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20952Nos. 1-11 all publ. Lowstoft Suffolk Summer 1948 - n.d. ca.1954. Original pictorial wrappers some lightly dustsoiled but as a set in good condition. No. 4 front wrapper stained No. 5 folded and library stamp on front cover. Rare complete. Miller/Price B49. Edited by Antony Borrow and R.P. Doddslater with Madge Hales. French correspondent Jean Paris. The first 4 issues and issue no. 6 were hand printed; covers designed by Michael Strauss and A. Phelps 2x; contributions by J. Kirkup J. M. Calder H. Treece A.S. Thwaite T. Blackburn Berginzi H. Pinto B. Kops D. Stanford G. Komai R.L. Cook I. Colquhoun Henri Michaux Henri Pintai.e.Pinter a.o. unknown
186420453New York:: D. Appleton and Co. 1864. Large hardcover. Charles A. Dana editor. Publishers elaborate embossed decorative binding with gilt crest to front and back cover and gilt title to spine some minor rubbing and wear to edges and spine caps but overall still very good to excellent. First endpaper with some scraping at top likely removal of small bookplate first blank with old gift inscription in ink else content of book is clean and crisp. A nice copy of a scarce book. Priced to go. D. Appleton and Co., hardcover
18824two issues all published. NY: Friends World Institute 1965. Two issues the first fine the second near fine with a small dampstain along the bottom edge both 28x215. side-stapled wrappers mimeographed on coloured stock. With contributions by Richard Krech later of Undermine Press and Avalanche Dale A. Smith Martha Krech and others. The editors of this magazinebeing of draft age hereby state their refusal to fight against the people of Vietnam. unknown
122938London Cassell & Company 1889-90-91. . First edition; 2 vols large 4to 33 x 26 cm; vol 1 with two title-pages two coloured frontispieces numerous black and white engraved illustrations throughout both volumes some in text and some full page inner hinges on volume 1 slightly cracked bookplates; publisher's lavishly gilt decorated cloth slightly worn and rubbed at edges; a very attractive copy.<br /> This work is compilation of travels in the Mediterranean by various artists and writers. These impressive tomes cover France Corsica Italy Egypt SpainTurkey Malta Greece and Algeria.<br /> London, Cassell & Company, 1889-90-91. hardcover
197143031New York American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1971. 8vo. Original full green cloth bound with the original blue wrappers. Volume 50 1971 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Library stamp to free front end-paper and title page. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Mentioned articles: Pp: 219-700. Entire issue:XXXVII 3 1098. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the technical description of Bell System's picturephone System.When the system was launched it was regarded as a state of the art information tool. It was being used in various science fiction-movies among these Stanley Cubric's A Space Odyssey."The AT&T picturephone offered full motion a monochrome picture and about half the resolution of a conventional TV image. It worked over three phone lines and though fairly costly was somewhat affordable. The AT&T picturephone utilized sophisticated image technology and was a well designed product offering desk-top impulse use." Noll Michael. Highway of dreams: a critical view along the information superhighway 1997 p. 27.It never became a huge success and after a few years only it was taken off the market. In the history of the telephone and communication in general however it occupies an important role as this was the first time that a visual personal communication tool was being offered to a broad audience. In this respect it can be regarded as the forerunner of web-cam and video mobiles. Other papers of interest is contained in the present volume:1. Baird Jack A. The Picturephone System: Foreword. Pp. 219-220. 2. Dorros Irwin. The Picturephone System: The Network. Pp. 221-233. 3. Crater T.V. The Picturephone System: Service Standards. Pp. 235-269.4. Cagle W.B.; Strokes R.R.; Wright B.A. The Picturephone System: The Station: 2C Video Telephone Station Set. Pp. 271-312.5. Gordon A.M.; Singleton J.B. The Picturephone System: Station Set Components. Pp. 313-349.6. Brown H.E. The Picturephone System: Transmission Plan. Pp. 351-394. 