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Ladies Almanack: showing their Signs and their Tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers. Written & Illustrated by a Lady of Fashion by [Barnes, Djuna]

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Title: Ladies Almanack: showing their Signs and their Tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers. Written & Illustrated by a Lady of Fashion
Author: [Barnes, Djuna]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paris: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, one of 40 numbered copies signed by Djuna Barnes and with illustrations hand-colored; Barnes has replaced the reference to Edward W. Titus on the title page in red ink, correcting the publication information to read "... Sold by the Author." Bound in publisher's flexible hand-colored illustrated vellum wrappers with 22 illustrations, also hand-colored. Near Fine with skillful restoration to spine ends, slight tanning to edges and foxing throughout. Barne's brazen lesbian novel accompanied by her enchanting emblem-like illustrations. A seamless blend of myth and Rabelaisan ambiguity the playful work explores sensual love and friendship between uncompromising women. Messerli A3.

Interpretation of Schizophrenia by Arieti, Silvano

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Title: Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Author: Arieti, Silvano
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: Robert Brunner, 1955. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Silvano Arieti and inscribed to a former owner on front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original light blue cloth lettered in darker blue. Very Good+ with light toning to edges and offsetting from an old-style asphaltic dust jacket protector to bottom of boards and end sheets, tape ghost to end sheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine panel, a horizontal strip of browning across the entirety; several unnecessary tape reinforcements to the blindside. The second edition of Arieti's pioneering textbook won a National Book Award in the Science category, arguing for a psychological rather than biological basis for schizophrenia. Uncommon signed.

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
Author: 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.

Perspectiva communis by OPTICS. Peckham [also Pecham], John (c. 1230 - 8 December 1292); Gaurico, Luca (March 12, 1475 - March 6, 1558)

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Title: Perspectiva communis
Author: OPTICS. Peckham [also Pecham], John (c. 1230 - 8 December 1292); Gaurico, Luca (March 12, 1475 - March 6, 1558)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa, June, 1504. THIRD OR FOURTH EDITION (of the two editions of 1504, priority has not been determined). THE FIRST TO BE EDITED BY LUCA GAURICO. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study, surrounded by books, lecturing his students, one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.,The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy, crisp and bright. There is a very light stain on the title page, a bit of soiling in the gutter of leaf A3, and a discreet paper repair to the fore-edge of the final leaf. "The 'Perspectiva communis' was the most widely used of all optical texts from the early fourteenth until the close of the sixteenth century, and it remains today the best index of what was known to the scientific community in general on the subject" (DSB). It was first printed in Milan around 1482, then, in 1503, it was included in a collection by Thomas Bradwardine, "Praeclarissimum mathematicarum opus"(Valencia). This 1504 edition, the first edited by Luca Gaurico, can be considered the third, although another edition of the pre-Gaurico version was also published in 1504, at Leipzig. A mathematician from Naples and teacher of Scaliger, Gaurico, who also edited the works of Archimedes and Ptolemy, completely revised the text. "The work on which Pecham's fame has chiefly rested is the Perspectiva communis, probably written between 1277 and 1279 during Pecham's professorship at the papal curia. In the first book Pecham discussed the propagation of light and color, the anatomy and, physiology of the eye, the act of visual perception, physical requirements for vision, the psychology of vision, and the errors of direct vision. In book II he discussed vision by reflected rays and presented a careful and sophisticated analysis of image formation by reflection. Book III was devoted to the phenomena of refraction, the rainbow, and the Milky Way. "The central feature of Pecham's optical system and the dominant theme of book I of the 'Perspectiva communis' is the theory of direct vision. Here, as elsewhere, Pecham endeavored to reconcile all the available authorities-Aristotle, Euclid, Augustine, al-Kindi, Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Rushd, Grosseteste, and Bacon. Following Ibn al-Haytham, Pecham argued that the emission of visual rays from the observer's eye is neither necessary nor sufficient as an explanation of sight; the primary agent of sight is therefore the ray coming to the eye from a point on the visible object. But in an attempt to follow Aristotle, al-Kindi, and Grosseteste as well, Pecham argued that visual rays do nevertheless exist and perform the important, but not always necessary, function of moderating the luminous rays from the visible object and making them, "commensurate with the visual power." Thus Pecham, like Bacon, resolved the age-old debate between the emission and intromission theories of vision in favor of a twofold radiation, although, to be sure, priority was given to rays issuing from the visible object. "The rays issuing from points on the visible object fall perpendicularly onto the cornea and penetrate without refraction to the sensitive ocular organ, the glacial humor (or crystalline lens); nonperpendicular rays are weakened by refraction and therefore can be largely ignored. Since only one perpendicular ray issues from each point of the visible object and the collection of such perpendicular rays maintains a fixed order between the object and the eye, a one-to-one correspondence is established between points on the object and points on the glacial humor, and unconfused perception of the visual field is thus achieved. Vision is not "completed," however, in the glacial humor. There is a further propagation of the rays (or species) through the vitreous humor and optic nerve to the common nerve, where species from the two eyes combine, and eventually to the anterior part of the brain and the "place of interior judgment." "Pecham's optical system included significantly more than a theory of direct vision. He briefly discussed the doctrine of species; treated at length the propagation of rays; and developed a theory to explain how solar radiation, when passing through noncircular apertures, gives rise to circular images. He expressed the full law of reflection and applied it to image formation by plane, spherical, cylindrical, and conical mirrors; in this analysis he revealed an implicit understanding of the nature of the focal point of a concave mirror. Although he did not possess a mathematical law of refraction, he successfully applied the general qualitative principles of refraction to the images that result from refraction at plane and circular interfaces between transparent media of various densities. In his discussion of the rainbow Pecham again attempted to reconcile different theories. He argued that all three kinds of rays (rectilinear, reflected, and refracted) concur in the generation of the rainbow... "Pecham's 'Perspectiva communis' is still extant in more than sixty manuscripts and went through twelve printed editions, including a translation into Italian, between 1482 and 1665. It was used and cited by many medieval and Renaissance natural philosophers, including Dominicus de Clavasio, Henry of Langenstein, Blasius of Parma, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Brudzewski, Francesco Maurolico, Giambattista della Porta, Girolamo Fabrici, Johannes Kepler, Willebroad Snellius, and G. B. Riccioli. It was lectured upon, in the late Middle Ages, at the universities of Vienna, Prague, Paris, Leipzig, Cracow, Würzburg, Alcala, and Salamanca."(DSB).

