New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1950. First edition. 262 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine stamping. A little offsetting and foxing to endpapers, else Fine in a dust jacket that is corner-clipped but has price intact ($3.00), generally bright and attractive, with some wear spots to front..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First US edition. xxiv, 175 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with spine panel darkened and edge-wear heaviest at head and tail. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. A rare double work of nonfiction by..... More
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Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Physical Society, 1913. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould and signed. xv, 240 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in..... More
London, Paris, & Leipzig: Hippolyte Balliere, J.B. Balliere, & T.O. Wiegel; Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1843-1856. Complete run of the publication in 13 volumes. Various cloth bindings: vols. 7 & 11 are original, the others are in 20th century institutional cloth. A Fair+ ex-library set deaccessioned from the John..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. First American edition. (Follows the British, the same year. Morton 3rd edition 1409.) Copy of contemporary female physician Elmira Y. Howard with her signature at front and date of 1877, her numerous underlines and brackets throughout in pencil, which is easily erasable with patience..... More
Springfield, Illinois & Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas, 1942. First edition. 337, (1) pp. Navy Holliston Sturdite lettered in gilt. Very Good+ in rare original two-sided dust jacket, a little soiled and edge-worn. Light wear to bottom board, very slight wrinkling to endpapers, bookseller's ticket to paste down. The primary published..... More
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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. xxxii, 750 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in twentieth-century quarter morocco; bound without ads. Sunning to spine, rubbing or light scuffing to rear cover. Contents toned, with occasional and discrete markings from previous owner and several leaves repaired. The very first publication..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "To Steve With best wishes to a courageous friend and ardent hopes for full recovery [signed] Tony." x, 182 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine original unprinted tissue dust..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing..... More
Rutherford, NJ. Medical Economics, Inc., 1947. First edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, toning to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light soiling, light crimping and light shelf wear. The first edition of the widely-used reference commonly referred to..... More
Battle Ceeek, MI: The Modern Medicine Publishing Company, 1922. First edition, first printing. 160pp. Illustrated in color. Green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling. Very Good with a few light stains and faint insecting to cloth, internally fine.The doctor, cereal company namesake, and early 20th century health guru's thoughts on..... More
New York: J.N. Jaros, 1890. First edition. Complimentary copy inscribed to Elmira Y. Howard, female physician, with the compliments of the author (probably in the hand of someone who worked for the publisher); she is also named in the endorsements in the rear of the volume as one of the..... More
New York: American Technical Book Company, 1896. First edition. 196, errata, [4] pp. with frontispiece and figures 54-91 at rear (90 not included as is explained in note on p. 160). A Good+ copy with label from The Wells Book Store Readers' Library mounted to rear board and front paste..... 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
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1889. First edition. Offprint from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, September 1889. 5, [1] pp. Original blue wraps. Very Good+ with toning to edges of wraps, small stain to front wrap. [Golden & Roland 575.]. 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
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
Long Island, NY: Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, 1953. First edition. xvi, 301 pp. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine, light wear. This volume contains the first publication of the landmark paper "The Structure of DNA" by Watson and Crick (pages..... More