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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Potter, Beatrix

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Author
Potter, Beatrix
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1906 First edition. 16mo. With a color frontispiece and 26 color plates by Beatrix Potter. Publisher's red paper-covered boards with illustrated circular paper onlay to front board, lettered in white. An excellent copy with a touch of wear to the upper spine and some very mild rubbing to the extremities, else fine; in the extremely scarce printed glassine dust jacket (printed 1907, referencing "Tom Kitten") with some chipping and loss to the spine and at folds, otherwise a nice example. The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a children's book by Beatrix Potter about a frog who endeavors to fish for minnows, so he can host a dinner party for his friends. Though he goes to his usual spot, Jeremy encounters a host of obstacles, including a rat hiding nearby, a stickleback fish who pricks his fingers, and a trout who nearly eats him. Notably, the book features Potter's detailed and charming botanical illustrations, which were inspired by those of the noted naturalist illustrator Randolph Caldecott.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
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Theory of Economic Growth by LEWIS Arthur

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Theory of Economic Growth
Author
LEWIS Arthur
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1955. First Edition. LEWIS, W. Arthur. The Theory of Economic Growth. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket. $2000.First edition of Sir Arthur Lewis' 1955 groundbreaking work that confirmed his position as ""a leading authority on economic growth and political and social change in emerging nations,"" the first Black economist awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, won jointly in 1979 with Theodore Schultz, in very scarce original dust jacket.Sir Arthur Lewis, born in St. Lucia, was a graduate of the London School of Economics and a Lecturer in Economics at the School during WWII. He also taught at Cambridge and Manchester University before his appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies in Jamaica, followed by two decades at Princeton, where he was ""a professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and in the Dept. of Economics and later was appointed the James Madison Professor of Political Economy."" In 2018 Princeton named its ""prominent lecture hall in the Woodrow Wilson School"" after Lewis, its ""first Black full professor."" Heralded as ""one of the founders of development economics… an intellectual giant who contributed greatly to the world,"" Lewis also authored many key works in economics, was the ""first president of the Caribbean Development Bank and the first economic adviser to the government of Ghana"" (Binder, Legacy of Nobel Laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis). The first Black economist to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded jointly with Theodore Schultz in 1979, Lewis ranks as ""a leading authority on economic growth and political and social change in emerging nations… in 1954, he published what many economists considered one of the first academic works in this area, Theory of Economic Growth"" (New York Times). Its innovative approach to economic forces made him ""one of the foremost scholars of his time… his lucid and moderate analysis soon came to dominate much of the western debate on aid and development"" (London Times). Theory of Economic Growth is widely ""regarded as a masterly demonstration of how to apply economic analysis to the working, and the removal, of the imperfections of the real world"" (Seldon, Sir Arthur Lewis). At the Award Ceremony, Lewis was especially noted for his ""pioneering work… in economic development"" and his ""explanatory models which with the simplicity of genius mark out the causes of poverty among the population of the developing countries as well as the factors determining the unsatisfactory pace of development"" (Nobel Prize in Economics). As a Nobel laureate in Economics, Lewis also stands with Black leaders who won the Nobel Prize for Peace: African Americans Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964) and Ralph Bunche (1950), and South Africans Albert Luthuli (1960) and Desmond Tutu (1984). First edition, first printing: with no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page; dust jacket front flap with price, ""30s.net."" Text very fresh, only tiny chip to preliminary blank, cloth fine, mild spine toning to bright near-fine dust jacket.
Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines, An Analysis of His Graphic Constructions

Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines, An Analysis of His Graphic Constructions by Albers, Josef [Artist]; Francois Bucher

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Title
Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines, An Analysis of His Graphic Constructions
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Albers, Josef [Artist]; Francois Bucher
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Josef Albers on the title page. [88] pp. Bound in publisher's cream leatherette boards stamped in blind over black backstrip stamped in white, partial remnants of the jacket are laid-in at the front gutter. Very Good with slight fading to spine, faint bowing to boards, light soiling and foxing to edges with a few smudges to the boards. Errata slip laid-in at half title page with light foxing and toning to edges; faint musty scent to contents. Francois Bucher's critical analysis of the famed abstract artist's complex spatial illusions and concepts of perceptual ambiguity. An extension of Albers' most notable Homage to the Square series, this work assesses his graphic constructions that challenge the viewer's vision and questions the idea of rigid geometry; uncommon signed.
Edwards, Philip Leget.

