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1950réf. 058895New York: Philosophical Library 1950. First American Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good/No DJ. 119 Pp. Green Cloth. English And German Text On Facing Pages. Very Good Except For Browning To Spine. Gilt Present And Still Bright. Previous Owner's Inscription Dated Christmas 1950. Philosophical Library hardcover
1958réf. 039433New York: Duell Sloan And Pearce 1958. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Drawings By Klee Design By Merle Armitage. 121 Pp. One Of 1050 Copies Of A Signed Edition. Bound Only In The Endpapers Complete Without Card Covers. Five Essays With Illustrations Of Sixteen Drawing By Klee Fourteen Of Which Were Previously Unpublished. Signed By Armitage On The Colophon. Additionally Inscribed At Length "Dear Charles Duell- Its Unfair To See This Book Without Its Striking Cover- And Slip-Case. But Here Is A Test Copy From Endpapers To Endpapers- With Its Heretofore Unreproduced Drawings- Its 5 Essays And One Article- Etc. Its Been A Labor Of Love As I Have Been A Klee Admirer Since 1928- Best Merle Armitage". Some Wear A Little Foxing To First And Last Few Pages And To Edges Of Page Block. Duell, Sloan And Pearce hardcover
1950réf. 035756London: Basil Blackwell 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Xii 119 Pp. With Page Numbers And Text Duplicated In English And German. Green Cloth Gilt. First Edition In English With German And English Text On Facing Pages. Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners Gilt Brilliant Tiny Owner's Signature Philosopher Irwin Chester Lieb At Center Of Front Free Endpaper With Some Infrequent Pencil Emphasis Marks And At Least One Extended Marginalia And At Least One Double Emphasis Mark In Ink. Dj Unlaminated And Slightly Taller Than The Book Is Very Good With Very Slight Browning To Spine A Few Very Small Discolorations And Stray Marks 1/8" Chipping To Part Of Top Of Spine And At Upper Front Tip. Ernest Chester Lieb Chet Lieb Died In Pasadena On May 23 1992 After A Long Illness But Just Before His Magnum Opus Past Present And Future: A Philosophical Study Of Time Was Published. From Princeton He Went On To Cornell For An M.A. Followed By A Year In N.Y.C. Advertising. However Academia Kept Calling And Lie Went On To Yale For His Ph.D. And To Teach There And At Connecticut College Before Joining The Philosophy Department At The Univ. Of Texas In 1963 As Professor And Administrator. He Was Instrumental In Establishing The Press As Well As Serving As Dean Of Graduate Studies. In 1981 He Moved On To The Univ. Of Southern California As Provost. Subsequently He Served As Dean And V.P. As Well As Professor Of Philosophy. He Served On Many National Panels And Committees Including The American Council Of Learned Societies The National Endowment For The Humanities And The Assn. Of American Universities. He Authored Four Books And Innumerable Scholarly Papers. He Was A U.S. Navy Pilot During Wwii And Held A Commercial Pilot's License. In 1983 He And A Colleague Traveled To Russia To Facilitate The Travel Of Seven Prominent Soviet Scientist "Refuseniks" Coming To This Country As Visiting Scholars. Basil Blackwell hardcover
1940réf. 030621Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. X 52 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. Translation Of A 1547 Manuscript Of The Eleventh Century Book By This Female Physician. Fine No Wear Gilt Brilliant No Names Or Marks. Ward Ritchie Press hardcover
1989réf. 030077New York: Paragon House 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xxiv 216 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Spine Gilt. First Edition Stated 1989. As New In As New Dj. Paragon House hardcover
1933réf. 029682Cambridge: Massacusetts Institute Of Technolkogy / Technology Press 1933. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. X 189 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. Near Fine Spine Gilt Dulled But Present Immaculate Hinges Tight. Mit Bookplate Of Computer Pioneer Willis H Ware With His Completed 1943 Reply To Mit To Update His Address Signed By Him At End. Ware Graduated From Mit In 1942 And Was Then Working At The Haseltine Corporation Prior To His Pioneering Work On Computers. Ware'S Participation In A Classified World War Ii Project To Identify Friendly Aircraft Led The Mathematician John Von Neumann To Recruit Him To Help Develop A Computer At The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton N.J. In 1946. That Machine Was Not The First Digital Computer But It Was Based On A Set Of Design Ideas Described By Dr. Von Neumann That Were Broadly Influential - First On The Design Of Computers Built By Scientists Around The World And Then On An Early Ibm Computer Known As The 701. Many Of These Concepts Are Still Visible In The Structure Of Modern Computers And Smartphones. Mr. Ware Part Of A Small Group Of Engineers Working On That Machine Was The First To Try To Engineer Many Of The Components That Would Become Vital To Modern Computers. His Experience In Designing High-Speed Electronic Circuits During The War Was Essential To His Work On The Computer At The Institute For Advanced Study Said George Dyson A Historian Of The Project. Moving To Los Angeles He Worked For North American Aviation And Joined Rand In 1952. There He Managed The Department Where The Engineer Paul Baran Did Early Work On Packet-Switching A Technology That Was The Basis For The Internet. Mr. Ware Who Worked At The Rand Corporation For More Than 55 Years Was One Of The First People To Gain A Prescient View Of The Effect Computers Were Having On Society In Their Impact On Automation And The Threats They Posed To Privacy. "The Computer Will Touch Men Everywhere And In Every Way Almost On A Minute-To-Minute Basis" He Wrote In 1966. "Every Man Will Communicate Through A Computer Whatever He Does. It Will Change And Reshape His Life Modify His Career And Force Him To Accept A Life Of Continuous Change." While At Rand Mr. Ware Led An Early Pentagon Study Exploring Computer Security. Afterward He Was Asked By The Secretary Of Commerce To Lead A Committee To Address "Personal Privacy" In The Computer Era. Some Of Its Policy Recommendations Were Adopted In The Privacy Act Of 1974. Among Other Problems The Committee Dealt With The Increasing Reliance On "Universal Identifiers" Like Social Security Numbers. "Willis Ware Laid The Foundation For Modern Privacy Law. His Insight Was That In The Computer Age Organizations That Collected Private Information Would Have To Take Responsibility And Individuals Who Gave Up Personal Information Would Need To Get Rights." Massacusetts Institute Of Technolkogy / Technology Press hardcover
