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Catalogue 44
BOOKS I WANTED TO KEEP…BUT I AM A BOOKSELLER
The title of catalogue 44 deserves some explanation. All of us have favorite topics, authors and illustrators. So I
put together a collection of works that in a perfect world I would like to keep for myself. I’ll explain my reasoning for
some of the items. Turing’s Computable Numbers is but the tip of the iceberg of a genius lost too early and the
beginning of a whole new dimension in computing. Morgan, Morgagni and Hunter began entirely new fields of
biological and medical research. Albert Einstein: Unified Field Theory—we are still searching for the “The Theory of
Everything.
Niels Bohr’s description of the Atom has stood the test of time (PMM 411b). Yes, I like Signed award winners.
Hence Einstein, Bardeen, Mather and a host of others are on this list. The fundamental components of the cell
elucidated in part by Golgi in the 19th Century (Golgi Apparatus) and Palade (Ribosome) in the 20th Century are
represented here as well.
Books on Twentieth Century Economics span the spectrum with works by Keynes, Friedman, Klein, and others.
China and related areas are represented by signed works of Roy Chapman Andrews, William Rockhill and G. R.
G. Worcester. The beautiful von Perckhammer The Culture of the Nude in China with English text. Japan has Conder
Flowers of Japan… The first book written and published in English on Ikebana as well as Signed works of Suzuki and
Blyth and other treats.
We turn to childrens’ classics and Caldecott winners. Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass First Edition illustrated
by Peter Newell and Signed by him. A wonderful limited volume by Leo Lionni and original Art of Garth Williams. We
end with an all time favorite of mine, Edward Gorey. Figbash entirely made by him with a Signed tag and a Gaggle of
other Signed Goreys.
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FEATURED ITEMS
A Foundation of Modern Computing
1.
TURING, Alan M. (Mathison) (1912-1954). ON
COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPLICATION TO
THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM (First Part) and ON
COMPUTABLE NUMBERS WITH AN APPLICATION TO
THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM (Second Part) and A
CORRECTION. In Proceedings of the London Mathematical
Society 2nd series, Vol. 42 part 3 (November 30, 1936) pp.
230-240; Vol. 42 part 4 (December 23 1936) pp. 241-265;
Vol. 43 part 7 (April 22, 1937). London: London
Mathematical Society, 1936. Offered are three Near Fine
issues (as outlined above) of the Proceedings of the London
Mathematical Society, each bound separately in modern green
cloth covered boards with lettering in black on the spines.
Title pages for volumes 42 and 43 bound in. Wrappers not
bound in. Mild scattered toning. The “Correction” shows some
offsetting. No library or other markings, inscriptions or
extraneous writing. The three volumes are in a matching green
cloth covered clamshell box with a leather spine label, gilt
lettering. Sm. 4to.
$12,500.00
David Hilbert (1862-1943) one of the greatest mathematicians
of his age posed a series of problems, the last of which was his
‘Entscheidungsproblem’ which is concerned with whether
there is a definite method or “mechanical process” that can
be applied to any mathematical assertion and which would
always produce a correct answer as to whether the assertion
is true or false. Turing’s paper follows in the footsteps of Kurt
Gödel’s 1931 “Incompleteness Theorem” which proved that
arithmetic could not be both complete and consistent. Turing
extended this work and showed that mathematics was
undecidable. To do that he came up with the concept of
“Computable Numbers”, by which he meant numbers that
could be defined by a definite rule, i. e. numbers that could be
calculated using his “universal machine”. Turing then showed
that these computable numbers could be used to generate
uncomputable numbers, those that could not be calculated
using a definite rule. Thus, these latter numbers were not
amenable to calculation by a definite rule. Therefore, there
was no “mechanical process” for solving all mathematical
questions. (See DSB Vol. 13. p. 497). Hook & Norman Origins
of Cyberspace No. 394.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) the name itself
evokes the history of pathological anatomy. Claude Bernard,
the founder of experimental physiology, made no secret of his
debt to Morgagni. This work, originally published in Latin
(1761) was the most detailed and systematic study of
pathological anatomy to date based on over 700 cases of
disease. Its translation into English only two years after its
publication is evidence of its importance. “Vast in scope, it is
one of the most fundamentally important works in the history
of medicine” (Heirs of Hippocrates 792). Garrison-Morton
2276, Osler 1180. Heralds of Science 125, 100 Books Famous
in Medicine 46 and Printing and the Mind of Man 206 (Noting
the Latin edition). be considered to be the founder of
pathological anatomy. (DSB Vol. 9 pp. 511-512).
First Book in English on Experimental Embryology
2.
MORGAN, Thomas Hunt (SIGNED). Nobel
Laureate. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FROG’S EGGS.
An Introduction to Experimental Embryology. New York:
Macmillan, 1897. SIGNED BY THOMAS HUNT MORGAN
on the title page beneath his signature without personalization.
A Near Fine hardback First Edition First Printing in the
original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spine. Mild
wear spine tips. 8vo. x, 192, [13 Ads] pp.
$2,500.00
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) is best known for his
pathfinding work in genetics. However, he made fundamental
contributions to other biological disciplines including
experimental embryology and cytology. The current volume is
the first work in English on experimental embryology
(Garrison-Morton 514, Norman 1550). His work with the fruit
fly, Drosophila melanogaster, over many years established the
chromosomal theory of heredity in which genes responsible
for particular traits are aligned linearly along the
chromosome. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Medicine or Physiology in 1933, the first geneticist so
honored.
The Founding of Anatomic Pathology
3.
MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista (Translated from
the Latin by Benjamin Alexander). THE SEATS AND
CAUSES OF DISEASES INVESTIGATED BY ANATOMY;
In Five Books, Containing a Great Variety Dissections, with
Remarks. To Which are Added very Accurate and Copious
indexes of the Principal Things and Names Herein Contained.
PMM 206. London: Printed for A. Millar & T. Cadell and
Johnson and Payne, 1769. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set.
Very Good++ hardback First Edition in English in
contemporary marbled boards, modern half leather rebacking
and corners. Leather spine label, gilt lettering. Cover edges
mild wear. Scattered mild foxing. Owner bookplate vol. I.
Not ex-library copy. 4to. xxxii, 868; vi, 770; [vi], 604 + Index.
A handsome set.
$4,500.00
The Creation of the Calculus of Variation
4.
EULER,
Leonhard
(Leonhardo
Eulero).
METHODUS INVENIENDI LINEAS CURVAS MAXIMI
MINIMIVE
PROPRIETATE
GAUDENTES,
SIVE
SOLUTIO PROBLEMATIS ISOPERIMETRICI LATISSIMO
SENSU ACCEPTI. Lusanne and Geneva: MarcumMichaelem Bousquet, 1744. First Edition. Near Fine First
Edition First Printing in a late nineteenth century quarter
leather marbled board binding with gilt lettering and
decorations spine. Binding with edge wear, label residue
spine. Owner’s name and bookplate ffep, stamp rfep. The text
shows mild scattered toning. The volume is complete with five
foldout engraved plates in the rear. 4to. [2], 322, [2] pp., 5
Foldout Plates. Scarce.
$9,250.00
“With the publication of this work, the calculus of variation
came into being as a new branch of mathematics” (Norman
731). Horblit Science 28; Dibner Heralds 111. (See DSB Vol.
4, p. 479).
5.
SILVERSTEIN, Shel (SIGNED). A LIGHT IN THE
ATTIC. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. SIGNED BY SHEL
SILVERSTEIN without personalization. Fine hardback Stated
“First Edition” on the copyright page, First Printing in a Near
Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. 167, [9] pp.
$1,400.00
6.
(Lewis and Clark) THWAITES, Reuben Gold
(Edit and with Introduction, Notes and Index). ORIGINAL
JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITIONS
Printed from the Original Manuscripts together with
Manuscript Material of Lewis and Clark. Now for the First
Time Published in Full and Exactly as Written. [Edition De
Luxe]. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1904. First
Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES ON IMPERIAL
JAPAN PAPER. THIS IS SET No. 34 with all volumes so
marked on the colophons. Edition De Luxe with 33 of the
plates (including 7 frontispieces) in two states—black and
white and hand-tinted in color, unique to the Imperial Japan
Edition. Complete set with the seven volumes of text in 14
books plus the Atlas volume which is complete with all 54
maps as listed. A total of fifteen books, as issued. Dated 19041905. First Edition First Printing Near Fine to Fine volumes
bound in tan buckram with gilt titling and ornamentation, as
issued. Inset tipped on color portraits of Lewis and Clark on
all front covers. Frontispieces in all volumes with tissue
guards. Mild toning to spines of a few books. No writing,
marking or bookplates. All bindings intact, tight. 4to.
$14,000.00
This Edition De Luxe precedes the trade edition of same dates
(See Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5d.1, p.
196). A landmark of Lewis and Clark scholarship. Printing for
the first time many major primary documents which were not
in the Biddle edition—including the Floyd and Whitehouse
journals, material from the Clark-Voorhis papers as well as
facsimile manuscripts, maps, portraits and other material.
Paltsits’s bibliography of the Lewis and Clark expedition is a
valuable contribution as well. (Literature of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition 5d.1).Howes L-230 “The most elaborate
work on this expedition”. Wagner-Camp 13:7 (note).
Printing and the Mind of Man (PMM) 416
7.
EINSTEIN, Albert.
