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1946Best.-Nr. 140944760Ft. Eustis VA: Ordnance Department Army Service Forces 1946. Complete in three volumes all "Reproduced by Technical Information Branch BUAER Navy Department" marked "Restricted.". 1 572; 1 573-1147; 2 1149-1762 pp. printed on rectos only in March 1946. Along with related documents Index to Volume I II II 1 98 pp; and Glossary of English Guided Missile Terms unconventionally paginated approx 100 pages. All five of these volumes are mimeographed typescript on rectos only. 10½" x 8" printed boards tied through punch holes in spines with shoestring. Very Good with light foxing and soiling. A sixth document is included from a rocketry project involving German scientists: Report No. 55289 "Project Hermes": Investigation of Unsymmetrical Forces Due to Jet-entrained Air Produced During Launching of the V-2. Aeronautics and Ordnance. General Electric. Prepared by A.B. Gregg Jr. 2 20 leaves. Mimeographed typescript figures & graphs 3 full page halftone photographs. Dampstaining along bottom edge. Project Hermes was a missile research program that ran from 1944 to 1954. Includes two original snapshot photographs of a V-2 rocket attached to wheels for transport U.S. military personnel standing by. A scarce and significant documentation of the United States' absorption German rocket technology at the dawning of the Cold War and also its enlistment of German scientists including Werner von Braun and Major General Dr. Walter Dornberger. The three large accession lists the Index and the Glossary were produced by the Foreign Document Evaluation Branch Development and Proof Services Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland. The five volumes were produced to streamline access to the massive array of engineering documents taken out of Germany and to facilitate the work of German and American scientists in jump-starting the American missile program. We could locate only three institutions with a set of all five volumes the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Museum of Flight Seattle WA; and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library MD. These volumes document the orderly transfer of knowledge about rocketry weapons programs and the earliest stirrings of a space program from Nazi Germany to the United States. They are mostly bibliographies of technological literature in German with a focus on the V-2 rocket. Ordnance Department, Army Service Forces unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 140943679Paris: Chez F.L. Schmied 1930. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Copy number 13 of 162 numbered copies from an edition of 172 total signed by Francois-Louis Schmied. Folio. A beautiful and lavish production with 28 wood engravings printed in colors each one signed by the artist; signed by Schmied on the colophon and with an additional presentation inscription from the artist on the blank front free endpaper. With an additional suite of plates printed in black being numbered 8 and signed by Schmied on the section's title page and with an additional suite of plates in color also numbered 8 and signed on the section title page and an additional suite of 20 pages showing the separation of the plates. Bound a beautiful art binding by the French master binder Madame Marot-Rodde in full golden morocco inlaid with a tan morocco panel and white vertical and horizontal striped. Inside boards with yellow watered silk pastedowns surrounded by gilt and white morocco inlay housed in a yellow marbled slipcase with morocco tips. Near Fine with rubbing to outer hinges. A stunning copy. Chez F.L. Schmied unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 140939464Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1944. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. vi 103 pp. Original cloth. Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear a little toning to spine panelfaint pencil to front panel. Uncommon in jacket. Princeton University Press unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 1411262Moscow: State Publishers Music 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto xvii 278 2 pages. In Very Good condition. In full brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Very light wear to boards with mild bumping to fore corners. Text block shows light age toning and small sparse scuffs along edges. Lightly age toned throughout. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1411262. Special Collections - Upstairs. State Publishers Music hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 1410883London: Universal Edition 1972. First English Edition. Hardcover. Quarto xii 183 pages. In Very Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Volume in full black cloth binding with white titling to spine. Jacket is white with black decoration and lettering wrapped in a new protective mylar sleeve. Jacket is missing sections with large open tears and creasing along the top and bottom edges. Faint smudging along edges and on jacket back cover. Boards are bowing slightly with mild shelf wear and light bumping to fore corners. Text block is lightly age toned and faintly foxed along edges. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1410883. Special Collections - Upstairs. Universal Edition hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 1413802Tokyo: Shueisha 1992. Japanese Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 607 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full white paper binding. Jacket is white with black Japanese language lettering with a gray band. Band has small closed tears along the edges with wrinkling and a larger closed tear along the spine. Jacket is lightly smudged with mid wrinkling at the head and tail. Boards show light shelving wear. Spine is cocked. Text block is lightly age toned with very mild wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room F. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan 1937-2026 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413802. Special Collections - Upstairs. Shueisha hardcover books
1903Best.-Nr. ST19464Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole 1903-05. No. 2 OF 26 COPIES OF THE HELLENIC EDITION printed on Royal Japanese vellum. 230 x 165 mm. 9 x 6 1/2". 10 volumes. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY INDIGO CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID covers with gilt rule border central panel framed by 20 inlaid lighter blue morocco tulips interspersed with tiny gilt stars raised bands spine with three panels inlaid with sprays of dark red and citron morocco tulips and lilies accented with small tools two panels with gilt titling SKY BLUE MOROCCO DOUBLURES featuring an indigo morocco frame inlaid with red morocco lilies at corners central panel inlaid with eight teal morocco tulips and a large red morocco lily on graceful gilt stems a sprinkling of gilt stars above them ivory watered silk free endleaves all edges gilt. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED by artists including A. G. Learned and E. F. Bems with decorative frame on limitations and title pages NINE FRONTISPIECES 97 HEADPIECE VIGNETTES 95 DECORATIVE TAILPIECES AND 269 THREE-QUARTER FRAMES ALL HAND COLORED and 675 black & white three-quarter frames. With engraved bookplate of George Clinton Ward on front flyleaf most now loose. Spines with just a hint of dulling a whisper of shelfwear to a couple of volumes isolated small marginal smudges from the printing process but A VERY FINE SET WITH VIRTUALLY NO SIGNS OF USE. This superb set features English translations of important Classical texts handsomely printed on Japanese vellum extravagantly illustrated and sumptuously bound. It contains "The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius" "The Eclogues of Vergil" "Sayings of Epictetus" "Selections from Gesta Romanorum" "Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics and Other Selections from the Greek Anthology" "The Satires of Horace" "The Story of Odysseus in the Land of the Phacians Being the Sixth and a Part of the Seventh Book of the Odyssey" "Selections from Aristophanes and Lucian" "The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar" and selections from the Koran translated by George Sale. The project was undertaken by writer translator and editor Nathan Haskell Dole a popular member of the Boston literary set. Educated at Philips Andover and Harvard he was much influenced by family friends like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. He showed an early facility for languages teaching himself to read French German Greek and Latin. Our set was designed by Dole to be the crown jewel of a library combining beauty and luxury with Classical erudition. The bindings here are unsigned but are very similar to those on a copy of this work in the Phoebe Boyle sale bound by the Adams Bindery. Ralph Randolph Adams was along with Henry Stikeman and a handful or others one of the great American art bookbinders of his era. His workshop produced bindings of notable beauty and craftsmanship. The New York Times 11 October 1902 described an Adams binding as "so exquisite in design and execution that those long skeptical of the ability of Americans to bind artistically should now be convinced of their error. . . . It is to be hoped that all American binders will be encouraged to strive toward producing designs like Adams' that are in a measure original and which show more of the individual touch of the artist.". Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 55086Warsaw: L'Institute de L'Histoire Juive 1955. First edition. Softcover. Good- condition. Octavo. 24pp. Original tan stiff wraps with black lettering and ruling on cover. French language variant of the noted text by Bernard Mark 1908-1966 who served as director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Illustrated with b/w photographs of German soldiers setting fire to the Warsaw Ghetto from the album of SS General Stroop mass terrorism applied by "Hitlerites" in Poland from the collection of the Institute of Jewish History murdered insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto from the album of SS General Stroop and an old woman jumping from a burning house collection SS General Stroop. "Barely thirteen years have passed since the greatest crime known to history the attempted extermination of peoples: Jewish and non-Jewish. And now the Nazi brute raises its head again. Warmongers are resurrecting this destructive force and in order for it to be more successful this time they have decided to enthrust thermonuclear weapons to those who in the past destroyed Warsaw and the Ghetto Coventry Oradour and Lidice and Marzabotto." Translation of first part of French text. Front cover detached but present. Block browned due to paper-quality. Protected in modern mylar. L'Institute de L'Histoire Juive unknown books
