Like a God I Love All Things de Billy Childish - 1991

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Signed and inscribed "with the author's best wishes" by author Phyllis Bottome on fep. All that remains of the dust jacket is a small amount at top back and the back dust jacket fold about the author "a writer by profession and a nomad by inclination." Slight tear in page margin of pages 177, 179 and 181. Back cover has fragment of dust jacket and some residue. Slight bleed of orange end papers to dust jacket fold and blank back endpage. Bumped corners. Three very small holes on front cover at hinge and a small line of glue or white paint at top spine. 240 pages in good overall condition. Bumped corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Signed on the title page by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Fine in a dust jacket with a closed 1/8" tear on the back panel, else fine. Gunter Grass was the 1999 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1911. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 plates of which 1 is folding and the others are double-page. Ownership signature "Ric" and short note on the upper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned at the extremities, lightly rubbed, lower corner bumped, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, "Schrader, with kind regards of the author". Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway's first female professor and the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She studied with chromosome researcher Theodor Boveri in Germany, and was awarded a PhD in 1906 for her study of sex cells. "The problem of chromosome halving in the sex cells was not well understood at the time, and her work challenged the classic work of the Norwegian cytologists Alette and Kristian Emil Schreiner. In response to criticism by the Schreiners about her chromosomal work, Bonnevie went to Columbia… Leer más

Memphis, Tennessee: Castle Books, 1988. Very rare signed, numbered title. Numbered, inscribed and signed by author on fep. The frontispiece, a drawing of the author's wife, is also signed by her. One of the American Heroes series. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 445 bright, white pages with some black and white photographs and black and white frontispiece drawing From jacket: "(This book) captures the joy of the victor and the survivor as well as the long shadow of fear and tension on the eve of battle, and the shattering fear in the midst of combat. Here is the lingering sorrow of comrades who do not return from the battle, the loneliness and the boredom between mission, nights filled with excitement mixed with dread, days filled with both laughter and fear... Here is the movie star, Jimmy Stewart, dedicated to the welfare of his men and determined to fly the most dangerous aerial missions with them." Jacket is a bit tattered at head and heel of spine… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Signed and inscribed "with the author's best wishes" by author Phyllis Bottome on fep. All that remains of the dust jacket is a small amount at top back and the back dust jacket fold about the author "a writer by profession and a nomad by inclination." Slight tear in page margin of pages 177, 179 and 181. Back cover has fragment of dust jacket and some residue. Slight bleed of orange end papers to dust jacket fold and blank back endpage. Bumped corners. Three very small holes on front cover at hinge and a small line of glue or white paint at top spine. 240 pages in good overall condition. Bumped corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine copy, in jacket with minor wear to extremities, and a tiny scrape on front panel. Signed on the half title page..

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Signed on the title page by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Navy cloth. Fine in a dust jacket with a closed 1/8" tear on the back panel, else fine. Gunter Grass was the 1999 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1911. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 plates of which 1 is folding and the others are double-page. Ownership signature "Ric" and short note on the upper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned at the extremities, lightly rubbed, lower corner bumped, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, "Schrader, with kind regards of the author". Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway's first female professor and the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She studied with chromosome researcher Theodor Boveri in Germany, and was awarded a PhD in 1906 for her study of sex cells. "The problem of chromosome halving in the sex cells was not well understood at the time, and her work challenged the classic work of the Norwegian cytologists Alette and Kristian Emil Schreiner. In response to criticism by the Schreiners about her chromosomal work, Bonnevie went to Columbia… Leer más

Memphis, Tennessee: Castle Books, 1988. Very rare signed, numbered title. Numbered, inscribed and signed by author on fep. The frontispiece, a drawing of the author's wife, is also signed by her. One of the American Heroes series. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 445 bright, white pages with some black and white photographs and black and white frontispiece drawing From jacket: "(This book) captures the joy of the victor and the survivor as well as the long shadow of fear and tension on the eve of battle, and the shattering fear in the midst of combat. Here is the lingering sorrow of comrades who do not return from the battle, the loneliness and the boredom between mission, nights filled with excitement mixed with dread, days filled with both laughter and fear... Here is the movie star, Jimmy Stewart, dedicated to the welfare of his men and determined to fly the most dangerous aerial missions with them." Jacket is a bit tattered at head and heel of spine… Leer más