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EA; ca 21x13 cm; X, 262 Seiten; neuer Leinwandeinband mit montiertem Deckel der Originalbroschur (Vorsatzblätter erneuert, Stempel auf Titelblatt und auf 2 Seiten im Text, Seiten teils leicht braunfleckig; sonst guter Zustand) 0,000 gr. Allopathie; Homöopathie; Naturheilkunde

GROVE PRESS * (NY) (1961). Hardcover. B0012GGB40 1961 signed and inscribed copy, Grove Press, Inc. (NY), 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall black cloth hardbound, no dust jacket, red, silver and gold lettering to front cover and spine, salmon endpapers, [10], 346 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. One-inch strip of residue to front pastedown, where it appears a bookplate or label may have been removed. Nicely signed, dated (1973) and inscribed by the author on the blank front free-endpaper to prior owner, American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) and his fourth wife, Eleanor Vallee-Clark (1928-2015). Purchased from Eleanor's estate, the book comes with a 2016 letter of authenticity from PSA/DNA, the largest and most trusted third party autograph authentication company in the world. ~V~ Henry Valentine Miller (1891- 1980) was an American writer known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (1949-59), all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United States until 1961. . Good. 1961.

Three matching books from the Easton Astronaut series. All signed limiteds, fine in full leather. All with matching number 51 on colophon page. Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 1997. Full-Leather. Signed Edition; Signed by Author. 8vo. A collection of three matched titles of the Easton Press Astronaut collection, each limited to 3,000 numbered copies in fine condition. Each volume signed by their respective authors/key contributors, i.e., Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin ; Includes the titles "Lost "Men From Earth" by Buzz Aldrin, "Moon Shot" by Alan Shepard, and "We Seven" by Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Gus Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Deke Slayton. Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather, silk moiré end leaves, distinctive cover design, raised bands, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability.

A first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike, price-clipped dustjacket. A nice copy of a dramatic piece of history; In his book, Aldrin, the second man on the moon, interweaves the story of U. S. and Soviet efforts to reach the moon with his first-hand experience flying both the Gemini and Apollo missions during the height of the space race. His recounting of his two space flights is compelling, especially the account of the nearly aborted Apollo 11 lunar landing. In contrast to Aldrin's astronaut's point of view, Murray and Cox's book tells the Apollo story through the eyes of the NASA managers who guided the men and machines from the early days of the Space Task Group to the Apollo lunar missions. The result is the best account to date of how the enormous program was successfully accomplished. Full of insiders' anecdotes, this book truly humanizes the lunar landing story that too often has been told only in technological and bureaucratic terms. Relying heavily on interviews with the people behind the scenes, the authors vividly capture the spirit of Apollo, its triumphs and tragedies, and its ultimate success

New York City: Random House, 1964. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Near Fine. First US Printing. All first state points present. Some soiling to the surface of red cloth boards is the only real noticeable flaw on this otherwise clean, sharp copy. Price-clipped wrapper has some surface wear and light soiling to the tough white color but still complete and very attractive. A very collectible copy, priced right. Photos happily provided upon request.

172pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with 1972 Bruce Nauman retrospective circulated by Los Angeles County Museum of Art that subsequently traveled to New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. The noted artist's first Museum exhibition, it presented one hundred and seventeen unique works, six multiples, and screenings of several films and videos. A handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition in a price-clipped dust jacket showing some mild soiling to the edges of the textblock along with typical sunning to the cloth at the extremities.

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This is a beautiful, near Fine copy of the first "I Can Read" Book. The matte pictorial paper over boards are very clean, bright, square.The four corner tips are very slightly rubbed. Black cloth spine is solid. Contents very tight & clean without any names nor marks; no tears or creases to pages.The hinges are perfect wirhout any signs of loosening. A very gently read book. The dustjacket has the original $2.50 price , with the notice 40-80 No.7690A in lower left corner of front flap. The dustjacket is clean, bright with a few light very small spots on from cover around the 2 depicted bears. Top of the spine is missing 1/4" and the bottom spine lacks 1 1/2" piece that only has the H in Harper present. The top & bottom corners of the dustjacket are lightly rubbed. Scarce title in collector's condition. Please "Ask Bookseller" is this is available before ordering. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Very sturdy hardcover. Pages in excellent condition!Images represent inside cover pages. Plate illustration.Additional inside text: THE STRATFORD PRESS Entered at Stationer's Hall (London, England)

SIGNED BY ONO! GIFT QUALITY! 1ST Printing, 1st Edition. Full number line. Signed on half title page with NYC, 2006. Both book and dust jacket in Mint Condition! Dust jacket in Brodart plastic sleeve. Book came from estate of private collector!

