Yesterday’s Muse Books APRIL 2015 CATALOG 2

1. [Adventure; Africa] Johnson, Martin Lion: African Adventure with the King of Beasts Blue Ribbon Books, New York, 1929. ix, 281 pp. 1931 5th printing. 8vo. Black & white photographic plates. A firsthand account of time spent in Africa along Lake Paradise, by the author of Safari and co-author of I Married Adventure. Martin Johnson and his wife Osa were accomplished travelers who spent a great deal of time in Africa and other exotic locales during the early twentieth century. Very good. Spine a bit faded, corners lightly rubbed. $15 2. [Adventure; Polar Expeditions] Welzl, Jan; Weatherall, M. & R.; Golombek, Bedrich; Valenta, Edvard The Quest for Polar Treasures New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First edition. 352 pp. 8vo. An arctic travelogue by the man also known as Eskymo Welzl and Arctic Bismarck. Welzl was an outdoorsman and a gold prospector, and served as Chief Justice on the island of New Siberia. He also wrote Thirty Years in the Golden North. Very good, good jacket. Jacket rubbed with minor loss along edges, jacket edges faded & spotted, jacket flap corners $45 trimmed. Some pages unopened. 3. [American History; Frederick Douglass; Abolition] Thompson, J.W. An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument: Biographical Facts and Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass - His Death at Anacosta, D.C., and Funeral at Washington, D.C., and Rochester, N.Y., together with Portraits and Illustrations of Important Incidents of the Four Years’ Struggle to Complete the Work. Rochester: Rochester Herald Press, 1903. First edition. 204 pp. 8vo. Includes 16 black & white photos. A history of the monument erected $150 in honor of abolitionist and African-American intellectual Frederick Douglass, published in Rochester, NY, where Douglass printed his newspaper the North Star. Good. Spine repaired, edges rubbed. 4. [Americana; Great Lakes] Disturnell, J. [John] A Trip Through the Lakes of North America; Embracing a Full Description of the St. Lawrence River, Together with All the Principal Places on its Banks, from its Source to its Mouth: Commerce of the Lakes, Etc., Forming Altogether a Complete Guide for the Pleasure Traveler and Emigrant. With Maps and Embellishments. New York: J. Disturnell / J.J. Reed, 1857. First edition. xi, 366 pp. 40 pages of advertisements, numerous ads for railroads following text. 12mo. A natural history of the Great Lakes region and the St. Lawrence $325 River, with information on railroad and steamboat routes. Includes frontispiece and 12 illustrations in text, large fold-out map follows text. Sabin 20324. Wright-Howes catalog: “Contains much on Lake navigation and commerce and a list of all steamers built on Lake Erie from 1818 to 1857.” Near fine. Includes map. Minor bookplate remnant on front endpaper, minimal wear to corners, a few folds of map splitting but reparable. 5. [Biography; Anarchy] Goldman, Emma Living My Life, in Two Volumes New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. 993, xvi pp. 8vo. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. In Living My Life, Emma Goldman, called ‘Red Emma’ or ‘The Anarchist Queen’ by the United States government and other detractors, describes her philosophical and political journey through her life. Goldman remains an important figure in the history $195 of political activism, anarchist thought, and the spirit of rebellion. She served as a champion for many causes, including free speech, free love, atheism, and homosexuality. The original edition of this autobiography was published in

To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com 3 two volumes in 1931, with a single-volume edition following soon after in 1934. Good. Spine of first volume repaired, edges of both volumes rubbed with loss from corners and along joints of first volume, ink gift note (‘To Ella - my darling, from Pent, Feb. 1932’) on front endpaper. 6. [Biography; October Revolution] Sorokin, Pitirim A. Leaves from a Russian Diary and Thirty Years After Boston: The Beacon Press, 1950. First thus. Revised & enlarged edition. ix, 346 pp. 8vo. Originally published in 1924, this edition includes a revised version of the main text, with an additional essay entitled ‘Thirty Years After’. Near fine, very good jacket. Jacket spine faded, minor wear to jacket corners. 7. [Books & Printing] Brown, Peter Ogden Walter Goodman’s The Printseller’s Window $75 Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Information on the lesser-known artist Walter Goodman, illustrations throughout. Fine. $15 8. [Books & Printing] S.D. Warren Company Better Paper, Better Printing on Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, with Supplementary Exhibits of Halftone & Border Finishes Boston: S.D. Warren Company, 1920. 12 pp., plus [32 pp.] (16 sheets) of blank 80 lb. sheets perforated along binding edge. From the advertisement following text: ‘Printers and advertisers have in the Warren Service Library the material to lay out new work and to show how it will appear when finished. Specifications for the $40 production of work similar to this volume, except for such variations as may be made in end leaves and cover papers, are as follows: 48 pages Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, 25 x 38 - 80 lb.; Type, Cloister Oldstyle and Cloister Oldstyle Italic.; Illustrations from lead-moulded, steel-faced electrotypes of 133-line halftone engravings.; Ink, Sinclair & Valentine’s Cumberland Black.; Sewed and trimmed to 9 1/4 x 12 1/4.; Board sides in full cloth binding, end leaves drawn on. The blank pages in this volume are perforated, and they can be used as the exact specification of stock required; as a sample of stock on which a quotation is made; for engraver’s proofs on the exact stock to be used; for making dummies any size up to 8 1/2 x 12 inches.’ Sized and weights of Warren’s Cumberland Coated Book, and distributors of their printing papers, are also listed. Very good. Front & end matter faintly foxed. 9. [Cookery] Berolzheimer, Ruth The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book: Wartime Edition, with Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1943. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: Wartime Cookery; $125 How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur. Near fine. Includes publisher’s box, with list price of $3.75 (equivalent to over $50 today). Numerous additional recipes laid in. Box lightly rubbed.

