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1991ref. 69166London: Osprey Publishing 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 64pp. Wraps just slightly edgeworn else very good. Osprey Publishing paperback books
1993ref. 69169London: Osprey Publishing 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 64pp. Wraps just slightly edgeworn else very good. Osprey Publishing paperback books
2018ref. 293925London: Active Distribution 2018. Pamphlet. 20p. stapled wraps 4x6 inches very good second edition. Collects Springer's "Fuck Neoliberalism" and "Stop Being an Asshole: Fuck Neoliberalism Redux" and Gahman's "Listen Neoliberalism! A Personal Response to Simon Springer's 'Fuck Neoliberalism' Active Distribution unknown books
ref. B87213-3New York Thames & Hudson 2000. 240pp. 368 illus. 86 color. 4to. Cloth. D.j. New York (Thames & Hudson), 2000. hardcover books
1974ref. 598301San Francisco: Straight Arrow 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Page edges lightly foxed boards slightly splayed very good in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and mild edgewear. A Moses Wine mystery thriller. Straight Arrow hardcover books
1941ref. 1405134New York: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii xxiv xxx 387 pages. In Good condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine beige with black lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including several instances of soiling marks age toning to the spine and some chips to the head/tail edges with few small circular chips to the front fore edge and to the rear. Slight age toning to the interior. Boards have slight wear including minor edge wear and mild cocking to the spine. Text block has slight plus wear including slight age toning to the edges and offsetting to the end papers. Illustrated. Volume one only. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in the Locked Annex Column X. 1405134. FP New Rockville Stock. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc hardcover books
ref. B200650-1London Victoria Miro Gallery & Coracle Press 1987. Multiple. Edition limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by the artist and author in the colophon. A collaborative edition of text and image in which a poem by Cutts is set within a complex multiple by Tuttle in "wood aluminum canvas paper wire ink paint" as noted in the colophon and the ensemble encased in a lidded wooden box. Contents comprise the Cutts text "the green/ calyx of/ the petals/ of wallpaper/ &" printed in red on a large folding sheet or irregular dimensions the verso of which features a spray painting by Tuttle in blue; a unique large handcut gold-painted canvas construction by Tuttle with wire elements initialled by the artist on the verso; and a section of colored wallpaper. A colophon printed on brown kraft paper matching that of the Cutts poem wrapped around a floating panel is attached to the interior of the lid of the box. The box imprinted with the title features two decorative aluminum clasps at the sides designed by Tuttle cast from twisted cigarette foil papers. Box dimensions: 495 x 353 x 74 mm. ca. 19 1/2 x 13 7/8 x 3 inches. In this copy the two staples which originally attached one edge of the text to the canvas construction have been removed making accessible all elements of the ensemble. The Cutts text is reinforced with tape at the central fold. London (Victoria Miro Gallery & Coracle Press), 1987. books
2001ref. 1405285Boston and New York: Little Brown and Company 2001. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 330 pages. In Very Good Condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown pictorial cover with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering price uncut: "$24.95." General shelf wear. Signed flat on title page by Mawer. Shelved in HC fiction. 1405285. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2022ref. 107430Berkeley:: University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2022. Hardcover. 0520304438 . Black and white photographs. Third printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of California Press, hardcover books
1758ref. 141839Paris: J. Barbou 1758. full brown leather border stamped in blind on the front and rear boards gilt ornaments on spine title in second compartment five raised bands all edges stained red marbled endsheets. small 8vo. full brown leather border stamped in blind on the front and rear boards gilt ornaments on spine title in second compartment five raised bands all edges stained red marbled endsheets. 1ff.-92 3 -263 pages. Pour éclaircir quelques traits de l"histoire de l'Imprimerie & prouver que Guttemberg n'en est pas l'Inventeur. Two works bound in one. Very rare first edition Bigmore and Wyman p.228. Private bookplate of Jackson Burke on the verso of the front free endpaper. Contemporary boards with some rubbing to the spine and extremities corners a bit worn gilt on the spine is lightly flaking evidence of bookplate removal to front and rear pastedowns. Else a fine copy of this very scarce work. Two works bound together. Complete titles are: Dissertation sur l'origine et les progrès de l'art de graver en bois 1758 and De l'origine et des productions de l'imprimerie primitive en taille de bois 1759. Fournier 1712--1768 was born in Paris and trained as a wood engraver. He later turned to steel engraving. In the first essay Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believes that the technology Gutenberg made popular existed long before the German printer's work. The second volume follows this up with further discussion of the origins of woodcut prints. Fournier wrongly disputes the dating of Mr. De Bure le Jeune concerning the Gutenberg Bible but he is the first with the help of an observation by Gerard Meerman to note the progressive increase in the number of lines per page in the early stages of Bible production. J. Barbou unknown books
