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194320095Washington D. C.: The National research Council 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. We offer a nearly complete run of this important early computer serial: Numbers 1 2 5-59 66-70 each in the original wrappers as published. Small quarto and octavo sizes approx 12 inches shelf space. Occasional minor soiling. From the library of Frank M. Verzuh with his name on some covers. Wraps. MTAC is the first period journal devoted entirely to the literature of computation. The journal had a very small subscription base in the early years. Through 1946 it's subscription list was less than 350 readers. Many were discarded as computing advanced at a rapid pace. As of this writing Worldcat shows less than 80 institutions with even partial runs. The first volume contains lists and descriptions of printed tables where they were published as well as new errors discovered in the published sources. These errors introduced by humans whose job description were "computers" continued to appear until mechanical computers significantly reduced and eventually eliminated them. Large businesses military and financial operations used these tables to save time - so error notices were important. Later issues particularly in Volume 2 of this serial contained interesting and groundbreaking material related to the development of computers as we know them today. <br/><br/>Professor FM Verzuh attended the Moore School lectures and was a participant in early computering at MIT. The fact that this serial was still present on his shelf at his retirement is an indication of it's importance. Scarce in the marketplace. See Origins of Cyberspace 777 for a detailed description and history of the serial which was published in a total of 14 volumes until a title change in 1960. Important articles included in this run include Origins of Cyberspace 577 579 1077 and 1078. "MTAC remains the primary periodical source of information on the electromechanical and electronic digital computers designed and built during the late 1940s and early 1950s as well as on the scientific uses of punched-card machines mechanical desk calculators etc" It also served as a journal of record for the newly formed Association of Computing Machinery until the founding of their own journal in January 1954. The National research Council unknown books
1967008323New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. RARE Review Copy of this groundbreaking behind-the-scenes look into the New York art scene of the 1960s. With four 8" x 10" B&W glossy photos from the book laid in; George Segal's "Couple at the Stairs"; Andy Warhol in his studio; Marcel Duchamp in his Manhattan apartment; and Lee Bontecon relaxing in her studio first 3 photos Fine last photo small faint spot bottom margin and faint bottom corner crease. The book is Near Fine small prior owner name 2nd front end page slight bowing to boards. In a Very Good dust jacket 1/4" chip across head and 1 1/2" chip base of spine narrow chip at top edge front flap fold several small closed edge tears. Original photographs from this New York collection are uncommon at auction.RBH. While these four are not originals they would be striking framed as a set. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Review Copy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover books
1966175323Paris France: La Bibliotheque des Arts 1966. VG--all plates attached. pgs & portfolios have light edge toning. pgs w/ plates have light creasing to corners. linen case cover discolored w/ light instances of smudging/soiling. linen case has small rectangular bookstore sticker on pastedown. small light ink stain to pack title/table of contents portfolio. 12 15 x 18 sheets of mounted plates w/ matching portfolios. 4 pg title/table of contents 15x18 sheet w/ matching portfolio. heavy board oversized linen case w/ ribbon tie. A very nice clean copy of this scarce edition. Limited to 350 Copies. Plates bright & clean. Plates include "Les Communs Au Chateau Des Clayes "La Chambre De Vuillard Aux Clayes" "Les Sapins" "La Passerelle" "Le Salon Aux Clayes" "La Tourelle" "Le Parasol Orange" "Madame Vuillard A Table" "Bouquet De Fleurs" "Le Square Vintmille" And "La Vague." La Bibliotheque des Arts unknown books
