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9.5 (24 cm) Tall" Ex-Library Facsimile reprint edition of 1860 volume. Exlibrary marks, slightly cocked, tight binding & hinges, bright pages. Cloth over boards has general shelfwear. Rear library pocket. 535 pp. Essays (1855-1860) from the Quarterly Review and the Edinburgh Review by noted British physician of the mid-19th century: Advertisements; Food and Its Adulterations; The Zoological Gardens; Rats; Lunatic Asylums; The London Commissariat; Woolwich Arsenal; Shipwrecks; Lodging, Food and Dress of Soldiers; Electric Telegraph; Fires and Fire Insurance; Police and Thieves; Mortality in Trades and Professions. http://www.catscradlebks.com/book_images/1200025.jpg

light edge wear to dust jacket. Rosenblatt, a contributing editor to the New Republic and Vanity Fair and a regular essayist for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour , skillfully draws out his interviewees, whether the person is a homeless woman in New York City who was once a nightclub dancer, a prisoner in Attica smoldering with anger, or a fiercely anti-communist Latvian jazz saxophonist in Leningrad. This wholly engaging collection of essays, articles, reviews and autobiographical sketches includes an extended meditation on Hiroshima, a piece on the ""disappeared"" victims of Argentina's military dictatorship and the eloquent title essay about a 1982 plane crash into the Potomac, in which an anonymous man rescued fellow passengers before he succumbed to the icy waters. There are disarming profiles of Ronald Reagan, Candice Bergen, New York governor Mario Cuomo; appreciations of African American autobiographies and Langston Hughes's ""Simple"" stories; and an alarming report on war-torn Sudan where some 100,000 boys, whose parents had been slaughtered, walked barefoot for hundreds of miles in search of safety. -- Publisher's Weekly http://www.scrybepress.com/images/kb003347.jpg

12mo over 6.75 - 7.75'' tall Presented by Authorto nurses of ChelseaHome Hospital. Rambling collection of essays dealing with Evolution, History of Science, and random facts. Author committed suicide using 5 methods. Undated. Tight copy ! Red cloth binding, white paper covered boards. Previous owner ink stamp. 1916 newspaper article pasted on front endpaper: MAINE MAN MAKES HIS SUICIDE QUINTUPLY SURE Pins Picture of Estranged Wife to Coat Before Deed.Fernald M. Eldridge, 35, of Hallowell, committed suicide at the home of his wife's parents in Casco this afternoon...he took sulphuric acid, paris green, severed his jugular vein, slashed his wrists with a razor, and then shot himself in the head with a rifle...Eldridge gained entrance by means of the skylight. The family was absent...He left several notes, most of which he wrote to his wife, from whom he was estranged. She is supposed to live in Massachusetts with her 3-months-old child...he said he was innocent of setting fire to his parents' home, causing their death...A Philosophic Essay on Anthropology, Biology, Embryology, Geology, Astronomy, Mythology, (Chemistry and Physics) Topics Discussed: Anthropoid Ape and Nebular Hypothesis Our Ancient Ancestors; Apes and Monkeys; Instinct and Reason; Invertebrate, Vertebrate and cell life; Critical Points of Evolution; Difference in Species and Intellect; Education and Religion; World and Space; Monistic Philosophy; Was Christ A Supernatural Being; List of Famous Scientific Men; Hypothesis of Cancer; Leprosy; List of Nobel Prize Winners; List of books the author has read and liked. 70 pages. 8871

Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 195 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Albert Goldbarth's "essays" (for want of a better term) stitch together elements of the memoir, the short story, the stand-up comedy shtick, the scholarly thesis, and the richly textured prose poem, into what critic Robert Atwan calls "a whole new breed" of personal essay. Goldbarth, says Atwan, "has spliced together strands of the old genre with a powerful new gene - and the results are miraculous." Great Topics of the World investigates everyday traumas and triumphs - the despairs, delights, and complexities of our lives - and places them in an historic, cosmologic context, in which Vermeer, Leeuwenhock, Amy Lowell, astronauts Kepler and Tycho Brahe, Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, and the Golem-conjuring Rabbi of Prague reenact their legendary dramas. And recurring throughout is the more intimate leitmotif of Goldbarth's own life and that of his family: the parents who inadvertently fed their boy's fascination with the flotsam and jetsam of American pop culture; the grandparents whose emigration from the old country was like "landing on Mars"; and the author himself, standing midway between the lore of Middle Europe and the lure of the New World, with its adventure comics, golden-haired enchantresses, and promises of a star-kissed future. At its core, Great Topics of the world is about one of the great topics of our century: the cultural and personal collisions brought about by a world in migration.

Soft Cover. VG-G. 5/9/2003 5/9/2003

Contemporary full sprinkled calf, G. 2 volumes. xcii+224pp, 225-519+80+31+25pp+20pp publishers catalgue, upper board of the first volume detached, spined & edges a little rubbed, lettering peices missing, internally a nice solid clean set with good margins in bindings which are somewhat rubbed especially to the spines. Bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson. With the preliminary blank & blank leaves at the rear in both volumes, title page for the Serrmons, plus as a 20 page catalogue of books published by Knapton & Knaplock.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Very Good Cloth First Thus First published as 'Geschichte und Bibliographie der Anatomischen Abbildung' in Leipzig 1852. The author's purpose was to present a 'history and bibliography of representations of human anatomy by graphic means', thus included are the work of surgeons as well as artists. The period covered is from antiquity and the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century and shows examples from Persian and European manuscripts, European printed books and paintings and sculpture. Translated and annotated by Mortimer Frank. Further essays by Fielding H. Garrison, Mortimer Frank, and Edward C. Streeter with a new historical essay by Charles Singer and a bibliography of Mortimer Frank by J. Christian Bay. Some damp staining to boards.

light edge wear to dust jacket; Robert James Waller began the pieces in this book on a warm, green morning in the summer of 1983. He hadn't set out to be a writer. He just needed to record his feelings about people and animals and things he cared about. His first story, ""Ridin' Along in Safety with Kennedy and Kuralt,"" told about being young and a musician, and how playing ""The Wabash Cannonball"" one day in a roadside bar changed the rest of his life. The Des Moines Register printed the essay, and people began asking for more. The result is Old Songs in a New Cafe. A work of nonfiction, it takes you inside Robert James Waller's mind and world...revealing insightful experiences from his own life and, with his special magic, illuminating those poignant moments most of us share. Few writers possess the power to move us. Even fewer become legends in their own time. Robert James Waller has done both. Just as you have loved his best-selling novels, you will love... http://www.scrybepress.com/images/kb005727.jpg

Hard Cover. VG-G+. Very Good-Good+ Very Slightly Sunned on inside edge of cover. Slightly rubbed corners. Stevenson as a Poet, Underwoods, Child's Garden Versus, Ballads, Miscellanous Poems, Plays. Ol d Course paper. The inside has beautiful lithograph with sheet pap er over it. There are other black and white photos throughout these books. A Super find for a family who would love to have the origi nal classics. 7 Volumes of a set. Volume II Treasure Island, Kidknapped , Volume X Familiar Studies, A Famil y of Engineers, Essay on Stevenson, Volume V An Island Voyage, Travels with a Donkey, Dr. J ekyell and Mr. Hyde, Volume 1X Across the Plains, Essays and Reviews. 5/9/2003 12/10/2006 2:48:19 AM 1