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1958132836Köln Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1958. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-253 254 255: ad 256: blank original green cloth front and spine panels printed in red top edge stained light gray. First German edition first printing. A translation of WE 1924 a famous Russian dystopian novel. A scarce edition of this novel. A fine copy. #132834 Kiepenheuer & Witsch unknown books
192821819NY: Schimer 1928. First Edition. Glory Road only. Dedicated to Paul Robeson. 4to self wraps pp. 16. Illustrated cover by Bobri. Moderate wear to the covers and partially disbound good. Wolfe was a Roumanian who found a reminder in American Blacks of the roving gypsies of his native country. He wrote a number of songs on Black subjects. Schimer unknown books
1999UWOLPLA00fpClarkson N. Potter 1999. Very Good. Wolfman Peri. A Place for Everything: Organizing the Stuff of Life. Gold Charles. New York NY: Clarkson N. Potter 1999. 192pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Top front corner lightly bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Clarkson N. Potter hardcover books
199455792NY:: Clarkson Potter. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0517588285 . Color photographs by Charles Gold throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Clarkson Potter, hardcover books
199166405New York: HarperCollins 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. This autobiography by the creative force of the Beach Boys follows Wilson's quick rise to worldwide fame his descent into drug-assisted psychosis and his subsequent yet shaky recovery. Signed by Wilson on the half-title. Octavo. Light bump to the bottom corner of the rear board; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket. HarperCollins hardcover books
1991119333New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1991. First edition of Brian Wilson's candid autobiography. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Brian Wilson on the half-title page "To Glen Brian Wilson" signed by Todd Gold on the title page and inscribed by Dr. Eugene Landy on the dedication page "To Glenn Eugene E. Landy." The recipient Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975 an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art music film photography design and fiction. American psychotherapist Dr. Eugene E. Landy was best known for his unconventional psychological treatments especially for his treatment of Wilson in the 1970s and 80s in which he essentially took control of his life monitoring him 24 hours a day with a team of assistants to keep him sober. The treatment was later deemed unethical by Californian courts and was later dramatized in the 2014 biographical film Love & Mercy in which Landy is portrayed by Paul Giamatti. Wilson dedicated the present volume to Landy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli. Jacket photograph by Mark Hanauer. A unique example. Wilson's first memoir Wouldn't It Be Nice not only documents the Beach Boys' rise to fame but their founder's twenty year struggle with drug addiction alcoholism obesity and mental illness. Filled with shocking revelations the book reveals the inspiring story of one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1972145005Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Original maquette demonstrating an early poster design for the 1973 film featuring a vintage silver gelatin photograph of the legendary streetlit scene of Father Merrin's first arrival to Georgetown in the film mounted to the poster.<br/><br/>A minimal design without the credits information seen in the completed original "purple style" poster variant and with a proposed but ultimately unrealized release date of Christmas Day shown at the bottom margin. This maquette compares both to the "purple style" poster in its use of said purple text but also to the original black and white "special poster" design both in size and compositional austerity. The "special poster" measured 25 x 19 inches as opposed to the standard 27 x 41 inches for the one sheet and stated nothing but the film's title and the stark photo of Father Merrin. <br/><br/>Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty and written for the screen by Blatty. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow that only increases with repeated viewings. Another distinction was that it walked away with two Oscars including Best Screenplay for Blatty along with eight nominations including Best Picture a feat nearly unheard for a horror film. <br/><br/>Set in Washington DC and shot on location in Washington DC notably Georgetown University New York City and Mosul Iraq. <br/><br/>18 x 12.5 inches mounted on a 30 x 20 inch mat. Black with the vintage black and white photo of Father Merrin affixed at the center and a hand painted release date. Title letters are hand cut from purple paper and affixed in place. Good condition with water damage to the bottom three inches of the mat and with soil and loss of glue adhesion to the white mat. Archivally matted and framed in a museum-quality frame with UV glass.