Gillingham, Dorset: The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (28.5 cm); 199 pp.; illustrations; photographs; maps; dust jacket. Foam green cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. A near fine copy with just a hint of sunning to board edges. Scarce original dust jacket is very good with... More
American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Long Lines Plant Department, 1931. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 88 pp.; illus. Green, black-printed wrappers with holes punched to the top and bottom; some penciled scribbling to title page, else clean throughout. No other copies found in the trade; only four located in OCLC... More
[n.p.]: Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong (28 x 17.5 cm); unpaginated [24] pp.; chromolithographs. Cord-tied illustrated covers. This scarce album was offered by Arbuckles Notion Department as a premium and contains illustrations of all 50 cards in the zoological series, arranged four to a page with the... More
![The Life Sexual: A Study of the Philosophy, Physiology, Science, Art, and Hygiene of Love [INSCRIBED]. Edgar C. BEALL.](/pictures/thumb/05210.jpg?v=1524614329)
New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. Fourth printing. Octavo. Blue buckram boards pictorially printed in red; x, 244 pp.; photographs. An About Fine copy with some very slight rubbing to extremities. The scarce dust jacket is unclipped ($1.00 stamped in black) and is easily Very Good. Some slight rubbing and... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Twelvemo. Green paper boards pictorially printed in black; 159 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Very Good+ copy with toning to board edges in a Very Good, unclipped ($1.75), dust jacket, which is also toned and has one mark of soiling... More
London: The Pioneer Press, 1946. Third edition. Twelvemo (18.5 mm x 12.5 mm). Blue marbled wrappers ruled and lettered in black; 132 pp. [4 pp., adverts]. This publication initiated by the Secular Society, an organization formed by the author in 1898 to espouse his secularist or freethought worldview. Cohen (1868-1954)... More
![Annular Newsletter, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4; Vol. 6, Nos. 1-5 , 1970-73 [seven issues]. Donald L. CYR.](/pictures/thumb/02615.jpg?v=1509131631)
Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age... More
Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and... More
London: Britons Publishing Society, 1961. First printing. 12mo; stapled wrappers, 47 pp. This booklet combines a lecture given by George at Dartmouth College in 1956 (Human Progress and the Race Problem) and his pamphlet, “Race, Heredity and Civilization.” The publisher’s forward addresses a British audience and the “major colour problem..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies at Rutgers, 1978. First edition. Quarto (28 cm). Saddle-stitched wrappers; 58 pp.; maps, tables, illus., photographs. Some sunning and very faint soiling to wrappers. Scarce in the trade with no other copies currently available. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in gilt; xi, [6], 70 pp.; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy. Light flaking of gilt; dust-soiling to top edge; browning to endpapers from jacket flaps; plates are a trifle foxed. A card has been tipped... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 62, [2] pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. The Life of Matter II. Organic Chemistry III. Triumphs of Modern Chemistry IV. The Chemistry of Life V. The Vital Principle VI. Theories of the... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 57, [5] pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. Reading the Riddle of Nature II. Wonders of the Microscope III. The Bacteria IV. How the Plant Feeds V. The Leafy Canopy VI. The Evolution... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 64 pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. The New Psychologies II. The Evolution of the Mind III. Mind and Body IV. What Behaviorism Teaches V. How We Perceive Things VI. Feelings and Emotions... More
London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems... More
Windsor, Ontario: Redloh Publishing Company, 1946. First edition. Octavo (23 cm). Blue textured wrappers printed in black; viii, 173 pp.; illus. The author's extensive research on the causes and cures of cancer, With many illustrations and photographs. Wrappers show only the slightest hint of rubbing with a small chip to... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); xvi, 178 pp.; frontispiece + 44 illustrations; dust jacket. Burgundy, blind-ruled cloth with black-stamped front board and gilt-stamped spine. A very good copy with some light dust-soiling to cloth; jacket offsetting to endpapers; owner's name to front endpaper, else... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Fifth edition. Pink and grey-stamped copse with gilt lettering to front board; heavy octavo. xxiii, 533, [7] (adverts), pp. With 178 illustrations from photographs and with 162 illustrations from drawings. Bookplate of Southern High School, Philadelphia, to front pastedown; red stamp to two pages... More
![The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser [Complete Run of Vols. 2-4, 36 Issues, Jan. 1860 - Dec. 1862]. Thomas MEEHAN.](/pictures/thumb/01450.jpg?v=1543189559)
Philadelphia: C. E. P. Brinckloe & Co., 1860. A complete run of 36 issues of this seminal gardening and horticultural periodical published in Philadelphia beginning in 1859. In the original sewn, printed wrappers; engravings throughout each issue, some chromolithographs. Issues vary from Good+ to Near Fine condition with only one... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1852. First English language edition. Octavo; viii, 158, [2] pp.; one illustrative plate and numerous woodcuts. Publisher's blind-ruled, green, pebbled cloth; gilt titling to spine. Top corners are chipped and rounded with some chipping to crown (slight loss, not affecting title); dust-soiled top edge; owner's name... More
San Francisco: Far Horizons Books, 1982. Second revised printing. Octavo. Perfectbound paperback; 284 pp. The author traces humanity's evolutionary development and argues that man can only act altruistically when he abandons religion and embraces science and rationalism. A Very Good copy with covers slightly rubbed, clean throughout. More
Parry, New Jersey: John R. Parry, 1897. First edition. 19 x 14 cm; 157, [1], pp.; ill. Stapled, perfect-bound black wrappers with dulled lettering to front wrapper and dulled design to rear. Wrappers rubbed with some white flecking and chipping to top edge; dampstaining throughout with a small chunk missing... More
London: Lindsay Drummond Limited, 1948. Third edition. Octavo. White cloth boards stamped in black; 163 pp.; map; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with gently bumped corners and cheap war-time paper browning in a Very Good, unclipped (12s. 6d.), rubbed dust jacket with small chunk missing to crown... More
[Pennsylvania]: Hon. Daniel H. Hastings, 1898. First edition. One leaf folded to make two pages; illustration. Some grubbiness and soiling, still Very Good. A warning written for soldiers about the poisonous Manchineal tree, which grows along the Sea Shore in Cuba, and the West India Islands. The author describes the... More