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194648025Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: At the University Press 1946. First Edition. Small octavo 19.3cm; pictorial dust jacket with 7s. 6d. net price intact; publisher's blindstamped red cloth with silver lettering to spine; viii128pp.; four plates including frontis all present. Jacket edgeworn with some surface scuffs and smudges. Boards square with light bumping at spine ends. Small bookplate of Dr. Sydney Ross of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York to front pastedown. Brief pencil notes to recto of rear free endpaper and rear jacket flap else unmarked. Binding sound. <br /> <br /> A short account of Isaac Newton's thirty-year tenure as Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint written by a fellow Master of the Mint John Craig. Cambridge University Press unknown
198886183San Diego CA: Wizards Bookshelf 1988. First Thus. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's grey leather grain rexine titled in gilt to spine and front board. xxii; 1; 499pp.; 1. Very light wear to corners and spine ends strong and handsome; internally clean and fresh. A near fine copy.<br /> <br /> Part of the Wizards Bookshelf "Secret Doctrine Reference Series." Myer was an American scholar and Egyptologist of the late 19th century one of those learned men to whom every mystery is a source of fascination and research in this case his area of study was the writings of Solomon ben Yehuda Ibn Gebirol the 11th century Spanish poet and philosopher who amongst other mystical acts was reputed to have created a female Golem for the purpose of performing his household chores. Wizards Bookshelf unknown
191312450New York: Isaac Markens 1913. FIRST EDITION. Original printed heavy wrappers with red string tie wrappers soiled with a couple tiny tears. First edition number 100 of 100 inscribed by Markens. A complete review of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its delivery. Monaghan 2096. Isaac Markens unknown
1980_202302742S. l. (Paris), Éditions Stock, 1980 ; in-8, 304 pp., broché. Bibliothèque cosmopolite. Traduit de l'américain par Gilles Chahine, avec la collaboration de Marie-Pierre Castelnau.
1979_202302743Paris, Éditions Stock, 1979 ; in-8, 392 pp., broché. Collection «Nouveau Cabinet Cosmopolite», dirigé par André Bay. Traduit de l’anglais par Marie-Pierre Castelnau-Bay et Jacqueline Chnéour.
1991202203606Paris, Éditions Stock, 1991 ; in-8, 249 pp., broché. Le Cabinet cosmopolite. Traduction de l'anglais par Marie-Pierre Bay. Isaac Baashevis Singer est un auteur d'origine juive polonaise. Il est naturalisé Américain et décède à Miami, en Floride. Il écrit en yiddisch et obtient le Prix Nobel, en 1978. Ce roman est une parabole de l'expression : l'homme est un loup pour l'homme. Très bon état.
1925311165New York: Simon & Schuster 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Light stain on rear board else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by both Mencken and Goldberg on the front free endpaper. Schrader B58. Simon & Schuster hardcover
195011613New York: Herbert Reichner 1950 One of 750 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. . Terra cotta cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Octavo. Frontisportrait ten plates one folding. Light shelfwear. Near fine. Without the very scarce second volume. Herbert Reichner, hardcover
19261312<p><b>NEWTON Isaac. ADAMS Edward Dean. </b><i>A Portrait Bust of Sir Isaac Newton by Josiah Wedgwood the English Potter. </i>12mo original blue boards paper label frontispiece half-title title pp. 10 1 plate uncut. New York: Privately Printed by Bartlett Orr Press for the Engineering Foundation January 1926. <br /></p><p>Only Edition. Presented by Adams a noted engineer to great American mechanical engineer Ambrose Swasey see <b>DAB</b>: "To Ambrose Swasey. This record of a search in hopes that it may be as interesting to him as it was in its conduct to his sincere friend and well wisher. Edward Dean Adams June 10 1927." Frontispiece of the Newton bust which had been in the possession of Adams for over sixty years. With large Swasey ex-libris on rear pastedown depicting the "36 inch Lick Telescope" the observatory having been built by him. Not in <b>Babson</b>. <b>OCLC </b>locates four copies. No copies for sale online as of this date 1/28/22. Fine.</p> Engineering Foundation hardcover
