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Asimov Isaac
FOUNDATION .
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1953. Octavo boards. First British edition. The first volume of the Foundation series awarded a special Hugo in 1966 for best all-time series. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 819-31. Fine light foxing to cut edges in a very good plus dust jacket very light rubbing to corners and edges some soiling and spotting to rear panel some spotting to spine panel front panel nice and bright. A very attractive copy of an uncommon edition of this title. #129321. Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown
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Asimov Isaac
NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1959. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects two verse satires and nine stories including several classics; "The Dying Night" "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy." Also present here is "Profession" in which "imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 264-5. "All the Troubles of the World" features MULTIVAC a giant computer which directs Earth's economy and is the central clearing house of all known facts about each individual inhabitant of the planet. Ultimately it grows "so complicated its reactions are no longer those of a machine but those of a living thing" and what it wants more than anything else is "to die." See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-50. Hairline crack along front inner hinge a common problem with Doubleday books with pad-bound signatures glued into board cases else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along folds and top edge and small chip from lower edge of rear panel. #129312 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
OPUS 300
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1984. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Asimov's 300th book containing a cross section of his writings: science mystery science fiction the humanities and autobiography. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and along bottom edges and tiny closed tears at upper edge of front panel and bottom edge of rear panel. #126235 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
PEBBLE IN THE SKY
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first sf novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. Corners very gently bumped some mild age-darkening to text pages a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with some wear and rubbing at edges surface scuff to lettering of "PEBBLE" on front panel and clipped price. #126805 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
Fawcett. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Fawcett unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : GRP10490483 ISBN : 0449220591 9780449220597
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Asimov Isaac
Foundation and Earth
Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1986 First edition. Half red cloth blue boards gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. The fifth novel in his Foundation series. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 4656 ISBN : 0385233124 9780385233125
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Kalloch Isaac Smith
Promissory Note signed and Protest for Non Payment
San Francisco 1875 Printed and manuscript. One leaf 2pp. with original promissory note attached. Dated October 1 1875. Includes the original envelope. Creased where folded right edge of sheet a little rough a few very short edge tears. Overall very good. Isaac Smith Kalloch 1831-87 was a flamboyant Baptist pastor of Boston and was tried but not convicted of adultery. He then moved to Kansas were he indulged in land speculation shady railroad ventures and political maneuvers before moving to San Francisco 1875 because "there are more wicked people of both sexes in that city� and I feel called by God to convert them." Kallock became pastor of Metropolitan Temple the city's largest church and the candidate of the Workingmen's party for Mayor. His campaign attacked not only Chinese labor and the Big Four but also Charles de Young whose Chronicle opposed him. In cold blood de Young shot Kalloch at his church. Kalloch survived to become Mayor of San Francisco 1879-81. His son Isaac Milton Kalloch in turn shot and killed de Young 1880. The father weathered impeachment attempts and the son was acquitted of murder. Both father and son then moved to Washington Territory to become lawyers there. Earlier while in Kansas Kalloch borrowed $104.00 from one J. B. Wheeler at the Simpsons Bank of Lawrence Kansas to be paid back at 10% interest. The original promissory note signed by Kalloch is attached to the Protest for Payment. The loan was finally turned over to the Anglo California Bank of San Francisco who hired one James L. King a Notary Public to collect the money from Kalloch. Thus this official Protest for Non Payment signed by King was presented to Kalloch. In keeping with his personal history Kalloch refused to pay. Hart A Companion to California: p.254. unknown
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Asimov Isaac
Change!: Seventy-one Glimpses of the Future
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981 First edition. Green cloth lettered in silver. A half inch split to endpaper at inner front hinge else a very fine copy in dust jacket. A collection of short essays featuring the author's predictions of what to expect in humanity's future including topics like cloning travel though black holes manipulation of brain cells to generate telepathy space colinization etc. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 4657 ISBN : 039531545X 9780395315453
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
The Gentleman from Cracow / The Mirror
New York: Limited Editions Club 1979 Introduction by Harry T. Moore. Numerous color plates from watercolors and black & white pencil studies. SIGNED by the illustrator Raphael Soyer and by the author Isaac Bashevis Singer. Number 1476 of 2000 copies. Cloth-backed boards. Spine slightly faded else a very fine copy with slipcase. Illus. by Soyer Raphael. Limited Editions Club hardcover
