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One in Every Closet
Hammer, Rod [Rammer on title page - pseudonym of Clay Caldwell aka George Davies] cover by Adam
Publisher: Surrey House Date published: 1974

San Diego: Surrey House, 1974. Paperback. 186p. + ads, old black marker price on cover else a good first edition paperback in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. HIS69123. Reprinted as MOA-125 in 1991 by American Art Ent.
$30.00

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The Trail of the Sandhill Stag and 60 Drawings
ERNEST STETON-THOMPSON, In this Book the designs for title-page, cover, and general make-up, and also the literary revision, were done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Steton-Thompson
Publisher: Charles Scribners... Date published: 1900

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Second Printing. Very good, covers soiled, spine browned, front pastedown starting to bubble, corners and spine ends lightly worn.
$30.00

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San Francisco Book, The (author's 1st Bk )
Caen, Herb Text By Columnist, Photographs By Max Yavno, Half Title Page Foxed Publisher: Houghton Mifflin... Date published: 1948

Houghton Mifflin Riverside Press, 1948. HB NO DJ, green cloth, minor rub & fox, 1st edition, 1948, VG-, NODJ, parts of DJ taped to front & back Endpapers, light scuff Extremities Cover,. First Edition. Hard Cover.
$32.00

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Iced , a Kit Powell Mystery, Signed By Author, Author's Second Novel. Featuring Reporter & Part-time Sportscaster Kit Powell, Ice Skating Mystery
Julie Robitaille, SIGNED & Inscribed By Author on Title Pg, DJ Art By Dave Calver Publisher: St. Martins... Date published: 1994 ISBN: 9780312114343

St. Martins Press NY, , 1994. HBDJ, November 1994, stated 1st Edition, F/FINE, with #1 Intact in Number Line, Black Cloth Lettered Gold Gilt on Spine, . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
$33.00

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Elin's Amerika
De Angeli, Marguerite, title pg has gorgeous Angelic illustration in full colour Publisher: Junior Books,...

Junior Books, DD Dean, Garden City. Hno DJ, beige cl, Good-, some wear, small- tears to cloth spine, 1941, stated 1st edition, interior pages of book VG, AS-IS.
$33.00

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Death Comes as Epiphany Medieval Mystery of Everyday Life in Twelfth Century France ( with Brochure from Signing )
Newman, Sharan SIGNED, Dated & Inscribed By Author on Title Page, DJ Art By Paul Stinson, DJ Design Joe Curcio Publisher: New York,... Date published: 1993

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, , 1993. HBDJ, June 1993, stated 1st edition, with #1 Intact in Number Line, F/F, 319 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
$33.50

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Amwell: A Descriptive Poem. The Second Edition
Scott, John; Illustrated Title And Final Page With Plates Titled And Signed By Erichard Bernard Godfrey
Publisher: Edward And... Date published: 1776

London: Edward And Charles Dilly, 1776. Second Edition . Disbound. Poor. 10 3/8" Tall. Title + 28Pp. Lacking Half Title, Disbound, With Preliminary Blank With Handwritten Index To Nine Titles Formerly Bound Together, With Handwritten Leaf Numeration In This Index And In Upper Right Corner Of Rectos. Browning, Especially At Edges. Ownership Signature Of Hulton Wood At Top Of Title Page (In A Different Hand Than The Index)..
$34.75

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Man Ray Peintres Nouveaux
Ribemont-Desaignes, G. Wood engraved portrait on title by Georges Aubert Publisher: Librairie Gallimard Date published: 1924

Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1924. First Edition. Wraps. Near FIne. Early retrospective of avant garde artist. 16mo. 15.5 by 12 cm. 63 pp.
$35.00

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Poems of Oscar Wilde ( Includes The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol , Fourth Movement Flower of Love ETC ) In Brown LEATHER
Oscar Wilde, Decorated Grey Endpapers By Bernhard , Title Page & Next Few Pgs Have Edge Tiny Crease, Back Blank Flyleaf FORMER OWNER STAMP, Frontispiece Illustrated Small Bio on Wilde Publisher: Boni &...

