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19885614Peking: No Publisher 1988. First edition / Original art work from 戊辰年五月 or the fifth month of the Wùchén year. ie. May / June 1988. Very much in the style of Guan Liang 关良 1900–1986 and his followers. The painting depicts two performers in Beijing Opera 京剧 costume. The female figure is a wudan æ¦æ—¦ A martial female role. In blue silk costume with an elaborate head dress white and red stage makeup and holding a weapon. The male figure is a laosheng è€ç”Ÿ or official/scholar type. An attractive original work signed and dated. There is slight damage to the woman's sword arm with the blue paint blurred. There are also three spots of ink / paint near to the seal. The painting is on what appears to be Chinese xuan paper 宣纸 mounted onto a grey card backing. Painting is 25cm x 25cm. The backing card is 34/5cm x 34.5cm. Blank to verso. . Première édition / Å’uvre originale datant du mois de mai de l'année Wùchén 戊辰年五月 soit mai/juin 1988. Très inspirée du style de Guan Liang 关良 1900–1986 et de ses disciples. La peinture représente deux artistes vêtus de costumes d'opéra de Pékin 京剧. Le personnage féminin est une wudan æ¦æ—¦ un rôle féminin martial. Elle porte un costume de soie bleue avec une coiffe élaborée un maquillage de scène blanc et rouge et tient une arme. Le personnage masculin est un laosheng è€ç”Ÿ c'est-à -dire un personnage de type fonctionnaire/érudit. Une Å“uvre originale attrayante signée et datée. Le bras de la femme qui tient l'épée présente un léger dommage la peinture bleue étant estompée. Il y a également trois taches d'encre ou de peinture près du sceau. La peinture est réalisée sur ce qui semble être du papier xuan chinois 宣纸 monté sur un support en carton gris. La peinture mesure 25 cm x 25 cm. Le support en carton mesure 345 cm x 345 cm. Verso vierge. No Publisher unknown
1935947Berlin: Julius Springer 1935. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPS OF THE "LANDMARK" PAPER PRESENTING THE PREISACH MODEL OF HYSTERESIS Mayergoyz Mathematical Models of Hysteresis 1. <br /> <br /> The Preisach model is a well-known hysteresis identification method in which the hysteresis is modeled by linear combination of hysteresis operators. First introduced by Ferenc Franz Preisach in this paper the widely accepted Preisach model of hysteresis "generalizes hysteresis loops as the parallel connection of independent relay hysterons" a two-valued operator used to model hysteresis Wikipedia.<br /> <br /> Hysteresis is a form of non-linearity with memory an example being a magnet that may "have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field depending on how the field changed in the past" Wikipedia. In the Preisach model specifically hysteresis is described starting from the hypothesis that a free-energy profile characterized by multiple local minima and metastable state can be decomposed into a set of many elementary bistable contribution. Each bistable unit can occupy one of two states and - and is characterized by two reduced fields the local coercive field and an interaction field" Mayergoyz The Science of Hysteresis 101. <br /> <br /> "Preisach's approach was purely intuitive. It was based on a plausible hypotheses concerning the physical mechanisms of magnetization. For this reason the Preisach model was first regarded as a physical model of hysteresis" Mayergoyz. The model remains frequently in use is a wide variety of the sciences — from mathematics to engineering mechanics economics and biology. CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete issue. viii pp. 277-712. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches; 225 x 140mm. Very slight toning at the edges of the wraps and interior the scanner makes it appear much much darker in the image than to the naked eye. Front wrap is detached withal bright clean and near fine condition. Julius Springer paperback
1971BN135237Edition "Olamenu" 1971. 1971. Softcover. Zwi Perez Chajes : Dokumente aus seinem Leben und Wirken <br/><br/>Zwi Perez Chajes : Dokumente aus seinem Leben und Wirken Hugo Gold Edition "Olamenu" paperback
191129057Modern Library BL on Title Pg The novel sometime subtitled An Oxford Love StoryHARDBACK NODJ Scarce First Modern Library 1ST Edition First Printing with Errata slip still intact opposite copyright page noting THE missing introduction of Francis Hackett which was received too late to include in this 1st edition The novel sometime subtitled An Oxford Love StoryCatalogue Number 3 - Spine 1 LEATHERETTE RUB WEAR TO GOLD GILT ON FRONT & Gilt on spine cvr almost gone NOJACKET 1911 on copyright pg But really September 1917 per Toledano 1st ML Edition1st printing first edition with catalog C3 and marbled endpapers<br />Errata slip still intact opposite copyright page noting THE missing introduction of Francis Hackett which was received too late to include in 1st edition<br /><br /><br /><br /> BONI LIVERIGHT MODERN LIBRARY hardcover
1988Q-0809246171Contemporary Books 1988-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Contemporary Books hardcover
1936H10570Tel-Aviv Palestine: B. Kohen Hotsa'at "Yalkut 1936. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 3 volumes of 4 original cloth good set with minor wear and soil evidence that a bookplate has been removed from each volume otherwise good clean set very rare. The author lived from 1859-1924 and spent almost his entire life in Moscow: he was the state rabbi for Moscow by 1893 and formed a number of Russian Zionist associations to further the cause of Russian Jews. The Bolsheviks had no use for him and after the Revolution he barely escaped arrest after a 1920 Zionist conference in Moscow. Eventually the new government established the Evsektsiia the Jewish Section of the Communist Party but made Yiddish the official language instead of Hebrew against the public objections of Maseh and others. He wrote his memoirs toward the end of his life 1924 in Moscow but they remained unpublished until this edition from 1936. Text in Hebrew. B. Kohen, Hotsa'at "Yalkut hardcover
19772092902141203145University of Tokyo Book Co. Ltd. 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 University of Tokyo Book Co., Ltd. paperback
1965ZB3929241965. volume 2 1965 partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the lot. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. unknown
192679331London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited and Dodd Mead and Company 1926. Hardcover. Very good. This satirical novella tells the story of a Zoroastrian philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The singular narrative and unique journey of Zadig still stands as a philosophical reference to “nothing is either good or bad without the comparison of one with the other.†Illustrated by Harry Keen. Octavo: xxvi 316 pp. In a one-half blue morocco over blue cloth binding by Maurin with gilt-stamped titling ornaments and borders five raised bands and marbled endpapers. The spine is sun faded; otherwise very good. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited [and] Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
