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The Handbook of Life: Practical Psychology
by Walter, Terry
Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. xii, 226 p.p., [2]. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling and blind floral tooling to front board, bumping to spine ends, edges and corners, light rubbing to spine ends, corners, and joints. Roughly cut edges. Floral endpapers. Hinge cracked at flyleaf. This inspiring volume contains sections on mental health and attitude, exercise, sleep, the possibilities of the mind and tapping into the superconscious, psycho-analysis,...
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$73.91
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
by O'Malley, Austin
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. vii, [2], 273 p.p., [1]. Original red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and front board and blind stamped device and panel to front. Bumping to spine ends, soiling to joints, a few small damp stains to boards, small spot of wear to foot of front board. Foxing to edges of text block. Offsetting to endpapers. B&W illustrations + frontis. of a vasectomy. A fascinating tome exploring the ethical, medical, and scientific...
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$55.43
National Geographic Magazine - May, 1995. Vickers Vimy; Nurse Sharks; NGS World War I Maps; The Cherokee; Poison Dart Frogs; Oman
by William L. Allen (Editor)
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society , 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine, as noted. See scans and description. Box-shipped; no bag. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1995. The May, 1995 issue of National Geographic magazine, Volume 187, Number 5. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 152 pp. Fine, with very small, faint spot along bottom edge of front cover (scan), which is as-produced in this case. Otherwise, flawless, and...
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$30.00
1944 First Edition: Corals from the Chouteau and Related Formations of the Mississippi Valley Region. Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations # 97
by William H. Easton
Urbana, IL: State of Illinois Department of Registration and Education, 1944. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good; see description and scans. Corals from the Chouteau and Related Formations of the Mississippi Valley Region (Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations # 97) by William H. Easton. Urbana: State of Illinois Department of Registration and Education, State Geological Survey Division, 1944. Plain brown printed perfect-bound wraps, 95 pp....
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$125.00
Distillations Magazine - Volume 2, Number 3 - Fall 2016. Post-Carbon Future World; Death and Taxidermy; Filter of Life; Flavor of Smog; Ken Shoulders; Synthetic Fashion; 1930s Italian Food Fight; Richard Hamilton; Ernest Lawrence; Killing Cancer; Vincent T. DeVita
by Michal Meyer (Editor in Chief)
Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, as described, with pre-printed subscriber's address on rear cover (all examples of this publication were thus mailed). See scans and description. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2016. The Fall, 2016 issue of the new incarnation of the artfully executed Distillations magazine (subhead: Science-Culture-History), Volume Two, Number Two. Quite scarce...
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$37.50
The Use of Life
by Lord Avebury
The author ponders the important things in life. 208 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners signature and a date on front endpaper, light tanning, and some ? water marks to cover and some wear (see photo).
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$9.81
Scientific American Mind - March-April, 2013. Science of Mental Focus; Quitting Addiction; Mastering Brain Waves; Why Placebos Work; Resisting Temptation; City Blues; Social Schizophrenia Treatment
by Mariette DiChristina (Editor-in-Chief); Sandra Upson (Managing Editor)
New York : Scientific American / Nature America, Inc., 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near Fine. See description and scans. New York: Scientific American / Nature America, Inc., 2013. The March - April issue of Scientific America Mind, Volume 24, Number 1. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 76 pp. Near Fine; small crease at top right, front cover, also affecting first few pages, and micro-touches of spine crease. See scans. Otherwise...
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$22.00
The Paleontology of the Niagaran Limestone in the Chicago Area - The Trilobita. 1907 First Edition
by Stuart Weller
The Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1907. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good; strong. The Paleontology of the Niagaran Limestone in the Chicago Area - The Trilobita. 1907 First Edition. Bulletin No. IV, Part II. Chicago: The Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1907. Octavo, perfect-bound paper wraps in the early twentieth century manner of the Sierra Club Bulletin and others of the genre; as part of an annual volume, pages in this part two are interstitially numbered,...
