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1971117198New York: Farrar 1971. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects the novel THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN; plus four episodes not included in the earlier English translation of Singer's memoir IN MY FATHER'S COURT; plus fifteen stories. Some of the material is fantastic. The publisher's blurb describes Yasha Mazur the hero of THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN as "master magician skeptic mind reader lover hypnotist tightrope walker apostate escape artist and holy man." Reginald 13223. Several faint scuffs to fore-edge of text block a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with small ink mark on front panel and mild dust soiling to rear panel. #117198 Farrar 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
183123859Columbia SC: Printed at the Times and Gazette Office 1831. 15 1 blank pp. Disbound partly untrimmed Top blank margin of title page torn away probably to remove an inscription; no text loss Scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> On the eve of the Nullification Crisis Hayne emphasizes the South's "oppression" the North's disregard of the national government's limited and enumerated powers and its actions which "deeply touch and threaten entirely to destroy the ends of our government." <br/>AI 7482 2. II Turnbull 234. OCLC locates three copies under several accession numbers as of December 2016 Case Western U. So. Car. NYHS. Printed at the Times and Gazette Office unknown books
181221028Northampton MA: Printed by William Butler 1812. 24pp. Disbound untrimmed. Light uniform tanning light scattered foxing. Inscribed in ink by author at head of title page "Geo. Trumbull Esq. from his friend I.C. Bates." Very Good. Printed by William Butler unknown books
199145275Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House 1991. First Edition. Quarto 26cm.; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 648pp.; illus. throughout. Tiny chips to jacket extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis as it happened in Poland France Belgium Greece Soviet Union Yugoslavia Italy Bulgaria Czechoslovakia North Africa Middle East and other occupied lands. Jewish Combatants Publishers House unknown books
198545274Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House 1985. First Edition. Quarto 26cm.; publisher's cloth in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; 648pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of wear else Fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis as it happened in Poland France Belgium Greece Soviet Union Yugoslavia Italy Bulgaria Czechoslovakia North Africa Middle East and other occupied lands. Jewish Combatants Publishers House unknown books
198645273Brooklyn: Jewish Combatants Publishers House 1986. Second Revised Edition. Quarto 26cm.; publisher's cloth in pink photo-illustrated dust jacket; 646pp.; illus. throughout. Chipping along top edges of jacket spine rather sunned else Very Good internally fine. "Freedom Fighters are telling their own stories of battles against Nazi Germany and the Axis as it happened in Poland France Belgium Greece Soviet Union Yugoslavia Italy Bulgaria Czechoslovakia North Africa Middle East and other occupied lands. Jewish Combatants Publishers House unknown 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
184758914New Orleans LA: J. Jaehne for the State of Louisiana 1847. Broadside document 16 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches. In part: "P.S. Hoes . to take acknowledgement and proof of deeds depositions conveyances mortgages sales transfers and assignments of any property etc. . and to authenticate and attest the signature & official capacity and acts of the public officers holding a commission or acting under the authority of the State of New York for and on behalf of the State of Louisiana." Folded but very good. Official form illustrated at the head with the seals of Louisiana and the United States. #5538. <br/><br/> J. Jaehne [for the State of Louisiana] unknown books
17076325Cambridge and London: Typis Academicis; Benj. Tooke 1707. First edition. Very Good/William Whiston the successor to Newton's chair at Cambridge "extracted from Newton a somewhat reluctant permission to print" this remarkable "schoolbook" based on Newton's lecture notes Babson Catalogue. So reluctant in fact that Newton kept his name out of it and supposedly considered purchasing the press run in order to destroy it! He later republished it himself. Several new theorems are laid out including a formula to determine the number of imaginary roots of any equation. The rule is complicated and is offered without proof. Yet 180 years later the rule was proven by rigorous analysis. The text also includes Edmond Halley's "Aequationum radices arithmetice inveniendi methodus. Octavo 19cm; 8 343 1 pages the last page blank . Figure and diagrams in text. Running-title: Algebrae elementa. Editor's preface signed: G.W. i.e. William Whiston. In contemporary paneled calf rebacked with new burgundy morocco spine label. Edges of boards rubbed. Early ink ownership inscriptions on blank endleaves the contemporary autograph of Edward Harington and the 19th-century mathematician William Fleetwood Sheppard. Half-title present. References: Babson Newton Collection; 199; ESTC; T018645; Bowes and Bowes 277. Typis Academicis; Benj. Tooke hardcover books
1732285967Leyden: Verbeek 1732. Third. hardcover. very good. Title page in red & black with engraved vignette; illustrated with 13 folding copperplates. 344 pages short 4to bound in 19th century leather-backed marbled boards lightly edge-rubbed; new end-leaves. Lugduni Batavorum: Joh. et Herm. Verbeek 1732.<br/><br/> Third Latin edition of his professorial lectures on mathematics mostly on algebra and analytic geometry given at Cambridge during 1673-83. Some of this material was incorporated into the Principia. Babson no. 204. Lowndes 1674. Some browning to the pages and light staining in top gutter but a very good copy.<br/><br/> Verbeek unknown books
