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196688145Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1966. First edition of this collection of essays on the "dilemmas of a managerial society" by former M.I.T. management professor Douglas McGregor. Octavo original cloth. Inscribed by one of the editors Edgar H. Schein on the half-title page "We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. Ed Schein author of Humble Inquiry." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor Former President of Antioch College and Professor of Industrial Management at M.I.T. Douglas McGregor brought industrial psychology to maturity as a field of academic psychology and to practical applicability in the day-to-day tasks of business managers. Throughout his work McGregor's studies concluded that when basic economic needs are fulfilled higher motivations are allowed to come into play "Man lives by bread alone when there is no bread"- Douglas McGregor. The MIT Press hardcover books
1950010293Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1950. First Edition. Octavo 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/G Cloth. 372pp. A scholarly and loving treatise on Korea right before the Korean War. The author born on Pyongyang and having lived for half his life there provides a bird's eye view of a lovely country ravaged by the Japanese and poised between prosperity and war. Text with footnotes. Charts and tabular data. Bibliography. Index. Map endpapers. Printed dust jacket spine has browned from sunlight. Harvard University Press unknown books
197551325New Malden Surrey United Kingdom: Almark Publishing Co. Ltd 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16 pp. color illustrations with numerous textual photographs and line drawings. This book describes the uniforms and organization of the lancer and dragoon regiments of the German army in the period leading up to World War I. Also includes information on the uniforms of the medical veterinary and administrative troops who were common to all branches of the cavalry. The spine is leading just a bit. Some general minor edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Almark Publishing Co. Ltd hardcover books
195838022New York: John Wiley & Sons 1958. First edition of this classic in management science. Octavo original cloth. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist John Harsanyi with his signature on the front free endpaper . 'Outside the Carnegie group we should like to acknowledge especially our many hours of fruitful work and discussion with Robert A. Dahl on the subject of influence measurement and the help and guidance that John C. Harsanyi provided for our treatment of the relation between game theory and other theories of conflict' p. vi. 'Simon was attracted to the exciting intellectual environment emerging at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. After moving to Carnegie in 1949 Simon stayed there for more than five decades. At Carnegie Simon collaborated on work that established the field of organization theory. The founding work was a major study done with James G. March published as Organizations. The book continued the argument that decision makers are not able to act in an objectively rational manner; rather they are constrained by both cognitive and external limitations. So instead of assuming that each decision maker scans all possible alternatives and chooses the one that maximizes expected utility Simon argued that decision makers instead use 'satisficing' as a criterion for making decisions; they choose the first alternative that looks 'good enough.' March and Simon wrote in Organizations 'Most human decision making whether individual or organizational is concerned with the discovery and selection of satisfactory alternatives; only in exceptional cases is it concerned with the discovery and selection of optimal alternatives.' . . . One of Simon's insights was that the observed complexity of human behavior arose from simple and general underlying mechanisms that were applied to a complex task environment. Simon illustrated this with his famous metaphor of 'the ant on the beach.' The ant's goal is to reach some distant food. While the ant's path to the food seems very complex twisting and turning most of the apparent complexity is due to the grains of sand to be traversed. The complexity of the environment rather than the complexity of mechanism within the decision maker gives rise to the observed behavior. 'In solving problems' March and Simon wrote 'human thinking is governed by programs that organize myriads of simple information processes - or symbolic manipulating processes if you like - into orderly complex sequences that are responsive to and adaptive to the task environment and the clues that are extracted from that environment as the sequences unfold' ' Mie Augier & Edward Feigenbaum 'Herbert A. Simon: 15 June 1916 - 9 February 2001' Biographical Memoirs Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 147 No. 2 June 2003 pp. 196-7. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable with a noted provenance. John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
199250053Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1992. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 622. Illustrated A fine copy in dj Inscribed by the author to poet & editor Bill Claire: For Bill Claire who gave MacLeish the best introduction he ever had. May 17 1977 Cosmo Club from his dinner companions at June 2 1992 same venue Scott Donaldson" A biography of the noted poet laureate of the US Librarian of Congress. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
196880526St. Louis Missouri: The Sporting News 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Wrappers as issued. Small rubbed spot on the front wrap else about fine. Interesting compilation of records with vintage images of the players. The Sporting News unknown books
19618821Cleveland/New York The World Publishing Company 1961. 1961. First edition. 4to. 400 b/w illustrations. Color pictorial dust jacket price clipped. Fine. 223 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Cover title: "Ships and Seamen: A Pictorial History from the Vikings to the Present Day.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company [1961]. hardcover books
197932838Atlanta: Nexus Press 1979. Hardcover. Very good. 60cc. 15pp contained in cloth backed wooden boards with string tie. . Few small stains to boards and title leaf contents have some handling wear but all are present and in very good condition. One of the more uncommon productions from the press and one that if used to its full potential will result in inevitable destruction of the object itself. <br /> <br/><br/>From directions for Use: "This book contains 15 leaves of different materials including the printed leaves. These leaves plus the covers can be played in different ways by: striking scraping rubbing engraving crumpling tearing breaking snapping etc.A performance may begin with one or more books with or without adding other instruments voices or actions." Nexus Press hardcover books
19811311576New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1981. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 718; VG-/G; ivory spine with black text; dust jacket shows slight toning to exterior; slightly sunned spine; cloth shows light beige toning to exterior; strong boards; text block shows slight wear to exterior edges; interior lightly toned; red endpapers; previous owner's name to ffep. 1311576. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc hardcover books
