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2003ref. 2349175New York: Harper Collins 2003. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First U.S. edition. A couple tiny spots to jacket reverse otherwise an excellent copy. 2003 Hard Cover. xvi 416 pp. "Simon Winchester New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington D.C. went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event. Harper Collins hardcover books
1999ref. 2349166New York: Simon & Schuster 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x10. First edition. An excellent copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 348 pp. In his critically acclaimed Rewrites Neil Simon talked about his beginnings -- his early years of working in television his first real love his first play his first brush with failure and most moving of all his first great loss. Simon's same willingness to open his heart to the reader permeates The Play Goes On. This second act takes the reader from the mid-1970s to the present a period in which Simon wrote some of his most popular and critically acclaimed plays including the Brighton Beach trilogy and Lost in Yonkers for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Simon experienced enormous professional success during this time but in his personal life he struggled to find that same sense of happiness and satisfaction. After the death of his first wife he and his two young daughters left New York for Hollywood. There he remarried and when that foundered he remarried again. Told with his characteristic humor and unflinching sense of irony The Play Goes On is rich with stories of how Simon's art came to imitate his life. Simon's forty-plus plays make up a body of work that is a long-running memoir in its own right yet here in a deeper and more personal book than his first volume Simon offers a revealing look at an artist in crisis but still able and willing to laugh at himself. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
2000ref. 2340796New York: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 14x8x7. Mixed set: first editions of volumes 1 and 3 book club edition of volume 2. Minor wear to corners ink name and date on each front endpaper. 2000 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. Numerous photos & illustrations. A three volume work written by Simon Schama to accompany a series of documentaries he presented for the BBC. Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion hardcover books
1928ref. 2341504New York: Robert M. McBride & Company / J.J. Little & Ives Company 1928. First English Translation. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Darcy Lyse. First English translation. Boards faintly foxed 1 inch closed tear to front jacket corner with tiny associated chip jacket spine faded. 1928 Hard Cover. xvi 4 16-147 1 pp. 8vo. An English translation of the French play which was suppressed by legal authorities in New York City after fewer than two weeks at the Comedy Theatre in 1928 after being deemed an 'immoral' play. Drama critic Alexander Woollcott who called it "so beautiful a play. that it cannot fail. But. there is always the chance that New York will fail." later commented that the play was censored "in almost medieval secrecy. by the murderously effective and to my notion entirely vicious law." The play examines the world of prostitution in a controversial manner similar to Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession which suffered the same treatment by authorities. This censorship inspired an outpouring of equally controversial dramatic productions leading to the Wales Padlock Law of 1927 which allowed playwrights producers and actors to be criminally prosecuted for their roles in these allegedly immoral works. Maya was the first play against which the law was used Wainscott The Emergence of the Modern American Theater 1914-1929 p. 76. This publication in book form followed the suppression of the play and the jacket illustration by Darcy this is probably Art Deco illustrator Lyse Darcy who produced a number of well-known advertisements for the French cosmetics company Guerlain showing two pairs of hands suggestively reaching upward towards the title character seems to be an open act of defiance against the law. The play inspired a film of the same name in 1949 starring Jean-Pierre Grenier and Viviane Romance which was directed by Raymond Bernard. Robert M. McBride & Company / J.J. Little & Ives Company hardcover books
1915ref. 2338336Chicago: Chicago Medical Book Co 1915. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x5x0. Third edition. Bookplate and adhesive remnant from removed sticker on front endpaper faded spot on spine from removed sticker possible library copy. 1915 Hard Cover. 82 pp. 26 The work that led to the first practical intelligence text the Binet-Simon scale. Garrison-Morton #4985: "Translation of original 1911 French." Binet-Simon Scale: "A test for determining the relative development of intelligence especially of children consisting of a series of questions and tasks graded with reference to the ability of the normal child to deal with them at successive age levels." "The Stanford - Binet Intelligence Scales or more commonly the Stanford-Binet is an individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet-Simon Scale by Lewis M. Terman a psychologist at Stanford University. The Stanford - Binet Intelligence Scale is now in its fifth edition SB5 and was released in 2003. It is a cognitive ability and intelligence test that is used to diagnose developmental or intellectual deficiencies in young children. The test measures five weighted factors and consists of both verbal and nonverbal subtests. The five factors being tested are knowledge quantitative reasoning visual-spatial processing working memory and fluid reasoning. The development of the Stanford - Binet initiated the modern field of intelligence testing and was one of the first examples of an adaptive test. The test originated in France then was revised in the United States. It was initially created by the French psychologist Alfred Binet who following the introduction of a law mandating universal education by the French government began developing a method of identifying "slow" children for their placement in special education programs rather than removing them to asylums as "sick". As Binet indicated case studies might be more detailed and helpful but the time required to test many people would be excessive. In 1916 at Stanford University the psychologist Lewis Terman released a revised examination which became known as the "Stanford - Binet test". Chicago Medical Book Co hardcover books