Boni & Liveright Publ,NY, Modern Library. HB NODJ, Undated, Probably circa 1920s, Brown LEATHER with Gold Gilt design & Lettering on Front & Spine, Cover light wear rub, & tiny chips Extremities, Interior nice tight clean light FoX, few dogeared pgs, light wear, VG+/VG, NODJ, 275 pgs, Spine gilt slight rub, 4 1/4 X 6 3/4 in. . Full-Leather.
$35.00

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One in Every Closet
Hammer, Rod [Rammer on title page - pseudonym of Clay Caldwell aka George Davies] cover by Adam
Publisher: Surrey House Date published: 1974

San Diego: Surrey House, 1974. Paperback. 186p. + ads, very good first edition paperback in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. HIS69123. Reprinted as MOA-125 in 1991 by American Art Ent.
$35.00

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Dirt Bike Orgy: fully illustrated
Vance, Perry on spine, Harry Proctor on title page cover & illustrations by Craig Esposito
Publisher: Star Dist Date published: 1970

New York: Star Dist, 1970. Paperback. 190p., illustrated with explicit drawings, very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-433.
$35.00

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Boston Terrier, The ( a Dog is the Only True Love That Money Can Buy ) oN The Popular Native American Dog, the Boston Terrier
Vincent G. Perry, Illustrated B/W, FORMER OWNER STAMPS Endpapers & Title Page Publisher: Judy Publishing... Date published: 1950

Judy Publishing Chicago, 1950 HBDJ, Clear TAPED Mending TO Extremities & Spine DJ which light Soiling Wear, 1950, 3rd edition, Limited 5,000 COPIES, GOOD-/VG-, AS-IS, Salmon Orange Illustrated Cover with Boston on Front lettered in Black, Interior relatively nice Clean light FoX, Wear, few pencil marks BUT THERES Cutout from Title page at btm of 1 in X 3 1/2 in. & from next page 6 there small cutout of a picture 1 1/4 X 1 1/4 in. , 160 pgs. Hardcover. Good/Very Good.
$35.00

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Before Adam with Decorative Embossed Pattern on Front Red Cloth Cover
Jack London, Blank Endpapers Fox, FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Blank Flyleaf, B/W Glossy Frontipiece I Lay Curled Up in a Sort of Nest of Twigs & Boughs, Back Inner Hinges Starting Slightly , With Designed Title Pg , Collins 7d Net Modern Fiction, Publisher: COLLINS Clear...

COLLINS Clear Type Press London. HARDBACK NODustJacket, Early Vintage, UNDATED, 1920 , NF-/VG+, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Embossed Small Red Cloth cvr Light Wear rub, Titled in Bright Gold Gilt on Spine cvr, 4 X 6 1/4 in. Interior nice tight clean FOX thruout, 250 pgs + ADS, 12mo.. Hard Cover.
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Los Angeles Times Circulation Sales Manual ( To Increase the Amount of Business you Procure for the Los Angeles Times is to Increase Your Value to The Times ) Booklet with Sales Techniques with Suggestions & Sales Points
Endpapers & Title page have Stain from newspaper Publisher: Times-Mirror Printing... Date published: 1930

Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House, 1930. Paperback, Small Phamphlet Like Booklet approx 7 X 4 inches, 1930, 1st edition,Minor Wear, 47 pgs, Index, VG+/VG, SOFTCOVER. First Edition. Soft Cover.
$35.00

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Pinocchio Under The Sea ( Cover Has Him Sitting on Fish with POINTED Hat on in Water )
Translated from Italian By Carolyn Chiesa , Edited John W. Davis, Blank Endpapers FORMER Owner STAMPS, Illustrations & Decorations By Florence R. Abel Wilde, Title Page Slight Wrinkle, Highlite Mark, & Corner Margin Water Stain Publisher: Macmillan NY Date published: 1914

Macmillan NY, 1914. HB NODustJacket, April 1914, Printed a year after first edition , Interior Nice, tight Clean some rub, wear, lite wrinkling, dogears, & small water stains on corner blank Margins thruout, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, 201 pgs + Ads, Beige & Orange & black Decorated Cloth cover light rub, wear ,soil & tiny Chips Extremities,. Hard Cover.
$35.00

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Leave it To Beaver , Authorized Edition from TV Television Series , With Bright Red Glossy Laminate Cover of Beaver in FireHat with Fireman Driving Firetruck from Station 2 , Book #1526 Printed on Back By Publ
Cole Fannin, Illustrated By Adam Szwejkowski, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly, Blue & White Illustrated Endpapers Grimsby Garage & Kids, with Number Written in Red Crayon, Title Page Illustrated with Small BLUE Drawing Publisher: Whitman Publ,... Date published: 1962

