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London: Macmillan, 1874. Two volumes. Octavo, original full brick cloth. Housed in custom clamshell box. A near fine copy with some moderate foxing to the title page of volume 2, else clean and bright throughout with string hinges. From the library of Vincent Henry Stanton (1846 - 1924) who was Regius professor of Divinity at Cambridge University who also lectured in political economy. He was also a member of the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society. First edition of Jevons seminal treatise on logic and the scientific method, with engraved illustration and detailed description of his logical piano the first logic machine with enough power to solve complicated problems with superhuman speed (Hook & Norman).

First Edition. Deluxe Issue. Octavo (23cm); maroon cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [xii],416pp, with pictorial frontispiece. Slight forward lean, crown gently nudged, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with some rubbing to joints and front panel, and some corresponding wrinkling to crown; Near Fine. Micheaux's next-to-last novel, a race-themed mystery set in Memphis and New York. Described by McGilligan as "peculiar, grumpy, and sensationalistic," Dorothy Stanfield essentially marked the low ebb of Micheaux's long and successful career as a novelist, screenwriter, and director of "race" films. He would make a brief resurgence with his final novel Masquerade (1948), which dealt with "passing" among light-skinned Blacks, but he died poor and in relative obscurity in 1951. With jacket and endpaper illustrations by Elliot Fax. BLOCKSON 6490; HANNA 2483.

First American Edition. Leather. No Jacket. 338, [1] pp. 12mo. - over 7¾" - 9¾" Full period brown calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label (light wear; text has some browning and foxing - especially the title page). A nice copy in period dress. THE FIRST PSYCHIATRIC BOOK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. The first American edition reprints the second British Edition text of the previous year. Trotter was a Scottish naval surgeon who wrote the first medical treatise on Alcoholism, which he considered a mental disease. Hunter & Macalpine p. 588; Austin 1929. Not in Waller.

1st Edition 1917. 1st issue with the spine lettered in gilt and front cover lettered in blind. Very rare with the wrapper. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. enry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and ruralism. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter. He fought in World War I and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. Williamson acted as his company's transport officer and, in June 1917, he was gassed while transporting ammunition up to the front line. He was returned to the UK, spending the next few months in military convalescent hospitals (Wiki). Book is near very good and quite bright. Wording on spine a little dull.… Leer más

First U.k. Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp [4], 250, [2], [7] plates. Bound in contemporary quarter red leather over grey papered boards, Spine sympathetically rebacked by the Heritage Bindery with a refreshed label. The sheets are chiefly translated from a small French work, by Jauffret. Aimed at young people with the facts communicated in a question and answer mode. A very good copy with some rubbing and marking to boards - otherwise sound with complete uncut text and plates in clean condition showing the parts of the eye, the skeleton, the system of nerves in the body, and digestive organs. OCLC records 4 copies in America (UCLA, Princeton, Texas Medical College of Wisconsin). Rousseau, Nervous Acts 31.