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Association For Symbolic Logic 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 Etc., 1936. First Edition 1st Printing. Grey-blue Wrappers. Near Fine. 293 Individual Volumes In Original Wrappers, Not Library Re-Binds. Foundational Material In The Development Of Modern Logic, Mathematical Analysis, And, Ultimately, The Mathematics Enabling Computers And Computer Programming And Artificial Intelligence. Some Wrappers With Minor Yellowing, Primarily To Spines, A Few Early Issues With Splits To Spines, Very Good To Fine. Ownership Signatures Of A Noted Mathematician On Some Issues. Early Issues With Issue Numbers And Dates Inked On Spines. Lacking Vol. 21 No. 3, Vol. 46 No. 2, Vol. 62 No. 1, Vol. 64 No. 1, Vol. 70 No. 3. " ... The Extant Gains Registered By The Modern Symbolic Treatment Of Logic Have Become Such An Essential Factorin Making Pronouncements Regarding… Read More

London Uk: Emery Walker, Wilfrid Merton And Bruce Rogers, 1932. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine. One Of The Most Famously Well Produced Books Of The 20Th Century. Unpaginated, One Of 530 Copies Only. Bound In Full Black Niger Morocco With Top Edges Gilts And Gilt Spine Lettering, Deckled Edges. Printed On Special Paper Made By J. Barcham Greem & Son In 16-Point Monotype Centaur. There Are 26 Decorations Of Homeric Figures From Greek Vase-Paintings That Are Printed In Black On Roundels Of Gold Leaf That At The Head Of Each Book And On The Title Page.Several Of The Original Loose Tissue Guards Are Present, But Lacking The Slipcase. Slight Usage To Covers. Endpapers Darked In Half-Inch Strips Along Edges (From Turns), As Usual.

New York: New York: Gnome Press, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1951. First Edition, First Issue, First State . Hardcovers. Very Good + / Near Fine Books/Very Good + / Near Fine Dustja. An Attractive Set Of The True First Editions, All In First State Bindings And First Issue Dust Jackets (Priced $2.75, Not Price-Clipped), Without Any Writing Or Marks, Second Foundation Inscribed By Asimov. Foundation: Gnome Press (1951) Near Fine Book, No Marks Or Damage, Stated "First Edition" In First State Binding Of Blue Cloth With Red Lettering, Sheets Bulk 1.9 Cm Across The Top; Black Dust Jacket With Red, Blue White And Yellow, By Kyle, Is Vg+, First State With Three Books And Calendar Discussed On Back Panel, Wear With Minute Paper Loss At Corners And Tips, Very Light Wear At Edges, 1" Mostly Closed Tear Along Top Front Spine Fold (Not Very Noticeable), 1 1/2" Closed Tear And Associated Wrinkle At Upper Left Corner Of Front Panel. Very Slight Fading To Red Lettering On Spine, Otherwise All Panels Are Clean And Bright.… Read More

London: Taylor And Hessey, 1820. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. [200] Pp. First Edition, Half Title Present, Original Paper Spine Label Bound In. Keats' Last Book, Of Modest Success When Published, Later Found To Have Some Of The Finest Poems In The English Language. When Shelley's Body Was Recovered In The Roads Of Viareggio (Not The Gulf Of Spezia) In 1822, Identification Was Made Possible By Two Books He Carried In His Pocket, A Sophocles, And A Copy Of "Lamia" Doubled Back At "The Eve Of St. Agnes". Binding By Riviere, In Late 19Th Or Early 20Th Century Full Calf, Five Bands, Gilt In All Compartments, Gilt Rules On Boards With Small Devices At Corners. Binding Re-Backed Preserving The Riviere Spine, Boards And Green Endpapers.17.2 X 10.7 Cm [The Uncut Leaves Were 7" X 4", Thus These Leaves Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Presumably When Bound]. Complete, Including The Half Title, And The "Advertisement" Leaf After The Title Page. With The Correct "London: Printed By Thomas… Read More

