Alain Fournier Henri Alban Fournier 1886 1914. Delisle Francoise translator. Peyre Henri 1901
Le Grand Meaulnes / The Wanderer
<p>NY Limited Editions Club LEC 1958. Hard Cover. xxx 268 pages. With the LEC Monthly Letter. Translated from the French by Françoise Delisle with an introduction by Henri Peyre and illustrated by Dignimont. Peyre the great critic of modern French literature Professor at Yale says in his introduction "The truest essence of a book in which the author spurned all ideology and insisted upon embracing life in its most precious function: that of the creation of dreams." Printed in 1500 copies; this is Peyre's own copy designated "H. P." instead of being numbered. Great & Good Books 288. Printed at the Thistle Press. Slipcase has some wear & a slight crack at bottom; VG. Stock#OB072 dr.</p> Limited Editions Club [LEC] hardcover
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Peguy Charles 1873 1914
Morceaux choisis. Prose avec un portrait de l'auteur par Pierre Laurens
<p>nrf / Gallimard c1928. 'Quarante-neuvième édition'. Soft Cover. 251 p.ari 19 cm. In French. Includes a preface by C. Lucas de Pesloüan; Les hommes et la race 5 essays; Sur les destinées de la Race Juive 7 essays; Philosophie et methode 2 essays; La chronique et l'histoire 10 essays. Paper; mostly unopened; pages darkened minor wear; good. stock#45595.</p> nrf / Gallimard paperback
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Alain Fournier Henri Alban Fournier 1886 1914
Le Grand Meaulnes. Texte intégral
<p>Paris Émile-Paul Frères 1969. Livre de Poche 1000. Soft Cover. 248 pages Pages a bit darkened; 16.5 cm. First published 1913. Alain-Fournier's "single full-length work" about the youthful search of Augustin Meaulnes for the ideal of his lost love is "a delicate blend of symbolism and realism". Color pictorial paper covers; VG. Another copy Émile Paul 1961 318 pages 18.5 cm. paper VG. Another copy 'Nouvelle Édition' Émile-Paul no date 328 pages 18.5 cm. paper. Stock#24853x.</p> Émile-Paul Frères / Livre de Poche 1000 paperback
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Peguy Charles 1873 1914
Morceaux Choisis. Poésie avec un portrait de l'auteur par Pierre Laurens
<p>nrf / Gallimard c1927. 'Soixante-seizième édition'. Soft Cover. 257 1 pages portrait front.; 19 cm. Includes Le Mystère de Jeanne d'Arc Sonnets Chateaux de Loire La Tapisserie de Sainte Geneviève et de Jeanne d'Arc La Tapisserie de Notre-Dame and Ève. Paper; mostly unopened; pages darkened minor wear; good. stock#45594.</p> nrf / Gallimard paperback
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Alain Fournier Henri Alban Fournier 1886 1914 & Riviere Jacques 1886 1925.
Correspondance 1905-1914. Janvier 1907-Juin 1908
<p>Paris Gallimard 1926. Soft Cover. 380 pages double-page facsimile; 19 cm. 7th edition. Third volume of the Correspondance. Stock#34204. Good pencil markings pages toned top of spine chewed/ paper.</p> Gallimard paperback
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Rostand Edmond 1868 1918. Carbe Nino. Dole Helen B
Cyrano de Bergerac. Illustrated by Nino Carbe In the Translation by Helen B. Dole.
<p>Three Sirens Press NY c1931. Hard Cover. 184 pages illus. incl. front. First published 1898. Introduction by W. L. Parker. Critical Commentary by W. P. Trent. A five-act play set in France of 1640 & 1655. Purple covers tan suede spine stemped in gold top edge gilt; no dj; VG. Stock#28550</p> Three Sirens Press hardcover
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Duras Marguerite Donnadieu 1914 1996
Le Vice-consul. Roman
<p>nrf / Gallimard c1966 trade edition. Soft Cover. 212 pages; 18.5 cm. Novel set in Cambodia by the Saigon-born French writer & film director. Paper; minor wear & soiling; VG. stock#46128.</p> nrf / Gallimard (trade edition) paperback
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Calderon de la Barca Pedro 1600 1681. Camus Albert 1914 1960
La D�votion � la Croix. Pi�ce en trois journ�es
<p>Paris Gallimard 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover. 169 pages 16.5 cm. First edition numbered 267 of the French translation by the Nobel Prize-winning author; a reminder that Camus was very much a man of the theater. Stock#41267. Vg. softcover.</p> Gallimard paperback
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Gardner Martin 1914
The Ambidextrous Universe : Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds illustrated by John Mackey.
New York : Scribner ©1979. Soft Cover. ix 293 p. : illus ; 20 cm. Second revised updated edition. "In this revised and expanded edition of Martin Gardner's now classic work he includes new chapters on the latest breakthroughs and speculations on symmetry and asymmetry in science art and daily life and gives special attention to particle physics and time-reversal theory. " From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 102663. Good well used / soft cover. New York : Scribner, ©1979. paperback
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Kossoff A. Aron David 1918 1995
Vocabulario de la obra po�tica de Herrera.
Madrid: Real Academia Española 1966. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed. xxxii 360 pages; 29 cm. This copy inscribed to Alan Trueblood from his friend Dave Kossoff. Stock#45559. Vg / soft cover. Real Academia Espa�ola paperback
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Juderias Julian 1877 1918
Don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.
