First Edition. Novel of a young English girl whose gypsy blood affects her judgment concerning men while she is traveling in the United States. Basis for the 1921 silent film starring Gloria Swanson. An uncommon Glyn title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with dime sized chip at lower spine end, chipping at spine ends and flap corners, few short closed tears. Item #19055

First Edition. Morgan Dennis dustjacket art and illustrations. Novel of a London photographer who goes adventuring in a gypsy caravan. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some modest signs of wear. Item #32911

First Edition stated. Winner of the Harper Prize, but (and perhaps more uniquely) lacking the publisher's sticker at front jacket panel. Novel that reflected Green's obsessive sense of sin, and his fascination with sexual instincts and death. Very Good, some spotting to cloth, in Very Good gold foil dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and wear. Item #27581

First Edition. Skrenda dustjacket art. An aviation themed romance novel in which a woman is torn between two 'flyers', one with money, one without. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips, darkening to spine. Item #23555

Third Impression. Freda Bone dustjacket art. Scotland set novel, the "infamous Highland Clearnaces". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny chip at top spine end. Item #26509

The Autograph Edition, Limited Edition of 153 sets. Original cloth, paper labels and original dustjackets. Mostly Near Fine in Very Good dustjackets, top page edge gilt with some surface abrasions, volume one with discoloration to spine, dustjacket with large chip at lower spine end, split at front spine edge; volume four lacking dustjacket, spine a bit darkened, some cloth discoloration at spine, volume 20 with dustjacket split at spine edge. Item #35460

First Edition. W. H. D. Koerner dustjacket art, Rodney Thomson frontis. Rare collection of American frontier humor stories as told by Mr. Stegg, "the old bullwhacker of Sidney, Nebraska" and put down by Harris. Stegg "is a complete chronicle of the Hills bound in brown leather; he knows everybody; he was on familiar terms with such sinister celebrities as Wild Bill, Fly specked Billy and Lame Johnny and was among those present at their something of the suddenest departure from this life." This copy inscribed and signed by Harris at front endpaper. Author's only book. Near Fine in nearly Very Good lightly edge chipped dustjacket, some mild stains to front panel, small abrasion at top front panel. Item #21116

Original 3/4 red leather, pebbled leather over boards, lined journal, large octavo, 200 sheets. Fabulous collection of medical autographs as entered in the Rockefeller Institute guest book during the years 1913 to 1920. A virtual who's who among American and international medical pioneers and researches of the early 20th Century. The signatures and comments of visiting doctors occupy the first 35 pages. Included among a vast collection of several hundred signatures, many of which have not been catalogued, include Dr. Sahachiro Hata, the Japanese bacteriologist who developed the Arsphemanine drug in 1909 with Paul Ehrlich, which effectively cured syphilis. Hata also helped found the Kitasato Institute in Japan and became its director; Hideyo Noguchi, an American based Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911; Hervey Williams Cushing, M.D., American neurosurgeon and pioneer of brain surgery, widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often cited as the 'father of modern neurosurgery'; William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the United States, diagnosed Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio and worked closely with six American Presidents; Augustus Desire Waller, inventor of the first practical ECG machine; Sir Rickman John Godlee, English surgeon who in 1884 became of the first to remove a tumor of the brain surgically; Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Ostwald is credited as inventing the 'Ostwald process', used in the manufacture of nitric acid and as one of the three founders of physical chemistry; George Ralph Mines, discoverer of the vulnerable period of the ventricle, unmasking one of the major electrical properties of the heart. His treatment of cardiac arrhythmias as well as in the experimental methods he developed, inspired a new era of quantitative thinking in electrophysiology; Jacques Jacob Bronfenbrenner, member of the Social Revolutionary Party and a follower of Leon Trotsky. In the abortive revolution of 1905, he was among the civilian population who supported the mutiny of the Imperial Black Sea Fleet that was immortalized by Sergei Eisenstein in the film Battleship Potemkin. His mentors at the Institut Pasteur made possible his collaboration with Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), a Japanese microbiologist working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. He investigated techniques for serum diagnosis of infectious diseases; Paul Uhlenhuth, German bacteriologist and hygienist who is known for developing in 1900 a test that could distinguish human blood from animal blood; Hermann Kummell, German surgeon among the first to advocate removal of the appendix in cases of appendicitis; Henri Albert Hartmann, French surgeon, known for 'Hartmann's operation', a two stage colectomy he devised for colon cancer; Dr. William Coley, American bone surgeon and cancer researcher, pioneer of cancer immunotherapy; Giuseppe Bastianelli, an Italian physician and zoologist who worked on malaria; Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist and Nobel laureate; Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman, a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer. He was Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1923 to 1926; James Sherren, English doctor; J. Robineau, of whom Robineau Syndrome is named; Fernand Baldensperger; B. Francis McGrath, developed arm to arm blood transfer; Theodore Tuffier; Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, Scottish surgeon of which 'Lane's operation' and 'Lane's syndrome' are named after; Hans Kraske; Dr. F. B. Lund, pioneer in treatment of chronic diseases of the brain; George Tully Vaughan, professor surgery at Georgetown University; Arthur Everett Shipley, English zoologist; Robret Gordon Craig, noted Australian surgeon; Duchesse Theodora Shonts; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller; Mrs. Astor; Warren Harmon Lewis, one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology; Alex Primrose, dean of faculty of Medicine at Toronto University; Truman Brophy, dentist, first to operate on cleft palate; Martha Ornstein, historian of science. Many other signatures of noted physicians are found within. Textually Very Good, text block firmly bound, cover detached, spine lacking. Item #17587

First or Early Edition. Part of Altemus' young library set. With 70 or more illustrations inculding a nice color frontis(rest are black and white). Deals with famous artic adventures. Extremely Scarce in dustjacket. Very Good plus in Very Good fragile dustjacket that is darkened, chipping to spine ends, very light staining to top front edge, light splitting along front flap edge, and half dollar size chip to rear top edge. Still very uncommon to be found in dustjacket. Item #13146

First Edition. Novelization of a theatrical play by the same author concerning "the modern marriage question in an international setting". Near Fine in Good only dustjacket, considerable chipping at spine ends and flap corners, some darkening to panels. Item #15509

No Date, First Edition. Jazz Age comic drama of small town English life with sinners of the flesh and sinners of the spirit. The author confesses that the characters for this title were developed while in the trenches of World War One. This copy inscribed and signed by author at front endpaper. Lacking dustjacket, else Very Good, mild crease to top front cover. Item #17706

First Edition stated. C. W. dustjacket art. Monte Carlo set novel of gambling, love and drink. "Here is a glamorous picture of the greatest gambling palace in the world. A brilliant performance in which the author presents a carnival of luxurious and reckless living over which the Spirit of Gambling itself presides". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some nicks and wear. Item #32422

First Edition. "Betrayed by the woman he was to have married, Donovan Steele saw the sun go black, left old Quebec to wander like a modern Timon of Athens—cold, ruthless, soulless—to take what he wished of life without kindness or pity. Then lovely Neree Caron came into his life — Neree, who had also suffered through another, but who had kept her faith in life." Near Fine in Good edge chipped dustjacket, scotch tape at verso. Item #24849