10. [Cookery] Child, Julia The French Chef Cookbook Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1968. First edition. xxxiii, 424, xvi pp. 8vo. From The French Chef, the PBS series that began it all, here are all the recipes that introduced $40 Julia Child to an American public hungry for more sophisticated cooking techniques. Fine. An exceptional copy.

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11. [Cookery] Rochester Advisory Nutrition Council / The Dept. of Public Welfare, Rochester, NY 1933 Department of Public Welfare Cookbook [Great Depression] [Handwritten Recipes Bound In] Rochester Advisory Nutrition Council / The Dept. of Public Welfare, Rochester, NY, 1933. 1-12, 21-48 pp. Includes weekly menus designed to help those receiving assistance plan their meals and receive adequate nutrition within the allotments provided to them. Rare - none in OCLC, the trade, or auction records. SOLD 12. [Disabilities; Hearing Loss] Jackson, A.W.; [Shedd, Kendrick Philander] Deafness and Cheerfulness Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901. First edition. [iv], 191 pp. 8vo. Jackson provides a firsthand account of the effects deafness has on one’s life, providing useful (and at times somewhat surprising) information on the nature of deafness. Correspondence related to this work was included in the 1904 publication American Annals of the Deaf Vol. 49. Good. Former copy of the Rochester Socialist Party, on $40 loan from Kendrick Philander Shedd, with his bookplate on the front board. Usual library ownership marks inside. Light stain to spine base, ink & pencil underlining & marginalia throughout, front hinge just starting. Following the text are two single-page manuscript writings by Shedd, one commenting on the valuable lessons within this book, the other waxing philosophical about the nature and origins of humor. Both are initialed, and the second is dated 1904. Mr. Shedd was a professor specializing in modern languages at the University of Rochester, but was forced to leave in 1912 due to his association with the Socialist party (specifically a speech he gave in its support). 13. [Disabilities; Speech Impediments] Bogue, Benjamin N. Stammering: Its Cause and Correction Indianapolis: Benjamin N. Bogue, 1919. 127, [1] pp. 11th printing. Stapled wrappers. Two- column format. A guide to overcoming speech impediments, describing both their causes and possible methods of correction. The author stammered for nearly twenty years, and provides a great deal of firsthand experience with the negative impact of speech impediments on one’s life, and on the relative success and failure of various attempts to correct his own, which resulted in the development of the Bogue Unit Method, and the foundation of the Bogue Institute for Stammerers. Details of 25 case histories are also $10 provided. The process appears to have gained a good deal of popularity, resulting in numerous reprints of this book in the twenty-five years following its original publication (1919). Very good. Ink name & address on title page. 14. [Engineering & Machinery] Adams, Julius W.; [Templeton, William] Templeton’s Engineer, Millwright and Mechanic’s Pocket Companion... New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874. 234 pp. ‘Revised, corrected, and enlarged from the eighth English edition, and adapted to American practice, with the addition of much new matter.’ Flexible leather boards with wallet style flap closure. Good. Boards rubbed, 1 inch tear on rear board along spine, binding shaken, pencil notes on front endpaper. 15. [Ephemera] [Corona, Elsa] Victorian Scrapbook Featuring Articles on Opera SOLD Soprano Elsa Corona, Obituaries of Cyrus Clarke, Rochester Business Receipts, Fashion Plates S.N., 1881. [70 pp.] Oblong: 8 x 11 1/2. A scrapbook containing two groups of articles. The first, and larger, group are Italian newspaper clippings dated 1878- $125 1881 pertaining to Elsa Corona, who appears to have been an opera soprano (articles related to performances of La Sonnambula, Figaro, Rigoletto, etc.). The second group is of three obituaries, all for Buffalo businessman Cyrus Clarke.

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Also included are: an 1880 Italian article featuring a facsimile of Garibaldi’s handwriting; three fashion plates (black & white); three envelopes stamped and dated 1897-1900, each of which contains receipts from Rochester, New York companies. Good. Boards a bit stained, hinges loosening, one article excised.

16. [Fiction: Modern First Editions] Eden, Rob Loot [Louise Brooks Dust Jacket] Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1932. First edition. vi, 260 pp. 8vo. 6-page terminal publisher ad. A Chicago gangster novel which follows a woman’s struggles to save the life of her long-lost brother, from whom she was separated by adoption in early childhood. One of very few titles for which Grosset & Dunlap issued the first edition. This volume is notable as the first and only book for which Hollywood film star Louise Brooks approved the use of her likeness, which appears on the front of the $225 jacket designed by Mach Tey.

