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SIGNED. Journal of a Medical and Population Genetic Survey Expedition of the Research Vessel Alpha Helix to the Banks and Torres Islands of the New Hebrides, Southern Islands of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Pingelap Atoll, Eastern Caroline Islands, September 8, 1972 to November 26, 1972 by Gajdusek, D. Carleton

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Title: SIGNED. Journal of a Medical and Population Genetic Survey Expedition of the Research Vessel Alpha Helix to the Banks and Torres Islands of the New Hebrides, Southern Islands of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Pingelap Atoll, Eastern Caroline Islands, September 8, 1972 to November 26, 1972
Author: Gajdusek, D. Carleton
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, 1985. Revised edition. ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EXPEDITION TO PACIFIC ISLANDS BY NOBELIST CARLETON GAJDUSEK WITH TLS/ALS TO JAMES WYNGAARDEN, NIH DIRECTOR. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Jim Wyngaarden/ In homage to your wise direction of/ our complex Institutes, in gratitude for/ your support and encouragement, in/ awe and admiration of your prodigious/ scientific accomplishments and in/ lasting friendship./ Carleton Gajdusek/ December 1985." Map of the Coral Sea, i-ix, 50 full page black & white photographic plates, 378 typescript pages. Near fine. LAID IN, typed letter dated Dec. 31, 1985 on Department of Health & Human Services stationary, "Dear Jim, Here are a few further juornals which I think you are missing. According to my records, your set should now be complete. If you are missing any of those on the list which are not preceded by an asterisk, please let me know./ Sincerely, D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D." with autograph message signed a second time, "I am back from another 2 months in Papua New Guinea & West New Guinea. The fuel for all we accomplish has always derived from these field expeditions. I am deeply indebted to a wisdom that has prevailed in the offices of my administrative directors & your office over the years that has understood this and made my work possible for a quarter of a century. We must get together at leisure once again--Greetings from Lim Chang Keat in Penang (& Singapore), Happy New Year/ Carleton." Also laid in, stapled typed list titled, Journals of D. Carleton Gajdusek, October 1985. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK (1923 –2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. He obtained an M.D. from Harvard University in 1946 and performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard. In 1951, Gajdusek was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned as a research virologist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Service Graduate School. From 1970 to 1996, Gajdusek was the chief of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at NINDS at the National Institutes of Health. Gajdusek's best-known work focused on kuru. This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. Gajdusek connected the spread of the disease to the practice of funerary cannibalism by the South Fore. With elimination of cannibalism, kuru disappeared among the South Fore within a generation. Gajdusek provided the first medical description of this unique neurological disorder. He lived among the Fore, studied their language and culture, and performed autopsies on kuru victims. Gajdusek concluded that kuru was transmitted by the ritualistic consumption of the brains of deceased relatives, which was practiced by the Fore. He then proved this hypothesis by successfully transmitting the disease to primates and demonstrating that it had an unusually long incubation period of several years. PROVENANCE: JAMES BARNES WYNGAARDEN (1924 – 2019) was an American physician, researcher and academic administrator. He was a co-editor of Cecil Textbook of Medicine, one of the leading internal medicine texts, and served as director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989. He became the 12th director on April 30, 1982, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. Immediately prior to his appointment, he was professor and chairman of the department of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, a position he had held since 1967. He has also served as advisor to the broader scientific community as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1974, and was active from 1975 to 1982 on an NAS committee set up to study the Nation's overall need for biomedical and behavioral researchers; consultant for the President's Office of Science and Technology (1966-1972), a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1972-1973), and a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine.

SIGNED. Kuru. Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek by Farquhar, Judith and Gajdusek, D.Carleton

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Title: SIGNED. Kuru. Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek
Author: Farquhar, Judith and Gajdusek, D.Carleton
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Description: New York: Raven Press, 1981. First edition. LETTERS AND NOTES OF NOBELIST D C GAJDUSEK, DISCOVERER OF KURU, FIRST PRION DISEASE--INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. 18x26 cm hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed and signed in ink on front free endpaper: "To Harry Miller: in gratitude for your interest in Toni and in admiration of your efforts to help the students & children of Asia & Oceania. In friendship: D. Carlton Gajdusek, Jan. 1985" xxviii, 338 pp, 32 pages of photographs. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK (1923 –2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. He obtained an M.D. from Harvard University in 1946 and performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard. In 1951, Gajdusek was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned as a research virologist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Service Graduate School. In 1954, after his military discharge, he traveled for a year in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. His journals, correspondence, and photographs were published in 1991 by the National Institutes of Health (offered here). Following this year of traveling, he went to work as a visiting investigator at the Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, where he began the work that culminated in the Nobel prize. From 1970 to 1996, Gajdusek was the chief of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at NINDS at the National Institutes of Health. Gajdusek's best-known work focused on kuru. This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. Gajdusek connected the spread of the disease to the practice of funerary cannibalism by the South Fore. With elimination of cannibalism, kuru disappeared among the South Fore within a generation. Gajdusek provided the first medical description of this unique neurological disorder. He lived among the Fore, studied their language and culture, and performed autopsies on kuru victims. Gajdusek concluded that kuru was transmitted by the ritualistic consumption of the brains of deceased relatives, which was practiced by the Fore. He then proved this hypothesis by successfully transmitting the disease to primates and demonstrating that it had an unusually long incubation period of several years. JUDITH FARQUHAR (born 1946) is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the history and practice of traditional Chinese medicine in modern China, and on cultures of health and embodiment in both rural and urban China.