1979ref. 2331315New York: Harper & Row 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x0. First edition. Small tear on jacket spine. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1979 Hard Cover. ix 346 pp. Letters between one of the great 20th century novelists Nabokov and critic/essayists Wilson. Harper & Row hardcover books
1927ref. 2331972Boston: Little Brown and Company 1927. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. 2nd printing of trade edition lacks slipcase. Spine faded discolored smudge on front board minor transfer from now-absent tape on endpapers pencil name John E. Petrick on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. xiv 311 pp. Frontispiece of a page from the Gutenberg Bible numerous plates throughout text depicting bindings title pages manuscripts bookstores booksellers book collectors auction rooms etc. Rosenbach was a renowned American book and manuscript collector and dealer whose collection forms the cornerstone of a museum and library in Philadelphia. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1997ref. 2328376New York: Rizzoli 1997. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12x9x0. First printing. Jacket edges bumped. 1997 Large Hardcover. 157 pp. The fascinating collection of photographs in Snowdon on Stage presents a period of startling change in theatre - from 1954 to the present - in addition to the many changes Snowdon himself initiated in the style of theatre photography. Snowdon's photographs capture the reckless stylish spirit of genius of some of the world's greatest stage actors - Nigel Hawthorne Peter Ustinov Fiona Shaw Ralph Fiennes Vanessa Redgrave Helen Mirren and of course Laurence Olivier - as well as directors designers and writers such as Alan Bennett Arthur Miller Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn. Simon Callow's introduction gives and insider's account of the people and places of the heyday of British theatre and Snowdon's part in it all. Rizzoli hardcover books
2004ref. 2313436Orlando Florida: Harcourt Inc 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. An excellent copy. 2004 Hard Cover. 357 pp. "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today In Dark Light Linda Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions using newspapers novels and other primary sources. Tracing fifty years of technological transformation from Morse's invention of the telegraph to Roentgen's discovery of X rays she has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age. Harcourt, Inc hardcover books
1932ref. 2305115Innsbruck: Druck und Verlag von Felizian Rauch 1932. Soft Cover. Very Good. Wrappers faintly toned. 1932 Soft Cover. German text. Basic concepts of natural philosophy. Druck und Verlag von Felizian Rauch paperback books
1968ref. 1416540New York: The Viking Press 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Quarto 270 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is grey with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price unclipped: "$22.50". Boards in tan cloth; spotting to cloth. Text block has spotting to edges. Illustrated: color plates. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1416540. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
1932ref. 22412New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. Very Good in Very Good- dj. First American Edition. Hardcover. moderately shelfworn light-colored staining along front joint; jacket has paper loss at several corners various small nicks and tears some soiling and age-darkening to rear panel. Somewhat phantasmagorical novel about a young fellow the bastard son of a sailor who grows up in a grimy quayside London cul-de-sac and falls in love with a "slum-sprite" girl whose lowlife father runs the titular pub. Returning some years later from military service he finds that she's run off and become a celebrated chanteuse; he tracks her down to Rio but she denies her younger identity which of course forces him to spend the rest of the book trying to win her back. The New York Times reviewer although admiring of the writer's style was somewhat nonplussed by the novel calling it "a novel from Mars . . . a strange creation -- terse elliptical obscure peculiarly foreshortened" -- and yet "a rich and varied dish succinctly portioned out and well flavored with excitement." "Simon Jesty" was apparently a pseudonym but for whom I dunno. The author's entire literary output at least under that name seems to have consisted of this novel and one other "River Niger" published in 1935; the only possible clue to his identity is some kind of undefined connection with T.E. Lawrence who provided a strange sort of preface to the latter book based on an advance reading of the manuscript. Great noir-ish jacket illustration by the great Arthur Hawkins Jr. . 1932. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
1966ref. 23893New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. c.1966. 1st Edition see note. Hardcover. a very nice copy tight and clean with just a touch of wear at the spine ends; jacket a little rubbed on the front panel very light wear to extremities tiny closed tear at upper left of front panel. B&W photographs One of the great musicals of the 1960s adapted from Federico Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria." It was a triumph for choreographer Bob Fosse on the stage but a little less so in his 1969 screen adaptation which substituted Shirley MacLaine for Gwen Verdon. NOTE: Although there is no "first printing" or "first edition" statement in this copy of the book I believe it to be such and to therefore constitute an exception to the usual Random House practice for their published plays. The printed price $3.95 is present on the front jacket flap along with the printing code 10/66 at the bottom corner of the flap. In addition this was part of a collection in which nearly all the published plays were review copies with publisher's slips to document the fact; although there is no slip present in this copy I believe it to also be a review copy. If someone can show me evidence of a copy that states "first printing" however I will happily stand corrected. . Random House hardcover books