Louise Brooks was an actress in both silent and sound films, somewhat contro- versial for her depictions of sexuality in movies such as Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl, in which she plays a seductress and a prostitute, respectively. She is also credited with the popularity of the bobbed haircut. After her film career she moved to Rochester, New York at the suggestion of James Card, then curator for the George Eastman House, whose encouragement led to her success as a film writer.

This book was acquired from a long-time Rochester resident who claims to have lived next to Brooks on North Goodman Street in Rochester for several years, though the book was acquired some time after her death in 1985. Near fine. Page ridge faintly foxed, 1/2 inch closed jacket tear, faintly rubbed.

17. [Fiction: Modern First Editions] Hawkins, Paula The Girl on the Train Riverhead Books / Penguin Group Inc., New York, 2015. First edition. 323 pp. 8vo. Author’s first book. ‘A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people’s lives.’ Near fine. Minimal wear to bottom corners.

18. [Fiction: Modern First Editions] Lees, Hannah Prescription for Murder $30 Random House, New York, 1941. First edition. 274 pp. 8vo. A murder mystery set against a detailed backdrop of women in the medical field, by the author of Women Will Be Doctors. Very good, good jacket. Ink name on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed, 2 inch chip from jacket spine base.

19. [Fiction: Modern First Editions] Lockridge, Frances & $35 Richard Hanged for a Sheep: A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942. First edition. 301 pp. 8vo. The third Mr. and Mrs. North mystery, also featuring Lieutenant Bill Weigand. Very good. Includes original jacket, which features an endorsement of United States War Bonds and Stamps by the authors on the rear panel. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, front board edges lightly foxed. $125

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FOUR BY TOLKIEN 20. [Fiction: Modern First Editions] Tolkien, J.R.R. Tree and Leaf Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1965. First American edition. viii, 112 pp. 8vo. Short works by the author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Includes: Introductory Note; On Fairy-Stories; Leaf by Niggle. Near fine. Jacket faintly toned.

SOLD 21. [Fiction] Tolkien, J.R.R Farmer Giles of Ham George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1949. 1965 4th printing in 5th printing jacket. 78, [2] pp. 8vo. A fairy tale by the author of the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Includes two-tone frontispiece, single two-tone plate in text, and black & white illustrations by Pauline Diana Baynes. Near fine, very good jacket. Jacket price clipped, jacket slightly toned, light crease to corner of three pages. 22. [Fiction] Tolkien, J.R.R. $35 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1951. 315 pp. 8vo. Second edition. 18th printing, the first printing of this edition to state the printing specifically on the copyright page. $3.95 jacket price. No date, circa 1965. Earlier printings of this edition used sheets imported from Great Britain, and included red accents to the maps and a color frontispiece - this printing was produced in the U.S., and $250 did not include color. Mint green cloth, dark blue titles, maps on endpapers, illustrations by Tolkien in text. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Near fine. Jacket corners lightly rubbed, jacket spine very slightly faded. The best copy of the second edition we have handled to date. 23. [Fiction] Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1954. Early reprints of books 1 & 2, first edition of book 3. 423; 352; 416 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles. The complete saga of The Lord of the Rings, almost single-handedly responsible for the acceptance of the $500 fantasy genre into the mainstream (sorry Harry Potter, Tolkien beat you to it). Inspiration for the films directed by Peter Jackson. Very good. Each volume includes fold-out map in excellent condition. Flap of absent Fellowship jacket laid in along with related news article, faint discoloration to two corners of book 1 rear board, ink gift note on front endpaper of book 1. 24. [Fur Trapping] Harding, A.R. [Arthur Robert] Deadfalls & Snares: A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps A.R. Harding, Publisher, Columbus, 1935. 218, [8] pp. A guide to constructing home-made traps to catch various types of game including: bears, raccoons, otters, and martens. Deadfalls and snares are both included, as is information about when and where to build traps, proper bait, and how to skin, stretch, handle, grade, and market one’s catch. Some traps mentioned: spring pole snare; trail set snare; bait set snare; box trap; coop trap; pit trap; stone deadfall; trip triggers. The author was an outdoorsman $10 and founder of Hunter-Trader-Trapper and Fur-Fish-Game Magazine. He published many books on outdoorsmanship and hunting, and was one of the first national advocates of scientific wildlife management, conservation and good sportsmanship. Very good. Lightly rubbed.

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25. [Japanese Culture] The Kyoto Municipal Government; Asayama, Tominosuke Kyoto The Kyoto Municipal Government, 1934. First edition. iii, 56, [1] pp. Oblong: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8. Nishijin Textile cover (a special product of Kyoto), Kyoto mayor Asayama’s card tipped in on preface page. Color pictorial endpapers, half-tone photographs depicting traditional Japanese architecture and cultural attractions, with brief explanations. According to the preface, this book was published to encourage tourism and provide ‘a general description of interesting $90 sights within the city and its environs.’ Fine. 26. [Japanese Culture] Tsunetomo, Yamamoto; Steben, Barry D. The Art of the Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure - The New Illustrated Edition of the Classic Japanese Warrior Code Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2008. First thus. 272 pp. 8vo. Color photographs and historical images throughout. Translated from the Japanese by Barry D. Steben. 300 years ago, the former samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo wrote Hagakure, a masterpiece on the art and values of these much-revered Japanese fighters; ever since, warrior $50 chiefs have preserved it as a moral and practical treatise for themselves and their samurai retainers. Once closely guarded and shown to just a chosen few, it is now available to us all in this visually breathtaking new version. Whereas Machiavelli’s The Prince shows how to succeed amid treacherous political intrigues and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War reveals battle strategies for bloodless victory, Hagakure offers fascinating insight into Japanese ‘warrior-ness’—a mindset steeped in Zen-Confucian philosophy. Yamamoto Tsunetomo tells his readers how to foster courage, serve selflessly, become a skilled master of your own destiny, and infuse life in the here and now with beauty—while still acknowledging its transience. His timeless wisdom and profound aphorisms reflect important principles that still apply to life today. Fine.