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$45.00
Text-Book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses. 1924 Vintage Biology Text, with B&W and Color Graphics.
by William Martin Smallwood
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good, and not far from Near Fine. See scans and description. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1924. Text-Book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses, by William Martin Smallwood, Ph.D. of Syracuse University. Octavo, finely-textured brown cloth boards, gilt spine imprinting, publisher's monogram in blind-stamp on front cover, 393 pp. Replete with graphics...
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$275.00
Genetics of Microbes / Tertiary Level Biology. 1980 First Edition, First Printing
by Brian W. Bainbridge
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine; New but for original owner's rubber stamp at half-title. See scans and description. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. as Halsted Press, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Genetics of Microbes / Tertiary Level Biology, by Brian W. Bainbridge. ISBN 0470269952. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, x + 193 pp. Near Fine, short of sparkling new by reason...
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$35.00
Fungal Physiology
by David H. Griffin
New York: Wiley-Liss, 1994. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1994. Fungal Physiology, Second Edition, by David H. Griffin. ISBN 0471595861. Quarto, glossy illustrated boards, 468 pp. (x + 458), Almost as new; near fine by reason of several micro-nicks, primarily at rear cover. See scans. Otherwise, flawless throughout. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L41
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$65.00
National Geographic Magazine - December 2002. Snowy Owls, Hawaiians Reclaim Their Culture, X-Ray Telescope, Sahara Camel Trek, Kabul, Search for PT-109, Tysons Corners VA
by William L. Allen (Editor in Chief)
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society , 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good Plus, not far short of Near Fine. See scan and description. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2002. The December, 2002 issue of the iconic National Geographic magazine, Volume 202, Number 6. Quarto, photographically illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 136 pp. Very Good plus; crease at lower right corner (scan), also affecting first few pages; flecks of soil...
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$17.00
Science Digest / January, 1982. Neptune and Beyond; Brain's Split Universe; Dolphins; Battle Beneath the Dome (Planetariums); Cosmic Harmony: Science & Music; Incredible Shrinking Microcircuit; Coincidence?; Information Disease; Computer War; People Who Never Need to Eat; Medicine's Micro-Missiles; Cortisone Dilemma
by DeGarmo, Scott (editor); Charles E. Kohlhase; William H. Oldendorf & William Zabielski; Richard Ellis; Dan Ross; George Sweetnam; Robert Anton Wilson; Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman; Richard Conniff; Dina Ingber; David Glass; Geraldine Youcha
New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1982. The January, 1982 issue of Science Digest, Volume 90, Number 1. Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 120 pp. Near Fine - very near fine, with just trace edge wear and some age-toning to the newsprint portion of the textblock (one section of the pages in Science Digest at this time in its life was printed on newsprint, and invariably shows...
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$35.00
Pyschology of Sex: A Manual for Students
by Ellis, Havelock
New York: Emerson Books, Inc, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Ninth printing, new edition. xii, 377 p.p. Original green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine and in blind to front board. Text clean except for a few spots of foxing. Bookplate to front pastedown. Bumping to spine ends and board edges. Light rubbing to front joint and rear board. Light foxing to a few pages, but text is largely clean.
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$22.17
Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep
by Green, Celia; McCreery, Charles
New York: Routledge, 1994. Soft cover. As New. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. The 2001 reprinting. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, x + 186 pp. As New; fine, immaculate, flawless. See scans. A pristine example of a classic title within the field of inquiry into a mysterious set of sleep phenomena which remains the focus of much analytic investigation. Bright, clean, tight - As New. See scans. L-46n
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$65.00
Emmenologia
by Freind, John; Dale, Thomas (translator)
London: Printed for T. Cox, 1752. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Freind, John. 1675-1728. Written, in Latin, by the Late Learned Dr. John Freind. Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M.D. The Second Edition. [16], 216 p.p., [8 p.p. index, ads]. Engraved title vignette, with decorative head, tail, and endpieces. Bound in red and blue marbled quarter-paper with rebacked brown calf spine and red leather spine label. Light rubbing to tips, outer edges. Some slight scuffs on spine. Light foxing....