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Clover "Men Women and Chainsaws. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973S9238Ottawa:: Royal Society of Canada 1973. 1973. Tall 8vo. xiii 403 pp. Figs. refs. index. Blue cloth gilt-stamped spine title; sine sun-faded corners bumped. Ink stamps of Stanley L. Miller on all three edges. Scarce. Very good. Royal Society of Canada, 1973. hardcover books
19476055131947. 8 3/4" x 11 5/8"; 1 page recto and verso; very good fresh; 1947. Rare and unique! Signed on the front by: Agnes Moorehead; Brian Donlevy; Robert Walker; Tom Drake; Beverly Tyler; Audrey Totter; Hume Cronyn; Hurd Hatfield; Joseph Calleia; Godfrey Tearle; Jonathan Hale; Henry O'Neill; Warner Andersen; Art Baker; Ludwig Stossel; Arno Frey; William Wright; Erville Alderson; Nella Walker; Barry Nelson; Moroni Olsen; Trevor Bardette; Robert Considine - story; Frank Wead - writer; Ray June - Cinematographer; Stanley Goldsmith - assistant director; Joe Edmondson - sound technician; Samuel Marx - producer; Signed on the back by: George Boemler - film editor; H.T. Wensel Harry - technical advisor; Tessa Primock - script; Gertrude Kupwood Ward; Hans Peters - art direction; Dick Campbell - sound; Frank Myers - assitant director; and many others! Although contemporary sources indicate that Leon Ames and Agnes Moorehead were cast they did not appear in the released film. The film marked the motion picture debut of Guy Williams who played the title character in the Walt Disney television series "Zorro" 1957-1959. According to HR news items in June 1946 a controversy erupted when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt objected to the casting of Lionel Barrymore as Franklin D. Roosevelt alleging that the actor had made desparaging remarks about the late president. Production on the film had already begun when the studio decided to replace Barrymore's scenes with actor Godrey Tearle. "The Beginning or the End" was released February 19 1947 directed by Norman Taurog. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. paperback books
1940S13395Tokyo:: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research 1940. 1940. 8 offprints 1 extract. Original wrappers. From the collection of Abraham Pais. Very good. INVENTORY: 1. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro. Uber den Zusammenstoß des Mesotrons mit Elektronen. Offprint from: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research no. 976 vol. 37 pp. 399-413 June 1940. Original yellow printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. "In 1940 Dr. Tomonaga directed his attention to the meson theory and developed the intermediate coupling theory in order to clarify the structure of the meson cloud around the nucleon." :: Nobel Lectures 1972. 2. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro. Zur Theorie des Mesotrons. I. Offprint from: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research no. 1071 vol. 39 pp. 247-266 Dezember 1941. Original yellow printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. 3. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro. Bemerkung uber die Streuung der Mesotronen am Kernteilchen. Offprint from: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research no. 1105 vol. 40 pp. 73-86 September 1942. Original yellow printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. 4. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro; Miyazima Tatuoki. Zur Theorie des Mesotrons. II. Offprint from: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research no. 1103 vol. 40 pp. 21-67 August 1942. Original yellow printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. 5. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro; Miyazima Tatuoki. On the Mesotron Theory of the Nuclear Forces. Offprint from: Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research no. 1124 vol. 40 pp. 274-310 March 1943. Original yellow printed wrappers. Signed by Pais. 6. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro. Remarks on Bloch's Method of Sound Waves applied to Many-Fermion Problems. Offprint from: Progress of Theoretical Physics vol. 5 no. 4 pp.544-569 July-August 1950. Signed by Pais. 7. TOMONAGA Shin-ichiro. Elementary Theory of Quantum-Mechanical Collective Motion of Particles I. Offprint from: Progress of Theoretical Physics vol. 13 no. 5 pp.467-481 May 1955. 8. TOMONAGA Shin-ichiro. Elementary Theory of Quantum-Mechanical Collective Motion of Particles II. Offprint from: Progress of Theoretical Physics vol. 13 no. 5 pp. 482-496 May 1955. 