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The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics

By: Beadle, George & Muriel

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2263983

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of genetics by George Beadle and his wife Muriel. George Beadle won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edw...
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Imagination Dead Imagine

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: ~~$15.00~~ $12.00

Publisher: Calder and Boyars: 1971

Seller ID: 2263333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Tiny ink number on spine base. 1971 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 14 pp. A short work by the Nobel Prize winning Irish author.
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Novels, 1944-1953: Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March (The Library of America 141)

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: ~~$20.00~~ $16.00

Publisher: The Library of America: 2003

Seller ID: 2203803

ISBN: 1931082383

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1029 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of three novels by the Canadian-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Award (three times), with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works ...
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The Dean's December

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: ~~$7.00~~ $5.60

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1982

Seller ID: 2274130

ISBN: 0060148497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, faint crease on front jacket flap corner. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times.
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Age of Iron

By: Coetzee, J.M.

Price: ~~$350.00~~ $280.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 2200388

ISBN: 0436200120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th...
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Four Quartets

By: Eliot, T. S.

Price: ~~$30.00~~ $24.00

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1943

Seller ID: 2294559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Board edges very lightly rubbed. 1943 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 39 pp. Four Quartets: Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding.
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The Faulkner Reader: Selections from the Works of William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury (Complete); Selections from Other Novels; Three Novellas; Nine Stories; The Nobel Prize Address, Etc. (Modern Library Giant G82)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: ~~$20.00~~ $16.00

Publisher: Random House: 1954

Seller ID: 2265378

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Lightly rubbed. 1954 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 682, [2] pp. 8vo. A selection of works by William Faulkner collected in one volume. CONTENTS: Nobel Prize Address, The Sound and the Fury, The Bear (Go Down, Moses), Old Man (The Wild Palms), Spotted Horses (The Hamlet), A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, Dry September, That Evening Sun, Turnabout, Shingles for the Lord, A Justice, Wash, An Odor of Verbena (The Unvanquished), Percy Grimm (Light in August), The Courthouse (Requiem for a Nun).
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner

By: Faulkner, William

Price: ~~$8.00~~ $6.40

Publisher: Vintage Books / Random House: 1977

Seller ID: 2271322

ISBN: 0394722574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

7th printing. Pages lightly toned. 1977 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 900, [20] pp. Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are pop...
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence

By: Faulkner, William

Price: ~~$25.00~~ $20.00

Publisher: Random House: 1962

Seller ID: 2280907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Lacks jacket. Endpapers very faintly foxed, minimal scuff to bottom corner, otherwise an excellent copy. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, ...
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The Reivers: A Reminiscence

By: Faulkner, William

Price: ~~$125.00~~ $100.00

Publisher: Random House: 1962

Seller ID: 2283617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition (following the limited edition released the same year), with 'first printing' state on copyright page, no book club indicators, and red top stain indicating a trade edition. Includes first state jacket (6/62 on flap). Jacket price clipped, 1/2 inch closed tear on jacket spine head, jacket spine a bit faded. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305, [7] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles. One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is ...
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Selected Letters of William Faulkner (The First Edition Society)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: ~~$25.00~~ $20.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2286128

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor blemish on front board. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, [1], 594 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. a collection of letters by the author of Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasi...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Feynman, Richard P.; Leighton, Ralph; Hutchings, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1997

Seller ID: 2275914

ISBN: 0393316041

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. 1997 Trade Paperback. 397, [3] pp. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist talks about his adventure-filled life in a series of transcribed taped discussions. A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the...
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The Gods are A-Thirst (Les Dieux Ont Soif)

By: France, Anatole; Allinson, Alfred; Maurois, Andre

Price: ~~$10.00~~ $8.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1942

Seller ID: 2261286

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine and slipcase edge along opening toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1942 Hard Cover. xii, 205 pp. A historical novel set during the French Revolution, by the Nobel Prize winning French author. This edition is an authorised translation from the French by Alfred Allinson, with an introduction by Andre Maurois and illustrations by Jean Oberle.
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Journal of an Expedition in the Libyan Sahara to Kufra, October 9 to November 14, 1960

By: Gajdusek, D. [Daniel] Carleton

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health: 1971

Seller ID: 2072804

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Former copy of Edward Miner Library with their bookplate inside front wrapper, minimal pencil marks on text. No other marks. A couple light smudges on rear wrapper. 1971 Stapled Binding. 48 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. A collection of notes, letters, and data from a five-week expedition to the Sahara desert and the Kufra oasis in Libya, during which researchers studied patterns of disease. Gajdusek shared the Nobel Prize with B.S. Blumberg in 1976 for his work on infectious diseases. (Garrison-Morton)
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Two Forsyte Interludes

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: ~~$25.00~~ $20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 2204828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Page ridges faintly foxed. 1927 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author! 74 pp. The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. The author has drawn a fascinating and accurately detailed picture of the British propertied class. Often in...
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Maid in Waiting