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Philadelphia, Pa: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes ([3], viii-xii, [2], 14-252 p.; 276 p.); 18 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments. Gilt-tooled red and black morocco spine labels; gilt-tooled decoration in other compartments. Originally bound as part of a set of Cooper novels; the spine label for vol. 2 indicates it was also no. 12 of a larger series of volumes. Archival repair of hinges and reproduction of vol. 1 spine labels. Front fixed endpapers inscribed: McLanahan. Copyright notice is dated 1827, but the title pages are dated 1829. The paste-down revision of the copyright notice described by BAL is not present in either of these volumes. BAL, 3836; Shoemaker, 28599; Wright, I, 688. The Prairie, Cooper's eighth novel, was the third of a trilogy in which he had considered the United States' present (in The Pioneers, 1823), its past (in The Last of the Mohicans, 1826), and its future. Basing his description of the prairie on secondhand accounts, as he never travelled that far west himself, he posed the question whether the "desolate" prairie illustrated what the country might someday become, if the environmental destruction and wastefulness of her settlers went unchecked. Still a timely question! In Very Good- Condition: edges of boards slightly rubbed; archival repair of hinges and reproduction of vol. 1 spine labels; front free endpaper lacking from vol. 1; light foxing; pages are otherwise clean and tight.

University of Chicago, IL, 1966. 1st edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Lvi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one's view of contemporary society. And his... book, 'The Savage Mind,' is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas must read it; everyone interested in human institutions should read it."Ã?J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review [Pub. Info] This work had early, significant impact on anthropology. One of France's leading scholars. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

Garden City, New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, 1967. 6/21/2010. Near Fine. First English-language paperback edition. Cover by Loretta Li. Some creasing along the spine and a few rubbed spots, but unusually square and sound paperback, near fine. Inscribed by the author to George Economou, American poet and translator. The book in which the Levi-Strauss, often referred to as the father of modern anthropology, lays out many of his most noted theories.

A Fine Association Copy of Charles Dickens's Most Famous Christmas Book The Exceptionally Rare "Trial Issue" with the Title-Page Printed in Red and Green Inscribed "Christmas 1843" by the Brother of Dickens's Illustrator for "A Christmas Carol" DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. First edition, first issue, the very rare so-called "trial issue," with title-page printed in red and green and half-title printed in green; "Stave I;" text entirely uncorrected; yellow coated end-papers. Small octavo (6 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 164 x 103 mm.). [8], 166, [2, ads] pp. Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W.J. Linton after Leech. Contemporary ink gift inscription on verso of front end-paper "To Maria Linton/a Christmas present/from H.D.L./1843". (H.D. Linton was the co-founder of the illustrated periodicalPen and Pencil). He was the younger brother of wood-engraver William James Linton who contributed four wood-engraved illustrations to A Christmas Carol. Original cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Binding matches Todd's first impression, first issue, with closest interval between blind-stamped border and gilt wreath equal to 14 mm. and with the "D" in "Dickens" in perfect condition. Inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired, minimal wear to head of spine, imperceptible and very small closed splits to extremities of joints. Small rectangular colored bookplate of Mitchell S. Buck lightly tipped onto front paste-down. Bookplate of Bob Stilwell on inside of chemise. Loosely inserted is Mabel Zahn of Sessler's, Philadelphia typed 1940s description showing the textual points of the first issue and written in ink "This Copy has all points." Overall, a wonderful copy of this great rarity, exceptionally clean and bright. Chemised in a quarter red morocco over red cloth slipcase, spine with five raised bands and two green morocco labels lettered in gilt. The current Dickens bibliographer Walter Smith has examined an identical example at the W.A. Clark Library and accepted it as an authentic example of this rare issue. The red and green title-pages and the green half-titles are agreed to have been printed earlier (thus the "trial issue" moniker). Charles Dicken's Christmas classic, written in a mere six weeks at a low point in Dickens's career, and published at his own expense, A Christmas Carol revived Dickens's fortunes, establishing a robust market for Christmas gift books that survives to this day. The characters of Scrooge and Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, are immediately recognizable even to those who've never read a word of Dickens: "'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. He sat very close to his father's side, upon his little stool. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him." One of Dickens' favorite artists, John Leech would produce the illustrations for all his Christmas books. H. D. Linton, was the younger brother of the wood engraver, landscape painter, political reformer, and Charles Dickens illustrator, William James Linton (1812-1897). In 1855 H.D. Linton together with his friend M.Edmond Morin, devised a new illustrated paper to be calledPen and Pencil. Morin furnished the money and contributed most of the drawings; H. D. Linton did the engraving (he had studied engraving with his brother and Orrin Smith); William James Linton edited the journal in conjunction with Mr. Macrae Moir.After about eight numbersPen and Pencilsuccumbed to scarcity of capital. Maria Linton, nee Hoover (1815-1858) H.D. was most likely H.D. Linton's sister, first cousin, or niece. Smith, Dickens, II, 4. Calhoun & Heaney, especially pp. 35, 48-49.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. First edition of this groundbreaking work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are scarce. With the publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don't arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of "normal science," as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age. "One of the most influential books of the 20th century. . . . Singlehandedly changed the way we think about mankind's most organized attempt to understand the world" (The Guardian). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1960. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece and other black-and-white illustrations. 616 pages (several tiny stains at the corners of some pages in the middle of the book; otherwise fine), tall 8vo, red and black cloth with gilt stamping, slipcase. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1960). First edition. Very good condition. Signed in full by both authors on the limitation page; No. 142 of 250 signed copies.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. First edition of the author’s landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt topstain. In near fine condition with only light shelfwear to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very sharp copy. Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as 'conspicuous consumption' and 'pecuniary emulation,' Veblen's most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. An iconoclastic masterpiece of American social thought. Veblen assails the sacrosanct concepts borrowed from evolutionary biology and used to justify social inequality. The fruit of much lonely study and contemplation, this first book of Veblen's catapulted him to prominence at the age of 42. Thoroughly independent and ornery in his living and thinking, Veblen began here his long and provocative criticism of the business enterprise system. his ideas were seminal and his influence is continuous" (100 Influential American Books).

