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$20.00Metuchen & London: Scarecrow Press, 1987. First edition. 305 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth; no dust jacket, as issued.$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.$125.00NY: Ravi Kumar (1988). First US edition. 4to. 339 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle to crown. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 400 numbered copies. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.$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 very good 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.$15.00Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987. First edition. 65 pp. Near 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.$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.$350.00San Francisco: Steven Leiber (2010). First edition. 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in unprinted chipboard covers. Twenty-eight priced items by Barbara Schmindt-Heins and twenty-eight priced items by Gebriele Schmindt-Heins, followed by twenty-eight pages of fourteen duotone and b&w reproductions of page spreads from their books. One of 150 copies. Leiber Catalog 52.$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.$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.$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.
$45.00London: Werner Shaw (1982). First edition. x + 256 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. One of the best books about the rare book trade, via the London auction scene.$20.00NY: Facts on File (1998). First edition. 282 pp w/index. Fine in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued.$20.00NY: Facts on File (1998). First edition. 321 pp w/index. Fine in illustrated boards without dust jacket as issued.$35.00New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. First edition. 49 pp w/notes & index. Fine in full cloth with printed cover label. introduction by Robert D. Fleck. One of 700 copies.