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1784Best.-Nr. 1352898Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. Hardcover. Quartos two volumes; VG; Rebound in half-red leather with green cloth boards and gilt lettering and ruling to spines; Boards show minimal wear to corners and bottom edges; Text-blocks have moderate age-toning and light foxing to speckled edges light shelf-wear to bottom edges and occasional light foxing to the first several pages of Volume I; Both volumes bear the library stamp of the "Training College Library Avenue Southampton"; Volume I includes a frontispiece portrait of Berkeley and Volume II includes a fold-out map prefacing the title-page; Contents: Vol. I. 4 ci 646 pages; Vol. II. iv 663 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.; RW consignment. Shelved in Room X. 1352898. Special Collections - Downstairs. John Exshaw hardcover books
Best.-Nr. CA09A-00049John Exshaw. Collectible - Good. Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. 2 volume set. 4to. ci646666pp. Frontis. figures fold-out map. Good book. Spine ends worn and chipped. Joints worn. Boards scuffed and chipped. Back board detached from vol. 1. Front hinge open in vol. 2. Elaborate gifter's inscription on f.f.e. verso of vol. 1. Light pencil notations in both volumes. Some browning and spotting to text pages. Inquire if you need further information. John Exshaw hardcover books
1725Best.-Nr. 371588London: H. Woodfall 1725. 24pp. 8vo. Nineteenth century half red morocco and marbled boards minor wear. Numerical stamp on verso of title bookplate. 24pp. 8vo. Proposes the creation of a college in Bermuda for training young American Indians to serve as missionaries throughout the British colonies. First published the year prior. Scarce. ESTC T14337; Sabin 4878 H. Woodfall unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 1520Poster printed recto and verso with texts and images in red and black inks on white commercial stock. Ca. 14 x 20 in. Very good. Loose as issued. 1520 An unrecorded and gorgeous work by The Berkeley Commune in affinity with the International Werewolf Conspiracy and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker identified for us by UAWMF founder Ben Morea as a co-publication with New York chapters of the secretive network of radicals. Strike Anywhere calls for immediate unified militant action to take control of the America's urban centers: "if there is going to be any student-worker alliance then it will be formed as clearly seen in france not in the factories but on the streets or not at all. if poor whites & middleclass hippies are going to come together as in chicago berkeley & NY it will be in the streets. if there is going to be a true working alliance with blacks then it will come from the common struggle in the streets. the streets are where we will confront the man & where the struggle will become clear - theoretically as well as tactically. theory in not separate from life/ we need space to create the existence we want to live & in the streets we learn the man isn't going to give up space - because the existence of an alternate life is a threat to his piglife." books
1947Best.-Nr. 432481947. Berkeley Edmund C. 1909-88. Electronic machinery for handling information and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 1947. 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers a few tiny spots almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner's name-stamp Clifford J. Maloney on wrappers. First Edition Offprint Issue. The first published paper on the commercial application of electronic / electromechanical computing in private industry outside of the telephone company. Drawing on material that he would later publish in his famous Giant Brains or Machines that Think 1949 Berkeley described the four large-scale computing machines then in operation-MIT's Differential Analyzer; Harvard's Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; the Moore School's ENIAC; and Bell Laboratories' Relay Calculator-and discussed the machines' information-processing capabilities and their potential uses in the insurance industry. "It is natural to call these machines mechanical or electronic brains and to speak of them as machinery that thinks. This new machinery is certain to have far-reaching effects in all fields where the handling of information is the bulk of the work. . . . Much of the material in this paper is taken from a forthcoming book on the subject by the present writer and is used by special permission of the publisher" p. 36. Berkeley a seminal figure in the history of modern computing was introduced to computing using punched-card machine methods while working as an actuary at Prudential Insurance. In 1942 he joined the Navy and was assigned to the Harvard Computation Laboratory where he worked with Howard Aiken on the Harvard Mark II. In 1946 Berkeley returned to Prudential where he helped create a prototype premium billing trial for the Harvard Mark I and participated in studies that led to Prudential's purchase of one of the first UNIVAC I computers. He also began working on Giant Brains and in 1947 founded the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1948 he left Prudential to found his own company and in 1951 he began editing and publishing Computers and Automation later renamed Computers and People the first periodical specifically devoted to computing. He also headed his own publishing firm consulted for industry and invented and sold several build-it-yourself electronic computers and small robots Simon Squee Tyniac Brainiac etc. as educational tools. In his later years he became known as the conscience of the computer industry through his often-expressed belief that computers should be used not for military or destructive purposes but only for the benefit of society. . unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 69444Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1874. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. Full Description: BERKELEY George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. With Prolegomena and with Annotations Select Translated and Original by Charles P. Krauth D.D. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1874. First American edition of the book which shook the intellectual world with its theory of immaterialism. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 144 mm. 2 blank 424 2 blank pp. Publisher's full orange cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Previous owner's ink name on front and back pastedown. Some minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Otherwise about fine. "The principle which underlay all Berkeley's philosophical writing was based on a rejection of all speculation such as Locke's about the meaning and necessity of matter as a primal necessity to any theory of human understanding. Briefly Berkeley maintained that no existence is conceivable or possible which is not conscious spirit or the ideas of which such a spirit is conscious. This presupposes complete equation of subject and object: no object can exist without a Mind to conceive it. Without the pre-existence of the Mind mater and substance cause and effect can have no meaning. In the Principles externality absolutely independent of all mind is shown to be an unreal impossible conception: true substance is the conscious spirit and true causality the free action of such a spirit. Physical substance and causes are relations among phenomena arbitrary though by the action of the Mind constant. Connexions between them are viewed subjectively as the suggestion or associations of the human mind and objectively as the operation of the Universal Mind. Thus the universe is the sum of human experience and forms a symbol of the divine universal intelligence: esse est percipi" Printing and the Mind of Man. Norman Library 196. PMM 176. HBS 69444. $1500. J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
1820Best.-Nr. 15730London: Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley 1820 First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley first published in quarto in 1784. See Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley p. 262. Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Contemporary diced calf. Double-ruled gilt fillets on covers gilt decorated spine with brown morocco labels marbled edges and endpapers. . Three volumes octavo. . Volume II contains diagrams and an engraved folding plate of Tabula Lusoria. Volume III contains a large engraved folding plate of "The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands. Some corners lightly bumped light foxing old ink signature in each volume. A very good attractive set. Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley, books
1938Best.-Nr. 161361N.p.: N.p. 1938. Revised Final script for the 1938 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A nightclub manager's secretary falls in love with a little-known bandleader her boss has booked to temporarily stand in for Rudy Vallee but her boss objects to the romance. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 3/24/38 stamped copy No. 116 and noted as REV. FINAL with receipt intact. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 161360N.p.: N.p. 1935. Final script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Romance in a Glass House." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A famed stage diva wants her untalented lover as her leading man. To prevent this from occurring the producers select a handsome novice from the streets and declare him the new contracted lead in their production. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 4 noted as FINAL with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/25/35 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein and Robert Hardy Andrews. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding about Fine. N.p. unknown books
1716Best.-Nr. 1277391716. First Edition. LORD GREY OF WERK BERKELEY Henrietta. The Trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk et al.É For Unlawful Tempting and Inciting the Lady Henrietta BerkeleyÉ to Unlawful LoveÉ with an Intent to Cause Her to Live in a Scandalous Manner. London: J. Morphew 1716. Slim octavo period-style full paneled calf raised bands red morocco spine label. $2000.First edition of the verbatim transcript of this sensational 17th-century trial in which Lord Grey was charged with seducing the under-18-year-old sister of his wife ""with an intent to cause her to live in a scandalous manner with the said Lord Grey."" Handsomely bound.The prosecution of this scandalous case was ably handled by George Jeffreys; the defense was equally capable and the verbatim transcript of the proceedings vividly portrays the case's high emotional charge. ""In 1682 Lady Henrietta became a well-known figure of scandal when still a minor and under 18 following the revelation of her love affair with Ford Grey Lord Grey of Warke 1655-1701 the husband of her elder sister Mary. The intrigue seems to have begun in 1681 and continued for about 14 months before it was discovered by Lady Henrietta's motherÉ Eventually the earl of Berkeley launched a lawsuit for unlawful seduction against Grey and his accomplices which was brought before the court of king's bench on 23 November 1682. Henrietta herself appeared at the trial but with her evidence the lord chief justice told her 'You have injured your own reputation and prostituted both your body and your honour and are not to be believed' State trials 9.176. As the court was breaking up the earl attempted to take his daughter away with him whereupon Henrietta announced that she was married to William Turner Grey's servant. A scuffle broke out in the courtroom as she refused to return home and her father tried to seize her by forceÉ The trial attracted a great deal of publicity and the story of Lady Henrietta's affair with her brother-in-law became the inspiration for Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister the first part of which was published in 1684"" ODNB. Bound with half title. Old ink annotations to verso of half title; small duplicate stamp to final text leaf.Only occasional faint foxing to text. Fine condition handsomely bound. hardcover books