(Unified Field Theory—A
Uniform Theory of
Gravitation
and
Electricity)
EINHEITLICHE FELDTHEORIE VON GRAVITATION
UND ELEKTRIZITÄT. And Four Further Papers. [Printing
and the Mind of Man (PMM) 416]. 2) Neue Mögllichkeit for
eine Einheitliche Feldtheoruie von Gravitation und
Elektrizität; 3) Eintheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und
Elektrizität; 4) Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie; 5) Über den
Gegenwärtigen stand der feld-theorie. FOUR FIRST
SEPARATE
PRINTINGS—OFFPRINTS—PLUS
ONE
BOUND VOLUME. A total of Five Papers. The four
Offprints are in Fine condition in original tan printed wrappers
without any markings or writing. The bound volume is in Very
Good++ condition a cloth binding with typewriter printed
paper label on the spine. Mild scattered pen markings,
including some underlining Einstein paper. These papers are
Weil Nos. 147, 162, 165, 166 and 168. 1) S. B. Preuss. Akad.
Wiss., 1925, pp. 414-419; 2) S. B. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1928,
pp. 224-227; 3) S. B. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1929 pp. 2-7; 4) S.
B. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1029, pp. 156-159; 5) Festschrift Dr.
A. Stodola Zurich 1929 pp. 126-132. Scarce.
$3,500.00
Einstein coined the term “Unified Field Theory”. By that he
meant a field theory that allows all of what are thought of as
fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in
terms of a single field. In these five papers we see Einstein’s
first substantial progressive attempt at a unified field theory.
While Einstein and later researchers up to our own day have
not as yet been successful, he began moving physics along a
path that still resonates today. Physicists continue to work on
this problem, perceived by many as THE fundamental
principle of our physical world, first illuminated by Maxwell
and then tackled by Einstein. Printing and the Mind of Man
416; Norman 700.
8.
WILDER, Laura Ingalls. Illustrated by Helen
Sewell and Mildred Boyle. LITTLE TOWN ON THE
PRAIRIE. New York: Harper, 1941. A Very Good+ hardback
Stated First Edition First Printing with mild foxing covers,
edges in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket with minimal foxing,
chips, short closed tear. 8vo. 288 pp.
$2,250.00
PHYSICS AND REALTED DISCIPLINES
Invention of the Transistor
9.
BARDEEN, J, and W. H. Brattain. W. Shockley, G.
L. Pearson, and J. R. Haynes. PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES
INVOLVED IN TRANSISTOR ACTION (J. Bardeen and W.
H. Brattain) In The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol.
XXVIII, April, 1949 No. 2 pp. 239-277 and HOLE
INJECTION IN GERMANIUM - QUANTITATIVE
STUDIES AND FILAMENTARY TRANSISTORS (W.
Shockley, G. L. Pearson, and J. R. Haynes) and ON THE
THEORY OF THE A-C. IMPEDANCE OF A CONTACT
RECTIFIER (J. Bardeen) and THE THEORY OF p-n
JUNCTIONS
IN
SEMICONDUCTORS
AND
p-n
JUNCTION TRANSISTORS (W. Shockley) In The Bell
System Technical Journal Vol. xxviii, July, 1949, No. 3, pp.
344-366, 428-434, and 435-489. [The Transistor Issue]. New
York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949.
Offered are two Near Fine entire issues of The Bell System
Technical Journal for April 1949 and July 1949 in original
printed wrappers with small owner name front covers, toning
spines and covers. These two issues are housed in a Fine
custom turquoise cloth covered chemise with gilt lettering
spine. 8vos.
$2,750.00
The first paper by Bardeen and Brattain is the initial
comprehensive report on the transistor which had been
announced in three short communications in Physical Review
in 1948. Hook & Norman, Origin of Cyberspace 450. The
Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William
Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Housed Brattain
“for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery
of the transistor effect”.
Printing and the Mind of Man (PMM) 411b and 407
10. BOHR, N [Niels]. H. [Henry] G. J. Moseley. ON
THE CONSTITUTION OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES
(Niels Bohr) In The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. XXVI,
Sixth Series, July -December 1913 pp. 1-25, 476-502, 857-875
and THE HIGH-FREQUENCY SPECTRA OF THE
ELEMENTS I (H. G. J. Moseley). In The London, Edinburgh,
and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Vol. XXVI, Sixth Series,
July -December 1913 pp. 1024-1034 and The London,
Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of
Science, Vol. XXVII, Sixth Series, January-June 1914 pp.
703-713. Two Volumes. [Moseley’s papers are Printing and
the Mind of Man (PMM) 407]. London: Taylor and Francis,
1913. Dated 1913 -1914. Offered are two Very Good++ entire
hardback Volumes XXVI and XXVII of The Philosophical
Magazine and Journal of Science in modern brown half leather
and marbled boards with raised bands spines, gilt lettering on
black leather spine labels, new endpapers. Volume XXVII is
Ex-library with library ink stamps title page and verso of
plates. Mild soil and stains edges. 8vos.
$4,750.00
His three epochal papers on the Constitution of Atoms and
Molecules Parts I, II & III, presented the cogent arguments
and proof for an atom composed of a nucleus with electrons
traveling in defined orbits or energy states around that center.
Bohr continued to elaborate—the chemical properties of
elements were largely determined by the number of electrons
in the outer shells or orbits. Bohr also introduced the idea that
an electron could drop from a higher energy level to a lower
one, emitting a photon containing a discrete quantity (or
quantum) of energy. Moseley, working under Rutherford, used
X-ray spectroscopy to calculate variations in the wavelength
of the rays emitted by each element. These he arranged in a
series according to the nuclear charge of each element...These
figures Moseley called “atomic numbers”. Niels Bohr (18851962) was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for “His
services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of
the radiation emanating from them”.
Bohr PMM 411b, Norman 258. Moseley PMM 407.
11. DYSON, Freeman J. (SIGNED). A MANYCOLORED GLASS. Reflections on the Place of Life in the
Universe. Page-Barbour Lectures for 2004. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia, 2007. SIGNED BY FREEMAN J.
DYSON ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A Fine
hardback Stated First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust
Jacket. 8vo. xi, 162 pp.
$95.00
12. GAMOW, George. CONSTITUTION OF ATOMIC
NUCLEI AND RADIOACTIVITY. The Second Volume in
The International Series of Monographs on Physics. Oxford:
Clarenden Press, 1931. Near Fine hardback First Edition First
Printing with mild toning eps. In a Very Good+ Dust Jacket
with age toning, sun spine, mild edge wear, chips. No writing
or marks of any kind. A Rare First Edition in Dust Jacket .
8vo. viii, 114, Folding periodic table pp.
$500.00
The current volume (from Gamow’s preface) is aimed to
“give as complete an account as possible of our present
experimental and theoretical knowledge of the nature of
atomic nuclei”. It is a comprehensive, underappreciated
volume that ends intriguingly with Gamow’s work on
“Artificial Transformation of Nuclei”. (See DSB vol. 6 pp.
271-273).
13. (Isaac Newton) FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier
de. THE LIFE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON; with an Account of
His Writings. London: James Woodman and David Lyon,
1728. A Very Good++ First Edition in modern quarter leather
and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine. Minimal scattered
foxing. 8vo. 26; 23 pp. Rare. Text in English except for the
last section comprising Fontenelle's “Elogue de Neuton” in
French.
$1,200.00
Wallis 389 records this copy with the separately paginated
“Elogue de M. Neuton”, the same as our copy. Babson 271
records the unauthorized edition that was published without
Fontenelle's knowledge or name later in 1728 and lacks the
“Elogue”.
14. (Isaac Newton) ROBINSON, Bryan. SIR ISAAC
NEWTON’S ACCOUNT OF THE ÆTHER. WITH SOME
ADDITIONS BY WAY OF APPENDIX. Dublin: G. and A.
Ewing, and W. Smith, 1745. A Very Good+ hardback First
Edition First Printing in full brown leather binding with spine
repaired. Mild scuffs covers, soil and foxing endpapers.
Includes reprint of a letter from Newton to Boyle. Housed in
Fine custom made black cloth covered chemise with gilt
lettering spine. 8vo. 51 pp.
$750.00
Wallis 228. Not in Babson (but see Babson 159 for later
related work). Bryan Robinson (1680-1754), physician and
author, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (MB 1709,
MD 1711). He was anatomical lecturer there in 1716-17, and
in 1745 he was appointed Regius Professor of Physic.
Robinson had a reputation in his day as a medical and
mathematical writer, editor, and translator. He greatly
admired Newton, and he tried to account for animal motions
by Newton’s principles and to apply the latter to the rational
treatment of diseases. He attributed the production of
muscular power to the vibration of an ethereal fluid pervading
the animal body. He further believes that the ether causes
gravity. (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
15. LEE, T. D. and C. N. Yang. Nobel Laureate in
Physics (1957). QUESTION OF PARITY CONSERVATION
IN WEAK INTERACTIONS In The Physical Review, Vol.
104, Second Series, No. 1, Oct. 1, 1956 pp. 254-258.
Lancaster PA: American Institute of Physics, 1956. Offered is
a Very Good++ entire issue of The Physical Review in
original printed wrappers with owner name front cover, mild
sun spine, minimal cover edge wear. Sm. 4to.
$1,100.00
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 was awarded jointly to Chen
Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T. D) Lee “For their penetrating
investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to
important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”
16. MATHER, John C. (SIGNED) Nobel Laureate in
Physics (2006) and John Boslough. THE VERY FIRST
LIGHT. The True Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the
Dawn of the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1996.