Whitman Publ, Wisc., 1962. HARDBACK NODJ Issued, 1962, 1st Edition, VG+/VG, NO JACKET, AS-IS, Interior Nice Tight Clean light Wear FOX, 210 Pgs + ADS. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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A Suitable Vengeance, This is the Fourth Inspector Lynley Mystery, SIGNED By Author
Elizabeth George, SIGNED & Inscribed Dated By Author on Title Pg, Blue Endpapers, DJ Illustration Greg Manchess, Inner Flaps DJ Light FOX Publisher: Bantam Books,... Date published: 1991 ISBN: 9780553074079

Bantam Books, New York NY,, 1991. HBDJ, July 1991, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, NF+/F-, Half-Cloth With Black Boards with Gold Gilt Title Spine, Light Wear, Interior Nice tight Clean, 371 pgs, The dust wrapper is protected with a clear plastic cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
$35.00

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A Three Cornered Mystery Series #4 Dana Girls Color DJ Shows 2 Girls One Holding Lamp Other in Red Sweater with Black Hair
Carolyn Keene, Dark Green & White Endpapers with Girl with Flashlight on Spooky Road & Another Girl Leaving House, BACK Endpaper FORMER OWNER STAMP, B/W Frontispiece 2 Girls , One on Telephone, Foxing to Page Before Half Title Publisher: Grosset &... Date published: 1935

Grosset & Dunlap NY, 1935. HBDJ, 1935, LATER Edition, PC, Front inner flap DJ lists thru Ghost in Gallery & well as Pre-Text listing, Interior nice tight clean light FoX, , DJ mild wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Bottom spine DJ small piece & light creases, Green tweed pictorial cloth with 2 girls front with flashlight, 217 pages. Hard Cover.
$36.00

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Poems of Oscar Wilde ( Includes The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol , Fourth Movement Flower of Love ETC ) In Black LEATHER
Oscar Wilde, Decorated Green Endpapers By Bernhard , Half Title Page Pencil Name Date , Frontispiece Illustration of Wilde in B/W Publisher: Boni &...

Boni & Liveright Publ,NY, Modern Library. HB NODJ, Undated, Probably circa 1920S, Black LEATHER with Gold Gilt design & Lettering on Front & Spine, Cover light wear rub, & tiny chips Extremities, Scuff mark at spine edge, back tiny specks & light Crease, Interior nice tight clean light FoX, , light wear, VG+/VG-, NODJ, 275 pgs, Spine gilt slight rub edge, pg back edge Crease, 4 1/4 X 6 3/4 in. approx. Full-Leather.
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Volga Boatman, The PHOTOPLAY EDITION IN RARE Spectacular Color-Tinted Dustjacket of Lady ( Actress Elinor Fair ) with Shawl & Green Scarf Begging Man ( Actor William Boyd ) Holding a Gun in Black Boots, with Scenes from Photoplay
Konrad Bercovici, Blank Endpapers FORMER OWNER STAMP, Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped, B/W Glossy Frontispiece with the Handsome Image of Feodor in Her Heart, Title Pg FOx Stains, Illustrated B/W Stills from the Silent Movie, with William Boyd Starred as FeoD Publisher: Grosset &... Date published: 1926

Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. HBDJ, 1926, 1st EditioN THuS, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, DJ has FOX light Wear tiny chips Tears Extremities & has SMALL Round Yellow Sticker Front of DJ covering some of Face of man, Scuffing along edges at Spine DJ, Spine ends DJ small pieces out Yet Titles Intact, 233 pgs + ADS END WITH WolF Breed, 7.5 x 5 in. Olive Green & Black cloth light Wear .Personally Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Complete lavish starcrossed romance Adventure Novel of Russian Revolution & the part played in it by Volga Boatmen,Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the Cecil B. DeMille silent film starring William Boyd. with William Boyd starred as Feodor, the Boatman, with Elinor Fair as the Princess Vera.. First Thus. Hard Cover.
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Marriage is the First Step Toward Divorce in DustJacket ,Marriage is for Nuts and Bolts; Young and Old; Bedlam; a Delicate Condition; For Bosom Pals; A State of Hate; His is an Indefensible Book. It Says Everything That People Don't Want to Know About
Pamela Mason SIGNED By Author in Red on Half Title Page, Dust Jacket Designed By Arouni, FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Black Endpaper, Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped Publisher: Paul S.... Date published: 1968

