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1931réf. 126489London: Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher 1931. Octavo printed wrappers. First edition. Berkeley's masterpiece which takes the reader into the mind of the murderer. "Iles was the innovator the father of those techniques so evident in much of today's crime fiction." - Pederson ed. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers 4th edition. Light tanning to edges of text block slight lean some soiling to covers crease to front cover some light rubs a good to very good copy. #126489 Mundanus Ltd/Victor Gollancz Publisher unknown books
1930réf. 119369London: The Kingsgate Press 1930. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-128 original pictorial blue cloth front panel stamped in gold and blind spine panel stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Signed by author on the title page. Children's fantasies. Seven stories plus the title story which is a short novella with eight chapters about the discovery of a magical cupboard in the attic. 1933 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Free endpapers a bit tanned a couple of very tiny spots to cloth else a bright very good copy. #119369 The Kingsgate Press unknown books
1903réf. 5696Berkeley California: The Church; Printed by thePress of Standard Publishing Company 1903. Octavo 23.25 x 14 cm. iv 171 i pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle author statement and publisher. A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke Mussel Bordelaise Clam Patties Spanish Meat Pie Coffee Fruit Cake Lemon Cocoanut Cake Cookies with Sherry Monterey Pudding Gooseberry Pudding Pineapple Blanc-Mange Strawberry Mousse. ~ Congregationalists answered the call from President Daniel Coit Gilman 1831-1908 of the University of California to build a hall and organize a fellowship of moral vision within reach of the campus community. The "local church" emphasis of Congregationalist governance had already attracted the largest Protestant presence in San Francisco. After ten years of planning members of Berkeley First Congregational were called to new quarters by a recently cast bell on 30 September 1884 at the corner of Durant Avenue and Dana Street. Thus the early version of The Berkeley Cook Book subtitled A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes celebrated the dedication of the 1884 church while its younger sibling of 1903 would have appeared in time to honor the building's twentieth anniversary. ~ In another twenty years they would move again to a grander brick complex on Channing Way still only a few city blocks from campus designed by the Bay Area architect Horace Gardner Simpson. It served successive generations for ninety years but in September 2016 was gutted by fire and the building's fate is undetermined as of this writing. ~ Clean and bright. Lightly wear at fore-corners and spine. Stapled in olive wrappers titled in brown. Very good. OCLC locates three copies also four copies of The Berkeley Cook Book: A Collection of Choice and Tested Recipes by the Ladies of Berkeley Oakland: Pacific Press 1884; Cook page 27; Brown 57 with different pagination; not in Cagle. [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company unknown books
1923réf. 7326Berkeley California: James J. Gillick & Co. Publishers 1923. Octavo 20 x 13.5 cm. iv 240 pages. Various tables at end. Blank leaves at end of each section not used. Evident FIRST EDITION. The Priscilla Club of the First Congregational Church of Berkeley had been founded in April of 1921 by our editor Mrs. Joseph F. Furtado. A notice to that effect with a list of officers appears on page ii. There are no local advertisements included but there is a list of individuals and businesses that had contributed to the Church Building Fund in relation to the book. Many of the recipes are attributed. Narrow tideline throughout the text block; some light soiling. In publisher's decorated white oil clothwith an image of a young woman seated with a mixing bowl in her lap and whisk in her hand. Some rubbing to extremities and light soil otherwise very good. Ownership inscription "Mrs. L.T. Sprague Xmas 1923" to free front endpaper. Handwritten recipe "Crisco's Pie Crust" laid-in. OCLC locates eighteen copies; not in Brown. James J. Gillick & Co., Publishers hardcover books
1970réf. 6725San Francisco Calif: Alternatives! Foundation 1970. Mimeographed folded booklet 22 x 14 cm. 8 unnumbered leaves. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A short guide to the mechanics of communal living or collective settlements. While no author is specified a statement at the rear states "This booklet was written by a Canadian commune and is published by Alternatives! Foundation" leaf 8. OCLC locates just three copies. Alternatives! Foundation unknown books
1947réf. 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
1744réf. 39792Dublin & London: W. Innys and C. Hitch 1744. 8vo. 174 2pp. 18th cent. calf rebacked corners worn endpapers renewed. Light toning. Bridgewater Library bookplate. New edition. W. Innys and C. Hitch unknown books
