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Warsaw (Warszawa): Widawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. Paperback. Very good/very good. Very good copy of the true (Polish) first edition in jacket. Title in orange and black. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, backstrip leaning; dust jacket, skillful paper restorations to folds, spine panel and bottom edges on verso, corners clipped; contents clean, 1 page publisher's adverts at end. Scarce in jacket. Filmed three times, most memorably in 1974 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970.

New York: Crown Business, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition, 1st printing, flat signed & dated by both Thiel and Masters. Photos of both authors at the book signing event are included with the signed book. Hardcover, as new condition, unread and unmarked. A #1 bestseller, but signed copies are scarce.

Moscow: Gos.transportnoe zheleznodorozhnoe izd-vo., 1946. First edition in Russian. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good, bound in contemporary green buckram with stamped illustration on lower front. Light wear and chipping to cover page, which also has previous owner's name. A few underlines in text. Inside clean, bright. Octavo. 276pp, illustrated. 104150

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Large 8vo, xiv + 272 pp, two colored plates. Good. Text clean, plates excellent. Ex-library but exterior is unmarked except for stamp to bottom edge; usual labels inside. Shelfwear to head and tail of spine; rear joint reinforced. "Second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin's Origin" -- W.D. Hamilton. Garrison-Morton's Medical Bibliography #253.

Currency, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, eighth printing, Fine hardcover, association copy, signed and inscribed by Thiel "with much admiration" to the chair of the New York Federal Reserve. Inscribed copies of this book are rare.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Navy blue cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down with slight loss of edges and color. Ex-library with usual marks to interior (exterior is clean). Text block very good, lightly toned. The precursor to Principia Mathematica.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939 . First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine copy, navy boards unfaded, corners crisp, binding tight and square. Lacking front free endpaper. First edition of Pecora's timeless account of the the 1930s Senate inquiry into Wall Street and the crash, which uncovered many corrupt and abusive practices and led to the Glass-Steagall Banking Act and the Securities Act of 1933, among others. Although Pecora was the chief counsel of the investigation, his role was so significant it became known as the "Pecora Commission."

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1906. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First UK Edition, published same year as first American edition. Professionally rebound in navy blue to match original cloth, original spine label laid down. Library stamp to half-title and title pages (but otherwise free of marks). Last page of index has losses to edge, repaired with Japanese paper.

Baltimore, MD: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1980. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. This magnificently illustrated work has been hailed as one of the most important anatomic atlases since the work of Vesalius." Second edition. Volume I: 378 plates + index. Volume II: 401 plates + index. Small 3rd volume (index only, no illustrations) not present. Volume I: Near fine in dust jacket. Volume II: Near fine in dust jacket.

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Volumes I and III only. In German and English. Volume I: 1, Portrait. X, 654 p. Hardbound, very good+, stamp on title page.Volume III: 1 Portrait. IX, 574 p. Hardbound, very good+, stamp on title page.

London: John Murray, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (12) 175 (1) pp., blue green cloth, gilt titles on cover and spine with gilt design bottom of upper board. Very good, light shelf wear, corners bumped.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER, "With Xmas Greetings from Wm. Osler, 1916." Charles Sayle was a poet, as well as a bibliographer and librarian at Cambridge University. Osler's encouragement is acknowledged in the preface, his "Aequanimitas" is quoted on pp. 83-84. In Cushing's life of Osler, his letter to Sayle is quoted: "I send books at Xmas to about 100 of my old students, and this year I have selected your 'Ages'..." Osler 4526. Bibliotheca Osleriana 5421.

London: HMSO, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Scarce (only 3 copies in WorldCat, none in COPAC, this is the first copy of the complete set listed online in 20 years). The complete theory of anti-aircraft gunnery worked out during World War I (the Great War) by Hill's Brigands, an illustrious team of physicists, mathematicians, and scientists, including Douglas Hartree, Karl Pearson, and Horace Darwin, who developed the new, three-dimensional gunnery to the sophistication level of established artillery (William Thomas, _Rational Action_, 2015). "Artillery schools" stamps to title pages and number stamped on front cover of volume 1 and spine of volume 2.Volume 1: 867 pages, original red cloth binding with gilt titles. Corners bumped, rear lower corner especially. Front hinge carefully reinforced with archival tape. All plates present including 14 large fold-outs.Volume 2: 271 pages. 5 fold-outs. Good+ condition, wear to joints, foxing to endpapers. All fold-outs excellent. 104200

London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First (and only) edition of Huxley's complete scientific works, previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates, many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume, no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages, all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), known as… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION, 1906. Good. Rebound in blue cloth, original gilt label laid down. Stamp and blind-stamp to title page. Text block shows light brown tidemarking on the lower corner throughout. Index pages are chipped and have a few small pen-marks. xvi + 411pp. PMM 397, Garrison-Morton 1432. 003027

New York: Harper & Row, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition, early printing. Copyright page shows D-Z letter code indicating April 1950 printing - the first printing is coded D-Y for 1949. Very good, light shelf wear, mild rubbing to spine. Pages clean and bright.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. Unique presentation copy to Professor Otto Loewi, discoverer of acetylcholine and Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1936, as the 11th Hughlings Jackson Memorial Lecturer at the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1946. Two volumes bound as one in red full leather with raised bands, gilt title on spine, Loewi's name gilt on front cover. Presentation page bound at front, and at rear is a mimeographed list of the distinguished previous lecturers including Penfield, Cannon, Adrian, with Loewi's name pencilled in as the 11th.Good. Spine is worn and flaking and hinges somewhat weak, however covers are very good, and pages clean and bright. pp. xiv+500, viii+510. Heirs of Hippocrates 2001. * 002223

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good-. First edition, stated first printing. Good hardcover in blue cloth. Ex-corporate library; outside covers and spine are clean and unmarked, but the endpapers inside have stamps. Five pages are creased at the corners. Overall, a very presentable copy of the First Edition of this landmark - Garrison-Morton's Medical Bibliography 4914.2.

New York: Wittenborn and Co. / Art-Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing, US issue; the book was published simultaneously in Germany and America. Unpaginated quarto, black and white photography, text in German, French, and English. A tight, clean and unmarked copy that presents very well. Dust jacket has edgewear, now protected by mylar wrapper. The first publication of the Bechers' landmark typological approach to documentary and architectural photography. Parr & Badger, The Photobook 1, 193 & II, 261; Roth Book of 101 Books p. 194.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office (GPO), 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Good. An attractive set. Volume I: good. Text free of marks, binding solid, small rubbing mark to front cover and manufacturing defect to rear cover affecting margin of last 30 pages. 982 pp. Volume II: very good+, v, 67 pp. Very small closed tear to top front. Conducted by the Personal Security Board of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, these hearings culminated in withdrawal of Oppenheimer's security clearance. Large parts of these transcripts were adapted into the screenplay of Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer.

Allentown, PA: Academical Bookstore, 1836. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition, from the British translation of the Fourth German edition, with improvements and additions from the Fifth at the request of Hahnemann. xxiii, 212 p. The German 1st edition is Garrison-Morton #1966. Skilfully rebound in tan cloth with a new hand-letterpressed spine label designed after the original label (the original spine is laid down on a rear endpaper) and original Wesselhoft bookseller's label preserved. Text block is good with light foxing and some top corners have been folded. * 004861