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1998ref. 52602Alameda CA: Ankh Press 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm.; Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend light rubbing. Near Fine. Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was and as it might be if a ruthless and brilliant man went back in time and shaped reality to suit himself. The players in this fantasy include Darrel the successful young Black lawyer Shanae his African-American supermodel fiancee Bill the good old boy who goes from wino to politico to human sacrifice on the wheel of time Heather the icy blonde prosecuting attorney whose penchant for domination finds a vent in the New Reality of Los Angeles 2000 where slavery has made a comeback in a big way and Antoine the fierce Creole aristocrat who steals an alien artifact of great power and uses it to fulfill his lust for control for wealth and most of all for Shanae. from the publisher. Ankh Press unknown books
1970ref. 144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional manuscript annotations in blue ink throughout. Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 35425Berkeley: Berkeley Political Poster Workshop 1970. Original illustrated poster silkscreened in black on white repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips measuring ca.38cm x 56cm 15" x 22". A Fine copy / A. A simple powerful anti-war image by an uncredited Berkeley student. The image is reproduced from a 1968 AP photograph of the bodies of US Marines on Hill 689 in Khe Sanh South Vietnam. The poster "is an indirect invocation of the political order in the United States and for those who remember a reminder that both Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968 won the presidency with promises of peace - which were then contradicted by their actions." Benson Thomas W. Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action. One of some 600 designs created by Berkeley student members of the Political Poster Workshop in 1970; on average fewer than 100 copies of each design were printed for distribution on and around campus. Not individually listed in OCLC though we note copies held at Yale and Penn State. WILLIAMS 28. Berkeley Political Poster Workshop unknown books
1955ref. 140258Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show while the other half has turned to watch the Gill-man attack a diver bathing suit-clad cameramen milling about to the side. The captive Gill-man Ricou Browning falls in love with the girlfriend Lori Nelson of animal psychologist Clete Ferguson John Agar. When it inevitably escapes and unsurprisingly takes Nelson hostage the police are forced to shoot it. The first 3-D sequel to a 3-D film its far more successful predecessor "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and the only 3-D film released in 1955. Clint Eastwood makes a hilarious uncredited appearance as an incompetent lab technician who insists a lab rat has been eaten by a cat test subject only to find the rat in his lab coat pocket. Set in Florida and shot there on location. 8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Mystery Science Theater 801. Universal Pictures unknown books
1939ref. 137986Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 film musical based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical play of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau a date stamp of "Dec 1939" and manuscript annotations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the finale of the musical in a scene spoofing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the FDR's fireside chats. This scene was cut from the film after Roosevelt's death and believed lost until it was rediscovered and restored in 1990s. Rooney received a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good. Pinholes to the corners with pinholes at the corners and light wear to the margins. Hirschhorn p. 167. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950ref. 117672Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised Final script for the 1951 film. Script belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscriptic pencil annotation on the verso of some pages. An American soldier in occupied Japan after the conclusion of World War II joins his former love in putting on performances for the troops in an attempt to win her back. Red titled wrappers noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 5 and production No. 314 dated April 18 1950. Title page present dated April 18 1950 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1800ref. 25312Philadelphia: Way & Groff 1800. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound and resewn. Apart from some staining a very good copy. First edition. 34pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author argues that the class of medicines commonly known as 'sedatives' are actually stimulants. He considers the likes of digitalis opium nitre and saccharum. Scarce: OCLC locates 5 copies. Evans 36942 Way & Groff unknown books
1931ref. 49831New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1931. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1931. First Edition stated. Octavo 19cm; publisher's cloth binding; 290pp. Cover has minor shelfwear; crown and foot of spine rubbed; corners lightly bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Overall in Very Good condition. Published as part of Harper's "Sealed Mystery" series in which books were published with the last few chapters sealed with a thin paper sheet stating "If you can resist the desire to know the outcome of this story return the book to your bookstore with the seal unbroken and your money will be refunded." Alas the reader of this volume could not resist and seal has been broken but the blue tissue paper remains intact. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
1992ref. dacs997Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1992. First Edition. Octavo gray cloth hardcover xv 808 pp 1 pp. Frontis. ports. Fine. University Press of Florida, (1992). First Edition. hardcover books