Madrid Real Academia 1913. Hard Cover. 136 pages 27 cm. Obra premiada por la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas en el Concurso Ordinario de 1912. Jovellanos 1744-1811 writer statesman poet man of great integrity was a Spanish philosopher. Stock#38975. Bound in recent blue cloth. Spanish literature biography. Real Academia hardcover
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Bergamo 1914
ANNUARIO DELLA REGIA SCUOLA ARCHEOLOGICA DI ATENE EDELLE MISSIONI ITALIANE IN ORIENTE VOL 1
KUBBEALTI-SAHAF n/a. New. n/a SOFTCOVER THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL COPY IT IS A PHOTOCOPY OF THE TITLE BOUND IN BOOK FORMAT 174 pages KUBBEALTI-SAHAF n/a paperback
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Correa Gustavo 1914 1995
El Simbolismo de la Luna en la Poes�a de Federico Garc�a Lorca
Baltimore Modern Language Association / MLA / Johns Hopkins University Press 1975. OFFPRINT pages 1060-1084; 24 cm. From PMLA 72: 5 Dec. 1957. Correa published much on symbolism; here Garcia Lorca and the moon. Stock#47411. Good cut from journal paperclip stain. Modern Language Association / MLA / Johns Hopkins University Press
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Riquer Martin de conde de Casa Davalos 1914
Cervantes Passamonte y Avellaneda
Barcelona: Sirmio 1988. Soft Cover. 164 p.; 18.5 cm. On the authorship of a spurious work. Riquer argues that Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the author of <i>Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha</i> not Gerómino de Passamonte b. 1553. Stock#45774. Vg / soft cover. Sirmio paperback
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Plejanov / Plekhanov J. Jorge / Georgii Valentinovich 1856 1918. Peralta Pedro translator.
Materialismo Militante Materialismus militans
Editorial Calomino La Plata c1946. Biblioteca de Cultura Integral 19. Soft Cover. 171 2 p. 18 cm. Spanish translation of Materialismus militans Plekhanov's response to an open letter by Aleksandr Bogdanov 1873-1928 in <i>El Mensajero de la Vida</i> Sept. 1907 criticizing Plekhanov's opposition to what he saw as Bogdanov's revisionism. "Plekhanov's view that socialist revolution could not occur in Russia until capitalism and industrialization developed further became the basis for the anti-Leninist Menshevik position after the party split in 1903." Printed white wraps; pages darkened dj worn darkened; VG. 38927. Editorial Calomino. Biblioteca de Cultura Integral 19 paperback
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Colon Manrique Julio 1888 . Colon Gomez Julio 1918
Arte de traducir el ingl�s
México Colón Manrique Colón Gómez 1952-1954. Soft Cover. Two volumes: 126 2; 190 1 p.; 23 cm. Deals with the difficulties English language presents to Spanish speakers and how to improve to more accurate translations. Owner signatures of Alan S. Trueblood a sensitive translator of Spanish into English. Stock#46579. Vg / soft cover. Col�n Manrique, Col�n G�mez paperback
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Casas Cristobal de las d. 1576. Kossoff A. Aron David 1918 1995
Vocabulario de las dos lenguas Toscana y Castellana de Crist�bal de Las Casas Sevilla 1570
Madrid: Ediciones Itsmo para Wareham Imprints 1988. Hard Cover. xxiv 248 p.; 21 cm. Prólogo de Juan M. Lope Blanch. Edición de A. David Kossoff. Facsimile reprint; previously published Sevilla 1570. Errata slip inserted. David Kosoff intended to publish facsimile reprints in his retirement from Hispanic Studies at Brown. Cheap printing in Spain would allow him generous profit margins. When the books arrived in Wareham Mass. his retirement home the printing was lighter than in the original and on a few pages the impression on the verso showed through. He was too dejected too ill and too poor to do anything about it and offered this to make the text accessible. Stock#45446. Vg / no dj. Ediciones Itsmo para Wareham Imprints hardcover
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SERONI Adriano Firenze 1918 Roma 1990
Nuove ragioni critiche
Firenze: Vallecchi 1954. Brossura wrappers. Molto Buono Very Good. Saggi e studi. 16mo. pp. 218. Molto Buono Very Good. Piccole sottolineature a matita su alcune pagine Some underlined passages in pencil. Prima edizione First Edition. Vallecchi, unknown
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THOMAS Dylan Swansea 1914 New York 1953
Il dottore e i diavoli e altri racconti per il cinema
Torino: Einaudi Supercoralli 1974. Rilegato sovracoperta hard cover dust jacket. Molto Buono Very Good. Traduzioni di Floriana Bossi ed Ettore Capriolo. Contiene: Vent'anni di crescita; La spiaggai di Falesa; Il dottore e i diavoli. 8vo. pp. 272. Molto Buono Very Good. Fioriture leggerissime alle copertine Some very light yellowing at covers. . Einaudi, Supercoralli hardcover
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DRURY Allen Houston 1918 San Francisco 1998
Capable of honor
Garden City New York: Doubleday e Company 1966. Rilegato tela sovracoperta cloth dust jacket. Ottimo Fine. . 8vo. pp. 532. Ottimo Fine. Prima edizione First Edition. Doubleday e Company, hardcover
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CHADWICK Lynn London 1914 Stroud 2003
Lynn Chadwick. Marlborough Gallery 1961
London: Marlborough Gallery 1961. Brossura wrappers. Molto Buono Very Good. Catalogo di mostra Marlborough Gallery Londra novembre - dicembre 1961. Elenco delle mostre personali e collettive. Catalogo delle 34 opere esposte. Illustrazioni in bianco e nero e foto dell'artista al lavoro. Lingua inglese. 8vo. pp. 32. Molto Buono Very Good. . Marlborough Gallery, unknown
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ANDERSCH Alfred Monaco 1914 Berzona 1980
Un amante della penombra
Milano: Mondadori Medusa 1967. Rilegato tela sovracoperta cloth dust jacket. Molto Buono Very Good. Traduzione di Italo Alighiero Chiusano. 16mo. pp. 238. Molto Buono Very Good. Prima edizione italiana First Italian Edition. Mondadori, Medusa hardcover
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Parry J. H. John Horace 1914 1984 / National Geographic Society
Romance of the Sea.
