Search Results: Authors starting with L from Boojum and Snark Books

Holt, Rinehart and Winston; New York; 1970. First Edition. 197 pp., index. Book and dustcover good. 'Discarded' stamp in small letters, front and rear free endpapers, but no other ex-library markings. How to deal with Turkey Wattle Underchin, Pugnacious Chin, Lantern Jaw, etc. (3214010). F. Hardcover.

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California; Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1965 Stapled wraps, illustrated front and rear covers (circuitry of MANIAC II), 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches, 16 pp., b/w photo illustrations (including one of a man working on the large disc memory component while smoking a cigarette). Fine. Scarce. From the foreword: "By 1960, with three IBM 704s and the MANIAC II (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator and Computer) running night and day, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory had earned the reputation as one of the most advanced computer centers in the nation. The 704s have since been replaced, and the Laboratory now operates two IBM 7094s, Stretch, and the MANIAC II to become one of the most advanced computer centers in the world. Page 16 explains some of the purposes for which computers are used at Los Alamos." (K023). Soft cover. Fine.

Medical Department of the Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories, New York, 1915 An excellent, near fine copy of the first edition. An important phase in the history of medicine in the pre-antibiotic era: the use of immunologic methods to fight infectious diseases. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering (bright), 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches, 322 pp., index, 34 b/w illustrations. (K075). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California; Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1965 Six scarce Los Alamos pamphlets, all published in 1965 (except no date on the Science Museum pamphlet, but circa 1965). Stapled wraps, illustrated covers, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, varying from about 16-32 pages, b/w illustrations. Fine. (K023). Soft cover. Fine.

Hesperian Press; Carlisle, Western Australia, 1991 First edition. Glossy wraps, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 162 pp., illustrations (b/w drawings). Dr. Laden's reminiscences about his 13 years working as a venereologist at the Western Australia Health Department. As new. (1722RO068). 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New.

Printed by John Parker; Philadelphia; 1793., 1793 Disbound, else good plus. Book block is 7 3/4 x 5 inches, iv + (5)-104 pp. (complete). From the preface by the translator, William Cobbett: "To the Citizens of the United States: What is called common report is always contradictory, and of course produces a conflict of opinions; the reader acquires no solid information, he becomes the dupe of a faction, or finds himself in total uncertainty. The fall of the celebrated man who is the subject of these sheets has spread has spread universal astonishment; the causes of it have been greedily enquired into, and fame with her double tongue has sported with the credulity of her hearers. You, the citizens of America, have been excited to this enquiry by something more than mere curiosity, and for that reason have been more exposed to deception. To do justice to La Fayette as well as to those who have persecuted him, in the minds of a people who feel such a lively interest in every thing that concerns the… Read More

Peace News; (London); 1969., 1969 Stapled wraps, printed covers, front cover illustrated with drawing by R. Cobb, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, unpaginated (about 12 pp.), b/w photo illustrations. Very good. Contents: Cultural Preparation; Organisation Building; Propaganda of the Deed; Political and Economic Non-cooperation; Intervention and Parallel Government; The Pace of Change. (3214009). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Cold Spring Harbor, New York; 1988. First edition. Number 30 in the Banbury Report Series. Glossy green boards, b/w photo-illustrated endpapers, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 345 pp., index, figures. Near fine. ISBN 0879692308 (3214043). F. Hardcover.

Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press; Amsterdam; 1981. First edition. Softcover, glossy stiff wraps, sewn binding, 9 7/16 x 6 5/16 inches, 233 pp., index, figures, tables. Very good minus. Ink stamp of previous owner on the inside of the front cover and on the last (blank) page of the book (Department of Pharmacology / University of Texas Medical School / Houston, Texas / G. Alan Robison, Ph.D., Chairman). Dr. Robison wrote the Foreword to the book. ISBN 0444803394 (3214043). F. Soft cover.

Julia McCain Lampkin-Hibbard, Miami, 1966. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown, dated Sept. 22, 1966. Blue cloth-covered boards, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, 272 pp., references, figures and plates (photographs and photomicrographs). Ex-library, with usual markings, else very good. (3214032). Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.

Little, Brown; Boston; 1951. First edition, published May 1951. (Although there are no markings, still I suspect that this is a book club edition. In any case, this is a nice hardcover reading copy, clean and tight, for the price of a paperback.) Tan cloth-covered boards, 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches, 317 pp. VG (mildly warped boards). No dustcover. From the Foreword: "But for the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637, the setting of this book, Japan might have assimilated and contributed to the great discoveries of the Western World that followed the Dark Ages. There might have been a Japanese Columbus or Magellan. A Harvey, A Galileo, might have appeared in Kyoto or a Descartes on Mt. Koya. And world history could have been very different." (3214045). F. Hardcover.

