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The principles and practice of medicine by OSLER, William

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The principles and practice of medicine
Author: OSLER, William
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Appleton, 1893. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Original publisher’s cloth, worn around the edges and corners as well as edges of spine; interior very good. Ownership inscription of H.L. Willis (?) on the fly-leaf. First edition, second printing with “Gorgias” spelled correctly on the verso of the third leaf and the publisher’s advertisements dated December, 1892. Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. It provided a systematized text on internal medicine as well as relevant information from the great advances in the laboratory sciences, particularly bacteriology. The chapters describe specific diseases by systems, a pattern since followed by most textbooks. This book became a standard text for students and practitioners in every country and language in the world. Garrison & Morton, 2231; Golden & Roland, Sir William Osler, An Annotated Bibliography, 1379.

Typed/Autograph Letter Signed by SHAW, George Bernard

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Title: Typed/Autograph Letter Signed
Author: SHAW, George Bernard
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London, 1898. 8220;G. Bernard Shaw." London: 1898. Full Description: SHAW, George Bernard. Typed/Autograph Letter Signed. "G. Bernard Shaw." 29 Fitzroy Square W. London: 27th April, 1898. Typed letter signed "G. Bernard Shaw." with a manuscript post script at the bottom in Shaw's hand. Letter addressed to "Mrs. Bloomfield Zeisler" famous Austrian concert pianist. One quarto sheet (10 1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 202 mm) Letter on recto, blank verso. Paper is lightly toned. Some chipping and tiny closed tears along edges. Two vertical and one horizontal crease from mailing. Still overall very good. The letter is a reply to Zeisler's request for Shaw to come see her perform at the Philharmonic. She has sent him a ticket which he is sending back. Letter is sent from Shaw's residence at 29 Fitzroy Square in London where he lived until 1898. This address is interesting in that a few years later in 1907, this same address was the home of Virgina Woolf. "29 Fitzroy Square W. 27th April, 1898. Dear Mrs Bloomfield Zeisler I find that my duties as dramatic critic will prevent my going to the Philharmonic. It doesn't matter, because of course you can play Rubinstein in D minor and the Litolff Scherzo as well as they can be played. All that romantic stuff is very ex- citing, but it is no real test of a player for London purposes. I shall go to your recital on Saturday, and sit with my nose turned up in the most superior fashion until you can charm it down again. I return the Philharmonic tickets with many thanks. As to your former letter, Garland must be much too experi- enced a man to suppose that any literary person whatever is worth wasting an artist's time personally. By all means admire the brilliant pen; but don't try to discover the poor sedentary creature behind it. At the same time if I can be of any service to you I am altogether at your disposal. Yours sincerely G Bernard Shaw 28th Ap? P.S. Unfortunately this letter, which should have been posted last night, was overlooked. I hope the ticket will not be too late." "George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.... He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). The former for his contributions to literature and the latter for his work on the film "Pygmalion" (adaptation of his play of the same name). Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright, as he had no desire for public honours, but he accepted it at his wife's behest. She considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English." (Good Reads) "'She plays like a man' was a near-refrain in critiques of Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, a brilliant pianist who emerged in the young, male-dominated American concert world of the 1880s. With magnetic energy and articulate technique, Zeisler broke out of the "lady pianist" molds to become a virtuoso revered for her musical intellect, expressivity, bravura, and scintillating touch in a wide range of concert repertoire. Her popularity peaked in the late 1890s, following highly acclaimed European tours, and continued into the first two decades of the twentieth century. Through much of her life the pianist juggled fifty-engagement seasons with teaching (at Chicago's Bush Temple of Music and in a private studio) and family duties... Despite her husband's wishes that she settle down to a domestic life, Zeisler returned to Vienna by fall 1888 for a five-month "refresher course" with Leschetizky. Her determination to excel paid off within the next decade, when she solidified artistic relationships with the orchestras of New York, Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburgh, performed at the Colombian Exposition of 1893, toured Europe, and appeared in numerous recitals throughout the United States, including an 1896 West Coast tour that featured seven different programs in eighteen days. Although "nervous prostrations" had cut short her first European tour of 1893-1894, her triumphs during this and the following season in Europe marked a career turning point. By 1896, American writers were dubbing her "America's greatest virtuoso" and, at times, the "Sarah Bernhardt of the piano." Zeisler performed in England in 1898 and returned to the Continent in 1902 and 1912." (The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women). [Together with] A second letter from President W.H. Taft in a secretarial hand introducing an Ambassador to Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. Written on December 24, 1911. He speaks highly of her telling the recipient that "She is the greatest American artist in the playing of the piano." He mentions that "She has a long time been a friend of Mrs. Taft" and that "she has given us the pleasure of an artistic performance once or twice at the White House." He goes on to ask "I shall appreciate any attention which you can show Mrs. Zeisler or, if opportunity comes, any official recognition of her artistic quality. I am sure that every American will be proud of her art." A nice piece to show the general feeling of awe and respect the whole country had for her. HBS 68957. $2,500.