SIGNED “JOHN” AND INSCRIBED BY JOHN C.
MATHER. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First Printing
in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. xxi, 328 pp.
$250.00
John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel
Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form
and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background
radiation”.
17. PAULING, Linus (SIGNED) Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry (1954), Robert B. Corey, and Roger Hayward.
THE STRUCTURE OF PROTEIN MOLECULES. San
Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1954. SIGNED BY LINUS
PAULING ON FRONT COVER without personalization. A
Fine offprint in original printed wrappers from Scientific
American, July 1954, 11 pp. 4to.
$500.00
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 was awarded to Linus
Pauling “for his research into the nature of the chemical bond
and its application to the elucidation of the structure of
complex substances.”
18. POPPER, Karl. R. (SIGNED). BIRKHOFF AND
VON NEUMANN’S INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM
MECHANICS. Nature, 1968. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED
BY KARL POPPER TO JACOB BRONOWSKI, “BRUNO”
to his friends. From Jacob Bronowski’s library with his
annotations. A Very Good++ Offprint First Separate Edition
in self wrappers from Nature, Vol. 219, No. 5155, pp. 682685, August 17, 1968 with mild toning, edge wear, two
horizontal creases. 4to. Nice Association Copy.
$600.00
Soddy in the Scarce Dust Jacket
19. SODDY, Frederick. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
(1921). THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ATOM. London:
John Murray, 1932. A Very Good++ hardback Stated First
Edition First Printing with foxing, owner bookplate front
paste-down in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with sunning spine,
mild chips, scuffs. 8vo. xvii, 355 pp. + 2 Foldout Tables rear.
Rare in original printed Dust Jacket.
$800.00
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) was a noted British chemist
awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 for, in the
words of the Nobel Committee: “His contribution to our
knowledge of radioactive substances and his investigations
into the origin and nature of isotopes”
20. TOWNES, Charles H. Nobel Laureate in Physics
(1964) (Editor).
QUANTUM ELECTRONICS. A
Symposium. New York: Columbia University, 1960. SIGNED
BY CHARLES H. TOWNES ON TITLE PAGE without
personalization. A Near Fine hardback First Edition First
Printing in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with mild soil and
edge wear. 8vo. xviii, 606 pp.
$850.00
Charles Hard Townes shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1964 with Nicoly Basov and Aleksandr Prokhorov for
“Fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which
led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on
the maser-laser principle”. The topic of the current volume
deals with Dr. Towne’s Nobel work.
21. TOWNES, Charles H. (SIGNED). HOW THE
LASER HAPPENED. Adventures of a Scientist. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999. SIGNED BY CHARLES H.
TOWNES without personalization. A Fine hardback Stated
First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. 200 pp.
$650.00
BIOLOGY
22. BRENNER S. [Sydney] Nobel Leaureate in
Physiology and Medicine (2002), J. D. Murray and L.
Wolpert. THEORIES OF BIOLOGICAL PATTERN
FORMATION. A Discussion Organized by S. Brenner, F. R.
S., J. D. Murray, and L. Wolpert, F. R. S. London: Royal
Society, 1981. SIGNED BY SYDNEY BRENNER without
personalization. A Fine offprint First Separate Edition in
original printed wrappers from the Phil. Trans, R. Soc. Lond.
B 295, pp. 425-617 (1981). 4to.
$200.00
The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2002 was
awarded to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E.
Sulston “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of
organ development and programmed cell death.”
Cracking the Genetic Code
23. NIRENBERG, Marshall W. Nobel Laureate in
Physiology or Medicine and Heinrich Matthaei. THE
DEPENDENCE OF CELL-FREE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN
E. COLI UPON NATURALLY OCCURRING OR
SYNTHETIC POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDES. Offprint from
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 47,
N0. 10, pp. 1588-1602., October. 1961. National Academy of
Sciences, 1961. Near Fine Offprint, First Separate Edition in
self wrappers as issued. Mild horizontal crease, Owner name.
8vo. 15 pp. includes 4 figures, as issued. Rare.
$1,000.00
This work was presented in 1961 at the Fifth International
Congress of Biochemistry, Moscow 1961. The proceedings of
that meeting were not published until 1963. Nirenberg came to
the Moscow meeting as an unknown researcher and presented
this paper to a handful of listeners. One of them told Francis
Crick about it, and Nirenberg was asked to present it a second
time at the end of a large session that Crick was chairing.
Nirenberg explained how he and his postdoctoral student,
Heinrich Matthaei, had “cracked the code” for the first time.
They attacked the problem by synthesizing a nucleic acid with
a known base sequence and then finding which amino acid it
converted to protein. (Judson, Eighth Day of Creation, pp.
463-464, 1996) Nirenberg received the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1968.
Discovery and Description of the Ribosome
24. PALADE, George E. (Emil) (SIGNED). Nobel
Laureate. A SMALL PARTICULATE COMPONENT OF
THE CYTOPLASM. Offprint from Proceedings of
International Conference on Electron Microscopy. London,
July 1954. London: 1955. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND
DATED BY GEORGE E. PALADE. A Near Fine Offprint—
First Separate Edition—in self wrappers. Mild soil. 8vo. 417423, + 4 Plates pp.
$500.00
George Emil Palade (1912-2008) was a Romanian cell
biologist best known for his discovery of ribosomes using new
and innovative techniques in electron microscopy. “In the
early 1950’s several people began to turn the electron
microscope onto the insides of cells, especially to look at the
small particles of RNA bound up with protein that had first
been glimpsed at the limit of the power of the optical
microscope...The leader of much of this work, and above all
the most skillful at playing off the ultracentrifuge and the
electron microscope, was George Palade...” (Judson, Eighth
Day of Creation).The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for 1974 was awarded jointly to Albert Claude, Christian de
Duve and George E. Palade “for their discoveries concerning
the structural and functional organization of the cell.”
25. SNELL, George D. (SIGNED) Nobel Laureate in
Physiology of Medicine (1980). SEARCH FOR RATIONAL
ETHICS. New York: Springer, 1988. SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED BY GEORGE SNELL. A Fine hardback Stated
First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. xvi, 317
pp.
$325.00
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1980 was
jointly awarded to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and
George Snell for their discoveries concerning “genetically
determined structures on the cell surface that regulate
immunological reactions.” George Snell discovered the
genetic factors that determine the possibilities of transplanting
tissue from one individual to another.
MATHEMATICS
26. BOOLE, George. A TREATISE ON DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS. Cambridge: Macmillan, 1859. A Very Good+
First Edition First Printing bound in full brown leather
rebacked with new leather spine and endpapers. Seal of the
University of Aberdeen on the front cover (likely a prize
binding). Raised bands spine, gilt lettering on black leather
spine label, marbled edges. Cover edge wear, scuffs. 12mo.
485 pp. With Errata slip and foldout plate, as issued. $550.00
George Boole’s (1815-1864) scientific writings consist
of some fifty papers, two textbooks and two volumes on
mathematical logic. The two textbooks, on differential
equations (1859, the current work) and finite differences
(1860) remained in use in the UK until the end of the century.
They contain much of Boole’s original work, reproducing and
extending material published in his research papers…both
books exhibit a great technical skill in the handling of
operators... (See DSB Vol. 2 p. 294)
27. CARNAP,
Rudolf.
(SIGNED).
LOGICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1951. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY
RUDOLF CARNAP. A Very Good++ hardback Second
Printing in red cloth binding with gilt lettering spine. Minimal
sun spine, cover edge wear. 8vo. xvii, 607 pp.
$750.00
The field of probability was treated systematically and in
detail in Carnap’s major treatise, Logical Foundations of
Probability (1950). (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. II, pp.
31).
28. NEWELL, Allen (SIGNED). UNIFIED THEORIES
OF COGNITION. Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 1990.
First Edition. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE
YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ALLEN NEWELL. A Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in a Near Fine Dust
jacket with sun spine. 8vo. xvii, 549 pp.
$275.00
Allen Newell (1927-1992) was a computer scientist and
cognitive psychologist whose is best known for his seminal
contributions to artificial intelligence and human cognition.
The current volume is a summation of his extensive writings
on cognition.
29. QUINE, W. V. (SIGNED). THE TIME OF MY LIFE.
An Autobiography. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1985.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY W. V. QUINE. A Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in a Very Good++ DJ
with minimal sun spine, edge wear. 8vo. xii, 499 pp. $650.00
30. QUINE, Willard Van Orman (SIGNED). SET
THEORY AND ITS LOGIC. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press
Harvard University, 1963. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY
WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE. The inscription is entirely
in the author’s hand. He signs as “Van”, the name by which he
was known to his friends. A Near Fine hardback First Edition
First Printing with mild edge soil, minimal cover edge wear in
a Near Fine price clipped Dust Jacket.
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Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) was a noted
philosopher and logician. He studied in Prague, Oxford and at
Harvard. He was on the Harvard faculty where he served as
the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy from 1956 to 1978.
Quine’s contributions to the field of logic are varied and
noteworthy. However, it was in the area of set theory where he
made many of his most notable contributions. In the current
volume Quine derives once more the foundations of
mathematics. The volume includes the author’s definitive
exposition of his theory of “virtual sets” and relations and
serves also as a summary of axiomatic set theory through the
mid twentieth century.
31. ROTA, Gian-Carlo. (SIGNED) Joseph P. S. Kung,
Editor. GIAN-CARLO ROTA ON COMBINATORICS.
