Isaac Asimov EdABAA
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19798240New York: Harper & Row 1979. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ISAAC ASIMOV on the title page. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1979 stated 1st thus. Tight and Near Fine in a bright price-clipped Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 317 pgs. Edited by Asimov himself Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
19888237New York: Doubleday 1988. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ISAAC ASIMOV IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1988 stated 1st edition. Fine in a bright price-intact Fine dustjacket. Octavo 221 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
19858254New York: Walker and Co 1985. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ISAAC ASIMOV on the title page. A clean crisp copy to boot of the 1985 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 61 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Walker and Co hardcover books
19798228Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co 1979. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY ISAAC ASIMOV TO HIS CLOSE FRIENDS LES & CHAUCY BENNETTS. A solid copy to boot of the 1979 stated 1st edition of the first volume of Isaac Asimov's autobiography. Clean and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with light wear at the panel edges and light creasing along the front flap fold. Thick octavo 732 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Co hardcover books
19828227Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1982. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY BOTH ISAAC ASIMOV AND HIS WIFE J.O. JEPPSON TO THEIR CLOSE FRIENDS LES AND CHAUCY BENNETTS. A solid copy to boot of the 1982 1st thus. Tight and VG in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with light chipping at the spine ends and several very small closed tears along the bottom-edges. Octavo 521 pgs. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin Co hardcover books
19738236Garden City NY: Doubday & Co 1973. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ISAAC ASIMOV on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of this 1973 collection of 32 of Asimov's science essays. Clean and Near Fine in a bright VG dustjacket with its $6.95 dustjacket price intact. Very light chipping at the panel edges and light soiling to the rear panel otherwise clean as could be. Octavo 321 pgs. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Doubday & Co hardcover books
198110333Gareden City NY: Doubleday & Co 1981. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY BOTH ISAAC SINGER AND RAPHAEL SOYER on the half-title. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the 1981 1st trade edition. Fine in a bright price-intact Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo nicely illustrated thruout by the estimable Raphael Soyer. Signed by Authors. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Co hardcover books
1974S9159New York & London:: Plenum Press 1974. 1974. Series: Marine Science vol. 3. 8vo. viii 324 pp. Figs. refs. Blue boards gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust jacket. Signature of Stanley Miller on front free endpaper. Fine. Rare. ISBN: 0306355035 Plenum Press, (1974). hardcover books
1984288217Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House 1984. hardcover. near fine/very good. Many black & white illustrations. 3 volumes thick 4to brown red and beige cloth d.w. Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House 1984 1985 1986. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Jewish Combatants Publishers House unknown books
198431775NY:: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1984. Hardcover. B001442GBM . Illustrated with three color lithographs one fold-out by Larry Rivers. Quarter bound in Nigerian goatskin and Irish linen. This copy is number 1465 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. SIGNED by the author and illustrator. Publisher's Monthly Letter and errata slip laid in. A bit of light foxing on top edge else near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 220 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator . Limited Editions Club, hardcover books
18507647Albany: Joel Munsell 1850. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full beige leather gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label; pp. x 431 plus engraved frontispiece portrait and 4 maps. First edition. Light scuffing along spine joints and edges of boards; spine tips reinforced with heavy tape extending about 1" onto boards; a few light pencil notations here and there. An excellent working copy with bright clean plates and text block. <br/><br/> Albany: Joel Munsell hardcover books
179743039Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin 1797. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Bottom quarter of last leaf torn away without loss of text else a very good untrimmed copy contemporary owner's signatures on half title. 31 pp. 8vo. Half-title: Dr. Lewis's election sermon May 11 1797. "The primary object of civil institutions is to prevent those evils.to which men would unavoidably be exposed in a state of nature." Issac Lewis 1768-1840 was a Yale graduate and served as chaplain to the state militia during the war. Provenance: Signed on the half title by Peleg Thomas 1736-1834 who served as lieutenant in the Fourth Alarm company of Connecticut militia and fought in the Rhode Island expedition Battle of Quaker Hill under General John Sullivan and by his daughter Sarah M. Thomas. Sabin 40810. Evans 32377. Trumbull: Connecticut 996. ESTCW28924. Printed by Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
1846267879Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1846. First. hardcover. good. Cambridge Mass. on a secret expedition against Quebec under the command of Col. Benedict Arnold in September 1775. 40pp. 8vo contemporary 3/4 black morocco rebacked in new black cloth morocco and boards rubbed pages throughout are creased down the middle edges of corners worn. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1846. First Edition<br/><br/> Howes S-291.<br/><br/> Historical Society of Pennsylvania unknown books
18165960Frankfort Kentucky: 8 June 1816. The survey refers to acreage bound by "a post" "a black oak" "a Spanish oak" "two hickory bushes" and the creek. The lot is near modern Little River in Christian County in the Southwestern part of the state. Isaac Shelby was Kentucky's founding governor inaugurated the same day that the Commonwealth joined the United States. His term ended in 1796 but with the outbreak of the War of 1812 Shelby was brought out of retirement to serve a second term. By all accounts he was a brilliant governor. 1 leaf 327 x 400 mm. Seal of the Land Office of Kentucky. Lot warranted to Josiah Matthews described in manuscript with paraphs. Signed by the governor and by M.L. Hardin secretary. Partially divided along horizontal fold; chip on left edge; toned. 8 June unknown books