L'Echo du Var et de l'Aveyron réunis: Quotidien d'art et de poésie ne paraissant pas le dimanche

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Title: L'Echo du Var et de l'Aveyron réunis: Quotidien d'art et de poésie ne paraissant pas le dimanche
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: Montclar and Tourves, France: Brenta/Gutt, 1997-2002. 14.6 x 10.5 cm. Original printed wrappers; most issues consisting of a single sheet folded into 8 pp. Overall very fine condition. A presumably complete collection (complete according to our sources) of 372 fascicules of the irregularly published journal founded by Belgian painter, illustrator, and filmmaker Gilles Brenta together with writer and editor Tom Gutt and Brenta's wife and cofounder of his film production company Les Trois Petits Cochons, Christine Wendelen. Brenta and Gutt two became friends and quickly thereafter artistic colleagues in 1973, and together participated in the activities of the Belgian Surrealists alongside Louis Scutenaire, Irène Hamoir, Marcel Mariën, Michel Thyrion, and Jean Wallenborn. L'Echo du Car et de l'Aveyron réunis contains art and poetry as well as occasional illustrations and artworks. 373 numbers total were published from 1997 through 2002, and this collection is presumably complete, beginning with the issue of August 18, 1997 and ending with January 12, 2002. As of May 2026, OCLC does not show any listings for this title.

Woman in Pink Dress by Williams, Ruskin

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Title: Woman in Pink Dress
Author: Williams, Ruskin
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Mid-20th Century. Mid-20th Century painting of watercolor on paper by Ruskin Williams (American, 1888-1966), mounted on paper board. Unsigned. Measurements: Image: w 14.25in x h 20 in; Total Dimensions: w 20 in x h 27 in. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Condition: Very Good. Age toning. Yellowed adhesive to margins of sheet and a few scattered adhesive in the painted area. Wear to corners of board. RW Consignment. Shelved at Rockville PS1101. 1376006. Special Collections - Upstairs.

CYRIACUS OF ANCONA'S EGYPTIAN VISIT AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN GENTILE BELLINI AND HIERONYMUS BOSCH by Williams Lehmann, Phyllis

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Title: CYRIACUS OF ANCONA'S EGYPTIAN VISIT AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN GENTILE BELLINI AND HIERONYMUS BOSCH
Author: Williams Lehmann, Phyllis
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Locust Valley NY: J.J. Augustine Publisher, 1977. Hardcover. Octavo, 34 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's off-white cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show slight soiling wear. Cocking to the spine. Text block has very light age toning to the edges. Previous owner's name to the front pastedown. Profusely illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K, ND-K. 1382395. FP New Rockville Stock.

STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF LOVE by Evans, Lesley; Block, Lawrence

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Title: STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF LOVE
Author: Evans, Lesley; Block, Lawrence
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Description: Greenwich, CT: Crest / Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1959. First edition. Fine.. First printing of Lawrence Block's first published novel, the derivative but accomplished product of the 19-year-old author's studious reading of "every other lesbian novel I could lay my hands on." Nearly out of his teens and desperate to publish a novel, Block temporarily laid aside detective fiction to produce this sad story of an Indiana girl in Greenwich Village, longing for "the beautiful Lesbian who could bring her the pleasure she wanted but was afraid to accept." In a memoir of his writing career, Block explains the novel's genesis: "The sensitive novel of female homosexuality was a popular category in the fifties and I suspect I read the books more for information and titillation than anything else. [...] I sat down and wrote the thing start to finish in two weeks flat, finishing four days before my twentieth birthday. It sold to Fawcett, the first publisher to see it, and I was a published novelist just like that." 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers by Barye Phillips. Crest s336. 144 pages. Very slight edgewear, faint vertical crease to front cover.

The Wars of Peace by WILSON, A.F. [Anne Florence]; H.C. Ireland (illus)

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Title: The Wars of Peace
Author: WILSON, A.F. [Anne Florence]; H.C. Ireland (illus)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's burgundy pictorial cloth; gilt spine titles; 392,[4]pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates. Mild external rubbing, with a touch of fraying to cloth at crown; faint old erasure to front free endpaper; text clean, tight and unmarked. A solidly Very Good copy. A struggle between a ruthless capitalist father and his progressive-minded son in a New England mill town. When the father's trust conspires to blow up the son's competing (and union-led) mill, the millworkers bravely come to the lad's rescue. The old bastard gets it in the end. HANNA 3832. BLAKE p.227: "Mostly drivel.

MOSTLY DEAD THINGS by Arnett, Kristen

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Title: MOSTLY DEAD THINGS
Author: Arnett, Kristen
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ISBN: 9781947793309
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Description: Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books, 2019. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first edition of this bizarre story of a family of taxidermists coming to terms with the suicide of their patriarch and with their own secrets - as issued with slipcase from the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original pink boards. Original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 356 pages. With original INDIESPENSABLE booklet. Signed by Arnett to half title page. In original pink pictorial slipcase. Vibrant.

(1960 2-Volume Set) A History of the Warfare of Science with Technology in Christendom, Complete in Two Volumes by White, Andrew Dickson

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Title: (1960 2-Volume Set) A History of the Warfare of Science with Technology in Christendom, Complete in Two Volumes
Author: White, Andrew Dickson
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1960. First Dover Edition, First Thus. Paperback. Good. First Dover Edition, First Thus. Paperback. 8" X 5 1/4". Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Ink marks to front covers. Sunning to spines. Pages of both volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are firm and sound. A presentable, complete 1960s paperback set, the first printing of this Dover edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Andrew D. White (1832-1918), historian, diplomat, and first president of Cornell University, advocated such progressive causes as equal rights for women and the removal of religious sectarianism from higher education. In this important work, which spawned a great deal of controversy at its appearance, White exhaustively documents the battle between science and religion in matters of creation versus evolution, the geocentric versus the heliocentric universe, and the "fall of man" versus anthropology. The struggle of science over outmoded medieval concepts is still emerging. Even a century after its publication, White's great work has much to teach us about the dangerous effects of religious doctrinalism on education and moral growth.(Publisher).

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