London: George Redway, 1896. First edition. Complete in two volumes, library rebinds in different navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library copies, noncirculating, with bookplates on paste downs, textual marks, perforations to plates, barcode sticker on front board of Vol. II. Top edge of Vol. II has stamp as well..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Signed by Dr. Thomas Noguchi on front free endpaper in ink. 253 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip lettered in pale brown. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, subtle lean to spine, a few pages' bottom corners creased..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1892. First edition, first printing with first issue text "Georgias" misspelled on vi. First state rear ads dated November, 1891. Rebound in recent tan calf with label to spine, gilt lettering; white endpapers. Lacking prelims up to the title page. Contents Very Good+ and..... More
Pound Ridge, NY: Milford House, 1968. Deluxe limited edition. [xvi], 1173, [1], [22] pp. Original cloth lettered in black, housed in publisher's black slipcase. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate and date on paste down and front free endpaper, house in Near Fine slipcase with worn tips. A profusely-illustrated facsimile..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Signed by the author, warmly inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "6/99 For Steve, my teacher, with fond memories & unflagging admiration [signed] Robert Proctor." From the library of Gould. x, 380 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812. First edition, second issue with gathering "H" reset. 367, (4, ads) pp. Publisher's leather with crimson title label, lettered in gilt. Leather chipped and worn along edges, especially at corners. Small chip to edge of title label. Some stains and foxing to text, ffep creased..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., Publishers, [1976]. Signed by Dr. Benjamin Spock on the front free endpaper, dated Oct. 1979. Fourth edition, fourth printing. Bound in publisher's photo-illustrated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, mostly unread, unmarked. A signed copy of Dr. Spock's The Common..... More
Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1837. First American Edition. x, 407, [1, Pathological Index] pp. Period half calf and marbled boards with newer morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, former owner's name written in pencil on blank page..... More
Pelham Manor, NY: Scholium International, Inc., 1971. Complete in two volumes. viii, 648; vi, [649]-1302 pp. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear, former owner's name written on paste downs. A rare reprint of a 1950 US Air Force anthology summarizing German..... More
New York: Printed at Kay Printing House, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's origina dark blue cloth with titles lettered in gilt. Very Good or better, with toning to cloth at spine and edges, gilt rubbed completely at spine and partialyl to front cover, cloth lightly edge-worn. Pathfinders..... More
London: Macmillan & Company Ltd., 1918. First edition. xii, 252 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with a hint of toning to the spine cloth and shelf wear; bright and clean internally save for a name stamped on the title page; sturdy binding. Rare in..... More