193151845Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf 1931. First edition. Salomon Erich. Small 4to. 46 pp. and 112 b&w photos on 104 pp. with texts in German English French and Spanish. Plain card wrappers with the printed dust jacket affixed to the spine. The lower tip is bumped there are small chips missing at the edges and rubbing at the spine; on the front panel a 2-inch closed tear at the top near the spine and a short one at the bottom has been closed with archival tape on the blank reverse. The dust jacket is worn but largely intact and good. This seems to be a unique prepublication copy either a maquette or a copy for review. All other copies I have handled over the years have been in blue cloth titled in gilt issued with a separate dust jacket. I have consulted with both Martin Parr the noted photographer author and collector and Manfred Heiting noted author and collector who concur; neither have seen such a copy. Salomon from a German-Jewish banking family studied mechanical engineering and the law. In 1927 he took up the miniature camera and recorded the ruling class from his privileged seat among them. This work is a regarded as one of the most important books of the candid camera. The title which translates as "Famous Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments" includes photos of Hindeburg Chamberlain Lloyd George William Randolph Hearst Richard Strauss and others. Parr and Badger The Photobook Volume 1 p. 131. <br/><br/> J. Engelhorns Nachf hardcover books
1995705891995. Accompanied by a typed statement which is affixed to the bottom of the removable ceiling cutout: "This model is a replica of the actual cell here at San Quentin. The dimension of the cells are four feet one half inch wide eleven feet long and eight feet high. This model is built to scale of one inch per foot there sic approx fifty five square feet of living space in a cell. On death row only one inmate per cell but on the mainline there are two inmates per cell." Hand-painted and highly detailed the model measures 13 1/8" x 8" 4 3 / 4" and is composed of board tape and cellophane. The prisoner's bunk complete with blanket and pillow is situated below ventilation ducts and near a toilet sink and storage unit. A winter landscape photograph appears on one sidewall which can be viewed through a cellophane-covered window in the other. Opposite the back of the model are the prison bars including a swiveling cell door. Beneath the model is a label bearing Solomon's name his identification and cell number and the address for San Quentin. Undated it appears to have been created around 1995. An African American Vietnam veteran who worked as a handyman in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento California Morris Solomon Jr. was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder two counts of second-degree murder and five sexual assaults over the course of a year starting in 1986. Five of the victims were found buried outside the homes where Solomon lived or worked while the sixth was "discovered" by Solomon in a closet at a house where he had been working. At Solomon's sentencing Sacramento Superior Court Judge Peter Mering added on a sentence of 95 years to life to make certain Solomon could never win release if his death sentence was overturned. "I can imagine no one whose release would be more terrifying to the community of Sacramento than Mr. Solomon" the judge said. Solomon's conviction was affirmed by the California Supreme Court on July 15 2010. He remains on death row at San Quentin. unknown books
1912282154New York: William Salomon 1912. First Edition. Very Good binding. The only book of photos by forgotten New York photographer Lillian Baynes Griffin who was featured in Harper's Weekly the New York Press New York Times Vanity Fair and Vogue and famously convinced royalty and plutocrats to pose for her alone. Trained at the New York Institute for Artist Artisans Griffin ventured into photography despite what she referred to as the 'little opportunity' for women in the trade. This tome contains 56 photos by Griffin detailing Salomon's home at 1020 Fifth Avenue. Originally the home of Richard Arnold it was purchased around 1900 by Salomon who was Chairman of the Board of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Salomon spent many years creating essentially a new and more impressive home buying two adjacent lots and greatly expanding what was already by the standards of most a mansion. Half-bound in Japan Vellum over paper-covered boards. This copy has a discreetly replaced spine in Japanese tissue. It is mildly ex-library with a few small marks to the preliminary pages. There are no marks at all to the 56 photogravure plates. Very Good binding. [William Salomon] unknown books
1967140939545New York: Holt Rinehart Winston 1967. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated first printing. Bound in publisher's coarse cloth covered boards with spine lettered in black. Finewith a faint bump to the crown faint toning to pages. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to the spine light edge wear heaviest at the corners. A fantastic copy of this seminal photography book. A Roth 101 title. Holt Rinehart Winston unknown books