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$517.37
Distillations Magazine - Volume 2, Number 3 - Fall 2016. Post-Carbon Future World; Death and Taxidermy; Filter of Life; Flavor of Smog; Ken Shoulders; Synthetic Fashion; 1930s Italian Food Fight; Richard Hamilton; Ernest Lawrence; Killing Cancer; Vincent T. DeVita
by Michal Meyer (Editor in Chief)
Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, as described, with pre-printed subscriber's address on rear cover (all examples of this publication were thus mailed). See scans and description. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2016. The Fall, 2016 issue of the new incarnation of the artfully executed Distillations magazine (subhead: Science-Culture-History), Volume Two, Number Two. Quite scarce...
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$35.00
The Technique of Novel Writing
by Basil Hogarth
A book for the novice to acquaint the reader with the diverse variations of invention and technique, imagery and form that constitute the prime characteristics of the novel. 194 pages. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. This is a small book, postage can be reduced in Australia if no tracking required - contact me.
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$9.81
National Geographic One-Off Customized Hardbound Volume, 20s - 40s. Lena Larcom personalized.
by uncredited
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society , 1950. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine. See scans and description. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, circa 1950. An undated, singular hardbound volume of the text, many color illustrative plates (mostly non-photographic) and black and white photographic plates from selected articles from diverse issues of the National Geographic magazine between the 1920s and the 1940s. Personalized at spine bottom to Lena Larcom (see...
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$200.00
The Origin of Species
by Darwin, Charles
Barnes and Noble Classics. Softcover. Good. 2004. Cover edges show wear. At the top of the spine there is some minor separation of the glossy coating on the cover, and an approximately 1/8 of an inch tear. The binding is tight and the pages are all crisp and clean.
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$2.49
A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us / The Evolution of Life on Earth
by Liebes, Sidney; Sahtouris, Elisabet; Swimme, Brian
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. First Edition and First Printing. Tall octavo, illustrated jacket, navy boards with silver imprinting, 223 pp. Fine book in a Fine, unclipped jacket. L-31n
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$87.50
Connections / Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences / Spring, 2006. Albert Maysles, Paul Verhaeghen,Tom Perrault, Linda Martin-Alcoff, Joseph Chaiken, Scott Lehr, Deborah J. Armstrong, Mary Gaitskill, Britton L.T. Plourde, William S. Cole, Donald I. Siegel, Lonnie G. Thompson, Mark Bowick, Steven Cohan, Michael Flusche
by Secora, Stephen (editor)
Syracuse, NY: The College of Arts and Sciences / Syracuse University, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Syracuse, NY: The College of Arts and Sciences / Syracuse University, 2006. The Spring, 2006 issue of "Connections". Cover is a fanciful montage by Anson Liaw representing the lead article, "Knowledge Without Borders". Quarto, staple-bound illustrated wraps, 36 pp. Very Good, in fact Fine but for a modest dog-ear crease...
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$35.00
Man and Nature
by Marsh, George Perkins
University of Washington Press. Softcover. Very Good. 2003. Faint crease on the back cover, running from the bottom to about 3/4 of the way up on the side. Minor wear at the corners. Pages appear clean and free of marks. Binding a touch loose, but pages and covers are secure.
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$5.99
Discover Magazine - March, 1999. Cures from the Ocean; Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism in the Andes; Saving a Rain Forest; Physics of Traffic Jams; Stephen Hawking; Jupiter's Amazing Moons; Vampires; Underwater Volcanoes
by Stephen L. Petranek (Editor-in-Chief)
New York: The Buena Vista Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Near Fine. See description and scans. New York: The Buena Vista Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. The March, 1999 issue of Discover magazine, Volume 20, Number 3. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 136 pp. Near Fine - very Near Fine. A tiny upper right corner tweak (see front cover scan), and really nothing else to point to. Not as briskly tight as brand new,...
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$25.00
Scientific American Mind - 2018 Special Collector's Edition. Behavior, Brain Science, Insights
by Andrea Gawrylewski (Collections Editor)
New York : Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc. , 2018. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New, and pristine. See scans and description. New York: Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc., 2018. Scientific American Mind - 2018 Special Collector's Edition, edited by Andrea Gawrylewski. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps,113 pp. New, and flawless. See scans. SA, with its usual inspired graphics as accompaniment, discusses state-of-the-art...
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$35.00
