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Autobiography by SANGER Margaret

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Autobiography
Author: SANGER Margaret
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1938. First Edition. SANGER, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton, (1938). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition of Sangers Autobiography, a chronicle of the dynamic woman who spearheaded the movement for contraceptive rights, with a warm typed letter signed by Sanger, announcing publication of the book, to a longtime supporter, Dr. Shipler: ""I wish it were possible for me to send personal copies of the book to all those who, like yourself, have stood by in times of storm and stress and helped to build up the movement and bring it to its present standing in this country as well as throughout the world.""""As the originator of the phrase 'birth control' and its best-known advocate, Margaret Sanger survived Federal indictments, a brief jail term, numerous lawsuits, hundreds of street-corner rallies and raids on her clinics to see much of the world accept her view that family planning is a basic human right"" (New York Times obituary). In 1936, her efforts influenced the reinterpretation of the Comstock law ""to provide for distribution of contraceptive information"" (New York Times). Praised by Pearl Buck as ""one of the most courageous women of our times,"" Sanger vigorously challenged ""old sexual values; she ended her career, heavy with honors, as the respected champion of new ones. Her life spanned a period of striking changes in American attitudes about the family, the role of woman, and sexual standards. All of those changes she helped to catalyze"" (ANB). Sanger founded and served as president of the American Birth Control League, organized the first World Population Conference in Geneva, and was the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.The letter reads, in full: ""December 10, 1938. Dear Dr. Shipler: W.W. Norton & Company, of New York, has just published my new book: MARGARET SANGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I wanted so much to have the book carry an Honor Roll giving the names of a few hundred who have given some special service to the movement, as you have done. My publishers, however, ultimately decided that owing to the exigencies of publication, limitations of time and paper, etc. that it was not feasible to include the list as originally planned. I want you to know, therefore, that it is not because your name does not belong in the book, or any history of the birth control movement, but because of these unforeseen difficulties, that it does not appear. I wish it were possible for me to send personal copies of the book to all those who, like yourself, have stood by in times of storm and stress and helped to build up the movement and bring it to its present standing in this country as well as throughout the world. Cordially yours, Margaret Sanger [signed]."" With frontispiece portrait of Sanger. ""First Edition"" stated on copyright page. Book near-fine, dust jacket with two creases, one to front panel, one to rear, and just a touch of edge-wear, bright and clean, exceptionally good. Typed letter about-fine, signature bold.

Distribution of proflavin-induced mutations in the genetic fine structure. Offprint by Brenner, Benzer et al.

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Title: Distribution of proflavin-induced mutations in the genetic fine structure. Offprint
Author: Brenner, Benzer et al.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1958. Brenner, Sydney (1927- ); Benzer, Seymour (1921- ); and Barnett, Lesley. Distribution of proflavin-induced mutations in the genetic fine structure. Offprint from Nature 182 (1958). 6, [1]pp. Text diagrams. 212 x 141 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Fine copy, with the ownership stamp of Maurice S. Fox, professor emeritus of molecular biology at MIT. First Separate Edition. Watson and Crick, in their second 1953 paper published in Nature, had speculated that genetic mutations-both spontaneous and induced-represented a change in the sequence of bases. Based on this speculation, several researchers, including Brenner and Benzer, began developing an explanation of the mutagenic action of certain chemicals. In 1957 Benzer was investigating the mutagenic action of 5-bromouracil, an analog of the base thymine that caused a high degree of mutation in bacteriophage. "Meanwhile, however, Brenner had been looking into the effects of another potent mutagen, proflavine-not a base analogue but a dye, bright yellow, one of a family of dyes in the yellows and oranges derived from the colorless coal-tar chemical acridine. So while Benzer was spending his year at the Cavendish in 1957-58, vainly hoping to demonstrate the colinearity of gene and protein, he and Brenner, with the help of Leslie Barnett, mapped the mutations induced by proflavine within the rII region in relation to each other and to those induced by bromouracil. Their most curious observation was that the two mutagens were mutually exclusive: not once did they hit the same site on the map. But how the acridine dyes acted to produce mutations was unknown, except that, unlike the base analogues, they were not built into DNA" (Judson, Eighth Day of Creation, pp. 435-36). Brenner, My Life, pp. 90-91.

Leaves of Grass, Selected from the Complete Edition (The Harrap Library) by Whitman, Walt

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Title: Leaves of Grass, Selected from the Complete Edition (The Harrap Library)
Author: Whitman, Walt
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1927. 4th Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine faded, corners slightly exposed, a couple minor scuffs to boards, two ink gift notes dated more than 50 years apart on front endpaper (and showing the book was given by one family to another, and then vice versa!). 1927 Full-Leather. vi, [2], 262, [1] pp. Full leather with an almost marbled cloud-like pattern ranging from cobalt to midnight blues, elaborate gilt decorations and titles, top edge gilt. One of the most attractive editions of this work we have handled. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass,[1] revising it in several editions until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades - the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems. The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected and each represents Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise. With one exception, the poems do not rhyme or follow standard rules for meter and line length. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". Later editions included Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".

Annual Report of the International Harvester Company 1914

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Title: Annual Report of the International Harvester Company 1914
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Good condition
Description: Chicago: International Harvester Company, 1914. 1st. paperback. Good condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Water damage to covers and inner rear pages. Some soiling and stains to the fore edge.

WRITTEN ON THE BODY [Signed] by Winterson, Jeanette

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Title: WRITTEN ON THE BODY [Signed]
Author: Winterson, Jeanette
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780224035873
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 190 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine orange with black and white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering with shelfwear to mylar on front cover, price uncut: "£13.99 net/IN UK ONLY". Boards full bound in black cloth with mild shelfwear to edges. Flat signed by author to title page. Shelved in Room C Overflow. 1406279. Special Collections.

Footnote to a Friendship: A Memoir of Truman Capote and Others by WINDHAM, Donald

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Title: Footnote to a Friendship: A Memoir of Truman Capote and Others
Author: WINDHAM, Donald
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Verona, Italy: Donald Windham / Sandy Campbell, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Number 256 of 360 from a total edition of 400 that were done at the Stamperia Valdonega uncer the supervision of Martino Mardersteig. A memoir from Windham illustrated with photographs of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and others. A very good copy in yapped wrappers that are lightly soiled. Internally a clean copy.

Rags! Rags!! Rags!!! Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849-1893 by Saunders, Richard L.

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Title: Rags! Rags!! Rags!!! Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849-1893
Author: Saunders, Richard L.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City: Utah Bibliographical Society, 2022. Broadside [28 cm x 38 cm] Fine. Keepsake printed for the second meeting of the Utah Bibliographical Society. Printed on Crane Letra paper by Robert Buchert at the Tryst Press and designed by Travis Low. Broadside features columns from the Deseret News calling for rags. Signed by Richard L. Saunders at the foot. Printed in an edition of 100 copies.

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