1967141705New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. Stated First. Hardcover. VG- clean good covers but lightly bumped; with NY gallery owner's stamp and lib. sticker. Ugo Mulas Photog. Flax-colored linen over boards with black lettering on spine. Bw photographic end papers. No dj or slip case. 339 pp. with bw photos throughout. Includes a title essay by Solomon and sections of photographs with captions and biographical information on Duchamp Newman Bontecou Chamberlain Dine Johns Lichtenstein Noland Oldenburg Poons Rauschenberg Rosenquist Segal Stella Warhol and Wesselman. Wonderful candid and posed shots in both studio and public places around NYC. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1912M8493Jena:: Gustav Fischer 1912. 1912. 4to. xiv 302 pp. 191 figs. 91 color plates index; plate 77 adhering to opposing page and thus damaged. Modern quarter cloth original printed boards new printed paper spine label; new free end-papers. AUTHOR'S COPY with his rubber stamp. Fine. FIRST EDITION of this "Comparative diagnostic atlas of skin diseases and syphilis including mucous membranes adjoining the skin." tans. of title. "This publication was intended to be a comparative diagnostic atlas. Accordingly most of the pictures on any one page are of several different but similar diseases found in the same part of the body…. The majority of the illustrations are water colours painted by Ehrmann himself or painted under his supervision by Mr. Edelmann and Mr. Ignaz Schonfeld two pupils of the Vienna Academy of Art. Some of the pictures are of moulages. Some of these are taken from other books. The best illustrations are those which depict smaller parts of the body such as the hands or the feet." Ehring. Salomon Ehrmann was the director of the dermatological department of Vienna's General Hospital. Ehring Hautkrankheiten / skin diseases p. 244. Gustav Fischer, 1912. hardcover books
1967011620NY: Holt Rinehart Winston 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The New York art scene perfectly captured in b&w pictures featuring artists Lee Bontecou John Chamberlain Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Jasper Johns Roy Lichtenstein Kenneth Noland Barnett Newman Claes Oldenburg Larry Poons Robert Rauschenberg Jim Rosenquist George Segal Frank Stella Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselman. Spine a wee cocked dustjacket worn at flap folds minor loss corners and head of spine still quite presentable. Holt Rinehart Winston hardcover books
1967278127New York: Holt 1967. First. hardcover. near fine. Profusely illustrated with well-printed black & white photographs by Mulas. 345 pages folio natural cloth lettered in black. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. First edition. A near fine copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Bontecou Chamberlain Dine Duchamp Johns Lichtenstein Newman Noland Oldenburg Poons Rauschenberg Rosenquist Segal Stella Warhol & Wesselmann.<br/><br/> Holt unknown books
1934KC16093Moscow: MTP 1934. Hardcover. Poor. 8vo. 92 pp. Original stamped black cloth; lacking the rare photocollaged jacket. This "documentary pamphlet" is one of the masterworks of Constructivist design. Unfortunately this is an incomplete copy. <br/><br/> MTP hardcover books
194919090601New York: Crown Publishers 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /fair. First printing octavo size 320 pp. The well-known muscial "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway in 1964 and "was the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3000 performances" - it held the record for the longest-running musical on Broadway for almost ten years until surpassed by "Grease" winning nine Tony Awards.<br/><br/>The reasons for its success were many we surmise in part due to the timeless themes that touch everyone's heart: a loving father worrying about his children; trying to come to grips with their independence as they reach adulthood; and the dreams of immigrants everywhere who long for a better life. <br/><br/>These are the stories upon which the play is based the first printing with the price of $3.00 on the dust jacket no additional printings listed which denotes a Crown first printing per Zempel and no mention of the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" on the dust jacket. <br/><br/>The author Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich 1859-1916 is known by his pen name "Sholom Aleichem" the traditional greeting in Hebrew. He began writing in both Hebrew and Russian and by 1890 was well-known as an author of Yiddish literature. He and his family eventually came to America; when he died in 1916 "his funeral was one of the largest in New York City history with an estimated 100000 mourners" n.b. above quotes and information from Wiki. With an Introduction by the translator Frances Butwin who authored "The Jews in America" published in 1969. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full teal cloth black lettering on the spine with a four-page glossary at the rear of the Yiddish words used in the book; octavo size 8.5" by 5 5/8" pagination: i-vi vii-xvii xviii blank 1-302. The dust jacket shows the original price of $3.00 with a colour illustration on the front and spine of Tevye greeting his daughters outside their home black lettering on the front and spine publisher's ads on the back flap and rear panel summary of the book on the front panel. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: The volume a bit better than very good with clean boards straight corners with minimal rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some sunning and slight wear to the head of the spine and dustiness to the fore-edge. The unclipped dust jacket is fair only; all the pieces are present but there is overall edgewear including several chips the most noticeable at the head of the spine with some loss to the lettering of the author's name overall light soiling and sunning to the spine; the front flap is totally detached the rear panel almost detached from the spine; now in a protective mylar covering. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Crown Publishers hardcover books
192435073Paris: Simon Kra 1924. First edition. Quarter black morocco over marbled boards spine decorated in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers silk bookmark sewn in original wrappers and spines bound in. Minor edgewear else a near fine copy light foxing to fore edge and rear blanks. iix 414; 368 pp. Illus. with 473 in-text photos and drawings. 4to. A gathering of twenty-eight articles Courriers de l'art antique published in la "Gazette des Beaux-Arts" from 1886 to 1925 concerning archaeological excavations of Greek and Roman art. Simon Kra hardcover books
196726312San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore 1967. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Presumed one shot beat poetry magazine edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Near Fine condition in tall thick side-stapled wrappers. Printed on rectos only. Terrific lineup of contributors includes Claude Pelieu Ginsberg Ferlinghetti Carl Solomon and others. City Lights Bookstore paperback books
193824030New Haven Conn.: Department of Physiology Yale University 1938. 5 60 leaves; tipped-on photograph portrait of Chimpanzee "Frenchie" and other tipped-on photographs within; with extensive bibliography trial tables in the appendix section; Solomon Charles Kasdon 1912 - 1992 Tufts professor his typed doctoral dissertation for his Yale degree; typed one side only; approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; bound in sturdy black buckram cloth gilt cover and spine titles; some wear and rubbing to the binding; in very good condition. Doctoral Dissertation. Hard Cover. Very Good. Department of Physiology Yale University Hardcover books
196644331New York 1966. <p>Berson Solomon A. 1918-72 and Rosalyn Yalow 1921-2011. Insulin in the blood and insulin antibodies. Offprint from The American Journal of Medicine 40 1966. 676-690pp. Text diagrams. 268 x 188 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Light toning but very good. Docketed.</p> <p> First Edition Offprint Issue. Berson and Yalow developed the radioimmunoassay RIA for measuring concentrations of antigens such as hormones in the body. The first hormone they performed RIA on was insulin which had been hitherto difficult to measure in the blood; the RIA technique enabled them to estimate quantities as small as one-trillionth of a gram see Garrison-Morton.com 2578.28 Berson and Yalow's 1960 paper announcing their findings. Yalow shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for her part in developing RIA; had Berson not died in 1972 he also would have been eligible for the award. <p>. unknown books
