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Kempe, Ludwig G., Operative Neurosurgery. Two volumes complete. Illustrated throughout with anatomically critical structures highlighted in color. Matching blue cloth, gilt lettering. Previous owner’s signature on front end papers, otherwise clean, very good.

Vol. 1: Cranial, Cerebral and Intracranial Vascular Disease. New York: Springer-Veriag, 1968. 269 pages with index, 335 illustrations.

Vol 2: Posterior Fossa, Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Disease. New York: Springer-Veriag, 1970. 281 pages with index, 290 illustrations.

Kempe’s work is considered a classic text, long revered by training and practicing neurosurgeons.

Was $150 – YOUR PRICE $120

Holley, Marietta, Samantha on the Race Problem. Boston: Union Publishing Company, 1892. 387 pages. Blue cloth covers with black and gilt design. Issued for the subscription market. (A simultaneous edition was published by Dodd Mead with the title: Samantha Among the Colored Folks: My Ideas on the Race Problem.) B&W illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Light rubbing to covers, internally very good.

Was $63 – YOUR PRICE $50

Was $63 – YOUR PRICE $50

Haggard, H. Rider. Ayesha: The Return of She. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1905. 1st edition. 384 pages, 31 b&w plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Dark blue cloth with gold gilt lettering and bordered in greenish-blue, white endpapers, illustrated. Lost race adventure novel. Front hinge tender, rear hinge partially cracked. Front end paper loose, previous owner’s inscription.

Was $125 – YOUR PRICE $100

Office de la Semaine Sainte (en) Latin et François à l’usage de Rome et de Paris; avec l’explication des Cérémonies de l’Eglise…Nouvelle Edition. Gregoire Dupuis, Paris, 1724

659 pages, 3 b&w engravings, decorated red calf covers with raised spine bands. All edges gilt, previous owner’s signatures, bookplate. Front cover with scuff to gilt decoration. Otherwise a solid, attractive copy.

Was $500 – YOUR PRICE $400

50% OFF POETRY SALE

Thieves of Paradise

by Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH, 1998 1st edition SIGNED BY KOMUNYAKAA on title page. Very good condition.

Was $50 – YOUR PRICE $25

Poetry – A Magazine of Verse, March 1946 by James Merrill Poetry Magazine, Chicago, 1946 1st Wraps. Paperback. This issue features four poems by Merrill, HIS 1ST PUBLISHED WORK.

Was $190 – YOUR PRICE $95

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