FIVE CHILDREN’S BOOKS RELATED TO THE STORY OF NOAH’S ARK

27. [Juvenile: Noah’s Ark] Fuller, Margaret The Complete History of the Deluge in Verse and Pictures Hawthorn House, Windham, Connecticut, 1936. 55, [3] pp. 8vo. First edition , one of 975 (unnumbered) copies. A history of the Great Flood designed for young readers, with 22 color illustrations. Near fine, very good jacket. Board edges lightly faded, minimal loss from jacket spine head & foot.

$65 28. [Juvenile: Noah’s Ark] Gasztold, Carmen Bernos De Prayers from the Ark Viking, 1968. These prayers were first published, in French, in 1947 by a private press. Rumer Godden discovered a volume of them and translated them into English. Very good. Ink gift note on front flyleaf.

29. [Juvenile: Noah’s Ark] Harris, Laura $14 Animated Noah’s Ark Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1945. Unpaginated. An animated retelling of the Great Flood with movable illustrations by Julian Wehr, known for his work in this format. Very good, good jacket. All four $150 movable illustrations complete and functional. Includes scarce original jacket. Jacket spine absent, a couple small tears along jacket edges, boards edges a bit rubbed.

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30. [Juvenile: Noah’s Ark] Helle, Andre L’Arche de Noe [Noah’s Ark] Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, 1926. First edition. 64 pp. Publisher’s advertisements bound in following first and last pages. Black cloth spine, color pictorial boards. An illustrated bestiary of various animals present on Noah’s Ark, with French accompanying text. Very good. Boards rubbed.

31. [Juvenile: Noah’s Ark] Smith, E. Boyd $400 The Story of Noah’s Ark Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. 1917 reprint. 26 handsome color plates accompany a retelling of the Biblical Flood. Very good. Edges $75 rubbed, ink name on front endpaper.

32. [Juvenile; Trade Bindings] Croker, T. Crofton; Wright, T. [Thomas] Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. (Fairy Library of All Nations) Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1902. From preface: ‘...now included, as the representative volume of Irish Fairy Lore, in the ‘Illustrated Library of Fairy Tales of All Nations,’ since by universal assent it is recognized as the best and most characteristics work of the kind dealing with Irish superstition.’ Very good. Hinges starting, corners rubbed. 33. [Juvenile] Burnett, Frances Hodgson The Land of the Blue Flower New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1909. 1929 reprint. 67 pp. $125 8vo. Color frontispiece, color illustration on front jacket panel. A lesser-known fairy tale from the author of The Secret Garden and The Little Princess. Very good. Minor loss/tears along jacket corners, ink gift note on front endpaper. 34. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter $30 Dreams Doubleday, 1986. First edition. Two children watch cloud formations and interpret them for themselves. Near fine. Jacket spine slightly faded. $20 35. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter The Book of Jonah Doubleday, 1985. First edition. Retells the Biblical story of the man who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish. Includes historical material on Jonah’s world. Near fine, very good jacket. Corners lightly rubbed. $20 36. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter The Erie Canal Doubleday, 1970. 6th printing. Illustrated journey through the song “The Erie Canal”. Near fine, very good jacket. Minor wear to jacket corners. $25 37. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter We the People Doubleday, 1987. First edition. Presented in easy-to-read language, We The People makes the Constitution fun and approachable for children. $30 Spier gives the historical facts behind the writing of the document, while his colorful and realistic illustrations depict scenes of past and present American life.

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38. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter Rain Doubleday, 1982. Two children play in their backyard during a rainy day. Near fine, very good jacket. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.

39. [Juvenile] Spier, Peter $35 Oh, Were They Ever Happy! Doubleday, 1978. 7th printing. One Saturday morning while their parents are away, the three Noonan children decide to paint the $65 house. Very good. Lightly rubbed & toned.

40. [Leather-Bound; Architecture] Liechtenstein, Marie Holland House, with Numerous Illustrations. In Two Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Second edition. xvi, 289; xi, 259 pp. 8vo. A historical account of the structure also known as Cope Castle, which was largely destroyed during World War II by German bombing raids. Very good. $95 Rebound in half leather. Boards rubbed, bookplate on front endpaper, minor tears to front & rear endpaper of first volume.

21 LEATHER-BOUND EASTON PRESS TITLES 41. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Catton, Bruce Gettysburg: The Final Fury (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1986. [vi], 114 pp. Tall 8vo. All edges gilt, yellow ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with two-tone photographs and maps. This classic work by Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton, one of the great historians of the Civil War, takes an incisive look at the turning point of the war, when the great armies of the North and South came to Gettysburg in July 1863. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in.

42. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Chute, Marchette; Housman, $40 John Shakespeare of London (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xii, 395 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Foreword by John Housman written specially for this edition. Chute has coordinated such sparse facts as we posses about the bard’s personal life with his professional activities as $30 recorded by local printers, theatrical accounts and contemporary references. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy.

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43. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Creamer, Robert W. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1990. 443 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. Black & white photographs. Noted sportswriter Robert W. Creamer reveals the complex man behind the sports legend. From Ruth’s early days in a Baltimore orphanage, to the glory days with the Yankees, to his later years, Creamer has drawn a classic portrait of an American original. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy.

$40 44. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Curie, Eve; Sheean, Vincent; Gillmor, C. Stewart Madame [Marie] Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. [ix], 412 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, cream ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece. Translated by Vincent Sheean, foreword by C. Stewart Gillmor. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first female scientist to win worldwide acclaim and one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve $30 Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. It also spotlights her remarkable life, from her childhood in Poland, to her storybook Parisian marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, to her tragic death from the very radium that brought her fame. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in.

45. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Dos Passos, John The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. [ii], 426 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. A study of American politics during the Jeffersonian Era, by the acclaimed author of the U.S.A. Trilogy. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy. 46. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Frank, Philipp; Rosen, George; $30 Kusaka, Shuichi Einstein: His Life and Times The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xvii, 298, xii pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with black & white photographs and diagrams. Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein’s colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Frank’s $30 biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize–winner. Fine. An exceptional copy.

47. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. 800 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, yellow ribbon marker bound in. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King’s surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced $45 by the author’s access to King’s personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy.

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48. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Gurko, Miriam The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1990. vi, 328 pp. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. 34 photos & reproductions. Traces the course of the women’s rights movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in.

49. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Hart, Henry H.; McNeill, $30 William H. Marco Polo: Venetian Adventurer (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. xxxii, 306 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by William H. McNeill. Marco Polo was an Italian merchant traveller from Venice. He learned th mercantile trade from his father and uncle. He travelled Asia/China, and had an impact $35 on cartography, and others (including Christopher Columbus) were inspired to travel to the Far East due to Polo’s written descriptions.

50. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and The Progressive Era, 1910-1917 (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xvii, 331 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, light blue ribbon marker laid in. An account of the progressive movement under Woodrow Wilson and several controversial political decisions made during his administration. Fine. Publisher insert laid in. An exceptional copy. $35 51. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Livesay, Harold C.; Handlin, Oscar Andrew and the Rise of Big Business (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. x, 202 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. Black & white photographs. Author and scholar Harold C. Livesay examines the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie, one of the greatest captains of industry and philanthropists in the history of the United States. Fine. Publisher’s insert $30 laid in. An exceptional copy.

52. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Mackenzie, Catherine; Bruce, Robert V. Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Who Contracted Space (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. xviii, 382 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Foreword by Robert V. Bruce written specially for this edition. A biography of the inventory Alexander Graham Bell who, though he will be remembered forever for this specific work, contributed far more to the world of science. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy. $30

53. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, in Two Volumes (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. xiv, 904 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, grey ribbon markers bound in. The Pulitzer Prize winning history of the $95 American Civil War. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional set.

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54. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Nevins, Allan The Emergence of Lincoln, in Two Volumes: I. Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 1857-1859; II. Prologue to Civil War, 1859-1861 (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xii, 472; viii, 524 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, light blue ribbon markers bound in. A self-contained history of the period from 1857-1861, but which is generally considered part of $150 Nevins’s larger eight-volume work which offers a comprehensive history of the American Civil War. This section focuses on major political figures such as Buchanan, Douglas, and Lincoln, with analyses of the Dred Scott Decision, Bleeding Kansas, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and political hostilities that preceded the Civil War. Bibliography & index follow text. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional set.

55. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Oates, Stephen B.; Ford, Gerald With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xvii, 492 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Gerald Ford written specially for this edition. A biography that Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Herbert Donald called ‘the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.’ Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy. $45 56. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Parkman, Francis; Wade, Mason The Oregon Trail: Edited from His Notebooks (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1987. xi, 297 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. Edited with an introduction by Mason Wade. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon. The American historian’s most well-known work. Parkman (1823-1893) laconically narrates his series of misadventures involving Indians, buffalo, and bad weather in this account of his long journey from St. Louis to the wild west and back, $30 beginning in spring of 1846. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in.

57. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Rodinson, Maxime; Carter, Anne; Bowering, Gerhard Muhammad [Mohammed] The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. lv, [1], 363 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, coral silk moire endpapers, beige silk ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece. Translated from the French by Anne Carter, with a foreword by Gerhard Bowering. This is an ac- count of Mohammad’s life and is also the study of the impact of an ideology upon a so- ciety. Seventh century Arabia, although fragmented and in many respects primitive, was moving towards a settled economy. The ideology of Islam - calling for submission to the will of God - moulded this nation into unity and into a conquering force which, within a $35 hundred years of Mohammad’s death, subdued an area stretching from the Pyrenees to the borders of China. Fine.

58. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Schweitzer, Albert; Campion, C.T.; Skillings, Everett; Cousins, Norman Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. ix, 273 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, pink silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece. Translated by C.T. Campion, postscript by Everett Skillings, foreword written specially for this edition by Norman Cousins. The memoirs of the celebrated European pioneer of medical service in Africa, philosopher, musical scholar, and catalyst of environmental and peace activism. $30 Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy.

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59. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Swanberg, W.A. Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst (The Leather-Bound Library of American History) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1988. xiii, 555 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, gold ribbon marker bound in. An exhaustive profile of the nation’s most powerful newspaper mogul explores the life and times of William Randolph Hearst, his turbulent and flamboyant personal life, his controversial style of journalism, and the growth of his publishing empire. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy. 60. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Swanberg, W.A.; Funkhouser, G. Ray $30 Luce and His Empire (The Library of Great Lives) The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1989. xvi, 529 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, green silk moire endpapers, mint green ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by G. Ray Funkhouser written specially for this edition. Henry Luce foresaw the power of commercial mass media and established the National Broadcasting Company. Fine. Publisher’s insert laid in. An exceptional copy. $30 61. [Leather-Bound; Easton Press] Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1984. 317 pp. 8vo. All edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Maps precede and follow text, color frontispiece by Michael Hague, illustrations in text by J.R.R. Tolkien. The immortal tale of Bilbo Baggins, the unlikely hero who embarks on an epic quest with a group of dwarves. Inspiration for the three films directed by Peter Jackson. Fine. $125 62. [Leather-Bound; New York] State of New York Constitutional Convention, 1915 The Constitution of the State of New York, Adopted in Convention the Tenth Day of September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, Albany, 1915. 86, [8] ff. Folio. A lavish commemoration of the ability of those in government to accomplish nothing: The 1915 New York Constitutional Convention was the seventh state convention, and the first of three during the 20th century. It proposed numerous changes to the $50 constitution, none of which were adopted (though they were reintroduced with some success about ten years later). As is customary with such endeavors, though, each of the 168 delegates received a personalized, leather-bound copy of the constitution as a memento - this volume belonged to Hon. John Parmenter, a Republican from the 42nd Senate District. Very good. Lightly rubbed, minor abrasion to front corner. 63. [Literature; Business] Dickens, Charles; Aspley, J.C. A Christmas Carol: The Story of a Sale - with Marginal Notes for Salesmen The Dartnell Corporation, Chicago, 1927. x, 147 pp. 8vo. Limp suede boards similar to Roycroft style, elaborately decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Dickens’s famous holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, repackaged as a story of salesmanship, with marginal notes underscoring key story elements as they relate to the art of sales. From preface by J.C. Aspley: ‘To a salesman ‘A Christmas Carol’ is especially interesting, because it is the story of a sale. It is the most fascinating story of a sale ever written. Only $20 Dickens could have shaped the fine-spun strategy used by Marley’s Ghost to sell the idea of a Merry Christmas to ‘hard boiled,’ cynical old Scrooge. The sale in itself was an achievement, but what makes it especially noteworthy is that in getting old Scrooge to see Christmas as he saw it, Marley’s Ghost has sold the same merry idea of Christmas to millions of readers throughout the English speaking world.’ Good. Two minor chips from spine, ink gift note opposite title page.

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64. [Literature; Signed] Mishima, Yukio; Weatherby, Meredith The Sound of Waves Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961. 1969 12th printing. 141 pp. Original printed wrappers. A novel of young love in a Japanese fishing village, by the very popular and influential author whose sudden ritual suicide in 1970 shocked the literary world. Signed by Yukio Mishima without inscription on half-title page. Very faint stain to top corner of first few pages, pages $650 lightly toned. Laid in are two articles, one of which advertises Mishima’s appearance at the Tokyo Hilton for a conference of the College Women’s Association in January of 1970. Also laid in is a handwritten note from an attendee of a luncheon associated with this conference, attesting to the authenticity of the signature, and referencing the luncheon. Given the printing date of this copy, it seems likely the original owner purchased it specifically for the purpose of obtaining the signature. The second article laid in was printed after the author’s ritual suicide in November of the same year, and explains that “Immediately before his death he read a manifesto bitterly attacking the ‘corrupt, power-hungry politicians who have invited foreign countries to act as Japan’s guardians for generations to come.’” Mishima was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times, and signed copies of his works are quite scarce. Near fine. 65. [Literature; Trade Bindings] Austen, Jane Emma Little, Brown, and Company, Boston / Colonial Press, 1892. Two volumes bound in one. 319; 315 pp. 16mo. Adrian J. Iorio trade binding with his initials incorporated into emblem on front board. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece, title page, and plates by Edmund H. Garrett. Uniform with five other Austen volumes issued by Little Brown which collectively are known as Austen’s Novels, but which were sold separately. Copyright date 1892, referencing Roberts Brothers; actually issued in the early 20th century (~1900-1907) by Little Brown after they purchased Roberts Brothers. Very $150 good. Edges lightly toned, tiny spot on spine.

