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1988191214Mexico: Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia 1988. Paperback. 731p. a few b&w illustrations text in Spanish; very good first edition trade softbound in pictorial wraps. Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia paperback 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
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
197325783Créteil France: Maison de la Culture de Créteil / Eric Losfeld. Near Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. lightly bumped at top of spine otherwise nice and clean with minimal handling wear. B&W photographs Brief essays on 27 notable French films from the 1930s; text in French. Basic credits for each film are given and each is illustrated by a couple of stills. . Maison de la Culture de Créteil / Eric Losfeld paperback books
198851505Paris: Sogemo 1988. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 158pp. Text in French. Illustrated in color throughout. A few faint damp stains to boards else a tight clean unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor external wear as well as some minor light paint marks to bottom margin. Very Good. Sogemo unknown books
2002265915Paris: Bibliothèque National de France 2002. Hardcover. 430p. cloth-covered boards 8.5x11.5 inches illus. maps very good condition in like dj. Text in French. Bibliothèque National de France hardcover books
197516317San Francisco: The Rainbow Bridge 1975. Wraps. Very good. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Light edge-wear and a touch or rubbing to wraps. Some instances of neat underlining. Interior bright. Very good. 191 pp. <br/><br/>A biography of the Hindu mystic who reportedly lived to age 137. The Rainbow Bridge paperback books
198539118Mexico City: Centro de Ecodesarrollo and Ediciones Océano 1985. Paperback. 183p. text in Spanish tables very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Centro de Ecodesarrollo and Ediciones Océano paperback books
19791311545New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1979. Concise Nal Edition. Softcover. Octavo; VG/Wraps; Black spine with white text; Moderate shelf wear to covers slight crease at front corner; Binding tight; Text block clean; 144 pp. 1311545. FP New Rockville Stock. Harry N. Abrams, 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
19801336058Metuchen N. J. & London: Scarecrow Press 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo; 435pp; full cloth; no dustjacket; titles in blue; minor wear and soiling; contents very good throughout; clean and unmarked. SCARCE. Spine; blue titles on wheat cloth. Shelved in case 8 1/2. 1336058. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Scarecrow Press hardcover books
197715464Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0806114428 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover 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
194926885New York: Museum of Modern Art 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Wide 8vo. Catalog of the exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art. A sharp clean very good copy in stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Paul Rand. Museum of Modern Art paperback 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
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
192425607Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket sound but worn copy bumping/exposure of boards at all corners light dampstaining to spine; the tipped-in folding map between pages 10 and 11 is present and in excellent condition. 3 color plates 6 halftones 9 photogravures INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Paul Bern / with the good wishes / of the author / Robert Flaherty / New York City / Jan 4th 1927." Flaherty's 1922 film NANOOK OF THE NORTH was the most acclaimed documentary of its time -- a time before "documentary film" even existed as a defined genre. Although the passage of time and the revelations of scholarship have diminished and somewhat tarnished Flaherty's reputation NANOOK itself remains an impressive cinematic achievement even if OK some scenes were staged. Three of the book's four sections deal with Flaherty's earlier expeditions into the Hudson Bay region as an explorer and prospector in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway during which time he learned about the lands and people and conceived the idea of capturing them on film. Parts I-III are: The Discovery and Exploration of the Belcher Islands; Winter on Wetalltok's Island; The Exploration of Northern Ungava. Only Part IV entitled "Films" is specifically about the making of NANOOK which began in 1913 but was beset with difficulties including the destruction by fire in 1916 of 30000 feet of Flaherty's already-exposed film. His account here is somewhat thin on specifics like dates as he chose instead to concentrate largely on his interactions with the Eskimos specifically Nanook himself whose name wasn't actually Nanook at all but never mind. The book's inscribee Paul Bern 1889-1932 has misfortunately gone down in Hollywood history as Jean Harlow's suicidal husband but prior to that he was one of Irving Thalberg's right-hand men his personal assistant in fact and later a producer at M-G-M. In January 1927 Bern was nearing the end of a two-month sojourn in New York on assignment for Thalberg; per a contemporary press report he "saw every current Broadway play during his visit conferred with many noted writers and entered into negotiations for the screen rights of several stories and novels." Flaherty for his part had been in demand following the great box-office success of NANOOK then as now nothing quite caught Hollywood's attention as strongly as an unexpected money-maker and had dipped his toe in the movie colony's pool turning out a South Seas-set narrative documentary MOANA for Paramount; by the time of its release in January 1926 he had moved to New York where he was working when presumably Bern came calling. Whether or not securing Flaherty's services for M-G-M was a specific agenda item it's quite possible that one of the novels to which Bern nailed down the rights was Frederick O'Brien's 1919 book "White Shadows in the South Seas" and it was that very project later in the year for which Flaherty did indeed return to Hollywood -- albeit briefly before M-G-M shipped him off to Tahiti to shoot the film from which production he was later fired but that's another story. Whether these events actually link up neatly in a single chain is open to speculation but in any case the inscription in this book represents a notable crossing of paths by one of the cinema's towering figures -- the father of the documentary film more or less -- and one of Tinseltown's most tragic figures who would a few years later die by his own hand purportedly after just two months of marriage to the luminous Jean Harlow. Bern was known to be a cultured and well-read man with an extensive library; this particular book ended up probably after Bern's death in the hands of his friend and fellow M-G-M producer Carey Wilson from whose estate we obtained the book. Signed by Author . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover books
20039007107New York: Vendome 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. With more than 300 illustrations. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. <br/><br/> Vendome hardcover books
194619285London: Seeley Service & Co. 1946. Numerous b/w illustrations including frontispiece. 207 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Extremities lightly worn and foxed; head heel and corners bumped; spine sunned; former ownerÕs bookplate to front fixed endpaper; very light scattered interior pencil markings. Else interior clean and tight. Very good-/No dust jacket. Seeley, Service & Co. hardcover books
194659482London: Seeley Service & Co 1946. First British edition originally published in the United States at the Derrydale Press. 8vo. 207 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates line drawings stream maps. Small owner's label on front pastedown else very good. Green cloth decorated dust jacket spine darkened. #6741. <br/><br/> Seeley, Service & Co hardcover books
194738032New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1947. First edition later printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To: Julian Lovitt Here's hoping you improve your game. Golfingly Jim Dante 4/24/48." Light rubbing near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Uncommon signed. Two golfers and a sports editor combine to tell the duffer what is wrong with his game and how to go about correcting it. The ""nine bad shots"" are slicing hooking topping smothering pulling pushing skying sclaffing and shanking. Starting with an introductory section on grip and stance and swing- illustrated with right and wrong photographs those authorities- in surprisingly simple terms- explain how a few basic principles properly applied will prevent and correct tendencies to do any or all of the bad shots. The last section covers iron play putting getting out of the rough and traps handling uneven lies -- again with photographs that illustrate the points they are making. McGraw-Hill Book Company 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
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
1977110530N. pl: Folcroft Library Editions 1977. Hardcover. 181p. very good reprint of the Hutchinson edition in green buckram cloth. Folcroft Library Editions hardcover books
1921427276E. P. Dutton & Company 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth. 265 pp. Light shelfwear. Slight fading to spine. Light soiling to covers and edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Upper fore-corners of pp. 259-265 torn away although no loss of text. Very good no jacket. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
