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1941Best.-Nr. 12811New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. First edition printed at the Merrymount Press 4to pp. 4 72-74; ornamented title-page 1 collotype plate; a near fine copy in orig. dark gray cloth gilt minimal wear to extremities lower spine end bumped. Six essays including "The Essentials of a Well-made Book" "The Place of the Educated Man in the Printing Industry" and "American University Presses." Smith 908. William Edwin Rudge unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 28549New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii 2 565; numerous illustrations in the text; very good in good jacket with tears no loss and wrinkles on extremities. Co-edited by Herbert E. Klingelhofer and Kenneth W. Rendell. Sponsored by The Manuscript Society. Inscribed by Ken Rendell and contributor Diana Rendell "for 'the girls of Chicago' with best wishes 12/20/78." A comprehensive work valuable to any collector. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1940Best.-Nr. 18101New York: The Grolier Club 1940. Edition limited to 1000 copies printed by The Pynson Printers this 1 of 150 copies for the Grolier Club signed by Updike in pencil on the colophon; 8vo pp. 47 7; vignette title-page and 3 vignettes in text; fine in orig. brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. 850 copies were also printed for the A.I.G.A. which were bound in wrappers and not signed. Addresses given at the Grolier Club at the opening of an exhibition on Updike and the Merrymount Press with a check-list of Updike's writings. The Grolier Club unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 27787Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. First edition limited to 500 copies 8vo x & 280pp. 13 plates; spine ends just beginning to fray otherwise near fine in orig. brown linen stamped in gilt on spine. Standard work on the Merrymount Press. Harvard University Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 234464Houghton Mifflin Company 1943. 50th Anniversary. hardcover. Good/Good. 6x0x9. Berkeley Williams Jr. Later printing. Dust jacket and book are in good condition with minor wear. Dust jacket has a small spot stain at the top front edge view in photo. Blue cloth boards. Has a good binding. Name is written on the front free endpaper no other marks or notations. Foxed top page edge. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. 89362Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1937. cloth later cloth slipcase. 8vo. cloth later cloth slipcase. xl 292; xx 326 pages. Two volumes. Second edition Appleton p.69. Ownership inscription in ink on the front free endpapers. Lacking the dust jackets. Spines lightly faded else a near fine set in near fine slipcase. Profusely illustrated. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces. Harvard University Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 37077Iowa City: The Prairie Press n.d. self paper wrappers which unfolds to a small 4to. Prairie Press. 12mo. self paper wrappers which unfolds to a small 4to. broadside printing of Updike's comments on typography. With use of red and blue. The Prairie Press unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 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
1981Best.-Nr. 008649Berkeley CA: Doug Minkler 1981. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 24" h x 18" W. "Celebration & Rally - Music by Orquestra Sabrosita - Attend the Rent Board Public Hearing -City Hall Stop the General Rent Hike for 1982. For more information call the Berkeley Tenants Union - 843-6601". "c D. Minkler" in an inverted triangle printed in black at the bottom right. BTU house logo printed in black at the bottom left. Screenprint peach and black color image on stiff beige paper. Near Fine small corner creases. Forty years later and due to a global pandemic a strikingly current protest poster. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. Doug Minkler unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 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
1989Best.-Nr. 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
1994Best.-Nr. 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
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
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
1985Best.-Nr. 2353025Lexington: Stephen Greene Press 1985. Large Hardcover. Very Good. 7x1x5. Light edge wear. 1985 Large Hardcover. 448 pp. A compilation of writings by dozens of leaders in holistic health covering every imaginable field - from body and breathwork to herbal medicine shamanism and integrative medicine. Stephen Greene Press hardcover books
1803Best.-Nr. 2353260New-Haven Connecticut: For Increase Cooke & Co 1803. First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. First American edition from the fourth London edition. Lacks front board spine and rear board rubbed and drying two light spots on fore edge ink name and date on front endpaper brief pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1803 Full-Leather. xiii 2 16-388 2 pp. Complete in one volume. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism which he called immaterialism which states that objects do not exist unless they are perceived. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 is the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity prefaced with an influential essay in the philosophy of language; part two was later lost in manuscript with other papers in Italy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perhaps his most well-known work is Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in which two characters representing himself and John Locke discuss various philosophical questions. Berkeley was a fellow at Trinity College and in the 1720s turned his attention to the project of opening St. Paul's College in Bermuda though skepticism about the chances of success in this endeavor caused the funding to come into question. "To prevent a threatening decline in private support Berkeley sailed for Newport Rhode Island with a small advance party on 6 September 1728; this included Smibert who painted several well-known portraits of Berkeley and of his party before settling for life in Boston. The journey was hazardous and protracted. They made an unscheduled landfall on the Virginia coast about the turn of the year and were officially received at Williamsburg before reaching Rhode Island on 23 January 1729. By the spring Berkeley had bought a farm of 96 acres at Middletown 'with two fine groves and winding rivulet upon it' Works 8.194 whose produce would support the college. He employed slaves and was apparently indifferent to the institution of slavery provided that it was humane seeing the moral need rather as one of conversion and baptism. He built a new house Whitehall which is now maintained as a historic site although the adjoining farmland has given way to urban development. Berkeley often preached at Newport Rhode Island in the winter and in remoter outposts in the summer. The strongest and longest friendship he established among New England churchmen was with Samuel Johnson 1696 - 1772 of Stratford Connecticut a refugee from Calvinism who later became first president of King's College New York later Columbia University and lent support to Berkeley's philosophy through his Elementa philosophica 1752 and other writings. Throughout his career Berkeley had little time for dissenters although he abhorred the use of violence against them. The religious tolerance characteristic of Rhode Island induced a degree of ecumenicism in his social practice that was not always maintained in the pulpit. Reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fuelled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his. This was a factor in his writing Alciphron a set of dialogues located notionally in England but drawing much of the landscape description from Rhode Island which was to sell well and stimulate controversy after his return. In this theist and immaterialist combine their defences against a medley of intellectual trends derived primarily but not exclusively from Locke Bernard Mandeville and the third earl of Shaftesbury that Berkeley regarded as obstructive to religion. The work includes Berkeley's second foray into moral philosophy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography For Increase Cooke & Co hardcover books
1931Best.-Nr. 2351723Garden City New York: The Crime Club Inc. / Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1931. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Lacks jacket. Spine leans forward slightly otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight pages clean bright and unmarked. 1931 Hard Cover. 273 pp. 8vo. The ransacked flat and the garroted body meant a simple burglary to Scotland Yard. but the Yard overlooked the innocent bit of rope that Roger Sheringham found. The seventh Roger Sheringham mystery novel by popular British crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox who wrote as Anthony Berkeley Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Roger Sheringham stories were Berkeley's most popular mysteries though he also wrote quite a few stand-alones. The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
1732Best.-Nr. 2329641London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand 1732. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Neatly rebacked with new gilt titles original boards and endsheets retained. Discolored 2 inch declivity on front board boards rubbed with corners exposed first volume lacks leaf A4 ink owner stamps on front endpapers William Harris Mar 1944 light stain to marginal edges of first gathering in volume two front and end matter lightly foxed rear free endpaper of first volume loosening. 1732 Full-Leather. 356; 351 pp. Alciphron is a Christian apologetic in answer to the 'minute philosophers' of Berkeley's day who sought to minimize the the dignity of man. Berkeley is known as an advocate of subjective idealism which he called immaterialism which states that objects do not exist unless they are perceived. "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 1710 is the classic exposition of his philosophy of immaterialism as an antidote to infidelity prefaced with an influential essay in the philosophy of language; part two was later lost in manuscript with other papers in Italy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Perhaps his most well-known work is Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in which two characters representing himself and John Locke discuss various philosophical questions. Berkeley was a fellow at Trinity College and in the 1720s turned his attention to the project of opening St. Paul's College in Bermuda though skepticism about the chances of success in this endeavor caused the funding to come into question. "To prevent a threatening decline in private support Berkeley sailed for Newport Rhode Island with a small advance party on 6 September 1728; this included Smibert who painted several well-known portraits of Berkeley and of his party before settling for life in Boston. The journey was hazardous and protracted. They made an unscheduled landfall on the Virginia coast about the turn of the year and were officially received at Williamsburg before reaching Rhode Island on 23 January 1729. By the spring Berkeley had bought a farm of 96 acres at Middletown 