Sociology And Social Research (1938), Dorris Shelton Still (1939), John Day (1942), John Day (Circa 1960), Synergy Books (1989), Correspondence 1987-1996), 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Original Photographs 1903-1922 Including Many Negatives (Most Annotated), Copies Of Photographs (Most Annotated), Original Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Books By And About Him 1912-2004, Etc. . Archive Of Photographs And Correspondence In Tibet, By Albert Leroy Shelton ("Als"), Medical Missionary In Tibet 1903-1922. The Archive Contains 6 First Printings Of Books By Or About Him, 1912-2004, A Paper "A Bibliographic Essay On American Missionaries To The Tibetans Prior To 1950" (1998) With Related Correspondence From William Martin, Also Shelton's 146 Photographs 1903?-1922? Of Which 85 Are Annotated In White Ink, One Photograph Printing Plate (Zinc?) Of Als And His Wife Flora And Two Daughters Dorothy And Dorris (All Of Which Accompanied Him), 7 Sets Of Reprint Sheets With 2 Photos Per Sheet Also With… Read More

1949 1950 1951, 1952 1953 1954 1955: Association For Symbolic Logic 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948, 1938. First Edition 1st Printing. Grey-blue Wrappers. Very Good. 53 Separate Numbers, 1938-1955, In Original Wrappers, As Issued. Not Ex-Library, Never Bound. Scarce In Original Condition Like This, As Almost All Surviving Issues Were Those Bound For Libraries. Condition Varies From Very Good To Fine. Vol 3 1938 Nos. 1, 3 And 4; Vol. 4 1939 No. 4; Vol 5 1940 Nos 1, 3, 4; Vol 6 1941 Nos. 1, 2, 4; Vol. 7 1942 No. 2; Vol 8 No. 1, 2, And 4; Vol 9 1944 Nos. 2, 3, 4; Vol. 10 1945 Nos 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 11 1946 Nos. 1,2,3,4; Vol 12, 1947, Nos 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol. 13, 1948, Nos. 1, 3, 4; Vol. 14 1949 No. 2, 4; Vol 15 No. 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 16 1951, Nos 1, 2, 3, 4; Vol 17, 1952 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4; Volume 18, 1953, Nos 1,2, 4; Vol 19 1954 Nos 1, 2, 4; Volume 20, 1955, No. 4. " ... The Extant Gains Registered By The Modern Symbolic Treatment Of Logic Have Become Such An Essential Factorin Making… Read More

London: William Innys, 1730. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. New Calf Spine And Tips Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards, New Endpapers. Two Preliminary Blanks, Title, Advertisements To First, Second And Fourth Editions382 Pp + 12 Folding Plates And Two Pages Of Publisher's Ads At Rear. Page Block 19.5 Cm (Text Block 6.5" X 3 1/2" From Top To Bottom Of Printed Area, Including Page Running Headings) Tall. Top Edge Of Page Block Is Dark (Grey Or Black), Fore Edge And Bottom Edge Red, All Polished. Leaves 7 5/8" Tall; Binding 7 3/4" X 5 3/16". The Last And Best Edition Prepared By Newton, Corrected From The Third Edition By Newton; In This Fourth Edition Of 1730, There Are 31 Queries, And It Is The Famous "31St Query" That, Over The Next Two Hundred Years, Stimulated A Great Deal Of Speculation And Development On Theories Of Chemical Affinity. The Publishers Have Added To This Edition Several Citations From The Lectiones Opticae (1669-1671) To Show Where Demonstrations, Omitted From The… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. 8 1/8" Tall. Stated First Edition, 8 1/8" Tall (Taller Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"), 1 5/16" Thick (Thicker Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"). The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks, Without Marks Or Damage, Just A Tiny Point Of Fraying Of Cloth At Each Of The Two Lower Tips, A Little Wear/Dulling To The Spine Gilt And A Little Rubbing/Bumping To The Ends Of The Spine. Dust Jacket With The Portrait Of Salinger On The Rear Panel, And With The $3.00 Price On The Front Flap, Second State With Slight Space Between Top Of Head And Top Of Dust Jacket (Apparently The First Issues Of The "First Edition" Were Slightly Shorter And With Cropping Of Salinger's Head In The Photograph On The Dj). The Dust Jacket Is Spectacular, No Chipping Or Tears, Without Restoration Or Cleaning Of Any Kind: No Fading To Orange-Red Or Yellow Colors On Spine And Front Panel, The… Read More

