Solaris by Lem, Stanislaw - 1961

No place:: National Academy of Sciences, 1950., 1950. 8vo. 167-176 pp. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Yanofsky was a pioneer geneticist who "showed that suppressor mutations result in the reappearance of an enzyme that has been missing from a mutant organism." McGraw-Hill, Modern Men of Science, p. 621. He carried out numerous studies of tryptophan and Neurospora Crassa, and made significant contributions to the science of genetics. Yanofsky studied at Yale, and in 2003 was awarded the National Medal of Science. Most of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of Pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: YANOFSKY. "The Effects of Gene Change on Tryptophan Desmolase Formation." Offprint from: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 38, no. 3, 1952. 8vo. 215-226 pp. Printed wrappers. Full list available on request.

New York:: Fleet Publishing Corporation, , (1964.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in a fair dustjacket (bumped at several corners, also bumped and dented at bottom center of front cover - hard enough to have created a short split in the board; jacket is price-clipped and has several ragged tears and associated creasing along the bottom edge of the front panel, along with internal tape repairs. . First printing. SIGNED by the book's subject with his birth name, "Cassius Clay" -- a rare signature and especially so in this rather hard-to-find book, the first published biography of the great heavyweight champion. Issued later in the same year in which Clay took the heavyweight crown away from Sonny Liston (in their February 1964 bout), the book includes an account of the turbulent months that followed -- including the new champ's relationship with Malcolm X and his conversion to Islam, the controversy over his draft status, his much-publicized trip to… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life,… Read More

NY: Random House. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394554639 . First edition. Three volume set. Volume 1: Text, including catalogue entries for 875 works, including specifications, biographies and translations of the calligraphic texts; 397 pages with index, publisher's full turquoise cloth. Volume 2: Painting, 369 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full green cloth. Volume 3: The Calligraphies, 288 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full clay cloth. The volumes are each 14.25 by 10.25 inches, the clamshell box, which is in brown cloth with embossed gilt titles and color illustration, is 15.5 by 11.5 inches. This monumental work is the culmination of more than three decades of study and collecting, and is one of the most important and sumptuous publications of Asian Art. Through more than 850 superb examples from his own collection, the author shows how exposure to Western art led, in painting, to an extraordinary… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition, second state with the correction on page 14, very good signed copy in a fair dustjacket. Inscribed: Robert Frost Springfield March 8 1917, on the title page. Frost's first book of poetry. Blue cloth printed in gilt, very light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has the 75 crossed out and replaced with 100 on the front and spine, two old masking tape repairs to the front joint and along the rear flap edge to hold the dustjacket together, spine darkened a chipped due to the repairs, "A" from the title chipped away at spine head, dates in pancil below title on front panel. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

No place:: National Academy of Sciences, 1950., 1950. 8vo. 167-176 pp. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. FINE. Yanofsky was a pioneer geneticist who "showed that suppressor mutations result in the reappearance of an enzyme that has been missing from a mutant organism." McGraw-Hill, Modern Men of Science, p. 621. He carried out numerous studies of tryptophan and Neurospora Crassa, and made significant contributions to the science of genetics. Yanofsky studied at Yale, and in 2003 was awarded the National Medal of Science. Most of the papers bear the rubber stamp or signature of Pioneer Caltech geneticist Norman Horowitz. WITH: YANOFSKY. "The Effects of Gene Change on Tryptophan Desmolase Formation." Offprint from: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 38, no. 3, 1952. 8vo. 215-226 pp. Printed wrappers. Full list available on request.

New York:: Fleet Publishing Corporation, , (1964.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in a fair dustjacket (bumped at several corners, also bumped and dented at bottom center of front cover - hard enough to have created a short split in the board; jacket is price-clipped and has several ragged tears and associated creasing along the bottom edge of the front panel, along with internal tape repairs. . First printing. SIGNED by the book's subject with his birth name, "Cassius Clay" -- a rare signature and especially so in this rather hard-to-find book, the first published biography of the great heavyweight champion. Issued later in the same year in which Clay took the heavyweight crown away from Sonny Liston (in their February 1964 bout), the book includes an account of the turbulent months that followed -- including the new champ's relationship with Malcolm X and his conversion to Islam, the controversy over his draft status, his much-publicized trip to… Read More

NY: Random House. As New in As New dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394554639 . First edition. Three volume set. Volume 1: Text, including catalogue entries for 875 works, including specifications, biographies and translations of the calligraphic texts; 397 pages with index, publisher's full turquoise cloth. Volume 2: Painting, 369 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full green cloth. Volume 3: The Calligraphies, 288 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full clay cloth. The volumes are each 14.25 by 10.25 inches, the clamshell box, which is in brown cloth with embossed gilt titles and color illustration, is 15.5 by 11.5 inches. This monumental work is the culmination of more than three decades of study and collecting, and is one of the most important and sumptuous publications of Asian Art. Through more than 850 superb examples from his own collection, the author shows how exposure to Western art led, in painting, to an extraordinary… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition, second state with the correction on page 14, very good signed copy in a fair dustjacket. Inscribed: Robert Frost Springfield March 8 1917, on the title page. Frost's first book of poetry. Blue cloth printed in gilt, very light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has the 75 crossed out and replaced with 100 on the front and spine, two old masking tape repairs to the front joint and along the rear flap edge to hold the dustjacket together, spine darkened a chipped due to the repairs, "A" from the title chipped away at spine head, dates in pancil below title on front panel. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London : The Aquila Press, 1930 First printing of the first edition, limited edition of 150 copies; publisher's copy; original orange and cream patterned boards, 4to, unpaginated, issued without dust jacket. Contains poems, "Simultaneous" and "In Provins." Crease to top, outer corner, slight tanning to spine, minimal wear, else book in fine condition.