199843806AB1998. First US Edition. Reading Addison-Wesley 1998. Octavo. 402 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent close to new condition. Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney Australia. Born in 1959 he studied at King's College London 1977-1982 and was a Chemistry lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College Oxford 1984-1991. He has been a science editor of British GQ a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and 'in a previous incarnation' he was a member of Colour me Pop. Colour Me Pop featured on the "Europe in the Year Zero" EP in 1982 with Yazoo and Sudeten Creche and he was then a member of the group The Thompson Twins 1982. He moved to Australia in 2002 and was made an Honorary Research Fellow at Curtin University in 2005. He is the author of thirty-five books: these include the international best-sellers Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science; Leonardo: The First Scientist; Tolkien: A Biography; and C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. His first novel Equinox - thriller an occult mystery reached the Top Ten in the bestseller list in the UK and has been translated into 35 languages. A recent non-fiction book is Galileo: Antichrist a biography of the great scientist and religious radical. Novels following Equinox include: The Medici Secret The Borgia Ring and The Art of Murder. Wikipedia. hardcover
1970S10566Cambridge MA:: MIT Press 1970. 1970. 8vo. viii 351 pp. Index. Metallic silver cloth white-stamped spine dust-jacket; front jacket torn spine ends chipped. Ownership signature. Near fine in good jacket. ISBN: 0262160358 MIT Press, (1970). hardcover
19609593Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik. Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. 20 pp text 36 ff of plates many in colour which are tipped in. In Russian with text duplicated in French and German. White dust jacket with one of Levitan's landscapes to the front cover dust jacket is a bit grubby with losses at the spine tail. Linen look paper boards are clean bit of rubbing at extremities. Interior of the book is clean and unmarked. Errata slip at the rear. Because this is a Soviet production the book is bound using heavy staples at a number of points. Still very lovely and not easy to find. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Sovetskii khudozhnik, hardcover
197362750Chicago IL: Follett Publishing Co. 1973. 8vo. 381 1 pp. Blue publisher’s cloth silver lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Franz Altschuler proted by the “Aldine†lamination process as issued very slight sunning to spine tiny chip at foot of spine still F/NF copy. First edition of this excellent 24-story anthology drawing upon 100 years of science fiction literature including first time stories specifically written for each of the categories: Robots Monstrosities Machines Mutants Time Travel & Space Travel by authors Rachel Cosgrove Payes William F. Temple Richard Posner Robert Silverberg Jeff Sutton and Dean Koontz respectively. Follett Publishing Co., hardcover
194162808Chicago & New York: Fictioneers 1941. 4to. 112 pp. Text illustrations by Kyle Thorp et al. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art w/ initials R.C.S. yapp fore-edges as issued uniform interior toning as usual minor edgewear 1 very small closed tear VG copy. First edition of this installment in the 2nd year of the pulp magazine edited by Pohl which would only run until 1943 and featured Asimov’s 23rd science fiction short story “Heredity†examining the results of twins subjected to a psychological study. Fictioneers, paperback
194162881New York: Street & Smith Publications Inc. 1941. 4to. 162 pp. Text illustrations by Kramer Rogers & Schneeman. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Hubert Rogers uniform light interior toning as usual slight shelfwear slight rubbing front cover 1 small closed tear at upper left corner slight bumping head of spine still VG- bright copy. First edition of this installment in Astounding Stories considered Campbell’s “Golden Age†and which here featured two stories from Heinlein including “Universe†and “Solution Unsatisfactory†under his Anson MacDonald pen-name. Also included are Asimov’s “Liar!†and the conclusion of De Camp’s “The Stolen Dormouse.†Street & Smith Publications, Inc., paperback
194062877New York: Street & Smith Publications Inc. 1940. 4to. 162 pp. Text illustrations by M. Isip R. Isip Kramer & Schneeman. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Hubert Rogers uniform light interior toning as usual slight shelfwear slight dustsoiling front cover still VG bright copy. First edition of this installment in Astounding Stories considered Campbell’s “Golden Age†and which here featured the debut of Van Vogt’s “Slan†part 1 Heinlein’s “Blowups Happen†Asimov’s “Homo Sol†and others. Street & Smith Publications, Inc., paperback