1993réf. 027730Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Photographs. 92 Pp. Stapled Front Wrapper Offprint From Space Science Reviews 64 Pp 1-92 1963. Inscribed By E. Robert Paul On The Front Page With The Recipient's Name Stamp Dated 1994. This Was Also Published In Green Boards. Kluwer Academic Publishers paperback
1923réf. 016029NY Doubleday 1923 1923. First Edition stated 1st Printing. Orange Cloth. Very Good /No Jacket. Photographs of Stage Production. X 187 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Black. First Am. Edition First Printing 1923 Date On Title And Copyright Pages Copyright Page Does State "First Edition". Frontispiece Photograph And Three Other Photographs Of The Stage Production. Vg Very Slight Fading To Spine. Front Hinge Broken But Holding Can Be Repaired. Ownership Signature Of Mental Hygienist Clare Moore De Gruchy See: Biography Of Alice B Toklas By Simon. An Early Play About Self-Aware Mechanico-Electric Humanoids Contributing The Word "Robot" To Twentieth Century Consciousness Before Mankind Became Aware Of How Dehumanized Humans Were Than Humanized Robots So Far. NY Doubleday 1923 hardcover
1950réf. 019845Amritsar / New Delhi: Sikh Publishing House 1950. First Edition Thus . Printed Boards. Very Good. 136 Pp. One Of 2000 Copies Of The Stated First Edition Light Discoloring To Boards. No Names Or Marks Contents Fine. Sikh Publishing House hardcover
1904réf. 016636Easton PA: Chemical Publishing Company 1904. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 122 Pp. Red Cloth. First American Edition. A Clean Tight Unmarked Lightly Used Example. Title And Author Written In White Ink On Spine Small Previous Owner's Personal Name Stamp On Front Pastedown No Other Marks Or Damage. Chemical Publishing Company hardcover
1949réf. 024917Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Brown Cloth Gilt. Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Xvi 492 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. First Printing. Book Is Fine Touch Of Rubbing At Lower Tips Gilt Brilliant No Names Or Marks Hinges Tight. Dj Lightly Used Price-Clipped Spine Sunned Browning 1/8" V-Chip At Top Of Top Of Front Spine Edge. Scarce In Jacket. University of California hardcover
1948réf. 020560New York: Harcourt Brace 1948. First American Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good /No DJ. 347 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing Of The American Issue Using British Sheets. Ownership Signature And Harvard Address Of Biochemist Howard Allen Schneiderman Of Uc Irvine Monsanto And Washington University And His Irvine Name/Position Stamp. Harcourt, Brace hardcover
1911réf. 023079Chicago: A. M. McClurg 1911. First Edition First Printing . Green Cloth Gilt. Very Good . Frontispiece. 359 Pp. First Printing. Covers Clean And Unfaded Spine And Cover Gilt Still Brilliant. No Names Or Marks. Light Wear At Corners With Pts Beginning To Fray At Corners Of Spine. A. M. McClurg hardcover
1948réf. 8325London: Jonathan Cape 1948. First Edition Thus. First Impression. Octavo 18.25cm; green cloth with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 1011-2631pp. Touch of sunning to spine some darkening to spine ends foxing to text edges and endpapers with previous owner's ink name to upper front endpaper; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net spine-sunned edgeworn with several shallow losses to spine ends and corner tips a few small tears and some faint foxing; Very Good. Traven's second book translated into English. Set it Mexico it is a story of gold greed and the best and worst in human nature. This edition was published in conjunction with John Huston's Oscar-winning 1948 film noir which catapulted it to international fame reproducing stills from the film on the spine and panels of the jacket. Treverton 280. 8325. Jonathan Cape unknown
1955réf. 8633Paris: The Olympia Press 1955. First U.K. Edition. First Impression and first translation into English. Octavo 18cm; publisher's white unprinted card wrappers; dustjacket; 78-2417pp. Signed by Beckett in blue pen at upper title page. Hint of sunning to wrapper extremities faint foxing to upper edge of textblock else internally clean and Near Fine. In the original dustjacket this one a variant noted by Federman & Fletcher as having the legend "Special Printing for Sale in the U.K. and Commonwealth" underneath which a 12/6 price has been modified by hand; some pinpoint wear to upper and lower edges light rubbing to spine ends else Near Fine. The first of three novels in Beckett's mid-20th century Trilogy written in Paris between 1947-1950 which include Malone Meurt and The L'Innommable. It introduces the vagrant Molloy mysteriously incarcerated who escapes and attempts to discover the whereabouts of his mother; the other character Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities and tasked with finding Molloy. An attractive copy of a book typically found well-worn uncommon signed. Federman & Fletcher 374. 8633. The Olympia Press unknown
