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194847717Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to edges of wrappers. Some very soiling to wrappers. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
194847717.1Pawlet Vermont: The Banyan Press 1948. 1st Edition. cf. Edelstein A13. Limited to 500 copies. Variant olive green semi-stiff wove paper wrappers without the watermark as noted in Edelstein A13. Printed in brown lettering sewn with brown thread. Text printed in black lettering on Etruria paper. Leaves untrimmed. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some light age toning to back strip and top-edge. Internally clean and bright. Unpaginated though 16 pages. Two full page illustrations by Kurt Seligmann printed on Zebu paper. 10-2/8" x 7" <br/><br/>This pamphlet was printed with either Orange Bright Green or Olive Green wrappers - "though no priority in the use of these colors" cf. Edelstein A13. We believe this to be Olive Green. The Banyan Press unknown books
1945273977Washington D.C. 1945. unbound. 1 page Washington D.C. July 3 1945 to powerful New York attorney Frederic R. Coudert who had previously sent a congratulatory letter on his appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations in full: "The sentiments expressed in your letter of June 27 mean more to me than you know and I appreciate with all my heart your having taken the trouble to write me." Two horizontal folds; near fine condition.<br/><br/> United States Secretary of State under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; later served as the first United States Ambassador to the United Nations.<br/><br/> unknown books
19471323780Garden City: Doubleday & Co 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine grey with black and red print; DJ in mylar portion at top of spine torn away tears to bottom of spine and along top and bottom edges creasing slight stains and toning to spine slight smudging to rear; Boards in blue cloth with copper and black print light wear to spine caps slight amount of spotting; Text block has blue-tinted top edge small stain to fore edge else clean and tight; xxiii 483 pages. 1323780. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Co hardcover books
1974MMRM1337New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1974. 1974. 8vo. 258 pp. 36 illustrations glossary. Dark-gray pink-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0684140357 Chapters: Noah an albino / Arnold Sorsby -- Job's illness pellagra / Charles J. Brim --The medical problems of Henry VIII / Ove Brinch --Shakespeare's skull and brain / Sir Arthur Keith --The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting / R. W. Leftwich --Milton's blindness / Arnold Sorsby --Swift's deafness and his last illness / T. G. Wilson --Samuel Johnson's medical experiences / Sir Humphry Rolleston --The 'insanity' of King George III : a classic case of porphyria / Ida Macalpine ; Richard Hunter --Historical implications of porphyria / John Brooke --Jane Austen's last illness / Sir Zachary Cope --Beethoven's deafness / Maurice Sorsby --The illness and death of Napoleon / Arnold Chaplin --Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America / A. W. Woodruff --Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome / Harold Schwartz. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. hardcover books
19451335917Kenosha: John Martin's House 1945. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green and yellow without print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners wear to spine and edges shelfwear; Boards in illustrated paper small portion of bottom spine corner torn away tears to hinges wear to corners and edges light soiling; Text block has cracked hinges front and rear age-toned paper; 31 pages illustrated color.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in 15's ephemera box 10 in Netdesk office. 1335917. FP New Rockville Stock. John Martin's House hardcover books
19691328551New York: Kraus Reprint Co 1969. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Reprint of third edition London 1901; G; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth slight wear to corners and spine caps slight shelfwear; Text block has light tanning to endpapers slight smudge to title page else clean and tight but for slight marginal pencil notation in final chapter; xxiv 592 pages. 1328551. FP New Rockville Stock. Kraus Reprint Co hardcover books
192547472Paris: Mercvre de France 1925. 35th Edition. Half purple calf purple cloth boards stamped in gilt to back strip marbled end papers. A VG copy. Spine sunned edges are corners are bit rubbed some light pencil markings some foxing to leave. age toning to edges of leaves otherwise clean and bright. 236 pp. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Mercvre de France hardcover books
