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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1892028183Mobile AL: The Gossip Printing Company 1892. Octavo. Author's autograph edition with portrait frontispiece signed. In addition he has written a long note: "It is not the deeds men do as much as their manner of doing that makes impression on an era." J.C. DeLeon Mobile January 1896. 1-23--12 1 pp. dedication 5-6 i-vii 11-376 pages. The author was from a prominent Jewish family his brother became the first Surgeon-General of the Confederacy. De Leon saw the sad failures of the Confederate government from the financial mismanagement to his description of the horrendous prices that led the women of Richmond to start the "bread riots" meat butter pork $35 a pound; common shoes $200-800 a pair; a barrel of flower $1400. He writes that the Richmond papers were often seen more editorials of emotion while the Northern papers were often considered more reliable. Ralph Jeffrey Newman lists this as one of the essential books for a serious Civil War Library. Bound in brown decorative cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt spine lettering gilt floral endpapers p. 375 shows a bit of separation at the gutter a spot of rubbing to upper board mild bumping to corners. previous owner's name stamped on endpapers. A very good copy. Howes D-241: Nevins II 218. The Gossip Printing Company unknown books
304944Signed dated "05" numbered 4/15 and annotated 'imp" beneath the image in pencil. On wove paper with wide margins. 149 x 200 mm. Matted. Signed dated "05" numbered 4/15 and annotated 'imp" beneath the image in pencil. On wove paper with wide margins. 149 x 200 mm. From the "New York East Side Set 1902" done for Harper's magazine in a series of 8. Wehye Memorial Exhibition Catalogue_ Number 5 unknown books
196549174Munchen: Heinz Moos Verlag 1965. Orange cloth binding with black stamping. White & orange dust jacket printed in black. VG spine push/VG light wear & soiling. 288 1 pp. Test in German. Illustrated. Illustrated. <br/><br/>Braun "was a German electrical engineer inventor physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi 'for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy'". Heinz Moos Verlag hardcover books
197147683London: The Hogarth Press 1971. 1st Edition. Purple cloth boards stamped in gilt to back strip. A VG copy in a VG jacket. Modest wear age toning to leaves and jacket small tear to head of upper jacket pencil markings to ffep internally clean and bright. 221 pp. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> The Hogarth Press hardcover books
1877316316Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1877. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. Modern crimson cloth. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. "For some years I have been using with success.certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and of excessive feeding made possible by passive excerise obtained through the steady use of massage and electricity" Chapter I.<br/><br/>Mitchell used this resty cure on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it provided her the idea for "The Yellow Wallpaper" a short story in which the narrator is driven insane by this treatment.<br/><br/>This treatment was also used on Virginia Woolf who wrote a savage satire of it in her novel Mrs. Dalloway : "you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends without books without messages; six months rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve" G-M 4554 J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
186441942Boston: F. A. Searle Printer 118 Washington Street 1864. Some age toning light crease here & there with the occasional spot or two. Horizontal fold-line. Still a VG example of this fragile item. One broadside sheet printed recto only. 18-1/8" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Margaret Julia Mitchell popularly known as Maggie Mitchell was an American actress born in New York. She made her first regular appearance as Julia in The Soldier's Daughter at the Chambers Street Theatre in 1851. The parts in which she was best liked were Jane Eyre Mignon Little Barefoot and Fanchon the Cricket. Wiki In January 1861 At at De Bar’s St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans Mitchell first appeared in Fanchon the Cricket a new secondhand adaptation by August Waldauer from George Sand’s story “La Petite Fadette.” Her characterization of the sprite of a heroine which included a graceful and entrancing shadow dance was an immediate sensation. Her Southern tour was cut short by the Civil War and Mitchell took Fanchon to Boston and New York where it was equally successful. Fanchon remained her mainstay for 30 years. Audiences never tired of it—her admirers included the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson—and even in her 50s Mitchell retained the winsome elfin appeal that made her so successful. She also early obtained the rights to Fanchon which enabled her to amass a considerable estate. EB. We find one institutional holding of this playbill at the MHS. A rare survivor of this play's northern run. F. A. Searle, Printer, 118 Washington Street unknown books
1893402877Milan Rome etc.: G. Ricordi & Co 1893. 4to 267 x 203 mm; 10½ x 8 inches. 471 pages. Full-page portrait of Verdi. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled green cloth. A fine copy with only slightest of wear at the ends of the spine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Published the same year as the first edition in Italian. Falstaff is the last of Verdi's operas composed as he neared his eightieth year. The composer wanted to write a comedy and collaborated with Boito for three years from mid-1889. Of his 27 operas this is only his second comedy the first was his second opera Un giorno di regno. The work premiered at La Scala in Milan on 9 February 1893; it was published in its original Italian and in translations later that year. . <br/><br/> G. Ricordi & Co hardcover books