1734réf. 2390London: Tonson 1734. first edition. contemporary calf. Very Good. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF CALCULUS. In 1731 Berkeley returned to England from the New World where he had spent years working to open a new college with the support of a royal charter. Despite having funds earmarked for the college no funds were ever released and he had grown tired of the whole affair - and of those who held the money he was meant to receive. Moreover "reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fueled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his." Stewart. Perhaps pushed by this diminishing opinion of the English gentry he revisited his earlier attacks on the secular 'freethinkers' and composed The Analyst "an acute and influential critique of the foundations of Newton's calculus." Downing. As Stewart explains "Berkeley considered the theory incoherent and a disservice to mathematics but one which if unchecked might reinforce prevailing views on the divisibility of matter and support infidelity." Within the criticism Berkeley raises careful arguments which often employ sophisticated philosophical distinctions. For example as Andersen explains "Berkeley acknowledged that mathematicians who applied Newton's method of fluxions or Leibniz's calculus ended up with valid results. However . he considered their calculations to be based on incorrect assumptions and to violate the rules of logic." As such he wished "to explain why this may come to pass and show how Error may bring forth Truth though it cannot bring forth Science." Berkeley. However between these arguments we find marvelously snide often comedic complaints about the whole approach. For example: "Now to conceive a Quantity infinitely small that is infinitely less than any sensible or imaginable Quantity or than any the least finite Magnitude is I confess above my Capacity. But to conceive a Part of such infinitely small Quantity that shall be still infinitely less than it and consequently though multiply'd infinitely shall never equal the minutest finite Quantity is I suspect an infinite Difficulty to any Man whatsoever". Berkeley. The concepts of the infinitesimal quantities of calculus haunted Berkeley and he returned to it repeatedly in his criticism most notably in his famous passage near the end of the book where he memorably referred to such infinitesimals as "ghosts of departed quantities". Note: This is the true first edition printed in London in 1734. A Dublin edition was also published in 1734 but appears to be a reprinting with some changes of the London first see Wilkins 2002. These were the only editions published in Berkeley's lifetime. References: Andersen K. 2011 "One of Berkeley's arguments on compensating errors in the calculus." Historica Mathematica 38. Cajori F. 1919 A History of Mathematics. 2nd ed. revised and enlarged. Macmillan 1919; Downing Lisa 2020 "George Berkeley" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Spring 2020 Edition Edward N. Zalta ed.; Stewart M. 2005. Berkeley George 1685-1753 Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.; Wilkins D. 2002 edited version of The Analyst. London: J. Tonson 1734. Octavo contemporary full calf; custom box. Without errata leaf and final blank but with fragment of interesting binder's scrap showing ghost of part of the title page and partial blank bound in rear. With two manuscript corrections as usual on p. 85. Repairs to joints and spine; some spots of scattered foxing but text generally very clean. RARE. Tonson unknown books
1793réf. M13879Edinburgh:: Adamus Neill 1793. 1793. 2 works in one. Small 4to. 6 52; viii 54 pp. Half-title errata. Original full gilt-stamped tree-calf dark red gilt-stamped spine labels. Very good. First work: INSCRIBED "Mr. William Berkeley from his Affectionate Friend Brother the Author." Dedicated to Nelson Berkeley. Berkeley born in Virginia educated at the University of Edinburgh submits his doctoral thesis on the human body. Both Berkeley and Minor following studied under William Robertson 1721-1793 FRSE FSA was Principal at the University a noted scholar of Scotland and its history. Second work: MINOR Charles Carolus. Disputatio medica inauguralis: de typho: quam annuente summo numine Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri D. Gulielmi Robertson S.T.P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; necnon Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoris summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac Privilegiis rite et Legitime consequendis ; eruditorum examini subjicit Carolus Minor Virginiensis; Societ. Phys. Americ. Soc. Extraord. Necnon Societ. Reg. Phys. Soc. Hon. Ad diem 24. Junii hora locoque solitis. Edinburgi: Excudebat Adamus Neill cum sociis 1793. PARISH HISTORY NOTES 22: DR. CARTER BURWELL BERKELEY. Here is a brief account of the life of Carter Burwell Berkeley a devout and highly admired member of the Fork Church congregation during the early nineteenth century: He was born at Airwell Virginia on February 20 1768 and performed his early studies under the tutelage of a Mr. Bell an Irish scholar in a small log cabin near Offley Mill. His higher education was completed in 1793 with the receipt of a degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. / Dr. Berkeley returned to Virginia and practiced medicine from his old home until his marriage to Catherine Spotswood Carter. In the year of their wedding 1796 they built Edgewood which was to remain his residence and office well