Search Results: Titles starting with O from Biblioctopus

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Signed by Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. His last collection of stories. The writing of these stories overlapped his final novel, "The Pale King" (published posthumously in 2011), some being the manuscripts of the novel.

New York: Covici Fried, 1937. First Edition. hardcover. fine/fine. 1st edition. Fine in fine dustjacket without excuses or qualifiers, and entirely lacking in disappointments, 20 times scarcer than near fine copies at about the same price and rarely seen thus these days, a reminder that the bargains remain at the top of the market. Half buffalo case.

London: Elsevier, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. very good. 2 vols. 1st edition (the 1st appearances anywhere). Contemporary cloth, short splits at the base of the joints neatly closed, library blind stamps on the title pages, else very good. This is the whole of both books, and they are, obviously, much better than, and rarer than, and should not be compared to, torn out pages (extractions). [1] Vol. I has 4 of the 5 parts of Lister's On a New Method of Treating Compound Fractures..., pages 326-329, 357-359, 387-389, and 507-509. [2] Vol. II has the 5th part, pages 95-96. [3] Vol. II also has Lister's 2nd article, On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery, pages 353-356, and [4] his 3rd article, The Antiseptic System of Treatment..., pages 668-669, cumulatively changing surgery, the lives of those practicing it, and those undergoing it, to this day, and there is universal reverence for the magnitude of this medical divination. Rare. Refs: PMM, 316c (the 1st 5-part article). Grolier,… Read More

London: Thomas Bennet and Daniel Brown, 1699. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition. Tyson's groundbreaking treatise, the first significant study in post-renaissance comparative morphology, the forerunner of all the science that connected man to his earlier ancestors, and the underpinning for Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863) and Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). It is in this book that Tyson established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man, and though the results he deduced from his anatomical descriptions proved misguided, he was the first to recognize that man was a close relative of certain lower animals. Tyson did not foresee the theory of evolution, but this work stimulated others to ponder the possibility over the next 160 years, and thus contributed meaningfully to its formulation. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski (typically plain binding, as was Sangorski's custom on science books), title page foxed and… Read More

Los Angeles, 1987. Fine. Two original stiff blue paper play call sheets with Pat Riley's hand drawn directions in blue felt tip ink. These were collected in person from game 2 of the 1st round of the 1986-1987 NBA playoffs (the Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 139-127 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, CA on April, 25 1987). With the sheets is a redeemed ticket from this specific game. While 'Showtime' Laker memorabilia is rather common, game used ephemera is not (especially something from the playoffs).

Los Angeles, 1987. Fine. Two original stiff blue paper play call sheets with Pat Riley's hand drawn directions in blue felt tip ink. These were collected in person from game 1 of the 3rd round of the 1986-1987 NBA playoffs (the Lakers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 92-87 at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, CA on May, 16 1987). With the sheets is a redeemed ticket from this specific game. While 'Showtime' Laker memorabilia is rather common, game used ephemera is not (especially something from the playoffs).

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 1st edition. Bloth cloth with some rubbing to the extremities, else near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and toning.