Recent Arrivals from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Essays, drawings, poems, notes, performance suggestions, etcetera; set in four parallel columns (two on each page) for comparison and collision. Bound in the style of a prayer book, why not? Hardcover, as pictured. First edition with same date on title & copyright pages, but possibly a later printing, with a mysterious "4" standing… Read more about this item

New York / London: Garland Publishing, 1988. Facsimile reprint of this classic account of genetics & heredity, first published by Yale in 1926 as part of their Silliman Lecture series. One of the publisher's Great Books in Experimental Biology series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, text clean, no names or marks; [4], xvi, 343 pages;… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., 1998. Massive two-volume set exploring coding theory, its connections, and applications. Includes a lengthy history/introduction to algebraic codes by the editors and 24 chapters/papers on various aspects, broadly grouped into three sections: Algebraic Coding, Connections, and Applications. Original edition, two HEAVY hardcovers as pictured; no jackets, as issued. Light wear, minor bumps to edges, corners more… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Company, 1969. Wittgenstein's posthumous but influential tract, a complete revision of his ideas; presented in the original German, with a revised English translation opposite; the stated third edition, third printing [thus]. Hardcover, as pictured. Shows light wear, bookplate, ink name on free endsheet, spine gilt bright; no jacket (as issued? we've never seen one); MINOR PEN UNDERLINING… Read more about this item

New York / London: Garland Publishing, 1988. Facsimile reprint of this classic account of embryonic induction, first published by Yale in 1938 as part of their Silliman Lecture series. One of the publisher's Great Books in Experimental Biology series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, text clean, no names or marks; [4], xii, 401 pages; index… Read more about this item

Chicago: Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1921. Nineteenth of the Lakeside Classics series, reprinting Henry's 1809 account of his years in the fur trade in Michigan and Canada after the French cession of their territory there. Small hardcover as pictured, full dark green cloth, gilt titling, top edge gilt. Shows light edgewear, minor nicks & scuffs. Text… Read more about this item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Discussion of the importance & scope of the work of the Bonfils family, Huguenots who moved to Beirut in 1876, where they founded an important photographic studio, traveling & photographing notable sites and scenes, but also ordinary people, throughout the near east. Harvard's Semitic Museum appears to hold the largest organized group… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Early life and antecedants of the president, "The story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life, and the unique child who became Theodore Roosevelt". National Book Award-winner McCullough became interested in TR's origins while researching two of his earlier books, and here discusses Roosevelt's impressive father, important mother, other family members, and… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Middle-class French teen girl runs away with "lonely, predatory youth, an adept of confidence games and minor rackets"; her parents hire a tough female detective to find her. A predecessor to the spate of juvenile deliquent novels published in the states in the 1950s. Small hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first American edition… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays, from ancient to modern, with a special emphasis on Shakespeare; systematicrather than historical. First English edition, from the fifth German, where it had become the standard work on the subject. Publisher's European Studies in English Literature series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, minor… Read more about this item

Westport, CT/London: Greenwood Press, 1993. Collection of documents generally supportive of Asian Americans, specifically those of Chinese & Japanese origin, and anti-racist work by both white & Black groups. Includes sections on legal dissent, statements by journalists and the famous including Mark Twain, Henry George, John Stuart Mill, William Lloyd Garrison; religious opinion, labor opinion, African American organizations & speakers,… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Collection of essays, many on spiritual & philosophical concerns, based on lectures delivered later in Jung's career while he was incorporating some ideas of Eastern religion into his theories. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Later printing, undated, but circa 1945-1949, based on the books listed on the rear jacket panel and grayish post-war… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon, 1956. First American edition (first printing) of this study of psychology; the author, a Jungian analyst, comments on the mythological archetypes expressed in Apuleius's tale and their relation to female psychology. Bollingen series LIV. Hardcover, lacking the jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, ink name & note inside front cover; no jacket; considerable but neat &… Read more about this item

Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2003. Reprint & translation of this book offering inspirational excerpts from poets and philosophers collected by Brahms in several notebooks, first published in a limited edition in 1909 and not reprinted since; here in the original German opposite an English translation, with minor contextual annotation. Scarce. Paperback, as pictured; light wear, minor bumps, hint of fading… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Important & influential text, intended for the general reader as well as the philosopher, assuming no previous knowledge of philosophy. Divided into four sections, discussing self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity, and responsibility toward future generations, this is considered one of the most influential books on moral philosophy published in the last century. Hardcover… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Authoritative work on this group of widely-studied cellular slime molds, discussing their history, life cycle, cultivation & use in the laboratory, systematics. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. The author was an emeritus professor of Bacteriology & Botany at the University of Wisconsin, who began studying dictyostelids in 1933, and worked on bettering penicillin production during… Read more about this item

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1955. Definitive & meticulously researched study of the passenger pigeon. First edition (first printing). Hardcover in jacket, full gray cloth with white titling, as pictured. Light general wear to book, minor foxing to top edge of boards & plates; very minor edgewear & chipping to jacket, faint foxing; jacket spine tanned with small water spots.… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. Young screenwriter & cop fall in love while investigating her assault; suspense ensues. Koontz's breakout novel, the first under his name to achieve bestseller status; filmed in 1990. First edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket, as pictured. General wear & smudging to book, top edge badly worn; jacket shows some edgewear, short tears,… Read more about this item

Shelton, CT: First Edition Library, 1990. Baldwin's acclaimed first novel in an exact facsimile of the first edition; undated, around 1990. Fine in jacket with slightly faded spine; slipcase shows a short cutmark, minor sticker scars; as pictured. No FEL info card. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Duodecimo.

New York: ROC, 1988. Book club reprint of the sixth Discworld novel, of an orphaned baby - heir to a kingdom - his ghostly father, and the three witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, & Magrat Garlick. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; near fine. Jacket art by Tom Kidd. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.