Easter Vol, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good+; spine slightly cocked; light, patchy discoloration to cloth, now protected from the dust jacket by a brodart sleeve; else As New. In a Very Good dust jacket; wear to edges, especially at crown; in a brodart sleeve. Presumed First Edition. Inscribed on the half title page: "Dear Joey - you and I share so many great times & memories of Rapa Nui - it was wonderful to be there conjunto. Con carino, Georgia Lee." May require increased shipping price for priority and international orders. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. [vi], 141-294, [xvi], title pages for the three issues, prices for the magazines and other details, and contents pages. Portrait of John Peile. Contemporary full vellum with gilt heraldic shield on upper cover lettered gilt on spine and upper cover gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed in pencil at front by Livens in which he states that all editorials and articles and poems signed W. H. are his work. Twelve card slips mark each mention of and pieces by W. H. Handwritten note loosely inserted addressed from Westfield, 28 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge dated 25/9/55 and consisting of about 20 words to 'Dear Will [Livens]' and inviting him for lunch signed 'Yours, Vernon.' William Howard Livens (1889 Ğ 1964) was an engineer and soldier in the British army and an inventor responsible for the design of chemical warfare and flame warfare weapons in particular the Livens Projector. Very good indeed. Very good indeed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of a small but rare collection of books on Easter Island we have listed. Microbiology of Easter Island : Vol 1 proceedings of an International Symposium on the Microbiology of Easter Island, Rapa Nui, April 26-28, 1971, Montreal, Quebec, Canada : with several compememtary papers on related subjects / editor, G.L. Nogrady. Nogrady, G.L., 1919-; Easter Island Expedition Society.; International Symposium on the Microbiology of Easter Islnd (1971 : Montreal) 1974 INSCRIBED by Georges L Nogrady 305 pages. illustrated. Abstracts in French, German, and Spanish. METEI (Medical Expedition to Easter Island) was a Canadian-led expedition to Easter Island in 1964 that led to the discovery of rapamycin, launching a billion-dollar drug industry and major field of biomedical research. METEI was the inspiration of two physician-scientists from Montreal: Stanley Skoryna ( Stanley from the book s title), a surgeon and cancer researcher at McGill University, and Georges Nogrady, a physician and bacteriologist from the University of Montreal. Both men were motivated by questions concerning human adaptation to environmental stress and change, particularly as it related to global concerns in the early 1960s of overpopulation, emerging diseases, constraints on availability of natural resources, as well as the proliferation of nuclear weapons. "VERY GOOD, some cover discoloration" DGRAY14. Inscribed by Author.