<p>Washington NGS c1981. Hard Cover. 312 pages 375 illus. 1 fold. 14 maps; oblong: 28 x 36 cm. On ships and navigation seafaring life naval art and science. Stock# 37829x. Vg/ dj good used. Another copy. Vg/ dj fair.</p> National Geographic Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37829 ISBN : 0870443461 9780870443466
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Estevanez Nicolas 1838 1914
Resumen de historia de Am�rica
<p>Paris Garnier Hnos. 1919. Hard Cover. 464 p. illus. portrait vignettes; 18.5 cm. A history of Spanish America: conquest colonial period independence. William L. Fichter's copy with his bookplate. Good pages darkened. Stock#41406.</p> Garnier Hnos. hardcover
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Fichter William L. Leopold 1892 1985. Kossoff A.Aron David 1918 1995 & Jose Amor y Vazquez editors
Homenaje a William L. Fichter.
Madrid: Editorial Castalia 1971. Hard Cover. 862 pages 2 leaves plates; 27 cm. 71 essays on topics of the Spanish theater and plays of the Golden Age. Stock#45470. Vg / dj good some wear. Editorial Castalia hardcover
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Thomsen Rudi 1918 2004
Eisphora : A Study of Direct Taxation in Ancient Athens
Minor wear. Some fading to spine. Some stains to binding. VG. Classical Antiquity Gyldendal K�benhavn 1964 orig. cloth 23x16cm 276 pp. Inscribed by author on flyleaf. Series: Humanitas 3. Gyldendal hardcover
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Thomas Dylan 1914 1953
A Child's Christmas in Wales
<p>New Directions Norfolk Ct. c1954. Hard Cover. 32 p.; 18.75 cm. "Lettering by Samuel H. Marsh." "One Christmas was so much like another in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen." Tan dust jacket clipped a bit worn spine darkened small closed tear at top edge; Very Good. Stock#OB801.</p> New Directions hardcover
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Bruyssel Ernesto Van / Ernest Jean van 1827 1914. Fornovi Justo translator.
La Vida Social y sus evoluciones La vie sociale et ses �volutions
Madrid Librería Gutenberg de José Ruiz 1908. Biblioteca de Filosofía cientifica. Hard Cover. 388 p. 19 cm. Translation into Spanish of La vie sociale et ses évolutions first published Paris Flammarion 1907. Emphasizes the development of political movements. Bound in green cloth red leather spine label; pages darkened; VG. From a Spanish collection of liberal & leftist writings. stock#41881. Librer�a Gutenberg de Jos� Ruiz. Biblioteca de Filosof�a cient�fica hardcover
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Durer Albrecht 1471 1528. ; Heidrich Ernst 1880 1914. ; Wolfflin Heinrich 1864 1945.
Albrecht Dürers schriftlicher Nachlass : Familienchronik Gedenkbuch Tagebuch der niederländischen Reise Briefe Reime Auswahl aus den theoretischen Schriften mit neun Zeichnungen und drei Holzschnitten Dürers Durer Familienchronik; Bruchstück aus Dürers Gedenkbuch; Aufzeichnung uber ein Traumgesicht; Tagebuch der Reise in die Niederlande; Briefe Zeitafel s. S. 357; An Kurfürst Albrecht von Brandenburg; An Johannes Amerbach in Basel; An Michel Behaim; An Frey in Zürich; An Jacob Heller in Frankfurt; An Niklas Kratzer; An Christoph Kress; An Bürgermeister und Rat der Stadt Nürnberg; An Wilibald Pirkheimer; An Georg Spalatin; An Wolf Stromer; Unterschriften der Bilder der vier Apostel von 1526; Reime; Aus den theoretischen Schriften
Berlin : verlegt bei Julius Bard; Emil Rudolf Weiss Druck von Imberg & Lefson in Berlin 1908 1908. Good. 364 p. 12 p. of plates 2 pp. advertisements : portrait. illustrated. ; 17 cm. ; text in German ; done up in the style of a parchment bound book of the Renaissance with pages untrimmed and monogram with manuscript-like letters on the spine ; sepia plates tipped in ; LC: ND588.D9; Dewey: 760.092 ; OCLC: 2320135 ; "Einabend Titelblatt und Initial entworfen von Emil Rudolf Weiss Druck von Imberg & Lefson in Berlin fünfzig Exemplare wurden auf van Gelder-Bütten abgezogen und in Ganzpergamentband gebunden" ; Ernst Heidrich was a noted specialist in the history of the art of the Renaisaance having taught the subject for a time at the University of Basel and the University of Straßburg; called up during World War I he was killed at Ypres in Flanders field at the beginning of the war ; Heinrich Wölfflin was the son of the philologist Eduard Wölfflin who was also esconced at the University of Basel as a noted art historian. In seven years time from this publication he was to produce his most important art history work Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe which incorporated his "Formalismus" approach to art history ; with the bookplate of Irma Harris ; Contents: Familienchronik -- Bruchstück aus Dürers Gedenkbuch -- Aufzeichnung uber ein Traumgesicht -- Tagebuch der Reise in die Niederlande -- Briefe Zeitafel s. S. 357 -- An Kurfürst Albrecht von Brandenburg -- An Johannes Amerbach in Basel -- An Michel Behaim -- An Frey in Zürich -- An Jacob Heller in Frankfurt -- An Niklas Kratzer -- An Christoph Kress -- An Bürgermeister und Rat der Stadt Nürnberg -- An Wilibald Pirkheimer -- An Georg Spalatin -- An Wolf Stromer -- Unterschriften der Bilder der vier Apostel von 1526 -- Reime -- Aus den theoretischen Schriften -- Aus der Unterweisung der Messung -- Widmung an Pirkheimer -- Aus dem dritten Buch -- Aus dem vierten Buch -- Aus der Befestigungslehre -- Widmung an König Ferdinand -- Aus dem Buch -- Aus der Proportionslehre -- Widmung an Pirkheimer -- Aus den handschritlichen Entwürfen zur Widmung -- Nach der Dresdener Handschrift -- Nach den Londoner Handscriften -- Aus dem dritten Buch -- Der ästhetische Exkurs am Ende des dritten Buches -- Aus den handschriftlichen Entwurfen zu dem ästhetischen Exkurs -- Nach den Nürnburger Handschriften -- Nach den Londoner Handschriften -- Schluss des Buches -- Aus den Londoner Handschriften zu dem allgemeinen Werk uber Malerei -- Zwei Inhaltsangaben -- Entwurf zu einer Vorrede und Inhaltsangabe -- Aus den Entwürfen zur Einleitung -- Van der Malerei -- Van Schonheit -- Entwurfe zu verscheidenen Abschnitten -- Von der Gliedmoss des Menschen -- Von Farben -- Anhang -- Vorbemerkung -- Erläuterungen zum Text -- Zeittafel fur die Briefe -- Zun Geleit. Von Heinrich Wölfflin -- Inhaltzübersicht. ; back gutter just starting ; else G Berlin : verlegt bei Julius Bard; [Emil Rudolf Weiss Druck von Imberg & Lefson in Berlin], 1908 unknown
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Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isaevich 1918 2008. Glenny Michael trans. ; design Cynthia Kruipat; drawing Karl W. Stuecklen
August 1914 Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo. English
New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972 1972. Very Good. 622 p. : maps ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0374106843; 9780374106843 LCCN: 78-178883 ; LC: PG3488.O4; Dewey: 891.7/3/44 ; General Samsonov and Colonel Vorotyntsev lead Russian soldiers into battle and subsequent defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.; OCLC: 419168 ; "Author and historian Aleksandr Isayevick Solzhenitsyn considered by many to be the preeminent Russian writer of the second half of the 20th century.was awarded the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn 1974 he was arrested for treason and exiled following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. He moved to Switzerland and later the U. S. where he continued to write fiction and history. When the Soviet Union collapsed he returned to his homeland." ; BOMC ; light orange cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; ownership label on front endpapers ; slight wear to dustjacket ; else VG/VG New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972 hardcover
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Sadat Anwar 1918 1981.
In search of identity : an autobiography From Mit Abul-Kim to the Aliens' Jail -- The struggle for the liberation of Egypt -- The liberation of self - Cell 54 -- The July 1952 revolution -- Revolutionaries in power -- The powerlessness of power: Egypt under Nasser from July 1956 to June 1967 -- Interlude: A struggle for survival -- The second revolution May 15 1971 -- The October War -- The Road to Peace
New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper Colophon Books ; Harper & Row Publishers 1979 1979. Very Good. ISBN: 0060907053 :; 9780060907051 ; viii 360 p. 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 5462577 ; Contents: From Mit Abul-Kim to the Aliens' Jail -- The struggle for the liberation of Egypt -- The liberation of self - Cell 54 -- The July 1952 revolution -- Revolutionaries in power -- The powerlessness of power: Egypt under Nasser from July 1956 to June 1967 -- Interlude: A struggle for survival -- The second revolution May 15 1971 -- The October War -- The Road to Peace. ; VG New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper Colophon Books ; Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979 unknown
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Rodgers William 1918 subject: Watson Thomas John 1874 1956.
Think : a biography of the Watsons and IBM.
New York Stein and Day 1969 1969. Very Good. 1st ed. 5th printing ; 320 p. illus. ports. 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0812812263; 9780812812268 LCCN: 69-19394 ; LC: HD9999.B94; Dewey: 338.7/61/65180924 ; OCLC: 23630 ; gold and black cloth in black yellow and grey dustjacket ; some wear to dustjacket ; VG/G New York, Stein and Day, 1969 hardcover
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Rodgers William 1918 subject: Watson Thomas John 1874 1956.