Photograph of Nobel laureates Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs in a laboratory, signed by both scientists by Fischer, Edmond and Krebs, Edwin G.

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Title: Photograph of Nobel laureates Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs in a laboratory, signed by both scientists
Author: Fischer, Edmond and Krebs, Edwin G.
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Description: ca. 2000. SIGNED PHOTO OF EDMOND FISCHER AND EDWIN KREBS WHO SHARED THEIR LABS AND NOBEL PRIZE IN 1992: CLOSE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ENJOYING A LAUGH TOGETHER. 5X7 inch glossy black & white photographs signed in gold ink by both Nobel laureates; label verso of photo, "Photo by Hideki Tomeoko,Seattle, WA." EDMOND FISCHER (1920-2021) died on August 27 at the age of 101, the oldest living Nobel laureate. Born in Shanghai, he was introduced to the work of Louis Pasteur when his family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he earned his PhD in biochemistry in 1947. In 1953 he was recruited by Hans Neurath to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he spent his entire career. Shortly after arriving in Seattle, he met biochemist Edwin Krebs, the beginning of a lifelong collaboration and friendship. Known to colleagues as Eddy and Ed, they claimed that their success depended on "two Eds are better than one." EDWIN KREBS (1918-2009) was born in Lansing, Iowa, earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1940, followed by an MD from Washington University in St Louis. After the war, he became a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureates Carl and Gerty Cori at Washington University, then was recruited by Hans Neurath to join the faculty of the University of Washington, where he met Fischer. Together, they discovered protein phosphorylation as a regulatory mechanism that was cited in Fischer's obituary in Science as "arguably the most important discovery in cell biology in the 20th century," leading to the development of therapies for cancer, diabetes, and countless other diseases. Fischer and Krebs shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for this work. The photograph highlights the sheer joy shared by the collaborators in their favorite environment. Krebs is remembered as "a kind and gentle mentor who passed on extraordinary insights in a quiet and dignified manner." Fischer was an accomplished classical pianist, "remembered for his penetrating questions in seminars, his wry humor and good spirits, and his constant generosity of time and insights to colleagues." [Quotations from obituaries in Science, 29 January, 2010 and 8 October, 2021].

The Problem of Race-Regeneration by Ellis, Havelock and Marchant, James (Introduction)

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Title: The Problem of Race-Regeneration
Author: Ellis, Havelock and Marchant, James (Introduction)
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Description: New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1911. First edition. 1911 EUGENICS AND SOCIAL REFORM BY A PROGRESSIVE EUGENICIST. 11.5 x 18.5 cm hardcover, olive green cloth binding, title to cover, [2], 67 pp, light wear to corners, light edge-browning to pages. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. HAVELOCK ELLIS (1859 – 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. In his early writings, it was clear that Ellis concurred with the notion that there was a system of racial hierarchies, and that non-western cultures were considered to be "lower races". Before explicitly talking about eugenic topics, he used the prevalence of homosexuality in these 'lower races' to indicate the universality of the behavior. However, Ellis held much more moderate views than many contemporary eugenicists. In fact, he also fundamentally disagreed with Galton's leading idea that procreation restrictions were the same as marriage restrictions. Ellis resigned from his position as a Fellow of the Eugenics Society over its stance on sterilization in January 1931. JAMES MARCHANT (1867–1956) was a British eugenicist, social reformer and author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council of Public Morals. In 1917, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. CITED by Engs in The Eugenics Movement (2005): "Another name for eugenics in the early twentieth century, 'race regeneration' was used by some British eugenicists. It was mentioned in 1911 in two tracts published by the National Council for Public Morals, entitled "New Tracts for the Times" by British eugenicists C.W. Saleeby in Methods of Race-Regeneration, and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) in The Problem of Race-Regeneration (offered here)."

