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Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Very scarce, very near fine first American edition of a classic medical work still in print in revised editions. Bookplate & previous owner's 1884 inscription on first free endpaper. Red boards and red painted edges. 4 & 1/4 x 6 & 1/2 inches tall. 584 pp. incl. index. Elements of Surgical Diagnosis. By A. PEARCE Gould, M. S., M. B. Lond., F. R. C. S. Eng., Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, etc. Pp. 584. London: Cassell & Company. 1884. A work on surgical diagnosis is of the same use to the clinical student as demonstrations of anat omy are to the anatomical. Systematic text-books are excellent in their way, but for the beginner they are too descriptive and not sufficiently di rective. Mr. Gould has supplied a guide to diagnosis which is sure to be immensely popular with students, for in addition to the careful arrange ment and skilful comparison of facts,… Read More

[np]: [Privately Printed], 1933. Limited Edition, First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good + / near fine. A very good plus / near fine first edition limited to 100 copies, as stated. 1/4 brown cloth over brown paper boards with gilt title-stamping on cover. One light short scuff to front cover with a few light scuffs on the back. Minor rubbing and miniscule loss at head and tail of spine. Wear to edge of front cover. Mild toning to pastedowns and page edges. 130 pp., including appendix. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall, octavo. A lovely and entertaining story and beautiful piece of prose about a salmon fishing trip on Anticosti.

Buffalo, N.Y: The Hammond Press, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A fine first edition of a classic reference work on the fur trade. Brown cloth boards with gilt images and title stamping.. One rubbed corner, no other flaws in book. Binding is sturdy, tight, and square. Brown endpapers free of any writing. Text is clean a bright. Text is clean and bright. Rear pastedown has original price sticker from 1912: "Eastern Agent Geo. W. Reynolds" &etc. Map frontis. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings. [5] 372 pp including index. 6 9 1/4 inches tall, octavo. It was Marcus Petersen who rst published in his book. “The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals" something that was different from the material used by the authors of earlier fur books. Petersen, however, con ned himself principally to the fur-bearing animals and the characteristics and distinguishing properties of different furs. He was. however, the rst authority to compile a table giving the weights… Read More

New York: Scholastic / Arthur A. Levine, 2005. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Mary GrandPré. A fine first printing of the first American Edition in a fine dust jacket. Black quarter-cloth over purple diamond patterned boards. Full number line 1-10. Green endpapers. Full wrap around dust jacket with Mary GrandPré illustration. Stated first edition which meets all points of issue for the first American edition. 652 pp. Octavo, 6 & 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

New York: Scholastic / Arthur A. Levine, 2003. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 1/4 cloth. Fine/fine. Mary GrandPré. A fine first printing of the first American Edition in a fine dust jacket. Grey quarter-cloth over blue diamond patterned boards. Full number line 1-10. Full wrap around dust jacket with Mary GrandPré illustration. Stated first edition which meets all points of issue for the first American edition. 870 pp. Octavo, 6 & 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Trade Edition. Boards. Fine/fine. A fine, SIGNED first trade edition in a fine dustjacket. Black paperboards. Gold foil title stamping on spine is fresh and bright. Binding is sturdy and square. SIGNED by Alexie on the title page. Octavo, 6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/4 inches tall. “Vigorous prose . . . haunted, surprising characters . . . flashes of sardonic wit . . . [ Indian Killer is] a meditative exploration of the sources of human identity.” — Richard E. Nicholls, The New York Times Book Review

Lancaster, (PA): International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company / Science Press Printing Company, 1933. Hardcover. Very good/missing. A good plus first edition, first printing, as stated. SIGNED by the author on a pasted-in Korzybski notepaper to journalist and defender Robert H. Allen. Embossed lined blue cloth boards; corners bumped. Title stamping on spine worn and faded. General dust stains to endpapers and edges. Mull showing, but hinges intact, at the half- title page. First free endpaper and title page wrinkled. Binding a bit soft. Offsetting on final index page where Allen's defense of Korzybski is pasted into the final leaf. Dated by Allen present as well on final leaf. 798 pp. including index with drawings and graphs by the author. Octavo, 6&1/4 x 9&1/2 inches tall.. Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ( July 3, 1879 - March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more… Read More

