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
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937. First British edition. 175 p. Pink cloth with black lettering on spine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on fore edge and endpapers. Name penned on front endpaper, some offsetting. Jacket spine panel sunned and soiled, worn along edges, price has pencil..... 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
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
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
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: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Very Good with wear at spine ends, light rubbing to cloth. Pages heavily foxed at early and last pages; small, dark stain to bottom corners..... 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
Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press, 1990. Signed by both authors with inscription by Schultes. First edition. 484 pp. Bluish green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners in Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine, two small tears at head and tail, lightly worn at edges. Warmly..... 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