Think : a biography of the Watsons and IBM
New York Stein and Day 1969. 1969. Very Good. 1st ed. 4th printing ; 320 p. illus. ports. 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0812812263; 9780812812268 LCCN: 69-19394 ; LC: HD9999.B94; Dewey: 338.7/61/65180924 ; OCLC: 23630 ; gold and black cloth in black yellow and grey dustjacket ; some wear to dustjacket ; VG/VG New York, Stein and Day, 1969. hardcover
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Ransom Jay Ellis 1914 C Linda Dingler Howard Michael Hazel Michael Nahum Waxman Wilma Ransom
Gems and minerals of America; a guide to rock collecting.
New York Harper & Row 1975 ©1974 1975. Very Good. 1st ed. ; xxiii 705 p. illus. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0060135123; 9780060135126; 0060135137 LCCN: 72-9147 ; LC: QE392.5.U5; Dewey: 549/.075 ; OCLC: 902298 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps labels glue remains and tears to endpapers ; spots on textblock ; Contents: Rocks minerals and gemstones -- Mineral environments : the igneous rocks -- Mineral environments : the sedimentary and metamorphic rocks -- Preparation for field collecting -- The rock collector's working tools -- Maps and how to use them -- Care and preservation of minerals -- Your gem and mineral collection -- Agates opals and petrified wood -- Cutting and polishing gems and gemstones -- Where to find gems and minerals in America -- Gemstone and mineral essentials -- Reference libraries and mineral museums. ; 27 tables and color plates ; " The range guide a vital tool for any collector commercial or amateur is a massive gazetteer giving precise gem and mineral locations for virtually every county in the United States 8500 productive sites in all." ; VG/VG New York, Harper & Row, 1975, ©1974 hardcover
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Bose D. M. 1885 1975. ; Sen S. N. Samarendra Nath 1918 1992. ; Subbarayappa B. V. ; National Commission for the Compilatio
A concise history of science in India.
New Delhi Published for the National Commission for the Compilation of History of Sciences in India by Indian National Science Academy 1971 1971. Fine. xvii 689 p. illus. part col. maps. 26 cm. ; LCCN: 72-905865 ; LC: Q127.I4; Dewey: 509/.54 ; OCLC: 693659 ; beige cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label date due pocket ; Contents: Survey of source materials -- Astronomy -- Mathematics -- Medicine -- Chemical practices and alchemy -- Agriculture -- Botany -- Zoology -- The physical world : views and concepts -- Western science in India up to the end of the nineteenth century AD -- Resume. ; FINE New Delhi [Published for the National Commission for the Compilation of History of Sciences in India by] Indian National Science hardcover
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Daniels George Emery 1914
Solar homes and sun heating
New York : Harper & Row 1976 1976. Good. 1st ed. ; 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0060109378 :; 9780060109370 LCCN: 74-15818 ; OCLC: 1857901 ; LC: TH7413; Dewey: 697/.78/0973 ; orange and grey cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label date due pocket ; Contents: The windows that heated a house -- How sun heating works: the basics -- Fourteen ways to free heat -- The R value: how to hold on to stored heat -- Solar heating on an existing house -- How to build a flat-plate solar-heating system -- Things to come -- Decorating tips for solar houses. ; G New York : Harper & Row, 1976 hardcover
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Hooke Robert 1918 Gerald J Liebermann Andrew J Schultz ed
Introduction to scientific inference.
San Francisco Holden-Day 1963 1963. Good. 101 p. illus. 23 cm. LCCN: 62-21837 OCLC: 345672 LC: Q175; Dewey: 519.92 eries: Holden-Day series in industrial engineering and management science; green cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib writing on front endpaper ; Contents: Inductive inference and experimental error -- A population sample model--local inference -- Expansion of the model--inference in the large -- Interpretation of results -- Random variables and distributions -- Variance and related topics -- Problems of sampling in physical situations -- Randomization -- Restricte randomization and experimental designs -- Regession or curve fitting. ; G San Francisco, Holden-Day, 1963 hardcover
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Nash Leonard Kollender 1918
The nature of the natural sciences. Common sense and science; Empirical tools and empiricism; Organized science; Creative science; The real world
Boston Little Brown 1963 1963. Very Good. xix 406 p. illus. 22 cm. ; LCCN: 63-17432 ; LC: Q175 ; OCLC: 1189283 ; grey cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label date due pocket ; "What is science That question seldom emerges when scientists talk with each other. Most scientists believe they know quite well what science is and since they all share much the same fundamental presuppositions their beliefs rarely broach a subject for debate. However." ; Contents: Common sense and science From stimuli to constructs From constructs to concepts -- Science and common sense Recurrence and reproducibility -- Anatomy of science Principle of intelligibility Heuristic tools -- Cosmology and technology The climate of opinion cosmology of organized science -- Colligative relations and scientific laws The sulfur relation Boyle's Law Galileo's law of free fall A relation of Euclidean geometry The Bode-Titus Law Moseley's Law The Mendelian Laws -- Empirical tools and empiricism The operating protocol Pointer readings calibration extrapolation choice of variables choice of observables the myth of method-- The principles of science Parsimony penury clarity analogy energy atomism superposition and summation superposition and explanation causality as heuristic maxim quantum mechanics determinism and causality learning presupposes error -- Theories and models logic and mathematics abstract formalism and scientific law the hypothetico-deducticve method the positivists' theory without superfluity -- The evolution of scientific terms the crucial experiment situations of deadlock ramified chain of reasoning totality of what is tested -- Organized science The invisible college normative functions the super-personal intelligence complementarity of capacities complementarity of skills complementarity of temperaments complementarity and cancellations of commitments defective personal commitment excessive authority --Creative science Primacy of hypothesis detachment accidental discoveries focal discoveries the threshold of impressionability knowledge and expectation the birth of insight -- The real world naive realism phenomenalism illogical cynicism representationalism science and prediction heuristic power simplicity the cross-fix ultimate unintelligibilities. ; VG Boston, Little, Brown, 1963 hardcover
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Leighton Ralph. ; Feynman Richard Phillips 1918 1988.
