Search Results: Authors starting with M from Denominator Books (IOBA)

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1932. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. With a card laid in SIGNED by the widow of Malinowski -- "On behalf of the whole family, I thank you for your kind message -- sincerely Josefa Malinowska." Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover, bound in navy cloth, tan dust jacket. Still in print, this classic demonstrated that "savage societies" were still ruled by systems of law. * 004469

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good in maroon cloth lettered in gold. The 1922 second (revised) edition. Attractive early bookplate inside front cover. Mild cover wear. The binding is sound, the text is clean and unmarked.Garrison-Morton 246 (first edition): "Summarizes the major early findings of Morgan's Drosophila research group, which based its research on the rapidly reproducing small vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, often called the fruit fly. This epoch-making book presented evidence that genes were arranged linearly on chromosomes, and that the Mendelian laws could be shown to be based on observable events occurring in cells. The group also showed that heredity could be studied rigorously and quantitatively. Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933 ['for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity']." Hermann J. Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1946 "for… Read More

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1977. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. Good. ARC from uncorrected proofs. Paperback, good, some light coffee stains on front cover otherwise tight and text clean. The Akutagawa prize-winning debut novel. Translated by Nancy Andrew. 104244

London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto, 12 1/4" x 9 3/4", bound in brick-red cloth. An updated abridgement of Muybridge's innovative 11-volume study Animal Locomotion (1887) selected "with a view of supplying the demand of art and of science students, and others" with over 90 plates each illustrating multiple gait phases of men, livestock, birds, and exotic animals such as the sloth, kangaroo and ostrich -- as well as six different gaits of the horse, including the gallop, which Muybridge definitively proved to leave the ground in his Palo Alto experiments of 1878, thus beginning his career as a photographer of motion. "...although Muybridge's stop-action photography is often claimed to be an antecedent of motion pictures, it is better understood as a treasure trove of figurative, often erotic, imagery." Early editions of Muybridge are uncommon, and his earliest publications are truly rare and priced accordingly. This copy is in very good condition, rebound… Read More