1828Best.-Nr. 1409876Philadelphia: John Grigg 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 2 x 272 pages. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding with gilt roll to board edges; spine with gilt titling on a black leather label. Scuffing faint stains and shelving wear to boards with some peeling to leather on the rear board. All edges rubbed. Fore corners lightly bumped. Text block is moderately worn and lightly foxed along edges. Lightly foxed throughout with heavier foxing and some staining on the endpapers. Remnants of bookplates on endpapers. Ink ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Mild splitting to hinges. Shelved in Room A. . This translation of Bayle and Hollard is the first publication of renowned American surgeon Samuel Gross. 1409876. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Grigg hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 100330San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza 1996. Pamphlet. 16p 6x9 inches illustrations texts in English and Spanish very good exhibition catalog in stapled pictorial wraps. Galeria de la Raza unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 1411993Zürich: Diogenes 1969. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 46 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Volume with white paper boards and black titling to spine. Jacket is black with white titling wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows moderate wear with scuffing to covers and along joints rubbing along edges and shallow chipping at the fore corners. Boards are lightly worn with toning along top and bottom edges. Slant to spine. Text block is lightly toned along edges with a small stain on the fore edge. Interior is lightly age toned with sparse scattered stains throughout. Shelved in Case 3. Toledano A-82 #26048. 1411993. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Diogenes hardcover books
1924Best.-Nr. 28600New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. Very Good. 1937 c.1924. 6th printing. Hardcover. no dust jacket modestly shelfworn light age-toning to edges of text block tiny dent in top edge of front cover gilt lettering rubbed to the point of unreadability on the spine but still fairly bold on the front cover. 3 B&W photographic plates The title page declares this to be "The Theater sic Guild Version with three illustrations from photographs" of that production which famously starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It was in fact the very first production in which they co-starred after joining the Theatre Guild's company in 1924 and was a key element in establishing their mastery of light comedy. They also headlined the 1931 film version of the play their only co-starring role in a movie; both were nominated for Academy Awards but lost out to Wallace Beery and Helen Hayes respectively. . Liveright Publishing Corp. hardcover books
1912Best.-Nr. 1411715London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1912. First English Edition later printing. Hardcover. Octavo x 127 pages plus illustrations and frontispiece. In Good condition. In full gray cloth binding with gilt titling to cover and spine. Spine is heavily sunned. Moderate wear and soiling to boards. Rubbing along edges; light bumping to fore corners. Text block shows moderate wear toning and soiling along edges. Lightly age toned throughout; moderate discoloration to endpapers. Interior otherwise clean. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column CC ND-CC. 1411715. FP New Rockville Stock. J. M. Dent & Sons hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 1411314Roma Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato 1988. Limited Edition: #523/1400. Hardcover. Large Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good plus condition. In matching pictorial full paper bindings with black titling on covers and spines; housed in a slipcase with same paper side panels and tan cloth on top bottom and spine. Some mild scuffing and wear to slipcase. Volumes show negligible wear to boards. Text blocks show very faint foxing on the top edges. Interiors clean. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-Volume Area ND-MV. 1411314. FP New Rockville Stock. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 271349New York: Harper 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback covers lightly shelf rubbed with very light browning of whites bottom corner of back cover very slightly dog-eared clean text. Harper unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 68482Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976. Reprint. Leather Bound. Very Good. 232pp. Octavo 22 cm Rebound in full light blue leather with marbled endpapers and new flyleaves. Silk ribbon page-marker. In gilt on the spine: "San Juan De La Cruz." Spine sunned; edges of boards negligibly sunned. The biography and examination of the poetry of the preeminent Spanish Roman Catholic mystic and poet. Cambridge University Press unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 133217Tusquets Editores 2012. Softcover. VG. Black wraps with color illustration on front. 342 pp. In Spanish. Tusquets Editores paperback books