Tuva or bust! : Richard Feynman's last journey
New York ; London : W.W. Norton 1991 1991. Very Good. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 254 p. : illustrated ; 22 cm. 1 sound disc analog 33 1/3 rpm mono. ; 5 in. ; ISBN: 0393029530; 9780393029536 LCCN: 90-42206 ; LC: QC16.F49; Dewey: 957.5 ; OCLC: 22005560 ; Accompanying disc is a soundsheet containing excerpts from Melodii Tuvy: Melodiya Records 030773. ; red and beige cloth ; no dustjacket; ex-lib stamps labels date due pocket ; "In 1977 Feynman and his sidekick-- fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton--set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape befriending quite a few Tuvans and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine attempts to reach Tannu Tuva would span a decade interrupted by Feynman's appointment to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster and his tragic struggle with the cancer that finally killed him. Tuva or Bust! chronicles the deepening friendship of two zany brilliant strategists whose love of the absurd will delight and instruct. It is Richard Feynman's last best adventure" ; contains the scarce recording ; Contents: There Is No Such Country -- Forty five Snowy -- Mysterious Melodies -- Hail to the Chief -- We Appear in the Center of Asia -- Three Americans Reach Tuva -- Meeting in Moscow -- Amateur Ambassadors -- Clowns or Con Men -- The Keller Accord -- The Trip Is Arranged -- Catalina Cowboys -- The Invitation Arrives. ; VG New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1991 hardcover
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Gaul Albro Tilton 1917 1998. illustrations Virgil Warden Finlay 1914 1971 Sam Moskowitz 1920 1997
The complete book of space travel. Briefing for the stars; Spaceman's guide; Host to the alien; A portfolio of early space ships 1638-1929
Cleveland Ohio : World Publishing Company 1956. 1956. Very Good. 159 p. illus. 29 cm. ; LCCN: 55-5287 ; LC: TL789; Dewey: 629.1388 ; OCLC: 1258964 ; black cloth with silver lettering and decorations ; no dustjacket ; here is a rather interesting collaboration between three unusual personalities Albro Tilton Gaul worked as an entomologist for the New York City Department of Parks and in 1960 recorded a series of insect sounds for Folkways Records. Here he is the author of a book on space travel which features work of the prolific science fiction artist Virgil Warden Finlay who got his start in 1927 as the artist of science fiction stories in pulp magazines a career that spanned 45 years and over 3000 illustrations and the work supplemented by a section of historical science fiction illustrations narrated by Sam Moskowitz the controversial historian and collector of science fiction who as chairman of the world's first Science Fiction Convention held in New York in 1939 barred the entrance of the Marxist Futurian group and he subsequently authored a bombastic history of the affair ; slight foxing and wear to covers an otherwise VG copy Cleveland, Ohio : World Publishing Company, 1956. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5389
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Millman Jacob 1911 1991 ; Taub Herbert 1918
Pulse and digital circuits. Review of amplifier circuits; Linear wave shaping RC RL and RLC circuits; Linear phase amplifiers; Nonlinear wave shaping; The bistable multivibrator; Monostable and astable multivibrators; Voltage time-base generators; Current time-base generators; Pulse transformers and blocking oscillators; Electromagnetic delay lines; Counting; Synchronization and frequency division; Digital computer circuits; Transmission gates; Voltage comparators; Time modulation and measurement; Pulse and digital systems; Transistors in pulse and digital circuits
New York : McGraw-Hill 1956. 1956. Very Good. 687 p. illus. 24 cm. ; LCCN: 55-11930 ; OCLC: 857264 ; Series: McGraw-Hill electrical and electronic engineering series; LC: TK7835; QC601; Dewey: 621.31 ; black and red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; named blacked out on front ep and bottom of textblock ; Contents: Review of amplifier circuits -- Linear wave shaping RC RL and RLC circuits -- Linear phase amplifiers -- Nonlinear wave shaping -- The bistable multivibrator -- Monostable and astable multivibrators -- Voltage time-base generators -- Current time-base generators -- Pulse transformers and blocking oscillators -- Electromagnetic delay lines -- Counting -- Synchronization and frequency division -- Digital computer circuits -- Transmission gates -- Voltage comparators -- Time modulation and measurement -- Pulse and digital systems -- Transistors in pulse and digital circuits. ; Dr. Jacob Millman was with the Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University. VG New York : McGraw-Hill, 1956. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5300
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Bryant Joseph D. Joseph Decatur 1845 1914.
