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1979réf. 32838Atlanta: Nexus Press 1979. Hardcover. Very good. 60cc. 15pp contained in cloth backed wooden boards with string tie. . Few small stains to boards and title leaf contents have some handling wear but all are present and in very good condition. One of the more uncommon productions from the press and one that if used to its full potential will result in inevitable destruction of the object itself. From directions for Use: "This book contains 15 leaves of different materials including the printed leaves. These leaves plus the covers can be played in different ways by: striking scraping rubbing engraving crumpling tearing breaking snapping etc.A performance may begin with one or more books with or without adding other instruments voices or actions." Nexus Press hardcover books
1946réf. 84Providence: Buffalo Book Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 1st edition preceded only by the novel's appearance as a 3 part serial in Amazing Stories magazine. Smith's first book Just 500 copies were published Hadley's 1947 edition is a reprint. Near fine in a very good dustjacket. Ref: Anatomy of Wonder 1995 2-114 "The archetypal pulp space opera.". Although earlier snippets of science fiction imaginary voyages and futuristic military fiction touched the concept of what is now called space opera The Skylark of Space is the modern template the first significant science fiction sub-genre development since H. G. Wells and one of monumental effect encompassing among its themes the vast interstellar stage horrific alien civilizations the despotic circumstance and ongoing battles with arch-enemies possessing advanced technologies laying the baseline for the likes of Asimov's Foundation Herbert's Dune Roddenberry's Star Trek Lucas' Star Wars and all those that followed and will follow in their wake. Buffalo Book Company hardcover books
1916réf. AUB-294Lausanne et Paris, librairie Payot & Cie 1916. Bon exemplaire broché, gd in-8, 24x17, 336 pages avec annexes + errata.
1941réf. 92796New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. illustrations some in color and all by Poncins xi 339p. plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Clear plastic acetate jacket and red card slipcase with a title label on the front panel. 22 cm. The jacket has modest damage at base of backstrip and some general wrinkling. The slipcase is sound with modest soiling and wear including a small heart-shaped waterspot on the back panel. The book is fresh and clean and even has the original unfaded and only minimally worn red ribbon marker. Copy No. 90 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip laid in the book explains that the book is not signed because Poncins having ". joined the colors of his country France disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris." The slip promised that "in the event of his survival and return to the United States arrangements will be made upon request to his publishers . for him to sign this numbered copy of KABLOONA." In fact Poncins had survived and this copy and an unknown but apparently modest number of other copies of the limited edition were signed by Poncins. The signature on the limitation page is by "Eskimo Mike" de Poncins -- Mike being the name by which he was known among the Inuit. All in all a wonderful copy of an important book about the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit people. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1974réf. 002350Vence Pierre Chave 1974 In-12 en feuilles sous emboitage de l'éditeur
1958réf. 38022New York: John Wiley & Sons 1958. First edition of this classic in management science. Octavo original cloth. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist John Harsanyi with his signature on the front free endpaper . 'Outside the Carnegie group we should like to acknowledge especially our many hours of fruitful work and discussion with Robert A. Dahl on the subject of influence measurement and the help and guidance that John C. Harsanyi provided for our treatment of the relation between game theory and other theories of conflict' p. vi. 'Simon was attracted to the exciting intellectual environment emerging at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. After moving to Carnegie in 1949 Simon stayed there for more than five decades. At Carnegie Simon collaborated on work that established the field of organization theory. The founding work was a major study done with James G. March published as Organizations. The book continued the argument that decision makers are not able to act in an objectively rational manner; rather they are constrained by both cognitive and external limitations. So instead of assuming that each decision maker scans all possible alternatives and chooses the one that maximizes expected utility Simon argued that decision makers instead use 'satisficing' as a criterion for making decisions; they choose the first alternative that looks 'good enough.' March and Simon wrote in Organizations 'Most human decision making whether individual or organizational is concerned with the discovery and selection of satisfactory alternatives; only in exceptional cases is it concerned with the discovery and selection of optimal alternatives.' . . . One of Simon's insights was that the observed complexity of human behavior arose from simple and general underlying mechanisms that were applied to a complex task environment. Simon illustrated this with his famous metaphor of 'the ant on the beach.' The ant's goal is to reach some distant food. While the ant's path to the food seems very complex twisting and turning most of the apparent complexity is due to the grains of sand to be traversed. The complexity of the environment rather than the complexity of mechanism within the decision maker gives rise to the observed behavior. 'In solving problems' March and Simon wrote 'human thinking is governed by programs that organize myriads of simple information processes - or symbolic manipulating processes if you like - into orderly complex sequences that are responsive to and adaptive to the task environment and the clues that are extracted from that environment as the sequences unfold' ' Mie Augier & Edward Feigenbaum 'Herbert A. Simon: 15 June 1916 - 9 February 2001' Biographical Memoirs Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 147 No. 2 June 2003 pp. 196-7. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable with a noted provenance. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
1986réf. 1511BPhilip Wilson Publishers London for Sotheby's Publications 1986 Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover cloth with the top of the text block gilt with dust jacket in slipcase.; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5000 black-and-white and colour illustrations including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Vol. 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares; Vol. 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Vol. 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used with signs of wear on the slipcases dust jackets and on the interior. The dust jackets show edge wear scuffs and scratches and are faded on the spines namely: Vol. 1 has a scratch on the middle of the back cover and is chipped on the edges Vol. 2 is slightly loose due to wear and shows edge wear scuffs and scratches on the front cover spine and back cover. Vol. 3 is loose due to wear shows edge wear scuffs and scratches on the front cover spine and back cover and shows also minor chips on the edges a tear at the bottom of the spine and a scratch on the middle of the back cover. All volumes with signs of wear on the interior.; Signed by the author including written dedication on title page of Volume 1.; OUT OF PRINT SCARCE REFERENCE CATALOGUE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 55.; The Topkapi Saray Museum collection of Chinese Ceramics is one of the largest and most important in the whole world yet comparatively little of it has ever been published. The wares assembled here present a continuous review of porcelains made for export from the 13th century to the 19th century which in its range of styles and designs is without equal in any other surviving collection. With some 4500 pieces dating from the Yuan and Ming dynasties and a further 5500 from the Qing the present three-volume work covering the entire collection constitutes the most extensively illustrated book on Chinese ceramics yet published and provides an unrivaled source for dating and the study of design. The main part of the work consists of a complete and definitive catalogue in which every piece is itemised. Each entry is accompanied by one or more monochrome illustrations scaled in size according to importance and many are also shown in colour. The work contains 5000 illustrations in all of which 200 are large-size colour plates. The volumes divide the catalogue into three major sections "Celadon Wares" "Yuan and Ming Porcelains" and "Qing Porcelains". These sections and their sub-divisions are arranged chronologically and are prefaced by extensive introductions by Regina Krahl and John Ayers. Virtually all the celadon wares are products of the famous Longquan kilns and the majority date from the 14th and 15th centuries; numbering in all some 1350 pieces they comprise the most extensive body of such material in existence. In blue-and-white and white wares of the 14th and early 15th centuries too which are widely regarded as the finest products of the Yuan and early Ming the group of 125 pieces has no rival in size or quality while the representation of later Ming export blue-and-white is rich in the extreme; the polychrome and monochrome classes of Ming ware also including some notable rarities. As for the Qing wares of all categories these two comprise a uniquely extensive range of designs still virtually unpublished and of great value to students of Chinese porcelain. The first volume is introduced by a series of essays surveying the background to the collection and various aspects of the ceramics themselves. Dr. Unsal Yucel and Dr. Julian Raby throw new light on how porcelains both entered and left the palace in what quantities and at what dates; Dr. Raby also contributes a penetrating examination of the nature of Ottoman taste in this field showing how porcelain was regarded at the Court and for what purposes and on what occasions it was used. Further important articles examine in detail the use of Chinese and Arabic marks on the porcelains. A full working bibliography a concordance and a thorough index complete the work. Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications hardcover
1925réf. mon0000211140Heinemann 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. 1926 hardback without dust cover. Clean copy sound binding. Heinemann hardcover
1924réf. 25607Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket sound but worn copy bumping/exposure of boards at all corners light dampstaining to spine; the tipped-in folding map between pages 10 and 11 is present and in excellent condition. 3 color plates 6 halftones 9 photogravures INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Paul Bern / with the good wishes / of the author / Robert Flaherty / New York City / Jan 4th 1927." Flaherty's 1922 film NANOOK OF THE NORTH was the most acclaimed documentary of its time -- a time before "documentary film" even existed as a defined genre. Although the passage of time and the revelations of scholarship have diminished and somewhat tarnished Flaherty's reputation NANOOK itself remains an impressive cinematic achievement even if OK some scenes were staged. Three of the book's four sections deal with Flaherty's earlier expeditions into the Hudson Bay region as an explorer and prospector in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway during which time he learned about the lands and people and conceived the idea of capturing them on film. Parts I-III are: The Discovery and Exploration of the Belcher Islands; Winter on Wetalltok's Island; The Exploration of Northern Ungava. Only Part IV entitled "Films" is specifically about the making of NANOOK which began in 1913 but was beset with difficulties including the destruction by fire in 1916 of 30000 feet of Flaherty's already-exposed film. His account here is somewhat thin on specifics like dates as he chose instead to concentrate largely on his interactions with the Eskimos specifically Nanook himself whose name wasn't actually Nanook at all but never mind. The book's inscribee Paul Bern 1889-1932 has misfortunately gone down in Hollywood history as Jean Harlow's suicidal husband but prior to that he was one of Irving Thalberg's right-hand men his personal assistant in fact and later a producer at M-G-M. In January 1927 Bern was nearing the end of a two-month sojourn in New York on assignment for Thalberg; per a contemporary press report he "saw every current Broadway play during his visit conferred with many noted writers and entered into negotiations for the screen rights of several stories and novels." Flaherty for his part had been in demand following the great box-office success of NANOOK then as now nothing quite caught Hollywood's attention as strongly as an unexpected money-maker and had dipped his toe in the movie colony's pool turning out a South Seas-set narrative documentary MOANA for Paramount; by the time of its release in January 1926 he had moved to New York where he was working when presumably Bern came calling. Whether or not securing Flaherty's services for M-G-M was a specific agenda item it's quite possible that one of the novels to which Bern nailed down the rights was Frederick O'Brien's 1919 book "White Shadows in the South Seas" and it was that very project later in the year for which Flaherty did indeed return to Hollywood -- albeit briefly before M-G-M shipped him off to Tahiti to shoot the film from which production he was later fired but that's another story. Whether these events actually link up neatly in a single chain is open to speculation but in any case the inscription in this book represents a notable crossing of paths by one of the cinema's towering figures -- the father of the documentary film more or less -- and one of Tinseltown's most tragic figures who would a few years later die by his own hand purportedly after just two months of marriage to the luminous Jean Harlow. Bern was known to be a cultured and well-read man with an extensive library; this particular book ended up probably after Bern's death in the hands of his friend and fellow M-G-M producer Carey Wilson from whose estate we obtained the book. Signed by Author . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
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1893réf. 31650New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 437 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Barin; Ex-Library . 1893. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1894réf. 105796P. Lethielleux. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 552 pages; many black and white illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1894. P. Lethielleux hardcover
1946réf. 53615New York: Harper & Brothers. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 475 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . 1946. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1965réf. 28125Yale University Press. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE -- with a bonus offer--; T-GORKY; Gorky Maxim translated By Bakshy Alexander in Collaboration with Nathan Paul The Lower Depths and Other Plays By Maxim Gorky . 1965. Yale University Press paperback
1946réf. 56301G. P. Putnam's Sons. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 244 pages. Vice-Admiral McIntire was Surgeon General of the Navy and FDR's personal physician. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1946. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
2002réf. 85977Paris France: RMN; Foundation. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Text in French. 464 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2002. 2711843033 . RMN; Foundation paperback
1933réf. 53275Les Editions G. Van Oest. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 175 pages of text in French followed by 33 black and white plates. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1933. Les Editions G. Van Oest paperback
1954réf. 70475New York: Gramercy Publishing Company. Very Good. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE UNMARKED - 357 pages. Book description: A guide and handbook on somatyping for those concerned with problems of human physique - physicians geneticists psychologists physical educators actuaries nutritionists and human biologists in general. Here are photographs of 1175 examples of the 88 known somatypes with age - height - weight tables and curves for each; the first comprehensive review of age - height - weight standards since 1912. -- with a bonus offer--; 041134; Sheldon William H. Ph.D.; M.D.; With the Collaboration of Dupertuis C. Wesley and McDermott Eugene Atlas of Men: A Guide for Somatotyping The Adult Man at All Ages 357 pages. Book description: A guide and handbook on somatyping for those concerned with problems of human physique - physicians geneticists psychologists physical educators actuaries nutritionists and human biologists in general. Here are photographs of 1175 examples of the 88 known somatypes with age - height - weight tables and curves for each; the first comprehensive review of age - height - weight standards since 1912. . 1954. Gramercy Publishing Company hardcover
1983réf. LX oe3wdAGNI: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar Two Volume Set: Volume I and Volume II. By Frits Staal in collaboration with C. V. Somayajipad and M. Itti Ravi Nambudiri; Photographs by Adelaide deMenil. Published by Asian Humanities Press in 1983. Hardcover two volumes total 1604 pp: 754 pp Volume I 850 pp Volume II. Asian Humanities Press hardcover
réf. Z1-E-030-02475Springer-Verlag. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Springer-Verlag unknown
