blue cloth. 22cm. Backstrip and top strip of front and back cover rather heavily faded. Minor fraying at head of backstrip. No jacket. Reprint of the 1889 edition with the addition of a new Introduction by Robert I. Rotberg. <br/><br/> Frank Cass hardcover books
187428583London: Enoch & Sons PN E & S 82 1874. Large octavo. Full dark green cloth titling gilt to spine. 1f. recto title verso printer's note 1f. recto notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank 305 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Named cast incluces Jolly Mario Widmer Paul Ginet Pauline Luigini Delorme Jeanne d'Alby and Marie Blanche.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Former owner's signature "Mrs. Edmund Routledge" to free front endpaper. First English edition. Rare. <br/><br/>Giroflé-Girofla to a libretto by Vanloo and Leterrier was first performed in Brussels at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes on March 21 1874.<br/><br/>"In Brussels where Lecocq lived for several years from 1870 the popular acclaim accorded his operettas Les cent vierges 1872 La fille de Madame Angot 1872 and Giroflé-Girofla 1874 all of which were later produced with great success in Paris and abroad established him as a natural successor to Offenbach."<br/><br/>"Much of Lecocq's music is characterized by a light touch but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph La fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect impressive building up of extended numbers and typically French shaping of phrases." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. Enoch & Sons [PN E & S 82] unknown books
197331327London: Oxford University Press 1973. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/VG soiling to rear panel. x 2 193 1 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
9784Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Co n. d. Colorful pictorial wrappers. VG colors bright/some minor soiling to wrappers/text starting to yellow as usual. An uncommon & fragile piece. 268 pp 5" x 7" <br/><br/>Mrs L. T. Meade Series No. 15. Mrs Meade a prolific writer of books primarily for young ladies some 280 works. Putting toghether a collection of her works. Now that would be a collecting challenge! The Arthur Westbrook Co unknown books
1951S8653Offprint from: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia vol. XVI. Cold Spring Harbor:: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia 1951. 1951. 4to. 159-174 pp. Photos figs. Self-wraps. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Lewis received his PhD from Caltech where he studied under Alfred Sturtevant. He founded the field of developmental genetics with his pioneering work with Drosophila for which he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine. It was also Lewis who developed the complementation test and he made important contributions to the study of cancer radiation and genetics. In addition to the papers featured is a book review written by James F. Crow of: "Eugenics: Must it be a Dirty Word" by Daniel J. Kevles and INSCRIBED BY LEWIS to Norman Horowitz. All of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: LEWIS. "The Pseudoallelism of White and Apricot in Drosophila Melanogaster." Offprint from: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. vol. 38 no. 11 1952. 8vo. 953-961 pp. Self-wraps. Full list available on request. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia, 1951. paperback books
1943S8277Offprint from: Archives of Biochemistry vol. 2 no. 2. No place:: Archives of Biochemistry 1943. 1943. 8vo. 235-245 pp. Figs. Self-wraps. INSCRIBED BY FOSTER to Norman Horowitz. Very good. WITH: FOSTER STOKES WOODWARD Jr. & Alma LARSEN. "A Neurospora Assay for Pyridoxine." Offprint from: Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 150 no. 1 1943. 8vo. 17-24 pp. Self-wraps. Archives of Biochemistry, 1943. paperback books
1951MMRM1616London:: Guy's Hospital Gazette Committee 1951. 1951. 8vo. 175 1 pp. Color frontis. 5 color plates 66 illus. tables index. Aqua blind-and gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket; jacket worn. Good. Published almost on the hospital's quasquibicentennial the five essays focus on various aspects of the hospitals history and services: History of Guy's Hospital; The Medical School; The Dental School; Nursing at Guy's; Guy's Hospital in 1948. Guy's Hospital Gazette Committee, 1951. hardcover books
197448811New York: DAW Books Inc 1974. 1st printing PBO. Trade paperback. Color pictorial front cover yellow edgestain. Nr Fine. 224 pp. Illustrated by Roy Krenkel. 7" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>"In Tarzan's Africa -- 12000 years ago!" cover blurb. DAW Books, Inc paperback books
188328374Boston: Oliver Ditson 1883. Quarto. Original publisher's decorative brown wrappers with titling to spine in black marker. 1 title 2 cast list story and contents 3-280 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and chipped; partially detached; "No. 506" in black ink and small label to upper; lower wrapper slightly defective; spine worn with loss to head; joints partially split. Slightly browned; some minor staining. First American edition.<br/><br/>Le coeur et la main to a libretto by Nuitter and Beaumont was first performed in Paris at the Nouveautés on October 19 1882.<br/><br/>"Much of Lecocq's music is characterized by a light touch but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph La fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect impressive building up of extended numbers and typically French shaping of phrases. Oliver Ditson unknown books
20161324861Hoboken: Wiley Bloomberg Press 2016. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with white print edgewear but clean and bright; Boards in black paper with silver print wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; viii 278 pages illustrated b&w. 1324861. FP New Rockville Stock. Wiley, Bloomberg Press hardcover books
