G W Cottrell (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrated. David Foxon "Libertine Literature In England, 1660-1745" / M J Barber "The Books And Patronage Of Learning Of A 15th-Century Prince" / G W Cottrell, Jr "Contemporary Collectors XXXV H Bradley Martin The Ornithological Collection" / P H Muir "Further Reminiscences XXI" / Clarence Tracy "Some Uncollected Authors XXXVI".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 25 x 17.5cm, 84pp. Dj protected in clear, removable sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Front cover has a large stain. Corners are bumped. Covers have some fading. Spine has faded, and is beginning to chip. Front is hinge is very loose. Front endpaper has some writing in pen. Pages have browned, and foxed. Top edge of pages have a small damp stain.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 84 pages. Edited correspondence of over 40 years. Jacket has pieces missing along edges.

Condition: FINE. Cambridge 1952 Harvard. Octavo, 84pp., hardcover. FINE in near Fine DJ.

Large Format Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. previous owner's name on title page. Covers are clean and bright with a bit of shelfwear.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original ivory card covers. 8vo 9" x 5½". In Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G.W. Cottrell and Company: The Boy's Story Book; or, Edward's Holidays with his Cousins, Boston, not dated (1849-1855), 350 pages, ten engravings, 28 short stories, light foxing, blue cloth, stamped in blind, worn. Otherwise, Good.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Clymer, John F. (cover); Hoffman, Frank; Adams, Hank; Sart, Tony; Nussdorf, Joseph; Gotlieb, Jules (illustrator). First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Great colour cover art of Chinese battle scene by Clymer; The Good Old Days vs. The Good New Days; Ontario Premier Hepburn declares ".There will be no American dictatorship of our labour"; Hon. David A. Croll , former Ontario Labour Minister, argues in favour of industrial unionization; "I Hear You Calling Me" - short story; Night Raiders in China (part 1) - Gordon B. Enders' story of death in the yellow inferno; Mind over Mashie (short story); The Lady Who Blighted His Life (short story); Mr. Dunkle's Diary; Ed Sullivan's photos of 'Comers' - Anne Charpentier, Sam Snead, June Hart, Jack Holland and Thomas Thomas; Ulysses of Avenue A (short story); Family Scandal (part 4); To the Ladies; Mysterious Crime #5 - The Case of the Wisecracking "Uncle" of Broadway - who killed gambler Arnold Rothstein?; Review of movie "I Met Him in Paris"; Alias Emerald Annie (part 8 - table of contents says part 7); Forgotten Millions - unclaimed bank balances. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label. Back cover missing. Page 17-18 missing (contained Deanna Durbin article).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dohanos, Stevan (cover); Smith, William A.; Lester, Gene; Stevens, Peter; Ross, Frank; Sewell, Amos; Hilbert, Bob; Schaeffer, Mead; Bomberger, Bruce; (illustrator). First Edition. 76 pages. Fiction: The Lady Wasn't Bashful; The Cradle; Men are Naturally Dangerous; The Killer of Hourglass Lake; The Magic Afternoon; The Big Heat (part 1 of 7); The Secret of the Purple Reefs (part 4 of 8). Articles: Our Baby Was Born Blind; Manhattan's Haughtiest Eatery - "21"; The Mystery of the Private Chapel - at Bailey's Harbor, WI; Congress Vs. the Plunging Neckline - photo of Mrs. Winfield Smart and family of Falls Church, VA; I Fly the Night Skies Over Korea - Lt. Comdr. Franklin Metzner, USN flys blind night after night hunting the Reds, dodging unmapped mountains and sweating through flak traps; What I Learned from the Russians - photo-illustrated article by Marguerite Higgins who was arrested by the Reds; The Town Where it Rains Money - color photos of Rockdale, Texas Where Alcoa is building a new plant; The Best Player I Ever Coached - Paul (Bear) Bryant on Bob Gain. Ads: Boeing's Project X; Detroit Diesel - with color photo of Budd rail diesel car; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page color photo Seven-Up (7-up) ad; 1st Lieutenant Lloyd L. Burke, U.S. Army Medal of Honour winner is featured in a U.S. Defense Bond ad; Coke ad on back cover features the four seasons. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.