7. Brown J.M. The Picturephone System: Baseband Video Transmission on Loops and Short-Haul Trunks. Pp. 395-425.8. Bunin B.J.; Hirsch R.B.; Olsen R.E. The Picturephone System: Crosstalk Considerations in the Transmission of Analog Signals on Paired Cable. Pp. 427-457. 9. Millard J.B.; Maunsell H.I. The Picturephone System: Digital Encoding of the Video Signal. Pp. 459-479.10. Broderick C.W. The Picturephone System: A Digital Transmission System for TD-2 Radio. Pp. 481-499. 11. Gunn J.F.; Ronne J.S.; Weller D.C. The Picturephone System: Mastergroup Digital Transmission on Modern Coaxial Systems. Pp. 501-520. 12. Urich J.F. The Picturephone System: Switching Plan. Pp. 521-531. 13. Burgess P.N.; Stickel J.E. The Picturephone System: Central Office Switching. Pp. 533-552.14. Breen Charles. The Picturephone System: Customer Switching Systems. Pp. 553-565.15. Daskalakis A. The Picturephone System: Key Telephone Systems. Pp. 567-584.16. Anderson H.P. The Picturephone System: The 850A PBX. Pp. 585-604.17. Brown D.W.; Horvath J.R.; Paxton T.S. The Picturephone System: No. 101 ESS. Pp. 605-620.18. Dougherty H.J.; Peterson E.B.; Schachtman M.G. The Picturephone System: Maintenance Plan. Pp. 621-644. 19. Favin D.L.; Gilmore J.F. The Picturephone System: Line and Trunk Maintenance Arrangements. Pp. 645-665.20. Bender E.C.; Howson R.D. The Picturephone System: Wideband Data Service. Pp. 667-681.21. Warwick P.S.; Phipps G.W. The Picturephone System: Computer Access. Pp. 683-700.And many other. </em> hardcover
14771Nos. 24/25 27 29-30 32 35 40-41 43 47-48 50 53 55 57-58 60-8082-84 86-88 90-98. New York March/April 1961- February 1974. Size h/w: 27 x 21 cm. Newspaper 24 pp. Added: 6 unnumbered issues of 4 pages each published from Dec. 1968-June 1969 and 86 A-B 4 pages each Jan-April 1970. Very scarce. A collection of this underground satirical journal edited by Paul Krassner. Contributions by Ellen Sander Larry Josephson Robert Wolf Saul Heller Sandra Adickes John Francis Putnam Abbie Hoffman Lenny Bruce Obscenity Narcotics & Me a.o. Cartoons by Dick Guindon. Contains <I>Impolite Interviews with Norman Mailer Mort Sahl Woody Allen Timothy Leary </I> and an article on the arrest of Lenny Bruce. Nos. 91& 92 are published in 3 parts numbered as 91 A-C July-Dec. 1971 and 92 A-C Jan.-June 1972 of 8 pp. each. Publication went on till 1974 no. 98 unknown
200051882Kontakt-Kultura Moscow 2000. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. POSTERS. The Russian Poster 20th-Century Masterpieces Moscow: Kontakt-Kultura 2000. Large folio 41x29cm pp. 14 152 double-sided color plates 169-174 wraps text in Russian with a one-page English-language introduction and captions in English and Russian. The editors have selected the best of all genres from art nouveau through constructivism and social realism and reproduced 152 masterpieces so large that you would probably have to own the originals to do better. Includes 3 by Rodchenko 4 each by the Stenbergs and V.B Koretskii 5 by V.S. Ivanov and Serov's famous portrait of Anna Pavlova. Condition of this book: Covers moderately worn with minor chipping. Leaves clean and tight images fine. Size: Large Folio bigger than A3. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Russia; Antiques & Collectibles. ISBN: 5938820014. ISBN/EAN: 9785938820012. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51882. . 9785938820012 Kontakt-Kultura paperback
18285Number 1 probably only published. New York NY J. 1970. Tabloid. loose leaves unpaginated. Newsprint light toning. Designed and published by Stanley Stellar and John Dowd Contents include photographs photomontages stamp art and drawings many featuring images of the Rolling Stones and the spectre of Brian Jones one of them by Elisabeth Staal. unknown
