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1820réf. 12893London: R. Ackermann 101 Strand 1820. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. Contemporary polished calf spine gilt all edges gilt rebacked corners somewhat rubbed offsetting from plates and text very good attractive copy. First edition early issue with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz 1 map. xiv 2 1-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio 13 1/4 x 11 in. One of Ackermann's most breathtaking color plate books - these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie pp. 107-8 312; Prideaux p. 337; Tooley 1954 # 234 R. Ackermann, 101, Strand unknown books
1962réf. 592360New York: Mercury Press 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Cover art by Ed Emsh. Pictorial wrappers. Creases on wraps a few small chips and tears very good. Contributions by: Brian W. Aldiss Isaac Asimov Avram Davidson Robert Sheckley Grendel Briarton Hyacinthe Hill Virginia Rose Anderson Mildred Clingerman Vance Aandahl Don White and more. Mercury Press unknown books
1969réf. 204280Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 182pp. Endpapers with modest offsetting due to printer's glue corners and spine ends slightly bumped very good in a very good dust jacket with slight rubbing and modest wear to the extremities. Ten essays that explore the human side of great scientific discoveries with contributions by Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov James Blish L. Sprague de Camp Hal Clement Robert Silverberg Harry Harrison John Brunner Ben Bova and Willy Ley. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1969réf. 247252Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 182pp. Endpapers with modest offsetting due to printer's glue corners and spine ends slightly rubbed very good in a very good dust jacket with a few scratches and a small stain on the rear panel and modest wear to the extremities. Ten essays that explore the human side of great scientific discoveries with contributions by Poul Anderson Isaac Asimov James Blish L. Sprague de Camp Hal Clement Robert Silverberg Harry Harrison John Brunner Ben Bova and Willy Ley. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1890réf. 002289Laconia NH: John J. Lane n.d. c.1890's 1890. 1 vol. 9-1/4" x 5-7/16" 48pp. original yellow pictorial wrappers several woodcut illustrations in text internally clean and bright hinges fine a VERY GOOD copy. REFERENCE: McDade 376 Laconia, NH: John J. Lane, n.d., (c.1890's) unknown
1985réf. 4711New York: Arco Publishing 1985. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8 3/4 X 11 3/8 Inches. 127 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $19.95 on the front flap. Signed by Vallejo directly on the FFEP. Introduction by Asimov. A few "smudges" to boards. DJ sharp and clean. Arco Publishing hardcover
1966réf. 416084New York: New York Science Fiction Society 1966. Near Fine. Broadside. Measuring 8½" x 11". Printed one side with two mimeograph lines added. Near fine with toning along one edge small corner crease and light mimeograph ink spots. A broadside promoting the 1966 Lunacon science-fiction convention at the Hotel Edison in New York and with featured speaker Isaac Asimov. That year was the first two-day Lunacon with additional guests Lester del Rey James Blish Gray Morrow Lin Carter and Terry Carr. New York Science Fiction Society unknown
1983réf. 036160NY: Holt Rinehart Winston. 1983. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of scifi stories about robots and computers. Co-edited by Asimov and with an introduction and a handful of stories by him. Other contributors: Philip K. Dick Harlan Ellison John Wyndham Michael Shaara Poul Anderson etc. Water spot to spine else near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Holt Rinehart Winston paperback
1953réf. 433708Chicago: Bell Publications 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. 12mos. Perfectbound in illustrated wrappers. Overall very good or better with light wear and one issue cocked. The first three issue of this magazines edited by Ray Palmer. The magazine included stories from Isaac Asimov Robert Bloch Theodore Sturgeon L. Sprague de Camp Poul Anderson and Mack Reynolds; with interior illustrations from Virgil Finlay. Bell Publications unknown
1966réf. 416084New York: New York Science Fiction Society 1966. Near Fine. Broadside. Measuring 8½" x 11". Printed one side with two mimeograph lines added. Near fine with toning along one edge small corner crease and light mimeograph ink spots. A broadside promoting the 1966 Lunacon science-fiction convention at the Hotel Edison in New York and with featured speaker Isaac Asimov. That year was the first two-day Lunacon with additional guests Lester del Rey James Blish Gray Morrow Lin Carter and Terry Carr. New York Science Fiction Society unknown books
1983réf. 036160NY: Holt Rinehart Winston. 1983. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of scifi stories about robots and computers. Co-edited by Asimov and with an introduction and a handful of stories by him. Other contributors: Philip K. Dick Harlan Ellison John Wyndham Michael Shaara Poul Anderson etc. Water spot to spine else near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Holt Rinehart Winston paperback books
