Reeve Brock (7 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition First Printing Stated. 284 Pages Indexed. Brand new book never opened for use. Green boards with gold spine decoration and lettering. No defects noted to the dust jacket. At the dawn of this .new century, we are entering a biorenaissance as far reaching in science, medicine, and technology as the Renaissance was in art, architecture, and exploration. In the world of medicine, nothing today arouses such passion and controversy as stern cells-the architects of our bodies and repair masters of our tissues and organs. Proponents see in stem cells the promise of dramatically improving our ability to treat, if not cure, a whole host of debilitating and deadly diseases, including heart disease and stroke, which kill over 17 million people a year worldwide; diabetes, from which nearly 200 million suffer worldwide; and Alzheimer's, which affects roughly 5 million Americans, could well triple in the decades ahead, and threatens to bankrupt our health care system. Stern cells could also radically affect the treatment of such diseases as Parkinson's, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, as well as spinal cord injuries. On the other side of the divide, opponents believe that using stern cells from human embryos is the equivalent of committing homicide, which raises the thorny question of when human life begins. There is, too, a dark, hidden side to stern cell research, namely that it could well lead to an international biological arms race, a matter the authors discuss lucidly and candidly. The Stem Cell dilemma will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about stem cells: what they are, how they work, and why their use has become so controversial. We are standing at a scientific crossroads, the likes of which the world has never seen. It is a moment that will change forever the practice of medicine and life as we know it. Contents in Six Chapters: Agents of Hope, Architects of Development, Challengers of Ethics, Barometers of Politics, Objects of Competition, and Harbingers of Destruction.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A school reading book with stories and short plays. First published in 1936, this is a later reprint. First story is The Travels of a Fox. Frontis and one b&w plate by Florence Harrison. Three other colour plates by Mary S. Reeve, A. H. Watson and C.R. Brock. Other line drawings in text by other artists, some unattributed. No inscriptions but stain on corner of back cover bleeding into endpaper. Mary S. Reeve's plate present but taped in. Florence Harrison, Mary S. Reeve, A. H. Watson, C.R. Brock (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial front cover shows three girls sitting on grass, one reading a book. First story is "The Influence of Anne" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Some slight chipping to edges of onlay to spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing and some fingering to page edges and margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Reeve, Mary S. & Lodge, Grace & Harrison, Florence & Brock, C.E. & Millar, H.R. & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1926. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Cloth spine. Pictorial front and spine, front shows girl feeding doves. Includes "Captain Betsy" by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. 6 colour plates. 160 pages. Spine bumped. Covers slightly edge worn. Inscription in ink (partially faded) to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing and some fingering to page margins. Scarce dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn, tear to top of spine tape repaired on verso, rear panel has large section of loss to top edge and some smaller pieces of loss at other edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Brock, C.E. & Harrison, Florence & Reeve, Mary Strange & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1928. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Pictorial front cover shows two young ladies in cloche hats carrying Christmas presents. Pictorial spine. Orange and grey endpapers showing an Arabian scene. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Cover edges rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers partly browned. Foxing to contents and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some loss to top edge of rear panel, foxed on verso with some light foxing showing through to front panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Brock, C.E. & Griffith, Joan & Reeve, Mary Strange & Peart, M.A. & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dimensions: 265mm x 205mm. pp. 160. 8vo.pp. Original publishers illustrated boards figuring an attractive colour drawing by Mary S. Reeve of a stylishly-dressed girl sitting on a gate against a winter landscape with a robin. Illustrated endpapers by Joan Griffith. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout by by the established and talented illustrators of the day, including C.E. Brock, Mary S. Reeve, Joan Griffith and M.A. Peart. Contributors include: `Winifred Darch, Ruth Sandys, Ierne Plunkett, Thora Stowell, Cora J. Gordon, Dorita Fairlie Bruce with one of the 'Dimsie' stories. Absolutely thrilling content for girls of the day includes Mystery and Adventure, travel, history and fashion. Very good indeed. Excellent condition.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1928. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Cream cloth, large pictorial onlay to spine and front board, front board shows boy cooking over an open fire whilst girl is passing sticks for fire. First story is 'The Griffins' by Florence Harrison. Colour frontis shows 'The Brownie Gets His Cream'. Colour & b/w illustrations. Boards clean, worn at corners. Name in ink to front pastedown. A few minor foxspots and light marks to margins. Colour plate "She bore away from the danger" has been neatly trimmed away on bottom margin (about an inch missing) but still bears the title of the plate and has a few small closed tears to vertical edge. Pictorial wrapper has neat inscription in ink to front panel, is edge-worn and has loss at edges. Overall, still a decent copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Reeve, Mary S. & Brock, C.E. & Sowerby, Millicent & et al., (illustrator).…