1949S5328In: Quaestiones academicae hodiernae. Varias virorum doctorum exterarum praesertim gentium commentationes in honorem lustri sexagesimi septimi Universitatis Groninganae collegerunt studiosi Groningani. Groningen:: I. B. Wolters 1949. 1949. 242 x 175 mm. 8vo. Pages 45-49. Entire volume: 69 3 pp. Frontis. Printed wrappers; corners bumped small hole in rear cover penetrates last few leaves. Good. I. B. Wolters, 1949. unknown books
19981339699Baltimore: For Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co 1998. Softcover. Octavo; Vols. 1-2 of 4 only; Reprint of edition originally published New York 1907; VG; Paperback; Spine tan with black print; Covers are clean and bright; Text block clean and tight; 2 vols. 402 pages each frontispiece illustrated b&w. 1339699. FP New Rockville Stock. For Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co unknown books
19426612baFMexico: Editorial Mexico 1942. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. x 383 pages of text including an index; 22cm. Hardcover binding; cloth spine and pictorial paper boards; paper spine label chipped; corners badly bumped; edges rubbed. 175 illustrations and 40 black & white photos described p. 360-64. Spanish translation of 1940 ed. of Der mensch fliegt. Aviation. Editorial Mexico Hardcover books
48768Chicago: The Athletic Institute n. d. Ca late 1950s signed by Feller. Color photographic wrap around paper covers stapled. With Feller's "Good Luck / Bob Feller" penned to the bottom of the front cover. General wear. Faint vertical crease to booklet. A VG copy. 79 1 pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographic images. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>"Robert William Andrew Feller nicknamed 'The Heater from Van Meter' 'Bullet Bob' and 'Rapid Robert' was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball MLB for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956 interrupted by a four-year engagement in the United States Navy. In a career spanning 570 games Feller pitched 3827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162 with 279 complete games 44 shutouts and a 3.25 earned run average ERA. A prodigy who bypassed baseball's minor leagues Feller first played for the Indians at the age of 17. His career was interrupted by four years of military service in World War II during which time he served as Chief Petty Officer aboard USS Alabama. Feller became the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21. During his career he threw no-hitters in 1940 1946 and 1951. Feller also recorded 12 one-hitters his no-hitters and one-hitters were records at the time of his retirement. He helped the Indians win a World Series title in 1948 and an American League-record 111 wins and the pennant in 1954. Feller led the American League in wins six times and in strikeouts seven times. In 1946 he recorded 348 strikeouts a total not exceeded for 19 years. An eight-time All-Star Feller was ranked 36th on Sporting News's list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was named the publication's "greatest pitcher of his time". He was a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999." Scarce in the trade. The Athletic Institute unknown books
1947402102New York: Oxford University Press 1947. Second revised edition. Spine slightly sunned/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Color frontispiece. Original cloth. "Important experiments on gastric function made on 'Tom' a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9" Garrison-Morton-Norman 1041. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
191834517Dublin: The Candle Press 1918. 1st edition Cutler & Stiles p. 132. Grey-green paper wrappers printed in dark green. Light age toning and the occasional spot of foxing. A VG copy. 29 3 pp. Unopened. 7" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Published during the Irish Rebellion and issued under a pen-name to avoid prosecution. Richard Ellmann's copy with his initials on the ffep. The Candle Press unknown books
189028413Milano: Sonzogno PN E. S. 58 1890. Large octavo. Half dark brown pebbled cloth with marbled boards printed titling excerpts laid down to upper and spine. 1f. recto notes on first performance cast list and index verso blank 238 pp.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; small bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Minor to moderate foxing throughout; lacking title; some margins cropped not affecting printed area; cataloguing annotation in pencil to upper margin of first leaf. First Italian edition of the second version.<br/><br/>Les prés Saint-Gervaisk to a libretto by Sardou and Gille was first performed in Paris at the Variétés on November 14 1874.<br/><br/>"Much of Lecocq's music is characterized by a light touch but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph La fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect impressive building up of extended numbers and typically French shaping of phrases." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. [Sonzogno] [PN E. S. 58] unknown books
194928760Paris: Durand & Cie PN D. & F. 7576 1949. Tall folio. Dark ivory publisher's wrappers printed in red and black. 1f. recto title verso publisher's "General Conditions of Sale and Hire of Orchestral Material" and list of instruments 110 pp. <br/><br/>Wrappers worn; torn at spine. Slightly worn and browned; signatures partially detached; publisher's handstamp to first page of music. A re-issue from plates of the first edition. Lesure p. 127. Durand & Cie [PN D. & F. 7576] unknown books
196436239London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1964. 1st UK edition. Hardback. Orange dust jacket. VG slight lean/VG some age toning/light edgewear. 175 1 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover books