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1959129312Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1959. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects two verse satires and nine stories including several classics; "The Dying Night" "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy." Also present here is "Profession" in which "imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 264-5. "All the Troubles of the World" features MULTIVAC a giant computer which directs Earth's economy and is the central clearing house of all known facts about each individual inhabitant of the planet. Ultimately it grows "so complicated its reactions are no longer those of a machine but those of a living thing" and what it wants more than anything else is "to die." See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-50. Hairline crack along front inner hinge a common problem with Doubleday books with pad-bound signatures glued into board cases else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along folds and top edge and small chip from lower edge of rear panel. #129312 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1972138679Garden City: Doubleday & Company 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 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 909-14. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear to spine ends some general dust soiling and tiny closed tear at top edge of front panel. A presentable copy of a somewhat scarce Asimov first edition seldom found in decent condition. #138679 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1822005199Philadelphia PA: Carey & Lea 1822. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. First Edition. 22.25" width x 17.5" height printed sheet with 9.25" x 11.5" hand-colored map near center of sheet five color. Excellent condition except for slight browing to center fold which is offsetting from original glue from reverse hinge. Minor browning to margins of sheet easily framed out. Two tiny tears at bottom margin not affecting the text or image. An attractive image suitable for office/library display or gift. Originally bound in an atlas titled "A Complete Historical Chronological and Geographical Atlas Being A Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies: Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery Settlement and Progress of their Various Kingdoms States Provinces &c. Together with Wars Celebrated Battles and Remarkable Events to the Year 1822. According to the Plan of LeSage's Atlas and Intended as a Companion to Lavoisne's Improvement of that Celebrated Work." Americana. Carey & Lea Paperback books
1801976London: Murray and Highley 1801. Second edition. Second edition. Bound in full calf gilt spine with morocco label. Binding a bit worn on edges spine split and partially repaired. Internally clean and bright. <br/><br/> Murray and Highley unknown books
1876WRCAM35756Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1876. v-xii9-265pp. including 122 plates plus two frontispiece plates. Original cloth stamped in blind spine gilt. Spine and edges faded. Spine a bit worn and lightly cracked. Overall very good. Second edition enlarged and revised. Featuring 122 designs in a wide array of styles with engraved views and floor plans. Many of the designs included here were prepared for GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK between 1863 and 1873. The importance of these designs and Godey's architectural material in general is discussed in George Hersey's article "Godey's Choice" in the JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS Oct. 1959 pp.104-11. Hersey states that Hobbs' designs must have been responsible for the transformation of many an American suburb. HITCHCOCK 596. J.B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover books
1966014770Houghton Mifflin 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Printing Stated matching Dates 1966/1966 $3.95 on Flap.Great Science Fiction Classic Terrific Movie of the Same. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1829WRCAM45846New York: Printed by Gray and Bunce 1829. 72pp. Dbd. Light foxing. Closed tear in fore-edge of one leaf not affecting text. Very good. Second edition following the first of 1827 and adding an appendix. This work was the first publication of the tireless western Indian missionary Isaac McCoy. McCoy suggests that all the area west of Missouri southwest of the Missouri River and north of the then boundary with Mexico at the Arkansas become an Indian territory. In the appendix McCoy gives his vision of the character and qualities of the proposed missions. "One of the earliest suggestions for a reservation on which to colonize and educate western Indians" - Howes. Neither Graff nor Field note this second edition and either edition of this work is scarce. HOWES M70 "aa." SABIN 43113. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 39355. Printed by Gray and Bunce unknown books
1972223272Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1972. hardcover. near fine/very good. Reprint of the third edition 1726 with Variant Readings. Edited by Alexandre Koyre and I. Bernard Cohen & Anne Whitman. 2 volumes. Illustrated with hundreds of in-text diagrams. 4to black cloth d.w. A near fine copy but for a sloppily removed label on the inside front cover.<br/><br/> Third edition of Newton's masterpiece."The most influential scientific publication of the 17th century." -Horblit. "The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained in mathematical terms within a single physical theory. It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought equalled perhaps only by that following Darwin's Origin of Species." -PMM.<br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
