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192526191North Truro: Privately Printed 1925. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small bound wrappers. 58 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs and one drawn map. A handsome very good copy with just some light age wear to the page edges. Photograph of a sailing ship in peril is tipped on the front cover. Privately Printed paperback books
1930WRCLIT73329New York: John Day Company 1930. xi73411pp. Large octavo. Smooth blue-green cloth stamped in black. Eight plates. A very good copy in quite worn and chipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition this being in one of at least three variants of the binding we've noted over the years. "Goldberg's breezy not totally accurate history has advantages that come from close acquaintance with the popular music industry" - Horn. HORN 1169. John Day Company hardcover books
1978TB29082Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1978. First Edition. Limited Edition Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with a facsimile of the author's signature on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4 by 6 inches. The cloth over the spine is slightly faded. Issued without a dust jacket; however the book is contained within a fine paper covered slip case with a printed paper label on one side of the slip case. One of only 300 limited edition copies printed. This copy is identified as number 43 and is signed by the author on the limitation page. 177 pages of text with black and white and colored drawings by Raphael Soyer. The laid-in signed and numbered plate by Soyer is missing from this copy. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1964005787Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this short story collection by the Nobel Prize Winner. Bookplate to inside front board else a near fine copy in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Briefly INSCRIBED by the author. Signed by Author. Jewish Publication Society hardcover books
19629009426London: Secker & Warburg 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. <br/><br/> Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1928290612Boston: Goodspeed 1928. hardcover. fine. Decorative illustrations by W. A. Dwiggins. Rubricated title 324 pages 12mo black cloth backed decorative boards. Boston: Goodspeed 1928. Fine.<br/><br/> Goodspeed unknown books
19379019152Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1937. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/very good. First this edition bound in blue cloth over boards cover and spine stamped in gilt. Blue gilt stamped dust jacket is very lightly worn at the extremities and sunned at the spine. Frontis and additional illustrations tipped in throughout. <br/><br/> Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology hardcover books
19861249955New York: Doubleday & Company 1986. First Edition. First Edition; Octavo; VG/VG-; Dark blue night sky with red illustration on spine and read and white text. DJ has Brodart cover jacket by previous owner has general shelf wear and edge wear but not major tears; Boards have light rubbing to edges apart from that clean binding strong corners sharp; Textblock has minor wear to fore edge has deckled edges otherwise clean free of underlining/highlighting; pp 356. 1249955. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Doubleday & Company unknown books
1966005824Farrar Straus and Giroux 1966. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint couple in like jacket.$5.50 on flap.StatedFirst Printing1966. Farrar Straus and Giroux Hardcover books
1749286557Amstelodami: Apud Petrum Justice 1749. Nova Editio. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Jacob Vaniere's Praedium Rusticum. A Jesuit priest Vaniere was best known for this poetic work sixteen books written in the style of Virgil's Georgics. Complete with portrait frontispiece engraved half title and 16 additional plates. Collates complete; 6 x 320 6 pp. Minor loss to the extremities of the spine and the bottom of the front joint. Full calf with gilt decoration and a leather label on the spine. All edges speckled red. Very Good. Very Good binding. Apud Petrum Justice unknown books
198325160New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Small clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 58 pp plus notes. Illustrated with woodcuts by Frasconi. First trade edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper. This copy has been SIGNED BY FRASCONI on the title page. Farrar Straus and Giroux unknown books
19856045861985. "Isaac" in black ink on his engraved Isaac Stern letterhead December 13 1985. 6 1/4" x 8 3/8"; 1 page; very good staple holes in upper left margin; 1985. To Senator Daniel P. Moynihan United States Senate Senate Office Building Washington D.C. In part: ". . .I was deeply touched by your warm letter which was printed in the AICF Tribute Journal. I will always cherish it. . ." Provenance: from the estate of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Hillary Clinton took Moynihan's place in the United States Senate. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
187653982Philadelphia: Collins printer 1876. First edition 8vo pp. 22 2; removed from stabbed binding; very good. Based on the imperfect and incomplete list issued in the Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Lea 1792-1886 was an American conchologist geologist and publisher Carey & Lea Lea & Blanchard. <br/><br/> Collins, printer unknown books
1984138942Garden City: Doubleday 1984. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects twelve mystery stories. A fine copy in good dust jacket with wear at edges two small tears at top edge of rear panel and clipped price. #138942 Doubleday unknown books
