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1981Embry 197149Howell-North Books 1981. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. B&W photos Howell-North Books, 1981. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1979117992Berkeley: University of California Press 1979. Hardcover. Three volumes xxiii 455p.; xiv 472p.; xiii 333p. numerous tables and charts previous owner's bookplate each very good first edition in cloth boards and dj. University of California Press hardcover books
16193paperback. 7 plates. 42 pages pp. 455-496 IN: Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B. 1932 vol. 111 no. B 773. Offered entire. 8vo original beige wrappers. London 1932.<br/><br/> Discovery of the carcinogenic properties of dibenzanthracene compounds. G-M 2654.<br/><br/> unknown books
198282904Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1982. Octavo hardcover. First edition. The author's third book and first hardcover. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends. #82904 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
19742286939Historic Palmyra Inc 1974. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Front joint weakening with minor split to top and bottom edge ink name and date on front endpaper. 1974 Hard Cover. 309 11 20 pp. 8vo. 1974 facsimile of 1930 original. A history of Palmyra New York well known as the birthplace of the Mormon faith. Includes reproductions of several black-and-white photographs. Historic Palmyra Inc hardcover books
192518757New York: Chelsea House 1925. 1st edition Bleiler Rev p.48; Reginald 03349. Dark green cloth w/gold lettering in dust jacket. VG top edge lightly foxed/Gd edges chipped w/ a few small sections chipped away/spine& rear panel lightly foxed. 249 3 pp. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> Chelsea House hardcover books
196129699Boston: Little Brown and Company 1961. 1st edition. Blue-green cloth backed boards. Orange dust jacket. VG/VG. 8 178 pp. 12mo. 7" x 4" <br/><br/> Little Brown and Company hardcover books
188832853Lowell Mass: Published by C. I. Hood & Co 1888. 1st printing Cagle 969; Wheaton & Kelly 2939. Blue & yellow printed paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Some wear & soiling. A VG copy. 16 pp. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by C. I. Hood & Co unknown books
198228509San Francisco: Romax 1982. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small stapled wrappers. Uncommon issue of this art and poetry magazine. This issue given over to work by Geoffrey Cook. Concrete and typewriter poems. A magazine that defies easy description. Light wear. A very good copy. Other issues available. Please inquire. Romax paperback books
19135897LeRoy New York: Gennesee Pure Food Co.; printed by J. Ottman Lith. Co. 1913. Stapled booklet 16 x 12 cm. 16 pages including wrappers with six additional semi-detached pages bound only with cord. Date from external evidence see Schreiber Jell-O: A Checklist. Twelve full-page chromolithographs including the cover and centerfold. The chromolithographs illustrate Coffee Jell-O Orange Jell-O Raspberry Jell-O a collection of attractively plated Jell-O desserts on the centerfold Peach Jell-O with a racist Mammy image of "Aunt Dinah" saying she "never made nothin' better'n dat" Lemon Jell-O and Jell-O Ice Cream Powder. The rear panel of the wrapper depicts "The house that Jell-O built" - the Jell-O factory - encased in yellow gelatin on a cut-crystal serving platter. Many recipes included. Some light soiling to wrappers otherwise fine. Schreiber Jell-O: A Checklist 13 bk.12. Gennesee Pure Food Co.; [printed by] J. Ottman Lith. Co.] unknown books
187332701873. Narrow octavo 56 pages plus unpaginated memoranda section. Pages 1-25 of the Commercial Index are pasted over with clippings that include recipes for cakes preserves puddings cookies pies and other household hints. Pages 26-55 remain intact with indices of business houses of Boston New York Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with maps showing locations. Interspersed are advertisements. Page 56-finis are forty-nine handwritten recipes ranging from fly-paper and taffy to sausages and Dutch apple pie. Though various inks are used appears to be the same author. Boards are discolored and binding is quite shaken. Fair condition. hardcover books
1912008422Hamburg Und Berlin: Alfred Janssen 1912. First German Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First German edition. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. 540 pp. Clean very good copy in brown cloth. Remnants of bookplate to inside front board. <br/><br/> Alfred Janssen hardcover books
18903715New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1890. Booklet stapled in wrappers 17 x11.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for the patent medicines of Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company featuring over one hundred seventy simple recipes for beverages biscuits candy cakes fish meat pastry poultry puddings soup stews and vegetables interspersed with information about Kickapoo Indian oil salve and other products. Also included are narratives on Indian culture wildly racist but of the era. John H. Healy and Charles Bigelow began their company in the late 1870s promoting their "traditional" Indian medicines with traveling medicine shows that capitalized on the public's nostalgia for the the Wild West. In orange wrappers with hole punch and ribbon to top left corner some slight discoloration to wrapper otherwise very good. OCLC locates seven copies. Healy & Bigelow Publishers unknown books