198314940Baltimore: Exquisite Corpse 1983. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A broken run of the first two years of this small press magazine devoted to poetry and the world of books. Edited by Codrescu who has INSCRIBED or at least commented in ink on three of these issues. All in very good condition folded as mailed. Volume 1 Number 7 the Ted Berrigan Memorial Issue is especially poignant. All issues have the mailing address of a prominent New York poet. Sold as a group. Each issue measures approximately 5 7/8 by 15 7/8" tall. <br/><br/> Exquisite Corpse paperback books
193934461Boston: Boston Medical Publishing 1939. Second edition revised and enlarged. Boston Medical Publishing unknown books
195553924New York: Apud Frates Shulsinger 1955. Revised corrected and completed Edition by Rabbi Chaim Mordecai Brecher. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Half cloth and boards Fine. Revised corrected and completed Edition by Rabbi Chaim Mordecai Brecher. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Apud Frates Shulsinger unknown books
196331982Bucuresti: Editura Didactica si Pedagogica 1963. First Edition. Large octavo 24.25cm.; original cloth-backed boards; 220pp. Some wear to corners spine a bit sunned else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Romanian. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "With the author's compliments." Remnants of the envelope in which this book was shipped to the Harvard computer science professor Anthony G. Oettinger laid in with compliments card signed by Marcus. Editura Didactica si Pedagogica unknown books
1927S5163In: Zeitschrift fur physik Vol. 42 1927. Berlin:: Julius Springer 1927. 1927. 232 x 152 mm. 8vo. Pages 481-486. Entire volume: viii 917 pp. Navy cloth gilt spine. Blind-stamps of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory. FINE. FIRST EDITION. In this joint paper by the veteran investigator Orntsein and the junior faculty member Kramers on atomic theory the authors investigated how the classical collision formula in the kinetic-theory of gases has to be modified in order that the molecules shall be distributed according to the Fermi-law. In 1914 Leonard Ornstein succeeded Peter Debye as the chair of theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht. Later Ornstein became director of the physical institute there in 1925. As director of the Institute Ornstein's work shifted decisively into experiments and his organizational talent began to unfold. In the preceding dozen years Ornstein had published about fifty papers; in the following twenty years over two hundred bore his own name and almost five hundred additional papers were published from his institute which underwent three substantial enlargements in this period. See: DSB X pp. 235-236. L. S. At the time that Ornstein became director of the institute Kramers was appointed to the faculty of the University of Utrecht and had an office at the Institute. Kramers delivered an Obituary on Ornstein in 1941. Dresden H. A. Kramers pp. 310-313 485. Kramers Collected scientific papers pp. 375-380; L. S. Ornstein a survey of his work from 1908 to 1933 p. 94. Julius Springer, 1927. hardcover books
1950122657Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart 1950. Hardcover. VG. Marbled paper over portfolio boards with a cloth enclosure; Brown cloth at spine and corners; Two booklets laid in one 12 pp. the other approx. 100 pp.; 100 pp. booklet is all duotone illustrations. Text in French; A facsimile edition of a notebook of drawings by Edouard Vuillard; Preface by Annette Vaillant; Essay by Jacques Salomon; Number 382 of only 500 copies 13-page text; plus plate volume with 100 of the artist's sketches of his family's neighborhood around 1890 to 1900. Quatre Chemins-Editart hardcover books
1986046496Bexhill-on-Sea England: Silver Thimble Books 1986. Hardcover Original Cloth. Fine Condition. Gordon Murray. Clothbound in slipcase signed by publisher Murray. Hand colored #12 of 50 Size: Miniature. Illustrator: Gordon Murray. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Signed by persons connected with book. Inventory No: 046496. Silver Thimble Books hardcover books
1946S13337Moscow:: Journal of Physics 1946. 1946. 2 offprints. Original wrappers. Very good. INVENTORY: 1. PEKAR Solomon Isaakovich. Autolocalization of an Electron in a Dielectric Inertially Polarizing Medium. Offprint from: Journal of Physics vol. X No. 4 pp. 347-350 1946. 2. PEKAR Solomon Isaakovich. Local Quantum States of an Electron in an Ideal Ionic Crystal. Offprint from: Journal of physics vol. X No. 4 pp. 341-346 1946. 3. PEKAR Solomon Isaakovich. The method of Effective Mass for the Electron Motion in Crystals. Offprint from: Journal of Physics vol. X No. 5 pp. 431-434 1946. / Soviet theoretical physicist of Jewish origin and member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Journal of Physics, 1946. unknown books