1972S10562Cambridge MA:: Harvard University Press 1972. 1972. Reprint of the "third edition 1726 with variant readings." Two volumes. Imperial 8vo. xl 547; 548-916 pp. Bibliography index. Navy blue cloth silver-stamped spines dust-jackets; jacket feet chipped. Ownership signatures. Fine in very good jackets. Harvard University Press, 1972. hardcover books
1984257516V.p. 1984. 8 vols. 8vo and smaller. Fine in cloth folding box. With 2 duplicates related photocopies and two sheets of Oelgart's letterhead. 8 vols. 8vo and smaller. Choice group of the ephemeral publications of New England sporting bibliographer Ike Oelgart. Comprising: <br/>Falconry & Hawking Treatises 1575-1975 1976. Inscribed.<br/>1982 Derrydale Press Price Guide 1982.<br/>The Borzoi Books for Sportsmen 1982 2 copies.<br/>The Privately Printed Books of the Anglers' Club of New York 1916-1972 1983.<br/>The Van Nostrand Sporting Books 1983 2 copies.<br/>Thoreau. On Partridges 1984.<br/>Foster Bird Dogs in New England 1984.<br/><br/>With photocopy of prospectus for The American Sporting Book Holding Company Inc. 1982. unknown books
1691285167Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Jordanum Luchtmans & Johannem du Vivie 1691. Third Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The Third Edition or Second Bilingual Edition of Polyaenus' Strategems in War. A second century Macedonian author Polyaenus wrote on the military tactics of the age with unique historical anecdotes; it remains an important historical source. The first printed edition of the text was in Latin only published in 1549; a second edition was published forty years later now in Latin and Greek with a third appearance of the text this edition printed through 1690-91. Additional title page engraved; engraved initials and vignette on the title page. Text in Latin and Greek in opposite columns. Collates complete; 24 832 40 pp. Textblock is bright; previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Full vellum richly decorated in gilt on the spine and boards parts of the gilt now faded; decorative border at the perimeter large device on the front and rear boards with decorative rules and floral devices on the spine and title stamped in black. All edges lightly speckled in blue and red. Very Good binding. Apud Jordanum Luchtmans, & Johannem du Vivie unknown books
1852D14942Rochester: Charles H. McDonell 1852. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 256 pp. Original yellow wraps lettered in black. Very light wear only; an excellent copy. Communication with many famous spirits contained within these pages including George Washington Thomas Jefferson Voltaire Swedenborg. <br/><br/> Charles H. McDonell paperback books
18182861London: Rest Fenner 1818. First edition. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter polished black calf marbled boards and endpapers. 194pp. Engraved frontispiece "Well Do I Remember." Anne C. Morrel well-known collector's copy with her bookplate. With nice contemporary presentation inscription last page "Louisa H. A. Jones from her dear papa Christmas." Calf rubbed occasional wear. <br/><br/> Rest Fenner hardcover books
1822316337London: J. Harris and Son 1822. Second edition. Engraved folding map at front wood-engraved title vignette and 84 wood-engraved illustrations on 28 plates. viii 120 pp. 12mo. Contemporary russet paneled calf gilt. Light rubbing to extremities spine sunned some light dampstaining to text. Contemporary gift inscription on flyleaf small bookplate. Second edition. Engraved folding map at front wood-engraved title vignette and 84 wood-engraved illustrations on 28 plates. viii 120 pp. 12mo. Second edition of this work from the juvenile "Scenes" series by author illustrator and nonconformist minister Isaac Taylor 1759-1829. First published in London 1821. Osborne p. 190 J. Harris and Son unknown books
1821WRCAM50826London 1821. viii122pp. plus twenty seven plates and a folding map. 12mo. Original half roan and printed boards. Moderate wear to boards top of spine chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Minor foxing and toning. Good. First edition. Brief highlights of early travel and discovery aimed at the juvenile audience including material concerning Columbus Cortes Balboa American Indians Lewis and Clark Hudson Bay the West Indies etc. with numerous charming woodcut illustrations. SABIN 94469. hardcover books
1753JC14394London: T. Longman 1753. Third Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8 vo. xvi 362 pp. Contemporary leather red spine label. An excellently preserved copy first published in 1741. <br/><br/> T. Longman hardcover books
1819294646Exeter NH: John I. Williams 1819. hardcover. very good. 282 pages. Thick 24mo full contemporary calf; corners folded spine and edges of covers lightly worn. Exeter NH: John I. Williams 1819. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Early American imprint.<br/><br/> John I. Williams unknown books
17701002London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington J. Buckland T. Longman T. Field E. and C. Dilly and W. Davenhill 1770. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. viii 317 23 pp. final index and tables with 8 plates of engraved music "Tunes to the Tenor Parts" and with the initial licence leaf. Bound in full contemporary dark blue morocco ornate gilt boards and spine all-edges-gilt marbled endpapers some minor refurbishment. ¶ FINE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING and with the text unmarked and unblemished. The decoration on the binding is composed of finely cut tools so far unattributed to any particular workshop. ESTC T82393 locating just three copies worldwide: British Library Univ. Arizona and Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Printed for J. and F. Rivington, J. Buckland, T. Longman, T. Field, E. and C. Dilly, and W. Davenhill hardcover books