193826095Wien: Franz Salmhofer 1938. Folio. Publisher's original light green printed wrappers. 1f. title i facsimile autograph dedication to the composer's wife i cast list and copyright notice 213 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Boldly inscribed to the distinguished Moravian soprano Maria Jeritza 1887-1982: "Der unübertroffenen großen einzigartigen Künsterlin: Maria Jeritza für ihre großen Verdienste um die Wiener Staatsoper. Franz Salmhofer Zum 29 Mai 1950" at lower portion of title.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn faded and soiled. Occasional light wear to outer corners and blank margins not affecting music. A clean very attractive copy overall. First Edition. Scarce. OCLC no. 27239830 2 copies only in the U.S. at Harvard and the Free Library of Philadelphia.<br/><br/>Iwan Tarassenko to Salmhofer's own libretto was first performed in Vienna at the Staatsoper on March 9 1938.<br/><br/>"A pupil of Franz Schreker and Franz Schmidt Salmhofer was musical director and composer at Vienna's Burgtheater for many years and subsequently director of the Staatsoper and the Volksoper 1945-63. With a conception of music that took Romanticism as its starting point he was regarded by many at the end of the 1920s as progressive but not to an extent that would have endangered performances of his works in the 1930s and 40s or that would have forced him to emigrate. Among the most widely performed of contemporary composers he became known primarily through his operas; Iwan Tarassenko 1938 demonstrates the humanistic ideals of the 'good man' and both the ballet Österreichische Bauernhochzeit 1933 and the opera Das Werbekleid 1943 feature folk elements. His honours include the Austrian State Prize 1937 and the prize of the City of Vienna 1960." Sigrid Wiesmann in Grove Music Online. [Franz Salmhofer] unknown books
190246551London: George Allen 1902. Thirteenth Thousand. Tan full calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Spine a bit sunned. Modest wear. Bookplates. A VG copy. x 297 3 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
190246552London: George Allen 1902. Twenty-third Thousand. Tan full calf binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. Spine a bit sunned. Modest wear. Bookplates. A VG copy. xv 5 269 3 blank pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
1991PW1616Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1991. 1991. 8vo. xv 1 182 pp. Figs. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521400775 Rivers was a British officer and an early anthropologist. His collection of over 22000 artifacts was the basis for the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Cambridge University Press, 1991. hardcover books
195026328Celle. Köln: Hermann Moeck Verlag. Charly Oehl PN M.Ch.Oe.15 1950. Folio. Stapled. Original publisher's ivory and blue illustrated wrappers by Schlipphacke. 3 table of contents 4-22 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's imprint to verso of upper wrapper. Copyright notice "Copyright by Musikverlag Charly Oehl Köln. " to first page of every number. Without title. <br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Uniformly browned. First Edition of nine numbers from the operetta. Rare. Worldcat 2 copies only at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich.<br/><br/>Richartz was a German composer and conductor who is remembered principally for operettas such as Die tauzende Helena 1941 film music and popular songs. [Hermann Moeck Verlag... Charly Oehl] [PN M.Ch.Oe.15] unknown books
193941578San Francisco Shanghai / Macao / Hong Kong: The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition Inc 1939. Letters are dated: Nov 20 1938; Jan 18th 1939; Jan 27th 1939; and Feb 16th 1939. Though typewritten and mimeographed all four are personally signed by Halliburton. Letters typewritten to buff paper envelopes with blue seal of the "Sea Dragon" with illustration printed to front. Modest wear to paper some light age-toning and rubbing to papers. Envelopes rubbed and worn. Withal a VG lot. Pages within the letters: 5 3 4 3 Total of 16 typewritten pages. Two black and white Kodak photographs are included printed in 1957 presumably from a negative of Robert Pullen's famous shots of the "Sea Dragon" taken just before its doomed maiden voyage. Letters: 14" x 8-1/2". Photographs:. <br/><br/>Who took the first aerial picture of Mount Everest after receiving express permission by stunning the Majarajah of Nepal with bi-plane aerobatics Richard Halliburton was a legendary American travel writer and adventurer. Reading stories of his feats and antics seem surreal - after all who flies an airplane upside down over the Taj Mahal Halliburton was born in January of 1900 in Brownsville Tennessee. Deciding at an early age not to settle down and grow old with a wife and family as the rest of his family and friends seemed to be doing. After graduating from Princeton Halliburton traveled on as many adventures as possible and published his first novel The Royal Road to Romance in 1925 at the tender age of 25. His first novel became a bestseller and was followed by more published adventures in 1927 and 1929. He enjoyed fame and adventures for a little over a decade before deciding in 1938 that his next grand feat would be to cross the Pacific ocean from Hong Kong to the San Francisco International Exposition in a Chinese Junk ship made expressly for his purposes. It is on this voyage that Halliburton and the entire crew of the Junk the "Sea Dragon" were lost at sea having gotten caught in a typhoon. In 1945 a 150-foot