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London: Re-published by the Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Sciptures, 1788. 8vo. vii, 172 pp. Lardner was a Presbyterian minister and patristic scholar. The present work, first published in 1759 sprang from correspondence on theological topics with John Shute Barrington, first Viscount Barrington.    Here are "are now added two postscripts: the first, containing an explication of those words, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, as used in the Scriptures. The second, containing remarks upon the third part of the late Bishop of Clogher's Vindication of the histories of the Old and New Testament.         ESTC T130344. Contemporary plain wrappers. Uncut copy. Dog-earing.

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Fine first printing in fine dustwrapper. An unread copy which has been in storage since signing. Signed by the author, without inscription. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

First edition. Slightly bowed with a bumped corner on the front board and some wear else very good in a good dustwrapper with internal staining, short tears, and toning. Signed by Joseph Heller and Brock Brower. Contributions by Joseph Heller, Joan Kerckhoff, Bruce Jay Friedman, Bernard Farbar, H.E.F. Donohue, Terry Southern, George P. Elliott, Brock Brower, Hughes Rudd, James Blake, Saul Bellow, James Leo Herlihy, Chandler Brossard, and Thomas Pynchon.

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Penguin, NY, 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1085 pages. 1ST EDITION."Hailed as "a major work of art" by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, Against the Day confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to be hilarious, moving, profound, and so much more." [Pub. Info]

Very slight tilt, else appears unread, unopened, unblemished copy in DJ displaying no significant surface/edge/wear, as shown. Author's fourth book, Winner of the National Book Award and perhaps his most accessible work. In this novel Oscar Crease, middle-aged college instructor, savant, and playwright, is suing a Hollywood producer for pirating his play Once at Antietam, based on his grandfather's experiences in the Civil War, and turning it into a gory blockbuster called The Blood in the Red White and Blue. Author's fourth book, and perhaps his most accessible work; novel concerning a college teacher's pursuit of a Hollywood producer for alleged piracy of his own Civil War drama, Shipping/Handling/Insurance Included Within The Continental United States. (Free Shipping)

1st Printing. 640 pages. Published in 1991. The author's third novel. One of Richard Powers' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Powers' "The Gold Bug Variations". The title being a sly allusion to Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Goldberg Variations", one of the greatest achievements of Western Classical music tradition. This speculative yet rigorous meditation on what it means to be human rings - sounds - true. The title, and its contrapuntal inspiration, are beautifully realized by the novel: "A double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes - social, moral, musical, spiritual - and he falls in love with a member of his research team. Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different mystery: Why did Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire" (Publisher's blurb). Richard Powers is a unique voice in American literature: A committed novelist of ideas, he has described the novel as a "supreme connection machine, the most complex artifact of networking that we have ever developed". An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Powers collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Material is laid-in. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked yet command up to $795. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 1989. Winner of the National Book Award in 2007 for "The Echo Maker". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for "The Overstory". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RICHARD POWERS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0688098916.

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New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First American Edition. Very Good+/Fine. First American edition. Advance review copy with letter from Selma Shapiro at Pantheon Books about the book laid in, dated April 22, 1965. xiii, 299 pp. Red cloth with black stamping on front, gilt lettering on spine. Very Good+ with spine lettering rubbed, lightly dust-soiled, in supplied Fine dust jacket, very bright and clean. Publisher's slip creased down middle, a little scuffed. An uncommon advance copy of the first of the postmodern French philosopher's books to be translated into English.