1953réf. 613764Manchester: Pemberton's 1953. Softcover. Very Good. British edition partial reprint. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller. Quarto. 66pp. Pictorial wrappers. Inked date on title page small tear on front cover tape mended on verso very good with supple pages. Abridged edition of the December 1952 and February and June 1953 issues. Contains: "Here Lie We" by Fox B. Holden "Imperfection" by Leslie Waltham "Obsolescence Inc." by Dixon Wells "The Black Deep Thou Wingest" by Robert F. Young "The Magnetic Monster" by uncredited "Video-Technics" by Pat Jones "The Monkey's Fingers" by Isaac Asimov "Can Mechanical Brains Have Consciousness" by Gotthard Gunther "Definition" by Damon Knight and "The Book of the Dead" by H. H. West. Pemberton's unknown books
1953réf. 613397Kokomo IN: Better Publications 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Creases on front cover light foxing on rear wrap small chips at spine ends very good. Contains: "The Monkey's Fingers" by Isaac Asimov "Definition" by Damon Knight "Potemkin Village" by Fletcher Pratt "Sestina of the Space Rocket" a poem by Philip José Farmer "Can Mechanical Brains Have Consciousness" an essay by Gotthard Günther letters from John Brunner and Poul Anderson and more. Better Publications unknown books
1941réf. 620342Chicago: Fictioneers Inc. Popular Publications 1941. Softcover. Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 114pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Small chips and tears at yapped edges splitting along rear spine fold three inch tear on rear wrap with corresponding tear affecting approximately 30 pages in the rear and the margins of the remaining pages good only. Science-fiction pulp with contributions from Isaac Asimov "Super-Neutron" Frank Belknap Long James Blish C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl as S.D. Gottesman Harry Walton Henry Hasse Henry Kuttner as Paul Edmonds R.R. Winterbotham Anton Reeds and Basil E. Wells. Fictioneers Inc. [Popular Publications] unknown books
1956réf. 592355New York: Fantasy House 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Cover art by Chesley Bonestell. Pictorial wrappers. Small stains and creases on wraps very good. Contributions by: Isaac Asimov Mack Reynolds Anthony Boucher Lord Dunsany Arthur C. Clarke Bryce Walton Garson Kanin and more. Fantasy House unknown books
1978réf. 606764New York: Davis 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Quarto. Illustrated in black and white with full color poster. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Small nicks and tears at edges poster loose and laid in very good. The premier issue of this science fiction magazine includes contributions by Isaac Asimov Poul Anderson Jesse Peel Grendel Briarton and more. Davis unknown books
1946réf. 601407New York: Street & Smith 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. XXXVIII No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell Jr. Cover by William Timmins. 178pp. Owner stamp on the front cover and the first page. Wrappers worn with chips creases and a couple of stains pages toned and with a few small chips about very good. Includes contributions by Isaac Asimov Raymond F. Jones Lawrence O'Donnell George O. Smith and others. Street & Smith unknown books
1953réf. 433708Chicago: Bell Publications 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. 12mos. Perfectbound in illustrated wrappers. Overall very good or better with light wear and one issue cocked. The first three issue of this magazines edited by Ray Palmer. The magazine included stories from Isaac Asimov Robert Bloch Theodore Sturgeon L. Sprague de Camp Poul Anderson and Mack Reynolds; with interior illustrations from Virgil Finlay. Bell Publications unknown books
1967réf. 623983Los Angeles California: Arizill 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 102pp. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Tiny scuff marks on front wrap inked notations on rear cover very good. Contains: an interview with the all-female rock band The Unidentified Flying Objects "The New Puritans on the Sexual Establishment" by James L. Collier articles about immortality that include "The Price of Life" by Isaac Asimov and "Syzygy-Another Way" by Theodore Sturgeon and more. Arizill) unknown books
1962réf. 23738Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company 1962. 1962. Very good. - Octavo black cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly rubbed & bumped with some very light staining to the rear cover. The dust wrapper is rubbed & lightly chipped with some light dampstaining. 215 pages plus 2-page publisher's catalog. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Subtitled on the dust jacket: "Fiction poetry criticism from England France Germany Greece New Zealand and the United States". Among the contents is an early piece by Donald Barthelme "The Big Broadcast of 1938". There is also a symposium on ""Father and Son" by Stanley Kunitz with Josephine Miles Robert Beloof Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz. Scarce in cloth. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1962). hardcover
