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19922082702114610716Kobun do 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kobun do paperback
192159051Lausanne Édition de la Licorne 1921. Bound in exquisite full morocco composed of 3 different colours of morocco green light brown and red. Inner joints in morocco. In matching slip-case. With a long dedication 8 lines from the author "á Mademoiselle Agnete With" signed and dated by the author "René Morax/ Morges. 1921". The book is bound by the recipient the respected Danish bookbinder Agnete With 1899-1972 and signed in blind on inside backcover. 1682 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Arthur Honegger composed the music to Morax's play and the music became his break-through as a composer."Arthur Honegger was commissioned to write incidental music to accompany René Morax’s play Le Roi David in 1921. Honegger was given the nearly impossible deadline of 2 months to complete the work and was rewarded with much acclaim at the premiere. In 1923 he combined Morax’s narrative with his music and created a "symphonic psalm" the form that is familiar today and titled his work Le Roi David."Wikipedia </em> unknown
190351567Milano Ulrico Hoepli 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait heliogravure. XII592 pp. maps textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle but the name of receiver cut out. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
1968mon0000106985Petit Palais de Genève 1968-01-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.2995 in x 24.8731 in x 21.3198 in. 2 X Volumes 1&2 FIRST EDITIONS with shelf worn and rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order Petit Palais de Genève hardcover
195013039Berkeley California: Kroeber Anthropological Society 1950. The RARE PREMIERE ISSUE of this important monograph created by the students of famed anthropologists A.L. Kroeber and R.H. Lowie. Large format blue stiff card covers with black cloth spine strip. Created to cover the general field of anthropology descriptive studies putting factual information on record bibliographies linguistic texts and vocabulariesand historical documents of ethnological interest. Number 1 is dedicated to the recently retired Lowie and has his photograph frontispiece. Contents include PRE-COLUMBIAN TRADE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA; OBSERVATIONS ON EARLY MAN IN CALIFORNIA; THE IDABAEZ: UNKNOWN INDIANS OF THE CHOCO COAST; A RECONSTRUCTION OF ABORIGINAL DELAWARE CULTURE FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES; BLACK MARKET IN PREROGATIVES AMONG THE NORTHERN KWAKIUTL; NEPENTHE IN ABORIGINAL AMERICA. Very good. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kroeber Anthropological Society Paperback
19366413<p>John Lane The Bodley Head.London.1936. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife Clare on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought by me direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow Clare.:</p> John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936 hardcover
19782092902137704434Chusekisha 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chusekisha paperback
1945029371UK: Chatto and Windus 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1945. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. The wrapper is a 2nd Imp in the same format and style. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Spine tips with small loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1942029115UK: Chatto and Windus 1942. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Good /Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1942. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. A few hand corrections by the author within the text. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670/18664 <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
1974036014Jerusalem: I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Xv 190 Pp. Red Cloth Printed In Black And Pink. First Printing. Inscribed By The Author To The Dedicatee Prof. Abraham Kaplan. Light Wear Rubbing And Bumping At Corners No Fraying Some Fading To Cloth On Spine Panel But Lettering Still Strong. Mendel Sachs 1927 -2012 Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force Strong Force Electromagnetism And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California Los Angeles He Then Moved To Columbia University New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.5 Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University 1962-1966. In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics In Trieste Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. <br/> <br/> I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press hardcover
193417318AB1934. Paris Les Éditions Denoél et Steele 1934. 195 : 14 cm. 191 pages. Original wrappers. Edition original. - With a fine five-line dedication on the pre-title signed by Antonin Artaud "à Therese Drogoul avec ma grande amitié parcequ'elle connait le monde da la Magie des Reflets". Therese Drogoul was a writer poet and translator under the pseudonym of Thérése Aubray born Thérése Gros - Marseille 188 - 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt and was married to the musician Fernand Drogoul. She belonged to the first circle of the journal 'Lés Cahiers du Sud' managed by her friend Jean Ballard from 1931 on she was correspondent in Paris for the journal. Together with her husband she had a literary Salon where many poets and artists like Antonin Artaud Jean and Ida Cassou Leon-Paul Fargue Benjamin Fondane André Masson Henri de Régnier and others met. - Avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud 1896-1948 is celebrated for his raw surreal and transgressive work including Héliogabale his portrayal of Elagabalus the Roman emperor from 218 to 222 as a dark hero born into depravity and condemned by society. The book delves into the clash between Greco-Latin culture and Barbarism capturing the extremes of human experience. Through Héliogabale Artaud explores themes of societal collapse collision of civilizations and the descent into madness. Renowned French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio has described Héliogabale as the most violent book in contemporary literature exuding a beautiful and regenerating violence transl. - Paper as always a bit browned. unknown
