2022, ISBN: 9780443014857

Paperback, Hardcover

US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++. Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe,Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-corner… More...

US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++. Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe,Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original weave textured brick-brown/red cloth boards, front board witha central impressed 3-line bordered vertical lozenge/cartouche panel with book's title within - assumed(?) once gilt,but now oxidised - if it ever was present,similar lettering to spine also oxidised - also if it ever was present,rear board plain with no design or decoration.Negligible shelf-wear or bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears,splits or fraying,a brick-red/brown+ yellow(?) headband and off-set foxing to all the glued edges of both front+rear pastedowns - the free endpapers lightly aged but generally clean.Top edges trimmed but slightly aged/toned,fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and also toned, contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear unread - apart from my own collation.US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus,13-193pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,a First version with 75 quatrains - each accompanied by a facing,full-page b/w line illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan,a 5th version with 101 quatrains but without illustration,and the reverse of the last page of quatrains a publisher's advert/catalogue list of other Uniform titles.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w line illustated frntis by Edmund J. Sullivan,title page,a contents list/table,title separator pageThe book is a translation of a selection of poems,originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand,attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) who was a Persian mathematician, astronomer,and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.Later,a body of quatrains became attached to his name,although not all were his works. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic,Omar Khayyám,through FitzGerald,spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response.As a result,the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859,when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883),an English country gentleman,published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry.FitzGerald's source were transcripts sent to him in 18561857 by his friend and teacher Edward B. Cowell of two manuscripts,a Bodleian manuscript with 158 quatrains and a "Calcutta manuscript".FitzGerald completed his first draft in 1857 and sent it to Fraser's Magazine in January 1858. FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful commercially.But it was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England.After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others,the verse became extremely popular. He had made a revised draft in January 1859,of which he privately printed 250 copies.This first edition became extremely sought after by the 1890s,when more than two million copies had been sold in two hundred editions. The fifth edition,published posthumously in 1889,was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition. FitzGerald's text was eventually published in five editions,with substantial revisions: 1st edition,1859 with 75 quatrains,the 5th edition,1889 with 101 quatrains.Of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of FitzGerald. The fifth edition,which contained only minor changes from the fourth,was edited posthumously after his death,on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. The 5th edn believed the more mystical and philosophical of the two versions.A bibliography of editions compiled in 1929 listed more than 300 separate editions,however,many more have been published since. The believed,first UK edition with this illustrator,was in 1913.The illustrator died 1933.The above edn includes the famous illustration for Quatrain 26,later adopted by The Grateful Dead. Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933.) Born London,brother of illustrator James Frank Sullivan.Studied under his father,artist Michael Sullivan,in Hastings.Recognition came early with his appointment (1889) to the staff of the newly-founded Daily Graphic,but was fired in 1892 (it was suggested that his work was 'too artistic and unconventional' for the paper's proprietor).I ndeed Sullivan was one of the most innovative and original of the b/w artists of the 1890's - the generation whose early careers coincided with the introduction of the photographic line block and halftone reproductive processes.His distinctive style was based on a freely drawn and very expressive linear 'handwriting',and he used shading both to describe form,and to generate a dynamic over the whole area of the drawing.He always worked within a defined rectangular format that served to compress and intensify the energy of his compositions.His inventive and often bizarre imagery could be simultaneously witty and macabre. His earliest book commissions came in the mid-1890's from publishers Macmillan and George Bell,and with 'Sartor Resartus' (1898) his reputation became established.He was particularly respected by his fellow-artists,many of whom apparently also envied his capacity to consume very large quantities of alcohol with no apparent ill-effects.He lectured in book-illustration and lithography at Goldsmith's College,and was an examiner for the Board of Education and the Joint Matriculation Board in Manchester.Elected AWRS (1903),ARE (1925); President of the Art Workers' Guild (1931) and member of the Council of the International Society of Sculptors,Painters and Gravers. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,and in this year too, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, US,NEW YORK.THE ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS CO.,INC./THREE SIRENS PRESS,n.d., 5, US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++.Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [[1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original weave textured brick-brown/red cloth boards,front board witha central impressed 3-line bordered vertical lozenge /cartouche panel with book's title within - assumed(?) once gilt,but now oxidised - if it ever was present, similar lettering to spine also oxidised - also if it ever was present,rear board plain with no design or decoration.Negligible shelf-wear or bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears, splits or fraying,a brick-red/brown+yellow(?) headband and off-set foxing to all the glued edges of both front+rear pastedowns - the free endpapers lightly aged but generally clean.Top edges trimmed but slightly aged/toned,fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and also toned; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear unread - apart from my own collation.US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus,13- 193pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,a First version with 75 quatrains - each accompanied by a facing,full-page b/w line illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan,a 5th version with 101 quatrains but without illustration,and the reverse of the last page of quatrains a publisher's advert/catalogue list of other Uniform titles.