1758ref. 76869Paris: J. Barbou 1758. unbound cord tied housed in a green half-morocco goat over cloth boards clamshell case spine tooled in gold leaf with title author and date. large 12mo. unbound cord tied housed in a green half-morocco goat over cloth boards clamshell case spine tooled in gold leaf with title author and date. 92 3 pages. Pour éclaircir quelques traits de l"histoire de l'Imprimerie & prouver que Guttemberg n'en est pas l'Inventeur. Very rare first edition Bigmore and Wyman p.227. Unbound textblock lightly soiled with minor creasing at corners. Faint moisture staining throughout with some affecting the text. In this text Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believed that the technology Gutenberg made popular existed long before the German printer's work. Fournier also followed up this text with two additional works which are not present: De l'origine et des productions de l'imprimerie primitive en taille de bois 1759 and Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé Vindiciae Typographicae 1760. These two works provided further discussion of the origins of woodcut prints including a passage refuting popular belief about the origin wood engraving and some ideas for further study. Fournier 1712--1768 was born in Paris and trained as a wood engraver and type founder being a member of the 18th century dynasty of the well-known Fournier family. He later turned to steel engraving. He published a table of the proportions of the different printing characters whose purpose was to propose for all typefaces a fixed measurement in "typographic points" and a systematic gradation. He worked closely with the collaborators of the Encyclopédie providing the printer Le Breton with all the documentation relating to the typographic foundry and plans for his own instruments as well as providing Diderot with his collection of ancient alphabets. Finally after multiple disputes with his Parisian colleagues he became infamous for the printing of his famous Manuel Typographique 1764 1766 just prior to his death. J. Barbou unknown books
2001ref. 90790New York: HarperCollins 2001. quarter cloth paper-covered boards dust jacket. 8vo. quarter cloth paper-covered boards dust jacket. xix iii 329 1 pages. William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. First edition. Dust jacket unfolds into a 21" x 27 " map "that changed the world". Fine in fine jacket. HarperCollins unknown books
1819ref. 20079Paris 1819. FIRST EDITION. Modern boards uncut. First edition “excessively rare”- Dorbon. A refutation of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal which the author believes trivializes and negates the true existence of the paranormal. Here Simonnet provides anecdotal evidence for ghost sightings miracles witchcraft werewolves demons and prophecies. In his conclusion he asserts that denying the existence of these things is heresy. The text concludes with an alphabetic table of the authors cited. This work was so incendiary to the Catholic Church that the Vatican invested huge sums of money to remove copies from private libraries. Caillet 10217; Yve-Plessis 76; Dorbon 977; Barbier Anon IV: 16. unknown books
1814ref. 19273Nottingham: H. Barnett 1814. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 1 large folding engraved plate. Modern boards spine label; interior clean. Overall an excellent copy from the library of Dr. Sydney Ross with his small book label on the paste-down. First edition in English the first effort at an English translation which presumably got no further. The complete English translation was done by the Nathaniel Bowditch and published Boston 1829-1839. In Laplace’s monumental Mecanique celeste first published between 1799 and 1827 all the laws of planetary motion are deduced from the concept of universal gravity. He argued that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and that the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a great step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this area. He also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve. Specifically the first book treats the general laws of balance and motion and the universal law of gravity as well as the movement of the centers of gravity of celestial bodies. Laplace 1749-1827 considered the Isaac Newton of France was one of the most influential scientists in the fields of mathematics celestial mechanics and physics. Not much is known about the translator John Toplis. He lived in Nottingham and was likely acquainted with his neighbor the mathematician George Green. H. Barnett unknown books
1999ref. 258221East Sydney Australia: Studio Magazines 1999. Magazine. 144p. 9.5x13 inches profusely illustrated with both color and b&w physique and homoerotic photography very good first printing oversized bi-monthly magazine in color pictorial wraps. Studio Magazines unknown books
1876ref. 13221Erlangen & Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke 1876. FIRST EDITION. With 9 lithographed plates 2 chromolithographs; wood engraved text illustrations. Half morocco over marbled boards; front blank leaf lacking large library label on first paste-down paper is brittle and occasionally chipped on a few fore-edges. First edition of this historic landmark in urology. In 1869 Simon performed the first successful intentional nephrectomy on a woman patient. That date marks the beginning of renal surgery which he here describes in great detail in Volume I. The second volume issued five years after the first treats the subject of kidney surgery on both injured and diseased kidney. He had proved that one healthy kidney can take over the entire excretion process. The illustrations are remarkable. Simon 1824-1876 was a distinguished German surgeon who first served as a military physician. He specialized in the fields of gynecology orthopedics and military surgery publishing a well known work on gunshot wounds. As professor of surgery at Rostock he published monographs on gynaecological plastic surgery as well as numerous other literary works in many areas of surgery. Ferdinand Enke unknown books
2025ref. 69236London: Reaktion Books 2025. Reprint. Paperback. New. 272pp. Octavo. 21 cm. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Transatlantic Drift explores the emergence and evolution of nightclubs and electronic dance music from the 1950s onwards. It traces the rhythmic journey of dance music following the pulse as it bounced between Europe North America and the Caribbean. Music dance styles and nightclub spaces are not created in isolation; they are shaped by collective influences and shared experiences. This book uncovers the interconnected story of dance music taking in hotspots such as New York Detroit London Manchester Chicago Düsseldorf and Ibiza. Transatlantic Drift offers an engaging exploration of how people have come together to share melodies and rhythms forming a global conversation through electronic music. Reaktion Books paperback books