1958JC-T3193Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press 1958. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth-backed paper over boards. Inscribed by Lasswell on the title-page. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press hardcover books
1938317500London: Hamish Hamilton 1938. First edition. Illus with 48 photographs by the author. 415pp. 8vo. Bound in threee quarters green morocco green title label. Fine. First edition. Illus with 48 photographs by the author. 415pp. 8vo. A journey from California to Mexico by Dana & Ginger Lamb in a hand-built boat in the 1930. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1991162196Hermosillo: El Colegio de Sonora 1991. Paperback. 286p. introductory materials conclusions bibliography footnotes tables text in Spanish very good first edition trade paperback of 1000 copies in printed wraps. El Colegio de Sonora paperback books
196977476New York: Kraus Reprint Co 1969. Hardcover. Fine. xv 205p. Original buckram. 28cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1950 edition. <br/><br/> Kraus Reprint Co hardcover books
1960175108London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1960. First British edition. Hardcover. 383 pages. Important examination of surrealist painting by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Includes numerous black and white and some color illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy in near fine price clipped dust jacket but lacking the acetate over jacket. Weidenfeld & Nicholson unknown books
1967173268New York: Grove Press Inc 1967. Second printing. Hardcover. 383 pages. Important examination of surrealist painting by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Includes numerous black and white and some color illustrations. A tight close to near fine copy with some minor wear in an about very good dust jacket with a long tear to the top of the front panel and another to the bottom of the rear panel. some other tears and wear and a faint cup stain to the front panel. Still a solid reference copy. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
1960171226New York: Grove Press Inc 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 383 pages. Important examination of surrealist painting by Marcel Jean and Arpad Mezei translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Includes numerous black and white and some color illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good die cut dust jacket that has some edge wear and in a very good mylar dust jacket that has some small chips and is rubbed. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
1971250036London: Andre Deutsch 1971. Hardcover. 400p. hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch peasoup-green boards gilt and dust jacket. Jacket is edgeworn with a couple short tears and two dealer price-labels on front panel a pretty fresh copy: quite sound clean and unmarked. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
192461389Lutherville MD: Chesacroft Kennels 1924. First edition apparently the first book devoted solely to the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. 12mo. 31 pp. Illus. from photos; 3-pages of show records from Chesacroft dogs 1922-1923. Not in Jones "Bibliography of the Dog" listing only two titles on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever the earlier from 1933. OCLC locates one copy Mariners Museum Newport News VA. Very good copy of a rare book. Original decorated brown wrappers stapled. #8436. <br/><br/> Chesacroft Kennels unknown books
196061352Denver CO: Sage Books 1960. First edition. 8vo. 205 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates. Grizzlies in the American West British Columbia and Alaska. Biscotti p. 214. Very good. Green cloth illustrated dust jacket old tape shadow at base of rear panel. #7390. <br/><br/> Sage Books hardcover books
196538622Washington: Government Printing Office 1965. 1st printing. Green cloth binding bright gilt stamped lettering to spine. Average wear and rubbing to binding top front board sunned light bumping to board edges. Ex-library with usual markings including bookplate & stamp card and holder to rear endpapers. A VG copy. xii 191 1 blank pp. Frontis intratextual illustrations folding family tree chart and many b/w inserted plates at rear. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
1979150884Paris: Éditions Libres/Hallier 1979. Paperback. 191p. text in French illustrated throughout with b&w photos and drawings including explicit and graphic images of hermaphrodite genitalia trade paperback in slightly worn black pictorial wraps. Collection Illustrations series. Also Hirschfeld Von Gloeden Von Kupfer Nazis etc. Éditions Libres/Hallier paperback books
200861232bdCharleston: Arcadia 2008. Images of America Series. First Edition. Signed by Yvonne Hill one of the authors. Octavo softbound 127 pp i pp. Photographs throughout. Arcadia, (2008). Images of America Series. First Edition. paperback books
1943005488Princeton N.J.: Princeton Univ Press 1943. Near Fine in stiff orange paper wrappers faint creases light soiling to wrappers. Prior owner name front end page. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Uncommon in the 1st Edition. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton Univ Press Paperback books
194178687Cairo: Faculty of Arts Fouad I University 1941. Paperback. Very Good. 292p. plus 71 plates photos. Original wrapper. 35cm. Moderate chipping and wear on backstrip. Extensive but minor cover stains. Corners slightly curled. This volume contains Hassan's report on work at Giza during the 1931-1932 season. <br/><br/> Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University paperback books
201914409New York: Dey St 2019. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in pictorial boards with "Signed First Edition" sticker to front cover issued without dust jacket. This signed first edition has been specially bound and produced by the publisher. Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie Debbie Harry BRAVE BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK Musician actor activist and the iconic face of New York City cool Debbie Harry is the frontwoman of Blondie a band that forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock punk disco reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. As a muse she collaborated with some of the boldest artists of the past four decades. The scope of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched only by her reticence to reveal her rich inner life-until now. In an arresting mix of visceral soulful storytelling and stunning visuals Face It upends the standard music memoir while delivering a truly prismatic portrait. With all the grit grime and glory recounted in intimate detail Face It re-creates the downtown scene of 1970s New York City where Blondie played alongside the Ramones Television Talking Heads Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Aesthetically dazzling and including never-before-seen photographs bespoke illustrations and fan art installations Face It brings Debbie Harry's world and artistic sensibilities to life. Following her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction the near-death of partner Chris Stein a heart-wrenching bankruptcy and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights Face It is a cinematic story of a woman who made her own path and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps-a memoir as dynamic as its subject. <br/><br/> Dey St hardcover books
