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Animal Communites in Temperate America as Illustrated in the Chicago Region. A Study in Animal Ecology by Shelford, Victor E.

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Title: Animal Communites in Temperate America as Illustrated in the Chicago Region. A Study in Animal Ecology
Author: Shelford, Victor E.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913. The Beginning of Organized Theoretical Principles for Animal Ecology, Inscribed to William Morton Wheeler Shelford, Victor Ernest (1877-1968). Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region: A study in animal ecology. xiii, 362pp. Frontispiece, folding map, text illustrations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913. 243 x 168 mm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered spine, hinges repaired. Light finger-soiling in lower corner of book block, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Shelford to William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) on the front endpaper: "Compliments of the author Victor E. Shelford." Wheeler's signature on the title. First Edition of one of the landmark works in ecology, representing "the first systematic attempt to codify terrestrial animal communities" (Elton, The Pattern of Animal Communities, p. 32). Trained as a zoologist, Shelford created the field of animal ecology with this work and later publications such as Bio-Ecology (1939, with F. E. Clements). Shelford helped found the Ecological Society of America and headed the ESA's Committee for the Preservation of Natural Conditions, which later became the Nature Conservancy. He presented this copy of Animal Communities to William Morton Wheeler, professor of applied biology at Harvard's Bussey Institute and one of the foremost experts on ants. Allaby, Ecology: Plants, Animals and the Environment, pp. 152-153. . $450.

Job Printing in California, With Four Original Examples of Early California Printing. 1955.; Early California Travels Series, Volume XXVI by Ritchie, Ward

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Title: Job Printing in California, With Four Original Examples of Early California Printing. 1955.; Early California Travels Series, Volume XXVI
Author: Ritchie, Ward
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Glen Dawson [printed by William M. Cheney], 1955. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 200 copies, duodecimo size, 35 pp. Harry "Ward" Ritchie (1905-1996) founded The Ward Ritchie Press, a fixture in the Southern California literary landscape, in 1932. He was responsible for publishing thousands of books, including over 750 which were designed by Ward Ritchie himself. Ritchie was therefore the natural selection to author this book in the "Early California Travels Series" on printing in California. The volume includes four original examples of early California printing tipped in, including an invoice from Bradshaw & Co. dated August 3rd, 1854; an invoice from James Patrick ("Importer of Butter") dated June 23, 1852; a bank draft drawn on Page, Bacon & Co., Bankers, dated Juine 9, 1854; and a stock certificate for 100 shares in the Chance Silver Mining Company, dated May 7th, 1874. A fascinating look at "job" printing in early California, by one of the pre-eminent California printers during the "Golden Age" of California fine press printing. Somewhat uncommon in the marketplace, we see only one copy online as of this writing. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full tan cloth over boards, red lettering on the front, small decoration of a printing press in black under the title, tasteful Ex-Libris from the prior owner on the front pastedown, title page in red and black, the four original examples bound in throughout; duodecimo size, pagination: [2] [1-2] 3-31 [2]. ___CONDITION: Fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and other than the Ex-Libris mentioned above entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, and as new. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Gahan Wilson's Still Weird [SIGNED with drawing] by Wilson, Gahan

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Title: Gahan Wilson's Still Weird [*SIGNED* with drawing]
Author: Wilson, Gahan
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
ISBN: 9780312857790
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates. Near Fine. 1994. 1st Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. 0312857799 . [nice-looking book, with just a touch of surface wear to the covers, slight bends to bottom corners of about a dozen pages near the end of the book]. Trade PB (cartoon drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/cartoonist on the inside front cover: "To _____ / with my best wishes / Gahan Wilson"; accompanying the signature (and together with it covering the entire page) is a rough drawing of a lightning bolt, and at the bottom right is a small drawing of a woman with a thought balloon over her head, thinking "What a neat wallpaper that would make!" This book, "Wilson's first major collection, includes selections from the whole body of his work, plus 100 brand-new cartoons and 100 more than have never before been published in book form." Signed by Author .