Paris: Chez Elie Josset, Rue S. Jacques, Au Coin de la Rue de la Parcheminerie, a la Fleur de Lys D'Or, 1692. Nouvelle Edicion. Leather bound. Very good +/none as issued. A very good plus New edition of 1692 in full leather with five raise bands and ornate gold tooling in each compartment. Binding is tight and sturdy, book opens a bit when lying flat but is without any water damage. 1/4 inch lx 1/4 inch leather loss at foot of spine (both corners of spine). Date of 1692 is not correctly done in the Roman (see photos), printer's error. All edges spattered red as issued. Previous owners' names and inscriptions on first free endpaper. Text is crisp, clean, and bright. Text in French. 498 pp. Trigesimo-secundo (32mo), 3 & 1/2 x 6 inches tall. Simon-Michel Treuvé, born in Noyers on August 8, 1651and died in Paris on February 22, 1730, was a French Catholic theologian. This book was a huge success with over a hundred editions including translations into English, German and Dutch. -… Read More

Hanover: Ben Nikolaus Förster, 1718. Leather bound. Very good. A lovely old copy of of "A Brief and accurate system of modern geography, By a new and curious method." Translated and expanded by Johann Bernhard Heinzelmann from the sixth edition of Patrick Gordon's "Geography anatomized." Covers countries, customs, religions, and currency of the time and places.Bound in calfskin, with repaired cracking at the joint and wear to leather on front cover. Spine titled in faded gilt lettering. Missing the first free endpaper. Page edges stained with age. Double sheet title page in red and black ink. Part II divided by a double page illustration. Final page of the "Register" missing 1" circular section. Fraktur typeface. Text in German. 964 pp. octodecimo 4" x 6" tall

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/fine. Stacy Drum, Glenn Chadbourne. A fine, signed limited edition in a fine leather clamshell slipcase. Letter "O" of 52 lettered copies. Signed by Dean Koontz and dozens of other horror writers on the first pages. Appears completely unread. Burgundy clamshell slipcase . Fine dust jacket. Burgundy cloth binding. Full color illustrations. Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies with a satin ribbon page marker, and also includes a separate, specially-commissioned Halloween Art Portfolio, featuring twelve full-pages of stunning artwork inspired by classic Halloween images. 660 pp. Folio. At more than 660 pages, this oversized volume is one of the best (and biggest) collections of Halloween material ever published!Contents include: 22 short stories of spooky Halloween fiction (eleven brand new, never-before-published tales specially-written for October Dreams and eleven… Read More

London: Tim Childe, 1698. First Edition, First Printing. Full leather. Good +/none as issued. A good plus, rebound first edition in three parts (one volume, as issued.), [Wing H1309] [ESTC No. R15760]..Newly rebound in goat with four raised bands and paper label. Frontis and last index page heavily chipped and fragile, taped in with conservation grade paper. . First 14 pp. a bit proud. Foxing and page staining throughout. Stamp and Minor marginalia. [20], 411, [9] p. : ill., indexed. 12mo. Thomas Hearne or Hearn (Latin: Thomas Hearnius, July 1678 – 10 June 1735) was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts." ---Wikipedia

Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition in a fine dustjacket, inscribed by Navajo code talker, artist, and professor, the late Dr. Carl (Kin-Ya-Onny Beyeh) Gorman, on the frontis in 1996. Rare with this signature. x, 202 pages : illustrations. Octavo. Dr. Carl Nelson Gorman, ... Kin-Ya-Onny-Beyeh (1907–1998) was a Navajo code talker, visual artist, painter, illustrator, and professor. He was faculty at the University of California, Davis, from 1950 until 1973. During World War II, Gorman served as a code talker with the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific. ... Gorman died from cancer on January 29, 1998, in Gallup, New Mexico. ...In 1990, Gorman was awarded a doctor of humane letters from the University of New Mexico. Shortly after his retirement in 1973, UC Davis named their new museum, the C.N. Gorman Museum in his honor, and Gorman donated to the collection. In 1995, Northern Arizona University unveiled a code talker… Read More