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1938rif. 451London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938. First Edition. Very good/Good. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. 182 x 121mm; pp. 356 iii. Grey cloth binding with black lettering dampstain to the tail of the spine light toning to the edges of the pages but no stains or foxing. Dust jacket present with some tears and chips to the head and tail and a 1 x 2 in. piece missing to back. The first edition of this classic arsenic murder with its DUST JACKET. The book was published one year later in the US under the title "A Puzzle in Poison" see our inventory no. 450. Anthony Berkeley Cox 1893 - 1971 is today recognized as a key figure in the development of crime fiction. He wrote under several pen-names including Francis Iles Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. He was educated at Sherborne School and University College Oxford. He served in the British Army during the First World War and worked as a journalist for many years contributing to such magazines as Punch and The Humorist. His first novel was published in 1925 and it introduced the amateur detective Robert Sheringham who would feature in many of his novels through 1934. In 1930 Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie Freeman Wills Crofts Dorothy L. Sayers Hugh Walpole and other established mystery writers. Several of his books were adapted for the screen including "Before the Fact" adapted by Alfred Hitchcock as "Suspicion" starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Hodder & Stoughton Limited unknown
1820rif. 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,
1930rif. 17960Garden City NY: Published for the Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1930. First U.S. edition. Slight lean otherwise a fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with a short closed tear 20 mm to the upper left front panel tiny tear at lower right corner tip and mild shelf-wear to the head of the spine panel some portions of the orange ink of the spine panel are a bit faded. Publisher's wrap around band is present. An attractive copy of a scarce book in jacket. 17960. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-viii ix-x 1- 308 309: Crime Club statement 310: blank cloth. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham the second published in England in 1926. Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1938rif. 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
2018rif. __1474306896LexisNexis UK 2018. Hardcover. New. 5th new edition edition. 3558 pages. 10.20x6.50x4.25 inches. LexisNexis UK hardcover
1732rif. 170650London: Printed by J. Tonson 1732. The idealist philosopher's most substantial work First edition of Berkeley's defence of traditional Anglicanism against the nascent secularism of the early Enlightenment: a major work of 18th-century Christian apologetics. Alciphron is a critical source for Berkeley's wider philosophy of language. Berkeley 1685-1753 defends the Theist position that the world is dependent on an interventionist God providing religious knowledge through miracles and divine revelation. Enlightenment thinkers increasingly argued that a non-interventionist deity had created the universe to operate autonomously on machine-like principles and laws. In such a scenario the miracles and revelations of an interventionist God were of little use as a source of religious knowledge which was possible only through rational reflection. In challenging these ideas Berkeley collectively represents their chief exponents Locke Mandeville and the third Earl of Shaftesbury as the conceited free thinkers Alciphron and Lysicles. Volume II includes a revised edition of Berkeley's An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision first published in 1709 with a new title page and continuous register. In the Advertisement Berkeley notes that his earlier work is included as an addendum to the fourth dialogue which concerns the function of the senses in deriving knowledge of God. 2 vols octavo 194 x 120 mm. Wood engraving to title pages of both vols. Contemporary panelled calf neatly rebacked and recornered spines ruled and lettered in gilt raised bands edges sprinkled red. 18th-century signature of "William McGuire" to title page of vol. II. Light rubbing cosmetic splits to inner hinges minor browning and foxing to endpapers and edges loss to upper outer corner of title page vol. I small hole in F8 vol. I: a very good copy. Jessop 121a; Keynes 15. hardcover
1938rif. 58958London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938. 8vo. 252 3 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. In pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edge worn and fading to the spine. Cloth spine slightly faded. Internally clean. No ownership names. Binding firm. "The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader's concentration; to skip is fatal." TLS 1938. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1938. Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938 hardcover
1947rif. 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
1929rif. 2824Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. / The Crime Club Inc 1929. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title and Berkeley's fifth novel featuring detective Roger Sherringham. A Crime Club offers to crack a case which has stumped Scotland Yard involving an accidental death by poisoned chocolates intended for a member of the aristocracy. Hubin p.32; Pronzini & Muller pp.56-57. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x2993pp. Faint suggestion of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 showing minimal wear to extremities a few tiny tears and an old circular splash mark to lower front panel noticeable only on verso; Near Fine. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc unknown
1874rif. 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