1944réf. 50163Marseille, Groupe Philibert Géraud, 1942 1944 100 fasc. in-folio, en feuilles, ch. près de 12 pp. Nomb. illustrations
1986réf. 1475BPhilip Wilson Publishers London for Sotheby's Publications 1986 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover cloth with top edge gilt with dust jacket in slipcase.; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5000 black-and-white and colour illustrations including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Volume 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares; Volume 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Volume 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used with minor signs of wear on the dust jackets and on the interior. The slipcases show minor wear marks scuffs and scratches except the slipcase of volume 3 which shows a bump at the top right side of the back. The dust jackets show minor edge wear scuffs and scratches. Except volume 2 which shows a scratch on the left side of the front cover from below the title until almost the bottom the scratch created a tiny punch without creating a hole the punch is seen from the rear of the dust jacket only if it is removed. The front cover of volume 3 show signs of have been slightly bent. Interior with minor signs of wear except for volume 2 which shows tiny wear marks on a few pages.; OUT OF PRINT SCARCE REFERENCE CATALOGUE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 168.; The Topkapi Saray Museum collection of Chinese Ceramics is one of the largest and most important in the whole world yet comparatively little of it has ever been published. The wares assembled here present a continuous review of porcelains made for export from the 13th century to the 19th century which in its range of styles and designs is without equal in any other surviving collection. With some 4500 pieces dating from the Yuan and Ming dynasties and a further 5500 from the Qing the present three-volume work covering the entire collection constitutes the most extensively illustrated book on Chinese ceramics yet published and provides an unrivaled source for dating and the study of design. The main part of the work consists of a complete and definitive catalogue in which every piece is itemised. Each entry is accompanied by one or more monochrome illustrations scaled in size according to importance and many are also shown in colour. The work contains 5000 illustrations in all of which 200 are large-size colour plates. The volumes divide the catalogue into three major sections "Celadon Wares" "Yuan and Ming Porcelains" and "Qing Porcelains". These sections and their sub-divisions are arranged chronologically and are prefaced by extensive introductions by Regina Krahl and John Ayers. Virtually all the celadon wares are products of the famous Longquan kilns and the majority date from the 14th and 15th centuries; numbering in all some 1350 pieces they comprise the most extensive body of such material in existence. In blue-and-white and white wares of the 14th and early 15th centuries too which are widely regarded as the finest products of the Yuan and early Ming the group of 125 pieces has no rival in size or quality while the representation of later Ming export blue-and-white is rich in the extreme; the polychrome and monochrome classes of Ming ware also including some notable rarities. As for the Qing wares of all categories these two comprise a uniquely extensive range of designs still virtually unpublished and of great value to students of Chinese porcelain. The first volume is introduced by a series of essays surveying the background to the collection and various aspects of the ceramics themselves. Dr. Unsal Yucel and Dr. Julian Raby throw new light on how porcelains both entered and left the palace in what quantities and at what dates; Dr. Raby also contributes a penetrating examination of the nature of Ottoman taste in this field showing how porcelain was regarded at the Court and for what purposes and on what occasions it was used. Further important articles examine in detail the use of Chinese and Arabic marks on the porcelains. A full working bibliography a concordance and a thorough index complete the work. Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications hardcover
1944réf. 1110751944 Janvier à Août 1944 - N° 5260/5261 à 5292/5293 - 102e année - Imprimerie de L'Illustration, Bobigny - Revue hebdomadaire illustrée - Grand in-4, demi basane rouge - Dos 5 nerfs avec titre et années en doré - p. 1 à 301 + quelques pages de publicités non paginées - Très nombreuses illustrations et reproductions photographiques en N&B avec quelques planches en couleurs hors texte - Complet, comprenant les numéros rares 5278/5279 (6 et 13 mai 1944 : Le Salon et le Maréchal à Paris) - 5290/5291 (dernier avec le bandeau rouge) puis 5292/5293 où la mention de Jacques de Lesdain comme rédacteur disparaît - Relié avec les premières de couverture et quelques pages de publicités
réf. 2110502151111380Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
1972réf. 220279Wilmington Delaware: Privately Printed 1972. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and boards. The endpapers are a map of the Vosso River Western Norway. Some fading along top edge of covers. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to His Brother. Privately printed and second in the series of books on Salmon fishing done by Sportsman Alfred Bissell in a very limited edition This copy is inscribed on the half-title "For my brother John who may discover from these pages why we pursue the Atlantic salmon year after year and why it is rated one of the greatest game fish in the world. Affectionately Chas. L. Reese Jr." Much salmon fishing in Norway at "Oddsbu" a fishing lodge on the picturesque Voss near Bolstadøyri whose principal revenue comes from cutting hay and renting river rights to sportsmen and where the party fished on five beats and caught fish weighing up to 29 pounds: included are interesting Norway photos. There was also an abortive Salmon trip to Siberia. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 5 (Privately Printed) unknown books
