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Autobiography by SANGER Margaret

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Autobiography
Author
SANGER Margaret
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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 Sanger’s 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.
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Distribution of proflavin-induced mutations in the genetic fine structure. Offprint by Brenner, Benzer et al.

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Distribution of proflavin-induced mutations in the genetic fine structure. Offprint
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Brenner, Benzer et al.
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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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.
Annual Report of the International Harvester Company 1914

Annual Report of the International Harvester Company 1914

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Annual Report of the International Harvester Company 1914
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Good condition
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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.
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WRITTEN ON THE BODY [Signed] by Winterson, Jeanette

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WRITTEN ON THE BODY [Signed]
Author
Winterson, Jeanette
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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

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

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

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

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Rags! Rags!! Rags!!! Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849-1893
Author
Saunders, Richard L.
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
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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.