1940ref. 14395New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good with no dj. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket moderately worn copy spine turned spine cloth faded and white spine lettering rubbed; attractive small label like a miniature bookplate on front pastedown. line drawings One of this writing team's scarcer works a satirical novel about a young Englishman who falls in with a group of down-and-out White Russian emigres in Paris who have banded together in a kind of anti-socialist social club known as the White Elephants. Its philosophy is explained by one of its members: "We serve no useful purpose. We have no place in the struggle for existence. We refuse to contribute to the evolution of the Superman. We are here on this earth entirely as spectators. It is unfortunate that in order to watch we have to eat. It is thus impossible for us to attain one hundred per cent efficiency in indolence. But we do our best. We live untidily and straggle through our days." Filmed in England in 1944 as "Give Us the Moon." . c.1940. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
2010ref. 128384New York: Gotham Books 2010. cloth dust jacket. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. 352 pages. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine jacket. A book of stories about type faces their origins and employment. Table of contents introduction bibliography acknowledgements index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Gotham Books unknown books
1938ref. 7917New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. . Very Good with no dj. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket solid square copy with some fading to black cloth along edges mild browning to page edges. . 1938. Doubleday, Doran & Co. hardcover books
1986ref. 59927New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0396087957 . A Second Printing in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket ; This is a crime novel about a serial killer who targets beautiful women. The story follows the detectives who are investigating the case.; 8vo; 234 pages . Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1999ref. 123304New York London ET AL: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385495315 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condtion housed in a mostly alike dust-jacket that bears light edgewear; The Code Book tells the story of how cryptography has evolved from the days of Mary Queen of Scots to the current day when quantum cryptography is used to protect the most sensitive information. This book is a fascinating look at the history of cryptography and its importance in today's society.; 8vo; 402 pages . Doubleday hardcover books
1986ref. 56212New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. Second Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684186853 . A Fine Second Printing in an alike dust-jacket ; In A Nice Class of Corpse Brett Simon tells the story of four friends who discover a dead body on the side of the road. As they investigate the death the friends realize that the corpse is just the beginning of their problem. The corpse is a member of a powerful and influential family and the friends quickly find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game. As they try to solve the mystery and keep themselves alive the friends must confront the challenges of power privilege and corruption. A Nice Class of Corpse is an exciting and suspenseful novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.; 8vo; 221 pages; Price . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1985ref. 57066New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0396086845 . A Second Printing unblemished in a Fine dust-jacket ; The Master Key is the story of a young woman named Nagi who is searching for her identity. Nagi is a seamstress who works in a factory in the city. She is also a member of a secret society that is fighting against the government. Nagi is trying to find out who she is and what she can do to help her society.; 8vo; 198 pages . Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
1987ref. 57397New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine. 1987. Uncorrected Proof; First Printing. Softcover. 0684186853 . An unblemished Uncorrected Proof ; In Simon Brett's debut a group of students navigate the strange and surreal world of a private boarding school for the gifted. When the school's founder dies leaving his protégés in control the students must figure out how to run the school and deal with the demands of their new lives. The novel is full of twists and turns as the students navigate their complicated relationships and try to figure out what their futures hold.; 8vo; 187 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons paperback books
1979ref. 59870Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385128401 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition in a dust-jacket of the same value; Thornton Wilder is one of Americas most celebrated and celebrated playwrights. He was born in 1878 in New York City and died in 1992. He is best known for his plays including The Skin of Our Teeth The Matchmaker and The Bridge over the River Kwai.; 8vo; 298 pages . Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover books
1971ref. 59001New York: World Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first Printing of the Revised Edition in Fine condition in a like dust-jacket; Kate Simon introduces readers to the enchanting and varied landscape people and traditions of Mexico in this richly textured book. From the highlands of Oaxaca to the Gulf Coast Simon takes readers on a journey through a country full of rich history vibrant culture and stunning natural beauty. Filled with stunning photography and detailed maps Places and Pleasures is the perfect travel guide for anyone interested in discovering Mexico's hidden treasures.; 8vo; 385 pages . World Publishing hardcover books
1963ref. 54923Boston Toronto: Little Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first printing of the first edition that has some sunning to the board trim else Nearly Fine in an edgeworn Very Good dust-jacket; This book tells the story of Frederick the Great from his childhood to his ascent to the throne of Prussia and his efforts to create a unified Germany. It covers his battles with Austria France and Russia as well as his reforms of Prussia and his efforts to make it a leading power in Europe.; 8vo; 296 pages; 54860: two volume set . Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
ref. 70303New York Toronto And London: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. N.D. Fourth Printing. Cloth. Edition in Fine condition in a clipped Near Fine dust-jacket; The Noble Grapes and the Great Wines of France is a book that covers the history and the production of wine in France. It is written by Andre L. Simonand it was published in 2009.; 8vo; 180 pages . McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. hardcover books