Introductory Papers and Commentaries. Boston: Birkhauser,
1995. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GIAN-CARLO ROTA
IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. A Fine hardback First
Edition First Printing in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Sm. 4to.
xliii, 624, [2] pp.
$500.00
Gian-Carlo Rota’s (1932-1999) papers on “Foundations of
Combinatorics” in the 1960’s revolutionized the field and
made it a respectable branch of mathematics. The book is
inscribed to “Andy”, the mathematician Andrew Mattei
Gleason (1921-2008) who is known for his work on Hilbert’s
fifth problem. A nice association copy.
MEDICINE
32.
EHRICH, Paul von (SIGNED). Nobel Laureate.
HISTORISCHES ZUR FRAGE DER IMMUNISIERUNG
PER OS. Wiener klinischen Wochenschrift, 1908.
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED “P. E.” BY PAUL EHRLICH
TO HIS LONG TIME COLLABORATOR HANS SACHS. A
Very Good+ Offprint First Separate Edition in self wrappers
from Wiener klinischen Wochenscrift 1908, Nr. 18, 2 pp. with
minimal creases and edge wear. 8vo. Nice Association Copy.
$500.00
33. ENDERS, John F, Frederick C. Robbins (SIGNED),
and Thomas H. Weller. Nobel Laureates in Physiology or
Medicine 1954. THE CULTIVATION OF THE
POLIOMYELITIS VIRUSES IN TISSUE CULTURE. Les
Prix Nobel En 1954. Stockholm: Kungl. Boktryckeriet P. A.
Norstedt & Soner, 1955. SIGNED BY FREDERICK C.
ROBBINS. A Fine First Edition First Printing Offprint in
original printed wrappers. 8vo. pp. 99-118.
$600.00
John F. Enders, Frederick C. Roberts, and Thomas H. Weller
shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954
“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to
grow in cultures of various types of tissue.”
Discovery of the Golgi Apparatus
With Drawings by Camillo Golgi
34. GOLGI, Camillo. APPUNTI INTORNO ALLA
STRUTTURA DELLE CELLULE NERVOSE. Nota. In Reale
Istituto Lombardo Di Scienze E Lettere, Rendiconti. Serie II.
Vol. XXXI Fasc. XIII, 1898, pp. 930-941. Milan: Ulrico
Hoepli, 1898. Offered is a Very Good+ full issue of Reale
Instituto Lombardo Di Scienze E Lettere Rendiconti. Series II,
Vol. XXXI, Fasc. XIII, 1898 in original printed wrappers with
minimal soil and stains covers, cover edge and spine wear, ink
stamp front cover verso. Pages uncut. 8vo.
$650.00
For his work on “The Structure of the nervous system” he
shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with
Santiago Ramon y Cajal. In the field of cytology Golgi was the
first to describe, in 1898, the existence in the cytoplasm of the
nerve cell of a special small organ, in the shape of a fine and
elegant network of anastomosed and interlaced threads. Later
Golgi and his co-workers demonstrated that this endocellular
structure, called Golgi’s internal reticular apparatus, was
given special attention by classical cytologists, who
recognized its undoubted individuality and suspected its
importance in the cellular economy; it is now the object of
particular studies, because it is considered of fundamental
importance in cytometabolic processes. (DSB Vol. 5).
Discovery of a Breast Cancer Gene
35. HALL, Jeff M., Ming K. Lee, Beth Newman, Jan E.
Morrow, Lee A. Anderson, Bing Huey, and Mary-Caire
King. LINKAGE OF EARLY-ONSET FAMILIAL BREAST
CANCER TO CHROMOSOME 17q21. American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 1990. A Fine
offprint in original printed wrappers from Science, Vol. 250,
21 December 1990, pp. 1684-1689.
$300.00
The Founder of Scientific Surgery
36. HUNTER, John. Everard Home. A TREATISE ON
THE BLOOD, INFLAMMATION, AND GUN-SHOT
WOUNDS, BY THE LATE JOHN HUNTER. To Which is
Prefixed. a Short Account of the Author’s Life, by His
Brother-In-Law, Everard Home. London: Printed by John
Richardson, For George Nicol, 1794. A Near Fine hardback
First Edition First Printing. Complete with frontispiece portrait
of John Hunter and 9 additional plates (1 between pp. 160161; 8 at rear labeled I-XIII). In modern quarter leather
binding and marbled paper boards with raised bands spine, gilt
lettering spine, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing text and
plates. 4to. lxvii, 575 pp.
$4,500.00
Garrison-Morton 2283. It was while serving with the army at
Belle Isle during the Seven Years’ War that Hunter collected
the material for his epoch-making book on inflammation and
gunshot wounds. (Norman 1122, p. 409). This remarkable, but
typical, work of Hunter is based on his own observations
during his military experience and is not in any way
dependent on any other concepts. Its approach to physiology
and pathology has a definitely modern ring. The Book was
finished but only about one-third through the press (in
Hunter’s own home) when Hunter died. It contains nine fine
copperplates in the text as well as an engraved portrait and a
biography of Hunter. (Heirs of Hippocrates 972). (see DSB
Vol. 6 p. 568). Wellcome III 317.
37. PAGET, James (SIGNED). THREE PAGE
AUTOGRAPH
LETTER
SIGNED
(ALS).
1877.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY JAMES PAGET. A
Very Good++ three page ALS to Professor Lowne dated Aug.
6, 1877, regarding acquiring drawings or photographs of
specimens from London museum as a favor to his friend
Professor Hannover of Copenhagen. Horizontal fold crease.
Two small scuffs verso. Mild soil. 4 1/2 x 7 inches. $200.00
Renowned British Surgeon (1814-1899). Author of G-M 2996
Paget-Schroetter Syndrome; G-M 4343 description of osteitis
deformans; 5772 first description of “Paget’s disease of the
nipple”.
38. PAUL, John R. (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to
Nobel Laureate Thomas Weller). A HISTORY OF
POLIOMYELITIS. Yale Studies in the History of Science and
Medicine, 6. New Haven CT: Yale University, 1971. SIGNED
AND INSCRIBED TO THOMAS WELLER BY JOHN R.
PAUL. Near Fine hardback First Edition First Printing in a
Very Good price clipped, edge worn dj with small chips, spine
sunned. The inscription reads: “To Tom Weller / who not only
did his share / but wrote almost all of / chapter 35 of this book
/ with gratitude and respect / John R. Paul.” Included with the
book is an Autograph Letter Signed from Dr. Paul to Dr.
Weller dated January 16, 1971 and a post card dated January
25, 1971. In the letter Paul writes in part: “I am sending you
herewith, one of the first copies which records my efforts to
describe the clinical investigators who made valiant attempts
to solve the ‘polio’ problem. In chapter #35, your account of
how polio virus was first propogated (sic) in non-nevous tissue
culture appears...”. The postal card from Dr. Paul concerns
“certain ambiguities” in not specifically telling Dr. Weller and
others that the book he sent was a gift. Also included is a
signed carbon of an earlier letter sent to Drs. Weller, Enders
(this is in fact Dr. Enders copy) and Robbins thanking Dr.
Weller for his contribution and specifically thanking Dr.
Enders for reviewing Dr. Weller’s submission. A Fine
Association Copy.
$1,250.00
Garrison-Morton 4672.5. Thomas H. Weller (1915-2008)
shared the Nobel Prize with Frederick Robbins and John
Enders for “Their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis
viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissues”. This
was the critical step that, once achieved, led rapidly to the
development of vaccine against poliomyelitis by Dr. Salk and
then Dr. Sabin.
39. PAWLOW, [Pavlov] J. P. (Inscribed) Translated by
G. W. Volborth. NATURWISSENSCHAFT UND GEHIRN.
[Science and The Brain]. Vortrag Gehalten in der Allgemeinen
Versammlung des XII. Kongresses Russisher Naturforscher
und Ärzte in Moskau am 28. December 1909. Wiesbaden: J.
F. Bergmann, 1910. INSCRIBED TO JOHN LEATHES
COMPLETELY IN PAVLOV’S HAND AND SIGNED BY
HIM “FROM THE AUTHOR” AS WAS HIS CUSTOM. A
Very Good+ First Separate Edition in German. Offprint
original printed wrappers with vertical crease down the middle
of the paper, mild toning and wear edges, ink numbers front
cover. 8vo. 19 pp. + Ads.
$1,000.00
John Beresford Leathes (1864-1956) was a noted British
physiologist and colleague of E. H. Starling. Ivan Pavlov was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908)
“in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, by
which in essential respects, he has transformed and enlarged
our knowledge of the subject.” Norman 1666.
40. WALKER, A. Earl, Editor (SIGNED). A HISTORY
OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY. Baltimore: William &
Wilkins, 1951. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED “IN
HOPES THAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE PAST,
SOMETHING OF INTEREST IN THE PRESENT” without
personalization. A Near Fine hardback First Edition First
Printing in a Very Good Dust Jacket with mild soil, sun spine,
edge wear, 1” chip front dj panel. 8vo. 583 pp.
$500.00
Garrison-Morton 5017.
First Book on Color Blindness
41. WILSON, George. (INSCRIBED) (With the
bookplate of Alexander Gordon). RESEARCHES ON
COLOUR - BLINDNESS with a Supplement. Edinburgh /
London: Sutherland & Knox / Simpkin. Marshall, 1855.
INSCRIBED TO ALEXANDER GORDON “FROM THE
AUTHOR”. Very Good+ hardback First Edition First Printing
in the original burgundy cloth binding with mild edge wear.