1820rif. 31This is anicely bound and readable edition of Berkeley's complete Works. One of the classic Locke/Berkeley/Hume empiricists he had a sharp eye for questionable assumptions. One was the relativity of space argueing that space wasnt a Newtonian absolute like a fishbowl but existed only relative to the perciever. Enistein credits it to Hume who repeated it from Berkeley. He argued against the math of the calculus as being descriptive because of its use of infinities and so on. Berkeley is perhaps as well know for his American interests. The establishment of an academy in Bermuda yo train christian prostelits took him further West where he hoped for a royal grant from the crown in Rhode Island. Being outlasted by the crown he returned to Ireland leaving behind the Colonial philosoper Samuel Johnso. Textual damage to upperright first thhree leves each volume inc titles lavk of text verso vol 1 b Dove hardcover
1894rif. P3298London : S Hildesheimer and Co c.1894. Excellent. Notes: Exceptional quality printed on wide margin thick paper. Signed by Stanley Berkeley in pencil at the lower left proof before title also has the seal of incorporated publishers association. The Charge of Scarlett’s 300 or Heavy Brigade at Balaclava 25 October 1854.Scarce original photogravure after Stanley Berkeley c1890 published by S Hildesheimer and Co 1894. NAM. 1952-04-1 The Charge of the Heavy Brigade would be far better known were it not for the famous action of the Light Brigade later the same day. With luck and skill 800 British heavy cavalry charged 3000 Russian light horsemen and drove them from the field. The large Russian force stopped as it came towards the British camp. This mistake laid it open to attack and 300 British heavy cavalry charged the Russians. The British had movement on their side and the rest of the Heavy Brigade followed up the charge. The much larger Russian force was put to flight with few casualties. The whole action is said to have lasted eight minutes. Stanley Berkeley 1855–1909 was an English painter of animal sporting and historical subjects especially military scenes. Born in London he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy the Grafton Gallery the New Watercolour Society and elsewhere from 1878 until 1902 and many of his pictures were retrospective military scenes of the English Civil War and the Battle of Waterloo & Crimean War. Image Size : 446x705 mm 17.56x27.76 Inches Platemark Size : 540x775 mm 21.26x30.51 Inches Paper Size : 656x861 mm 25.83x33.91 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Photogravure Categories: Views Europe Ukraine; Military Others; S Hildesheimer and Co unknown
1947rif. 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
1752rif. 284380London: J. & R. Tonson 1752. First. hardcover. very good. 8vo contemporary calf with leather spine label. London: J. &. R. Tonson and S. Draper 1752. First Edition The book contains 11 tracts each with a separate title page & date but only one continuous pagination. The subjects include Thoughts on Tar-water Proposal for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected.in Bermuda Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland Discourse to Magistrates etc. J. & R. Tonson unknown books
1732rif. 000010926London: J. Tonson 1732. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. 13 2-350 2; 9 2-358 2 pp. Full sheep ca. 1800 with twin gold borders on each board spines in six compartments with later red and green morocco labels lettered and bordered in gold on each spine; all edges decoratively sprinkled. Bound with a later edition of Berkeley's Theory of Vision. Illustrated with two small woodcuts on the title pages and several wood-cut initials head and tailpieces. The Theory of Vision contains a few in-text diagrams. Contains one of the mispaginations in volume II but not the other. Honderich 89. Jessop 16a. Keynes 15. Mead 10. Written in colonial America Berkeley's Alciphron is a vigorous defense of Christianity against the atheists deists and skeptics of his day. It elicited several responses from other theologians and would help Berkeley shape his later views concerning philosophy of language. According to Honderich "Berkeley is a most striking and even unique phenomenon in the history of philosophy. There have been many philosophers who have constructed bold and sweeping . metaphysical systems . have been devoted to the clarification and defence of 'common sense' . some have made it their chief concern to defend religious faith and doctrine against their perceived enemies. It is the peculiar achievement of Berkeley that with high virtuosity and skill he contrived to present himself in all these roles at once" Honderich 89. The volumes rebacked in later sheep the reverse of the front flyleaf of volume one has a pre-20th century inscription citing a 1746 publication each title page has a pre-20th century name in its margin. J. Tonson hardcover
rif. PSHB8447Collins 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with red ruling and lettering to spine and front board slight rubbing to corners and spine ends nice square binding clean endpapers and pages bar some spotting in the first and last few leaves. A near fine copy of the first impression of the very scarce third mystery to feature Roger Sheringham novelist turned dectective who works alongside Inspector Moresby of Scotland Yard to solve a crime on the Hampshire coast. From the collection of John Cooper the foremost authority on collecting detective fiction who identifies this particular title as one of the three most difficult Berkeley books to find in first edition. Collins, 1927 hardcover
rif. PSHB8449Collins 1929. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth with red spine and front lettering a few small scratches slight bumping and minor fraying to spine ends and corners small Times Book Club label to lower rear pastedown pages clean bar some occasional spotting to front text block. In a facsimile dustjacket. The first impression of the fifth mystery to feature Roger Sheringham in which as President of a small Crime Circle he invites each of its members to solve a puzzle which has eluded the police - who sent the poisoned chocolates to Sir Eustace Pennefather at his club Often regarded as the key Sheringham title also featuring the 'nervous mouse-like' sleuth Ambrose Chitterwick and very scarce thus. From the library of John Cooper the foremost authority on collecting detective fiction. Collins, 1929 hardcover
1725rif. 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
1968rif. 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."