By: Galsworthy, John

Price: ~~$8.00~~ $6.40

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 2204832

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Very good in fair jacket. Two inch chip to jacket front and spine obscuring author name and text, large stain to jacket front. 1931 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 362 pp. Maid in Waiting is the first novel in the third and final volume of the Forsyte Saga Chronicles, the seventh of the nine novels. Following the quite climatic ending to the previous volume, we put the Forsytes to one side and concentrate instead on the Cherrell family, cousins of the Mont’s; the family Fleur Forsyte married into. Fleur and her husband Michael having now bee...
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The Counterfeiters with Journal of The Counterfeiters (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 327)

By: Gide, Andre; Bussy, Dorothy; O'Brien, Justin

Price: ~~$15.00~~ $12.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1955

Seller ID: 2297536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal pencil marginalia, jacket edges a bit rubbed. 1955 Hard Cover. 432, [6] pp. Includes the full novel, translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, plus Gide's journal, translated from the French with annotations by Justin O'Brien. A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France. Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of ...
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Close Quarters: A Novel

By: Golding, William

Price: ~~$10.00~~ $8.00

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1987

Seller ID: 2276299

ISBN: 0374125104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Top edge lightly foxed, small sticker on front endpaper. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 281, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author of Lord of the Flies. The enthralling sequel to Golding's Booker Prize-winning 1980 novel, Rites of Passage, continuing the story of the 18th-century fighting ship carrying passengers and cargo from England to Australia.
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Darkness Visible

By: Golding, William

Price: ~~$7.00~~ $5.60

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: 1979

Seller ID: 2276352

ISBN: 0374135029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Review copy, slip laid in. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 265, [3] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Nobel Prize winning author of Lord of the Flies. Hideously scarred and orphaned during the bombing of London, Matty sees himself as set apart from others, and his wanderings bring him into contact with Mr. Pedigree, a respected teacher and obsessed pederast, and Sophy and Toni, angelic-looking terrorist twins.
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The Assault on Reason

By: Gore, Al

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The Penguin Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2272364

ISBN: 0739484613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear. 2007 Hard Cover. 308 pp. Nobel Peace Prize winner, bestselling author, activist, and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influential public intellectuals in America today. The Assault on Reason takes an unprecedented look at how faith in the power of reason 'the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate' is now under assault. The marketplace of ideas, once open to everyone through the printed word, has been corrupted by the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith. By leading us to an understanding ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$50.00~~ $40.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2180722

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprint (lacks 'A' on copyright page). Boards lightly rubbed & toned, front & end matter lightly foxed, ink name & date ('A.B. Russell Christmas 1940') on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist gueri...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$75.00~~ $60.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1945

Seller ID: 2206634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing in variant binding. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, including a 1/2 inch internal chip from spine. 1945 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, black stamped titles, red panels on spine. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifasc...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$40.00~~ $32.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2264516

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. Red title panels lightly rubbed as usual, pencil name on front endpaper, brief ink gift note on rear endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$20.00~~ $16.00

Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons: 1987

Seller ID: 2281597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. 1/4 inch tear and faint crease along jacket base, jacket spine faded. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 650 pp. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2. Foreword by John, Patrick, & Gregory Hemingway. Photo of Hemingway by Man Ray on rear dust jacket panel. Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign corres...
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Islands in the Stream: A Novel

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$7.00~~ $5.60

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1970

Seller ID: 2282808

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Ex-library, edge wear to jacket. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 466 pp. Map illustrated endpapers. Islands in the Stream (1970) was the first of the published posthumous work by Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway’s reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951. The work, rough but seemingly finished, was found by Mary Hemingway from among 332 different works Hemingway left behind after his death. Isl...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$40.00~~ $32.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2283482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing (no A or publisher emblem). Red spine panels lightly rubbed, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$50.00~~ $40.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2285242

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Early printing. Includes original jacket with $2.75 price on flap. Light stain on top edge and front endpapers, ink name on front endpaper, jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla u...
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A Farewell to Arms (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$50.00~~ $40.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1980

Seller ID: 2286564

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1980 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 347, [3] pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A limited edition published for subscribers of Franklin Library's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Includes illustrations by Barron Storey. The story of a troubled romance, set against the Italian campaign of World War I. Hemingway's third novel, and his first bestseller, which confirmed his status as one of the great's of American literature. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 195...
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To Have and Have Not

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$15.00~~ $12.00

Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation: 1937

Seller ID: 2286745

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 262 pp. 8vo. Part of a collection of six works in uniform bindings by the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author. Reprinted by Collier from the original Scribner editions. Navy blue boards, gilt titles, blind-stamped quill pen design on front board, mirrored on spine.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: ~~$125.00~~ $100.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 2290429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition (Hanneman A18A). Lacks jacket. Spine faded and a bit rubbed, light ring stain on front board. 1940 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 471, [1] pp. 8vo. After Hemingway traveled to Spain in 1937 to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls was completed three year later as the greatest novel to emerge from the good fight. The story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit.
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