Sun Tzu; Translated by Cheng LinBiblio.com
1946réf. ABE-1791178366095First published in Chungking 1945 Reset and Printed in Shanghai 1946. Slim octavo booklet 25.517.7 cm xii 30pp 12pp viii totaling 62 pages. Slight soiling to wrappers head and tail of spine chipped; with ink annotations by a former owner on page 11. Text in English an Chinese. Scarce copy now protected in mylar jacket. Shanghai: The World Book Company, 1946 paperback
2018réf. x-3319782401Springer 2018. Hardcover. New. 612 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.57 inches. Springer hardcover
réf. 9781624176944NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
2005réf. CBS-9781588293633Sp Springer 2005. New. Sp Springer unknown
2005réf. CBS-9781588293633Sp Springer 2005. New. Sp Springer unknown
1998réf. 332817Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Easton Press hardcover
réf. 9781619429185NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
réf. 9781594549496NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
1980réf. BN95534Rizzoli & Multiples. 1980. 1980. Softcover. Sunrise & Sunset at Praiano. Sunrise & Sunset at Praiano. Rizzoli & Multiples. paperback
1871réf. 1004011871. Paris L. Potier 1871. xii396pp. Contemporary green halfcalf. Exlibris "EVG. Chaper Gratian Opolitani" pasted on inside front cover. Sales catalogue describing 2974 items mostly in the fields of science arts belles-lettres and history but also theology and beaux-arts and Normandy. unknown
1856réf. PHO-839Cambridge , Metcalf and company , 1856 , in-4° (285x245) , CXCI pp., bound half contempary cloth , illustrated with 19 figures ,description of the famous observatory with the machines , mission , statues , contributors , letters , reports, etc., good copy
1951réf. 014912Paris Gallimard 1951 In-12 Broché Dédicacé par l'auteur
1994réf. 015917Vence Pierre Chave 1994 Broché, étui de l'éditeur
2025réf. BN464917Springer 2025. 2025. Softcover. Model-Based Reliability Systems Engineering Model-Based Reliability Systems Engineering Ren Yi; Qian Cheng; Yang Dezhen; Feng Qiang; Sun Bo; Wang Zili Springer paperback
1981réf. JA005-003Morgan & Morgan Inc. 1981. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. With DJ. Morgan & Morgan, Inc. Paperback
193492 pages. Text in French. Features: Le Chapitre Des Chapeaux; Ensemble a Cape Pour Le Printemps; Le Mouvement Projete En Avant; L'Ecole De Ski; Sous Le Soleil De Sestrieres; Les Nouvelles Collections; A La Decouvert; Le Massage Facial; Idees Nouvelles Dans Les Bikoux; Accessoires; Fraicheir Du taffetas Quadrille; S.A.R. La Princesse Marina De grece; Mue De L'Homme, par Jean-Richard Bloch; Matins de Printemps; Sur La Cote De Floride; A Burlington House; Sur La Scene; Many gorgeous vintage ads. Above-average wear. Soiling to front cover. Binding intact. Missing pages 71-72. A worthy reference copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
1908Pages 295-334 plus xvi pages of ads. Features: "Castlewood," the Villa of Louis Bruguierre, Esq., Newport, RI - a vast and stately building in the Georgian style; The Japanese Garden of "Yademos" - The Country Seat of Charles Phizer, Esq., Bernardsville, NJ; "Huck-Ween Lodge" - the Summer Camp of William Curtis demorest, Esq., Loon Lake, NY; Half a Dozen Great Home Trees; The Value of a Pleasant Sun Room; A Home Shrubbery; Economic Methods in Mushroom Growing; Glimpses of Old Annapolis; Sun-Dials; "White Lodge" - the residence of Charles H. Roberts, Esq., Wynnewood, PA; Well-Designed Applique - an effective means of decoration; Wonderful sepia-tone photo-illustrated back cover ad for the Victor-Victrola XX (Louis XV design) features photos of eleven opera stars; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
1910Pages 413-452 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: "Indian Ridge" - The Summer Home of Dr.l F.B. Harrington, at Ipswich, Massachusetts; Decorations and Furnishings for the Home - IV - Furnishing a Young Girl's Room; English Garden Mazes; A Group of New England Homes - nice two-page photo spread of homes belonging to Mr. E.B. Stearns at Brookline, T.P. Hollander on Misery Island, and Mrs. Frances Robeson at Brookline; Handicraftsman - Home-made Pottery; Glue for Model Making; The Steam Radiator in France; Residence of William L. Bailey, Esq., at Ardmore, PA; The Mirror; The Wasp's Year (life cycle); Stucco Houses of Distinction; The City of the Sun; Garden Notes - Tennis Courts; Conservatory and Greenhouse Heating; Glass Espalier Walls; L. Wolff Mfg. Co. ad features Chicago home of Walter H. Miller; Back cover color ad for the Columbia Grafonola includes photos of ten famous vocalists of the day; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1947A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1858réf. 27370Vienna: Imprimerie de Charles Gerold Fils 1858. Very Rare First Edition With a large multi-folding pull-out chart at the rear of the volume. 8vo publisher's original paper wrappers printed in black on upper cover. 36 pp. A well preserved copy of this rare volume with only minimal wear and mellowing the text largely unopened evidence of old damp at the bottom quarter of the text-block neither offensive or obtrusive. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE EARLY WORK ATTEMPTING TO CORRELATE THE CHRISTIAN CALENDAR WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE STARS AND PLANETS. OCLC lists a few copies only in France and England. No copies are listed as being held in American institutions. Imprimerie de Charles Gerold Fils unknown
réf. ABE-1694232115053Peiping: Department of Psychology Yenching University Tsing Hua University 1936 First edition. Octavo 25.517.9cm 1-90pp; 91-180pp. Two issues of this quarterly journal. Articles include: "Neural Mechanism of Monocular Vision" by Minchueh Chang; "Retroactive Inhibition" by C. T. Lin; Y. Hsia "Effect of Morphine on Learning Ability General Activity and Body Weight of Rat" etc. Text in Chinese and English. Scarce. Photos available upon request. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Peiping: Department of Psychology, Yenching University, Tsing Hua University, 1936 paperback
réf. 10085Photographic color illus. 52 pp. Square 4to printed softcover title on spine. New York: Paul David Press & Rizzoli 1977. Signed example of this Sol LeWitt artist's book. A very good copy; spine and lower cover a little stained. Signed on the half-title. ⧠G. Maffei & E. de Donno Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books 2009 pp. 76-83. Sol LeWitt: Libros El Concepto Como Arte 2014 Libros de Artista no. 47 pictured p. 124. unknown
réf. 10085Photographic color illus. 52 pp. Square 4to printed softcover title on spine. New York: Paul David Press & Rizzoli 1977. Signed example of this Sol LeWitt artist's book. A very good copy; spine and lower cover a little stained. Signed on the half-title. ⧠G. Maffei & E. de Donno Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books 2009 pp. 76-83. Sol LeWitt: Libros El Concepto Como Arte 2014 Libros de Artista no. 47 pictured p. 124. unknown books
1969réf. ABE-1641695010025San Rafael California: T. C. Press 1969 1969 First edition. Octavo 2417cm 256pp 40pp. Text in English and Chinese. Book immaculate and clean throughout appears unread and unhandled. Beautifully bound in ornately embroidered silk and leather binding edge with gilt lettering. Comes with original plastic dust jacket. Slipcase with signs of shelf wear and small repairs. Scarce. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. San Rafael, California: T. C. Press, 1969 hardcover