66. [Literature; Trade Bindings] Carroll, Lewis (Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1910. 151, [1] pp. 8vo. Eight color plates and Art Deco paper over boards cover design by W.H. Walker. Very good. Edges a bit rubbed, two plates repaired along binding, ink gift note & previous owner info on front endpaper. $45 67. [Literature] Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. 2nd printing, 1927 date on title page, 1926 on copyright with colophon, typo on p. 181 corrected. 259 pp. 8vo. Hemingway’s first big novel, which immediately established him as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I $300 generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway’s evolving style.

Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation. Very good. Loss from edges of spine label, front endpaper removed.

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68. [Medical] Bradstreet, Hobart Spine-Motion Privately Published, Chicago, 1924. 6th printing. 27, [1] pp. From a 1922 Popular Science Monthly article by William R. Durgin: ‘Mr. Bradstreet has evolved from his 25-year experience with spinal mechanics a simple, boiled-down formula of just five movements.’ Durgin goes on to explain $20 that Bradstreet was good friends with Elbert Hubbard of the Roycrofters, and that he and Bradstreet originally met at the Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, NY. Very good. Includes all five photographic plates (laid in). Pencil name on front endpaper. 69. [Medical] Lent, Edward B.; Skinner, Charles M. Being Done Good: An Amusing Account of a Rheumatic’s Experiences with Doctors and Specialists Who Promised to Do Him Good The Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1904. Reprint - ‘Eleventh Thousand’. 345 pp. 8vo. A lighthearted popular medical guide describing the author’s exploration of numerous varieties of cure for his chronic rheumatism. Near fine. Spine slightly faded, binding just beginning to weaken at one point inside. 70. [Medical] Lewis, Dio $20 Our Digestion; or, My Jolly Friend’s Secret. Philadelphia: Geo. Maclean, 1872. First edition. 407 pp. 8vo. An overview of the digestive system and habits to encourage healthy digestion. Includes chapters on dental health and tooth decay, mastication, the sense of taste, hunger, animal and vegetable compared, the stomac, various foods, food of the ancients, digestive theories (even one related to women wearing corsets), regularity, weight regulation, heartburn/indigestion/dyspepsia, exercise, prevention and treatment of $20 digestive diseases, alcoholic beverages, halitosis, tobacco, food poisoning, etc. Recipes for healthy foods appear occasionally throughout. 71. [Military; Signed] Essame, H. [Hubert] Patton: A Study in Command [Signed by Two Major-Generals] Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1974. 2nd printing. x, 280 pp. Black & white photographs. George S. Pattoon has aroused intense admiration and equally intense $40 dislike. This book, by a former Major-General in the British Army, examines Patton in the job he trained himself all his life to fill -- as a leader of soldiers and a battlefield commander. Very good. Inscribed to previous owner (George Von Kantor) and signed by two major-generals (Robert W. Grow, who fought with Von Kantor in the 6th Armored Division, and James ‘Jumpin Jim’ Gavin, a parachute infantryman in the 82nd Airborne). Photo mounted on front endpaper, postcard laid in appears to be a colorized photograph of one of the Normandy beaches (‘Arromanches (Calvados)’). Front endpaper splitting at hinge but binding firm, a few pages bear some highlighting or ink marks, mainly related to the major-generals who signed this copy.

72. [Military] United States Military Blue Star Service Banner - World War I, 1918 S.N., 1918. 6 x 4 1/2. Double-thick cardboard, includes original cord for hanging with metal sleeve at top edge. ‘Design patented Nov. 6, 1917’ in small type on bottom corner. The Blue Star Service Banner was designed and patented in 1917 by World War I Army Capt. Robert L. Queissner of the 5th Ohio Infantry who had two sons serving on the front line. It quickly became the unofficial symbol of a child in the service. The blue star represents one family member serving in the armed forces. A banner can have up to five stars, signifying that five members of that family are currently in military uniform on active duty. - Blue Stars for Safe Return. Very good. On reverse in black $30 ink: ‘1918. Went - May 5, 1918. Home - Dec. 16, 1918.’ Lightly rubbed.