Paul S. Eriksson, New York, 1968. HBDJ, 1st Edition, 1968, NF-/VG-, AS-IS, white Boards with Black Cloth Spine Title in Red light Wear, DJ light rub, wear Scuff tiny chips edges, 184 pgs, interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, Small mended Tear Back DJ, .It says everything that people don't want to know about themselves or their mates or their marriages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
$37.00

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LEO TOLSTOY SHORT STORIES, Volume TWO ML#346, Early Tales of War and Moral Problems Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1964. in first issue dust jacket with Bayonet Gun on Front
Count LEO TOLSTOY born 1828 died 1910 ,Selected Edited and introduced by Ernest Simmons, Grey & White Rockwell Kent Endpapers, TITLE Pg Small Stamp, Inner Flap PriceClipped
Publisher: MODERN LIBRARY Date published: 1964

MODERN LIBRARY, 1964. HBDJ,1964, First Modern Library Edition 1964 (Unstated). Back of Foxed DJ lists 7 Titles Short Stories of Chekhov Thru Poems, PLAYS OF PUSHKIN, Back Inner DJ flap Pre Zip Code Coupon VG+/GOOD+ . 4 7/8  x 7 1/4 IN. 423 pages. Bright blue cloth hardcover (Toledano binding # 11). DJ VERSO IS Blank, Tight, square binding, bright gilt, sharp corners. Light crimping spine ends, small former owner stamp top half-title page. The first issue dust jacket shows light perimeter edgewear, light rubbing along the folds, short creases bottom spine, and moderate rubbing & soiling front & back panels. The top front flap is neatly price-clipped & bears a small former owner name. CREASES TO BTM Spine DJ, Mylar protected jacket. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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Romeo - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Title, Elise
Publisher: Bantam Books Date published: 1996 ISBN: 9780553097108

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, and Auckland: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0553097105 . A sharp first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with small closed tear to lower front corner and minor edgewear; byThe story of Romeo and Juliet is one of love and tragedy. Romeo is in love with Juliet, but she is married to another man. Romeo convinces Juliet to elope with him, but they are caught and killed.; 8vo; FSA .
$40.00

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Midwives, The Fifth Novel By the Author the Story of the Life-Or-death Decision Made By a Respected Vermont Midwife During the Harsh Winter of 1981. An OPRAH Selection. Author's Highly Praised Novel of a Midwife in Rural Vermont, Who Takes Desperate Ste
Chris Bohjalian, SIGNED on Title Page By Author, Blank Endpapapers, DJ Design Whitney Cookman, Publisher: NY Harmony... Date published: 1997 ISBN: 9780517703960

NY Harmony Books, 1997. HBDJ, 1997, Stated 1st Edition, with Number 1 INTACT in Number Line, F/FINE, 312 Pgs, DJ in plastic cover, ,Author's highly praised novel of a midwife in rural Vermont, who takes desperate steps to save a baby's life, and finds herself on trial for murder, Winner of the NEBA Discover Award. Bohjalian blends some provocative moral, medical, and political issues into a classic coming-of-age story in the To Kill a Mockingbird-like reminiscence of the murder trial of a midwife. Rich in moral ambiguity.a compelling, complex novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Jersey City
NEW JERSEY TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST CO Date published: 1913

1913. NEW JERSEY TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST CO. ... The New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Jersey City, N.J., on its Twenty-Fifth Birthday .... [N.p., 1913]. 78 p. Illus. Plates. Embossed wrappers. A very handsome production, illustrated with early views of Jersey City and Hudson County.
$45.00

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Oscar Weil Letters and Papers
Weil, Oscar; Arnstein, Flora J., Elkus, Albert I., and Young, Stewart W. (editors); Lange, Dorothea (frontispiece), Von Schmidt, H. (title page design)
Publisher: The Book... Date published: 1923