9. TOMONAGA Sin-itiro. Development of Quantum Electrodynamics. Extracted from: Physics Today vol. 19 no. 9 pp. 25-32 September 1966. Signed by Pais. . / BIOGRAPHY: Tomonaga was a prominent Japanese physicist influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics work for which he was jointly awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics :: along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger :: for the study of QED specifically for the discovery of the renormalization method. Nobel biography: Tomonaga completed work for Rigakushi bachelor's degree in physics at Kyoto Imperial University in 1929 with one of his intimate friends. Dr. Hideki Yukawa Nobel laureate. He was engaged in graduate work for three years at the same university and was then appointed a research associate by Dr. Yoshio Nishina at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Tokyo where he started to work in a newly developed frontier of theoretical physics quantum electrodynamics - under the guidance of Dr. Nishina. His paper on the photoelectric pair creation is well-known. Tomonaga stayed in Leipzig Germany from 1937 to 1939 to study nuclear physics and the quantum field theory in collaboration with the theoretical group of Dr. W. Heisenberg where he published a paper "Innere Reibung und Warmeleitfahigkeit der Kernmaterie" which was chosen as the thesis for Rigakuhakushi Doctor of Science at Tokyo Imperial University in December1939. In 1940 Dr. Tomonaga directed his attention to the meson theory and developed the intermediate coupling theory in order to clarify the structure of the meson cloud around the nucleon. He joined the faculty of Tokyo Bunrika University which was absorbed into the Tokyo University of Education in 1949 as Professor of Physics in 1941. It was in 1942 when he first proposed the covariant formulation of the quantum field theory in which the concept of the quantum state was generalized so as to be relativistically covariant. During the Second World War Dr. Tomonaga was interested in developing a theory of microwave systems. He solved the motion of electrons in the magnetron and also developed a unified theory of the systems consisting of wave guides and cavity resonators. As soon as the War was over Tomonaga came back to academic research again with a programme in which he was first to summarize and extend the intermediate coupling theory and secondly to apply the covariant field theory to actual physical systems. His aim was to investigate the nature of field reaction in the meson theory as well as in quantum electrodynamics. He was confident prior to the Lamb-Retherford experiment by means of a model calculation that divergence difficulty in quantumelectrodynamics could be overcome simply by handling the infinite mass and charge due to field reactions in some way or another. It was only a step further for him to develop the renormalization theory with covariant formalism in his right hand and experimental support in his left. Dr. Tomonaga was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton in 1949 where he was engaged in the investigation of a one-dimensional fermion system. Thus he first succeeded in clarifying the nature of collective oscillations of a quantum-mechanical many-body system and opened a new frontier of theoretical physics modern many-body problem. In 1955 he published an elementary theory of quantum mechanical collective motions. Dr. Tomonaga took the leadership in establishing the Institute for Nuclear Study University of Tokyo in 1955. From 1956 to 1962 he was appointed President of the Tokyo University of Education and since 1963 he has been President of the Science Council of Japan and Director of the Institute for Optical Research Tokyo University of Education. He occupies an important position in various governmental committees for scientific research and policymaking. Tomonaga's honours and awards include the Japan Academy Prize 1948; the Order of Culture 1952; the Lomonosov Medal U.S.S.R. 1964. Dr. Tomonaga is a member of the Japan Academy the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher "Leopoldina" and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He is a corresponding member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Science of U.S.A. Tomonaga has published widely in scientific journals on such subjects as quantum electrodynamics the meson theory nuclear physics cosmic rays and the many-body problem. His book "Quantum Mechanics" was published in 1949 and translated into English in 1963. Scientific Papers of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 1940. unknown books