18503Nos. 1 2 3. all publ. Paris The Olympia Press 3rd trimester 19534 th trimester 1953 and 2nd trimester 1954. Size h/w: 20 x 135 cm. Original colour pictorial wrappers. Richly photographically illustrated. Nos. 1 and 3 in very good condition. No. 2 with a faint fold over the front cover and worn with some creasing and wear but sound. Rare complete set of this Olympia Press publication. Erotic glamour magazine of pin-up and seminude photography with important literary contribs very risky for it's time. Texts from 'completely unexpurgated' books published by the Press by or on de Sade Henry Miller Georges Bataille Pierre Angélique John Cleland Robert Desmond. Number 2 is a promotional pamphlet for Rene Roques' Three passionate lovers containing an excerpt from same and accompanied by numerous B&W semi-nude photographs "not seen" by Olympia's bibliographer Patrick Kearney who also notes "known to exist from ban in 1954." unknown
16978Nos. 1-21/22. 1960-1981/82. Some covers lightly soiled Two issues with spine defects 8 & 9 and no. 8 has a loose page. Published annually and after 1972 biennially as double issues under the editorship of Eli Bornstein of the University of Saskatchewan.International organ of the structuralist movement in art focusing on geometric abstraction. Bornstein coined the term "structurist reliefs" in the first issue to define his own three dimensional geometric abstractions. unknown
18171Nos. 1-3 all publ. Richmond: The Stylus 1993-1997. Original illustrated wrappers spine stapled. Edited by Roger Reus . Contributions by Joyce Fante Bukowski Marvin Malone and critical articles on John Fante Henry Miller Machen Bukowsi Fitzgerald Dali etc. unknown
196843348New York American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1968. 8vo. Volume 47 September No. 7 1968 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original printed blue wrappers. A bit of sunning to spine and previous owner's stamp to front wrapper otherwise a very nice fresh and internally near mint copy. Pp. 1143-1537. Illustrated throughout. <br/><br/><em>First publication of Bell system's famous TD-3 issue. The TD-3 was the replacement of the highly successful TD-2 system.The TD-2 was the backbone of all transcontinental television broadcasting and long distance telephone traffic before satellite transmission was made possible. By 1962 the TD-2 was carrying more than 80000 miles of intercity television circuits and approximately 35000000 miles of telephone circuits representing more than 90 per cent of all intercity video and 40 per cent of all long distance telephone circuits' mileage. It had however several shortcomings: It had maintenance problems required a multi voltage power source and the noise performance were considered only marginally satisfactory. The TD-3 was to improve these shortcomings and prepare the network for increased capacity. 1. Hathaway S.D.; Hensel W.G.; Jordan D.R.; Prime R.C. TD-3 Microwave Radio Relay System. Pp. 1143-1188.2. Jensen R.M.; Rowe R.E.; Sherman R.E. Microwave Transmitter and Receiver. Pp. 1189-1225.3. Fenderson G.L.; Jansen J.J.; Lee S.H. Active IF Units for the Tranmitter and Receiver. Pp. 1227-1256.4. Abele T.A.; Alberts A.J.; Ren C.L.; Tuchen G.A. Schottky Barrier Receiver Modulator. Pp. 1257-1287 .5. Hamori Andras; Penney Paul L. Transmitter Modulator and Receiver Shift Modulator. Pp. 1289-1299.6. Abele T.A.; Leonard D.J.Microwave Generator. Pp. 1301-1322.7. Elder H.E. Active Solid-State Devices. Pp. 1323-1377.8. Bradford C.E. The Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier for the Microwave Transmitter. Pp. 1379-1395.9. Drazy E.J.; MacLean R.C.; Sheehey R.E. Networks. Pp. 1397-1422. 10. Barry J.F.; Gammie J.; Lentz N.E.; Salvage R.C. 3A FM Terminal Transmitter and Receiver. Pp. 1423-1458.11. Cooney R.T.; Klisch F.M.; Susen C.P. Test Equipment. Pp. 1459-1485.12. Jewett W.E.; Mottle S. Power System. Pp. 1487-1509.13. Skrabal R.J.; Word J.A. Microwave Radio Equipment and Building Considerations. Pp. 1511-1530. </em> unknown
14611Nos. 1-9 all publ. Westport Connecticut 1947-1949. Size h/w: 26 x 183 cm. With many illustrations partly tipped-in photographs elaborately printed on different stock. Original illustrated wrappers. Designed by Ruth Stephan who also was Editor; art-editor and design for covers: John Stephan; typography by Sven Jansen printed by the Elm Tree Press. Deals with modern avant-garde literature and art; issues of about 140/150 pp. each. Reproduces work by Ernst Lam Tanguy Magritte Klee S.W. Hayter Calder Dhagall Picasso De Chirico Miro Tanguy W. Kandinsky etc.; contains literary contributions by T.S. Eliot W.C. Williams Stephen Spender K. Seligmann Michaux Rexroth Motherwell Bataille Borgès Neruda Genet Artaud a.o. unknown