Fable in Gothic by Winter, Lois F.

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Title: Fable in Gothic
Author: Winter, Lois F.
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Description: Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, some foxing/spotting to top of text block, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket torn at spine corners, a bit of paper loss at top of spine, small strip of old cellotape affixed to rear panel]. "The scathing and outspoken story of a minister who believed his wife's happiness was not too much to pay for his own advancement. Here is the needless tragedy of thousands of women who can neither love nor desert their husbands because they recognize their place as necessary social fixtures." The author, per the jacket blurb, was the daughter of an Episcopal minister, and was "the wife of an Army officer for fifteen years." (The husband in the book is an Army chaplain who "was 'called' from the Army to better and wealthier parishes," and was eventually revealed to be a "distraught and maladjusted man." The phrasing of the biographical tidbit doesn't make it completely clear whether or not Ms. Winter was *still* the wife of an Army officer at the time of writing the book, but it does mention that "in recent years [she] has lived in New York and Connecticut among writers and artists." So draw your own conclusions.) This was the author's first, and apparently last, novel; OCLC turns up a dozen institutional copies, all in the U.S., but there appear to be none in the marketplace at the time of this writing. .

The Little Review - Vol.II, No.7 (October, 1915) by ANDERSON, Margaret (editor); Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Witter Bynner, et al. (contributors)

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Title: The Little Review - Vol.II, No.7 (October, 1915)
Author: ANDERSON, Margaret (editor); Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Witter Bynner, et al. (contributors)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1915. First Edition. Slim octavo (25.5cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 48pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else a fresh, Fine copy. Contents include poetry and short works by Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Alexander S. Kaun, Burt Harris, Ellen Key, Witter Bynner, and others.

The Work of the Digestive Glands: Lectures by Professor J.P. Pawlow, translated into English by W. H. Thompson, illustrated by Pawlow, J.P. [Pavlov]

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Title: The Work of the Digestive Glands: Lectures by Professor J.P. Pawlow, translated into English by W. H. Thompson, illustrated
Author: Pawlow, J.P. [Pavlov]
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., 1902. First English edition. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF PAVLOV'S FAMOUS WORK ON CONDITIONED REFLEXES, EARNING HIM THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1904. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine. Light wear to covers and edge of spine, age-toning to pages that are crisp and unamarked; very good. IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV (1849 – 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. In 1870, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg in order to study natural science. Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of experimental and clinical settings, including educational classrooms. After completing his doctorate, Pavlov went to Germany where he studied in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig and Eimear Kelly in the Heidenhain laboratories in Breslau. He remained there from 1884 to 1886. Heidenhain was studying digestion in dogs, using an exteriorized section of the stomach. In 1886, Pavlov returned to Russia to look for a new position. In 1891, Pavlov was invited to the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg to organize and direct the Department of Physiology. Over a 45-year period, under his direction, the Institute became one of the most important centers of physiological research in the world. It was at the Institute of Experimental Medicine that Pavlov carried out his classical experiments on the digestive glands. That is how he eventually won the Nobel prize mentioned above.[19] Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs, and later, children, by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it. The concept for which Pavlov is famous is the "conditioned reflex" (or in his own words the conditional reflex) he developed jointly with his assistant Ivan Filippovitch Tolochinov in 1901. He had come to learn this concept of conditioned reflex when examining the rates of salivations among dogs. Pavlov had learned that when a buzzer or metronome was sounded in subsequent time with food being presented to the dog in consecutive sequences, the dog would initially salivate when the food was presented. The dog would later come to associate the sound with the presentation of the food and salivate upon the presentation of that stimulus. The importance of this book is reflected by its citation in the Grolier Club 100 Books Famous in Science (No. 83), 100 Books Famous in Medicine (No. 85), and Garrison-Morton (No. 1022).

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