Genetics Laboratory Manual
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1918. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, tan buckram, veruy good, light reddish streak on cover, previous owner's name, two stamps from a bookstore on flyleaf, pages just a touch rippled. 56 pp.
A short list of interesting books in biology, heredity and genetics including some classics!
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1918. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, tan buckram, veruy good, light reddish streak on cover, previous owner's name, two stamps from a bookstore on flyleaf, pages just a touch rippled. 56 pp.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. First printing of the revised edition of Bateson's 1902 book of the same title. Tall 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth gilt, very good, faint freckling to front cover, pages tanning, owner's name at top corner of pastedown, text nice and clean. Reprints.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1923. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, very good. 251 pp, illustrated, including frontispiece in color.
Baltimore: John Murphy, 1883. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, light wear, tanning to pages, some pages a bit proud, bookplate of a Thomas H. Buckler, MD (he was an undergraduate in the 1880s at Johns Hopkins where Brooks taught). 336 pp. Brooks taught both Bateson.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First Printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, blue cloth in dust jacket, book very good, signed by E. F. Barrows, a biologist and geneticist himself who wrote extensively on mice. Jacket is very good with tanning and edgewear (plain and unprinted). 56 pp, 3 plates. The jacket.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1916. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth, good to very good, light wear and a few small stains to covers, ownership signature of E. F. Barrows, a published author of work on biology and genetics, particularly of mice. SIGNED on title page by.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, light wear and toning, jacket good with some wear, stains, soil, tanning. Inscribed in 1939 by the author, signed by him. 247 pp. Inscription is to Julia Noonan, who was his secretary and.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1930. Hardcover. Sixth Edition, Revised. 8vo, red cloth gilt, very good, no jacket. Inscribed in 1938, "To Julia A. Noonan, my very efficient assistant and my alter ego, with hearty good wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Edwin G. Conklin. Christmas 1938." 387.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1929. First Printing. Wraps. Large 8vo, original light brown printed wraps, near fine, small ink notation on front cover, 516 pp, 29 plates including large folding chart. Distinctly uncommon in the trade. The authors collaborated with a number of other experts including Arnold Gesell who became.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1906. First printing. Paperback. Tall 8vo, wraps, good copy with some wear and loss to covers, brownish stain to top outer corner of most pages. INSCRIBED: "Professor E. B. Wilson with the regards of Chas B. Davenport" and with Wilson's ink stamp. 136 pp, 17 gravure.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, rebound in light green buckram, ex-libris Harvard. Text OK. 106 pp, 4 photoplates at rear.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, publisher's dark see-green cloth gilt, very good, light wear and discoloration to covers, text a bit age toned. 100 pp, with 12 lovely chromolithograph plates of chickens.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, very good, light wear, tanning to pages, stamp on flyleaf from Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics and accompanying bookplate on pastedown from their genetics department at Cold Spring Harbor. 236 pp.
Chicago: Open Court, 1910. First American Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red cloth with black leather spine label, very good, light wear. Translated from the German by C. Stuart Gager. 270 pp.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, publisher's green cloth, very good sharp copy. 183 pp, illustrated.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Third edition, revised, third printing. Inscribed: "To Jeff Kurland with author's compliments." -- Kurland was a geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist at Penn State. 8vo, blue cloth, very good, no jacket. Books inscribed by Dobzhansky are distinctly uncommon. 364 pp. When this book came.....
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's brick red cloth, gilt spine, very good, original wraps bound in, plus general title page and index of authors and titles. Contains several important works including by Nobel winner H. Muller, and an article by Dobzhansky on drosophila flies.....
London: A. & C. Black, 1910. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good. 199 pp.
New York: Harcourt Brace, C. 1923. First Printing. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, but no date on title page and no edition information on copyright page. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good with significant tanning and darkening, small chip to top of front panel, rubbing and chipping to.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth, very good. 590 pp, illustrated.
New York: D. Appleton, 1924. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, inscribed by Kellogg to the Century Association (Washington), signed by him, dated 1924. Very good, light wear, spine dull, lettering hard to rear, contents very good. 291 pp.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth, clean unmarked text, near fine copy, no dust jacket. Rare in hardcover.
's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1925. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, very good. Contains: The Genetics of Drosophila; The Genetics of the Sheep [Roberts & Crew], Genetisch-Physiologische Analyse der Heterostylie [G. von Ubisch]; Genetic Monograph on Pisum [Wellensiek]. 476 pp.
London: Collins, 1972. First U.K. printing. Hardcover. 8vo, brown boards in dust jacket, book very good plus, owner's name on flyleaf, jacket very good, light wear, price clipped.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, publisher's wraps, very good, 108 pp, 10 color plates at rear. Unusually nice condition. Morgan was the first geneticist awarded the Nobel Prize (1933).