196662730Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1966. 8vo. 10 239 1 pp. Gray boards pink lettering slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Dale Hennesy minor scuffing to upper front cover shelfwear scuffing at foot of spine from removed label still a NF/G copy. Early Houghton edition $ 3.95 price front flap of this Nebula nominee science fiction adventure and movie tie-in released six months before the movie opened August 16 1966 and starred Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch Edmond O’Brien Donald Pleasence and others. Contracted to write the novelization of the script Asimov rewrote a number of plot holes and due to his speed was published prior to the film and won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in Color. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
195163041New York: Stadium Publishing Corporation 1951. 8vo. 129 1 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by Hannes Bok slight interior toning very minor shelfwear slight creasing still VG bright copy. First edition of this installment of this early issue after the pulp was re-established in digest quarterly following World War II. Science fiction greats’ Bradbury Asimov Matheson and others are all featured. Stadium Publishing Corporation, paperback
194162909Chicago IL: Fictioneers Inc. 1941. 4to. 144 pp. Text illustrations by Morey G. Thorp. Colour-illustrated softcovers yapp fore-edges uniform light interior toning as usual minor shelfwear couple very minor closed tears still VG- bright copy. First edition of this installment in Super Science Stories launched as a cheaper companion to Astonishing Stories and which here features an an early Asimov short story “History†De Camp’s & Miller’s “Genus Homo†and jones’s “Captives of the Durna Rangue.†Fictioneers, Inc., paperback
1962866831962 Paris, Julliard (Collection "Les Temps Modernes"), 1962, fort volume petit in 8° broché, 695 pages ; couverture recouverte d'un film transparent autocollant ;petits défauts.
2000570London: Cecil Woolf 2000. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red green and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 24 pp. 8 unnumbered pages of 10 color plates 6 b&w. Glossary conspectus bibliography and notes. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip else about fine. No other copies currently available in commerce June 2024. Numbers from the Bloomsbury Heritage Series are now very scarce.<br /> <br /> First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 27. Virginia Woolf was an amateur bookbinder who bound or re-covered books throughout her adult life both for herself and for others. It is not known what motivated her to engage in bookbinding but she was a publisher who set type and sewed the hand-printed books of her publishing house. She may have done binding as a creative outlet as her books exhibited enthusiasm rather than skill. OCLC: 46648822. Cecil Woolf unknown
197120055New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1971. First edition. With imaginative pencil drawings throughout by Margot Zemach. 8vo publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. In the publisher's dustjacket illustrated by Zemach. 80. A very nice copy clean and fresh the dustjacket is slightly faded at the spine and turnovers and and has a closed tear at the head of the dustjacket upper hinge. A STORY OF ENCHANTMENT AND MAGIC FOR CHILDREN. Singer’s story is sure to captivate young reader’s with its spiritual tests and mysterious characters and adventures. <br> “Long ago in the days of the saintly Bal Shem lives a boy Joseph of Singer’s magical tale. Orphaned and alone Joseph finds his life transformed when an angel he meets in the wild forest gives him an amulet that will bring him whatever he desires: a prayer book bountiful meals even an eagle which carries him to the kingdom of Good King Maltuch. Before he can win the hand of the Princess Chassidah Joseph comes face to face with good and evil in this world and in the world to come.â€-Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1930mon0000976506Experimenter Publications Inc. 1930. Softcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Brown paper wraps glued to spine with light edgewear. Rubbing to front cover. Pages clean with age toning. Experimenter Publications Inc. paperback
1938025090Librairie Hachette Paris 1938 578 pages en format -12 - ouvrage orné de 270 gravures et de 42 cartes - reliure rigide en percaline claire avec titres sur fond jaune
1934025475Librairie Hachette Paris 1934 668 pages en format petit -12 - nombreuses illustrations - reliure rigide en percaline claire avec titres en jaune
