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1950131030New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition. First Edition. Presumed "Armed Forces" edition or the publisher's short-lived attempt to produce paperbacks bound in wrappers identical to the jacket art of the hardcover edition. More scarce than the hardcover a stopper for Asimov collectors. <br/><br/>Asimov's classic work a collection of short stories that had immediate and lasting impact on both science fiction and popular culture introducing the author's now legendary "Three Laws of Robotics." <br/><br/>Very Good plus in illustrated wrappers. A small chip to the front wrapper a larger corner chip to the rear wrapper silverfish damage to some preliminary pages and light shelfwear and toning overall. Gnome Press unknown books
1950125007New York: Gnome Press Inc. Publishers 1950. First edition of this groundbreaking collection of stories. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Bruce Lane with very best regards Isaac Asimov 26 Feb. 1951." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are uncommon. In this collection one of the great classics of science fiction Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad mind-reading robots robots with a sense of humor robot politicians and robots who secretly run the world all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction. It includes "The Evitable Conflict." in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future moving it "toward an unknown and happy destiny" Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age. It is the basis for the 2004 film starring Bridget Moynahan Bruce Greenwood James Cromwell Chi McBride and Alan Tudyk. Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers hardcover books
19941342631New York: Warner Books 1994. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Octavo 271 pages; VG; softcover; spine blue with white and gray lettering; mild shelf wear; check signed by Ellison loose within; inscribed by Ellison at title page; black and white illustrations and full color plates; pages clean; shelved Science Fiction. 1342631. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Warner Books unknown books
1994290993Norwalk. : The Easton Press. 1994. Limited edition #923 of 1500 copies. . Full black leather raised bands gilt and silver decorations all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon marker. . Fine blank Easton bookplate to pastedown. . 23.5x15.5 cm. . Signed by Ellison on the signature page. weight: 1.2 lb. Illustrated by Mark Zug. The Easton Press. hardcover books
2004014707Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2004. FOUR VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. All edges gilt sewn-in silk bookmarks Covers and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Covers all show the same robot. See photos. Color frontispieces in each volume by Stephen Youll. "I Robot" in green leather "The Robot of Dawn" in brown leather; "The Naked Sun" in rust leather and "The Caves of Steel" in blue leather. One small dark mark near top of front cover of "The Robots of Dawn" otherwise a pristine set. 253 419 187 224pp. Collected Edition. Full Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Stephen Youll. Large Octavo. The Easton Press hardcover books
1994132143New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1994. Octavo pp. i-vii viii-ix x-xi xii xiii-xiv 1 2-562 illustrations cloth-backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book. Published posthumously with an epilogue by his wife and a checklist of Asimov's books. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #132143 Doubleday unknown books
1994110755New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1994. Octavo printed blue wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book. Published posthumously with an epilogue by his wife and a checklist of Asimov's books. Slight spine lean else a fine copy. A very nice copy of the bulky uncommon proof. #110755 Doubleday unknown books
1970141971no info given: no info given 1970. Softcover. VG- Some light wear to wraps. Black stapled wraps; Unpaginated 12 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Features approximately twenty works as well as a list of "Personal Considerations on Art Making" including "Fear El-Greco! Avoid his works!" and "Do not waste time talking or writing about painting. Just Paint! no info given unknown books
190634140Paris: Edition Mutuelle PN 3083 1906. Folio. Original publisher's yellow wrappers with titling printed in dark red and green publisher's advertisements to verso of lower wrapper. 1f. recto printed in light green with illustration to upper inner corner verso blank 1f. blank 33 pp. With printed dedication to head of title to Madame Ernest Chausson.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn soiled and chipped. Edges slightly browned. First Edition.<br/><br/>"From 1905 to 1908 Albéniz wrote his masterpiece Iberia . wherein he captured and immortalized the sounds and rhythms of his native country ." <br/><br/>"Through his activities as a conductor impresario performer and composer within Spain as well as abroad Albéniz one of Spain's foremost musicians not only contributed to the rebirth of Spanish nationalism but also gained international recognition for Spanish music. Where Pedrell used folk music in his works as a basis for a national style Albéniz preferred to suggest rather than quote rhythms and melodic elements to evoke the Spanish landscape. He achieved popularity at the beginning of his compositional career with salon music. With his dramatic works his writing gained depth. By the end of his life he was creating dense polyphonic textures that combined underlying diatonic harmonies freely mixing major and minor tonalities with modal elements animated by vibrant ostinato rhythms overlaid with basically simple melodic lines and gestures embroidered with chromatic filigree." Frances Barulich in Grove Music Online. Edition Mutuelle [PN 3083] unknown books
1907315424Middletown Conn: Arawana Mills I.E. Palmer 1907. Over 100 chromolithographic plates of Hammocks on recto and desciption opposite. 270 pp. Oblong 12mo. Printed pictorial green wrappers. Some minor creasing and soiling to wrappers but a near fine copy. Over 100 chromolithographic plates of Hammocks on recto and desciption opposite. 270 pp. Oblong 12mo. A hammock catalogue lushly illustrated with chromolithographs from a New England manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century. A charming survival. Arawana Mills, I.E. Palmer unknown books
84308103London 1822 Ackerman. Dark purple tooled leather raised bands 25 hand colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates many fold-outs very clean 325p. small folio 24 x 31.5 cm all edge gilt gold stamped. VERY NICE COPY. QUITE RARE ! . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
84308102London 1822 Ackermann. Red original cloth very goodsmall folio gold stamped 325p. 25 aquatint illustrations on 13 hand colored copper etched plates many color foldouts 25 x 32.3 cm. THE FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Q U I T E R A R E . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
84308101London 1822 Ackerman. Red tooled morocco leather 325p. 25 hand-colored aquatint copper etchings in 13 plates several fold-outs very clean x-library copy perforations on title & illustrations else clean small folio 22.7 x 29.5 cm.RARE . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HAND-COLORED BOOKS . . . ON JAPAN OF THE 19 CENTURY. . SUBTITLE: continued: "And of the Ceremonies Customary Marriages and Funerals: to Which are Subjoined Observations of the Legal Suicide of the Japanese Remarks on their Poetry an Explanation of their Mode of Reckoning time Particulars Respecting the Dosia Powder the Preface of a Work by Confoutzee Confucius on Filial Piety &c. &c. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl." . THE SUPERB COLOR COPPER-ETCHED ENGRAVINGS: Magnificently copper-engraved color plates showing illustrations of early 19th century Japan which at that time was still closed to Foreigners. Titsingh was chief agent for the Dutch East India Company stationed in Nagasaki. He described feasts & ceremonies of the Japanese court a color foldout plate 98 cm. long ! marriages funerals law poetry chronology furniture earthquakes &c. . TITSINGH'S PRIMARY OBSERVATIONS: He also gave valuable and new first-hand information on Japan based on his personal observations which otherwise were not available elsewhere. The most important book of the time period because Japan was essentially closed to the rest of the world. With lavish hand-colored plates. A treasure & superb addition to any collection and library. . By and large the most important and most valuable small folio color plate book published on Japan in English of the time. . DESHIMA ISLAND: A marvelous primary resource and historic work ! Titsingh was the chief for the Dutch East India Company and was stationed in at Deshima a tiny island reserved for the Dutch in the Nagasaki harbour. Deshima was closed off of to the rest of Japan. . REFERENCES: H. Cordier: Japonica 450 Abbey Travel 557 Tooley 489 . hardcover books
198571213NY:: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0374174652 . First printing. SIGNED by the author. Previous owner's name and date on front endpage else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Farrar Straus Giroux, hardcover books
198528526NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0374174652 . First printing. Review copy with slip laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
19859028NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0374174652 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine age tanning along flap edges dust jacket. . Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
1975166035Berkeley: the editiors 1975. 55p. very good in wraps. Ford 212. the editiors unknown books
197519991San Francisco / Berkeley: Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Printed wraps. Near fine. Tiny dot of soil to front wrapper. Interior bright sharp and clean throughout. Small errata slip stapled to inside rear wrapper. 55pp. <br/><br/>First and likely only issue of this magazine loosely affiliated with the Berkeley-based Situationist-inspired group Point-Blank! of which Shutes was a noted member. Includes articles by the editors on a variety of topics including Wilhelm Reich Raoul Vaneigem and "vaneigemists" in Berkeley a literature review and excerpts from the editors' correspondence with "our comrades": Daniel Denevert Ken Knabb Gina Rosenberg et al. Though the edtiors write that "we have printed 2000 copies of the present journal" OCLC finds only three. Ford 212. (Isaac Cronin / Chris Shutes) paperback books
178711791London: Printed for J. Buckland and T. Longman T. Field and C. Dilly 1787. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: Printed for J. Buckland and T. Longman T. Field and C. Dilly 1787. xvi464 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown full calf; spine with red morocco lettering label. Binding worn; front hinge split but holding; internally sound and clean. Very good/No jacket issued. Printed for J. Buckland, and T. Longman, T. Field, and C. Dilly hardcover books
186024105Cincinnati 1860. 14 2 blank pp. Caption title disbound. Light wear Very Good. OCLC 144616376 1- Ohio Hist. Soc. unknown books
198089067Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0385155441 . Stated first edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Buckled along the spine else very good in a very good dust jacket.; 828 pages; Signed by Author . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
003788Doubleday. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author. First edition 1979. Copyright page states "First edition." Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book fine. DJ near fine with slight staining on back slight discoloration on spine a handful of rubbing spots on spine tiny tear at bottom of back. DJ price reads "$15.95." We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. Doubleday hardcover books
1979163952Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1979. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii-xii 1-3 4-732 cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Asimov to "Dave" David G. Hartwell dated 5 July 1980 on the titile page. First volume of Asimov's autobiography published as his 200th book along with OPUS 200. A fine copy in fine dust jacket save for a bit of dust soiling to rear panel. #163952 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1979270416Garden City: Doubleday 1979. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illus. 732pp. thick 8vo cloth d.w. Garden City: Doubleday 1979. First Edition.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown 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