Frankfurt am Main [1591], 1592. Original Antique Map . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Laid Paper. Size: Image And Border Approximately 17 7/8 Inches X 1M.5 Inches, 45.2 Cm X 36.75 Cm. Burden, Mapping Of North America, Provides No Record That A 1592 Printing Exists. [Engravings Have Been Made Of The Offices Of The Great 17Th Century Cartographic Publishers, With Row Upon Row Of Flat Drawers For Storage Of Single Maps; It Would Be Unreasonable To Believe That None Of These Unbound Maps Survived, And This Appears To Be One Of Them, Although The Consensus Of Modern Dealers Is That No Unfolded Large Map First Published In A Book Can Exist.] Although We Have Been Unable To Locate A 1592 German Edition Of Debry, We Believe This Is A Map As Issued In The 1592 German Edition Of De Bry, Which Was First Published In 1591, And Subsequently Reprinted In 1592 And 1594 And In The Seventeenth Century. Small Cartouche At Lower Left, Monogram With Text "Caesavece Matis. Privilegio Mdxcii", In The Plate, Added After… Read More

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing, 1932. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Plates. 336 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Gold On Spine And In Blind On Front Cover, Illustrated Endpapers, Plates. First Printing In Original Cloth. Signed By Jim Thorpe On Page Facing His Photograph; Stamp Of Olympic Village 1932 Los Angeles, U.S.A. On Title Page; Signatures Of 45 Olympic Athletes. Thorpe, One Of The Greatest Of All American Athletes, Once Had Taken $2 For A Sports Performance, And Was Consequently Stripped Of His Own Olympic Medals, Those Being Reinstated Only In 1978, And Never Made A Living From Sports. Book Is Clean, Yellow Lettering Is Strong, Slight Fraying Along Top Edge Of Spine And At Bottom Front Tip, Some Browning To Front Endpapers And Preliminary Pages To Contents Page, Bookplate On Front Free Endpaper. Identifiable Signatures Appear To Us As Sharkey Graham / Usa Water Polo; Charlie Kieffer, Usa Crew; Frank Cooper Usa 1500 M; Luis Sardella, Boxing, Argentina; Chris Saunders, Rowing, New… Read More

London Uk: George Routledge & Son, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/No Jacket. Ix, 188 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Lettered In Gilt, Red Boards. First Printing [London 1928]. Near Fine, Especially Well Preserved. A Major And Pessimistic Criticism Of Intellectuals Aka Leaders In Every Serious Field, Particularly The Previous Fifty Years. A "Printing And The Mind Of Man" Title, #419, Remarkable Not Just For Its Intelligent And Articulate Criticism Of Their Moral Failings In What They Did Or Failed To Do, But Because It May Also Be Taken As An Indictment Of The Entire Intellectual Establishment And The Classes Which Populate It. It Demonstrates Not Just Their Particularized Faults And Deficiencies As Intellectuals, But Also Their Lack Of Leadership In Public Discussion Of What Is Important For Society. He Shows The Lack Of Capability And Moral Fiber Of Intellectuals For The Task They Have Implicitly Chosen For Themselves, That Is, To Articulate What Are The Basic Purposes And… Read More