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Shamaya Isaac David & Shamaya Carolyn
PRACTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS Mastering the Art of Living
Samuel Weiser 1994. 115pp. Soft covers. A fine copy Samuel Weiser, 1994 paperback
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Backus Isaac
An Abridgement of the Church History of New-England from 1602 to 1804 . . . with a Concise Account of the Baptists in the Southern Parts of America
Boston: printed for the Author by E. Lincoln 1804. First edition. 271 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf title label. slight toning to text but overall very good. First edition. 271 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An important source on late 18th-century churches in Virginia based on the author's travels in the South in 1789. Howes B14 printed for the Author, by E. Lincoln unknown
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Watts Isaac
Logick: or the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth. With a variety of rules to guard against error in the affairs of religion and human life as well as in the sciences
Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson at the Stone House in Second Street 1789. First American edition stated sixteenth edition on title page. x 13-348 pp lacks blank preceding Introduction. 1 vols. 12mo. Modern full crushed brown levant. Bookplate. Title page somewhat soiled and reapirs at inner margin some minor dampstaining to text leaf G2 pp. 79-80 defective with loss of lower corner and several words of text; overall a good sound copy of a very scarce book. First American edition stated sixteenth edition on title page. x 13-348 pp lacks blank preceding Introduction. 1 vols. 12mo. The Straw Man Fallacy. First published in England in 1725 this is the first printing in America of Watts' first important work; it ultimately became extremely influential in universities and America well through the first half of the 19th century. As an interesting sidenote Watts in describing the particular sophism known as the 'straw man" was the first the use the word 'straw" in describing it. At p. 303 he writes: ".and when they have with a great deal of pomp attacked and confoundedthese images of straw of their own making they triumph over their adversary as if they had confounded his position." A very scarce and important book. Evans 22246 Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, in Second Street unknown
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Stern Isaac
Carnegie Hall program inscribed and signed by the great violinist on the front cover
New York 1947. 8vo. Fine. 8vo. unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
The Gentleman from Cracow. The Mirror. Illustrated with Water Colors by Raphael Soyer. With an Introduction by Harry T. Moore
New York: The Limited Edition Club. First Edition with these illustrations Number1955 of 2000 copies signed by Singer & Soyer. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine dj. First Edition with these illustrations Number1955 of 2000 copies signed by Singer & Soyer. 1 vols. 8vo. The Limited Edition Club unknown
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Canada Cowie Isaac
The Company of Adventurers. A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company during 1867-1874
Toronto: William Briggs 1913. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth remainder binding with black lettering on front cover and spine. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. William Briggs unknown
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Watts Isaac
Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse on Natural Moral and Divine Subjects; Written chiefly in Younger Years
London: Printed for Richard Ford and Richard Hett 1734. First edition. Head and tail-pieces advertisement leaf for the author's works at back. 1 vols. 12mo. Later half calf morocco label. Some light browning mostly marginal small library label on spine pencilled markings on verso of title and pastedown bookplate else a very good copy. First edition. Head and tail-pieces advertisement leaf for the author's works at back. 1 vols. 12mo. A collection of essays thoughts and poems written in earlier years on a diversity of subjects. Printed for Richard Ford and Richard Hett unknown
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Cruikshank Isaac
The Actor's Regalio or Theatrical Budget
London: Duncombe nd. Duncombe's Only Correct Edition. Third Collection. Colred frontispiece of "Mr. Mathews as the French Postilion" by IRC i.e.Isaac Robert Cruikshank pp. iv 51-72. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound else fine. Cruikshank Isaac Robert. Duncombe's Only Correct Edition. Third Collection. Colred frontispiece of "Mr. Mathews as the French Postilion" by IRC i.e.Isaac Robert Cruikshank pp. iv 51-72. 1 vols. 8vo. Duncombe unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
In My Father's Court
New York: Farrar Straus And Giroux 1966. First Edition. 307 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with off-white paper over boards. Spine faded else a very good copy. First Edition. 307 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on front free endpaper"To my good friends the highly talented sisters each in her own field Marchette and Joy Chute-with my very best wishes Isaac Bashevis Singer May 4 1966" The Chute girls were both noted writers. Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Farrar, Straus And Giroux unknown
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Stern Adolf Abraham Isaac ben Jonah Prim Rabin
Sefer Rashe Tevot. Handbuch der Hebraischen Abbreviaturen
Sighetul-Marmatiei Romania: Tipografia A. Kaufman 1926. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth backed boards. Shaken acidic paper somewhat toned and brittle. Good plus. Rare. First Edition. viii. 272 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scholarly aid to understanding common and uncommon Hebrew abbrevations compiled by Abraham Isaac ben Jonah Stern principal rabbi of Orastie Translyvania. Tipografia A. Kaufman unknown
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Leake Isaac Q.
Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb an Officer of the Revolution Who Commanded the Post at West Point at the Time of Arnold's Defection and His Correspondence With Washington Clinton Patrick Henry and Other Distinguished Men of His Time
Albany: Joel Munsell 78 State Street 1857. Second edition. Frontispiece. portrait. 4 Lithographic maps. x 431 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary. three quarter green calf and marbled boards. Boards off. Second edition. Frontispiece. portrait. 4 Lithographic maps. x 431 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Lamb was born in New York in Jan. 1735 before the Revolution he was a wine merchant after being an optician like his father. He was attached to General Montgomery's detachment during Arnold's attack of Quebec and served under Arnold after Montgomery was killed. Howes L 165; Sabin 39521 Joel Munsell, 78 State Street unknown
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Hayes Dr. Isaac I.
The Open Polar Sea. A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States
New York: Hurd & Houghton 1867. First edition. Portrait frontispiece 9 illustrations several tail-pieces. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brick red cloth with a gilt-stamped bear's head on upper cover gilt spine. Some chipping to spine ends without loss endpapers discolored very light foxing to frontispiece and title mostly from tissue guard but still a very good copy. First edition. Portrait frontispiece 9 illustrations several tail-pieces. 1 vols. 8vo. Hurd & Houghton unknown
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Chapman Isaac A.
A Sketch of the History of Wyoming.to which is added an Appendix containing a Statistical Account of the Valley and Adjacent Country. By a Gentleman of Wilkesbarre
Wilkesbarre Pa: Printed and Published by Sharp D. Lewis 1830. First edition. pp. 1 - 209 210 errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue-green cloth faded and slightly stained printed yellow paper spine label; some light scattered foxing otherwise a very good sound copy. First edition. pp. 1 - 209 210 errata slip. 1 vols. 12mo. Howes: "The first history of this valley." Howes C 292 Printed and Published by Sharp D. Lewis unknown
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Stern Isaac
Two Typed Letters signed "Isaac Stern" to James Heineman
New York 1979. On Carnegie Hall Corporation letterhead. 2 vols. 8vo. Fine. On Carnegie Hall Corporation letterhead. 2 vols. 8vo. Two letters to Carnegie Hall supporter James Heineman one mentioning the first Ysaye/Queen Elizabeth Competition and the Gilels siblings the other thanking Heineman for a donation to Carnegie Hall and membership in the Friends of Carnegie Hall. unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
The Family Moskat. Translated from the Yiddish by A. H. Gross
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1950. First edition in English. 611 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Crimson and black cloth. Fine in almost fine unclipped dust jacket with one closed tear else a fine copy of Singer's first book. First edition in English. 611 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
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Watts Isaac
Hymns and Spiritual Songs. In Three Books
London: Printed for T. Longman C. and R. Ware 1767. The Twenty-Eighth edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary crimson morocco. With 'Sarah Platt 1768" stamped in gilt on upper cover and surrounding gilt border. The Twenty-Eighth edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed for T. Longman, C. and R. Ware unknown
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Stern Isaac
Carnegie Hall Program SIGNED BY ISAAC STERN violinist who performed with the Philharmonic-Symphony on January 20 1946 Howard Hanson conducting
New York: The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York 1946. First Edition. 1 vols. 10-1/2 x 7 inches. Original self-wrappers signed fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 10-1/2 x 7 inches. The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
Elijah The Slave. A Hebrew Legend Retold by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1970. First edition. Pictures by Antonio Frasconi. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Purple cloth. Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Pictures by Antonio Frasconi. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. This book won the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1970. Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown
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Cruikshank Isaac Robert 1789 1856
Café Burns Characters". Original ink and watercolor drawing on paper signed "Robert Cruikshank" lower right