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w line illusrtated frntis by Edmund J. Sullivan,title page,a contents list/table,title separator page. The book is a translation of a selection of poems,originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand,attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) who was a Persian mathematician, astronomer,and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.Later,a body of quatrains became attached to his name,although not all were his works. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic,Omar Khayyám,through FitzGerald,spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response.As a result,the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883),an English country gentleman,published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry.FitzGerald's source were transcripts sent to him in 18561857 by his friend and teacher Edward B. Cowell of two manuscripts,a Bodleian manuscript with 158 quatrains and a "Calcutta manuscript".FitzGerald completed his first draft in 1857 and sent it to Fraser's Magazine in January 1858. FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful commercially.But it was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England.After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others,the verse became extremely popular. He had made a revised draft in January 1859,of which he privately printed 250 copies.This first edition became extremely sought after by the 1890s,when more than two million copies had been sold in two hundred editions. The fifth edition,published posthumously in 1889,was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition. FitzGerald's text was eventually published in five editions,with substantial revisions: 1st edition,1859 with 75 quatrains,the 5th edition,1889 with 101 quatrains.Of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of FitzGerald. The fifth edition, which contained only minor changes from the fourth,was edited posthumously after his death,on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. The 5th edn believed the more mystical and philosophical of the two versions.A bibliography of editions compiled in 1929 listed more than 300 separate editions,however,many more have been published since. The believed,first UK edition with this illustrator,was in 1913.The illustrator died 1933.The above edn includes the famous illustration for Quatrain 26,later adopted by The Grateful Dead. Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933.) Born London,brother of illustrator James Frank Sullivan.Studied under his father,artist Michael Sullivan,in Hastings.Recognition came early with his appointment (1889) to the staff of the newly-founded Daily Graphic,but was fired in 1892 (it was suggested that his work was 'too artistic and unconventional' for the paper's proprietor). Indeed Sullivan was one of the most innovative and original of the b/w artists of the 1890's - the generation whose early careers coincided with the introduction of the photographic line block and halftone reproductive processes.His distinctive style was based on a freely drawn and very expressive linear 'handwriting',and he used shading both to describe form,and to generate a dynamic over the whole area of the drawing.He always worked within a defined rectangular format that served to compress and intensify the energy of his compositions.His inventive and often bizarre imagery could be simultaneously witty and macabre. His earliest book commissions came in the mid-1890's from publishers Macmillan and George Bell,and with 'Sartor Resartus' (1898) his reputation became established.He was particularly respected by his fellow-artists,many of whom apparently also envied his capacity to consume very large quantities of alcohol with no apparent ill-effects.He lectured in book-illustration and lithography at Goldsmith's College,and was an examiner for the Board of Education and the Joint Matriculation Board in Manchester.Elected AWRS (1903),ARE (1925); President of the Art Workers' Guild (1931) and member of the Council of the International Society of Sculptors,Painters and Gravers. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, US,NEW YORK.THE ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS CO.,INC./THREE SIRENS PRESS,[n.d.], 3, Ninon Moise is cursed. So is her mother Esther, as was every eldest female member of her family going back to the Middle Ages. Each generation is marked by a uniquely obscure disease, illness, or ailmentone of her ancestors was patient zero in the sixteenth-century dancing plague of Strasbourg, while Esther has a degenerative eye disease. Ninon grows up comforted and fascinated by the recitation of these bizarre, inexplicable medical mysteries, forewarned that something will happen to her, yet entirely unprepared for how it will alter her life. Her own entry into this litany of maladies appears one morning in the form of an excruciating burning sensation on her skin, from her wrists to her shoulders.Embarking on a dizzying and frustrating cycle of doctors, specialists, procedures, needles, scans, and therapists, seventeen-year-old Ninon becomes consumed by her need to receive a diagnosis and find a cure for her ailment. She seeks to break the curse and reclaim her body by any means necessary, through increasing isolation and failed treatment after failed treatment, even as her life falls apart. A provocative and empathic questioning of illness, remedy, transmission, and health, Life Sciences poignantly questions our reliance upon science, despite its limitations, to provide all the answers., Restless Books, 2021, 6, Broadway Books, 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions, from the author of the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One "Exciting . . . mixes Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, Independence Day, and a really gnarly round of Space Invaders."--USA Today - "A thrilling coming of age story."--Entertainment Weekly Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like . . . well . . . fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before., Broadway Books, 2016, 0, Penguin Books, 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways." --New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants--and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a "drug"? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, and mescaline--and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively--as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world., Penguin Books, 2022, 0, Churchill Livingstone, 1978. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good+. A little bruised at extremities otherwise a very well presented copy.. Hardback. Physically 8¾” x 5½” (1.1 kg); 618pp; Index; From the preface: “The 16th edition of this book carries on the tradition of its predecessors serving as a useful guide to the student, the general practitioner and junior ophthalmic surgeon. During the last five years ophthalmology has progressed apace and so many alterations have been required eliminating remedies which are no longer in use and adding many minor and some major changes to keep the text up to date.” ISBN: 044301485X || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-in-the-tooth bookseller - guaranteed by my sound reputation and the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#(108239)|| Condition:, Churchill Livingstone, 1978, 3<