200027549Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Jockey Club 2000. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 12.9x12.0x1.1in. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Commemorative presentation album illustrated with 51 mounted color photographs of the 2000 December 15th and 17th events on silver foil pages with cellophane protectors. A lavish production. <br>28pp 4.05lb 12.9x12.0x1.1in The Hong Kong Jockey Club hardcover
1940N3484Ben Shemen Pre-State Israel 1940. Typoscript. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 4to. 17pp printed on one side only. Inscribed on title by Ludwig Strauss 3 lines Cover with small loss on upper left corner some marginal stains and light creases. Otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. <br/> <br/> unknown
1996049714Lancaster CA: Flight Test Historical Foundation 1996. 261pp glossary bw ills. Pictorial card. 2 very small scuffs to rear and rear spine edge otherwise excellent. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Flight Test Historical Foundation Paperback
19806603Privately Printed Tabula Rasa Press Pasadena California Only Those awarded a Scholarship will Receive a Copy 1980. HB NODJ Issued August 1980 1st editionBeige Cloth Brown spine Lettered in Gold Gilt small stain residue endpaper VG/VG AS-IS NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Privately Printed, Tabula Rasa Press, Pasadena, California Only Those awarded a Scholarship will Receive a Copy hardcover
19238045MaCMILLAN 1923. HB NODJ ISSUED November 1923 stated 1st Limited Numbered Edition #796/1000 Black Cloth with Grey Spine & Paper Label Hand Lettered Spine slightly Darkened VG/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Wear & Tiny Chip To one Extremity. First Edition. Hard Cover. MaCMILLAN hardcover
1936503667New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1936. Book. Illus. by Detmold E. J. Near Fine Book Condition. Hardcover. 4th Printing. Written dedication in 1937 by Nathan B. Cohen father of Leonard Cohen. Form the library of Harold Lande of Montreal. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques". Book in very good condition. Green covers with beautiful gilt designs and lettering. A bit of wear to corners of covers and spine. Very clean pages and drawings and binding tight. Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. Tudor Publishing Company Hardcover
1926N4292ABerlin: Siegfried Alweiss 1926. First Edition . Decorative Original Boards. Near Fine. small 8vo. 16 unnumbered pages. Printed on Van Gelder Zonen Haarlem paper. Very fine printing. With a written inscription on title page ; " HERRN ERICH GOTTGETREU MIT BESTEN GRUSSEN. HEINZ STROH BERLIN SOMMER 1926. A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND FRESH COPY. Very rare. Nearly unseen on the market. <br/> <br/> Siegfried Alweiss hardcover
193248033Berlin Junker und Dünnhaupt 1932. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to frontwrapper at top of spine. Stamps on halftitle and foot of titlepage. VIII88 pp. Inscribed from the author on halftitle to Jørgen Jørgensen "Mit den besten Grüssen vom Verf./ übersandt". From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on frontwrapper. <br/><br/><em>First edition Philosophische Forschungsberichte Heft 13.Dubislav was joint founder with Hans Reichenbach and Kurt Grelling of the 'Berlin Society for Empirical later: Scientific Philosophy' Berliner Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie which along with the Vienna Circle is one of the points of origin of logical empiricism. The founding members of the Berlin Circle were listed as sympathisers within the Vienna Circle.Dubislav focused on a logical and mechanistic foundation of mathematics and physics influenced by Bernard Bolzano's "Theory of Science" Wissenschaftslehre. He presented a formalised account of Gottlob Frege's theory of definitions. </em> unknown
190418278AB1904. Paris Vanier 1904 185 : 12 cm. 231 pages. Original wrappers. First edition of this important collection of poems from the creative fase of Marinetti. - Un the pre-title dedication 'Je vous dédie cher Maitre "Le Sabbat" page 104 votre admirateur a votre amí F.T. Marinetti" fully signed by Marinetti. unknown
197016341AB1970. Munich and Zurich Droemer Knaur 1970. 24 : 17 cm. 367 pages with 180 illustrations 20 in colour. Original cloth with dust.jacket. First edition. - With dedication by the author dated and signed on the first fly-leave. hardcover
1984029256UK: Oxford University Press 1984. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus 1984. A new edition with an introduction by Paul Theroux. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A new printing of his classic adventure novel. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP as he was known and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband typing all his manuscripts hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670 <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press paperback
19763122University Alabama : The University of Alabama Press 1976. 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Red cloth with gold device in illustrated dustjacket ; cxvi xxix 594 pp. illustrations one fold-out ; printed illustration of the author laid-in ; ISBN: 0817352287 ; LCCN: 75-19291 ; thick volume reproducing the 1910 Houghton Mifflin edition revised and enlarged ; slight sunning to dustjacket price clipped ; nearly invisible spot on front cover else VG/G <br/> <br/> University, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 1976. hardcover
1997ABE-14619877748Stone Trough Books 1997 Superb quarter calf leather with cloth sides specially bound issue of ONLY 35 COPIES of which this is number 29. It has a vivid Vorticist cloth cover. Signed on the limitation page with a dedication to one of the greatest poets of the English language my opinion! Ken Smith. CL has written 'For Ken Smith with my thanks for a fine job from Christopher Logue'. A unique and wonderful association copy. Several tipped in photographs. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stone Trough Books hardcover
19702507300078U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility Da Nang 1970. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Edges sunned. Some water damage. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. U.S. Naval Support Activity/Facility, Da Nang hardcover