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Hyperion, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 407 pages, clothbacked boards Signed by Mayor Giuliani on a label from the Leadership 100 Conference in 2007.

London: John Ebers & Co., 1829. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good. 18mo, 170 pages, modern clothbacked boards; x-library with bookplate, perforations on title-page Wadd was the surgeon extraordinary to King George IV. " He was an excellent draughtsman, and learnt etching to such good effect that the illustrations in his own works are all the products of his own needle." - DNB. Here are 6 of his drawn and engraved plates. Wadd was killed in an accident in mid-1829. This text is a sequel to his "Cursory Remarks on Corpulence" from 20 years prior.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, xvi, 272 pages, green cloth; short tear in dj Issued in the Cambridge Biological Studies series. Here is the first complete review of the modern experimental embryology of birds, with emphasis upon the early stages. The topics of pigmentation and plumage development are also touched upon, and one chapter is devoted to discussion of the developmental actions of certain mutant genes.

South Bend, IN: Michael Downs, 2000. First edition. Fine. 4to, 162 pages, plastic comb bound Wade started keeping a daily diary when he joined the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, formed in South Bend, Indiana, and active from 1862 to 1865. It is especially strong for its description of Wade's experience in the Battle of Stone's River. He and his troops spent a lot of time in Tennessee and northern Alabama. His daily entries are lengthy, not the three-to -a- page notes about the weather in a tiny diary book. Col. Wade continued his legal studies after the war.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, ( 1987 ). First Printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. Octavo; xvi, 423 pages, cloth

Boston: Meador Publishing, ( 1938 ). Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 181 pages, blue cloth The inside scoop on the early days of automobile racing, replete with many photographs. Includes a chapter on the auto racing exploits of Eddie Rickenbacker.

London: William Heinemann, 1911. First Trade edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to, cloth. Illustrated with 30 tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham.

London / North Pomfret, VT / Vancouver: David & Charles, ( 1960 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Narrow small quarto, pages 173-197, green wrappers Wain was a Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. This is his personal selection of his favorite poems by other poets. "One of the things I have never bothered to do is to define poetry ... I would have more confidence in tryint to define a poet than in trying to define poetry." - Introduction.

London: British Academy / Oxford University Press, ( 1960 ). First Edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. Narrow small quarto, pages 173-197, green wrappers Advance Review Copy, with slip laid in, published in 1960.

New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, ( 1961 ). Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Good/g;. 8vo, 624 pages, brown cloth; dj lightly edgeworn Classic work, re-issued in the Library of the Mystic Arts series.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ( 1985 ). First Edition. Hardcover. good plus/good plus. Octavo, 547 pages, tips of spine bumped; dj spine sunned Photographs. Thompson died in office after serving two years as the P.M. He was a brilliant lawyer. This biography is informed by the daily letters Thompson and his wife exchanged during the periods when they were separated.

Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, 1819. Fourth American from the Fifth London Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo; 240 pages, full calf, top cover rehinged with cloth tape on the endpapers, head of spine and label chipped. She was the first woman to write scientific books for children. "Would any child suppose, that the cloth of which her frock is made, is composed of the fibrous parts of a green plant; or ... that the transparent glass out of which she drinks, was once a heap of sand and ashes; ... The design of the following little work, is to excite the curiosity of young persons on those subjects, by furnishing information on a few of the most obvious." - Preface.

Berlin: Wilhelm Muller / Moller, [ 1898 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo, 241 pages, tidal stain in gutter at bottom, lacks spine, publisher's cloth covers A biography of the man considered as the founder of modern hydrotherapy, at Graefenberg, Germany. 95 illustrations

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 4to, 276 pages, cloth; sort tear in dj Photographs.

Washington DC : U.S. Infantry Association, 1916. Third, Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. 32mo, 156 pages, green cloth, rubber stamp on endpaper By the Assistant Director of the Army War College. How well were these lessons applied by American troops in WWI? "The first six chapters are devoted to the subjects that affect the training and methods of the individual scout. The seventh takes up the operations of a detachment of scouts called a patrol, and the remainder ... is designed to supply a text book covering the military subjects he will need to study to perfect himself as a scout." - Introduction.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ( 1966 ). First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; xvi, 328 pages, cloth; dj chipped at rear panel. Ex Libris ROBERT R. MCCORMICK with his Cantigny bookplate designed by Carl Junge. McCormick was the publisher of The Chicago Tribune. He was consistently a conservative voice. He was the Colonel of the First Division in WWI. This is the inside story. One section of plates.

San Diego, CA: Harcourt , 1989. First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Sm. quarto, 416 pages What do human beings contribute? - p.89. Walker was aawarded the Pultizer Prize for Fiction.

New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1807. Third American edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, cxxxi, 1, 962 pages, contemporary full calf, head of spine worn. Ex libris J. K. Knowles, Boston, 1834. To Which are Prefixed Principles of English Pronunciation ... and Directions to Foreigners [for] the Use of this Dictionary. The Whole Interspersed with Observations, Etymological, Critical, and Grammatical. From the Last London Edition. "The standard work on English orthoepy for almost a century. It was reprinted in more than 100 editions or issues between 1791-1904 - Cordell Catalogue W-3; see W-12 for this edition." Walker was an actor who became an elocutionist.

London: W. Horton for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Fifth, Revised edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Engraved title-page. 16mo, 358 pages, 19th century half calf, marbled, trimmed edges, minor bookworm damage. Scarce. A Dictionarie of English and Latin IDIOMES wherein PHRASES of the English and Latine Tongue Answering in Parallels ... . Schoolmaster Walker offered this book as a means to cure the barbarisms of translations from English to Latin committed by students. After some examples, Walker observed, "If your spleen be not ready to crack I could furnish you with more such as these be ... as finding them matter of almost every days tormenting observation." Most idioms are identified by its classical author, but others by moderns, such as Erasmus, Beza etc. Printed in blackface type. [ Wing W428; ESTC R34703]. With a copperplate frontispiece.

Strasbourg, FR: Editions du Signe, ( 2003 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without dj. Quarto, 127 pages, laminated pictorial boards Replete with history, statistics, photographs and drawings.