74439London The Linnean Society of London 1879-1888. Large 4to 28.6 x 23.0 cm. v 489 pp.; 57 lithographed plates of which several in chromolithography or hand-coloured. Contemporary polished calf. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with gilt floral borders a floral vignette and a morocco label with gilt title and gilt stippled borders. Boards with blind-tooled borders; marbled endpapers. = A complete volume belonging to one of the most important zoological periodicals - with numerous fine well-illustrated monographs. Before 1875 the Transactions contained both zoological and botanical papers. In this volume we find e.g. Haddon's On the extinct land-tortoises of Mauritius and Rodriguez; Collingwood's Some new species of nudibranchiate Mollusca from the eastern seas; Cobbold's The parasites of elephants; Francis Day's On the breeding of Salmon and 16 other mostly well-illustrated papers. Definitely rare. Some shelf wear; front cover and first gathering detached; otherwise a very good clean copy. Cat. BMNH p. 1151. hardcover
75552London Taylor and Francis for the Linnean Society 1888-1894. 4to 28.6 x 22.5 cm. 474 pp.; 40 lithographed plates of which several in chromolithography; two maps. Later plain green cloth. = A rarely seen complete volume of one of the leading zoological series in the 19th century and one of the very few published on this large format. It includes a tile contents leaf and ten papers and an index. Among the papers included is Aitchingson's Zoology of the Afghan Delimination Commission with fine plates of reptiles and other wildlife including two fine bird plates by Keulemans. Four papers deal with Lepidoptera one is important for Indian Ocean carcinology. Stamp of a former Dutch East Indies natural history society on the title page and first text leaf top margin. Binding worn; otherwise a very good copy. hardcover
17547Vol. 1 No. 1. Premier National Issue. Philadelphia 1978 no more published 4to; stapled in the spine b/w and colour red added. Very light edgewear. Insert Time Warp included. Edited by Robin Lipner. The Rocky Horror Fan Club in Association with Adam Sargis and Adam Sargis Associates. Philadelphia PA. The first issue of a magazine focusing on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 24 pages some numbered. Illustrated crossword puzzle drawings photos black & white. unknown
18362Numbers 1-33. The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church New York 1967-1971. without nos. 9 and 12. Tall legal format mimeographed and stapled in illustrated wrappers after no. 33 size reduces to quarto. Light use and some dust-soil otherwise the collection is in very good condition. Edited by Joel Sloman Anne Waldman and others. Writing in "Running Off The World" Anne Waldman said about the magazine: "The impulse was always toward the immediate community so it covers most of the so-called New York School plus what comes after with a bow toward Black Mountain the Beats San Francisco Renaissance and the New York Scene not 'school' as well as many independent folk and younger writers from workshops. It was arty political experimental classy corny unaligned." - quoted in A Secret Location on the Lower East Side. By Steven Clay & Rodney Philips. N.Y.: NYPL & Granary Books 1998 p.188. Contributors include: Vito Acconci John Ashbery Bill Berkson Ted Berrigan Joe Brainard Rucy Buckhardt Jim Carroll Tom Clark Clark Coolidge Robert Creeley Kenward Elmslie Dick Gallup Allen Ginsberg John Giorno Barbara Guest Frank Lima Gerard Malanga Bernadette Mayer Michael McClure Charles North Alice Notley Frank O'hara Joel Oppenheimer Ron Padgett Ed Sanders Peter Schjeldahl James Schuyler Tony Towle Tom Veitch Diane Wakowski Lew Warsh and Trevor Winfield among others. With cover designs by George Schneeman Donna Dennis Mike Goldberg John Giorno and others. unknown