London 1820. A meticulous rendering of an old woman seated smoking among her pets and surrounded by a circular frieze of 30 heads of highly diverse individuals plus a full-length Cupid: young lovers soldier miser judge mortician farmer sailor squire singing lady scold dandy toper etc. as well as several attractive young women. There is also a "temple of love" and a lovers' maze. In the corners are elaborate curtains a decorated confection decanters of spirits and a display of fruits. Across the top is the legend lightly sketched in pencil CAFE BURNS CHARACTERS. 1 vols. Image 7 x 7-3/4 inches matted and framed to 11-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches overall. Some light soiling mostly marginal otherwise fine and attractive. A meticulous rendering of an old woman seated smoking among her pets and surrounded by a circular frieze of 30 heads of highly diverse individuals plus a full-length Cupid: young lovers soldier miser judge mortician farmer sailor squire singing lady scold dandy toper etc. as well as several attractive young women. There is also a "temple of love" and a lovers' maze. In the corners are elaborate curtains a decorated confection decanters of spirits and a display of fruits. Across the top is the legend lightly sketched in pencil CAFE BURNS CHARACTERS. 1 vols. Image 7 x 7-3/4 inches matted and framed to 11-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches overall. A Superb Social Satire by Robert Cruikshank Ca. 1820. Isaac Robert Cruikshank son of Isaac and elder brother of the more famous George was a caricaturist illustrator and particularly apropos of the picture offered here portrait miniaturist. His first caricatures appeared around 1810 and were often produced in conjunction with his brother Geroge with whom he shared a studio. Notes Bryant and Heneage "Of his Robert's social satires those he made of the dandies and the fashion for 'hobby horses' in the early 1820s are among the most attractive." We are pleased to be able to offer a fine example of this genre. Bryant & Heneage Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists p. 52 unknown
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D'Israeli Isaac
An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1795. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in half later blue morocco and marbled boards all edges uncut. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Very scarce. Roth Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B20; CBEL III 1278 T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown
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D'Israeli Isaac
Domestic Anecdotes of the French Nation during the Last Thirty Years. Indicative of the French Revolution
London: Printed for C. and J. Kearsley Fleet Street 1794. First Edition with half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf front joint weak else a very nice copy. Bookplate of John Humphrey Austen. First Edition with half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. The author states that the Revolution was on its way for many years and there should be no surprise that it came when it did. Roth Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B20; CBEL III 1278 Printed for C. and J. Kearsley, Fleet Street unknown
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D'Israeli Isaac
Curiosities of Literature
New York: W.J. Widdleton 1870. 4 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards marbled edges. Lightly rubbed VG. 4 vols. 8vo. Dedicated to Francis Douce. These are anecdotal short essays on a variety of subjects that were immensely popular in their time. Roth Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B2055; CBEL III 1278 for first edition W.J. Widdleton unknown
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Asimov Isaac
3 by Asimov. Three Science Fiction Tales
New York: Targ Editions 1981. First edition limited to 250 copies each signed by the author. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Original Belgian linen over boards by Colvin and Company printed paper label on upper cover wrapper. Minor toning to edges else Fine. First edition limited to 250 copies each signed by the author. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. The stories are "True Love" "Fair Exchange" and "The Last Answer Targ Editions unknown
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Asimov Isaac
THE ROBOTS OF DAWN
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1983. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Detective Lije Baley and his robot partner Daneel Olivaw investigate a murder committed on the planet Aurora a utopian world where men live in harmony with their machines. 1984 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some rubbing at head and tail of spine panel and front corners and small ink smudge on front panel. #62202 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION
New York: Doubleday 1988. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition first printing without "first edition" statement on copyright page. Prequel to the Foundation series. "Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #80739 Doubleday unknown
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Singer Isaac Bashevis
SHORT FRIDAY AND OTHER STORIES .
New York: Farrar 1964. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects sixteen stories including several fantasies and a ghostly tale. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 967. Reginald 13226. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #62467 Farrar unknown
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Asimov Isaac
PEBBLE IN THE SKY
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1950. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's first book and first sf novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." Brians Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984 p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-51. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 237. In 333. Moderate dust soiling to top edge free endpapers show some offsetting a very good to near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with some light rubbing to edges corners and folds light shelf wear to head of spine panel small closed tear with crease at upper right corner and touch of fading to spine panel lettering. #81888 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Rosenfeld Isaac
ALPHA AND OMEGA: STORIES.