18882671771888. Cut in 16 sections and backed with linen folded into marbled card stock portfolio with printed title label. The sections are starting to separate but the map is complete. Some loss to the marbled papers covers. 27" x 37". unknown books
18852671691885. Cut in sections and backed with linen folded into marbled card stock portfolio with printed title label. There is beginning to be some separation at the folds and the map has some discoloration. Some loss to the marbled papers covers. 27" x 37". unknown books
18862671671886. Cut in sections and backed with linen folded into marbled card stock portfolio with printed title label. There is beginning to be some separation at the folds and the map has some discoloration. Some loss to the marbled papers covers. 27" x 37". unknown books
18882671761888. Cut in 16 sections and backed with linen folded into marbled card stock portfolio with printed title label. Many of the sections have separated but the map is complete. Some loss to the marbled papers covers. 27" x 37". unknown books
19233324Westfield MA/New York: Vitamin Food Company 1923. Small octavo die-cut in the shape of a jar 12.7 x 7.9 cm 30 pages. First edition. Illustrated wrappers printed in red and green. Invented in the late 19th century America's introduction to Vegex née Marmite was in 1913. The introductory text heralds the "health- and strength-building" properties of this distinctive and powerfully flavored food spread and its crucial role for British troops in World War I. Approximately seventy-five recipes all containing Vegex from Milk Vegex drink and Scotch Broth to Curry Sauce Paprika Goulash and Vegex Caviar. Though "the richest known food in vitamin B" it is noted clearly that "Vegex is food not medicine". A few small spots and two small pinholes to front wrap text clean and otherwise very good. Vitamin Food Company unknown books
19036200Washington: Government Printing Office 1903. First edition. Good/Series title: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium volume VIII part 2. A census of plants found in Puerto Rico and of their uses. 25 cm; vi 57-269 pages 47 leaves of halftone plates numbered XIII-LX. Bound in buckram with leather title labels on spine. Some plates loose in binding. No marks or blemishes. Government Printing Office hardcover books
192355931New Haven CT: Yale University 1923. Second printing. Large 8vo pp. 291. Illustrated with photographs. VG. Adams Herd 569 Six-Guns 484; Graff 863; Reese 23. "An outstanding western book" according to Ramon F. Adams. Cook was born in 1857 and his experiences -- from driving cattle to digging up fossils for O.C. Marsh -- could furnish subject matter for a score of Hollywood westerns. Yale University unknown books
57292Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Reading Massachusetts. Later Printing. The book was copyrighted in 1956 and this edition is from the same publisher and has the scarcer cover. It was reprinted by other subsequent publishers. My guess it dates to around 1975 or perhaps the date of the inscription from the author. Signed presentation from Cook on the front endpaper: "For Mrs. King's first grade Bernadine Cook. March 1984." Books signed by Cook are uncommon!. 8vo. pictorial cloth; appears to be a library-stitch binding issued without a dust jacket. Pictures By Crockett Johnson. Near fine covers nice; contents clean & tight. unknown books
1910229052London Adam and Charles Black 1910 1904. 1910. Thick 8vo. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations by John Williamson; fold-out facsimile. Original pictorial red cloth stamped in black brown white yellow and red with a native man running on the beach holding a shield and spine with a vignette of a sailing ship. Very good. 417 pages 8 page publisher's advertisements at end. No bookplates. Printed by Neill and Company Limited Edinburgh. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910 [1904]. hardcover books
1882274585Philadelphia: Porter and Coates 1882. hardcover. very good. Almost 500 illustrations. 537pp. Thick 4to gilt-decorated blind-stamped green cloth a.e.g.; ex-lib. with some paste-downs on inside front and rear covers; edgeworn with the hinges beginning. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates 1882. internally fine with some wear to binding still a very nice handsome copy.<br/><br/> Porter and Coates unknown books
1973293139New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by author Joseph J. Cook. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
200527752005. COOK Mariana. FACES OF SCIENCE. Introduction by Gerard Piel. NY: W.W. Norton & Company 2005. Quarto black cloth in dust jacket; 175 pages. First Edition first printing. An intimate look with photographs at the people behind some of the greatest discoveries of out time. Signed by Cook on the half-title page. Fine in d/j. Signed copies are uncommon. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