1977ref. 338558Paris: Echanges et mouvement 1977. 77p. slender paperback very good. Echanges et mouvement unknown books
2002ref. 612770New York: Simon & Schuster 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Later printing. 348pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1537ref. 39475Basel: Johannes Hervagen 1537. Folio. 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Augmented edition. a-d4 a-z6 A-Z6 Aa-Dd6 Ee2. 24 1-599 1. 624 pp. Lacking the woodcut world map attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger and Sebastian Münster. Woodcut printer's devices on title and verso of last leaf historiated initials head and tail pieces woodcut illustrations on pp. 127-29. Title Contents Dedication Grynaeus's Text Index Texts. Contemporary ink manuscript annotations in margins. Contemporary full limp vellum with brown ink manuscript title on spine and remanants of two pairs of leather ties with pill-shaped watermark on laid paper a blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather titling-piece on spine A fine example of the most influential collection of early sixteenth-century travel literature. Besides the three voyages of Columbus the present work includes descriptions of those of Petrus Alonzo and Pinzo three of Vespucci's four voyages and Peter Martyr's De Insulis Nuper Inventis. According to Borba the present edition is the first to contain the letter of Maximilian of Transylvania reporting the news of Magellan's voyage p. 585. This augmented edition holds the second and third letters of Cortes and selected letters of Juan Zumarraga the first Archbishop of Mexico. Though the account of Magellan's voyage was originally published in 1522 in a 16-leaf ephemeral edition of a letter addressed to Charles V its appearance in Grynaeus's collection of voyages marks the first time his landmark discoveries appear in an historical context side-by-side with those of Columbus Vespucci and the Portuguese navigators. Adams G1337. Alden 537/14. Borba I. Burmeister 62. Church 123. Harrisse 223. Sabin 34103. European Americana 537/14. Johannes Hervagen unknown books
ref. 1404115New York: Harper & Brothers. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo 548 pages 4 leaves ads. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's burgundy buckram. Some general wear and rubbing to binding including head/tail of spine. Some bumping to corners. Huntington Cairns ownership signature to front free endpaper. Additional Huntington Cairns printed name to title page presumably younger due to the blockiness of the letters. Ink notes to rear endpaper. Reprint with no date to title page. Shelved case 5. Huntington Cairns was an an author former federal censor and one-time secretary of the National Gallery of Art. He went on to study at the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore and was awarded first prize for his thesis on law of charitable trusts in Maryland in 1925. His book 'The Limits of Art was praised by the The New York Times as “perhaps the best anthology of this or any other generation.”. 1404115. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1971ref. 1404057London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First British Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 222 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Black-and-white pictorial spine with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "£1.90 net." Mild chipping and tearing along top edge of dust jacket. Mild general shelf wear to boards. Fading to dye on top edge of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 6. 1404057. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1964ref. 4668London: Privately printed at The Curwen Press for the author 1964. Hardcover. Orange illustrated cloth covered boards. Near fine. 34 pages. 22.5 x 11 cm. Simon delves into the historical context of wine in Elizabethan England - examining the various wines like sack sherry Malmsey and mead metheglin within Shakespeare's works. Includes discussions of the social and cultural significance of wine in Shakespeare's era as well as notable passages from this plays that mention wine. Illustrated throughout. Interior and boards clean. Very slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine. Privately printed at The Curwen Press for the author hardcover books
1825ref. 2471825. Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Five vols. Large 4to handsome antique blue morocco-backed marbled boards flat spines nicely gilt. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat & others An VII 1798-1825. First edition and a complete set with all the supplements. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work Laplace -- the "Newton of France" -- codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton Euler d'Alembert and Lagrange. "Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect.Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth -- a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve.He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon."Printing & the Mind of Man 252. A very nice set. Our set has the first state of the titles of Vols. I and II and all the supplements. It lacks the title leaf for the first supplement in Vol. IV. Dibner Heralds of Science 14. D.S.B. XV pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 197-98. unknown books
1977ref. 350087Iowa City Iowa: In The Light 1977. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by David Key. Quarto. Stiff stapled wrappers. A bit of wear at the extremities and toning on the rear top edge near fine. Contributions include Neil Hackman Rose Lesniak Steve Toth Art Lange Walter Hall Simon Schuchat Liz Zima John Sjoberg Arnold Aprill Joffre Stewart Allan Kornblum Chuck Miller and Darrell Gray. OCLC locates no copies. In The Light unknown books
