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194633571Washington: GPO 1946. Senate Document No. 244 79th Congress 2d Session. Octavo. xvi 580pp. 3 folding maps. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Two ink stamps on the front free endpaper else very good with no other markings. Boards moderately soiled. Very Good. <br/><br/> The scarce final report with the minority views of Homer Ferguson and Owen Brewster. FIRST EDITION. GPO unknown books
19622662011962. unbound. Unaccredited matte-finish black-and-white 10 x 8-inch half-length image of Bailey no place no date circa 1962. Inscribed: "To Helen My Very Best Love Pearl." Tiny creases on the lower corners but still in very good condition.<br/><br/> American singer and actress who appeared on the stage screen and television.<br/><br/> unknown books
195645746Paris: Stock 1956. Paperback. Very good. 494 pp. Light creases and soiling to the spine light edge wear and soiling to the front and back else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Stock paperback books
1922273972Baltimore 1922. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 Baltimore Maryland November 22 1922 to American psychiatrist and staunch Eugenicist Dr. Stewart Paton in full: "I have asked the publishers to send you a copy of my book 'The Biology of Death' which has recently appeared. I hope that you will presently receive it and find it of some interest." Within five years both scientists would come to hate one another with Paton replacing Pearl as the poster boy of Eugenics and the voice of the Eugenics Research Association. Natural folds; fine condition. Pearl rarely comes to market and it speculated that his letters were avoided by collectors due to his anti-Semitism and also the fact that Pearl restricted much of his correspondence to the scientific community.<br/><br/> American biologist and father of the controversial science of Eugenics and founder of Biogerontology. He made his case on the world stage with his publication "Breeding Better Men" and delivered the first speech at the very first International Eugenics Congress in London July 1912. In 1927 Pearl shocked the scientific community and his peers at John Hopkins University by renouncing the entire movement. Many thought it too late to correct the damage as he had already endorsed Alexis Carrel's erroneous ideas that "normal cells don%u2019t age" and his own theory for The Rate of Living Hypothesis which enjoyed prominence for nearly 50 years.<br/><br/> unknown books
197257058NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. "Imperial Woman" is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China Ci-xi who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 376 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
1976UBAIHUR00ZMHarcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. Very Good. Bailey Pearl . Hurry Up America and Spit. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. 105pp. Small octavo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Insribed by author on half title ""To Joanne Love is Caring- Pearl Bailey"". Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight fading to spine. Brodart. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
197660134New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Presentation copy labeled "First Copy 6/5/76" and inscribed by American actress and singer Pearl Bailey 1918-90 to Bob and Dolores Hope on the secondary title page. Mild dust staining to the top edge with a bit of sun fading along the spine of the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Provenance: From the library of Bob and Dolores Hope accompanied by a letter from the Hope Foundation. Inscribed by Author. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1976JC2790New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 106 pp. 8vo. Original half red cloth blue paper boards original dust jacket. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. First edition of this rough poetic look at the seamy side of American life signed on title-page "First Copy 6/5/76." And inscribed on half-title "Dearest Loves of Mine Mary Gingerbread and Doug acc. to face I love you because you've cared and given of youselves. Love Sister Pearl." <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
197657384New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. Hardcover. 106p. signed by Bailey very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped slightly shelfworn dj. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
2004Embry 195950John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2004. Second printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. Second printing. unknown books
1947278026New York: John Day 1947. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 8vo black cloth d.w. with a small amount of slight chipping d.w. lightly soiled corners of cloth and a small area bottom edge of back cloth cover lightly bumped. New York: John Day 1947.<br/><br/> John Day unknown books
012681Menasha WI: American Anthropological Association 1935. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. Ocatvo. 65 pp. Upper front cover has ink inscription 'From the author' but not signed with a name. Light soiling cover pulling away from binding otherwise good. Menasha, WI: American Anthropological Association, 1935 unknown books
1918140939428New York: Henry Holt and Company 1918. First Edition. Very Good. Advance reading copy issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition with publisher's slips pasted onto paste down and title page. Publication date of May 9 1918 written on slips. vi 363 1 6 ads pp. Original blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with staining to fore edge light wear to cloth pages toned with age. Scarce in the advance format. The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran who claimed to be channeling the spirit of Patience Worth a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran a St. Louis housewife of limited education Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917 and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books she produced voluminous poetry short stories plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
21478WILSON PEARL Cyril. HARDY WILSON AND HIS OLD COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE. Sydney: Nelson 1970. Folio. Cloth spine boards dust jacket. 34 2 pages; 47 plates. First edition. Hardy Wilson was an Australian architectural writer and "philosopher". In hi lifetime he published eleven books on architecture This volume contains a biographical sketch of Wilson by Pearl and forty-seven architectural drawings Wilson some never before published. Very good in a worn dust jacket. unknown books
1951Z1537New York Toronto London:: McGraw-Hill 1951. 1951. 8vo. xi 239 pp. Index. Burgundy cloth gilt-stamped black spine label. Bookplates. Very good . FIRST EDITION. Printer's error on pp. 118-119 and 122-123 text still legible. McGraw-Hill, 1951. hardcover books
1951100172New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1951. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xi 239 pages. First edition. Includes sections on library facilities and kinds of geologic literature. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Label on spine and embossed library stamp on title page card pocket removed from rear pastedown. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown books
194442150NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. Modern Library number 15. Foreword by the author. A later printing. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few very small chips dust jacket.; 313 pages . Modern Library, hardcover books
1972012435New York: Histadruth Ivrith of America 1972. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. iv 27 pages of text. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear and sunning. Illustrated by black & white photographs. Histadruth Ivrith of America Paperback books
195194095NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Very good in a very good faded along the spine foxing on rear panel and flap edges dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
195131210NY: John Day 1951. First Edition. 8vo pp. 375. Flap of dj laid in. VG. John Day unknown books
1998700014NY: Riverhead. 1998. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Riverhead paperback books
195539250Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Bobbs-Merrill, hardcover books
1968482411968. PEARL Richard M. GEM IDENTIFICATION SIMPLIFIED. Colorado Springs Colorado: Maxwell Publishing Co. 1968. 8vo. printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation by Pearl on title page: "To Dr. J. Daniel Willems with best wishes from Richard M. Pearl. 1968." Very Good. $20.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
196189872NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. B004GBL3ZA . First edition. Previous owner's stamp on front paste-down else very good in a very good some light edge wear dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
196420021Stratford CT 1964. Fine. 6.5 x 3.75 in. pictorial envelope. A U.S. First Day Cover commemorating 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. Signed by Nobels—Miguel Asturias Samuel Beckett Pearl Buck and Mikhail Sholokov. <br/><br/> unknown books