46 signed letters [34 TLS, 12 ALS] comprising decades of correspondence between Frederick Gardner Cottrell and various notable figures of his day in U.S. politics, the international science community, and academia. All letters are housed in new archival mylar sleeves. Cottrell was a notable chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, best known today for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator - one of the first inventions to combat air pollution - and his founding of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which used the revenue from the electrostatic precipitator to fund further scientific research, and continues to do so today. While best remembered for these feats, Cottrell had a long and influential career both in the U.S. Federal Government and as a science consultant. He was well known nationally and internationally - in industry, in government, and in academia - for his support of and contributions to new ideas and new talent within the scientific community. The letters, which span from 1901-1941, track Cottrell over the course of 40 years, and evidence the many relationships he had over that period with some of the most influential people of the time. These include a letter of introduction from Alexander Graham Bell, a discussion of chemistry with Thomas Edison, replies from two Nobel Prize winning scientists - the discoverer of the noble gasses, William Ramsay, and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson - to Cottrell's request to study in their labs, and exchanges with two presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. Other letters show his personal interactions with leading scientists of his day (Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georges Claude, George E. Hale) and heads of industry (Henry L. Doherty, Ivy Lee), and track the path of his career through his time as the director of the Bureau of Mines; to chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on the National Research Council; to head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab, and beyond. These letters, the vast majority of which were sent by these notable figures to Cottrell, evidence his expertise, the depth and breadth of his professional interests, and his eagerness to collaborate and share research and ideas, coming together to trace the life of a man whose work was and continues to be consequential to the advancement of science as a whole. Shelved case 1. CONTENTS: 1-Page TLS from inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell to a Mr. Fish, dated December 20, 1911, introducing Cottrell to him. In Very Good condition. In this letter, Bell is writing in his capacity as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. On 1331 Connecticut Avenue letterhead. Faintly creased, with mild wrinkling along the edges. Signed in black ink by Bell: "Alexander Graham Bell". 1-page TLS from inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison to Cottrell dated January 13, 1925, discussing the unexpected results of a past chemistry experiment of his in relation to the generation of ammonia. In Very Good condition. TLS is on Edison's personal letterhead ("From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison"). Lightly age toned, with some wrinkling and small closed tears along the top edge. Faintly creased from past folding. Signed by Edison in black ink: "Thos. A. Edison". Includes a lightly soiled 1-page facsimile of Cottrell's reply. 2-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning physicist Joseph John Thomson to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated July 6, 1901, discussing the possibility of Cottrell coming to study at Thomson's lab. In Very Good condition. In 1901, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin, seeking to study in the laboratory of an accomplished scientist. Thomson was already a figure of some renown for his 1897 discovery of the electron, which represented the first identification of a subatomic particle, and would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his work. ALS is on Cavendish Laborat. Signed.

29pp., small 4to. Stitched into card covers. Internally in fair condition, in aged and worn covers repaired along the spine with brown tape. There are eleven hand-coloured engravings: one on the cover, a frontispiece, two vignettes (at the beginning and end of the poem) and seven full-page illustrations in the body of the poem (six of them with blank reverses). The cover illustration, frontispiece, and all but two of the full-page engravings are attributed to Chandler and Duran. The hand-coloured engraving on the front cover is of a cat pouncing on a rabbit in foliage, while other rabbits scatter, together with the publisher's details and the title 'The Delectable Historie of the Cat and the Rabbits'. (This illustration also features, without the lettering included within it, on p.21 of the poem.) The back cover carries an advertisement for Cottrell's business. The pagination includes the covers, and on the reverse of the front cover, paginated as p.2, is an attractive full-page frontispiece engraving of the cat in question. The poem begins on p.3, under the drophead title: 'Ye Delectable Historie of | YE CAT AND YE RABBITS.' It is in 52 four-line stanzas, numbered in Roman numerals, and begins: 'Once on a time, by the side of a wood, | Dwelt a populous burrow of Rabbits, | Happy, contented, moral and good, - | A people of excellent habits.' The poem ends with the rabbit, having eaten a number of rabbits, being shot with an arrow by a shepherd: 'Then sighing, repenting, and breathing his last, | He uttered the moral which follows: | "A rogue is a fool, and soon is caught fast | In the trap he has set for his fellows."' Excessively scarce: the only two copies on OCLC WorldCat at Dartmouth Library and Brown University, and no copies on COPAC.

Some with engraved frontispieces and some with chromolithographic frontispieces. 12 vols. 12mo (120 x 75 mm). Uniformly bound in purple blind embossed publisher's cloth, gold stamped wreath on upper covers with title in gilt within, a.e.g., spines stamped in gilt and uniformly sunned, in blue cloth open-faced slipcase Some with engraved frontispieces and some with chromolithographic frontispieces. 12 vols. 12mo (120 x 75 mm).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1931 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 582 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 582 Volume 16 (1987) Peters, James Lee, 1889-1952,Traylor, Melvin A. (Melvin Alvah), 1915-2008,Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005,Greenway, James C. (James Cowan), 1903-,Paynter, Raymond A,Cottrell, G. W. (George William), 1903-1995,Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology.