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Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1984
ISBN 10: 0140068007ISBN 13: 9780140068009
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Steve Crisp; (illustrator). Later Printing. 512 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edgewear with some creasing on the corners and spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Steve Crisp. This anthology contains: Sonata for Harp and Bicycle by Joan Aiken; The Queen of Spades - a novelette by Alexander Pushkin; The Old Nurse's Story - a novelette by Elizabeth Gaskell; Aneline or the Haunted House by Emile Zola; The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce; A Haunted Island by Algernon Blackwood; The Rose Garden by M. R. James; The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling; The Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells; The Wardrobe by Thomas Mann; The Buick Saloon by Ann Bridge; The Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel Spark; The Wind by Ray Bradbury; The Beggarwoman of Locarno by Heinrich von Kleist; The Entail - a novella by E. T. A. Hoffman; Wandering Willie's Tale by Walter Scott; The Open Door - a novelette by Margaret Oliphant; Mr Justice Harbottle - a novelette by Sheridan Le Fanu; Le Horla - a novelette by Guy de Maupassant; Sir Edmund Orme - a novelette by Henry James; My Adventure in Norfolk by A. J. Alan; The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson; One Who Saw by A. M. Burrage; Afterward - a novelette by Edith Wharton; The Tower by Marghanita Laski; Footsteps in the Snow by Mario Soldati; Exorcizing Baldassare by Edward Hyams; Dear Ghost by Fielden Hughes; Come and Get Me - a novelette by Elizabeth Walker; Andrina by George Mackay Brown; The Axe by Penelope Fitzgerald; The Game of Dice by Alain Danielou; and The July Ghost by A. S. Byatt. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Various Publishers, 1905
Pamphlet. Condition: Collectible; Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Part XII. The Principles of Embryology. First edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. Covers missing, tears to first few pages else good. *.
Published by Royal Society of London, London, 1883
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "Gaskell's classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of 'Gaskell's Nerves," the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the nerve ganglia to the sinus venosus influence the heart rhythm but do not originate cardiac movements, which are due to the rhythmic contraction of the heart muscle." (GARRISON-MORTON 829). iv, [4], viii, 751-1419 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Published by OFFPRINTS from The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology Vols. XXXII to XL. -1906. 13 parts in 9, 1898
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
TOGETHER WITH : GASKELL, W. H., STARLING E. H., GADOW, H. and others. Discussion on the Origin of Vertebrates. Reprint from Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Session 122. 1910. pp. (ii), (9)-50. All in original printed paper wrappers, excellent condition apart from the slight damage to the foot of the backstrip in one part, signature of SIR A[rthur]. S[mith]. WOODWARD on one wrapper, neat stamp of University College London on each front cover of the main series and either the final plate or text leaf, in all other ways a very good set. *Exceptionally rare in this form and precedes GARRISON-MORTON #243 The Origin of Vertebrates, 1908 - 'Gaskell was probably the most brilliant of Michael Foster's pupils. His history of the origin of vertebrates from invertebrate ancestors is not universally accepted.' In his review of the Linnean Society discussion, in NATURE 1910, J. GRAHAM KERR, stated - 'The remarks made by Dr. Gaskell and his supporters make it apparent that there exist wide differences between what they accept as the correct principles of morphological research and those which are accepted by other working morphologists. The forgoing paragraphs are not meant as a criticism of Dr. Gaskell's hypothesis. They are merely meant to direct attention to an extraordinary want of agreement as to methods or principles of morphological research.' In part XIII, Gaskell sums up his thesis - 'In a series of papers published in this Journal I have developed my theory of the origin of vertebrates, and have compared step by step, every organ in the arthropod with the corresponding organ in the vertebrate, and shown how one after another each has fitted into its right place, on the assumption that the arthropod has given rise to the vertebrate without any reversal of surfaces, an assumption which necessitates the formation of a new alimentary canal for the vertebrate.' GASKELL [1847-1914] had hoped to complete his study but never did so; in part XIII he stated - 'I am aware that in the course of these papers I have promised at some time to consider separately the vascular and lymphatic systems and the external covering, and I still hope to be able some day to publish something on these subjects. At present, however, I am engaged in putting the whole story into book form, and until that is accomplished I am not likely to add to this series.' SIR ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD FRS (23 May 1864 2 September 1944) English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish. He also described the Piltdown Man fossils, which were later determined to be fraudulent. He is not related to Henry Woodward, whom he replaced as curator of the Geology Department of the British Museum of Natural History.