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1990144930New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1990. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A regrettable expansion of Asimov's famous short story "Nightfall" 1941. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #144930 Doubleday unknown books
199062177New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1990. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first U.S. edition. A regrettable expansion of Asimov's famous short story "Nightfall" 1941. Soil mark on fore-edge of text block a very good copy. #62177 Doubleday unknown books
1970193649Fawcett Publications 1970-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1970 edition. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light overall age toning and wear. MM HS Fawcett Publications paperback books
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
1834806311834. TITSINGH Isaac. NIPON O DAI ITSI RAN OU ANNALES DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON TRADUITES PAR M. ISSAC TITSINGH avec l'aide de plusieurs interpretes attaches au Comptoir hollandais de Nagasaki; Ouvrage revu complete et corrige sur l'Original japonais-chinois accompagne de notes et precede d'un Apercu de l'Histoire mythologique du Japon par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; Sold by Parbury Allen and Co. London 1834. Quarto. 6viiixxxvi460 pp. 27.4 cm. In a modern brick cloth binding with a dulled gilt-stamped title to spine; it is lightly scuffed on lower board and a little faded on spine. Text is quite clean and crisp. Very good plus. Cordier 450. unknown books
197973041979. SINGER Isaac Bashevis. NOBEL LECTURE. London: Jonathan Cape 1979. Sm. 8vo. printed wraps. First Edition. Fine. $5.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
197965376London: Jonathan Cape 1979. First UK edition. 21 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. Includes a statement by Singer “Why I Write for Children†on the occasion of his being awarded the 1970 National Book Award. London: Jonathan Cape unknown books
1986222762New York: Walker & Co 1986. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Thin 8vo green boards d.w. New York: Walker & Co. 1986. First Edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy signed "Janet & Isaac Asimov"<br/><br/> Walker & Co unknown books
1983141651New York: Walker and Company 1983. Octavo boards. First edition. In the publisher's trade binding. The first Norby book. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges and nick and short closed tear at lower front corner tip. #141651 Walker and Company unknown books
2006147422Amherst New York: Prometheus Books 2006. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-9 10 11-207 208: blank boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #147422 Prometheus Books unknown books
180889674Paris: L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou 1808. Paperback. Good. 44p. Old plain wrapper. 22cm. Wrapper split and worn along fold. Some foxing and browning French text. Printed on verso of title-leaf: Extrait duMagasin Encyclopedique Journal pour lequel on s'abonne chez Tourneisen fils libraire rue de Seine n.o 12 <br/><br/> L'Imprimerie de J. B. Sajou paperback books
209940Amsterdam: Giovanni Battista Albrizzi. unbound. very good. Map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 11" x 13.25".<br/><br/> Beautifully detailed map of the area between the Gulf of Finland and the Ob River with attention to geographic features. Minor stains in full original margins.<br/><br/> Giovanni Battista Albrizzi unknown books
183121773London: James Nisbet &T. Stevenson Cambridge 1831. 8vo 23.5 cm; 9". 1 f. xii 250 pp. <br><br>Third edition. In addition to being a physicist mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature as the New Catholic Encyclopedia X 428 says "Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms." They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!<br>Â Â Â Â "A new edition with the citations translated and notes by P. Borthwick . . . of Downing College Cambridge. Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked in sympathetic cloth and new paper label antique style applied. Boards show age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page. In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author title and call number in gilt. => A nice copy sound for reading. James Nisbet, &T. Stevenson, Cambridge hardcover books
1820321194Np 1820. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. Stitched. Manuscript throughout in black red and yellow ink. 54pp. with hand colored geometric illustrations. Signed by Isaac Doughten at the head of the first page and within. unknown books
19701315158Verona: McClure Press 1970. Ist Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; VG/VG; hardcover; plum colored spine with white text; dust jacket has minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a slight tear to the bottom edge; boards have slight smudges but clean and sturdy; front free end-paper is inscribed; text block clean; 142p. 1315158. FP New Rockville Stock. McClure Press hardcover books
1979247011New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Autographed copy.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1979236594New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Review copy with glossy promotional photo of the author. Autographed - "With friendship Isaac B. Singer"<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1979USINOLD00DGFarrar Straus & Giroux 1979. Fine. Singer Isaac Bashevis. Old Love. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. x 273pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good; bumping and a few tiny closed tears to edges creasing in front panel and clipped price. Farrar Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1979USINOLD00JDFarrar Straus & Giroux 1979. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. Old Love. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. x 273pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st printing. Farrar Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1979130499New York: Farrar 1979. Octavo cloth. First edition. The author's eighth collection of short fiction; eighteen stories. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block a nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket. #130499 Farrar unknown books
1979100141979. SINGER Isaac Bashevis. OLD LOVE. NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Singer "To Arlene" on front blank page. Nr. fine in d/j. $65.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1979WRCLIT32446New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1979. Cloth. First edition. Translated by Joseph Singer Elizabeth Shub and others. Signed by the author. Remainder mark on top edge else about fine in a mildly rubbed jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1979910New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. 1st ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. F/VG 2 closed tears on frnt panel. 273 pp 8vo. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
197927319New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed on preliminary blank to a noted collector: "To Dr. ___ / with my best wishes. I.B. Singer. April 1980." A fine book in a fine bright dust jacket. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, Giroux unknown books
197920727New York:Farrar Straus & Giroux 1979. 1st edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. New York:Farrar, Straus & Giroux, unknown books