William Wood; New York; 1897., 1897 First U.S. edition. Dark brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches, 174 pp., 47 figures. Good. Rare. (3214017). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Dedalus; Cambridgeshire, U.K., 1988 An excellent hardcover copy of the first British edition: book very near fine, dustcover very good plus. Maroon paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (bright), 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, 304 pp., index, numerous b/w photo illustrations. Dustcover not price-clipped (price in U.K. pounds). Dustcover with mild edgewear and rubbing; still very attractive. (K011). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Victor Daily Record; Victor, Colorado, 1904 This is the true first edition, and rare thus. (The Great Western Publishing Co. editions are second editions.) Green cloth-covered boards, gilt front board lettering and decoration (bright), 8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches, 248 pp, decorated endpapers, frontispiece b/w photo of the author ("Yours Truly, Mrs. Emma F. Langdon") with tissue guard, multiple b/w photo illustrations and cartoons (including one fold-out: "United States reduction and refining plant at Colorado City, whose General Manager, C.M. M'Neill, is alleged to be the cause of the Cripple Creek strike because of his arbitrary action in refusing to reinstate the Western Federation members as he is said to have promised to do at the settlement of the preliminary strike"). An excellent, very good copy. The second edition (i.e. the Great Western Publishing Co. edition, copyright 1904-1905, entitled "The Cripple Creek Strike: A History of Indistrial Wars in Colorado… Read More

Language Research Center, Brigham Young University, 1976 Stapled wraps, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 61 pp., maps, bibliography. Very good (small amount of text underlining/marginal notation). Scarce. "Culturgrams" of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay,Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela. (1722RO122). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1975 Color illustrated glossy wraps, 10 x 8 7/8 inches, 119 pp., numerous b/w and color photo illustrations. Very good. "On May 27, 1975, nine Chinese mountaineers successfully ascended the world's highest peak, Qomolangma Feng (Mount Jolmo Lungma), from its north slope, thanks to the loving care and attention of Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and to the wholehearted support of the people throughout the country. Their remarkable feat in the conquest of nature, the second of its kind accomplished by Chinese mountaineers, was a triumph of Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, another creditable achievement of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the movement to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius." (1722RO123). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Sugar Research Foundation, Inc.; New York; 1952. Printed, tan paper-covered boards, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 96 pp., bibliography, charts. Inscribed to Jack (John P.) McGovern on the front free endpaper (but I can't make out the signature of the inscriber). Red library "withdrawn" stamp on front free endpaper; no other library markings. Else very good (sunning, spine and boards; mild edgewear; binding tight and pages clean). (3214003). F. Hardcover.

Imp. Rosgal-Hilario Rosillo; Montevideo, Uruguay; 1960. First edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Rare. Green cloth-covered boards, 11 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches, 131 pp., 206 figures, references, bibliography. In Spanish. Diagnostico Causal; Directivas del Tratamiento; Estadistica sobre 225 Casos; Documentos Patologicos y Radiologicos; Causas Raras de Hemorragias Graves; Literatura Consultada; Bibliografia Uruguaya. Book very good. Dustcover about good. Key words: Medicine, Surgery, Uruguay, Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Esophagus, Stomach, Duodenum, Liver, Pancreas, Jejunum, Diagnosis, Treatment, Pathology, Radiology, Hospital Pasteur. (3214011). F. Hardcover.

Transworld Arabian Library, Riyadh; Stacey International, London; 1984., 1984 First edition (no additional printings indicated). 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, brown fabrikoid-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 160 pp., stunning color photographs on virtually every page, extensive descriptive information in a highly readable form, as well as scientific classification. Book and dustcover fine. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Khalid al Faisal bin Abdul Aziz. "Torben Larsen is a Dane who grew up in India. It was there that he developed his lasting interest in natural history, especially butterflies, upon which he is now an internationally respected authority." In the Introduction the author begins, "Surely there are no butterflies in Arabia! This statement was encountered so many times in the course of writing this book that it might be used as the subtitle. But nothing could be farther from the truth. No fewer than 147 species of butteflies are found in Arabia and more await discovery. Many are… Read More

"Privately Printed", Librairie "Astra" Paris; 1953. Printed wraps, 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches, 239 pp. On rear cover: "Not to be sold in England Or U.S.A." "Translated from the French by G. M. C." Good (moderate edgewear; mild foxing, front cover; some ruffling, corners; mild browning, paper; pages clean and binding tight). (3214006). F. Soft cover.