1970Best.-Nr. 126972Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1970. Second. Hardbound. VG previous owners name inside some markings in the text margins. Tan cloth boards with black lettering xxiii 147 liv pp no illustrations. Broken into three parts; The Early Ch'ing Period: The School of "Practical Statesmanship" and Other Trends The Middle Ch'ing Period: The Dominance of the School of Empirical Research; The Beginnings of Reaction and The Late Ch'ing Period: The Modern Text School and Other New Trends. Harvard University Press hardcover books
2009Best.-Nr. 127534Beijing China: Foreign Language Press 2009. First. Softbound. VG some light wear to edges. Light gray french flaps with white titling 252pp approx. 162 color and monotone illustrations. Text in Chinese and English. Exhibition catalog; a thoughtful monograph involving several Chinese artists and the concept that their work imitates Western art because it has to not through natural artistic progression. Each plate is annotated; includes artist biographies and notes in translation. Very interesting. Foreign Language Press paperback books
1963Best.-Nr. 15391New York: The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press 1963. Boards. Near Fine. ix 76 pages. 8vo. Publishers red boards gilt. 33 figures including a large foldout chart tables. A crisp clean copy noting previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Boards. Chapters include Direct Cooling and Maximum Output A Theoretical Analysis of 'Geometric Series' of Large Turbo-Generators The New Problems of Design and Design Study of a Single Shaft 750 MW Turbo-Generator. Volume 18 in the International Series of Monographs on Electronics and Instrumentation. The Macmillan Company / Pergamon Press unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 344854Berkeley: Chinese Translation Group 1976. Pamphlet. 43p. 5.5x8.5 inches photos footnotes minor markings on front wraps otherwise very good condition. Translation of pamphlet written for workers and peasants in China and first published in Chinese in 1972. Chinese Translation Group unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 25538San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1988. Paperback. 234p. footnotes introductions frontis very good condition first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Stories anecdotes poems. Gay Sunshine Press paperback books
1998Best.-Nr. 1337133Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998. First Revised English-Language Edition. Softcover. Thick Octavo; VG-/paperback; 2 volumes; black spines with white text; first printing; covers show slight shelf wear to exteriors; minor wear to edges; text block exterior edges show mild shelf wear; interiors clean; illustrated; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1337133. FP New Rockville Stock. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
1818Best.-Nr. 1409074Paris: Chez Mequignon-Marvis 1818. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. In matching brown leather quarter bindings with blue marbled paper boards fore corners in gray paper with bound-in ribbon bookmarks; spines with gilt decoration and titling. Small scuffs to boards with rubbing along board edges. Text blocks show moderate wear soiling and toning along edges. Vol. 2 front flyleaf is partially adhered to the front pastedown. Printing error affects top corners of p. 585-592 in Vol. 2 with excess material and creasing. Light foxing and sparse scattered stains throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1409074. Special Collections. Chez Mequignon-Marvis hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 70920New York NY: CRG Gallery Printed in Hong Kong by CA Design 2008. First edition. Dual English and Chinese edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. 59pp. Oblong octavo 17 x 20cm; perfect-bound in plain white paper wraps inside a gilt embossed red vinyl dust jacket akin to the design of Mao's Little Red Books. Some light shelfwear and scuffing to the dust jacket otherwise a nice and clean copy. This is an exhibition catalogue from work shown at CRG Gallery New York from December 12th 2008 to January 31st 2009. Full color photography with text in dual English and Chinese. O Zhang is a Chinese-born artist and photographer known for her work which shows modern realities juxtaposed with idealistic propaganda and slogans. Many of the photographs shown here were taken around the time of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. CRG Gallery (Printed in Hong Kong by CA Design) paperback books
