Woodland Hills CA: YB Small Books, 1993. First Edition. Quarto; (xxiv), 135pp. Photo-illustrations. A fine copy. Dorian Yates is an English former professional bodybuilder. He won the Mr. Olympia title six consecutive times from 1992 to 1997 and thus has the fifth-highest number of Mr. Olympia wins in history. He..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; (xvi), 314pp. Bibliography; Index. A fine copy. "The 16 chapters present a comprehensive overview for researchers from a multidisciplinary background interested in diabetes and plants. The merits of this book are that it appeals to a wide audience, varying from ethnobotanists, pharmacologists..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2006. First Edition. Octavo; (xviii), 617pp. Illustrations; Bibliography; Index. A fine and new, unread copy. This book brings together the top experts in nutritive health who present significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer, modulating its development..... More
New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1991. First Edition. xiv, 483pp. Illustrations; Index. New unread copy. This volume desribes the most widely accepted current research linking dietary micronutrients to critical health issues - including cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, inpaired immunity, birth defects, cataracts, and other acute and chronic illnesses. With over..... More
boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1989. Quartos; (xvi); 337pp; (xvi) 357pp; (xii), 303pp. Illustrations; Bibliography; Index. A fine, unread set. "Free radical research has become fashionable, as reflected in the abundance of symposia and publications dealing with the subject. However, there is a scarity of textbooks which deal systematically and..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1996. First Edition. Quarto; (xii), 394pp. Illustrations. Bibliography; Index. New, unread copy. Calcium and Phosphorus in Health and Disease is a valuable source of information on the role of nutrition in maintaining bone health throughout the life cycle. It emphasizes nutritional interactions with mineral metabolism and..... More
Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2003. First Edition. Ovtavo; xiv, 395pp. New copy in stock, unread. Table of Contents: Introduction: Classifying functional dairy products. Part 1 The health benefits of functional dairy products: Cancer; Coronary heart disease; Osteoporosis; Probiotics and the management of food allergy; Dairy products and the immune function..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo; 459pp. Fine copy in original shrinkwrap. Deals exclusively with the metabolic and therapeutic aspects of amino acids. Main topics covered include an introduction to amino acid metabolism; physiology; amino acid requirements; amino acid metabolism in disease; and amino acid supply in disease..... More
Londyn: Instytut Historyczny im. gen. Sikorskiego. 1950. Three volumes plus maps in box. Large 8vo. Vol I: Kampania Wrzesniowa 1939 (1951), xxx, 494 pp; 24 Tabelas; several maps, some folding. Vol II: Kampanie Na Obczyznie (1959), xxi, 412 pp, 20 maps (some folding) in rear pocket. Vol III: Armia Krajowa..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1923). First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Mrs Vernon Kellogg, with kindest regards and as a token of gratitude, Jean Capart, October 1924 - January 1925". No doubt the inscribee was wife of Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867 - 1937), an American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator..... More
paris: Payot Editions, 1968. First French Edition. 8vo. 420 pp. Bibliography; Index. Text in French. Translated from German by L. Jospin. Illustrated wrappers in very good condition. Geo Widengren (1907 – 1996) was a Swedish historian of religions, professor of history of religions at Uppsala University, orientalist and Iranist. He..... More
Sofia: Arhäologisches Institut mit Museum der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004. First Edition. 8vo. 279 pp. Articles in German with a few in English. Bibliography. Illustrations (1 in color); maps. Brown illustrated softcover in fine condition. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to previous owners of Mission Ranch in Carmel, CA. 8vo. 214 pp. Blue cloth with red lettering in very good condition. Light wear to extremities; small white spot to lower front board. The author, son of the owner..... More
San Jose, CA: The Edwin Markham Poetry Society, Chapter of the Poetry Society of London, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. 124 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dr. Bland; portrait of Edwin Markham; illustration of Villa Montalvo. Publisher's patterned blue paper covers with dark blue lettering and illustration of a wreath on front..... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First Edition. Small 8vo. 56 pp. Gilt& green United Nations logo on title page; 2 folding plates. Red cloth in publisher's cream, red and black dustjacket. A near fine copy. Recounts the printing of the charter in five different languages. More
Santa Ynez & Los Angeles: Dos Lindas Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 26, [1] pp. Photo-illustrations (most in color). Stiff color printed wrappers in fine condition. Luis B. Ortega (1897-1995) is known as the world’s best and foremost rawhide braider. A fifth generation Californian, Ortega traced his ancestry to..... More
Carmel, CA: William A. Karges Fine Art, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. 4to. 63 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Bibliography. Introduction by Tom Burgess. Color illustrated wrappers in fine condition, as new still in shrinkwrap. The monograph on Walter Howlison Mackenzie "Zarh" Pritchard (1866 – 1956), a British-American artist..... More
New York: Harper Collins - Ecco, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. xvii, 410 pp. Notes; Bibliography; Index. Photo-illustrations. A fine copy in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. The biography of Natalie Clifford Barney, a charismatic, brilliant, and beautiful American writer best known for three things: her Left Bank literary..... More
London: I. B. Tauris, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 434 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-illustrated plates. A fine copy in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. "... a compellingly written and thoroughly researched work of narrative history. His detailed account of the period from the 1919 Agreement with Britain, instigated by Lord Curzon, to..... More
Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1998. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 393 pp. Index. Text in English and some Farsi. A fine copy in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature Series No. 5. Between 1475 and 1675, Persian poetry achieved an extraordinary range and popularity. In cities..... More
Munster: LIT Verlag, 2003. First Edition. Large 8vo.362; [6pp publisher's advertisements] pp. Illustrations. Text in German. Red and white glossy boards in fine condition (previous owner name stamp). More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Two volumes complete in slipcase. 8vo. 570; 479 pp. Index. With audio DVD in rear pocket. A fine set, as new. This is presidential power in its rawest form, revealed alongside the private vulnerabilities of the world's most public man..... More
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. First Edition. 792 pp. Glossary. Glossy color illustrated boards. Small institutional barcode inside rear cover else fine. This is a heavy volume and may require additional shipping. This is the third thematic volume of Brills Encyclopedia of Hinduism, which deals broadly with Hindu society. Readers will..... More
[Sweden]: Latvian National Foundation, 1962. First Edition. 4to. [56] pp. Photo-illustrations of scenes of buildings, people, landscapes in Latvia during the early part of the 20th Century. Red wrappers in very good condition. "This book is written in the name of all those millions of people who live in the..... More
[Genova]: Regione Liguria. Servizio Parchi e Aree Protette, 2008. First Edition. 4to. 175 pp. Text in Italian. Color illustrations; Large folding color map of Liguria Geositi laid in (map on one side and descriptions of the identified sites on the verso). A fine copy. More