London Uk: Putnam, 1948. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ix, 416 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. Stated Fourth Printing, 1948, Lacking The Dust Jacket. Inscribed "------ From Karen Blixen / Rungstedlund 25.5.1959"; From The Library Of The Recipient. Light Wear, No Other Marks.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1835. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece, Illustrated Title Page, Illustrations In Text. Viii, 688 Pp. Full Year With "Corrections" On Last Page. Recent Full Green Cloth, Red Morocco Spine Label, Retaining Original Preliminary And Final Blanks. Articles By Edward Blyth At Pp 40 "An Attempt To Classify The 'Varities' Of Animals...", P. 198 "A Few Remarks On Hybrids...", P. 325 "Observations On The Cuckoo", P. 364 " A Notice Of A Very Remarkable Individual Of The Common Shrike..."; Charles Waterton P. 166, 251, 322, 361, 453, 451, 663; W. J. Clarke P. 1 "On Certain Meteoric Phenomena"; Etc. The Blyth Article Is The First Extended Discussion Of The Basic Principles Of Natural Selection; Darwin Read Blyth's Work Carefully, And Was A Friend Of Blyth; Loren Eiseley's "Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X" Is An Account Of Their Relationship, With Some Errors But Generally Correct. Binding As New; Preliminary And Final Blanks With Browning And… Read More

Donning, 2008. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvi,532 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Expanded Third (And Last) Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Quite Scarce; Worldcat Records Institutional Holdings Only In Denmark. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Munger And Buffet Have Been The Solidest American Investors For Half A Century. They Didn't Buy Crypto- Currency Or Nft's Or "Managed Risk" Bubbles Or Promised Wonders. They Paid Their Taxes After Making Landmark Charitable Gifts And Strongly Encouraged Others To Do Likewise. They Made Other Investors And Business Leaders Look Like Inmates Of A Deluxe Long Term Custodial Care Facility For Dangerous Sociopaths.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. First American Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Good +/No DJ. Xi, 250 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1944. Light Wear With A Single Tiny Point Of Fraying At Base Of Spine; Spine Gilt All Present And Lettering All Clear, Spine Cloth A Little Faded. Covers Clean With Some Loss Of Color In A Thin Line And In A Small Spot On Front Cover. Publisher's Red Top Stain Without Spotting. Pages Just A Little Aged, Even Aging To Endpapers, No Foxing. No Names, A Few Pencil Marks In Text.The Ultimate Academic Statement That Government Will Not Offer Protection Against Commercial Bullies, Polluters, Liars And Sociopaths Of All Kinds, Arguing That This Passivity Is Somehow In The Best Interests Of The People; Also The Ultimate Statement That Academic Economists Are Somehow Experts In The Determination And Evaluation Of What Those Best Interests Are ( Otherwise They Could Not Make This Recommendation For Passivity!) The Epitome Of Specious Reasoning, Of Immense… Read More

New York: The Century Company, 1913. 1st Edition . Dark Green Cloth. Near Fine/Facsimile Dust JAcket. [Viii], 344 Pp. With Three Blank Leaves At Rear ( First Edition, No Later Printing Indicated, But This Is The Second Issue, The First Issue Is Identical But With No Blank Leaf At Rear). One Of A Large But Undetermined Printing. London's Novelized Autobiographical Writing Centered On Misuse Of Alcohol. Near Fine, No Fraying, Cover Gilt Lettering Strong, Spine Gilt Complete And Clear But Weak, A Few Small Areas Of Rubbing At Corners. Inscribed To Poster And Bookplate Artist Hellier Denselow "Dear Hellier Denselow:- Walk With Me Here Through A Few Of Life's Pages. I Know You Will Understand. Sincerely Yours, Jack London / Glen Ellen, Calif. June 24, 1914." Denselow And London Were Correspondents. A Letter From London To Denselow Dated March 15 1914 Reads "Mrs. London Has Given Me Your Letter Of January 2, 1914, And The Book-Plate Draweing. To Say That I Am Pleased And Enthusiastic Does Not Express My… Read More