Edwards, Philip Leget. by [ Dawson, Muir ].n

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Edwards, Philip Leget.
Author
[ Dawson, Muir ].n
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Claremont [CA]: Privately printed, 1947 One of a small number of copies. Some library catalogs state that twenty copies were printed.. 7 x 5 . Blue green wrappers stitched at spine. Mild toning at wrapper fore-edges and spine. Chip at top-right front wrapper corner. Paperclip indent and rust marking first two leaves. Handwritten note on Dawson's Book Shop stationery from Muir Dawson to a Ruth Louise Kestenbaum, dated August 20, 1947, laid in. Kestenbaum's name in blue ink to front endpaper. A very good + copy. From the introduction (excerpted from the Missouri Enquirer): "Mr. Edwards, [the author], is a gentleman about 21 or 22 years old, and well known to many of our readers as a young man of worth and promise. His object at the Rocky Mountains was to civilize the Flat Head Indians. He was employed by and accompanied the Messrs. Lees, who were appointed by one of the eastern conferences to establish a mission among the above named Indians."
Original photograph of W. Somerset Maugham at villa La Mauresque, circa 1950

Original photograph of W. Somerset Maugham at villa La Mauresque, circa 1950 by W. Somerset Maugham (subject, author); Tom Blau (photographer)

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Original photograph of W. Somerset Maugham at villa La Mauresque, circa 1950
Author
W. Somerset Maugham (subject, author); Tom Blau (photographer)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
London: Camera Press, 1950. Vintage borderless photograph of author W. Somerset Maugham at his residence at the villa La Mauresque at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, circa 1950. Mimeo snipe and provenance stamps on the verso, struck "Parimages" in manuscript ink. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
The Alms of Alcippe

The Alms of Alcippe by YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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Title
The Alms of Alcippe
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YOURCENAR, Marguerite
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A fine copy
Description
New York: Targ Editions, 1982. First edition in English. One of 250 copies signed by Yourcenar. A fine copy. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph by Timothy Callahan. Translated by Edith R. Farrell. Publisher's quarter blue cloth, in the original glassine wrapper. Published by Targ at the Grenfell Press. Designed by Leslie Miller, type set by M. Bixler, bound by A. Horowitz.
Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991

Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991

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Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1992. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1992. Small folio. xii, 93 pp. Clothbacked decorative boards, gilt spine. A fine copy. ß First edition, one of 200 copies printed for the 21st Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Designed and set by Old Mill Graphics, South Pasadena. An excellent record of the doings of the second most prestigious bibliophile Clubs in California.
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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
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New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Boards. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR on the 2nd blank endpaper. An immaculate copy to boot of the May 2017 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Truly a collector's copy.
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DRAWN AND QUARTERED by Addams, Charles

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DRAWN AND QUARTERED
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Addams, Charles
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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DRAWN AND QUARTERED, Bantam, 1946, first soft-cover edition, just about fine in full color pictorial wraps with white pages. Illustrated in black & white with a foreward by Boris Karloff and a note by Bennett Cerf.
A Dictionary of Biology

A Dictionary of Biology by Abercrombie, M., Hickman, C.J. and Johnson, M.L.

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Title
A Dictionary of Biology
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Abercrombie, M., Hickman, C.J. and Johnson, M.L.
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951. First edition. FIRST EDITION: PUBLISHED BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, A DICTIONARY THAT WENT THROUGH 12 EDITIONS IN 53 YEARS. 7 inches tall paperback, color printed covers, 246 pp, [11 pp publisher's advertisements]. Light wear to covers, browning to page edges, unmarked. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. MICHAEL ABERCROMBIE (1912 – 1979) was first editor of the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. For most readers of the Journal, Abercrombie will be best known as an active research worker and the director of a great research laboratory. However, he was also an important figure in each of several other fields - but notably as a popularizer of science. The periodical Penguin New Biology, which he and his wife, M. L. Johnson, founded and jointly edited was perhaps his most significant enterprise in this genre. The Penguin Dictionary of Biology (offered here), of which he was one author, was equally successful. Abercrombie's work as an experimental embryologist began when he joined C. H. Waddington in exploring the properties of the avian organizer. Soon afterwards the outbreak of war turned him to work, inspired by J. Z. Young, on Wallerian nerve degeneration and wound healing. Although his interest in avian embryology persisted, work on the social behavior of cells - normal and neoplastic - became a preoccupation, and his analysis of contact inhibition of movement was to prove a turning point in modern cell biology. Abercrombie's contributions to cell morphology, cell population dynamics and cell behavior were characterized by his search for accurate quantitative measures of the processes he was studying.
Annual Report of the Trustees Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery 1973-74, 1974-75

Annual Report of the Trustees Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery 1973-74, 1974-75

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Annual Report of the Trustees Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery 1973-74, 1974-75
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
1976. Illustrated. Paperback. 62pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Stapled red and black illustrated wraps. Very good condition. The spine is subtly faded. Tiny numerical notation in pen on the top edge of the first page. Internally very clean. The cover is of a Tumbuan Mask Costume.

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