2305Engraved vignette on title & 13 folding engraved plates. Title printed in red & black. 4 p.l. 344 pp. Large 4to cont. Dutch vellum over boards lower cover a little soiled final ten leaves with faint marginal dampstain panelled in blind central panel of each cover with large arabesque stamped in blind. Leyden: J. & H. Verbeek 1732. The Leyden edition the first to be edited by 'Gravesande and with additional treatises by Halley Colson DeMoivre Maclaurin and Campbell. There is also an Appendix "De Solutione et Constructione Aequationum Scripta Varia" excerpted from the Phil. Trans. Fine copy. Bookplate and signature of Karen Figala the historian of science. ❧ Babson 204. hardcover books
198110141Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1981. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-11 12-13 14 15-17 18-334 335-336: blank note: last leaf is a blank cloth-backed boards. First edition. Fifty-five essays on sf. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 8-12. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some scuffing to black ink background of front and spine panels. #10141 Doubleday & Company unknown books
197216939New York: Doubleday & Company 1972. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good . Milton Glaser. The 1972 stated 1st edition of Isaac Asimov's annotated version of Lord Byron's "Don Juan" wonderfully illustrated thruout by Milton Glaser. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact VG dustjacket with very light creasing along the front panel's top-edge and very mild darkening along the spine. Thick quarto "an original interpretation of Lord Byron's epic poem". Also includes a handsome Near Fine example of the publisher's pictorial slipcase. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Company hardcover books
198862853NY:: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0385239157 . Text by William Schwenck Gilbert. Second printing. SIGNED by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few small chips at the spine ends dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Hilary Knight.; 1056 pages . Doubleday, hardcover books
1989Embry 194927Harper & Row 1989. 3rd printing. Faint sunned strip to lower edges else fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Harper & Row, 1989. 3rd printing. unknown books
1968127518Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1968. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen science fiction mystery stories. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some mild age toning and spotting and a touch of rubbing to lower spine end. #127518 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1978183915Mysterious Press 1978-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Dust jacket is clean has a good binding the pages are clean and crisp has small tape stains on the front endpaper; also tape stains to the exterior boards in four places- no other markings or notations. Minimal cover wear. HB MYST/LA lz Mysterious Press hardcover books
198844605New York: Doubleday & Co 1988 . SECOND PRINTING. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Doubleday & Co hardcover books
1940447788Chicago: Fictioneers Inc. Popular Publications 1940. Softcover. Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 112pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Good or better with chips tears and nicks to the edges crease along the spine front wrap trimmed and with typical age-toning to the pages. Science-fiction pulp with contributions from Isaac Asimov "The Callistan Menace" Clifford Simak Harl Vincent Richard Wilson Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr. and with a letter from Forrest J. Ackerman and an essay from James Blish. Fictioneers Inc. [Popular Publications] unknown books
170208586Oxoniae Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre 1702. First Edition. The first astronomical book on gravitational principles; important because it contains the first publication of Isaac Newton's Lunar Theory "Lunae Theoria" pp. 332-336. The rather lengthy Preface contains Newton's Classical Scholia." Folio 14 1/8" x 9 1/2" 124942. bound in contemporary full paneled calf rebacked to style with red leather label on spine; with a plethora of diagrams in the text and a fine engraving on the title page. A lovely wide-margined copy printed on laid paper. First several leaves with light marginal dampstain affecting only a few words of text; small chip at foot of FFEP; discreet archival repair to gutter and lower part of title page; page 237 with light marginal soiling. David Gregory 1659 - 1708 was a close friend and associate of Isaac Newton. Babson 71. <br/><br/> Sheldonian Theatre hardcover books
18822302756Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1882. Third Edition. Third Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. Third edition. Pencil name on first blank. 1882 Hard Cover. 301 pp. Green boards. CONTENTS: Introduction: History of Astronomy; General View of the Heavens; Usefulness of Astronomy. Part I. The Solar System - General View of the Solar System: The Sun; The Inferior Planets: Mercury Venus; The Earth: The Tides; The Moon; Eclipses; The Superior Planets: Mars The Minor Planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune; Comets and Meteors: Comets; Meteors; Relation between Comets and Meteors. Part II. The Sidereal System - The Constellations: Description of the Constellations; Double Stars: Variable and New Stars; Clusters and Nebulae; Structure of the Universe. Part III. Properties of Light and Astronomical Instruments; Appendices: I. List of Large Telescopes; II. Astronomical Symbols; III. Lengths of Days Months and Years; IV. Statistics of Planets Sun and Moon; V. Periodic Comets; VI. List of Noted Double Stars; VII. List of Noted Clusters and Nebulae. J. B. Lippincott Company unknown books
17238scsChicago: American Dental Association n.d. Quarto blue pebbled cloth hardcover gilt letters iv 98 pp. Very Good. Illustrated with 180 illus. 19 in color 49 photographic plates. American Dental Association, n.d. hardcover books
51003hardcover. Drawings by Carl T. Linden. 180 illus. 19 color. Unpaginated. Thin 4to cloth; corners lightly bumped. Chicago 1948.<br/><br/> unknown books
1939251185Melbourne: Horticultral Press 1939. 47p. stapled wraps wraps soiled and dampstained staples rusted else good condition. Horticultral Press unknown books