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The Accidental Bookseller
Specializing in Interesting and Uncommon Books in Unusually Nice Condition
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The Ascent Of Everest
$1,200.00
Hunt, John
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First edition.
Signed by the author, the expedition leader of the first successful British team to reach Mount Everest’s peak.
In a designer mountain-themed binding from Jane Francis of the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (U.K.) in dual blue Oasis morocco and alum tawed pigskin with foil tooling. Exhibited at the 1969 Thomas Harrison Craft Bookbinding Memorial Competition. Accompanied by exhibition pamphlet and Miss Francis’ invitation to the event.
Prelims lightly foxed, spine a little faded, some tanning to the pigskin. Very good or better in custom slipcase with uneven fading.
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A Founder of Johns Hopkins Medical School
Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
$900.00Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1923. Third Edition Revised. Likely a Christmas gift to a close colleague with a full page inscription from Kelly. Howard Atwood Kelly was one of the four founding chairs (along with William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and William Welch) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and creators of the Hopkins legacy. Kelly was a clinical innovator, performing the first successful Cesarean section (C-section) in Philadelphia in 1888, and pioneered the use of radium in the treatment of gynecological cancer. The consummate clinician, his name is behind the Kelly clamp and he is the one identified with the test to find the ureter by stimulating its peristalsis by touching it with a forcep. His lasting legacy was the residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Hopkins and the generation of leaders he trained. The recipient is almost assuredly fellow physician James R. Rankin of Muncy, Pennsylvania. In 1905, Rankin accompanied Kelly and Osler to Great Britain, “sharing with them their meetings with eminent British surgeons, attending clinics and having the honor of speaking at a banquet in London’s famous Guild Hall tendered the distinguished Americans by the Royal College of Surgeons” (Rankin obituary). A very good copy, top edge gilt, deckle edges, two interior pages severely browned from inserted news clipping. Accompanied by the quite scarce dust wrapper, also very good, dust soiled, two small chips to spine, edge wear and a few edge tears.
Offered for Sale by: The Redbridge Book Co. -
Landmark Book 1st Edition Signed by Both Authors
Human Sexual Response
$2,000.00Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. First Edition of the co-authors’ first book. Inscribed “with compliments” and signed by both Masters and Johnson. An uncommonly nice copy, externally fine, binding slightly cocked, edges of text block lightly foxed (not affecting internal text), slight tinge of offsetting from front flap, in a fine dust wrapper save for some light edge wear. “After many years of secretly documenting how the human body responds during sex—and coming up with remarkably effective treatments for their patients—Masters and Johnson became suddenly famous with the publication of their first landmark book. In a real sense, Masters and Johnson symbolized the triumph of modernity and medicine over religious taboos and cultural ignorance. Their “facts of life” felt far more definitive than ancient religious screeds or even Freud’s theories. Sex had left the church and entered the clinic. Instead of consulting with black-clad ministers or rabbis, Americans would rely on doctors in crisp white. At great risk to their livelihoods and reputations Masters and Johnson provided men and, particularly, women with the freedom and fundamental knowledge to make vital choices in their relationships, while highlighting medicine’s position at the forefront of social debates about human sexuality.” (The Real ‘Masters of Sex’: LIFE With Masters and Johnson; Time Magazine; July 9th, 2014)
Offered for Sale by: The Redbridge Book Co. -
Printer’s Copy Signed by Baskin
A Checklist of the Publications of Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland Maine: MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCXXIII
$275.00Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1966. Limited edition, one of 500 Copies, printed on Fabriano Paper in Monotype Van Dijck. Illustrated with 19 Mounted Letter Press Facsimiles of Title pages in Red and Black on Paper closely Simulating those used by Mosher. This is the printer’s copy, inscribed by Baskin and presented to Stanley Clifford “with the affection of” Leonard Baskin, dated 1967. Clifford started as a hand leather bookbinder at Bennett Book Studio in Manhattan. He came to be respected as one of the finest craftsmen practicing this trade, a reputation that allowed work to follow him to Deer Isle, ME where he and fellow islander Leonard Baskin became close friends, attracted by a mutual interest in the book arts. Ironically, an unbound copy in 20 signatures. Some staining to rear page and signature spines.
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Historian's First Book with Warm Inscription
The New England Mind in Transition
$400.00New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition of author’s first book, warmly inscribed to Ellis’ close associates: “For Rik & Margot / Who have had / the dubious privilege to / watch young Ellis in / transition as he wrote / this book. Johnson was no / more indebted to that “School / of the Prophets” than I am / to you” Signed as “Joe Ellis” and dated in the year of publication. A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper with some slight fading to the spine, trifle rubbing to the spine tips, one tiny nick, and a little soiling. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his work Founding Brothers, exploring how the interactions between the leading figures of the US Constitutional era profoundly influenced the early development of the Republic. Ellis is also credited with leading a revival of interest in John Adams, a President he viewed as under-appreciated for both his character and achievements. The New England Mind grew out of Ellis’ PhD dissertation at Yale (The Puritan Mind in Transition: The American Samuel Johnson (1696-1772)). While at Yale, Ellis became close friends with Richard “Rik” Warch, a fellow graduate student and then member of the faculty, and his wife Margot. Warch was the author of a history of Yale in the early 18th century, attended by Johnson, and Ellis cites Warch’s doctoral dissertation as “the best secondary account of the intellectual and religious climate at early Yale” in the bibliographical essay of his work. The “School of Prophets” in the inscription refers to the title of Warch’s own book-length treatment of his dissertation (School of Prophets. Yale College, 1701 – 1740 also published by the Yale University Press).
Offered for Sale by: Founding Lines