18943187New York: Theodore Low de Vinne for The Grolier Club 1894. Printed on vellum. Folio 285 x 185 mm. 6 leaves clxiii 1; 4 84 4 4 6 11 pp. 1 leaf. 2 blank leaves at front and 4 at back. Title with Grolier Club device three engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal in the first part Fowler's introduction unsigned lithograph on a separate leaf at the end of the introduction included in the pagination showing William Bradford's tombstone woodcut or linocut ornamental initials final leaf with De Vinne press device. Bound in black morocco t.e.g. others untrimmed by Denis Gouey blind-stamped signature on lower pastedown. Provenance: personal copy of the printer Theodor Low De Vinne bookplate; Bernard Breslauer inserted collation notes on The Ritz London stationery and carbon copy of a letter sent by him to Decherd Turner July 19 1997 plus a clipping from the bookseller's catalogue from which he purchased the book; sale Christie's New York part 3 27-28 June 2005 lot 1134. A fine association copy: the exemplaire de tête printed on vellum retained by the printer for his private collection from a total edition of 315 copies of which 312 copies on hand-made paper and three copies on vellum of a facsimile of the founding laws of the colony of New York. The first part consists of a long historical introduction by Robert Ludlow Fowler. The Facsimile was made from the Lenox Library copy as explained in a two-page note from the Publication Committee pp. 172-173. The book was published by the Grolier Club on the occasion of its tenth anniversary and the other two vellum copies were auctioned off at the tenth annual members' meeting on 21 February 1894. A copy of the Grolier Club invitation to that meeting as well as the 4-page illustrated prospectus for the book both of which were printed by de Vinne are loosely inserted along with the aforementioned documents from Bernard Breslauer. Mr. Breslauer collected books on vellum and in the inserted 1997 letter to Decherd Turner he announced his acquisition of this his fifth Americanum on vellum.Theodore Low de Vinne was one of the nine founding members of the Grolier Club and he printed most of its publications until his death. "His encyclopedic understanding of the craft his advancement of its technology and design his appreciation of its history his business leadership and his many writings earned him among his contemporaries the designation `Dean of American Printers'" APHA website The De Vinne Centennial Feb. 16. 2014. (Theodore Low de Vinne for) The Grolier Club hardcover books
1966S13789New York:: E.P. Dutton 1966. 1966. 8vo. 480 pp. Illus. index. Cloth dust-jacket; jacket rubbed. Very good. First edition. "Hale was the pioneering American astronomer who founded and directed the great observatories at Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar and founded The Astrophysical Journal." NYT. "As an undergraduate at M.I.T. Hale first won international fame with his invention of the spectroheliography the instrument for photographing the sun in various spectral lights which opened up vast new vistas in the understanding of the sun and the universe." jacket. Mary Helen Wright Greuter 1914-1997 was an astronomer and author of Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell. This biography of Hale written at the request of the National Academy of Sciences is her best known work. See: Saxon Wolfgang November 2 1997. "Helen Wright Greuter 82 Astronomer and Author". New York Times. 20 January 2013. E.P. Dutton, 1966. hardcover books
191421231914. Softcover. Wraps. appx. 24. Includes descriptions of each lot and dimensions with references to appropriate catalogues. paperback books
189527882n.d. ca. 1895. First Edition. Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 16. Original etching; sheet size approx. 60.75x45cm.; image area 28x22.5cm. Signed with limitation number in blue pencil by the artist. A Fine copy mounted in archival mat. Symbolist image by the French anarchist painter and engraver Charles Maurin. According to a previous dealer this image was produced for the anarchist newspaper Les Temps Nouveaux edited by Jean Grave. Image depicts the personification of freedom "la Marianne" shown here in profile and partially in deshabille her left hand clutching her breast while her right hand holds up a torch. unknown books
191633656Paris: A. Durand & Fils PN D. & F. 6326 1 - 3 1916. Folio. Original publisher's ivory wrappers with titling printed in blue and orange to upper and publisher's advertisment to verso of lower. Unbound as issued. 1f. recto title printed in dark orange verso blank 24 pp. With "Ch. Douin gr ." and "Paris Imp. A. Mounot." printed at foot of final page of music.<br/><br/>With performance markings in pencil throughout.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn and soiled; minor edge tears and creases; handstamp to lower corner of upper. Minor browning and soiling; publisher's handstamp to title. First Edition later issue. Lesure 100.<br/><br/>Estampes premiered in Paris with Ricardo Viñes at the piano at a concert of the Société nationale in the Salle Erard on 9 January 1904<br/><br/>Debussy's creative connection to the visual arts was significant and many times throughout his career he attributed the inspiration for many of his compositions to specific artists or works of art. "Louis Laloy his first French biographer revealed in 1909 that 'He received his most profitable lessons from poets and painters not from musicians' while he himself told Varèse in 1911 'I love pictures almost as much as music'. .One of his rare piano pupils Mademoiselle Worms de Romilly went so far as to write that he 'always regretted not having worked at painting instead of music'. Ever since his years at the Conservatoire Debussy had felt that he had more to learn from artists than from career-obsessed musicians: 'You are getting nowhere M. Croche will tell them because you know nothing but music and obey barbaric laws'. Three of his works were dedicated to artists: one of the Images for piano to Alexandre Charpentier one of the Proses lyriques to Henri Lerolle and Estampes to Jacques-Emile Blanche." François Lesure and Roy Howat in Grove Music Online. A. Durand & Fils [PN D. & F. 6326 (1) [-] (3)] unknown books
1916BL3786Leipzig:: Verlag von S. Hirzel 1916. 1916. 8vo. Frontis. port. plate figs. index. Original printed boards leather spine label. Very good. Eduard Suess 1831 – 1914 was an Austrian geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features the supercontinent Gondwana proposed 1861 and the Tethys Ocean. He claimed in 1885 that there had once been land bridges connecting South America Africa India Australia and Antarctica. He named this ancient broken continent Gondwanaland. – Wikipedia. Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1916. hardcover books