1878Best.-Nr. 000011096London: William Tegg & Co 1878. First Simon edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo. 5 vi-lii 5 6-220 pp. Bound in green cloth with both boards bordered in blind lettering and rule stamped in gold on the front board. Yellow/green endpapers and pastedowns. Algaier Reconstructing the Library of William James; Gay Wilson Allen William James; Mead 18. This is the first edition edited and with introduction and appendix by Simon. The free front endpaper has two ownership stamps of philosopher and psychologist William James the first is crossed out being the older 18 Garden Street address where James resided until moving to his new house in 1889 the second is the 95 Irving Street address in Cambridge where he lived from 1889 until his death in 1910. There is also a slip of paper tipped in to the front endpaper with "PHILOS. III." printed on it. This book is not in Algaier who lists all of James' books and pamphlets that were donated to Harvard University by James and others 2554 items nor is it listed in the catalogue of The Hocking Collection at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Therefore this book must be one of the many that were given away as gifts to colleagues or sold at the "yard sale" held in 1923. The photographs of James' library circa 1923 see Algaier p. 4-5 suggest that it consisted of at least 4000 volumes Algaier suggests it may be double that so a large portion of James' personal library is either lost or privately held. The book does contain underlining and light marginalia vertical bars to emphasize passages and reference numbers mostly in pencil but we are unable to ascertain if this is the work of James himself or a later owner. James is one of the most important American philosophers of the nineteenth century and books from his personal library are scarce in commerce. The book is in Good-only condition with rubbing and wear to the boards and the binding although holding is in jeopardy. William Tegg & Co hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 161238Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1938. Final script for the 1938 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to story writer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. The fifth and last film in Warner Brothers' series of successful and gorgeously choreographed "Gold Digger" films. Dance sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. Set in Paris shot on location in Paris and New York. Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine and front board. Title page integral with distribution page dated 1/4/38 noted as FINAL with a Warner Story Department stamp. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout variously dated 1/27/38 through 3/24/38. Pages Near Fine binding Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 161377N.p.: N.p. 1937. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1937 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on eight pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. College students rebel when their professor doesn't allow swing music in their varsity show. They enlist the help of an alumni a big Broadway star not knowing his last three productions were flops. The film's Busby Berkeley finale was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Dance Direction. Bound in maroon leather with gilt title on the front board and spine. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Distribution page integral with the title page dated 4/23/37 noted as 2ND REV. FINAL. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binding with light rubbing to the extremities else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1713Best.-Nr. 140947370London: Henry Clements 1713. First Edition Third Edition. First edition first printing of George Berkeley's work of philosophy. x 166 vi 44 pp. Octavo bound in full contemporary mottled calf laced in boards. Blindstamped ruled borders red morocco title label to spine all edges speckled red. Bound together with the third edition of another work by Berkeley also published by Henry Clements in 1713: Passive Obedience Or the Christian Doctrine Of Not Resisting the Supreme Power Proved and Vindicated upon the Principles of the Law of Nature. In a Discourse Deliver'd at the College-Chapel. Very Good with moderate wear to boards cracking to leather at extremities minimal chipping at head and tail of spine and rounded and bumped corners. Joints repaired leather coated with preservative. Previous owner names have been torn from free endpapers cut more carefully from upper margins of first two leaves. Several 18th century ink markings and inscription "Owner / 1720" remain on the endpapers. The two books are printed on different paper stock. Three Dialogues is slightly tanned with scattered foxing to margins; Passive Obedience is heavily toned. Both books collated complete. From the library of William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the front pastedown. George Berkeley 1685 - 1753 was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman who advocated the view that objects cannot exist without being perceived. He wrote Three Dialogues in order to expand on the ideas expressed in his most notable work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Passive Obedience is a call to obey established authorities God above all. That a third edition was published just one year after the first is testament to the intensity of Enlightenment debates about the relationships between individuals and church and state. Henry Clements unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 156657London: Victor Gollancz 1932. First UK Edition and true first. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 classic film noir "Suspicion" starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a tiny nearly imperceptible tear at the front hinge. Jacket is slightly sunned at the spine with only a few nicks and tiny closed tears plus a few small archival tape mends to the verso. Scarce in jacket. In a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell box. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949 p. 20. Victor Gollancz unknown books
