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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 199p quarto illustrated. A fine copy in dust jacket. Signed by Coleman.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Victoria Kuskowski (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight clean copy, appears unread, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To _____ / Blessings & Peace") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "This splendid book, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community and political activism during the city's emergence from a small town to a sprawling metropolis." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priority Mail service to U.S. destinations. If this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. **** Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Signed. First Edition. All covers are gilded, as well are the pages edges. Signed first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 384 pages, 23 maps in the text, very good condition in publisher's green leather binding, top edge gilt, marbled paper end-papers, marker ribbon, leather rubbed at the top and bottom of the spine, with torn, original clear plastic wrapper, in light card slipcase (edges and corners rubbed). One of an unspecified number of specially bound copies signed by the author on the half title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INCREDIBLY SCARCE SIGNED! EASTON PRESS, leather-bound, SIGNED edition of this incredible book! The book is brand new and unread. It is still in the original Publisher's shrinkwrap! Any imperfections perceived to appear in the photos are due to glare from the aforementioned shrinkwrap. This book is prefect. By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon. They have the power to wipe out any of the universe s other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. Gravitational waves given off as two enormous black holes merge together. And now scientists think that these gravitational waves could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole a link through space and time. It seems outlandish, but today s physicists are daring to think the unthinkable that black holes could connect us to another universe. At their very heart, black holes are also where Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is stretched in almost unimaginable ways, revealing black holes as the key to our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe and perhaps all other universes. Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe s most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting to be discovered. Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather Style Binding. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published by the Swan Hill Press in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 2007 this is the signed limited edition limited to one hundred copies of this beautifully produced book on the Game Bird, "The Grouse", bound in full leather with two different leathers, housed in a cloth backed slipcase, signed by all the nine artists on the limitation page, this copy is unnumbered, the book is beautifully illustrated throughout, measuring 11.25 inches by 11.25 inches approx., 151 pages, with a forward by the Duke of Northumberland, the book covers The Red Grouse, Black Grouse, Ptarmigan, Capercaillie etc, divided into nine sections for the nine different artists , the slipcase is lightly rubbed, very minor scuffs to the leather else book is in very nice condition A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY ALL NINE ARTISTS AND BOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH SLIPCASE. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. A fine copy elegantly bound with 3/4 moroccan spine (sunfaded) and sturdy gray cloth boards with a gilt rule dividing them. Bright gilt on the spine. This is a specially bound presentation copy printed on high quality paper with the presentation page of heavy glossy stock. Signed by the binder: "L.E. Stanswell. Wilm. DE." along the leather strip at the bottom of the inside front boards. Scarce. Fathers' Day is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Nastassja Kinski. It is a remake of the 1983 French film Les Compà res.In the film, Collette Andrews (Kinski) enlists two former lovers, cynical lawyer Jack Lawrence (Crystal) and lonely, ex-hippie, suicidal writer Dale Putley (Williams) to help her search for her runaway teenage son Scott by telling each man that he is the father. When Jack and Dale run into each other and find out what is happening, they work together to find Scott and determine the identity of the actual father.The film features an appearance by the musical group Sugar Ray. It was a major critical and commercial failure. (Wikipedia) Specially bound copy of the script inscribed by Robin Williams. The story follows two very different men: Dale Putley (Robin Williams) â" a quirky, unstable writer Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) â" a straight-laced lawyer A woman named Collette (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) tells each manâ"separatelyâ"that he might be the father of her runaway teenage son. The twist: Neither man knows about the other. They end up teaming up (and clashing constantly) while searching across the country for the boy, leading to a series of chaotic and comedic situations. Special undated edition. The movie was released in 1997 with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODJ, 1928 on Title & Copyright PG, STATED 1ST EDITION, 1st printing, NODUSTJACKET,Used - Very good condition, Very good condition - overall a tight and straight copy with reasonably clean and bright covers. . First edition. Bound in THICK yellow cloth with blue and black illustration on front cover (silhouette style), blue and black panels on spine, 262 PGS , STATED 1ST EDITION, Children's mystery about a Coast Guard station and a haunted house at thSIGNED & Inscribed, Warmly personally INSCRIBED by Seaman "To Joseph McDermott, Hoping he will recognize the 'scenery' in this book. Very cordially" and dated Island Beach, March 23, 1931. It is possible that Joseph McDermott was the Freehold, New Jersey attorney, who also served as secretary of the Freehold Savings and Loan Association between 1913-1915. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODJ, 1928 on Title & Copyright PG, STATED 1ST EDITION, 1st printing, NODUSTJACKET,Used - Very good condition, Very good condition - overall a tight and straight copy with reasonably clean and bright covers. . First edition. Bound in THICK yellow cloth with blue and black illustration on front cover (silhouette style), blue and black panels on spine, 262 PGS , STATED 1ST EDITION, Children's mystery about a Coast Guard station and a haunted house at thSIGNED & Inscribed, Warmly personally INSCRIBED by Seaman "To Joseph McDermott, Hoping he will recognize the 'scenery' in this book. Very cordially" and dated Island Beach, March 23, 1931. It is possible that Joseph McDermott was the Freehold, New Jersey attorney, who also served as secretary of the Freehold Savings and Loan Association between 1913-1915. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Heaney's translation of Dante's Inferno (lines 1-90 of Canto XXXIII). The story of Archbishop Roger (Ruggieri) of Pisa and Count Ugolino is told in Dante's poem. Heaney explains that he was drawn to the material 'because I sensed there was something intimate, almost carnal, about these feuds and sorrows of mediaeval Pisa, something that could perhaps mesh with and house the equivalent and destructive energies at work in, say, contemporary Belfast.'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collectanea: 4 leaves, 603, [5, A Catalogue of the Authors [sic] Books] pp. Rebuke: 32 pp. After "A Rebuke", there is a blank leaf with ink notes headed "Medicinal Characters". Contemporary full red leather, raised bands on spine, spine and covers richly gilt. "Collectanea": Small chip out of top of spine. Front joint cracked along top one inch. Corners of covers worn, especially corners of rear cover. Pages 463-470 stained in upper corner. Old, neat ink notes in margins of pp. 11, 12, 13, 59, and ink "X" in margins of 280, 281. "A Rebuke": Upper corners of pp. 3-10 heavily creased. Very Good, in an attractive binding. First Editions. NOTE ABOUT PHOTOS: ABEBooks allows only 5 photos. I can send more photos, upon request. Full title of "Collectanea": Collectanea Medica, The Country Physician: or, a Choice Collection of Physick: Fitted for Vulgar Use. Containing, I. A Collection of Choice Medicaments of All Kinds, Galenical and Chymical, Excerpted Out of the Most Approved Authors. II. Historical Observations of Famous Cures, Gathered and Selected Out of the Works of Several Modern Physicians. III. Phylaxae Medicinae Pars Prima: Or, the First Part of the Cabinet of Specifick, Select and Practical Chymical Preparations, Made Use of by the Author. IV. Phylaxae Medicinae Pars Secunda: The Second part of the Same Cabinet, Long since Promised to the World, now Made Publick, for the General Good of Mankind. Full title of "A Rebuke": A Rebuke to the Authors of a Blew-Book; Call'd, The State Of Physick in London: Which is Indeed the Black and Blew State of Physick. Dated from the College, and Signed by Th. G. and R.M. Written in Behalf of the Apothecaries and Chirurgians of the City of London. "One of the little kings of proprietary medicine in the 1690s was William Salmon, 'Professor of Physick'. . . . Salmon was ready to take on all his critics. In the late 1690s, he rallied the apothecaries and other manufacturers of medicines to oppose an attempt by the Royal College of Physicians to establish control over the dispensing of drugs. Salmon excoriated 'the Pride, Covetousness, and Idleness of the Physicians' who sought to 'Monopolize all the Practise of Physick into their own hands' [quoted from "A Rebuke"]" (Paul Kléber Monod, Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, p. 129). Quoting the Oxford DNB: "In 1699 Salmon joined in the controversy over the role of the Royal College of Physicians. The college leadership came under attack as it attempted to implement its own internal disciplinary actions against certain members, to prosecute impostors practising outside the bounds of the college, and to maintain control over the Society of Apothecaries through establishing a dispensary. Samuel Garth's The Dispensary: a Poem (1699) drew public attention to the dispute, while Salmon's Rebuke to the Authors of a Blew-Book, Call'd The State of Physick in London (1699) warned against the college's continuing monopolization of the profession. Salmon went on to publish Collectanea medica: the Country Physician (1703)." The physician and poet Samuel Garth, friend of Addison and Pope, was an adversary of William Salmon. "In 1697 he [Garth] delivered the Harveian Oration, in which he advocated a scheme dating from some ten years back for providing dispensaries for the relief of the sick poor, as a protection against the greed of the apothecaries. In 1699 he published a mock-heroic poem, The Dispensary, in six cantos, which had an instant success, passing through three editions within a year. In this, he ridiculed the apothecaries and their allies among the physicians" (Wikipedia). In The Dispensary, Garth refers to Salmon in Canto III, line 6: "Cowslips and Poppies o'er his Eyes he spread, And S__ nd's Works he laid beneath his Head. " In A Compleat Key to the Seventh Edition of the Dispensary (1714), p. 13, Garth's "S___nd's Works" is explained: "Salmon, a late Quack Doctor, and indefatigable Scribbler". Signed by Author(s).

Eight page musical score in ring bound [at a later date], ivory paper with cerise lettering and a small photographic cameo of Billy Mayerl to the front cover. 12'' x 9½''. SIGNED by the author presentation copy 'With All Best Wishes to Frank. William Daniel ex Billy Mayerl.' Sello repaired to inner margin, pencil fingering to some passages. Various other sheet music for piano bound-in after 'Marigold.' Member of the P.B.F.A. MAYERL, Billy (1902-1959).