Paper label on spine scuffed. Label and spine sunned. Mild
scattered soil. Bookplate of Alexander Gordon front paste
down. 8vo. xx, 125 [1], Supplement 127-180 pp.
$500.00
The first book on color blindness. George Wilson studied
color blindness for many years and noted the hereditary
nature of the condition. He described its variety—different
individuals may have difficulty distinguishing red from green,
brown from green and red from black. In the supplement he
deals with some of the practical aspects of color blindness as
it relates to particular professions. He points out the dangers
of color blind signal men on the railroads and at sea.
Alexander Gordon (1802-1968) was a pioneer civil engineer
specializing in lighthouse design and construction.
42. ZINSSER, Hans (SIGNED). AS I REMEMBER
HIM. The Biography of R.S. Boston: Little, Brown Company,
1940. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY HANS
ZINSEER TIPPED-IN front free endpaper. Letter is dated July
1, 1940 and written on Harvard University Medical School
stationary. A Very Good+ hardback Stated First Edition First
Printing with newspaper clippings tipped-in ffep and rear
paste-down with offsetting to half title page and rfep, owner
bookplate front paste-down, minimal sun spine. 8vo. 443 pp.
$300.00
ECONOMICS
43. FOGEL, Robert William (SIGNED) and Stanley L.
Engerman. Dr. Fogel is a Nobel Laureate in Economics
(1993). TIME ON THE CROSS. Two Volumes. Volume I:
The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Volume II:
Evidence and Methods. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. SIGNED
AND DATED BY ROBERT FOGEL ON EACH TITLE
PAGE without personalization. Two Volumes, the complete
set. Fine hardback Stated First Edition First Printings in Near
Fine DJs with mild edge wear. xviii, 286; xi, 267 pp. $950.00
Robert Fogel (1926-2013) was a renowned economist best
known for research on the role of railways in the economic
development of the United States and the importance of
slavery as an institution and its economic role in the USA. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (with Douglass C.
North) in 1993 for “Having renewed research in economic
history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods
in order to explain economic and institutional changes”. The
current volumes set off a fierce debate concerning the era of
slavery in the United States. This controversial work argued
that slavery was profitable and efficient use of labor and that
economic growth and technologic progress could occur in a
deeply flawed and immoral system. The furor that arose went
so far in some quarters as to accuse the authors of racism.
This work was followed by Without Consent or Contract: The
Rise and Fall of American Slaver (1989) in which Dr. Fogel
presented the context in which slavery arose and the factors
which led to its demise.
44. FRIEDMAN, Milton (SIGNED) Nobel Laureate in
Economics (1976) and Rose D. (SIGNED). TWO LUCKY
PEOPLE. Memoirs. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MILTON AND ROSE
FRIEDMAN. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First
Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. xii, 660 pp.
$1,000.00
Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a Professor of Economics
at the University of Chicago from 1948 until his retirement in
1979. He is best known for his doctrine of ‘monetarism’.
Milton Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
in 1976 for “his achievements in the fields of consumption
analysis, monetary history and theory and for his
demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy”.
45.
KEYNES, John Maynard. HOW TO PAY FOR THE
WAR. A Radical Plan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1940. A Near Fine hardback First
American Edition First Printing with mild wear spine tips in a
Very Good+ Dust Jacket with chips Dust Jacket spine tip, mild
edge wear. Published in same year as British Edition but less
common. 8vo. vii, 88 pp. Particularly scarce in this condition
and in Dust Jacket.
$500.00
46. KEYNES, John Maynard (SIGNED). A REVISION
OF THE TREATY. Being a Sequel to “The Economic
Consequences of the Peace”. London: Macmillan, 1922.
SIGNED BY J. M. KEYNES ON TIPPED IN SHEET on title
page with a second signature (H. Leatham) beneath it. A Very
Good+ hardback First Edition First Printing with foxing
edges, darkening endpapers (as is common in this volume)
Mild cover edge wear. Very Good Dust Jacket with usual
darkening edges & spine, mild edge wear, soil, mild chips.
8vo. viii, 223, [1], [6 Ads] pp.
$2,000.00
47. KLEIN, Lawrence (SIGNED). Nobel Laureate in
Economics (1980). Edited by Jaime Marquez. ECONOMIC
THEORY AND ECONOMETRICS. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. SIGNED BY LAWRENCE
KLEIN ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket.
8vo. vi, 583 pp.
$900.00
The Nobel Prize in Economics 1980 was awarded to Lawrence
R. Klein (1920-2013) “for the creation of econometric models
and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations
and economic policies”.
First American Edition
48. MALTHUS, T. [Thomas] R. [Robert]. AN ESSAY
ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION; Or, a View of Its
Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry
into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or
Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions. George Town: J.
Milligan, at J. March’s Bookstore, 1809. TWO VOLUMES.
Two Very Good++ hardback Stated First American Edition,
from the Third London Edition in half leather binding and
marbled boards with raised bands spines, gilt lettering and
decoration spines. Minimal cover edge wear, scattered foxing,
scuffs covers, top corners of title pages repaired. 8vos. xvi,
510 pp. + Index. vii, 542 pp.
$700.00
49. SOLOW, Robert M. Nobel Laureate in Economics
1987. GROWTH THEORY AND AFTER. Nobel Lecture,
December 8, 1987. Sweden: Nobel Foundation, 1988. A Near
Fine offprint First Separate Edition in original printed
wrappers from Reimpression Les Prix Nobel En 1987, pp.
275-290.
$150.00
The Nobel Prize in Economics 1987 was awarded to Robert
M. Solow “for his contributions to the theory of economic
growth”.
50. WICKSELL, Knut. Translated from the German by
R. F. Kahn. Introduction by Bertil Ohlin. INTEREST AND
PRICES (Geldzins und Güterpreise) A Study on the Causes
Regulating the Value of Money. London: Macmillan, 1936. A
Very Good+ hardback First Edition in English with damp stain
rear tip rear board and adjacent dj, page edges. Text not
affected. Foxing edges. Owner inscription front paste down. In
a Very Good+ sunned Dust Jacket with small label residue
spine, mild edge wear. 8vo. xxxi, 219 pp.
$650.00
Knut Wicksell (1851-1926) was a renowned Swedish
economist. The current volume Interest and Prices is
Wicksell’s most enduring contribution to economics. He more
or less founded modern macroeconomics by going back to
Tooke’s contra-quantity theory of money. Wicksell rejected
Tooke’s argument that the price level is determined not by the
quantity of money but by the national income. (see Blaug,
Great Economists Before Keynes, pp. 272-274).
PHILOSOPHY AND LAW
51. BREYER, Stephen (SIGNED). Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court. ACTIVE LIBERTY.
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 2005. SIGNED BY STEPHEN BREYER without
personalization. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First
Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. Sm. 8vo. 161 pp.
$140.00
52. ECO, Umberto (SIGNED). SEMIOTICS AND THE
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE. A Volume in the Advances
in semiotics Series. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1984.
SIGNED BY UMBERTO ECO without personalization. A
Near Fine hardback First Edition First Printing with minimal
foxing edges, cover edge wear in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. ix,
242 pp.
$600.00
53. ERIKSON, Erik H. (SIGNED). LIFE HISTORY
AND THE HISTORICAL MOMENT. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1975. SIGNED “ERIK” AND INSCRIBED BY ERIK
H. ERIKSON. A Near Fine hardback Stated First Edition First
Printing in a Near Fine price clipped Dust Jacket. 8vo. 283 pp.
A Scarce Signed First Edition.
$400.00
54. GINGERICH, Owen (Editor). (SIGNED). THE
NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. A Symposium
Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of
Nicolaus Copernicus. Washington DC: Smithsonian
Institution, 1975. SIGNED BY OWEN GINGERICH without
personalization. A Near Fine hardback Stated First Edition
First Printing with mild soil and foxing edges in a Very
Good++ price clipped Dust Jacket with mild soil, short closed
tears. 8vo. 616 pp.
$50.00
55. HARTSHORNE, Charles (SIGNED). CREATIVE
SYNTHESIS AND THE PHILOSOPHIC METHOD. A
volume in the Library of Philosophy and Theology Series.
London: SCM Press, 1970. SIGNED BY CHARLES
HARTSHORNE without personalization. A Very Good++
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foxing edges, cover edge wear in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket
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xxi, 337 pps.
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Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) was a noted 20th century
philosopher and the principal proponent of what has been
termed “process theology”. By that we mean that basic reality
is a continuous process of change. God is viewed as not
immutable, omnipotent or omniscient but, rather, as
responding to events in a manner sometimes called ‘divine
relativity’. As such, God, like all else, is constantly changing.
This concept, which Hartshorne developed based in large part
on the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead, greatly influenced
progressive Protestant theology. (Obituary N. Y. Times
October 12, 2000).
56. HILBERT, D. (David) and W. Ackermann.
GRUNDZUGE DER THEORETISCHEN LOGIK. (Principles
of Theoretical Logic). Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928. Near Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in the original printed
yellow cloth covered boards with mild sun spine, cover.
Owner name ffep. 8vo. viii, 120 pp.
$185.00
This work is the first elementary text grounded in the new
formalism known as first-order logic (FOL). It is recognized
as a classic in the field.
57. O’CONNOR, Sandra Day. (SIGNED) Edited by
Craig Joyce. THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW. Reflections of
a Supreme Court Justice. New York: Random House.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SANDRA DAY
O’CONNOR. A Fine hardback Stated First Trade Edition First
Printing in a Near Fine Dust Jacket with mild scuff. 8vo. xx,
330 pp.
$110.00
58. RYLE, Gilbert (SIGNED). PLATO’S PROGRESS.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. SIGNED,
INSCRIBED “WITH THE AUTHOR’S COMPLIMENTS”.
& DATED BY GILBERT RYLE. Inscription without
personalization. TWO TYPED LETTERS SIGNED BY
PROFESSOR RYLE ARE LAID IN AS WELL. Fine
hardback First Edition in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. viii,
311 pp.
$700.00
The letters are a reply to the book owner’s request for Ryle’s
autograph and apparently something more involved. The first
letter reads in part “...I am certainly not going to write an
essay on ‘what is the meaning or purpose of life’. I regard this
as a ‘gas’ question”. The second letter reinforces that he will
only sign the book. Interesting and amusing correspondence
—particularly if you understand gas questions...
Signed by Felix Frankfurter
59.
PHILLIPS, Harlan B. FELIX FRANKFURTER
REMINISCES. An Intimate Portrait as Recorded in Talks with
Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. New York: Reynal, 1960. SIGNED
AND INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO
BRITISH JOURNALIST LEONARD MIALL BY FELIX
FRANKFURTER AS FOLLOWS: “For Leonard Miall, who
helped to confirm my anglophilism, with the warm regards,
Felix Frankfurter.” A Very Good++ hardback First Edition
First Printing with edge spotting, owner bookplate front
pastedown in a Very Good+ supplied Dust Jacket with mild
soil, edge wear. 8vo. ix, 310 pp.
$750.00
Leonard Miall (1914-2005) was a renowned BBC
broadcaster, administrator and later in life research historian
of broadcasting.
60. WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Edited by G. H. von
Wright and Heikki Nyman. Translated by C. G.
Luckhardt and Maximillan A. E. Aue. LAST WRITINGS
ON PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY. Volume I:
Preliminary Studies for Part II of Philosophical Investigations.
LETZTE SCHRIFTEN UBER DIE PHILOSOPHIE DER
PSYCHOLOGIE. Band I: Vorstudien zum zweiten Teil der
Philosophischen Untersuchungen. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1982. A Near Fine hardback True First Edition First Printing
with mild soil and stains edges in a Very Good++ DJ with sun
spine, edge wear. Precedes the U. of Chicago First American
Edition. Text in German and English. 8vo. 147 pp.
$200.00
CHINA
61. ANDREWS, Roy Chapman (SIGNED and inscribed
to John D. Rockefeller Jr.) Introduction and Chapter by
Henry Fairfield Osborn. ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT
MAN. New York: Putnam, 1926. SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED TO JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR BY ROY
CHAPMAN ANDREWS AS FOLLOWS: “To John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. / whose personal interest / has done so much
to / make these expeditions successful, from / Roy Chapman
Andrews”. With the bookplate of Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller
and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on the front paste down. No other
writing or markings. Very Good++ hardback First Edition
First Printing with mild cover edge wear. Top edge gilt. In a
Good+ Dust Jacket with pieces missing along the top edge.
8vo. xxiv, 375 pp. _An excellent and unique association copy
of this first book on the Central Asiatic Expeditions linking
the expedition leader with the major patron and economic
supporter of this virtually decade long project. A centerpiece
of a twentieth century exploration and/or paleontology
collection.
$2,500.00
The Central Asiatic Expeditions, five in number between 1922
and 1930, are considered among the most important
expeditions of the twentieth century. They were organized by
Roy Chapman Andrews and funded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
and other industrialists of the era including J. P. Morgan, Jr.
and Childs Frick. Beginning with organizing activities in
1921, Roy Chapman Andrews and his team undertook these
treks to the Gobi Desert of Outer and Inner Mongolia.
Andrews notes in his preface to this book that while many
papers had already been written on the scientific discoveries
of the expedition, this is the first published book. It precedes
all the volumes published by The American Museum of
Natural History as The Natural History of Central Asia. (See
Gallenkamp, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the
Central Asiatic Expeditions).
62.
EASTERN ANECDOTES OF EXEMPLARY
CHARACTERS, WITH SKETCHES OF THE CHINESE
HISTORY. In One Volume. Inscribed to Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of York. The Researches of History are NeverFailing Sources of Instruction and amusement. Designed For
Youth. London: Printed by Sampson Low, 1799. A Very
Good+ hardback First Edition First Printing modern full
leather binding with raised bands spine, gilt lettering leather
spine label, new endpapers. Owner name p. 25. Pages light
dampstain. 12mo. xxiii, [2], 26-176 pp.
$1,250.00
63. ROCKHILL, William Woodville (SIGNED). DIARY
OF A JOURNEY THROUGH MONGOLIA AND TIBET IN
1891 AND 1892. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution,
1894. SIGNED BY WILLIAM WOODVILLE ROCKHILL
ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A Very Good+
hardback First Edition First Printing in half red leather
marbled board binding rebacked to style with gilt lettering
spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Not ex-library. With 1
folding map, 27 Plates, and 13 Text Illustrations as called for
all present. Owner inscription ffep, mild scuffs and edge wear
covers. 8vo. xx, 413 pp.
$1,200.00
64. VON PERCKHAMMER, Heinz. THE CULTURE
OF THE NUDE IN CHINA. [Text in English]. Berlin:
Eigenbrodler - Verlag, 1928. Near Fine First Edition with text
in English in original printed Dust Jacket over wrappers with
glue residue spine. Very Good++ Dust Jacket with mild soil
and edge wear. Complete with all 32 photogravure plates
(including Dust Jacket). Sm. 4to.
$2,750.00
65. WORCESTER, G. R. G. (SIGNED). THE JUNKS
AND SAMPANS OF THE YANGTZE. A Study in Chinese
Nautical Research. China. The Maritime Customs. III.
Miscellaneous Series: No. 53 and 54. Two Volumes. Volume
I: Introduction; and Craft of the Estuary and Shanghai Area.
Volume II: The Craft of the Lower and Middle Yangtze and
Tributaries. [With prospectus for Volume I laid-in]. Shanghai:
Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs,
1947. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DATED BY G. R. G.
WORCESTER AND WITH AUTHOR’S CHOP IN
VOLUME I. TWO VOLUMES. Complete Set. Dated 19471948. Two Near Fine hardback First Edition First Printings in
original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spines and
covers. Minimal cover edge wear, toning endpapers and page
edges. 4tos. xxviii, 245 pp. xv, pp. 247-506. Prospectus for
Volume I laid-in. In the last 20 years we have seen only one
other volume of this series signed by Worcester. We have
never seen a prospectus for any of the volumes in this series.
Rare thus.
$1,500.00
George R. G. Worcester 1890-1969) was an authority on sail
in general and the greatest expert on Chinese junks and
sampans. After a stint in the Royal Navy, Worcester joined the
Chinese Maritime Customs Department in 1919. As River
Inspector he assisted surveying over 1,500 miles of the
Yangtze River. His main claim to fame was, through the
intervention of Frederick Maze, getting Chinese permission to
spend his time visiting every port in China to make a study of
Chinese shipping from the earliest period. The results were a
definitive group of books on Chinese junks and sampans and
their variations.
66. WORCESTER, G. R. G. (SIGNED). SAIL AND
SWEEP IN CHINA. The History and Development of the
Chinese Junk as Illustrated by the Collection of Junk Models
in the Science Museum. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery
Office, 1966. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO CAPTAIN
ERIK BUSH (1899-1985), AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF
PUBLICATION BY G. R. G. WORCESTER. Captain Bush
served at China Station 1926-1928. He is the author of Flower
of the Sea. A Very Good++ hardback First Edition First
Printing with foxing and cover edge wear in a Very Good Dust
Jacket with foxing, mild chips, and scuffs. Sm. 4to. xv, 145
pp. Scarce.
$250.00
JAPAN
67. BLYTH, R. H. (Translated and Explained).
(SIGNED). SENRYU. Japanese Satirical Verses. Japan:
Hokuseido Press, 1949. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY R.
H. BLYTH. A Near Fine hardback First Edition First Printing
with minimal foxing edges in a Very Good Dust Jacket with
small pieces missing, tape, 2” piece missing Dust Jacket spine
lower tip. 8vo. iv, 230 pp. The Senryu are profusely illustrated
by Sobun Taniwaki with black and white drawings and color
plates with printed tissue guards, including the foldout color
frontispiece.
$300.00
First Book Written & Published in English on Ikebana
68. CONDER, J. (Josiah). THE FLOWERS OF JAPAN
AND THE ART OF FLORAL ARRANGEMENT. With
Illustrations by Japanese Artists. Tokyo / Yokohama:
Hakubunsha / Kelly & Walsh, 1891. First Edition First
Printing with the original color printed wrappers, silk covering
to spine. Wrapper edges, spine tips worn. Mild scuff wrappers.
Japanese style binding with silk ties. Complete with all 54
plates as issued—14 color plates with tissue guards, 40 black
and white Outline Plates. In addition there are 26 text
illustrations. Folio. 136, 54 Plates, [2] pp.
$1,800.00
Josiah Conder (1852-1920) was a British architect and
advisor to the Japanese government. At the invitation of the
government, Conder taught at the Imperial College of
Engineering beginning in 1877. His residence and teaching in
Japan led to a lifelong interest in its culture and arts. The
current volume on flowers and Ikebana is one of the results.