1966163371Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1966. Octavo cloth. First edition. 1966 Nebula nominee. Filmed in 1966 by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasance. This is a novelization of the screenplay by Harry Kleiner from the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-43. Spine lean a nearly fine copy in about good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corner tips short edge tears and tiny chips and rubbing to black background ink mainly along spine folds. #163371 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1976213370New York: Privately Printed 1976. hardcover. fine. Three short stories that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post during 1974. Illustrated with wood engravings by John De Pol. 51pp. thin 12mo green gilt-stamped boards. New York: Privately Printed 1976. Fine.<br/><br/> The 23rd title in the Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1972163033Garden City: Doubleday 1972. Octavo cloth. First edition. "In the twenty-second century Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics men and para-men learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps puffed with pride and selfishness will not allow their reputation doctrine and achievement to be jeopardized . The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his Asimov's scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES . which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards proved to be his finest single creation a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards SFE online. "Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-48. Winner of the 1972 and 1973 Hugo awards for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 909-14. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at spine ends 12 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel light dust soiling mainly along flap folds and clipped price. #163033 Doubleday unknown books
19667150New York: Doubleday and Company 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Small owner name stamp on FEP; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with 1/8" chip at head of spine. 223 pp. <br/><br/> Doubleday and Company hardcover books
1983132142Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1983. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories all but two first published between 1976 and 1982. "Belief" and "Ideas Die Hard" both first published in the 1950s somehow escaped publication in an earlier Asimov single-author story collection so he included them here. The stories are "something of a return to Asimov's older style. Whimsical clever liberal and the stories tend to feature absent-minded academics and to end with punch lines." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 423. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. #132142 Doubleday & Company unknown books
198478969Garden City:: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0385195419 . A collection of mysteries. Stated first printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.; 212 pages . Doubleday, hardcover books
198693359Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0385197845 . The original previously unpublished versions of PEBBLE IN THE SKY THE END OF ETERNITY and BELIEF. No edition statement matching year of publication on title and copyright pages. Near fine in a near fine minor edge wear at the spine ends and corners dust jacket. ; 272 pages . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
122638First Edition. paperback. 32pp. 8vo orig. pr. wrs.; uncut dampstained on wrs. and center margins. Princeton Press: Printed By D.A. Borrentstein 1825.<br/><br/> Author was a pupil of John Woodhull.<br/><br/> unknown books
1930CH814-055Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press 1930. First Edition. Very Good. WITH: ISAAC. English & Scottish Printing Types 1535-58 1552-58. Oxford: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press 1932. Series: Facsimiles and Illustrations Nos. II and III. Two Volumes. 4to. 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Half-titles title pages printed in black and red alphabetic lists of printers each set of figures introduced by short biographical vignettes of the printers 98 facsimile figures of printing samples and title pages on plates in each volume; text clean unmarked. Uniformly bound in tan cloth spines brown paper over boards spines and front covers titled in black top edge gilt added clear mylar dust-jackets; binding square and tight light shelf wear to jacket. Very Good. Preface by Alfred William Pollard. The Annals of English Printing had a high percentage of undated books from the output of English presses for the first half of the sixteenth century. Isaac's work provides a means of correlating types with printers and a rough estimate of the time the types were in use. Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press hardcover books
1872252600New York: Harper 1872. hardcover. good. Engravings. 357pp. 12mo original decorated green cloth lacks one plate at page 167 edges of corners slightly bumped and worn ex-lib cloth lightly soiled. New York: Harper 1872. First American Edition.<br/><br/> "His Hayes' third voyage to the Arctic in 1869 with William Bradford in the Panther resulted in an accurate and lively sketch of Greenland." DAB VIII p. 446.<br/><br/> Harper unknown books
195019344Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1950. Cloth. Very Good. A solid copy of the 1950 stated 1st edition of Isaac Asimov's first published science fiction novel. Tight and VG in its beige cloth with very light soilig to the rear panel. Octavo 223 pgs. lacking the original dustjacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company hardcover books