Early American Women's Friendship and Sentimental Culture, Mary Newton Manuscript Album of Poetry and Social Exchange, 1825-1894 by Women's Education Friendship album

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Title: Early American Women's Friendship and Sentimental Culture, Mary Newton Manuscript Album of Poetry and Social Exchange, 1825-1894
Author: Women's Education Friendship album
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Description: 1825. Newton, Mary. Friendship album, begun 1825, documents early nineteenth-century manuscript album culture among young women in New England, emphasizing sentimental expression, moral reflection, and the preservation of social relationships through handwritten verse. The volume supports research into female education, friendship networks, and the literary practices that shaped interpersonal identity in the antebellum Northeast. Entries contributed over several decades and across locations including Boston, Amherst, and Burlington demonstrate how such albums functioned as enduring records of mobility and connection, maintaining ties as correspondents dispersed into different social and occupational roles. Newton, Mary. Friendship album. 1825-1894. Manuscript volume containing 92 pages of handwritten inscriptions by numerous contributors, frequently titled "To a Friend" or "To Miss Newton." The entries consist largely of copied or adapted poetic verse centered on memory, affection, and moral sentiment, including lines such as "Joy cannot claim a purer bliss...Than female friendship's parting tear," and lyrical compositions like "It is not for your eagle eye...That, Mary, I love thee." Several contributions reflect the inevitability of separation as friends pursue "several employments," while others articulate prescriptive views on marriage and domestic life, asserting reciprocal emotional obligations between husbands and wives and emphasizing women's central role in maintaining "the keys of affection." The album also includes humorous and coded entries, such as a poem concluding with the note "Bees are Husbands, worms are Beaus," indicating the presence of playful, intimate communication within trusted social circles. Recurring themes of loss, endurance, and emotional constancy are reinforced through imagery of nature and transformation, with verses describing clouds giving way to light as metaphors for overcoming sorrow. This album emerges from a period in which sentimental literature and manuscript exchange were integral to female education and socialization, particularly within academies and informal networks of young women. Friendship albums served as both literary exercises and social documents, reinforcing shared values while preserving evidence of personal relationships across time and distance. The geographic range of contributors reflects increasing regional mobility in the early republic, while the sustained use of the album into the late nineteenth century demonstrates its long-term role as a repository of memory. Original paper boards; approximately 92 pages; measures 7.5 x 6 inches. Light, even toning with heavier toning to initial leaves; some entries faded but legible; boards worn and separated from text block; good condition. A substantial example of early American female manuscript culture documenting sentiment, mobility, and evolving social identity.

The Hungry Tiger of Oz; Founded on and Continuing The Famous Oz Stories By L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill by Thompson, Ruth Plumly

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Title: The Hungry Tiger of Oz; Founded on and Continuing The Famous Oz Stories By L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill
Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly
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Description: Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1926. Early Edition. Cloth. Very good. Early edition of The Hungry Tiger of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson.. Octavo, 261pp. Original green cloth, title printed in black on spine. Illustrated panel affixed to front cover. Solid text block, faint wear to corners, slight bow to covers. Lacking the dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. With hyphen on last line of page 21, and "two" in damaged type on last line of page 252. (Hanff & Greene XX).

Take My Life by Cantor, Eddie, with Jane Kesner Ardmore

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Title: Take My Life
Author: Cantor, Eddie, with Jane Kesner Ardmore
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Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dj. Later Printing. Hardcover. [nice copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket lightly soiled on rear panel, with a touch of wear to the spine extremities]. (B&W photographs) Eddie Cantor's autobiography, in which "he retraces the steps that have carried him from a dingy one-room apartment on New York's lower East Side through a thousand stage doors and out into the glow of the footlights and the applause and laughter that have so long been his due. [The book] is filled with anecdotes and stories about Eddie, his wonderful wife Ida, and their five-girl family, as well as Eddie's friends, the now fabled names of show business: George Jessel, Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, Sophie Tucker, George M. Cohan, Ruth Etting, Will Rogers, Ethel Merman, Jack Benny, and many others." A very nice copy of a book that is notoriously prone to wear. .

National Geographic: Polygamy in America - One Man, Five Wives, 46 Children by Anderson, Scott; Stephanie Sinclair (Photographer)

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Title: National Geographic: Polygamy in America - One Man, Five Wives, 46 Children
Author: Anderson, Scott; Stephanie Sinclair (Photographer)
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Description: New York: National Geographic Society, 2010. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 150pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. Pictorial wraps. Light creasing and rubbing to wraps, with 7cm x 2cm loss to rear cover. Heavily illustrated feature on the FLDS church, following the 2008 raid of Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. Approximately 700 FLDS members relocated from the Short Creek region, under increasing scrutiny from Arizona and Utah law enforcement. President Warren Jeffs was facing a warrant for sexual assault allegations (of which he was soon convicted), and the church's practice of child marriage was becoming harder to ignore. Prior to his 2006 arrest, Jeffs was last seen in Eldorado - his proclamations were a major driving force in the relocation. It materialized that the raid was initiated by a prank call; a woman with a history of similar prank calls contacted authorities pretending to be a young FLDS girl experiencing abuse. In spite of the fraudulent nature of the instigating complaint, the raid found "a systematic process going on to groom these young girls to become brides." Gathered evidence led to the imprisonment of multiple members of church leadership.

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