16661Nos. 1-3 all publ. New York 1964-1966. Original illustrated wrappers. Edited by Emmet Jarrett Richard Lourie Ron Schreiber and David van Hoorn. Cover art on each issue. With a few drawings inside. Contributions by Babette Deutsch Denise Levertov Ben Shahn Philip Whalen Diane Wakoski. Thomas Clark Jason Miller Norman Porter a.o. The cover for no. 3 is an original signed serigraph by David Van Hoorn. unknown
17204191London i.e. The Hague: Printed for the Company i.e. Thomas Johnson 1720. Good. 8vo. Contemporary Dutch marbled calf smooth spine gilt in six compartments red lettering piece "Tragedy" chipped in the second binding worn significantly at the foot and corners headcap missing; marbled endpapers red edges. CLANDESTINELY PUBLISHED BY THE KEY FIGURE IN THE SCOTTISH-DUTCH BOOKTRADE OF THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY. <br /> <br /> Excellent Sammelband of four English Restoration plays three tragedies and one comedy. All imprints are ficticious: the present volume was published -- and probably compiled -- by Thomas Johnson ca. 1677-1735 a Scotsman who was active as a bookseller in The Hague from 1701 to 1728; he then went to Rotterdam where he was active until his death. With Alexander Cunningham Johnson was the most significant agent of the Scottish Dutch book trade at that time. Johnson created and exploited Anglo-Dutch communications and retail networks and in doing so became one of the foremost publishers in The Netherlands during the Enlightenment Scottish or otherwise. <br /> <br /> "Johnson was probably born in 1677 in Edinburgh and he arrived in the United Provinces around 1700. It is not known what motivated him to move and there is no indication that he intended to become a bookseller. He was probably simply attracted by the significant Scottish presence in the United Provinces their economic successes and the tolerant Dutch climate. Soon after his arrival he established himself as a bookseller in The Hague after a brief cooperation with the French publisher Jonas l'Honore." SOURCE: Esther Mijers 'News from the Republick of Letters': Scottish Students Charles Mackie and the United Provinces 1650-1750" pp. 135-137. <br /> <br /> "Johnson brought out upwards of 60 English plays Pope's 'Works' and translation of the 'Iliad' and a number of other titles in the 1710s and 1720s. He did not own the rights to any of them. In the Netherlands that was not a problem; indeed he was providing a valuable service for expatriates. But in Britain Johnson's books were illegal and so had to be smuggled in sometimes bearing false imprints" as here. SOURCE: Allington et al. The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction 2019 pp. 202-203. <br /> <br /> CONTENTS OF THE SAMMELBAND: <br /> <br /> 1. Rowe NIcholas. The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for the Company of booksellers Thomas Johnson 1715. 92 4 pp. Early edition of the first work by Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718 first performed in 1700 and published in 1702. <br /> <br /> 2. Cibber Colley. The Non-Juror. A Comedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for Thomas Johnson & are sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster 1718. 110 2 pp. One of several editions in the year of the first publication. Cibber's Whig-inspired version of Moli re's "Tartuffe" with a caustic foreword by Nicholas Rowe was dedicated to King George I who rewarded the author with 200 guineas and made him Poet Laureate in 1730.<br /> <br /> 3: Dryden John. All for Love: or The World Well Lost. A Tragedy. Written in Imitation of Sakespear's sic Stile. The Hague printed for T. Johnson 1720. 101 1 pp. final blank leaf. Later edition of Dryden's tragedy in blank verse first published in 1678 written in imitation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" and probably still his most frequently performed play.<br /> <br /> 4. Banks John. The Unhappy Favourite: or The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for the Company of booksellers; Thomas Johnson 1711 or 1730. 85 3 pp. final page -- a blank -- pasted onto flyleaf. Later edition of Banks's first dramatic success "The Unhappy Favourite" a tragedy in blank verse first shown in 1682. John Dryden contributed the Prologue and Epilogue. <br /> <br /> Literature: Emil Rybczak "Thomas Johnson: the publisher as an agent of Enlightenment" in: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Country Studies online accessed 5/2020. See also: B.J. McMullin "T. Johnson Bookseller in The Hague" in: An Index of Civilization: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen 1993 pp. 99-112. Printed for the Company (i.e. Thomas Johnson) unknown
