Rare books from KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)

John Wiley & Sons Inc. New in New Dust Jacket. 2001. First Printing. Hard Cover. 270 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#005183: First Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. No Remainder Marks. "This artful management primer combines in-depth lectures on finance, marketing, management strategy, leadership, and other important business topics with case studies in which a physician is faced with a critical management challenge. These cases illustrate the types of management problems faced by physicians every day, and are designed to help readers identify and acquire the core skills needed to put sound management principles into practice. This highly focused guide helps physicians develop the knowledge and management skills they need to: Expand a practice while retaining control * Influence healthcare policy * Convince someone that an idea is worth the cost * Evaluate a proposal * Position a practice… Read More

John Wiley & Sons Inc. New in New Dust Jacket. 2001. First Printing. Hard Cover. 270 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#005185: First Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. No Remainder Marks. "This artful management primer combines in-depth lectures on finance, marketing, management strategy, leadership, and other important business topics with case studies in which a physician is faced with a critical management challenge. These cases illustrate the types of management problems faced by physicians every day, and are designed to help readers identify and acquire the core skills needed to put sound management principles into practice. This highly focused guide helps physicians develop the knowledge and management skills they need to: Expand a practice while retaining control * Influence healthcare policy * Convince someone that an idea is worth the cost * Evaluate a proposal * Position a practice… Read More

John Wiley & Sons Inc. New in New Dust Jacket. 2001. First Printing. Hard Cover. 270 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#005184: First Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. No Remainder Marks. "This artful management primer combines in-depth lectures on finance, marketing, management strategy, leadership, and other important business topics with case studies in which a physician is faced with a critical management challenge. These cases illustrate the types of management problems faced by physicians every day, and are designed to help readers identify and acquire the core skills needed to put sound management principles into practice. This highly focused guide helps physicians develop the knowledge and management skills they need to: Expand a practice while retaining control * Influence healthcare policy * Convince someone that an idea is worth the cost * Evaluate a proposal * Position a practice… Read More

Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha Press. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. 198 pages: 11 x 11 in.: 3: Signed by Author: KB#005228: Book is SIGNED BY AUTHOR/EDITOR LAWRENCE WELLS on Title Page; Confirmed by him directly. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Has slight scratch marks on front cover; otherwise, covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt). Special Thanks were extended by the author to RICK BREWER at University of North Carolina for his important help in obtaining the historical information and photos. .

Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha Press. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. 198 pages: 11 x 11 in.: 3: Signed by Author: KB#005231: Book is SIGNED BY AUTHOR/EDITOR LAWRENCE WELLS on Title Page; Confirmed by him directly. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Copy has small tear at edge of back cover that was well repaired with archival tape; otherwise covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt). Special Thanks were extended by the author to WAYNE HOGAN and LISA MORTON of Florida State University for their important help in obtaining the historical information and photos. .

New York, New York: Springer-Verlag. New. 1993. First Edition: First Printing. Soft Cover. 329 pages: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 1.6: KB#007494: BRAND NEW. Printing Number Line (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "The purpose of this volume is to survey some of the best work going on in the field of reading research and reflect what is known about reading as it unfolds across the life span. The book is divided into four parts: The Contexts for Reading; Reading in Childhood; Reading in Adulthood; Reading Across the Life Span. The focus of this book stretches beyond the narrow period of development and considers broader questions such as cross-cultural factors influencing literacy acquisition, the spelling sound code and word recognition in childhood, instruction and remediation in adult illiterates, and changes in reading ability and attitude from childhood to adulthood - all areas and questions… Read More

New York, New York: Thieme Medical Publishers. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1995. Second Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 446 pages: 9.25 x 12 in.: 5.2: KB#007471: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (but has slight scuffing at top of spine from shelf wear). Book is in English, translated from the original German. Contains 942 illustrations. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. This book is issued as part of a three volume set, including (Volume 2: Ear) and (Volume 3: Neck). "Part one of the first volume of the three-volume "Head and Neck Surgery" series, this book examines surgery of the face, nose and facial skull. Chapters are organized according to surgical areas. All procedures are presented step-by-step in duotone, specially drawn watercolour illustrations which give a '3-dimensional' plastic image of the areas from the viewpoint of the surgeon. They are selected and… Read More

Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1996. First Printing. Hard Cover. 393 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#007487: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Printing Number Line (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Sub - Riemannian Geometry (also known as Carnot Geometry in France, and Non - Holonomic Riemannian Geometry in Russia) has been a full research domain for fifteen years, with motivations and ramifications in several parts of pure and applied mathematics, namely: Control Theory * Classical Mechanics * Riemannian Geometry (of which Sub - Riemannian Geometry constitutes a natural generalization, and where Sub - Riemannian Metrics may appear as limit cases) * Diffusion on Manifolds * Analysis of Hypoelliptic Operators * Cauchy-Riemann (or CR) Geometry. Although links between these domains had been foreseen by many authors in the past, it is only in recent… Read More

Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. 227 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#007484: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Comprehensive volume on molecular genetics being applied to the prevention and treatment of heart diseases, from DNA tests, to pharmacogenomics, and gene-based therapeutics. Features detailed figures, glossary, three appendices, and references." Content Chapters include; The Human Genome * From Genome To Clinical Phenotype * Identifying Disease Genes in Humans * Inherited Structural And Functional Defects Of Myocardium * Inherited Cardiovascular Disorders * Genetics And Genomics Applied To Diagnosis and Therapy. .

New York, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1905. First American Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 359 pages: 5.25 x 7.5 in.: 1.8: KB#010063: No Dustjacket. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are dark red/maroon with embossed gilt lettering on the front and spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name, address and date, Ralph Jordan - 1914, on front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Illustrations include tissue-protected frontispiece and seven additional full-page illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen. This is the second book in the Ayesha series, originally serialized in the Windsor Magazine in 1904-1905. "Guided by a vision, an Englishman and his companion search the mountains of Asia for the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess." Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : B&W Illustrations .

Peter Nevill Limited. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1949. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 426 pages: 6 x 8 in.: 1.8: Signed by Author: KB#010205: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Algernon Blackwood) under his photograph frontispiece. No dustjacket included. Boards are dark green with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly bumped and spine is slightly cocked. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name at top of front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Collects twenty-two short stories: The Doll * Running Wolf * The Little Beggar * The Occupant of the Room * The Man Whom the Trees Loved * The Valley of the Beasts * The South Wind * The Man Who Was Milligan * The Trod * The Terror of the Twins * The Deferred Appointment * Accessory Before the Fact * The Glamour of the Snow *The House of the Past * The Decoy * The Tradition * The Touch of Pan *… Read More

New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green, And Co.. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1902. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This… Read More

London, England: Longmans, Green & Company. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1872. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 164 pages: 5.25 x 7 in.: 1.2: KB#010253: No Jacket As Issued. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Original cream cloth boards with gilt, embossed lettering and lines on spine and on front board, along with long-stem flower emblem. Dark front and rear endpapers by Burn & Co, as indicated on affixed "Bound by" label. Cloth spine is darkened and has some light spotting on cloth boards. Is from the library of Cyrus Hall McCormick with his bookplate neatly affixed to front endpaper. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. The list of poets translated, and whose works are presented, include: Charles D'Orleans * Francois Villon * Joachim Du Bellay * Remy Belleau * Pierre Ronsard * Jacques Tahureau * Jean Passerat * Victor Hugo * Alfred de Musset * Gerard de Nerval… Read More

London, England: MacMillan and Co.. Very Good. 1892. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 111 pages: 4.25 x 7 in.: 0.8: KB#011159: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Has gift inscription to prior owner (P. C. Ricketts from Theresa dated Dec. 5 1892) on front flyleaf. Some pages remain uncut. Boards are Dark Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Board corners are lightly bumped. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Poems include: June Bracken and Heather * To The Master of Balliol * The Death of OEnone * St. Telemachus * Akbar's Dream * The Bandit's Death * The Church-Warden and The Curate * Charity * Kapiolani * The Dawn * The Making of Man * The Dreamer * Mechanophilus * Riflemen Form! * The Tourney * The Wanderer * Poets and Critics * A Voice Spake Out of The Skies * Doubt and Prayer * Faith * The Silent Voices * God and The Universe * The Death of The Duke… Read More

National Publishing Company. Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1870. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 540 pages: 6.5 x 8.75 in.: 2.6: KB#012474: Rest of Subtitle: "Being an Expose' of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints, With a Full and Authentic History of Polygamy and the Mormon sect From Its Origin to the Present Time." Includes fold-out map at front as well as 27 Illustrations. Pages are lightly foxed/spotted and edge/tops of Green Boards, with embossed title on front and spine, are worn, plus front flyleaf page has been removed. Content Chapters include: Historical * History From the Founding of Nauvoo Till 1843 * Mormon Difficulties and Death of the Prophet * Two Years of Strife - Exodus From Illinois * From the Nauvoo Exodus to the Mormon War in Utah * The Bloody Period * Gentiles in Utah * First Views in Utah * Two Weeks in Salt Lake City * Trip to Bear River and Return * The Conference and Its Results * Analysis of Mormon Society *… Read More