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. Paperback. Quarto, stiff wraps, good to very good with light general wear and discoloration to covers, minor loss at one corner, spine a bit rubbed and worn. 100 pp, with 12 wonderful plates in color.
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).
New York: Henry Holt, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition, first published in 1915 and again in 1922; this has a "2" on copyright page. 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good, minor wear, owner's name and info on flyleaf. 355 pp.
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1909. First Printing. Wraps. First separate printing; offprint from The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, pale green printed wraps, very good, light wear, discoloration and tanning to wraps, owner's name on top of front wrap, pages tanning. Very uncommon both in the.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth gilt, very good, lightest wear to covers, owner's name on pastedown, foxing to outermost pages as well as edges of text block. 197 pp.
New York: Macmillan, 1912. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Very good, light rubbing along joints, spine ends, tips and corners, small stain to upper left of front board, owner's name on pastedown, text clean, a bit tanned. The author's first book, published in.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1934. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket (which references an anthology of poetry on the rear panel that was published in 1941). Book very good, jacket good plus with light wear and soil.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1927. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's pale yellow-green cloth, very good, light wear, no jacket. 766 pp, illustrated.
New York: Macmillan, 1907. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, about very good, light general wear to binding, including rubbing along outer joints, two vertical crease marks visible along spine, light foxing to endpapers, ownership signature of L. S. Quackenbush, who from our.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1914. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised edition (first published 1913). 8vo, publisher's dark red cloth gilt, very good, light wear at corners and spine ends. 284 pp, illustrated.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, C. 1919. Third Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red cloth in dust jacket, book very good, lettering on spine beginning to get effaced, owner's name and date on flyleaf, jacket fair only with wear, stains, tanning, chipping and loss to spine, spotting, etc., with "Third Impression" on spine (otherwise.....
Lancaster, PA: The Science Press, 1909. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, fair to good with wear to spine, loss to edges and corners of front wrap, minor loss to one corner of rear wrap, contents good to very good. With a postcard addressed to T. H. Morgan in NYC, postmarked March 17.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, stiff wraps, good copy with light wear and soil to covers, perforated blindstamp of Tufts College Library on cover, no other marks, minor loss along edge of rear wrap. 388 pp, illustrated, some plates in color. Articles by Thomas Hunt.....
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, no jacket, very good. 618 pp. Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (mutagenesis), as well as his outspoken political beliefs. Muller frequently warned of.....
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: M. Demerec, et al. 1936-1951. 2 bound volumes containing nos. 6, 7 and 8, and 10, 11 and 12, plus 13 loose issues in original wraps of nos. 13-25. 11 x 8.75 inches, ranging from 50 to over 100 pages each, in generally good to very.....
London: Henry S. King, 1875. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth gilt, very good, light restoration to inner hinges. 393 pp.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1921. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth, very good, inscribed to Lewis Knudson with the author's compliments and with the stamp on flyleaf, "From the Knudson Memorial Collection, Botany Department, Cornell University." We assume properly deaccessioned. Both Sharp and Knudson (an expert on orchids) were longterm.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's tan cloth, very good, minor wear. 405 pp, illustrated. With ownership information of well known geneticist Richard Blanc on flyleaf, and a note to him from a student thanking him for the loan of this book. 12th impression of the third.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1905-1906. First printing. Paperback. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, publisher's grayish wraps, first volume in good condition with some light chipping, covers toned and tanned, some light wear and stains along front joint, second volume very good, minor toning to wraps. 74 pp. total, 15 plates total.....
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1918. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, publisher's wraps, good with light ex-library marks, light spine restoration, faint crease to front cover, perforated stamp p., 35. 68 pp, frontispiece plate.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth, very good. 81 pp.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, very good, light offsetting to endpapers. 296 pp.
New York: Henry Holt, 1920. First American Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on spines, very good, pages quite tanned, owner's namestamp and date, 1920 (Lima, Ohio) on each flyleaf.
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's dark teal green cloth gilt, very good to fine, minimal wear, the number "48" written faintly on spine and on bottom edge of text block, 320 pp, errata, illustrated, some plates in color. An usual scientist, known for his.....
New York: Macmillan, 1931. Hardcover. Later printing, signed on title page by author. 8vo, cloth, good copy with light general wear to binding, spine somewhat rubbed and dull, pages beginning to tan. 359 pp.
New York: Macmillan, 1925. Third Edition. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged third edition (first printing). Large 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, very good, minor wear, slight mellowing to spine, foxing to outermost pages. 1232 pp, illustrated. All early editions of this book are distinctly rare.
New York: Macmillan, 1911. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, light wear. Owner's inscription on pastedown dated 1913. 483 pp, illustrated. Early editions of this are very scarce in the trade.