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HALDANE, J. B. S., L. H. Rosoman (Illus).. MY FRIEND MR LEAKY.. Cresset Press,, London,, 1937.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 179. Original publisher's pale blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat Christmas inscription on front endpaper, with some marks and some fading to covers, spine a little worn and discoloured, overall used, very good minus with very clean text and plates.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Illustrated by L. H. Rosoman. Green boards with silver lettering to spine are good with a few marks, patchy fading (including to spine), little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges, few small dents to back and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/small split to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Inside boards/end-papers bit tanned with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Top of pages slightly dusty. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Pages little tanned. Occasional small mark/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Haldane, J.B.S.. My Friend Mr Leakey. Cresset Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 179. Illustrations. Original cloth. Uniform lightish rubbing to all surfaces with some stains. The silver spine title lettering is heavily worn. Small dent to spine which has broken the cloth. Scattered foxing internally with some staining to the edges of the text block. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Haldane (J.B.S.). My Friend Mr Leakey. Illustrated by L.H. Rosoman.. Cresset Press, 1937.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and title-page design, with further full-page illustrations, all line-drawings by Leonard Rosoman, a few faint spots to half-title, pp. [vi], 179, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver and gently faded (more pronouncedly so at head), tiny puncture at centre of lower joint, bottom corners gently bumped, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, dustjacket with a design by Rosoman, a little browned overall with some light spotting and marks to rear panel, some chipping and short closed tears, a section missing at head of backstrip panel (carrying around to rear panel), good. The eminent scientist joins the category of 'professors at play', in the tradition of Lewis Carroll and Tolkien, in this foray into fantastical fiction for younger readers; it is a charming work, in which the titular friend, a magician, presides over madcap adventures.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
J. B. S. Haldane. My Friend Mr Leakey. Cresset Press, 1937.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 179 pp Illustrated by L. H. Rosoman. Bound in turquoise cloth with silver titles the book is in good condition. The spine is faded and the tips rubbed the front board is unevenly faded on 2 edges and there is a name on the front paste down.
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Haldane, J B S. My Friend Mr Leakey. Cresset Press, 1937.
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1937 Cresset Press London hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Near fine clean tight binding with green cloth boards. Wonderful illustrations by L H Rosoman. No dustjacket. A rare collectors copy.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Haldane, J.B.S.. My Friend Mr. Leakey. Cresset Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: True first edition copy. The first American edition, published by Harper & Brothers, issued in 1938. - Baumgarten p.94. The only children's book written by Haldane, a prominent geneticist credited with coining the term clone. Enigmatic online videographer and purported AI expert Quinn Michaels posits that this book contains vital hidden information conveyed in "spy language", most notably a transistor diagram incorporated into the illustration on page 123, despite the fact that it is commonly held that the transistor was not invented by a Bell Labs team until a decade later. For additional information on Michaels' intriguing analysis enter the title of this book plus the word 'analysis', into the most popular video website. 179 pages. Dust jacket not included. Bookplate and pencilled signature, dated 1937, of Swedish journalist and children's book critic Eva v. Zweigbergk [1906-1984] upon front endpaper. Above-average wear and fading to publisher's green cloth-covered boards. Binding intact with a modest lean. A worthy first edition copy of this fascinating work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; My Friend Mr Leakey Haldane, J.B.S. Technology Predition Spy Language Transistor Diagram
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Haldane, J. B. S.. My friend Mr. Leakey. Cresset Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$769.25 + shipping
Description: Haldane, J. B. S. - My friend Mr. Leakey illustrated by L. H. Rosoman Published by Cresset Press, London 1937. First edition with dust jacket. 179 pp. 20,5 x 15 cm First UK edition, original green cloth with the spine lettered in silver.; pictorial dust wrapper by Rosoman and with several line drawn plates in the text; waterstains on the cloth cover, the dust wrapper has some loss; internally clean and firm and with no foxing. Haldane, a Marxist and an extraordinary polymath, was renowned for his work on genetics particularly but also in many other fields of science and for putting himself at risk in experiments rather than requiring his assistants to do so. The aim of this wonderfully written book of fantastical short fables was to show that science could be even more astonishing and engrossing than magic.
Seller: Feheri Books, Veszprem, Hungary
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by The Cresset Press, London in 1937. The Book is in Very Good++ or better condition. Original green cloth with the spine lettered in silver. A tiny amount of fading to the spine tips, lower edges and corners. Mild pushing at the spine ends. Light toning to the text-block and a hint of toning to the extreme page edges. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The scarce WRAPPER is neatly clipped to the flaps and is in Very Good++ condition. The spine ends and upper corners are a little chipped and rubbed. The spine is toned and the wrapper is slightly spotted. A few small closed tears to the rear upper spine fold and to the front upper and lower rear edges. The Leonard Rosoman wrapper is striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Wonderful illustrations throughout in B/W by Leonard Rosoman. A collection of fantasy stories for children by the eminent British scientist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964). Haldane was chiefly distinguished for his work in genetics, but also contributed to many other fields of science, ranging from cosmology to the physiology of diving. His intention in writing the book about Mr Leakey, a magician who lives in a London flat in company with his animal servants, was to demonstrate that science can be more exciting than magic ever was. 'The book is peppered with 'asides' on scientific topics. One of the best is the story of Mr Dobbs, who made a large income out of the railways 'by travelling with excess luggage', having devised special suitcases which rose in the air when weighed: 'You see, if your bag weight is a hundredweight more than it ought to you have to pay the railway company, but if it weighs a hundredweight less than nothing, they have to pay you.''(The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, p. 368). A very uncommon original illustrated edition of the noted British scientist's only children's book. Collectible. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
HALDANE, J. B. S.. My Friend Mr Leakey. London: Cresset Press, 1937.
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cresset Press, 1937. 1st Edition . Very Good/Fair. Octavo. Original green cloth with the dust jacket. Green cloth shows trace of old selotape repair to dust jacket. Spine with silver titling faded at edges. Top edge of block very slightly spotted. Pages clean and binding tight. Slight rubbing mark on front free end paper. DW not price clipped but chipped at edges, now in protective sleeve. One large tear to jacket has been repaired with selotape, now brown. Illustrated throughout by L. H. Rosoman.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom