Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. First Complete Edition. Original Wraps. Inscription on ffep, From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex.....
Price: $50.00
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To my dear Oliver, with fond love from Auntie Leni" 9th July 1975. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to.....
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London: William Heinemann, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Inscribed on ffep to Oliver Sacks: "To my dear Oliver, with fond love from Auntie Leni" 9th July 1975. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding.....
Price: $50.00
London: Faber & Faber, 1952 [1973]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ownership signature of noted architect and writer on architecture, J. Sadler. Overall, a handsome copy, increasingly uncommon in such nice condition. Small bookseller plate at rear pastedown, owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge.....
Price: $45.00
Chicago: Advanced Thought Publishing Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, stain at rear board, gilt toned, light toning at endpages, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. Small 8vo. 317pp plus adverts.
Price: $45.00
New York: Burt Franklin, 1830 [1971]. Fascimile Reprint. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, fold-out map/chart. Small 8vo. 617pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $50.00
Cambridge, MA: DeCapo Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Best wishes., with autograph. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Inscription on flyleaf. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for.....
Price: $65.00
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this minor classic. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at inside, else bright and clean. Beige cloth boards, brown ink lettering, pictorial endpages. 4to. 256pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).....
Price: $50.00
London/Loket, Czech Republic: Broadstreet King, 1973/2005. Facsimile/Art Binding. Hardcover. Facsimile of the original book published by the Leadenhall Press in 1891 in London. 200 illustrations. Hand “hammered” iron face of a sailor on the front wooden cover made by blacksmith artist Petr Baloun. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Leather spine, wooden.....
Price: $4,500.00
Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Blanchard, 1845 [1848]. Second Edition. Full Leather. "Second complete American from the last London Edition" (from title pages). Illustrated ads at rear, "Catalogue of Medical, Surgical, Scientific and Miscellaneous Books" published by Lea and Blanchard. Light shelf wear, light/moderate rubbing to boards with several small nicks.....
Price: $45.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. BB27 in gutter on page 356. The endpapers list Asimov's first 100 books with Doubleday. Signed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Red cloth spine, blue.....
Price: $375.00
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, ownership plate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, black leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled cloth boards, marbled endpages, frontispiece, teg, errata tipped in. 8vo. 312pp. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $125.00
Portland, OR: Parasol Press, 2014. Limited Edition. Loose Sheets. A collection of 10 aquatints on Rives Paper. Leon Battista Alberti, renaissance scholar, artist and architect, coined the term Concinnitas to connote the beauty found in the confluence of perfect uses of number, position and outline. In 2012, Parasol commissioned ten.....
Price: $12,500.00
Hardcover/Wrappers. Books include. Signed by Oliver Sacks. Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson. 1976. First Trade Edition. DJ closed tears. Epistle to a Godson, 1972. DJ closed tears. Letters from Iceland...1965. Paper covered editions. Wrappers. Auden was a close friend and "mentor" of Sacks, Auden was an early champion of.....
Price: $100.00
Hardcover/Wrappers. Books include. From the Library of Oliver Sacks. Minimal annotations by Sacks. The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, 1968. Vintage Book paperback. Secondary Worlds: Essays by W.H. Auden, Random House Books, 1968. Forewords & Afterwords, Random House Books, 1973. Auden was a close friend and "mentor" of Sacks, Auden.....
Price: $200.00
London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Formerly owned by Susan Sontag with autograph on lower ffep, in addition to from the Oliver Sacks library. Sontag was a close friend to Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in.....
Price: $450.00
New York: Random House, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. Strikethrough by author on tp, "Wystan(sic) Auden." Includes a copy of The Griffin, volume 1, no. 5, "Our Italy" by W.H. Auden...1952, chipped and toned. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in.....
Price: $450.00
New York: Random House, 1972. Special Commemorative Edition. Original Wraps. Strikethrough by author on tp, "To Oliver with best wishes..." A special commemorative edition in honor of Auden's sixty-fifth birthday. Includes a lecture by Hannah Arendt, and contributions by: James Merrill, William Meredith, Nevill Coghill, John Hollander, Chester Kallman, Lincoln.....
Price: $250.00
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1892. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Vol. I-Sense and Sensibility; Vol. II-Pride and Prejudice; Vol. III-Mansfield Park; Vol. IV-Emma; Vol. V-Northanger Abbey, Persuasion; Vol. VI-Lady Susan, A Memoir, The Watsons, Letters. An early and significant collection, beautifully illustrated and, overall, quite handsome. Minor shelf/edge wear.....
Price: $1,750.00
Atlanta, GA: Coca-Cola, 1974. First Edition. Full Leather. In-house history, and first profile, of one of America's great corporate entities. From the library of one of Coke's past Chairman. First touch of foxing at text block edges, two impression marks on front, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows touch.....
Price: $45.00
Atlanta, GA: Coca-Cola, 1974. First Edition. Full Leather. In-house history, and first profile, of one of America's great corporate entities. Laid in is "A Special Issue of the Case" Vol. 4, No. 2, celebrating Chairman A. Montgomery's passing 35 years of service to Coke. This piece of ephemera is, frankly.....
Price: $125.00
Chicago, IL: Chicago Revolutionary Union, October 1972. First Edition. Original Wraps. The Revolutionary Union was mainly a student and ex-student based radical movement of the late 1960s, but later encompassed a more worker and labor rights based proletariat movement. The publication also particularly emphasized race and workers’ rights issues, covering.....
Price: $50.00
New York: Harry N. Abrams/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Issued in conjunction with a MMA exhibition. An accordion-fold monograph, designed to allow for a table-top 'exhibition'. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean; original shrinkwrap. Cardstock, accordion-fold construction, matching slipcase. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $100.00
Mexico City: Editorial Pax, 1960. First Edition. Original Wraps. Study of the occult sciences. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in original color wraps, pages evenly toned with mild foxing around edges, some edge wear. 164pp. In Spanish.
Price: $45.00
Gloucestershire, UK: Douglas McLean, 2005. First Edition. Original Wraps. Blurbs by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts.....
Price: $50.00