69. CONDER, Josiah. Illustrated by K. Ogawa.
LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN JAPAN and SUPPLEMENT
TO LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN JAPAN. Two Volumes.
Tokyo: Kelly and Walsh, 1893. TWO VOLUMES. Two Very
Good++ hardback First Edition First Printings bound in
original green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration front
cover, patterned endpapers. Mild cover edge wear. Scattered
foxing. Folios. xi, 161 pp. With 37 full-page plates, and 55
figures in text. Supplement with 40 Collotype plates by
Ogawa Kazuma, each with leaf of descriptive text. $1,650.00
70. GOLOWNIN
(Golovnin)
Vasilii
(Vasily)
Mikhailovich. RECOLLECTIONS OF JAPAN, Comprising a
Particular Account of the Religion, Language, Government,
Laws and Manners of the People with Observations on the
Geography, Climate, Population & Productions of the
Country. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1819. Near Fine
hardback First Edition in later nineteenth century half calf,
marbled boards binding with red leather spine label, gilt
lettering. 8vo. viii, lxxxix, 302 pp. Rare.
$1,800.00
Vasilii Golovnin (1776-1831) was a Russian navigator and
Vice Admiral. While exploring the Kunashir Island in 1811, he
was captured by the Japanese and held captive on the island
of Hokkaido. After one failed escape attempt he decided to
devote his time to learning Japanese and studying Japanese
culture and history. After his release in 1813 he wrote the
renowned Captivity in Japan During the Years 1811, 1812,
1813 and followed it with the current volume which reports
more directly on his broader study of the Japan and the
Japanese people.
71. MURDOCH, James. With Collotype Photographs
by K. Ogawa. SCENES FROM THE CHIUSHINGURA
AND THE STORY OF THE FORTY-SEVEN RONIN.
Tokyo: 1892. Near Fine First Edition in the original string tied
thin board colored printed wrappers with silver highlights.
Original silk spine present and intact. Complete with 17
collotype photographic plates by Kazumasa Ogawa with intact
tissue guards. The plates are numbered I through XVI with the
seventeenth unnumbered plate being after page two of text—a
sort of frontispiece. Front hinge renewed to style. Text in
English. A beautiful production in excellent condition. Folio.
52 pp + 17 photographic plates.
$900.00
This famous Japanese drama depicts scenes from
Chiushingura. In 1701 Lord Asano was required to commit
harakiri. His 47 samurai then became ronin (masterless
samurai). Two years later in an act of revenge they
assassinated Lord Yoshinaka, the person responsible for Lord
Asano’s death. The Shogun then required the 47 ronin to
commit harakiri themselves. They were buried with their
master.
children’s pastime. Folded according to a rigid set of rules
that had remained unchanged for generations, origami figures
were usually flat and static. Mr. Yoshizawa, who was selftaught, broke with tradition. He pioneered a technique, known
as wet folding, that allows dampened paper to be molded into
sculptural forms...He also pioneered a system of origami
notation that allows readers of any language to follow a set of
instructions. Using dotted lines to indicate the folds and
arrows for the directions of the folds, the system is widely used
today.” (NY Times obituary. April 2, 2005). (See David Lister
on Gershon Legman at the British Origami Society website.)
CHILDREN’S
72. STARR, Frederick. (SIGNED). FUJIYAMA. The
Sacred Mountain of Japan (Mount Fuji). Chicago: CoviciMcGee, 1924. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED “BEST WISHES”
BY FREDERICK STARR without personalization. A Near
Fine hardback First Edition First Printing in Near Fine Dust
Jacket with minimal chips and sun spine. Color pictorial
endpapers. 8vo. 158 pp. A Rare Signed Work in Original Dust
Jacket.
$1,500.00
73. SUZUKI, Daisetz Teitaro. MANUAL OF ZEN
BUDDHISM. The Ataka Buddhist Library VIII. [in Rare Dust
Jacket]. Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Society, 1935. A Very
Good+ hardback First Edition First Printing with long gift
inscription ffep, foxing edges and first and last few pages, age
darkening endpapers in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket with tape
spine, short closed tears spine, mild sun spine, edge wear. 8vo.
x, 232 pp.
$450.00
74. SUZUKI, Daisetz, Teitaro (SIGNED). ESSAYS IN
ZEN BUDDHISM. (Second Series). London: Luzac, 1933.
SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY DAISETZ
TEITARO SUZUKI. A Very Good+ hardback First Edition
First Printing with foxing edges and endpapers, small label
front paste-down in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with chips.
8vo. xii, 326 pp. Complete with 25 collotype reproductions of
old masters, as issued, including the frontispiece.
$1,500.00
75. YOSHIZAWA, Akira (SIGNED and inscribed to
Gershon Legman). ORIGAMI NATURAL HISTORY. Two
Volumes. Volume I: Various Animals. Volume II: Seasons
and Events. (Origami Hakubutsushi I: Doubutsu no Iruiro. II:
Kisetsu to Gyouji). Tokyo: Kamakura Shobo / Eitaro
Hasegawa, 1979. SIGNED TO GERSHON LEGMAN BY
AKIRA YOSHIZAWA. TWO VOLUMES. Two Near fine
hardback First Edition First Printings with minimal foxing
covers in Near Fine Dust Jackets with minimal foxing. Text in
Japanese. 8vo. 71 pp. 73 pp.
$900.00
Akira Yoshizawa (1911-2005) is considered the grandmaster
of origami. He is largely responsible for the transformation of
origami from a craft into a modern art form. “Before Mr.
Yoshizawa, paper folding was generally dismissed as a
Signed by Peter Newell
76. CARROLL, Lewis. Illustrated by Peter Newell
(SIGNED by Peter Newell). THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS (LOOKING GLASS) AND WHAT ALICE FOUND
THERE. New York: Harper, 1902. SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED BY PETER NEWELL ON TITLE PAGE. A
Very Good+ hardback First Edition Thus Illustrated First
Printing bound in original white paper covered boards with
gilt lettering spine and front cover, gilt illustration of Alice
front cover, top edge gilt. Soil, toning & scuffs covers, cover
edge wear, mild soil endpapers. Binding intact. 8vo. xvi, 211
pp. Books Signed by Peter Newell, especially first printings
illustrated by him, are Rare.
$1,000.00
77. FARLEY, Walter. (SIGNED) Illustrated by Harold
Eldridge. THE ISLAND STALLION RACES. New York:
Random House, 1955. SIGNED BY WALTER FARLEY
without personalization. A Near Fine hardback Stated First
Edition First Printing with minimal cover edge wear, in a Very
Good++ Dust Jacket mild edge wear, minimal creases.
Beautiful Dust Jacket illustration. 8vo. viii, 256 pp. $200.00
78. LIONNI, Leo. (SIGNED) Introduction by Bruno
Bettelheim. FREDERICK’S FABLES. A Leo Lionni
Treasury of Favorite Stories. [with invitation from the
publisher to the book’s launch party laid in]. New York:
Pantheon, 1985. SIGNED BY LEO LIONNI ON
COLOPHON PAGE without personalization.
A Very
Good++ hardback First Edition LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
SIGNED. THIS IS NO. 99 Bound in green cloth with mild sun
spine. In original mildly worn green cloth covered slipcase.
Laid in the book is an invitation from the publisher to the
launch party for this book. 4to. xi, 132 pp.
$275.00
79. SENDAK, Maurice, Barry Moser, Chris van Allsburg,
Seymour Chwast, Daniel Pelavin and Guy Billout (Each print
is SIGNED by the artist). THE MOTHER GOOSE
COLLECTION OF SIX LIMITED EDITION PRINTS. Titled
as follows: “Mother Goose”—Maurice Sendak; “Tarts” —
Barry Moser; “Around the Green Gravel”—Chris Van
Allsburg; “The Kilkenny Cats”—Seymour Chwast; “The Cat
and The Fiddle”—Daniel Pelavin; “Three Children on the
Ice”—Guy Billout. New York: Serigrafia, [1990]. LIMITED
EDITION OF 300 PORTFOLIOS. THIS IS No. 70 WITH
ALL SIX ORIGINAL PRINTS PENCIL SIGNED BY THE
ARTIST. A Fine wonderful collection of serigraphs by
outstanding artists and children’s book illustrators. Each print
is on museum quality Rives BFK Paper and measures 26.5” by
20.5”. Included is a single sheet of letterpress descriptive
information concerning the artists. The prints are in the
original paper covered printed portfolio which is mildly worn.
The portfolio measures 28.2” by 21.8”. Each print is in a
protective glassine folder with the title and artist printed on the
front leaf of each folder. The inside front of the clamshell
identifies each work and serves as the colophon.
$2,000.00
This is a most ambitious undertaking. Each serigraph is
illustrated in between 5 (“Tarts”) and 25 (“Mother Goose”)
colors. It is a rare collaboration among these artists and
sadly, with the death of Maurice Sendak earlier in the year,
one that cannot be repeated. Scarce.
Original Signed Art by Garth Williams
80. WILLIAMS,
Garth
(SIGNED).
ORIGINAL
PRELIMINARY WATERCOLOR PAINTING for the cover
of Baby Farm Animals. SIGNED BY GARTH WILLIAMS.
8” by 14” matted original watercolor painting in vivid colors
for the Little Golden Book Baby Farm Animals. Since this is
both the front and rear covers of the book, we see the vertical
fold lines where the book spine would be. A wonderful
original work from the estate of a master twentieth century
illustrator and artist. Near Fine.