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Lange, Dorothea; H. Von Schmidt. No. 136 of 400, quarto size, 140 pp. A tribute to Oscar Weil (1839-1921), born in New York and educated as a musician. When the Civil War started he enrolled in the Northern cause as a private and by the end of the war he was a Major; however, injuries received during the war meant he could no longer be a violinist. He therefore turned to composing, and settled in San Francisco where he also served as the music critic for the Argonaut newspaper; he was a man much loved by the community, as attested to by this memoir. Frontispiece a tipped-in photograph by Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga M. Ackerman; when this photograph was taken, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was living in Berkeley, having recently married the western painter Maynard Dixon. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, the renowned publishers/printers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown laid paper boards with a black cloth spine, red paper spine label with gold lettering and border, red paper label on the front board with gold lettering and decorative border over a slightly larger black pastedown, fore- and bottom edges uncut, plain endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece the photograph by Dorothea Lange of a painting of Oscar Weil as referred to above, title page in red and black, almost every page of text has red lettering for marginal notes and capital letters, some of which are blue; quarto size (approximately 11.5" tall), pagination: (i-xiv), (1)-119, blank (120), sectional title page "Compositions of Oscar Weil" (121), blank (122), 3 pp. of compositions (123-125), colophon page (126). ___CONDITION: Overall in near fine condition, with a strong, square text block, solid hinges, straight corners with no rubbing, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; there is a minor spot or two of soiling to the front board, some light rubbing to the paper label on the front board, a hint of rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, the corners are straight with some light rubbing, and the spine label is somewhat faded. ___CITATION: BCC 100 no. 19; Grabhorn Bibliography no. 58. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
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Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries and German Books Printed in Other Countries from 1455 to 1600 Now in the British Museum
(SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE) Publisher: British Museum Date published: 1962

London: British Museum, 1962. hardcover. very good. 1224 pages, very thick 8vo, cloth, d.w. (d.w. worn at spine ends). London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1962. Very good.
$60.00

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Eric Fischl : Sculpture; a Conversation About Sculpture with Eric Fischl and Elean Wingate, Photographs of the Sculptures By Ralph Gibson
Fischl, Eric (signed on the Title page)
Publisher: Gagosian Gallery Date published: 1998 ISBN: 9781880154182

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. Original Paper Wrps. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 24 leaves (48 pages), with 20 black and white rich photographs. A pristine copy with no flaws and signed by Eric Fischl.
$65.00

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A Case of Rape
Himes, Chester, title page drawing by Marc Hinkley
Publisher: Targ Editions Date published: 1980

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. Hardcover. 105p., in original boards and cloth spine, very good first edition in English, limited to 350 copies, signed by Himes at the colophon, in original unprinted tissue jacket, ragged at edges and protective mylar. Targ Editions, no. 7.
$75.00

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A System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry. Volume II [only].
ACCUM, Fredrick. [showing as spelled on title] [Frederick] [Friedrich Christian Accum] (1769-1838).
Publisher: Printed for... Date published: 1803

London:: Printed for the Author, 1803., 1803. 8vo. [iv], xxvii, [1], 360, xxxi, [1] pp. 4 engraved plates of apparatus (Plate II acts as frontispiece, all plates are unnumbered), index. Crudely rebound in quarter calf, marbled paper over old boards. Armorial bookplate of Aske's Boy School, Haberdasher's Livery Company. Ownership signature on title of Jas. Law Jones, "rec'd from Messrs. Rickers staff & Jones -- 15 Sept. 1803". Scarce. First edition, vol. II only. With added paper (laid in): A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy. Review. Quarterly Review, 1809. 9 pp. pp. 153-161. "This clearly written and well organized book is called the first textbook of general chemistry written in the English language to be based on Lavoisier's new chemistry. The principles are illustrated with experiments." -- Cole. / Accum (1769-1838), born in Germany where the family operated a small soap boiling business. In 1793 Accum came to London to take a position at Brande, apothecaries to George II. He became friends with Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson and established his own laboratory. He assisted Sir Humphry Davy until 1803 (the year this book was issued). He also began lecturing in 1802 where is students included Benjamin Silliman and William Peck. He supplied apparatus to institutions abroad. Amazingly, in December 1820, he was arrested for mutilating books at the Royal Institution Library, which triggered his exiting England for Germany. "The value of Accum's work lies in the way he saw and exploited the technological possibilities of the rapidly advancing science of chemistry." [DSB]. REFERENCES: Cole 9 (pp. 4-5); DSB I, pp. 43-44Neville I, p. 10.
$100.00

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