New York: The Viking Press 1966. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing at edges and some dust soiling to rear panel. #115232 The Viking Press unknown
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Asimov Isaac
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Asimov to a mystery book publisher and bookshop owner on the title page. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #128347 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION
New York: Doubleday 1988. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition first printing without "first edition" statement on copyright page. Prequel to the Foundation series. "Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #72549 Doubleday unknown
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Asimov Isaac
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1985. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Robots re-negotiate the laws of robotics and set humankind on the road to galactic empire. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. Lower front corners gently bumped remainder spray along bottom edge a near fine copy in fine dust jacket. #126388 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Peretz Isaac Leib
THE BOOK OF FIRE: STORIES . Translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Leftwich
New York London: Thomas Yoseloff 1960. Octavo cloth. First edition. A hefty resource for studying this seminal nineteenth-century Yiddish author collecting fifty-four of his stories plus a forty-four page introduction. Some of the stories deal with traditional Jewish supernatural motifs including stories of the feats of the legendary eighteenth-century rabbi the Baal Shem Tov. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with closed tear at lower rear spine fold with old internal tape mend and tanning to rear panel. #117780 Thomas Yoseloff unknown
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Perez Isaac Loeb
STORIES AND PICTURES . Translated From the Yiddish by Helena Frank
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1906. Octavo pp. 1-5 6-7 8-9 10 11-13 14-455 456: printer's imprint title page printed in red and black original decorated red cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold. First edition. Short fiction and sketches by a Russian Jewish writer first published in Russia between 1875 and 1900. "The Dead Town" is a macabre story about a town inhabited by the walking dead -- the horror keeps its edge even after the symbolism is accounted for. In "Bontzye Shweig" a poor uncomplaining man dies and goes to heaven where he is welcomed admiringly surprising the man and in the end the reader who may sense a whiff of the cabalistic in what might have been dismissed as a whitewashing account of a nebbish who should have done some more complaining. But the judge of the heavenly court tells him "You yourself knew nothing of your hidden power. In the other world your silence was not understood but that is the world of delusion; in the world of truth you will receive your reward." The reward he asks for is a hot roll with butter every day for breakfast. Other stories retell legends from the Talmud and other sources. The material is sometimes a little diffuse from a literary point of view. Includes helpful footnotes and glossary for the non-Jewish reader. Small neat 1907 gift inscription at top edge of title page. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends spine sunned else a very good copy. #116779 The Jewish Publication Society of America unknown
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Asimov Isaac
THE COMPLETE STORIES: VOLUME I.
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1991. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Collects forty-six stories and two poems all fiction previously collected in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH 1957 NINE TOMORROWS 1959 and NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES 1969. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-43. A fine copy. #11449 Doubleday unknown
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Asimov Isaac
AZAZEL
New York: Doubleday 1988. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Collects eighteen stories featuring George and Azazel a two-centimeter-tall red Demon with magical powers. A fine copy. #73000 Doubleday unknown
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Asimov Isaac
THE ROBOTS OF DAWN
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1983. Octavo printed blue wrappers. Advance copy reproduced from the author's 504-page typescript. Detective Lije Baley and his robot partner Daneel Olivaw investigate a murder committed on the planet Aurora a utopian world where men live in harmony with their machines. 1984 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-52. A fine copy. #12946 Doubleday & Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
FANTASTIC VOYAGE .
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1966. Octavo cloth. First edition. 1966 Nebula nominee. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance. This is a novelization of the screenplay by Harry Kleiner from the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-43. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some light wear to spine ends and edges of front panel. #111863 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
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Asimov Isaac
BUY JUPITER AND OTHER STORIES
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1976. Octavo boards. First British edition. Twenty-four stories with autobiographical commentary by Asimov. Includes "2430 A.D." a conformist dystopia. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 322. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. An elusive edition of this book. #73080 Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown
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Asimov Isaac and Robert Silverberg
THE POSITRONIC MAN
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1992. Octavo boards. First edition. A novelization of Asimov's classic robot story "The Bicentennial Man." A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #91586 Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 91586
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Rubin Theodore Isaac
COMIMG OUT
New York: Trident Press 1967. Octavo cloth. First edition. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #115245 Trident Press unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 115245
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