ship outline with Chinese lettering washed ashore in California this thought to possibly be some of the wreckage of the "Sea Dragon." Letter I: Halliburton describes the arrival in China and purpose of the expedition as well as his interest in junks stemming from a 1 ft. scale model he sailed as a child. He explains that he chose to use a junk for his journey because of their stability and notes that it is possible it will not be the smoothest ride. He quips: "If the junk should be small the storms violent and the voyage long - all the better. For if there is no hazard no battle where is the sport" He introduces the "friends" of the expedition to his crew of Captain John Welch Henry von Fehren "Bru" Potter among others. Halliburton also spends a significant amount of time discussing the war with China and Japan and the Japanese belief systems. Letter 2: The second letter discusses the search for an appropriate junk and the ultimate decision to build their own that could be modified for the journey. Working with the man said to be the best ship-builder in Hong Kong Mr. Fat Kau and the appropriation of a few more crew members a chef and a radio operator. Letter 3: The third letter posted from Canton desribes their taking the Sea Dragon out for a "shake down" cruise with Mr. Fat Kau as his guest who though a builder of ships had never sailed on one and with high seas nearly everyone aboard became seasick. Halliburton notes the dry deck despite the high waves and believes he was right about the Sea Dragon's sea-worthiness. Much of the rest of the letter is spent discussing Canton the disputes between the Chinese and Japanese the destruction the looters and other conditions in the city. Letter 4: After setting out on their voyage the Sea Dragon needed to return after only 2 days due to sickness on the boat. Though Halliburton seems only a trifle annoyed at the delay of their voyage he is excited enough to try again and leaves his readers with this: "In about another week we plan to leave again to slip away as quietly as possible and head east once more around the southern tip of Formosa - and straight on to Midway. If all goes well the next letter the fifth will carry an American stamp for Midway Island is American. When this the fourth letter reaches you we'll be a thousand miles along the way - I hope. Many thanks again for your interest and good will. Faithfully Richard Halliburton" The Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition, Inc unknown books
19871341886New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto oblong; First edition; G/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine gold with gold print on black banner; DJ has edgewear tear and creasing to rear top edge remainder of removed label on front else clean and bright; Boards in black cloth with gold print slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block front flyleaf removed else clean and tight; xi 322 pages illustrated b&w color. <br /> <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1341886. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19491326737Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co 1949. Hardcover. Octavo; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine pink and purple with blue and purple print; DJ in mylar tears at spine ends and flap corners tears across top edge stains and soiling to rear front flap clipped at top and bottom edges; Boards in tan cloth with red print wear to corners and spine caps slight shelfwear; Text block clean and tight; <br /> 192 pages. 1326737. FP New Rockville Stock. Fantasy Publishing Co hardcover books
1940220481Frankfurt 1940. unbound. 1 page on official letterhead with a blind-stamped Nazi logo 11.5 x 8.25 inches Frankfurt June 1 1940. Written just four months before his untimely death mentioning the landmark Frankfurter Theatre. Signed: "Heil Hitler A. Raskin." Natural folds; small tears and slight chipping along the top edge. Very good- condition.<br/><br/> National Socialist German radio and television pioneer who served as head of propaganda under Josef Goebbels. He contributed heavily to programs concerning psychological warfare and developed the first Nazi Television Network. On November 8 1940 Raskin was killed in a plane crash at the age of 40.<br/><br/> unknown books
195031945New York: Viking 1950. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgewear with chunk from base of spine panel. viii 439 1 blank pp. Illustrate from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & author killed in combat during World War II. Viking hardcover books
1962179909New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1962. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. G dj shows wear and fading inside clean and tight. mylar covered illustrated dj; green cloth covers gold lettering in spine; 116 pages : illustrations. A great city's past and present in text and photographs. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover books