190953246Madison: published by the Wiscon Historical Society 1909. Slim 8vo pp. 5 234-259 1 i.e. 32 pages; portrait frontispiece and 2 illustrations on 1 plate; McCormick centennial slip tipped in at title page; light spotting of covers otherwise near fine in oruiginal cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Originally published in the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908. Separately issued by the society on the centenary of McCormick's birth. <br/><br/> published by the [Wiscon Historical] Society hardcover books
19047900Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1904 32 octavo volumes and large atlas. First edition. Very scarce. Number 555 of 750 complete sets SIGNED and numbered by the publisher. Edited with Notes Introductions Index etc. by Reuben Gold Thwaites. 32 octavo volumes large atlas. Each volume approx. 300 pages. Illustrated with plates from original sources; atlas with 81 plates by Karl Bodmer. All volumes bound in matching burgundy cloth gilt. 2 bookplates on inner cover of all volumes. Slight but even fading to volumes 14-31. Atlas is an ex-library binding. Last 2 volumes provide the index. With the exceptions noted a fine and complete set most volumes are unopened and unread. The large atlas contains 81 full-page plates by Karl Bodmer to illustrate Prince Maximilians travels volumes XXII XXIII and XXIV of the set. An extremely important collection of significant early travels and expeditions of exploration into the uncharted West reprinted from scarce original editions. Contains the journals of Brackenridge Bradbury Bullock De Smet Farnham Flagg Franchere Gregg James Long Maximilian Michaux Nuttall Pattie Ross Wyeth and others. The Arthur H. Clark Co. hardcover books
190459820Cleveland Ohio: The Arthur Clark Company 1904. 2 volumes. 8vo. 306 2; 342pp. plus 3pp. of ads. With 16 plates and 2 facsimiles. Maroon cloth gilt spines. Top edge gilt. A fine set. Howes F-63 "Bitterly unfavorable" Howes W-229 Welby's own words "To a rough untutored set of savages another race of little less than savages has succeeded". Two of the more unfavorable travelers review of the United States. The Arthur Clark bibliography lists both volumes as being published in 1905 but the first volume of this set clearly printed 1904 it also states 316 copies of the first volume and 287 copies of the second volume were printed as separates from the set. <br/><br/> The Arthur Clark Company hardcover books
190461283Cleveland OH: Arthur H. Clark Co 1904. First edition thus issued separately from Clark's "Early Western Travels" series. 8vo. 2 volumes: 306 2; 342 3 ads pp. Illustrated with 16 plates and two facsimiles. Howes F-63 for the 1823 original of Faux: "Bitterly unfavorable." Howes W-229 for the 1821 original of Welby who comments "to a rough untutored set of savages another race of little less than savages has succeeded". Clark/Brunet 253: "For the Faux volume 316 separates and for the Welby volume 287 separates." Very good. Original maroon cloth gilt spine titles top edge gilt others untrimmed. #8270. <br/><br/> Arthur H. Clark Co hardcover books
19129016606Wisconsin Historical Commission 1912. Wisconsin History Commission: Reprints No. 2. One or 2500 copies. <br/><br/> Wisconsin Historical Commission unknown books
19047361New York: D. Appleton and Company 1904 First edition. ix 3 276pp. plus 14pp. of ads. Ten portraits and views folding map extensive notes and index. Newer binding of three-quarter brown leatherette over marbled boards. Portrait of Thwaites pasted to blank leaf. A fine copy. Covers the exploration of the Northwest Coast; French and English explorations from the East; the Missouri River; the Louisiana Purchase; organization of the Lewis & Clark exploration; the L&C expedition at Fort Mandan; from Fort Mandan to the sea and at Fort Clatsop; Thompson Fraser the Astorians and Pike; the South Pass; and the Conquest of California. Thwaites was a very able historian and was "one of the outstanding historical editors of his generation" Thrapp. Thrapp Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography" p.1428. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1902WRCAM49612New York: D. Appleton & Company 1902. 257pp. plus advertisements. Green publisher's cloth stamped in red spine gilt. Light wear to cloth. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally very clean. Very good plus. A biography of American explorer and pioneer Daniel Boone. Boone's ancestors and childhood are examined followed by an intimate look at the periods he spent living alone in the woods. Includes chapters on the settlement of Kentucky and interactions with Indians. D. Appleton & Company hardcover books
1902157386New York: Appleton 1902. First Edition. hardcover. illus. xv 257pp. ads. 12mo cloth; light dampstain to margins of first few pages back cover lightly spotted otherwise very good. N.Y.: Appleton 1902.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
