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London: John Murray, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (12) 175 (1) pp., blue green cloth, gilt titles on cover and spine with gilt design bottom of upper board. Very good, light shelf wear, corners bumped.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER, "With Xmas Greetings from Wm. Osler, 1916." Charles Sayle was a poet, as well as a bibliographer and librarian at Cambridge University. Osler's encouragement is acknowledged in the preface, his "Aequanimitas" is quoted on pp. 83-84. In Cushing's life of Osler, his letter to Sayle is quoted: "I send books at Xmas to about 100 of my old students, and this year I have selected your 'Ages'..." Osler 4526. Bibliotheca Osleriana 5421.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1919. Softcover. Very Good. Harvard general philosophy course reader includes Washburn, Yerkes, Henry George, Franz Boas, Percival Lowell, etc. Very good; text lightly age toned, light edgewear; has pencil marginal notes. What makes this interesting is the cover presentation inscription "Professor R.B. Perry with the complements of H.M. Sheffer." Inscriptions and indeed publications by Sheffer are scarce, and this links him Harvard colleague and noted realist philosopher Ralph Barton Perry. * 004889

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION, 1906. Good. Rebound in blue cloth, original gilt label laid down. Stamp and blind-stamp to title page. Text block shows light brown tidemarking on the lower corner throughout. Index pages are chipped and have a few small pen-marks. xvi + 411pp. PMM 397, Garrison-Morton 1432. 003027

London: Constable, 1911. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good. Internally clean, tight & unmarked, but endpapers browning facing pastedowns, small nick to head of spine. A very good copy of this early edition of Sherrington's classic work. xiv+411. Laid in is "Constable & Co's medical list", 4 pages order form including the present volume. #180

London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1906. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First UK Edition, published same year as first American edition. Professionally rebound in navy blue to match original cloth, original spine label laid down. Library stamp to half-title and title pages (but otherwise free of marks). Last page of index has losses to edge, repaired with Japanese paper.

Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics / Physical Review, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. In The Physical Review, volume 87(5), September 1, 1952. This is pp. 835-842. Entire issue in blue paper wraps; very good with solid binding and slight wear to top of fore-edge and corners. This paper, which has been cited over 2500 times (Science Citation Index), was the first model of electron-hole recombination in a highly pure semiconductor, now known as Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and of importance in semiconductors and solar technology. Issue also contains papers by Abraham Pais, Vera Kistiakowsky and others. * 003421

Cosanti Press, 2019. Fifth Edition. Spiral_bound. As new. Like new. Vinyl laminated softcover with wire-o binding. 19" x 11.75", 136 pages.The fifth edition is the first well printed edition of this book since the now rare first edition. It uses a spiral binding, which is essential for this huge architectural book, and restores the book to nearly its original size.

n.p.: Redhawk Press, 2000. 2000 Millenium Gold Edition. Spiral bound. Very good. Black spiralbound softcover with gilt titles. 60 pp. Very good with previous owner's name.