Dover Publications T1846, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Vi, 125. Soft Cover, Apparently First Printing, Priced $1.75, No Isbn. Inscribed "To Dick Feynman -Bill Mcmillan Ucla Chemistry". On P. 121, Feynman Has Underlined "2 To The K Power-1 Must Be A Prime If K Is Odd" And Added A Marginal "? 2 To The 9Th - 1 = 511 = 7 X (Actually He Uses A Period As A Multiplication Sign) 73". Per Ucla, William George Mcmillan (1919-2002) Graduated From Ucla With A B.A. In Chemistry In 1941. He Continued His Studies At Columbia University Where He Received An M.S. In Chemistry In 1943 And A Ph.D. In Chemical Physics In 1945. Bill'S Dissertation Research In Statistical Mechanics With Joseph E. Mayer Was Concerned With The Theory Of Solutions. The Results, Known As The Mcmillan-Mayer Theory, Are Still Widely Cited. From 1944 To 1946, Still At Columbia, He Was A Research Chemist On The Manhattan Project, Working On The Separation Of U235. Upon Receiving A Guggenheim Fellowship In 1946, Bill Carried Out… Read More

Almost All Unpublished, 1934- 1980, 1934. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Drawings By Pasquale Giovannio Napolitano And Merle Armitage. An Archive Of About 200 Original Items Which Are From, To, Or About Merle Armitage, Carefully Stored 1935-2015. Much Of The Correspondence Is Between Armitage And Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano Regarding The Illustrations Provided By Napolitano For 18 Armitage Books 1934-1970, With Many Drawings And Photographs, And Also A Few Personal Letters And Notes. The Archive Also Includes Much Printed Ephemera Relating To Armitage Circa 1934-1965, Including Some Rare Pieces, Collected By Napolitano 1935-1980. Included Also Are A Few Letters Between The Armitage Family And Napolitano And In A Few Cases His Wife Emmie Goetz Napolitano. A Detailed List Is Available Upon Request, Along With A 250 Page Inventory Of The Rest Of The Napolitano Archive.

New York London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First Edition, First Issue 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 7 9/16" Tall. 262 Pp. + 3 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Green Cloth, Decorated In Darker Shades, Gilt Spine Lettering, White Spine Lettering. Teg. First Edition, First Issue, With The Author's Names Omitted Throughout. Publisher's Name On Spine In Letters 3/16" Tall; No Priority Established. This Copy Signed By Jack London On The Title Page In Pencil. Written As A Collaboration Between Jack London And Anna Strunsky. Ms. Strunsky Was An Active Socialist, Was Married To Socialist And Naacp Founder William English Walling, And Was The Aunt Of Leonore Strunsky (Born 1900) Who Was The Late Wife Of Composer Ira Gershwin. Some Wear, Gilt Still Bright, A Few Points Of Fraying At Ends Of Spine, No Fraying To Tips, Lacking Front Free Blank Endpaper. Name Stamps Of A Previous Owner, R. M. Price, On Front And Rear Endpapers.

London: G. Nicol, 1797. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Quarter Morocco Over Boards. Very Good +. 11 1/8" Tall. Frontispieces, Plates And Illustrations. (Ii), Xxxiv,518; (Ii), Xx, 626. The Two Complete Text Volumes In Full Size, Text Blocks 10 5/8" Tall; The Plates Were Issued 1796 In A Separate Volume, Not Present Here; But The Plate Of The Camellia Sesanqua Is Present Between Pp 466 And 467. Original Quarter Morocco Binding, Five Bands, Morocco Spine Labels, Over Boards Covered With Marbled Paper, Original Off-White Endpapers, Preliminary And Final Blank In Each Volume. Bindings With Old Wear But Nicely Furbished, Morocco Labels Clean With Brilliant Gilt, A Little Loss Of Leather At Tops Of Spines And At Top Right Front Spine Edge, Paper Frayed Along All Edges Of Boards, Hinges Tight, Contents Clean, Just A Few Tiny Foxing Spots. Small Very Old Booksellers' Label Of The China Times, Bookseller, 94 Consular Road, Tientsin. And Another From Sydney. Former Owner's Signature Dated 1894, Erased In Volume 1,… Read More