beyond her death. Each Sunday neighbors were invited to dine at Edgewood after church services and this event became a grand social and intellectual tradition along Ridge Road. / It was Dr. Berkeley's philosophy to practice faith and medicine together. One patient described waking late one night during a serious illness to find Dr. Berkeley kneeling by her bed and praying for her recovery. According to Brief Biographies of Virginia Physician by L. B. Anderson 1889 a patient was quoted as saying "We prefer Dr. Berkeley to anyone else because what he failed to accomplish by his medical skill he would secure by his prayers." / On Sunday morning November 3 1839 Dr. Berkeley was involved with his duties as chief warden when he was asked by two other doctors to visit a sick man as early as possible. "He was introduced into the room of the patient and seating himself by the bed gently grasped the wrist to feel the pulse. Not a word was uttered not a movement was made except to incline his head as was his custom during profound thought." In time the other doctors found that life has passed from the good doctor. "Thus like the faithful sentinel he fell with his armor on and in the exercise of the noble functions of his high calling." theforkchurch – Dr Carter Burwell Berkeley. Adamus Neill, 1793. unknown books
1988réf. 9007284Tuscaloosa: Univ of Alabama Pr 1988. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. History of American Science and Technology Series. Univ of Alabama Pr hardcover books
réf. 9052Cambridge Harvard University Press 1934. Together "WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS 1893-1933" by Julian Pearce Smith. First edition. One of 500 copies. Very good condition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934. unknown books
1961réf. 25130Iowa City: Prairie Press 1961. 1st. Designed hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman using Eric Gill's Perpetua Titling and Joanna types. 13.5 x 9 inches. Fine. Prairie Press unknown books
1976réf. Z1077Oxford:: Clarendon Press 1976. 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xxvii 285 pp. Fold-out frontis. port. of Berkeley 108 title pages reproduced in full page figs indexes. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust-jacket. Near fine. George Berkeley also known as Bishop Berkeley was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". ISBN: 0198181612 Clarendon Press, 1976. hardcover books
1968réf. Z1076New York:: Burt Franklin 1968. 1968. Reprint of the 1934 edition. Series: Burt Franklin: Bibliography & Reference Series 234; Philosophy Monographs Series 21. 8vo. xvi 99 pp. Index. Red cloth gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. Over 500 separate entries recorded. Burt Franklin, (1968). hardcover books
1998réf. 37600New York: American Printing History Association 1998. Small 4to 27.3 cm; 10.75". vi 181 8 pp. One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall VT with the inclusion of => three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century. => The wood engravings are absolutely stunning. Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket. The least scattering of light foxing-spots to lower fore-edges not margins of last few leaves; indeed a => bright clean copy. American Printing History Association hardcover books
2002réf. 37722West New York NJ: Mark Batty 2002. 383 pp. => Signed by editor William S. Peterson. 1 of 40 copies. Includes tipped-in items in rear and a letter from the publisher laid in. Hardcover in slipcase. No dust jacket. Grey paper-covered boards. Spine faded. Near fine in a near fine. Mark Batty hardcover books
1837réf. 34755London: Thomas Tegg & Son et al. 1837. 8vo 23.4 cm 9.2". 8 adv. 4 xlv 1 479 1 pp. Nice one-volume printing of Bishop Berkeley's collected works first published in quarto in 1784 and in octavo in 1820: philosophy mathematics Irish issues the medicinal properties of tar water a "Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations; and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity" etc. NSTC 2B19630; Sabin 3881. Publisher's textured blue cloth covers with blind-stamped arabesque and foliate design spine with gilt-stamped title in foliate frame; extremities rubbed spine with small spots of insect damage. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1841. Pages uncut signatures unopened. Thomas Tegg & Son, et al. hardcover books
réf. 24371Written between December 1980 and October 1981 these letters discuss the chronology of several of the composer's compositions for a catalogue that Poulton is compiling. 1 1-1/4 pp. Small octavo. Dated Spetchley Park Worcester December 25 1980. On white stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. "I feel sure that I would benefit greatly from a survey of my work to date such as you are doing for the composers you mention. I would like one of the possible contributors to be Peter Dickinson who has written the article on me in the New Grove. It might be as well to consult my publishers. J & W Chester. I should be glad to hear from you again." Creased at fold. 2 1-1/3 pp. Quarto. Dated London September 24 1981. On blue stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. Berkeley apologizes for his belated response. He discusses his Aubade for Organ. He will meet with his publisher Chester to discuss the order of his compositions after op. 96 and other queries. "I expect that most of your queries have been answered by now but some I will now try to answer. Aubade for Organ. This is the first of three pieces Op 72 number 1. The other movements being Aria and the last Toccata. 