193062088Toronto: The Hunter-Rose Co. Ltd. 1930. 8vo. 6 359 1 pp. Frontisp. map numerous photo plates. Green publisher’s cloth black lettering slight shelfwear slight foxing & dustsoiling fore-edges w/ d.j. plain brown paper w/ banner title in red & black across upper fore-edge & spine printer’s imprint at foot of spine slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition of this fascinating account by one of the original Klondike sourdoughs who went with a party of 10 in 1898 providing detailed accounts of the early miners those lost in avalanches on the Chilkoot Trail the amount of supplies needed and more. Robertson recounts his life before the Klondike as a champion bicycle racer along with describing hockey matches and skiing competitions in Dawson in 1898 and 1899. This work was compiled according to the author to “attract capitalists to the Yukon Territory.†Scarce in original dustjacket. Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 498. The Hunter-Rose Co., Ltd., hardcover
192110027Los Angeles: George Starr White 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo.283 pp. black cloth over/boards front cover and spine lettered in gilt illustrated with many drawings. Gold lettering on the spine very faded. Faint crease to the approxiametely the first 14 pages. -- Condition. "George Starr White July 13 1866 - November 28 1956 was an American physician chiropractor and inventor of many chromotherapeutic apparatus radionic devices and other types of medical nostrums. By his own accounting White diagnosed nearly a quarter of a million cases and penned over a hundred books. George Starr White hardcover
1969List910Chicago 1969. Poster. 24 x 20 inches. Minimal wear fine condition. Fine. An iconic poster protesting the arrest of the Chicago 8 on conspiracy charges relating to the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The group originally as eight members consisted of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin founders of the Youth International Party YIPPIES Tom Hayden a co-founder in Students for a Democratic Society Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale whose case would be declared a mistrial during the trial leading to his exclusion from the Chicago 7 David Dellinger and Rennie Davis members of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam MOBE and John Froines and Lee Weiner. The address 28 E. Jackson was a building where Rennie Davis rented a space so it is possible that the MOBE printed this though we cannot confirm. unknown
1999Q-0738501379Arcadia Publishing 1999-05-26. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Arcadia Publishing paperback
195416121YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954 Fell 1954 first edition fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper with the slightest of wear. Contributions Murray Leinster Frank M. Robinson Kendal Foster Crossen H. L. Gold & Philip K. Dick. Fell unknown
195414443YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS 1954 Fell 1954 first edition fine in near fine color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Contributions by H. L. Gold & Robert Krepps "The Enormous Room" Kendell Foster Crossen "Assignment in Aldebaran" Frank M. Robinson "The Oceans Are Wide" Murray Leinster "The Sentimentalists" and Philip K. Dick "Second Variety." This last contribution is Dick's first appearance in a hard-cover book and filmed in 1995 as SCREAMERS. At the time humorously but now chauvinistically INSCRIBED by co-editor Ditky thusly: "For David who resolved his problem by marrying her! All the luck in the world from his friend Ted Ditky. Fell unknown
19832092902141207809old books in shanghai 1983. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 old books in shanghai paperback
1989791359PN. New. 1989. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1995276909PN. New. 1995. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1993Q-0137617011Prentice Hall 1993-07-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Prentice Hall paperback
199192753<p><strong>SIGNED BY BRIAN WILSON</strong> directly to the half-title page as shown and NOT inscribed to anyone. A lovely 2nd printing in VG condition with clean text and good coloring and corners on the boards; upper page block exhibits foxing. Very attractive dust jacket; looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Bk 5 signed by author.</p> HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
1991110610HarperCollins Publishers 1991-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Wilson inscribed to previous owner and signed on the title page.2nd printing. Looks unread with just a touch of shelf wear Please email for photos. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
1991007241Scranton Pennsylvania U.S.A.: HarperCollins 1991. First Edition 3rd Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author Brian Wilson on title page. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Dust jacket is price clipped else fine. <br/> <br/> HarperCollins hardcover
1991020314New York NY: HarperCollins Publishers 1991. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Octavo 8vo. xiv 398 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding in almost new condition except for tiny bumps to the top and bottom of the spine. The unclipped dustjacket is in almost new condition; protected in archival Mylar. Signed by Brian Wilson 1942-2025 on the title page with no further inscription. The text is clean and unmarked. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page with the number line starting with "1". . HarperCollins Publishers Hardcover
1991210259New York: HarperCollins 1991. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 398 pages. An earlier memoir from legendary musician Brian Wilson written with the Todd Gold. The title of the book is of course taken from one of Wilson's classic Beach Boy songs. A clean and tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear and some very slight loss to the verso of the dust jacket at the base of the spine where an old protector was adhered. Signed and inscribed by Wilson on the front free endpaper. HarperCollins unknown
19913114527New York: Harper Collins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060183136 . First edition. INSCRIBED by Brian Wilson to Santa Barbara author Cork Millner on half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages . Harper Collins. hardcover