20612The A-Z Book Colorcraft-Brussel Publishing New York 1969. First unnumbered edition sofcover 26 pp 28 x 28 cm printed black on white Mohawk Superfine stock various cut-out pages bound with a plastic comb binder. Stamp of Printed Matter NY after the R written dedication: Voor Reinilde / New York 8 September / Jan in small script left of letter A. . Original cardboard shell-case not included. A beautiful production of the Dutch-born American concrete poet designer book artist and teacher based on cut-out pages of the alphabet. Thomas Ockerse is a design professor at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI. From 1967 to 1971 when he was an assistant professor of graphic design at Indiana University Ockerse began to radically rethink education the practice of design and the world of art. He strove to erase conventional boundaries and to merge the arts and in so doing worked towards creating design that could be experienced both for practical and inspirational purposes. His deep involvement at that time with concrete poetry Fluxus mail art happenings book arts and other intermedia arts led to the creation of what Ockerse termed ‘word and image equations’. unknown
18575Issue 1. Houston: Thora-Zine issue one January 1993. Staple-bound wraps28x21cm not paginated 56 pp. Excellent copy. Dubbing itself the “underground media monitor†the premier issue of this magazine featured articles like “Fuck Rodney King†and “Malcolm X: Hate Preacher or Symbol of Peace†the author decided on the latter along with an interview with Lydia Lunch show and ‘zine reviews poetry the article “Ain’t No Sense in Voting†“I laugh at all you people who honestly think voting makes some kind of difference or means something or whatever. You are nothing but BRAINWASHED IDIOTS!†– Biff Steak lots of ads and a three-page spread on flyer art. paperback
19357Number 1-13 complete Athens Paris & Bologna 2010-2016 No.1 is the "Nun Variant". Plus: the TAR ART EDITION Toiletpaper Record Two Toiletpaper Book Anthologies and Three Calenders see details below. "ToiletPaper" is an artists' magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. Art Direction by Micol TalsoThe magazine contains no text - each picture springs from an idea often simple and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue in June 2010 "Toilet Paper" has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art which through its accessible form as a magazine and through its wide distribution challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy". A brand new spectacular collection of twenty-one ToiletPaper-related items: comprised of -a complete set of all thirteen numbered issues of this fascinating irregularly issued artist's project published to date - 1 June 2010 with the "Nun" special edition cover / 2 January 2011 / 3 June 2011 / 4 November 2011 / 5 February 2012 / 6 July 2012 / 7 December 2012 / 8 September 1971 / 9 February 1981 / 10 December 1944 / 11 April 1987 / 12 Undated / 13 Undated in the collector's edition limited to six hundred and fifty numbered examples packaged with a ToiletPaper folding fan multiple - along with -the hors serie "Tar Art Special Edition" Summer 2011 that appeared between issues 4 and 5 -the three ToiletPaper spiral-bound calendars issued to date for 2013 2015 and 2017 -the two "ToiletPaper Book" hardbound anthologies - the second from the deluxe "Platinum Edition" and t - the "I Always Remember A Face Especially When I’ve Sat on It: A Vinyl Record Compiled by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari Published by The Vinyl Factory" 12" picture disc in a vinyl sleeve limited to one thousand numbered examples. - Additionally these come with a special ToiletPaper pictorial canvas tote bag produced for Maurizio Cattelan's 2011 Guggenheim retrospective exhibition. - ISSN 1792-3891 hardcover