1933S6819In: Annalen der Physik 5th Series Vol. 18 1933. Leipzig:: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1933. 1933. 8vo. 305-336; 337-372 pp. Minor ink scribbling in margin at page 335. Quarter black cloth paste-paper over boards gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION. "In the first part of his paper Pauli gave a beautiful account of this projective geometry and its tensor analysis which were developed from first principles and he formulated the Einstein-Maxwell equations in projective coordinates. The second part dealt with the incorporation of spinors and of Dirac's equation into this geometrical structure. In my opinion this is by far the most satisfactory exposition of spinors in general relativity – quite independent of the problems of a unified field theory." Bargmann. Wolfgang Pauli's work on relativity which began with his article on the theory of relativity for the Encyklopadie der mathematischen Wissenschaften in 1921 ed. Felix Klein when Pauli was twenty years old established Pauli as a scientist of rare depth and of an unsurpassed power of both synthesis and critical analysis. Bargmann "Relativity" in Fierz & Weisskopf eds. Theoretical physics in the twentieth century pp. 196-197; DSB X pp. 422-425; Enz No time to be brief pp. 263-270; Pais The genius of science pp. 141-142. Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1933. hardcover books
1927S0464In:: Zeitschrift fur physik 41 1927. 1927. pp. 81-103. 8vo. Navy cloth gilt stamped spine. Ex library Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory with call number gilt stamped on spine and library blind-stamp on front free end paper. Clean copy handsomely bound; covers lightly freckled else fine. RARE. FIRST EDITION. PROBABILITY OF A MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEM INTRODUCED. This paper deals with gas degeneracy and paramagnetism. In a footnote note 1 p. 83 Pauli introduced for the first time the probability for a many-particle system with coordinates q1. . .qf: "q1. . .qf .dq1. . .dqf is the probability that in the relevant quantum state of the system the coordinates simultaneously lie in the relevant volume element of configuration space." Thus Pauli's paper is a contribution to the ongoing problem of the appropriate application of Bose-Einstein statistics or Fermi-Dirac statistics. In this paper Pauli wrote "We shall take the point of view also advocated by Dirac that the Fermi and not the Einstein-Bose statistics applies to the material gas" thus clearing up the matter. See Pais Inward bound p. 258; Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 432 and 285. The following articles by important contributors are included in volume 41: with: LAUE Max von 1879-1960 & Lise MEITNER 1878-1968. "Die berechnung der reichweitestreuung aus Wilson-Aufnahmen." In: Zeitschrift fur physik 41 1927 pp. 397-406. In this paper Meitner and von Laue report their inconclusive efforts to test a theoretical formula of Bohr's that related statistical variations in range to the mechanism by which alpha particles lost energy to the atoms they encountered. Sime Meitner p. 113-114. Zeitschrift fur physik, 41 (1927). hardcover books
19771331995Firenze: Presso l'Accademia della Crusca 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth mild bump to spine head light shelfwear; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf library stamp on title page verso and on rear flyleaf else clean and tight light age-toning to paper; Text in Italian; 163 pages. 1331995. FP New Rockville Stock. Presso l'Accademia della Crusca hardcover books
19632832401963. unbound. fine. Signed photograph "Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit" 4 ½ X 6 ½ black & white matte-finish. An original J. Allen Cash photograph with back stamp depicting the Stateswoman wearing traditional garb while seated. This photograph was most likely taken while she was serving as Nehru%u2019s "special" envoy to Great Britain. Fine.<br/><br/> Indian diplomat and politician. She was the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru the Aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi each of whom served as Prime Minister of India.<br/><br/> unknown books
1937122606Atlanta 1937. unbound. 1 page 11 x 7.25 inches Atlanta June 29 1937. Rare letter signed "Margaret Mitchell Marsh" declining an invitation to a party because it conflicts with her wedding anniversary in full: "Dear Miss Hall: Sue Myrick forwarded to me your invitation and John and I appreciate it so very much. I know the party will be lots of fun and I only wish we could come but Sunday is our wedding anniversary and we have already made plans to spend it with friends. I admit that the temptation to break this engagement is strong because I liked Milledgeville so much when I was there at the Press meeting. And also I would love to attend your party as Prissy. That is the only role my size would warrant. The costume would be cheap too --just a croker sack and ten cents' worth of shoe polish. We do appreciate your invitation so much and I shall look forward to Sue's description of the party." Two horizontal folds and slight foxing; very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1909135275Paris: Heugel 1909. Hardbound. VG exlibrary with minimal to moderate markings. Wholly usable. Red library buckram. 355 pp. Reprinted chiefly from the plates of G. Hartmann 1881. Text in English and French. Heugel hardcover books
