Search Results: Authors starting with U from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Wien: Fr. Ant. Schrambl, 1800. First Edition. Ulrich's Analysis of the Brownian System of Medicine, that is the theory of John Brown who postulated that pathological anatomy showed only changeable forms of disease, dismissing any notion of diseases as separate entities. An uncommon title, with 3 copies located in OCLC. Bound in marbled boards with paper spine label. There are no ownership marks, and mylar has been custom cut to protect the binding.

Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller | Wilhelm Braumüller | M. Breitenstein's Buchhandlung | Wiener Klinik, 1887. Half Leather. Very Good binding. A sammelband of early text of urology, the major publications of Dr. Robert Ultzmann of Vienna. With the second, enlarged edition of the Instruction for the Examination of Urine, Atlas on the Physiological and Pathological Urinary Sediments, On the Local Treatment of the [Diseases of the] Bladder, and finally About Potentia Generandi and Potentia Coeundi, all in one volume. With frequent chromolithographic plates throughout the Atlas, depicting the various 'sediments' to be found under the microscope. Dr. Robert Ultzmann of Vienna was a pioneer of modern urology, and some of the methodology and instruments he invented are still in use today. Bookplate on the front pastedown, and previous owner's name in pencil. Half red morocco with gilt lettering over black cloth. Sunning to the spine and spot of surface loss to the front board. Very Good binding.

Barcelona: Henrich Y Co, 1913. Very Good binding. An uncommon translation of these Arab tales -- The Story of Nerudin and the Beautiful Princess Camaralzaman Badura. With both in text and full page engraved illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. We locate 3 copies only on OCLC, all in Spain. Bound in red cloth with gilt titling to the spine. Very Good binding.

New York: J. H. Colton, 1865. Colored engraved map, with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". From the second edition of Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union.

New York: J. H. Colton, 1865. Colored engraved map, with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". From the second edition of Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union.

New York: J. H. Colton, 1865. Second Edition. Colored engraved map, with a bit of creasing at the fold. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". From the second edition of Colton's Condensed Octavo Atlas of the Union.

Norfolk, VA: Naval Supply Depot, 1945. Uncommon and substantial volume documenting the important role Virginia's Naval Supply Depot in Norfolk played in providing for our troops in the World War II. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, with text. A copy the "Suppy Chest" -- that Depot's newspaper, is laid in. We locate 4 copies of this history on OCLC. 187 pp.

Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf and Company, 1831. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (9" x 5 3/4");i n the publisher's drab paper-covered boards, backed in faded crimson cloth with a paper labels; the pages are unopened; there is a small amount of loss to the front free endpaper.~~This being issued as Volume III of the Harvard Library Catalogue published the year earlier in 1830. ~~A solid copy. Very Good binding.

Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf and Company, 1830. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A solid copy in the publisher's green paper-covered boards, backed in brown cloth with morocco labels. This copy: "His Excellency Governor Filch, from the President & Fellows of the University at Cambridge 19th Oct. 1846" on the front endpaper. There are no other marks. Very Good binding.

Middlebury, Vermont: The Middlebury College Press, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in green printed paper-covered boards backed in buckram, with a paper title label to the spine; 197 pages; the prospectus for this book is laid in.~~This copy from the library of Louis Untermeyer with his bookplate on flyleaf. Untermeyer contributed a poem -- "Genesis" -- to this anthology, and was well known as a poet and an anthologist himself. He became poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, a position which later became poet laureate of the United States. Very Good binding.

New York: Targ Editions | Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo,; in patterned paper-covered boards with the publisher's plain wrapper; [21] pages; title page and colophon printed in green and black; this edition to limited to 350 copiers printed by Henry Morris at the Bird and Bull Press; signed by John Updike.~~This text is from a talk given at the Morgan Library by John Updike in 1977. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

Cleveland: Bits Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto; in the printer's string-tied printer wrappers, deckle-edged; [11] pages; one of 120 copies signed by John Updike.~~Six poems, one of which "Munich", has never been published. Near Fine binding.

New York; Toronto: Everyman's Library | Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher's red cloth binding, with dustjacket; xxxi, [5], 6-1519; with a new Introduction by John Updike; the first appearance of the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom tetralogy, signed by Mr. Updike on the front free endpaper.~~A lovely signed First Edition copy. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (* 1/4" x 5 1/4"); in the publisher's purple paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with dustjacket; the bottom corner of the upper board is very lightly bumped; the dustjacket is bright and has not been price-clipped.~~This First Edition copy is signed by Mr. Updike on the front endpaper. (De Bellis A 131). Near Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

Jackson, Mississippi: Nouveau Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. 8vo.; in publisher's rice-paper-covered boards, backed in linen with a paper spine label, and with a mylar cover. in an edition limited to three hundred copies of which this is #140; signed by John Updike; with a wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec on the title page. Fine binding.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1999. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's red cloth binding with titling in gold to the spine, and housed in the publisher's slicpcase; xxiv, [1], 2-775, [776] pages; the shrinkwrap is present, though we removed it neatly from the spine so that we could examine the book; the edition is limited to 200 copies, of which this #139 signed by Mr. Updike. Fine binding.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Reprint Edition. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth with titling in gold, and with dustjacket; xvii, [2], 3-84 pages; there is a very faint erasure mark on the endpaper; this copy is signed by John Updike (in green ink?) on the endpaper; the dustjacket has the merest trace of sunning to the spine; it has not been price-clipped.~~This is the First Knopf Edition, a re-issue of Mr. Updike first published book, originally publihsed in 1958.~~An attractive signed copy of the first printing of the re-issue. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition Limited. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, with titling in gilt to the spine; housed in the publisher's slipcase; the top edge of the slipcase is lightly sunned; this edition limited to 350 copies, signed by Mr. Updike on the limited leaf. Fine binding.

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Signed. 8vo. (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"); in the publisher's gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, with dustjacket; xiii, [1], 2-351 pages, including Bibliography and Index; this copy is signed by Mr. Updike on the front endpaper. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.

Boston: James Munroe & Co, 1840. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; in printed stitched self-wrappers~~Of perhaps more interested than this tract, we know that the author engineered for Nathaniel Hawthorne to be dismissed from his job at the Salem Custom House and that Charles Sumner referred him as "that smooth, smiling, oily man of God." [see Carlos Baker: Emerson Among the Eccentrics, Viking (1996), p. 123. Very Good binding.