1956réf. 97100New York CBS Records 1956. 1956. Fine. - An 11 inch high by 14 inch wide photograph by Emmerich Gara depicting Leonard Bernstein seated at a desk with recording equipment to his right a cigarette pensively held up near his mouth. The great violinist Isaac Stern seated next to him reaches towards the score while the classical music producer and clarinetist David Oppenheim stands at left smoking a pipe. The three together with a partially visible fourth man appear to be attentively listening to the playback. Photographed by Cellist Emmerich Gara during a studio recording session with his name & address stamped on the verso of the photograph. Identified by him on the verso as "Leonard Bernstein & Isaac Stern / CBS Recording Session Spring 1956" the photograph is signed by Gara in pencil on the verso. Fine. The Koussevitzky Foundation commissioned Leonard Bernstein to compose "The Serenade after Plato's Symposium" in memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky. Bernstein completed the work for solo violin strings and percussion on August 7 1954 and premiered the work in Venice with violinist Isaac Stern and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on September 12th of that year. Bernstein & Stern subsequently recorded "The Serenade" for Columbia Records with the Symphony of the Air on April 19 1956. The American clarinetist David Jerome Oppenheim 1922-2007 was also a classical music and television producer directing the Masterworks division of Columbia Records from 1950 to 1959. Emmerich Gara b.1901 d.1963. Born in Vienna Austria in 1901 Gara established lifelong careers as a portrait photographer and professional cellist. Before the outbreak of the Second World War he and his wife emigrated to the United States where he was hired as cellist for the NBC Orchestra led by Arturo Toscanini. He performed with the orchestra later called The Symphony of the Air until his death. From his seat in the front row of the orchestra Gara was in the unique position to photograph all the great conductors and soloists who appeared with the orchestra during this extraordinary period of musical activity. His subjects were captured in performance rehearsal and in candid moments during recordings and while socializing. Gara's action portraits were used for record covers for the Book of the Month Club and in articles in Time Life and other major magazines around the world. (New York, CBS Records), (1956). unknown
1803réf. 373879Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for Thomas & Andrews and Manning & Loring 1803. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers with gilt roll tool border flat spine gilt in six compartments marbled endpapers gilt roll tool along the turn-ins minor wear and rubbing. Minor browning staining and offsetting. Bookbinder's ticket on front pastedown T. H. Burnton Exeter NH. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. A lovely early American binding by T. H. Burnton in which the ornamental border of the title is likely used as inspiration for the tooling on the covers. According to Papantonio and Spawn & Kinsella the binder T.H. Burnton was active in New York from 1800-6 and later removed to Providence RI; neither note a sojourn in Exeter NH. Shaw 3814. On Burnton see Papantonio 40 and Spawn & Kinsella 316 Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring unknown
1789réf. 373872Boston: John W. Folsom 1789. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf minor wear. Provenance: Anna Duryee inscription on front endpaper dated 1791. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. The Psalms unrecorded by Evans are an edition of Mycall's revision with all references to Great Britain and the King removed to make it more palatable to the nascent United States first printed in 1781. A scarce edition with only a handful of institutional holdings of either the Psalms or Hymns printed by Folsom here bound together. Evans 21687 Hymns; ESTC W4418 Psalms and W25174 Hymns John W. Folsom unknown
1803réf. 373879Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for Thomas & Andrews and Manning & Loring 1803. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers with gilt roll tool border flat spine gilt in six compartments marbled endpapers gilt roll tool along the turn-ins minor wear and rubbing. Minor browning staining and offsetting. Bookbinder's ticket on front pastedown T. H. Burnton Exeter NH. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. A lovely early American binding by T. H. Burnton in which the ornamental border of the title is likely used as inspiration for the tooling on the covers. According to Papantonio and Spawn & Kinsella the binder T.H. Burnton was active in New York from 1800-6 and later removed to Providence RI; neither note a sojourn in Exeter NH. Shaw 3814. On Burnton see Papantonio 40 and Spawn & Kinsella 316 Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring unknown books
1789réf. 373872Boston: John W. Folsom 1789. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf minor wear. Provenance: Anna Duryee inscription on front endpaper dated 1791. 31711; 265 1 xii pp. 12mo. The Psalms unrecorded by Evans are an edition of Mycall's revision with all references to Great Britain and the King removed to make it more palatable to the nascent United States first printed in 1781. A scarce edition with only a handful of institutional holdings of either the Psalms or Hymns printed by Folsom here bound together. Evans 21687 Hymns; ESTC W4418 Psalms and W25174 Hymns John W. Folsom unknown books