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Potter, Beatrix

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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.

Theory of Economic Growth by LEWIS Arthur

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Title: Theory of Economic Growth
Author: LEWIS Arthur
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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.

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

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Title: Edwards, Philip Leget.
Author: [ Dawson, Muir ].n
Seller: 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 by W. Somerset Maugham (subject, author); Tom Blau (photographer)

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Title: 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 by YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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Title: The Alms of Alcippe
Author: YOURCENAR, Marguerite
Seller: 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.

Next Wave of American Women: Lisa Lyon by LYON, Lisa, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, et al.

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Title: Next Wave of American Women: Lisa Lyon
Author: LYON, Lisa, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, et al.
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Minor edgewear to illustrated wrappers; near fine.
Description: Tokyo: Laforet Museum Harajuku, 1984. Minor edgewear to illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue published on the occasion of a Lisa Lyon exhibition at Laforet Museum Harajuku (Mar. 30 - Apr. 8, 1984). Illustrated after photographs by Marcus Leatherdale, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and Kishin Shinoyama, and an abstract illustration of Lyon by Katsu Yoshida. Details of a live Lyon performance ("Contemporary Alchemy: Evolution Ritual") to interior spread.

NGTF: National Gay Task Force Wants You to Join America's Largest Gay Civil Rights Organization

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Title: NGTF: National Gay Task Force Wants You to Join America's Largest Gay Civil Rights Organization
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: [National Gay Task Force], 1980. Near fine. 8½" x 3¾". Single leaf, tri-fold brochure, unfolding to 11" x 8½". Near fine. The National Gay Task Force ("NGTF") was formed in 1973 by several gay rights activists including Barbara Gittings and Bruce Voeller. The NGTF sought to enact change at the national level and had several early successes including: removal of homosexuality from the Index of Mental Disorders, introduction of a gay civil rights bill banning discrimination based on sexual preference, pushing to end employment discrimination by the United States Job Corps, and creating the Gay Media Task Force to improve the image of gays and lesbians depicted in the media. This brochure promoted their work with lesbians and feminists, with the text complemented by several compelling images. The organization exists today as the National LGBTQ+ Task Force. This fundraising brochure has several images of marches on its front fold and opens to a visually pleasing collage of headlines of accomplishments. None located on OCLC but possibly held as part of the NGTF Records at Cornell and we have handled one other.

Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991

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Title: Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991
Seller: 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.

Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Title: Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: 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.

DRAWN AND QUARTERED by Addams, Charles

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Title: DRAWN AND QUARTERED
Author: Addams, Charles
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: 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 by Abercrombie, M., Hickman, C.J. and Johnson, M.L.

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Title: A Dictionary of Biology
Author: Abercrombie, M., Hickman, C.J. and Johnson, M.L.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: 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

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