1958ref. 15574New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Sixth Printing. Signed by Berkeley on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket unclipped no price a few short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with black ink lettering and rules on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound foxed at the top edge clean internally. Berkeley's general audience work about early computers and artificial intelligence. John Wiley and Sons Inc hardcover books
1965ref. 90161Berkeley: Oyez/Cody's 1965. First edition. . 16 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies. 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
1716ref. 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
1968ref. 9228gcsSan Marino: Huntington Library 1968. One of 50 copies printed by members of the HEH Preparations Dep-artment. Octavo plain green sewn wrappers 8 pp. Fine.”In 1893 only a year after William Morris had issued the Golden Legend in which his Golden Type first appeared 33-year-old Daniel Berkeley Updike left eh Riverside Press in Cambridge and set up his own establishment as a Typographic Advisor at 6 Beacon Street Boston. From his two-room office Updke wrote to Morris on August 3 1893. The manuscript archives of Updike correspondence in the Huntington Library reveal no further exchange between them. Perhaps because his request was never granted Updike and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue modified and enlarged the Morris font to create the Merrymount type of the great Altar Book issued with the imprint of the Merrymount Press in 1896. Huntington Library, 1968. One of 50 copies printed by members of the HEH Preparations Dep-artment. unknown books
1917ref. 5752fdPhiladelphia: W. B. Saunders 1917. First Edition. Octavo green cloth hardcover 143 15 ads pp. Fine. W. B. Saunders, 1917. First Edition. hardcover books
1994ref. 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
1989ref. 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
1947ref. 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
1994ref. 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
1963ref. qms435Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina 1963. Octavo green cloth hardcover gilt letters ix 236 pp. Very Good with neat former-owner stamp & signature and former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket with light foxing. From jacket: As plant collector and early systematic botanist John Clayton 1694-1773 Cerk of Court of Gloucester County Virginia occupies a key position in the eighteenth-century international botanical circle. His chief monument is the Flora Virginica published in Leiden in 1739 and 1762. Compiled by J. F. Gronovius from plants and descriptions supplied by Clayton it is the first important North American flora and the only one devoted soley to Virginia. The University of North Carolina, (1963). hardcover books
1744ref. 113771744. BERKELEY GEORGE. Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water and Divers other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another. London: For W. Innys and C. Hitch and C. Davis 1744. 174 2 p. Removed from a bound volume. Very good. Second English edition the variant with the author's name on the title page. An investigation into the medicinal properties of tar water. A highly popular text that was reprinted many times. Keynes 67; Osler 1071; Wellcome II p. 149; NLM/Blake p. 43; Kress 4685. unknown books
1973ref. 31303Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd. Fine in Near Fine dj. 2nd printing. Hardcover. a very nice copy of a book that notoriously does not wear well especially the dust jacket which in this instance has only some minor edgewear and a few surface-scratches on the rear panel. B&W photographs A detailed extensively illustrated chronicle of Berkeley's film and stage work published when he was still alive to enjoy it and able to dedicate the book sweetly to his wife Etta. His sixth and last wife if you must know: B.B. was a heavy drinker and not the easiest guy to live or work with. The Foreword is by Ruby Keeler who danced for Berkeley in four of his most famous films -- 42ND STREET GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 FOOTLIGHT PARADE and DAMES -- and starred in the 1971 Broadway revival of "No No Nanette" for which he was "production supervisor" a largely honorary role. He was originally hired to direct and choreograph the show but was then in his seventies and had been largely inactive since the mid-1950s and wasn't up to the demands of the job. NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this oversized and heavy book; if this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. . 1973. New York Graphic Society Ltd. hardcover books
1752ref. 67002Dublin: George Faulkner 1752. First Dublin edition. 12mo. 265 i.e. 262 pp. Pages 55-58 and 77-84 are cancels pages 85-86 omitted in numbering. Eleven tracts published separately 1721-1752 each with a separate title page. Includes A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected in the Summer-Islands otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda 1725. Berkeley 1685-1753 born in Kilkenny and an Anglican bishop served on a mission to America living in Rhode island 1728-1732 and afterward was named the Bishop of Cloyne 1734 to his death; his writings placed him among the important 18th-century British philosophers. Keynes Bibliography of George Berkeley 140. Contemporary calf rubbed some wear to joints and spine ends leather label between raised bands on spine. Very good. George Faulkner unknown books
ref. 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
1943ref. UCHAJAC00drpHoughton Mifflin 1943. Very Good. Chase Richard. The Jack Tales. Williams Berkeley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1943. 202pp. Illustrated. Glossary. 8vo. Blue 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Gift inscription on title page. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1994ref. UJAMCOR00drpUniversity Press of Virginia 1994. Very Good. James William. The Correspondence of William James: Volume 3. Skrupskelis Ignas K.; Berkeley Elizabeth M. Charlottesville VA: University Press of Virginia 1994. 517pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Red cloth. Book condition: Very good with bumped spine ends. Marginalia on a few pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. University Press of Virginia hardcover books