1929rif. 17959Garden City NY: Published for the Crime Club Inc. by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. First U.S. edition. Top page edge a little soiled and spotted a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing and shelf wear to spine ends a little mild soiling. Publisher's slip portion of wrap around band laid in "The Christmas Selection of the Crime Club Jury". An attractive copy. 17959. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-299 230: blank 231: Crime Club statement 232: blank cloth. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham. ".it should appeal to those who like the combination of good characterization and armchair dectection". - Pronzini and Muller 1001 Midnights The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction pp. 36-37. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. unknown
1784rif. 206029Dublin: John Exshaw 1784. Scattered light spotting and extraneous marks; corners of three pages in Vol. 1 torn off affecting only margins one repaired; near 19th-century marginal notes in pencil; small 1884 clipping mentioning Berkeley pasted into rear of Vol. 1; front board of Vol. 1 mostly detached but holding on by a cord; covers rubbed leather dry. Two vols. 4tos frontispiece 4 i-ci 1-646; iv 1-663; contemporary calf. A decent copy of this uncommon set. The second volume includes the folding plate illustrating an essay on plantation churches in Bermuda. Alongside John Locke Berkeley was the pre-eminent English-language philosopher of his era and among the most lucid writers of philosophical prose of any era. He spent significant time in the colonial "new world" and was intimately involved in establishing the Kings College in New York which became Columbia University. Additional postage required. John Exshaw unknown
rif. SBBI-mon0000161606Collins 1962. mass_market. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Collins unknown
1732rif. BTETM0001889London: J. Tonson 1732. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm . Please email for Photographs or further information.1732 Second Edition With ProvenanceALCIPHRONBy George BerkeleyKEY DETAILSCondition: Very GoodFormat: Hardcover Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.Published By: J. Tonson London 1732Language: EnglishCollation: pp. 707SKU: BTETM0001889Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2KgTracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer RequestDESCRIPTIONALCIPHRONOr The Minute Philosopher in Seven DialoguesCONDITION COLLATION & COPY NOTESBoards rubbed and bumped; text block and binding firm and strong. A lovely copy. Please see Photos as part of condition report.SYNOPSIS1732 ALICIPHRON: OR THE MINUTE PHILOSOPHER in Seven Dialogues containing an Apology for the Christian Religion against those who are called free-thinkersTwo volumes - complete set 356 pp & 351 pp - Title pages with engravings various ornamental engravings at end of chapters and end of volume.Printed for J. Tonson in the strand 1732By George BerkeleyBook plate for The Right Honourable The Earl of Portsmouth in FEPEarl of Portsmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1743 for John Wallop 1st Viscount Lymington who had previously represented Hampshire in the House of Commons.Previous owner inscription on FEP. J. Tonson hardcover
1871rif. 425006Clarendon Press - Oxford 1871. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Four volume set. 8vo. Rebound by Zaehnsdorf in half tan calf over marbled paper-covered boards four raised bands black calf spine labels in second and fourth compartments top edges gilt marbled endpapers. 2198 pp. in toto individually paginated. Light rubbing to head heel edges and corners. Internally clean with a touch of toning to the page edges. Near fine. Clarendon Press - Oxford hardcover books
2011rif. 1-1613770618Idea & Design Works Llc 2011. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 8.50x11.00x1.25 inches. Idea & Design Works Llc hardcover