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73. [Presidential Writings] Truman, Harry S.; His Holiness Pope Pius XII; Taylor, Myron C. Correspondence Between President Truman and Pope Pius XII Myron C. Taylor, 1950. First edition. 44 pp. 8vo. Includes an introduction by Myron C. Taylor, Truman’s personal representative to His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Photographs of all three men precede text. The collected correspondence includes ten letters written between April 1946 and $75 December 1949, and serves as a companion to the earlier work entitled ‘Wartime Correspondence Between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII’. The letters discuss how the United States and the Vatican might work together to alleviate the human suffering and the crises of faith occasioned by World War II, and cooperate towards achieving a lasting peace. Very good, fair jacket. Includes original onion skin jacket, with loss and tears along top edge (large chip from rear panel). Myron Taylor’s calling card affixed to front endpaper with paperclip, and a typed letter on Taylor’s stationery to one Mr. Edward Beiderbecke is laid in. 74. [Religion; Bible Study; Rembrandt] The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised - The Authorized King James Version (Rembrandt Edition) Abradale Press, New York, 1959. x, 856, [xii], 276, [30], 229 pp. 4to. Gilt titles, all edges gilt, several ribbon markers bound in. $85 Designed by Howard Morris, with illustrations by Rembrandt (color plates and etchings) and illuminations by Fritz Kredel. Very good. Boards lightly rubbed. 75. [Religion; Christian Missions] Zwemer, S.M. [Samuel Marinus]; Stileman, C.H. (Charles Harvey) Mohammed or Christ: An Account of the Rapid Spread of Islam in All Parts of the Globe, the Methods Employed to Obtain Proselytes, Its Immense Press, Its Strongholds, & Suggested Means to Be Adopted to Counteract the Evil Fleming H. Revell Company, 1915. First edition. 292 pp. 8vo. Several black & white illustrations and photographic plates. Introduction by Bishop Charles H. Stileman. A Christian polemic against the spread of Islam, written by a missionary partially who $150 co-founded the American Arabian Mission, and founded the American Christian Literature Society for Moslems. Zwemer refers to it as ‘the Moslem problem’, and uses pejorative terms such as ‘disease’ and ‘propagandism’ to refer to practice and promotion of the religion. He expresses a desire to capitalize on disunity among Islamic populations, and the civil unrest caused by World War I, as an opportunity to evangelize. The overall tone is combative, sometimes even militaristic (with phrases such as ‘the mobilisation of our spiritual forces’). Zwemer’s success as a missionary (he was nicknamed The Apostle of Islam) likely played a role in his appointment as Professor of Missions and Professor of the History of Religion at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Very good. Boards lightly spotted, spine faded, ink note on front endpaper. 76. [Rural Life; Signed] Berry, Romeyn Stoneposts in the Sunset Century House, Watkins Glen, 1950. First edition. 96 pp. 8vo. Short pieces written by an American sports administrator and author who attended Cornell University to study law, practiced in New York City, fought in World War I, and returned to Cornell to become involved in their sports program. He was also the head of several national sports committees. The title refers to his 65 acre farm in Jacksonville, New York, which was the subject of one other work (Dirt Roads to Stoneposts; 1949). Berry also contributed to The New Yorker and a number of regional magazines and journals. Very good. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author (‘with every good wish, $20 Romeyn Berry’) on title page. Corners a bit rubbed, faint stain to spine base.

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77. [Science] Asimov, Isaac Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar Walker and Company, New York, 1966. First edition. 308 pp. 8vo. A comprehensive survey of man’s achievements in astronomy. Faint stain to top page ridge near spine, a few light spots on jacket spine reverse. $75 78. [Science] Dawkins, Richard Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First edition. Dawkins addresses the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.

$22 79. [Science] Ottaviani, Jim Dignifying Science Gt Labs, 2000. First edition - a paperback original. Dignifying Science is the newest book from G.T. Labs that tells true stories about scientists in comics form. Features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and (believe it or not) Hedy Lamarr.

80. [Science] Quammen, David $15 On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition Sterling, 2008. 2nd printing. In his landmark study, Darwin theorized that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. These ideas flew in the face of long-held beliefs, and the book immediately became one of the most controversial scientific works in history—and it still remains so today. Near fine.

$15 81. [ Racing; Signed] Reeves, Richard Stone; Robinson, Patrick; Murless, Noel The Golden Post: An Artistic Study of the Tumultuous Events That Led to the Day When They Ran for Ten Million Dollars Fine Arts Enterprises, Ltd., 1985. Limited edition, #136 of 2000 copies. Each copy of this limited edition was hand-bound in leather and printed for the authors. Foreword by Sir Noel Murless. 81 color paintings by Richard Stone Reeves, depicting the most successful race-horses of the era. The title refers to the race at Hollywood Park, California on November 10, 1984, during which horses competed for a record $10 million worth of prizes, in what was referred to as the Breeder’s Cup. Includes portraits of: Northern $650 Dancer; The Minstrel; ; El Gran Senor; Sadler’s Wells; ; Three Troikas; Sabin; Mississippi Mud and foal; II; Czaravitch; ; De La Rose; Hostage; ; Exotic Treat; Entente; Caerleon; ; Nishapour; Shakapour; Blushing Groom; ; ; Akarad; ; General Assembly; Cure the Blues; April Run; ; Just a Game; ; Assert; Genuine Risk; Yearlings at Dormello; Graustark; His Majesty; Pleasant Colony; ; Caveat; Tap on Wood; ; Mrs. Penny; Raise a Native; Exclusive Native; Affirmed; Genuine RIsk; Virtuous; Mr. Prospector; Conquistador Cielo; It’s in the Air; Minnetonka; Phaedra; Eminency; Give Me Strength; Seattle Slew; Coastal; Buckpasser; Swale; Slew o’Gold; Love Sign; Halo; Glorious Song; Misty Gallore; Devil’s Bag; Time for a Change; Bold Forbes; Gato Del Sol; Critique; Bold Ruler; ; Gallant Man; Secretariat; Spectacular Bid; Raja Baba; What a Pleasure; Bold n’ Determined; Grey Dawn; Heavenly Cause; Bates Motel; Sir Ivor; Lemhi Gold; Posse; Henbit; Temperence Hill; Arctic Tern; Shirley Heights; Zino. To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com Terms: All items subject to prior sale. Unless other arrangements have been made prior to purchase, payment is expected with your order and may be made by check, money order, credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express), or PayPal direct transfer. Institutions may request to pay on invoice. Returns will be accepted for any reason within 10 days of receipt, prior notice is appreciated. Our usual trade courtesies extended.

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