Operative surgery : Volulme 1The General Considerations; Agents for the Control of Hemorrhage; The Treatment of Operation-Wounds; The Ligature of Arteries; Ope rations On Veins Capillaries Etc.; Operations on the Nervous System; Operations on Tendons Ligaments Fascias Muscles and Bursae; Operations on Bones; Amputations; Amputation at the Lower Extremity; Deformities; Plastic Surgery
New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company 1905. 1905. Very Good. 4th ed. printed from new plates entirely rev. and largley rewritten ; Volume 1 only of 2 volumes Vol.1: xxix 737 2 xxxvi 4 pp. ; illus. partly in color ; 25 cm. ; LCCN: 05-12260 ; OCLC: 8724904 ; LC: RD32; Dewey: 617.91 ; Dr. Joseph D Bryant 1945-1914 held numerous posts including Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery Operative and Clinical Surgery University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College Visiting Surgeon to Bellevue and St. Vincent's Hospitals Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Woman's Hospital and Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane Fellow of the American Surgical Association former President of the New York Academy of Medicine and President of the New York State Medical Association ; 749 illustrations in the set of two volumes of which 49 are in color ; Contents: The General Considerations -- Agents for the Control of Hemorrhage -- The Treatment of Operation-Wounds -- The Ligature of Arteries -- Ope rations On Veins Capillaries Etc. -- Operations on the Nervous System -- Operations on Tendons Ligaments Fascias Muscles and Bursae -- Operations on Bones -- Amputations -- Amputation at the Lower Extremity -- Deformities -- Plastic Surgery ; 3/4 leather with purple textured cloth lettering in gold ; stippled fore-edge ; initials in pencil on title page foxing ; numerous two-color illustrations in blue red and black ; VG New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company, 1905. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5319 ISBN : 1152790498 9781152790490
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Ing Catherine Mills 1914 ; Pond Grace. photos Sally Anne Thompson; assist. A A Damsteeg E Von Eytzinger Edna Field Ric
Champion cats of the world. History; Modern Science; Myth legend folklore; Fine Arts; Literature; Longhairs; Shorthairs; Foreign Shorthairs; Siamese; Australia & New Zealand; Canda; France; Germany; Great Britain; Japan; Netherlands; Scandinavia;
New York : Saint Martin's Press c1972 1978. 1978. Very Good. 2nd printing ; 128 p. illustrated in color ; 30 cm. ; LCCN: 70-188397 ; OCLC: 416749 ; LC: SF449.A1; Dewey: 636.8 ; lavender cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; remains of label on front ep ; slight nick on corner of dustjacket ; else VG New York : Saint Martin's Press, c1972, 1978. hardcover
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Benenson Abram S. 1914 American Public Health Association Program Area Committee on Communicable Diseases
Control of communicable diseases in man : an official report of the American Public Health Association.Anthrax; Arthropod-borne viral diseases; Conjunctivitis; Dematophytosis; Diarrhea; Diptheria; Filariasis; Food poisoning; Giardiasis; Gonococcal disease; Hemorrhagic fevers; Hepatitis viral; Herpangina; Herpes simplex; Influenza; Larva migrans; Leishmaniasis; Leprosy; leptospirosis; Listeriosis; Loiasis; Ma laria; Measles; Melioidosis; Menengitis; Mononucleosis; Mucormycosis; Mumps; Mycetoma; Nocardioses; Onchocerciasis; Paragonimiasis; Paratyphoid fever; Pediculosis; Pinta; Plague; Pleurodynia; Pneumonia; Poliomyeliti s; Psittacosis; Q fever; Rabies; Rat-bite fever; Respiratory disease; Rheumatic fever - Rickettsial fevers; Rubella
New York : American Public Health Association 1970. 1970. Very Good. 11th ed. ; xx 316 p. 20 cm. ; ISBN: 0875530540; 9780875530543 LCCN: 70-82264 ; OCLC: 70469 ; LC: RC643; RA643; Dewey: 614.4 ; selected Contents: Anthrax -- Arthropod-borne viral diseases -- Conjunctivitis -- Dematophytosis -- Diarrhea -- Diptheria -- Filariasis -- Food poisoning -- Giardiasis -- Gonococcal disease -- Hemorrhagic fevers -- Hepatitis viral -- Herpangina -- Herpes simplex -- Influenza -- Larva migrans -- Leishmaniasis -- Leprosy -- leptospirosis -- Listeriosis -- Loiasis -- Ma laria -- Measles -- Melioidosis -- Menengitis -- Mononucleosis -- Mucormycosis -- Mumps -- Mycetoma -- Nocardioses -- Onchocerciasis -- Paragonimiasis -- Paratyphoid fever -- Pediculosis -- Pinta -- Plague -- Pleurodynia -- Pneumonia -- Poliomyeliti s -- Psittacosis -- Q fever -- Rabies -- Rat-bite fever -- Respiratory disease -- Rheumatic fever - Rickettsial fevers -- Rubella -- Salmonellosis -- Scabies -- Schistomiasis -- Shigellosis -- Smallpox -- Sporotrichosis -- Staphylococcal disease -- Streptococcal disease -- Strongyloidiasis -- Syphilis -- Taseniasis and cysticercosis -- Tetanus -- Toxoplasmosis -- Trachoma -- Trichinosis -- Trypanosomiasis -- Typhoid fever -- Typhus fever -- Whooping cough -- Wolhynian fever -- Yaws. ; red and yellow stiff paper wrappers ; VG New York : American Public Health Association, 1970. unknown
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Gay Mary A. H. Mary Ann Harris 1829 1918.
