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$15.00San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1984. First edition. 60 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by D. Steven Corey. Club Keepsake No. 44, designed by Wesley B. Tanner and printed by him and Will Powers.$15.00London: National Book League/Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. 15 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers and integral printed dust jacket with pasted-on cover label.$50.00Roanoke (1926). First printing of this edition (originally printed in 1730). [25 pp]. Fine in full cloth with pasted-on spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine marbled paper and cloth slipcase. Facsimile of the first book printed in the American Colonies relating to the Art of Printing. Copy 37 of a total edition of 870 copies. SIGNED by Edward L. Stone, the typographer of this volume.$25.00Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1989. First edition. Folio. [64 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Developed and designed by Mark Oldach and Rhonda Taira. Contributions by Seymour Chwast, Ivan Chermayeff, Hermann Zapf, David Lance Goines, and many others.
$25.00NY: Morrow (1976). First edition. 227 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A comprehensive treatment.$25.00NY: Burt Franklin (nd). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1924). 291 pp w/index. Near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.$20.00NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1964. First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1912). xv + 332 pp w/index. Fine in full buckram.$35.00NY: Leon Amiel (1975). First US edition. 4tp. 225 pp w/appendices. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.$22.00Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First edition. Very good in vg price-clipped dust jacket that is stained at bottom back edge and foot of spine; delightful essays.
$20.00Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. First edition. 16mo. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. An essay on the difficulties created by big books.$35.00NY: American Library Service, 1922. Later edition. 68 pp. Near fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine (spine lettering dull). Lacks dust jacket.$50.00London: Faber & Faber (1952). First printing of this revised & enlarged edition. 4to. xiv + 400 pp w/index. Fine in full green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Edited and revised by A.F. Johnson.$40.00London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. First edition. 222 pp w/index. Very good plus in full white parchment-covered boards with the cover printed in black and red. Chip to spine.$15.00Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987. First edition. 65 pp. Foxing to top edge, else fine in printed wrappers. Preface by John Y. Cole. Illustrated.$35.00Fitzwilliam: Old-Time Printing, 1982. First edition. 16mo. iv + 80 pp. Fine in comb-bound wappers. One of 90 copies.$40.00Mt. Kisco: Moyer-Bell (1986). First US edition. 4to. 116 pp w/notes & index. Boards very slightly splayed, else fine in fine dust jacket.$50.00NY: William E. Rudge’s Sons, 1943. First trade edition. ix + 187 pp. Smudges to the edge of three leaves, else very good plus in full cloth. Fully-illustrated.$125.00NY: Abner Schram, 1973. First printing of this edition. 82 + [144 pp]. Scratch to rear cover, else near fine in paper-covered boards with inset cover and spine labels. A facsimile with an introduction and notes by Fernand Baudin and Netty Hoeflake.$17.50New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. First edition. viii + 175 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$15.00New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999. First edition. 202 pp w/index. Light foxing along top edge, boards slightly splayed. In all, near fine in fine dust jacket.The History of Surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Volume I: Textbooks, Monographs, & Treatises.
$50.00San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1988. First edition. 4to. xxi + 488 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$375.00Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1955. Two volumes, small 4to, original blue buckram stamped in burgundy and gilt, 55 plates. Fine copies in unusually fresh dust jackets (a few short tears to each, else nearly fine). A handsome, bibliographically useful catalogue of perhaps the largest and most important medical library ever assembled by a single person. The one-volume reprint of this classic, published in the early 1990's with badly reproduced plates (among other problems), can hardly compare.$75.00NY: Henry Schuman (1950). First edition. xiii + 361 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ownership signature of Dr. Thomas E. Keys, the distinguished medical historian, whose name appears on the printed list of “Subscribers in Advance of Publication” at the end of this Catalogue.$12.50Boston: Beacon (1996). First edition. 119 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00(np): Sun Chemical Corporation (1969). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1911). Small 4to. xii + 229 pp w/appendix. Boards slightly bowed, else very near fine in full brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. Translated from the original German by J.W. Muller.$50.00[Austin]: Roger Beacham (1968). First edition. Oblong 12mo. [94 pp w/index of typefaces]. Near fine in paper-covered boards with inset printed cover and spine labels. Very good clear acetate dust jacket with two short tears at the crown. Introduction and commentary by William R. Holman. Original prospectus accompanies.$40.00NY: Barnes & Noble (1972). First US edition. 272 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$22.50Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia (1965). First edition. xiii + 139 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine unprinted tissue dust jacket.$30.00Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1990. First edition. 126 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is unevenly sunned along the spine. One of 650 copies.$75.00London: Bodley Head (1964). First edition. 176 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to tips of folds and some dampstaining to rear panel. Bookseller Sims’ first novel.$25.00NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1990). First edition. 4to. ix +180 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley.$20.00NY: Facts on File (1998). First edition. 282 pp w/index. Fine in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued.