First Edition. A collection of popular science essays, including the title piece on grafts and transplants, the field for which Medawar won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960. Medawar (1915–1987) was a distinguished scientist whose research contributed significantly toward transplants as a medical therapy. He was also an innovative thinker.....
Price: $500
Third Edition. A book about how television shows are made and broadcast for middle-school students. Illustrated with many cartoon drawings by Ralph Steadman early in his career. Originally published in 1958. Third edition. An ex-library copy with several ink stamps and a repair to the rear hinge; lacking the dust jacket.....
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Later printing. "No name has been more closely associated with borderline pathology than that of world-renowned psychiatrist Otto F. Kernberg... This long-awaited book, based on years of clinical research by Kernberg and his associates, is the first to presenent his model of psychodynamic psychotherapy with borderline patients"—the dust jacket. 210 pages.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A prolific popular science writer explores the history of the microscope. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "Jim's copy... Brian J. Ford." Uncommon signed.
Price: $20
First Edition. xiv, 627–1189 pages (continuously paginated from part 1). Part 2 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929–1935. First edition in English. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125
First Edition. 16 plates and 19 figures, all black and white. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Published in an edition of 500 copies. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket.
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First Edition. 222 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket. This was the evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper.
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First Edition. xiii, 625 pages. Part 1 of 4, translated from the German. Original version first published in 1929. First edition in English. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125
First Edition. A memoir of Sacks' experiences in England during and just after the Second World War. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. Essays on fascinating cases of neurological disease, revised from their appearances in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. First edition (stated). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with cracking to back fold.
Price: $25
First Edition. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A......
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First Edition. 60 pages with 26 figures in the text, plus 25 leaves of plates. Fossil fish. In the series, Treaarsexspeditionen til Christian den X's Land 1931-34 under ledelse af Lauge Koch. First edition. Very good in green wrappers (paperback). Inscribed to a Harvard paleontologist: "Professor Dr. H. C. Stetson.....
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vii, 287 pages plus index and 20 plates. 4-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. An introduction to the topic issued in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia series. Second American edition (first was 1831). In the publisher's original plain boards with a cloth spine and paper spine label. Outer corners of the page block shaved.....
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First Edition. 452 pages. Explores mythologies of the cataclysmic deluge from around the world. With contributions from Stephen Jay Gould, Leonard Woolley Hans Kelsen and others. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. This was Gould's own copy. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and.....
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xxiv, 696, [1] pages. 1973 printing. Very good or better in a like dust jacket.
Price: $40
First Edition. xxxiv, 434 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light wear to top of spine.
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x, 272 pages. A decent quality facsimile of the 1674 third edition. Fine hardcover; no jacket as issued.
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First Edition. xvii, 327 pages including the index. This book "brings together the most important essays and reviews of Corliss Lamont in the areas of humanist philosophy, civil liberties, world peace, and socialism"—dust jacket. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a like dust jacket; some dampstaining to.....
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First Edition. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp.....
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Second edition. xii, 95 pages. An influential work on the gradual transition to a curve required to keep trains (and later cars) from flying off the route. Such transitions are now commonly called Searles curves. Early editions are uncommon. Flexible leather wallet-style binding, with fold-over flap. Near fine. A nice.....
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First Edition. 320 pages. 11-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches. Index. 174 instruments described; most illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $30
First Edition. 749 pages. Reproduced from typescript. First edition (first printing). Near find hardcover.
Price: $25
310 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Fine, clean copy.
Price: $17
First Edition. A reference work illustrated with facsimile title pages. 697 pages. 8 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good in publisher's blue cloth; no dust jacket.
Price: $50
First Edition. 256 pages. The first American edition, corrected and enlarged, of this introductory work on derivatives over time, based on Newton's calculus. First American edition (first printing). Very good in tree calf; outer joints cracking. Old ownership label inside. A nice copy.
Price: $100