The Pastor's Story and Other Pieces; or Prose and Poetry. Temperance Address; Tallassee Falls; Farewell to Alabama; To the Memory of Capt. John H. Rowan; Elegy on the Death of a Young Lady; The Power of Triffles; etc
Memphis Tennessee : Published for the Author by Goodwin & Co. 1871 ©1860. 1871. Good. 7th edition ; vi 266 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LC: PS1734.G8 ; grape colored textured cloth with gold decorations and lettering ; ; poetry interspersed with short prose ; by the author of Life in Dixie During the War ; spine and front cover sunned ; slight wear to top and bottom of spine ; contemporary name on front end paper ; scarce ; G Memphis, Tennessee : Published for the Author by Goodwin & Co., 1871, ©1860. hardcover
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Wergeland Agnes Mathilde 1857 1914. ; Merrill Katherine.
Leaders in Norway and other essays. Primitive Norsemen; Westland & eastland; Henrik Wergeland; Camilla Collett; Welhaven & folk poetry; woman movement in Norway; Ibsen & Norwegians; Grieg; Note on Björnson; Cathedral at Trondhjem
Freeport NY : Books for Libraries Press 1966 1916. 1966. Very Good. 193 pp. ; illustrated portraits ; 21 cm. ; Essay index reprint series ; LCCN: 67-22127 ; LC: DL431; Dewey: 914.81/03/3 ; OCLC: 634031 ; Edited and arranged by Katharine Merrill ; ex-lib stamps label pocket date due ; beige cloth with black lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The primitive Norsemen.--The awakening of Norway.--Westland and eastland.--Henrik Wergeland.--Camilla Collett.--Note on Welhaven and the folk poetry.--Progress of the woman movement in Norway.--Ibsen and the Norwegians.--"Second-sight" in Norse literature.--Grieg as a National composer.--Personal recollections of Grieg.--The cathedral at Trondhjem and a vision of the past.--Biographical sketch of Agnes Mathilde Wergeland.--Appendix I: Collett on Ibsen's Ghosts .--Appendix II: Note on Björnson. ; LCCN: 67-22127 ; VG Freeport, NY : Books for Libraries Press, 1966, 1916. hardcover
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Von Miklos Josephine Bogdan 1900 ; Fiore Evelyn L 1918 Richard Howard Jerry Mason Adolph Suebsdorf Moira Duggan Barbara
The History the Beauty the Riches of the Gardener's World. Miracles & Mysteries; Grand Designs; Elements; Cycle of Life; From the Wilderness : Woods & Waters; Fields & MEadow; Composing the Garden; Wild & Stony Ground; Cities in Flower; World Wit
New York : Ridge Press 1969. 1969. Good. 252 pp. ; illustraed partly in color ; 31 cm. ; LCCN: 69-16173 ; LC: SB453; Dewey: 635.9 ; OCLC: 5528 ; bright green cloth with gold lettering and designs in color photographic dustjacket ; front ep clipped ; slight wear to dustjacket ; foxing ; Persues topics as varied as The gardener from antiquity to the Middle Ages the world's most magnificent gardens the ecology of growing things the infinite variety of plant reproduction designing with space color and light creating rock alpine an d aquatic gardens planting for seaside herbs and vegetables consolations fo space in megalopolis and the garden of silence ; G/G New York : Ridge Press, 1969. hardcover
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Burdette Robert J. Robert Jones 1844 1914. illustrations by Louis Braunhold cover design by Robert J. Burdette Jr.
Chimes from a Jester's Bells : stories and sketches. pt. 1. The story of Rollo.--pt. 2. Stories and sketches: The battle of Ardmore Neighborly neighborhood The Katydid in opera Old road show Vacation of Mustapha Legend of the Good Drummah
Indianapolis Bowen-Merrill 1897. 1897. Poor. 268 pp. ; rontispiece plates. ; 19 cm. ; LCCN: 06-18666 ; OCLC: 270691 ; LC: PS1205; Dewey: 813.4 ; decorated red cloth with gold lettering ; top edge gilt ; heavily worn covers ; front cover nearly detached ; back cover starting ; POOR Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill, 1897. hardcover
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Braun Rosalie Artaria 1840 1918. illustrations Franz von Lenbach Anselm Feuerbach
Von berühmten Zeitgenossen. Lebenserinnerungen einer Siebzigerin; Mit zwei Bildern der Verfasserin nach den Originalen von Franz von Lenbach und Anselm Feuerbach.
München C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1920 1920. Very Good. 22. Auflage ; 2 pp. 1 leaf 215 pp. ; frontispiece portrait ; 19 cm. ; similar to OCLC: 10522396 ; LC: DD211.B73; Dewey: 838.8 ; recollections of a life in Mannheim and abroad in the company of art and artistes during the times of Wagner as told by Rosalie Braun who lived it ; text in German ; grey cloth with dark blue-grey lettering ; slight foxing else VG München, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, [1920?] hardcover
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Schiele Egon 1890 1918. ; Comini Alessandra. book design Raiberto Comini Mike Firpo; art/photos Victor Emil Janssen Franz
Egon Schiele.
New York : George Braziller 1976. 1976. Fair. 31 pp. 95 leaves of plates : illustrated some in color ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0807608203 ; LCCN: 75-37328 ; OCLC: 1993184 ; LC: ND511.5.S3; Dewey: 759.36 ; color stiff paper wrappers ; note well: water stained at back and on edges ; a good rough and ready reference text ; includes photographs and influential work of other contemporary artists ; FAIR New York : George Braziller, 1976. unknown
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