$650.00
Garth Williams (1912-1996) was an American artist best
known for his illustrations of Children’s books, many of which
are recognized as classics. Among them are: Charlotte’s Web,
Stuart Little, the “Little House” series of Laura Ingalls Wilder
and several of the most notable Little Golden Books. In a 1980
interview he described his method of book illustration: “I look
for the action in the story. Then I arrange forms and
color...when I ‘see’ a picture [in his mind] I write down the
idea and the page number while reading the manuscript”.
81. WILLIAMS, Garth (SIGNED Original Art—
Watercolor and Drawings). Margery Sharp. ORIGINAL
PRELIMINARY WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATION FOR
THE DUST JACKET OF MISS BIANCA IN THE SALT
MINES plus two preliminary pencil sketches of the dj and
associated letter and notes. Included is a copy of the book.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1966. A FINE ORIGINAL
WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATION WITH MARGINAL
COMMENTS IN GARTH WILLIAMS’ HAND AND
INITIALED “G. W.” BY THE ARTIST. The color illustration
is archivally matted, ready for framing, if so desired.
Accompanying the watercolor, are two preliminary sketches
for the cover illustration each signed in full “Garth Williams”.
In addition there are notes in Williams’ hand regarding the
other illustrations for the book. Included is a Fine First Edition
First Printing of Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines in a Near Fine
Dust Jacket.
$1,000.00
A wonderful Scarce collection showing to excellent advantage
the creative process of a leading twentieth century artistillustrator.
CALDECOTT AWARDS
82. EMBERLEY, Barbara. Illustrated by Ed Emberley.
ONE WIDE RIVER TO CROSS. 1967 Caldecott Honor
Book. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. A Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in a Very Good++ Dust
Jacket with short closed tear, mild soil, edge wear. No
Caldecott Medal on the Dust Jacket or mention of the award.
Oblong. 8 x 10.5 in.
$125.00
1967 sole Caldecott Honor Book. In 1968 Ed Emberley won
the Caldecott Medal for Drummer Hoff.
85. McCULLY, Emily Arnold. (SIGNED). MIRETTE
ON THE HIGH WIRE. Caldecott Medal Award 1993. New
York: G. P. Putnam, 1992. SIGNED BY EMILY ARNOLD
MCCULLY without personalization. A Fine hardback Stated
First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. First State
Dust Jacket with no Caldecott Medal or mention of the award
on the Dust Jacket. 4to.
$500.00
83.
GERSTEIN, Mordicai (SIGNED). Also SIGNED
by Tightrope Walker Philippe Petit. With Tightrope
Drawings by both. THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN
THE TOWERS. Caldecott Medal Winner 2004. [Signed 10
years to the day after the 9/11 Tragedy]. Brookfield, CT:
Roaring Brook, 2003. SIGNED AND DATED 9/11/11—
EXACTLY 10 YEARS AFTER THE 9/11 TRAGEDY— BY
MORDICAI GERSTEIN WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
OF A MAN IN A TOP HAT ON A TIGHT ROPE.
ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY PHILLIPE PETIT WITH A
SMALL TIGHT ROPE DRAWING. An As New Stated First
Edition First Printing in an As New Dust Jacket. 4to. No
Caldecott Medal or mention of award on dj. $400.00
84. HALL, Donald. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. OXCART MAN. 1980 Caldecott Medal Winner. New York:
Viking Press, 1979. First Edition. A Near Fine hardback
Stated First Edition First Printing with minimal foxing edges
in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with minimal sun spine and
edge wear. 8.5” x 10.5”. No Caldecott sticker or mention of
award on book or dust jacket. Hardcover. Near Fine. $190.00
86. SCIESZKA, Jon and Lane Smith. (SIGNED). THE
STINKY CHEESE MAN AND OTHER FAIRLY STUPID
TALES. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book. New York: Viking
Press, 1992. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JON
SCIESZKA AND LANE SMITH. WITH SMALL
DRAWING OF “CHEESE PAL” BY LANE SMITH and an
arrow pointing to the inscribee’s name on the ffep by Lane
Smith and with her name written on the dedication page by
Smith as well. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First
Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. No medal or mention of the
Caldecott Honor on the Dust Jacket. 4to. Uncommon First
Printing Signed by Both Author and Artist.
$120.00
87. SEEGER, Laura Vaccaro. (SIGNED). FIRST THE
EGG. 2008 Caldecott Honor Book. New Milford CT: Roaring
Brook Press, 2007. SIGNED AND DATED IN THE YEAR
OF PUBLICATION BY LAURA VACCARO SEEGER
without personalization. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition
First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. No mention of
Caldecott honor or Medal on the Dust Jacket.
$125.00
88. SLEATOR, William. Illustrated by Blair Lent. 1971
Caldecott Honor Book. THE ANGRY MOON. 1971
Caldecott Honor Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
1970. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition First Printing in a
Near Fine Dust Jacket with price intact on the front flap. 8vo.
No Caldecott sticker on the dj or mention of the award. A
Scarce Caldecott title.
$400.00
89. WISNIEWSKI, David. (SIGNED). GOLEM.
Caldecott Medal 1997. New York: Clarion, 1996. SIGNED
BY DAVID WISNIEWSKI without personalization. A Fine
hardback Stated First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust
Jacket. 4to. No Medal or mention of the award on the Dust
Jacket.
$400.00
90. YOUNG, Ed. (SIGNED). LON PO PO. A Red-Riding
Hood Story from China. Caldecott Medal Winner 1990. [with
program of the Newbery Caldecott Awards Banquet 1990 laid
in]]. New York: Philomel, 1989. SIGNED BY ED YOUNG
without personalization. A Fine hardback Stated First Edition
First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. No Caldecott medal or
mention of the award on the Dust Jacket or book. With the
program for the Newbery Caldecott Awards Banquet and a
four page brochure with a biography of Ed Young and a brief
bibliography laid in. 4to.
$400.00
EDWARD GOREY
and leaves in tan, brown and sage-green. The doll measures
approximately six and a half inches tall and has an armspan of
nineteen inches. Rare.
$1,750.00
See Toledano, Goreyography, page 156.
93. CROS, Charles. English Version by Alphonse Allais.
Illustrated by Edward Gorey. (SIGNED). THE SALT
HERRING. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. SIGNED
BY EDWARD GOREY ON COLOPHON without
personalization. A Near Fine First Edition LIMITED TO 326
COPIES OF WHICH 300 ARE NUMBERED. THIS IS No.
90. In original printed wrappers. Minimal stain at spine. 24mo.
Toledano B49b.
$250.00
With a Limited Edition Signed Print
91. GOREY, Edward [Dogear Wryde] (SIGNED). THE
BETRAYED CONFIDENCE. Seven Series of Dogear Wryde
Postcards. Limited Edition. With Signed Plate laid in. Orleans
MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1992. SIGNED BY EDWARD
GOREY ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. A
Fine First Edition LIMITED TO 250 SIGNED COPIES
WITH AN ADDITIONAL PLATE LAID IN WHICH IS
ALSO SIGNED. BOTH THE BOOK AND THE PLATE
ARE No. 84 of 250 COPIES. In original illustrated wrappers.
In Fine original black slipcase as issued. 8vo. Scarce. $650.00
Toledano A104a.
94. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). DANCING CATS
AND NEGLECTED MURDERESSES. New York: Workman
Publishing, 1980. SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY ON
COLOPHONE PAGE without personalization. A Fine First
Edition LIMITED TO 300 SIGNED AND NUMBERED
COPIES. THIS IS No. 259. Special cover design by Edward
Gorey for the Limited Edition only. In original printed
wrappers. With original mailing envelope. 16mo.
$600.00
Toledano A77B.
95. GOREY, Edward [Madame Groeda Weyrd]
(SIGNED). THE FANTOD PACK. Limited Edition. [This is
Set Lettered “G”]. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1995.
SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY ON COLOPHON PAGE
without personalization. A Fine First Edition LIMITED TO 26
SIGNED LETTERED SETS. THIS IS SET “G”. 20 laminated
cards with booklet of card interpretations. Housed in Fine
original printed paper covered box with Gorey illustration on
box top. 24mo. Toledano A113a.
$850.00
96. GOREY, Edward. (SIGNED) (writing as Dogear
Wryde). TRAGÉDIES (TRAGEDIES) TOPIARES SERIES.
DOGEAR WRYDE POSTCARDS: 1989. SIGNED BY
EDWARD GOREY. Complete with 12 illustrated cards and
the colophon card. Thirteen Fine cards in original printed
envelope. First Edition LIMITED TO 250 SETS. THIS IS
NO. 230. Toledano A98.a.
$400.00
97. GOREY, Edward. (SIGNED). WHATEVER NEXT?
SERIES. DOGEAR WRYDE POSTCARDS: 1990. SIGNED
BY EDWARD GOREY. Complete with 12 illustrated cards
and the colophon card. Thirteen Fine cards in original Fine
printed envelope. First Edition LIMITED TO 250 SETS.
THIS IS NO. 178. Toledano A102.b.
$365.00
FIGBASH—Designed, Sewn and Filled by hand by
Edward Gorey, With a Signed Tag
92. GOREY,
Edward
(SIGNED).
FIGBASH
BEANBAG. SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY without
personalization ON THE ORIGINAL TAG WHICH READS:
“DESIGNED LIFE-SIZE AND SEWN BY HAND AND
FILLED WITH RICE BY EDWARD GOREY”. The Figbash
Bean Bag is of a patterned midnight blue fabric with branches