1978, ISBN: 9780443014857

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1917. Hardback. Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the spine ends. Edges of the textblock heavily tan… More...

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1917. Hardback. Good. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the spine ends. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Contents clean and bright despite the limited age-toning. . Hardback. Physically 12¼” x 9¼” (1.9 kg); (xvi) pp; Includes: Colour plates; Black & white plates; Colour frontispiece; Top edge dyed Black; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#188636|| Condition:, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1917, 2.5, Churchill Livingstone, 1978. Hardback. Very Good+. A little bruised at extremities otherwise a very well presented copy.. Hardback. Physically 8¾” x 5½” (1.1 kg); 618pp; Index; From the preface: “The 16th edition of this book carries on the tradition of its predecessors serving as a useful guide to the student, the general practitioner and junior ophthalmic surgeon. During the last five years ophthalmology has progressed apace and so many alterations have been required eliminating remedies which are no longer in use and adding many minor and some major changes to keep the text up to date.” ISBN: 044301485X || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#108239|| Condition:, Churchill Livingstone, 1978, 3<

1978, ISBN: 9780443014857

Churchill Livingstone, 1978. Hardback. Very Good+. A little bruised at extremities otherwise a very well presented copy.. Hardback. Physically 8¾” x 5½” (1.1 kg)… More...

Churchill Livingstone, 1978. Hardback. Very Good+. A little bruised at extremities otherwise a very well presented copy.. Hardback. Physically 8¾” x 5½” (1.1 kg); 618pp; Index; From the preface: “The 16th edition of this book carries on the tradition of its predecessors serving as a useful guide to the student, the general practitioner and junior ophthalmic surgeon. During the last five years ophthalmology has progressed apace and so many alterations have been required eliminating remedies which are no longer in use and adding many minor and some major changes to keep the text up to date.” ISBN: 044301485X || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#108239|| Condition:, Churchill Livingstone, 1978, 3<

1978, ISBN: 044301485X

[EAN: 9780443014857], Gebraucht, schlechter Zustand, [PU: Churchill Livingstone], MEDICINE, Back Strip in a poor condition.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and… More...

[EAN: 9780443014857], Gebraucht, schlechter Zustand, [PU: Churchill Livingstone], MEDICINE, Back Strip in a poor condition.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:044301485X, Books<