19692305893New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Smudges on front board page ridges lightly toned. 1969 Hard Cover. xxi 320 pp. CONTENTS: Editor's Introduction; Author's Preface; The Planting of New France; The Acadian Frontier; The St. Lawrence Valley; Discovery of the Mississippi; Louisiana and the Illinois; Rivalry with England; King George's War; The People of New France; Basis of the Final Struggle; Outbreak of War; A Year of Disaster; Guarding the Western Frontier; A Year of Humiliation; The Turning of the Scale; The Fall of Quebec; Conquest Approaching; The Treaty of Paris; Louisiana Under Spain; Critical Essay on Authorities. Includes maps. Haskell House Publishers Ltd hardcover books
1903UHWHOW00ECA. C. McClurg & Co. 1903. Very Good. Thwaites Reuben Gold. How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1903. 378pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Book condition: Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed. The edges of the covers are gently bumped. The spine is slightly rolled. The front endsheet is very mildly soiled. There are several tape repairs along the edges of the fold out illustration at p. 60. Numerical notation on the dedication page. A. C. McClurg & Co. unknown books
1969TB23654New York: Arno Press 1969. Arno Press Edition of 1969. An eight volume set all of which are in fine condition with minor dust staining to the top edges of the text blocks. Seven volumes are in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and with an illustrated paper label on the front boards. The eighth volume is a green cloth and green paper covered clam shell box which contains facsimiles of the maps from the expedition. The box is finished with details comparable to the other volumes. Each are small 4tos measuring 9" by 6". Volume I contains 374 pages of text; Volume II contains 386 pages; volume III contains 363 pages; volume IV contains 372 pages; volume V contains 395 pages; volume VI contains 280 pages; volume VII contains 534 pages and volume VIII contains the 16 page introduction to the atlas and index to the maps and all 71 individual maps labeled 1 through 54 all of which are in fine condition Dust jackets were not issued with this set. This set represents a facsimile reprint of the original 1905 edition of The American Philosophical Society which based its publication on the original documents in their library. A beautiful set with no wear rubbing or soiling. The Literature of The Lewis and Clark Expedition 5d.1 Arno Press hardcover books
199366842Pusan Korea: World Kuk Sool Association 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Founded in 1961 Ku Sool Won attempts "to integrate and explore the entire spectrum of established traditional Korean martial arts body conditioning techniques mental development and weapons training." Signed and dated by the author below his portrait. Quarto. Original black cloth binding with gilt stamping and a ribbon marker. Some minor staining to the fore-edge with a bit of light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. World Kuk Sool Association hardcover books
196672209Tokyo: Sugimura Atsu 1966. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Presentation copy inscribed by Sugimura Atsu to Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner on the front flyleaf. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. Seminal collection by the revered Japanese contemporary artists who is regarded as a modern master of manga illustration and graphic design. Self published in 1966 this work was reissued in conjunction with a 2010 exhibition of Sugimura's work at the Kyoto International Manga Museum. English captions by T.K. Holly. Oblong octavo. Original black paper wrappers with silver titles. Tiny bit of edgewear; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates only one copy Hawaii. Sugimura Atsu unknown books
191673489London: Martin Secker 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first edition in English translated from the Russian by John Cournos and Richard Aldington. The author's most famous novel which recounts the story of a morally corrupt schoolteacher going insane and paranoid in an unnamed Russian provincial town. The omniscient third-person narrator allowed Sologub to combine his Symbolist tendencies and the tradition of Russian Realism in which he engaged throughout his earlier novels a style similar to Maupassant's fantastic realism. Octavo: 349 p. Original green cloth binding with black titles. The spine is lightly sun faded; else very good. Martin Secker hardcover books
199920398NY: HarperCollins Harper Trophy. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0064407675 . Illustrations by Brett Helquist. First printing. Very slight edge wear to the spine ends else fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . HarperCollins (Harper Trophy) hardcover books