1699D7870Paris: Chez Guillaume Desprez 1699. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 118 x 120mm. xvi 215pp. ix; xii 217pp. ix; viii 247pp. ix. Woodcut engraved printers device on title of female personification of Hope anchor and Faith torch with legend inscribed: ARDET AMANS SPE NIXA FIDES Faith is supported by hope that burns by the fire of charity. Woodcut engraved chapter vignette at beginning of Book of Tobit depicting Tobit visited by archangel Raphael at Judith showing her beheading Holofernes and lastly Queen Esther in her palace. Woodcut engraved chapter head and tail-pieces. Later three-quarter red morocco over cloth-covered boards; some slight browning and lightest edgewear. Armorial bookplate of Charles Morgan of New York rampant griffin. <br/><br/>Antoine Isaac Baron Silvestre de Sacy was a French Orientalist. He was born in Paris. He studied Hebrew in order to verify the accuracy of the Latin and French versions of the Bible and to this he later added many other Semitic languages. The books of Tobit Judith and Esther are usually run together. Each deals with the lives of individual people. These people were heroes or heroines coming through some major difficulties. Complete with illustrations and in good form. Chez Guillaume Desprez hardcover books
1980250022New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1980. First. hardcover. fine/fine. With twenty-three illustrations by Ira Moskowitz. Small 4t0 linen d.w. New York: Farrar Straus 1980. First trade edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy "To the sister of my good friend.Dec 14 1980.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
19731328426New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 342 pages; VG/VG; in black dust jacket black spine with yellow and orange titling; mild rubbing and wear particularly to head and tail of spine small closed tears; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$8.95'; newsprint staining to the ffep;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Inscribed on the ffep by Isaac Bashevis Singer "For Rachel / with my love and / admiration / Isaac"<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> JM consignment;. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Charles McGrath former writer and editor for The New Yorker writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking a former college professor who had a discerning eye for talent she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth."<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> This collection of stories contains 24 stories 14 of which first appeared in The New Yorker including the title story. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Thomas Pynchon and Singer went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. 1328426. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
197813735New York: Doubleday 1978. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy but for sunning to spine. Raphael Soyer. 4to. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. With a numbered color print signed by Raphael Soyer. This is copy #141. As a young man in 1930s Warsaw Singer lived inconspicuously on the edge of a successful brother's literary circle tormented by philosophical doubts and youthful skepticisms involved with a much-older mistress a typical Singer grotesque and on intimate terms with other equally obsessed women. Unlike the garrulous know-it-alls at the Writers Club he had no conversational case no political affiliation and classic insecurities. Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year this book was published. This is the second volume of Singer's autobiography. Bound in blue cloth with the original publisher's slipcase with cover label. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
19821412662Farrar Straus Giroux New York 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED Limited Edition. #888 of 1048. Fine in grey buckram with maroon stained top edge and maroon marker ribbon in a clear acetate wrapper in a maroon cloth slipcase. One thousand are for sale for subscribers to the Book-Of-The-Month Club. Book fine slipcase near fine. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York hardcover books
1982241357New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition no. 93 of 450 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
198439580New York: The Limited Editions Club 1984. 1st edition thus Newman & Wiche 538. SIGNED by Singer & Rivers. LIMITED to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1310. Quarter-bound in blue Nigerian goatskin gilt stamped & Irish linen. Grey paper slipcase gilt lettering printed to spine. Spine very lightly sunned and soiled. Slipcase slightly worn. A VG example in a VG slipcase. x 220 pp. Monthly letter laid-in Errata slip regarding binding laid-in before Colophon. Frontis other color lithographs by Rivers. 4to. 12-3/4" x 9-1/2" <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club unknown books
198118903New York: Doubleday 1981. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author with a numbered signed color print by the illustrator laid in. Octavo; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; original paper-covered slipcase; 259pp; illus. Some trivial rubbing to spine gilt else Fine in a Fine slipcase. An semi-autobiographical novel set in New York richly illustrated throughout. Doubleday unknown books
197138969NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1971. First edition. 560 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this book uncommon in first edition doubly-uncommon in fine condition. Collects the whole novel THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN and short stories drawn from five of Singer’s collections. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
19761328427Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1976. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 209 pages; VG/VG-; in black dust jacket black spine with white titling; mild rubbing and wear particularly to head and tail of spine small closed tears and chipping including chip missing to head of spine; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$17.95';<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Inscribed on the verso of the half-title by Isaac Bashevis Singer "For Rachel / with love and / admiration / Isaac / April 16 1976"<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> JM consignment; Case 3. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Charles McGrath former writer and editor for The New Yorker writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking a former college professor who had a discerning eye for talent she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth."<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. 1328427. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
195821312London: Peter Owen Limited 1958. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original simulated cloth in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 8205pp. Jacket spine faded minor glue residue from previously removed price sticker on upper jacket flap else Very Good or better. Peter Owen Limited unknown books