'with two fine groves and winding rivulet upon it' Works 8.194 whose produce would support the college. He employed slaves and was apparently indifferent to the institution of slavery provided that it was humane seeing the moral need rather as one of conversion and baptism. He built a new house Whitehall which is now maintained as a historic site although the adjoining farmland has given way to urban development. Berkeley often preached at Newport Rhode Island in the winter and in remoter outposts in the summer. The strongest and longest friendship he established among New England churchmen was with Samuel Johnson 1696 - 1772 of Stratford Connecticut a refugee from Calvinism who later became first president of King's College New York later Columbia University and lent support to Berkeley's philosophy through his Elementa philosophica 1752 and other writings. Throughout his career Berkeley had little time for dissenters although he abhorred the use of violence against them. The religious tolerance characteristic of Rhode Island induced a degree of ecumenicism in his social practice that was not always maintained in the pulpit. Reports of growing infidelity in English society to which he was always liable to give credence were fuelled by the continuing bad faith of the government in failing to lodge the funds he considered legally his. This was a factor in his writing Alciphron a set of dialogues located notionally in England but drawing much of the landscape description from Rhode Island which was to sell well and stimulate controversy after his return. In this theist and immaterialist combine their defences against a medley of intellectual trends derived primarily but not exclusively from Locke Bernard Mandeville and the third earl of Shaftesbury that Berkeley regarded as obstructive to religion. The work includes Berkeley's second foray into moral philosophy." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 56982West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A handsome first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in an equally unblemished dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a compilation of essays and lectures written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Updike and the editor William W. Peterson. The book is divided into four sections: "The Writer" "The Reader" "The Work of Making a Book" and "The Business of Books." In "The Writer" Updike discusses the importance of being a good writer and the techniques that he has used to achieve success. In "The Reader" he discusses the importance of reading and how it can transform a person. In "The Work of Making a Book" he discusses the process of book making and the importance of having a good editor. In "The Business of Books" he discusses the different aspects of the book business and the importance of bookselling.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 55512West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; The Well-Made Book is a collection of essays and lectures by celebrated authors and thinkers including David Foster Wallace J.D. Salinger and William Updike. Edited by William W. Peterson the book is a unique and illuminating exploration of the craft of writing from conception to publication.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2002Best.-Nr. 55510West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 097156874x . A Fine first edition/first printing in an equally handsome dust-jacket; In this book prominent authors and scholars offer essays and lectures on the craft of writing. Topics include sentence structure plot character development and more. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in improving their writing skills.; 8vo; 383 pages . Mark Batty, Publisher hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 14623London: Vintage Books. Fine. 2008. Limited/Numbered Edition. Softcover. 0099526999 . Only 1000 copies of this Limited/Numbered edition libretto were published. This copy is in Very Fine condition and is SIGNED by author Ian McEwan and composer Michael Berkeley directly on the title page; Charles Frieth is a composer conductor and prodigious womanizer. As he is preparing for a performance of one of his early works and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade he is awakened to the chaos and turmoil in his life. As he struggles to regain control a terrible trajedy begins to unfold. This libretto for Michael Berkeley's opera was commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and received its first performance on May 31st 2008 at Theatr Brycheiniog; Small 8vo ; Signed by All Authors . Vintage Books paperback books
1891Best.-Nr. 92699New York: The Berkeley Lyceum 1891. Very Good. Modest-sized broadsheet flyer. 24 cm. Text printed in red on both sides. Two horizontal creases. List of 30 "patronesses" printed on other side. The first patroness listed is Mrs. Valentine G. Hall who was the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt whom little Eleanor went to live after her mother's death. We were unable find information about a "Summer Home for Colored Women and Children" other than an online reference identifying it as organized in 1890. The Berkeley Lyceum unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 84948New York: Charles Scribners's Sons 1978. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. illustrations index xviii 565p. Original cloth. dj. 24cm. Two errata sheets laid in. Charles Scribners's Sons paperback books
1903Best.-Nr. 83708New York: James Pott & Co 1903. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis photos xii 292p. Original decorated red cloth. 19cm. Tabard Inn Library label on endpaper. No Jacket. James Pott & Co hardcover books