1968réf. 8473New York: Grove Press Inc 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x214pp. Elegantly signed by the author in Japanese on the title page. Previous owner's ink inscription to front endpaper else a clean Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped showing light wear to spine ends some mild surface wear with one tiny tear and a small faint stain to lower edge of front panel; Very Good or better. The Japanese Nobel Prize-winner's grim semi-autobiographical novel in which a young father must come to grips with his newborn son having severe mental difficulties after being born with a brain hernia. Originally published in Japan under the title Kojinteki na taiken in 1964 the Grove Press edition was the first in the English language preceding the UK edition by a year. 8473. Grove Press, Inc unknown
1987réf. 168328Santa Monica and San Francisco: Lapis Press 1987. Limited Edition one of 150 copies SIGNED by translator Michael Taylor and artist Sam Francis. A collection of prose-poems first published in 1912 written in French and Chinese inspired by inscriptions author Victor Segalen saw on stones along the road during a stay in China. Fine in a lightly rubbed Very Good plus transparent dust jacket. Lapis Press unknown
1972réf. 8284New York: New Directions Books 1972. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 21cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; vi1-154pp with parallel text in Spanish and in English. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced $8.75. The Chilean poet's second bilingual collection following Poems and Antipoems 1967. With an introduction by editor and translator Miller Williams. 8284. New Directions Books unknown
1993réf. ANAIS-0195283643Oxford University Press 1993-01-14. 1. hardcover. Good. 21x3.8x15.1. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
1968réf. 7990New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1968. First American Edition. First Printing a Review Copy with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo 21.25cm; goldenrod paper-covered boards and russet cloth backstrip with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; vi23-170pp. Tiny wrinkle to cloth at crown else a fresh Fine copy. In the correct first printing dustjacket with author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear panel; unclipped priced $5.95 showing a hint of sunning and light surface wear to spine panel subtle toning and mild dust-soil to rear panel with a few tiny tears; Near Fine. An attractive copy of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winner's first book translated into English. Basis for the well-received 1999 film El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba starring Salma Hayek. Klein E1.a.1. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown
1937réf. 7828New York: The Macmillan Company 1937. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; vi298pp. Small faint triangular damp mark to lower right edge of front cover subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 showing some toning to spine light wear and a few tiny nicks to spine ends with a 1.5" closed tear to lower rear joint; Very Good. Attractive copy of the French author's best-known novel originally published in French in 1936 under the title Journal d'un curé de campagne. "A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God" Criterion #222. Basis for Robert Bresson's 1951 film adaptation starring Claude Laydu Jean Riveyre and André Guibert. The Macmillan Company unknown
1972réf. 7991New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1972. First American Edition. First Printing a Review Copy with publisher's typed slip and promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo 21.75cm; turquoise cloth with titling and decorations stamped in silver and dark green on spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; x23-1464pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $6.50 with some pinpoint rubbing at spine ends and a tiny stain at upper corner of front joint on verso.The Colombian Nobel Prize-winner's third book translated into English collecting the title story and six shorter works. Originally published in 1955 under the title La Hojarasca. Klein E3.a.1. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown
1966réf. 9801Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1966. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. 114 2 pp. As issued in printed wrappers. Light toning to the wrappers but generally a fresh copy; previous owner name on the first blank else clean. A very nice copy. University of North Carolina Press unknown
1991réf. 164877London: Faber and Faber 1991. First UK Edition. A collection of the author's film reviews initially penned under the nom de plume G. Cain. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a small chip on the right edge of the rear panel and light toning overall. Faber and Faber unknown
1957réf. 7825New York: Ives Washburn Inc 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; powder gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in hunter green on spine; dustjacket; 67-1911pp. Pinpoint wear to spine ends else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 with some trivial external wear and faint rubbing to rear panel; a bright Near Fine example without a trace of discoloration to the neon yellow spine and front panel. The French crime fiction duo's third novel preceded by the French edition Denoël 1954 and the English Hutchinson 1956. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The best copy of the American edition we've seen; the bulk of the run seems to have made its way chiefly into public and lending libraries with the surviving copies prone to heavy wear and serious fading. Hubin p.39. Ives Washburn, Inc unknown
