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Louis Harris and Associates, New York, 1998 Stiff card covers, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 50 pp. Ex-library, with usual markings, else near fine. "Fieldwork: April 23 to June 3, 1998". Study No. 828373. United States, People with Disabilities, Public Opinion, Statistics, Discrimination. (K079). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Macmillan, New York, 1938 First edition, first printing. An exceptional copy with 15 signatures on the front free endpaper, including the author, the President (George Bannerman Dealey), the Vice President (Ted Dealey) and the cartoonist (John Knott). Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (bright), 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches, 337 pp., numerous b/w photo illustrations. Very good (moderate edgewear; binding tight and pages age-toned, but clean). No dustcover. (1722RO120). Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Peter Dawnay, London, 1965 First edition. Light blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 x 5 1/4 inches, 255 pp., b/w photo illustrations. Book very good (some foxing to edges of book block; otherwise, pages clean and binding tight). Dustcover very good minus (rubbing, rear panel; price-clipped). (1722RO089). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Light & Stearns, Boston, 1837 Sewn wraps, printed front cover, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 36 pp. Good. The American Physiological Society was founded in 1837, the year of this address and its publication. This address was delivered at the first regular meeting of the American Physiological Society: "In addressing the American Physiological Society, at its first regular meeting, and by particular request of the Council of the association, it will probably be expected that I say something in regard to our future conduct and course of action. I trust I am not insensible of the honor done me by this appointment, and with those expectations on the part of the society; and yet I hardly need assure you that I enter upon the task assigned me with no little diffidence." William A. Alcott was the first president of the American Physiological Society. (3214006). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good.

Vail-Ballou Company, New York, 1914 A very good hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 224 pp., 10 b/w illustrations. Scarce. Why pay more for a hardcover p-r-i-n-t on d-e-m-a-n-d facsimile when you can buy a signed first edition in very good condition for less? (K081). Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

P. Blakiston's Son, Philadelphia, 1932 This is an exceptional, fine copy of the first printing of the third edition, February 1932. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 451 pp. Fine (binding tight and square; the boards are virtually flawless, with only slight shelf wear at the bottom edges; mild dust soiling, top edge of book block; pages clean, with no marks of any kind). This would make a great gift for a graduating medical student. (1722RO083). 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

Press of the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, 1914 First edition. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering/decoration, top edge gilt, 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches, 295 pp. Good. "The country physician had a hard and sometimes a thankless lot."(3214043). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Hyde Park High School, Chicago, 1942 World War II era high school yearbook from Chicago (Hyde Park), Illinois. Textured gold-colored fabric covered boards, raised/embossed front board lettering and decoration, 10 7/8 x 8 inches, 197 pp., numerous b/w photo illustrations. Very good. Numerous inscriptions throughout to "Millie" (Mildred). (1722RO123). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1974 First edition/first printing. Book and dustcover very good. Red fabrikoid-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches, 269 pp., index. Price-clipped dustcover with modest edgewear, now in mylar cover. "---escape from the prison of conditioning." (1722RO006). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

American Academy of Pediatrics, 1952 Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches, 302 pp., index, b/w photo illustrations (including a multipanel pullout of the First Annual Convention in Atlantic City, June 1931). "Joseph S. Wall, M.D." in gilt lettering on the bottom right aspect of the front board. Dr. Wall's photograph appears opposite page 182, where he is identified as "President of the Academy, 1944-1945". Good plus (sunning of spine with fading of gilt; scattered pages with pencil marks). No dustjacket. (A second, very good copy available.) (K073x2ndcopy). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1950 An excellent, near fine hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing. Glossy illustrated boards, 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches, 64 pp. including bibliography, numerous color plates and b/w illustrations. Near fine (slight rubbing, boards; previous owner's attractive bookplate, front pastedown). (K062). Hardcover. Near Fine.

C.A.L. Press, 1997 Magazine, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 83 pp. Near fine. Includes "Form and Content in Elements of Refusal" (by Paul Z. Simons) and "Whose Unabomber?" (by John Zerzan). (1722RO005). Soft cover. Near Fine.

Leisure Books; North Hollywood, California; 1971. First edition (first printing October 1971). "An Original Leisure Book". Paperback, 7 x 4 1/4 inches, 224 pp. Photo of Angela Davis with "Afro" hair style on the front cover. VG+ (moderate browning of paper; clean and tight). "This book does not condemn nor glorify.it tells the absorbing true story of a woman who at 27 has regenerated the American Communist Party, glamorized the Black Panthers, eloquently turned-on students of all shades, and may be executed by the people of California. Who is angela Davis? High priestess of revolution or martyr for political and intellectual freedom." "The author believes there are still too many people who might get violent over this book! Therefore, he must remain.THE PROFESSOR. While Angela was being fired, he was teaching at another large California University. He received his law degree in the South eleven years ago and served as a U.S. Senate Aide when the civil rights movement… Read More

Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 1992 An exceptional copy of the first edition/first printing, as new. Glossy color illustrated wraps, 10 x 8 1/2 inches, 92 pp., extensively illustrated. (1722RO005). 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982 An attractive hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, SIGNED by Richard D. Lamm, with dustcover: book and dustcover near fine. Dark grey paper-covered boards, black cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 344 pp., index. Signature only on the front free endpaper (no inscription). Pages clean, with no marks of previous owners, and binding tight/square. Duscover with slight edgewear; now in mylar jacket; not price-clipped. (K083). Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Utah State University Press; Logan, Utah, 1971 First edition. Wraps, printed/illustrated covers, 9 x 6 inches, 157 pp., index. Near fine. Volume 1, Number 3 in the Western Text Society Series.(3214027). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Government Printing Office, Washington, 1908 Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches, 646 pp. Ex-library (Library of the National Archives), with usual markings, else very good. (K083). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1975 Color illustrated glossy wraps, 10 x 8 7/8 inches, 119 pp., numerous b/w and color photo illustrations. Very good. "On May 27, 1975, nine Chinese mountaineers successfully ascended the world's highest peak, Qomolangma Feng (Mount Jolmo Lungma), from its north slope, thanks to the loving care and attention of Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and to the wholehearted support of the people throughout the country. Their remarkable feat in the conquest of nature, the second of its kind accomplished by Chinese mountaineers, was a triumph of Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, another creditable achievement of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the movement to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius." (1722RO123). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Harper & Brothers, New York, 1949 First edition. Brown cloth-covered boards, white spine lettering, 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches, 271 pp., map-illustrated endpapers. Good (moderate edgewear; inscription/previous owner's name, half title page, dated in the year of publication, 1949; modest offsetting to endpapers; otherwise, pages clean and binding strong and square). No dustcover. Scarce. Kermit Roosevelt was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. "Mr. Roosevelt's best-known exploit was as director of the 1953 coup that overthrew the leader of Iran, Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a nationalist who concerned Washington because he was supported by the Iranian Communists at the height of the cold war. Earlier this year, the Central Intelligence Agency's secret history of the coup surfaced, providing a detailed account of the overthrow, which brought Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to power." (K052). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, Tucson, 1966 Stapled wraps, 9 x 6 1/8 inches, 43 pp., b/w photo illustrations. Very good (mild damp staining/wrinkling). Laid in is a four page pamphlet published by the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society published in 1968, entitled "Introduction and Guide to the Museum of the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society". Also laid in is a tri-folded pamphlet describing the Fort Lowell Museum in Tucson, Arizona. (K081). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.