17313925London: Printed for Emanuel Matthews; Richard Ford and Richard Hett 1731. 18th Century full vellm-wrapped boards with contemporary holograph title on upper spine. 365pp. with Contents in back. Covers soiled and slightly worn internally very good and tight with usual thumbing and wear. Scarce and early title of one of Watts' important books. Printed for Emanuel Matthews; Richard Ford, and Richard Hett unknown books
177310228512mo original calf over wooden boards 312 pp. Rubbing wear and some discoloration to covers and extremities contents well soiled from use a good deal of staining darkening and aging lacks rear endpapers front endpapers with notes and previous owner's name; still a decent copy. Isaac Watts 1674-1748 was born in Southampton and was a noted minister and writer. He started his career as a minister in 1698 at the age of 24 but his considerable output of published works is probably his most significant contribution. He is probably best know for his extensive publication of hymns and for his Horae Lyrica first published in 1706. The Psalms of David was first published 1719 and has appeared in several editions. The OCLC locates 15 copies of this edition. ODB. OCLC. William M' Alpine, books
1914WRCAM26564Philadelphia 1914. Two volumes. Original cloth backed boards printed label on front covers. Inner front hinge of second volume neatly detached corners bumped. Very good. This is the Graff copy with his bookplate sold at the Newberry duplicate sale in 1966. Each volume contains a bookplate stating: "This book is no. 166 of an edition of 250 copies and is presented to Richard Wistar Davis by The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology Philadelphia Pa." An additional printed tipped-in slip in states: "The recipient of this book is requested to regard its contents for the present as confidential." Contains Wistar's overland journal of 1849 a long account of his life in the gold region of California experiences in Oregon hunting with Indians and then as a lawyer in California through 1857. The second volume is mainly devoted to his Civil War service. MINTZ 501. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 234. HOWES W598 "b." KURUTZ 691. GRAFF 4724. COWAN p.692. NEVINS I p.181 citing only the 2nd ed. hardcover books
180023633Philadelphia 1800. 4pp. Disbound. Else Near Fine. <br/><br/> Isaac Zane was a member of the Zane family of Wheeling after whom Zanesville Ohio is named. He was "made a prisoner by the Wyandot Indians when an infant of nine years of age with which nation he has ever since remained having married an Indian woman by whom he has many children." <br/> The Wyandots assigned him a tract of land. That land was later ceded to the United States by the Treaty of 1795. Zane asks that his title be confirmed. The Committee agrees recommending that the United States convey to him 2560 acres of land at Big Bottom on Mad River. The Committee observes that Zane during "the Indian war rendered great and repeated services to the frontier settlements." <br/>Evans 38864. NAIP w021902 12. unknown books
186142269London: Henry G. Bohn 1861. 8vo pp. xix 3 496 2; 26 steel engravings and over 200 wood engravings in the text; 1864 Eton gift inscription on flyleaf; slight waterstain in the very top outer corner of the text occasional minor spotting; bound in full 20th century maroon niger morocco gilt rules on covers spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered in 3; attractive copy in a fine binding. Includes an appendix on fishing stations and the final leaf containing a list of fishing-tackle makers. <br/><br/> Henry G. Bohn unknown books
18082944Walpole NH: Thomas & Thomas 1808. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear several small nicks and pulls chipping at the head of Vol. 1 head of Volume 2 shows damage two small closed tears glue toning at endpages light even toning to leaves owner signature/stamp in each volume else tight bright and unmarred. Full leather boards red leather label gilt lettering and decorative elements in blind decorative elements. 8vo. 871pp. <br/><br/>Overall a handsome set of this early and rather scarce edition. Thomas & Thomas hardcover books
182141180London: J. Harris & Son pr. by H. Bryer 1821. 12mo 17 cm 6.69". viii 122 2 adv. pp.; fold. map 28 plts. <br><br>First edition: a view of the Americas intended to engage juvenile readers. These scenes were written and illustrated by the Rev. Isaac Taylor 17591829 a nonconformist minister who like his father was an accomplished engraver. The stories and accounts of creatures such as beavers and rattlesnakes come from South Central and North America including items from Mexico Canada and Patagonia; strong abolitionist themes are notable and sympathy for indigenous peoples abused by conquering invaders although also present are underlying assumptions that English ways are sanest and most logical. The text is => illustrated with 28 copper-engraved plates laid out in double-page spreads each side of the opening with three images as issued uncolored in this copy.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Half-title with inked inscription of M.A. Nelson dated 1821; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Osborne Collection p. 190; Opie H 140; Gumuchian 5535; Sabin 94469. Publisher's printed tan papercovered sides with red roan shelfback hinges inside tender; sides dust-darkened spine and extremities rubbed with leather chipped and cracking. Interior with expectable age-toning and foxing/spotting and title-page with some offsetting from map; map in good sturdy condition. => Overall a very reasonable indeed attractive copy of this first edition. J. Harris & Son (pr. by H. Bryer) hardcover books