21430Number 1. June 2010. Cover: the ""Nun-shooting up" variant. ISBN13: 9781935202332 publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art Athens Greece Softcover 40 pp.; 29 x 22.4 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; . Fine condition. "ToiletPaper" is an artists' magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. Art Direction by Micol Talso Issue number one was produced with two cover variants this one features a nun shooting up. The standard edition's cover is a close up of a woman's face pressed against a man's with an eyeball in his mouth. paperback
17348The only issue published : Kunstbeilage von Prof. Paul Wunderlich. 4. Jahrgang nr. 13. Bremen: Self published n.d - late sixties Quarto 31 pages numerous illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Contributions by diettrich kittner raoul hausmann roland neumann peter paul zahl dieter volkmann arno reinfrank richard laus and others. With a double page illustration by Giger; a full page illustration by Pit Morell and front cover by H. Eisenmann; a loosely inserted and folded double page black and white print auf kunstdruckpapier by paul wunderlich; a folded 'Total' sonderdruck special edition with reproduced press clippings about articles that appeared after that one of the former' issues of Total had been refused by the Deutsche Post. With loosely laid in subscription form. unknown
197943220New York American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1979. 8vo. Original full green cloth. The entire volume 43 nr. 2 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. Entire volume: pp. 809-1367. <br/><br/><em>First edition of the first description of Bell System's Traffic Service Position System TSPS. It was designed by Bell Labs in Columbus Ohio to replace traditional cord switchboards. Research at Bell Systems was aimed at finding ways to reduce operator labor which at that time was was the largest expenditure when operating a telephone network. "A new cordless operator position was designed to illustrate how this operator service might be implemented. Trials at New York Telephone Co. demonstrated the feasibility of both the customer dialing of the prefix and the efficiency of the new operator's position. After the trial a development was started to add such positions by then known as the "Traffic Service Position" . It was an example of the electronic art forcing out the old electromechanical art with many vested interest. The collection of trunks a ferreed switching network an SPC and the positions formed a system called the "Traffic Service Position System". Being the first it was called the "No. 1 TSPS". Chapuis 100 Years of Telephone Switching 1878-1978 1982 p. 170.Articles contained in the Traffic Service Position System No. 1-issue:1. Staehler R.E.; Hayward W.S. Jr. Traffic Service Position System No. 1: Recent Developments An Overview. Pp. 1109-1118.2. Bauman S.M.; DiPietro R.S.; Jaeger R.J. Jr. Remote Trunk Arrangement: Overall Description and Operational Characteristics. Pp. 1119-1135.3. Brune W.L.; Piereth R.J.; Weygand A.G. Remote Trunk Arrangement and Position Subsystem No. 2: Transmission and Signaling Considerations. Pp. 1137-1165.4. Bulfer A.F.; Gibbons W.E.; Hackett J.A.Remote Trunk Arrangement: Hardware and Software Implementation. Pp. 1167-1205.5. Berger M.; Dalby J.C. Jr.; Ransom V.L.; Prell E.M. Automated Coin Toll Service: Overall Description and Operational Characteristics. Pp. 1207-1223.6. Clark G.T.; Streisand K.; Larson D.H. Station Signaling and Announcement Subsystem: Hardware for Automated Coin Toll Service. Pp. 1225-1249.7. Ahmari R.; Hsu J.C.; Potter R.L.; Reed S.C.Automated Coin Toll Service: Software. Pp. 1251-1290.8. Youngs E.A.; Bushnell W.J.; Barone-Wing A. Automated Coin Toll Service: Human Factors Studies. Pp. 1291-1305.9. Stanaway J.J. Jr.; Victor J.J.; Welsch R.J. Pp. Software Development Tools. Pp. 1307-1333.10. Delatore J.P.; VanHaften D. ; Weber L.A. System Verification and Evaluation Procedures. Pp. 1335-1346.11. Riddell G.; Swanson C.R.; Steinbrenner R.T. Operator Training Facilities. Pp. 1347-1357. </em> hardcover