'There was neither grass nor corn' would as you suppose have been written in 1949." Creased at fold. 3 1-1/2pp. Quarto. Dated London October 15 1981. On blue stationery with Berkeley's address and telephone number printed at head. Once again Berkeley apologizes for his belated response and answers several more of Poulton's queries. He will contact Chester for answers to others. He would be happy to meet Poulton in London or Worcester. He mentions the following compositions: Judica me the first and second sonatas for Violin and Piano and the Suite for Orchestra. "I know this sounds nonsensical but I was dissatisfied with my first Violin & Piano Sonata and withdrew it. I then wrote another one - it was a considerable improvement so I decided to make it my Opus 1 forgetting that it was called No. 2 when published. I regard it as my first published work so I think its best just to call it Op 1." Creased at folds. "From the same generation as Walton and Tippett Berkeley has little connection with national traditions represented by them or by Elgar and Vaughan Williams earlier. This is partly because of his French ancestry and temperament which made him closer to Fauré and to Ravel and Poulenc who were both personal friends. Berkeley admired Mozart above all then Chopin Ravel and the neo-classical Stravinsky. His own idiom is built from an overt melodic expression usually rooted in tonality and allied to a fastidious command of harmony and orchestral texture. Religious subjects in particular invariably gave rise to vocal music of unusual spiritual intensity a mood also reflected in his instrumental slow movements. Though he was at his most distinctive in the 1940s and 50s the achievement of his later extended language is considerable. His is an enduring cultivated and imaginative voice in 20th-century British music." Peter Dickinson and Joan Redding in Grove Music Online. Alan Poulton is the compiler and editor of A Dictionary-Catalogue of Modern British Composers among other music reference works. unknown books
1950réf. 117672Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Final Script for the 1951 film "Call Me Mister" directed by Lloyd Bacon written for the screen by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler and starring Betty Grable Dan Dailey Danny Thomas and Richard Boone. With choreography by Busby Berkeley and songs by Frances Ash Earl K. Brent Sammy Fain and Mack Gordon. "Call Me Mister" was based on a long-running Broadway revue with more than a little off-color humor. Fox grafted a storyline onto the revue cleaned up the dialogue and a wartime musical was born wherein Grable a singer touring USO bases runs into her old husband Dailey. Yellow titled wrappers stamped REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 314 and copy No. 5 and dated April 18 1950. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lewin and Styler. 123 leaves mimeo rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some edge creasing and slight offsetting bound with three gold brads. Hirschhorn p. 319. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1959réf. S3554New York:: Reinhold 1959. 1959. 8vo. v 203 pp. Index. Cloth dust-jacket. Ex-library copy mostly rubber ownership stamps but in good working condition. Reinhold, (1959). hardcover books
1989réf. 61085Dublin & Saskatoon: Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press 1989. First edition. 48 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dublin & Saskatoon: Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press unknown books
1994réf. 61086Dublin & Saskatoon: New Island Books/Thistledown Press 1994. First edition. 96 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dublin & Saskatoon: New Island Books/Thistledown Press unknown books
1994réf. 51652Dundrum & Saskatoon: New Island/Thistledown 1994. First edition. 96 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. SIGNED by Berkeley on the half-title page. Dundrum & Saskatoon: New Island/Thistledown paperback books
1965réf. 2190Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's 1965. First edition. . 16 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies printed. Robin Blaser Robert Creeley Richard Duerden Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg Leroi Jones Joanne Kyger Ron Loewinsohn Charles Olson Gary Snyder Jack Spicer George Stanley Lew Welch and John Wieners. Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's unknown books
1990réf. 2312636New York: Anchor Books 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Reprint. Faint foxing wave. 1990 Trade Paperback. The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy's most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke's Essay Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume's Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley's optimistic idealism. The Empiricists collects the key writings on this important philosophy perfect for those interested in learning about this movement with just one book. Anchor Books paperback books
