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199367175Washington DC: Rappahannock Press/Phillips Collection 1993. First edition. 4to. 172 pp w/selected bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 116 illustrations of which 60 are in full color. Washington DC: Rappahannock Press/Phillips Collection, unknown books
1978104306Amsterdam: C. J. Aarts/Amsterdamse Cahiers 1978. 32p. 6.5x8 inches one of 500 copies glossary very good first edition booklet in orange stapled wraps. In English "Jacob Lowland is rumored by some to be the pen name of an American poet who moved to the Netherlands to enjoy the gay life ." - rear wrap. Young 2395. C. J. Aarts/Amsterdamse Cahiers unknown books
1904D16958New York: Macmillan 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. No dust jacket. Each page has delightful pen illustrations in the margins. A nice copy. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
1910WRCAM22977Kansas City 1910. 103pp. Portrait frontispiece plus plates. Original cloth. Very good. Memoirs of a man who got "Kansas fever" in the late 1860s eventually becoming a prosperous farmer and merchant based in Ft. Scott. hardcover books
197310927.2New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1973. 1st thus Hanrahan A82. Brown cloth. Dust jackets. Publisher's orange box with pictorial paper onlay to one side. A Fine/Fine set in a Nr Fine box minor wear & soiling/price sticker shadow to rear panel. 2 volumes. Illustrations by Sendak. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
19632291423The Free Press of Glencoe 1963. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Spine lightly toned small tear to spine head and to spine base ink underlining and highlighting smudge on front paste-down endpaper. 1963 Hard Cover. xvi 428 pp. CONTENTS: Preface to the Second Edition 1956; Acknowledgement; Introduction: The Dependence of Modern Psychology on Cartesian Philosophy; Part I. Critique of the Doctrine of Conditioned Reflexes: The Relation Between Theory and Observation in Pavlov's Work - General Presuppositions - Some Difficulties Confronting the Application of Pavlov's Theory; Part II. Stimuli Signs and Signals: The Nature of the Signal - Resolution of the Difficulties; Part III. Man Thinks Not the Brain: Surrounding Field and Surround World - Signs Are Not Stimuli - Stimuli Are Not Objects; Part IV. Sensing and Movement Considered Historiologically: Preliminary Characterization of Sensing - Sensing Considered as a Mode of Communication - The Relationship Between Sensing and Moving - On Being Awake - Critique of Epiphenomenalism - The Difference Between Sensing and Knowing - The Difference Between Sensing and Perceiving - Traditional Psychology of Space and Time - Sense-Certainty - Development of the Theme Through the Phenomenon of Gliding - The Spectrum of the Senses - The Spatial and Temporal Form of Sensing; Notes; Indexes. The Free Press of Glencoe hardcover books
19731293243New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. First Editions. Hardcover. 12mos. 2 vols. VG/VG; DJs tan title blocks with off-white borders white and black lettering: mild wear to DJs light age-toning to spine of Vol. 2; "Two volumes boxed / $12.95" to front flap of Vol. 1 front flap of Vol. 2 price clipped; brown cloth boards gold lettering: mild wear to boards fading to spine of Vol. 1 more so than Vol. 2; interior pristine inscribed by previous owner to recto of frontispiece Vol. 1; set housed in orange slipcase moderate wear; frontispieces; shelved above Case 14. 1293243. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1988132695São Paulo Brasil: SESC Servico Social do Comercio 1988. Hardcover. VG donor bookplate bumped corners. White glossy boards. No dust jacket. 271 pp. Profusely illustrated with color plates. In Portugese. SESC, Servico Social do Comercio hardcover books
19818331981. JAVITS Jacob K. With Rafael Steinberg. JAVITS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PUBLIC MAN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981. Small quarto black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Javits on the half-title page: "For Gloria & Leonard Stern with Affection Jacob Javits." Leonard Stern is the creator of the well-known TV series "Get Smart." Near fine; price-clipped d/j. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
192703772New York: Boni & Liveright 1927. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine bright dust jacket. <br/><br/> Boni & Liveright hardcover books
1932226143New York: International Workers Order Inc 1932. Paperback. 74 16p. stiff paper wraps with cloth spine wraps slightly toned minor edge wear and bumping 6.75x10 inches minor writing on spine. Lyrics and music to radical songs a few such as Solidarity Hold the fort in English the rest in Yiddish introductory material in Yiddish using Hebrew characters lyrics transcribed using Roman characters. International Workers Order, Inc paperback books
193011377JNew York: Brentano’s 1930. First Edition. Signed by the author Jacob De Haas on the half-title. Former ownership signature. Two inch tear to a blank page a very good copy without dust jacket. A Judaic study of the Balfour Declaration and its influence on Palestine and the Jews. Brentano’s unknown books
196321014New Haven: Yale University Press 1963. cloth. small 4to. cloth. xxvi 495 pages. First edition later printing. Yale University Press unknown books
1970146106London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1970. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "The hero must escape from a terrifying prison planet and go in search of his own true nature. A confusing tale but vivid and grotesque." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 66. The author's first book. 1967 Nebula and 1968 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-14. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 354-57. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 14 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel near spine fold. #146106 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
1970225London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1970. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "The hero must escape from a terrifying prison planet and go in search of his own true nature. A confusing tale but vivid and grotesque." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 66. The author's first book. 1967 Nebula and 1968 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-14. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 354-57. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 20 mm closed tear at top edge of front panel near spine fold. #225 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
1969235London: Faber and Faber 1969. Octavo cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. First book of a trilogy followed by ORN 1971 and OX 1976. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-24. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV pp. 1596-1602. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #235 Faber and Faber unknown books
1969139943London: Macdonald Science Fiction 1969. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. A rebellious misfit becomes a good citizen as the result of harsh behavioral conditioning. "A society sterile and corrupt itself sentences its outcasts to 'Ultra Conscience' and the ring. Ultra Conscience -- the society's moral code imprinted by computer into the subconscious of the outcast -- and the ring -- a shocking device sealed on the finger -- operate in conjunction to form a prison of the mind. Though still holding the same beliefs and inclinations as before 'ringers' many not even entertain a thought contrary to Ultra Conscience without a cruel shock from the ring." - Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age p. 107. Perversely the authors' victimized hero "realizes that the ring is in fact a good idea in this vision of an unusually coercive technological utopia." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 305. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-36. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 310. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #139943 Macdonald Science Fiction unknown books
1974150347Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. VG- DJ has some scuffs or wear; this copy is from Clare Boothe Luce's library and has her blindstamp on the tp. Crimson cloth blue dust jacket 302 pp. BW illus. 4 maps. "The story of General Douglas MacArthur's final days in the Philippine Islands in early 1942 at the start of the war in the Pacific and his subsequent escape via sea and air to Australia. It is also an account of General Jonathan M. Wainwright and the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The story concerns four other important men -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Secretary of War Henry L Stimson General George C. Marshall and Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon -- whose decisions and actions determined the fate of 90000 soldiers and sailors in the garrisons of Bataan and Corregidor and of 16 million Filipinos throughout the Philippine archipelago." preface This copy came from the person library of American author and U.S. ambassador Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987 who wrote the forward. Her blindstamp appears on the title page. University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
1904011936Philadelphai: Wilmer Atkinson Co 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition small 8vo publisher's green cloth stamped pictorial and titles in red and black. Cover reads BIGGLE HORSE BOOK NUMBER ONE BIGGLE FARM LIBRARY. 128 pages illustrated. Superbly preserved apparently unused copy. Wilmer Atkinson Co hardcover books
1967103744New York: De Capo Press 1967. Hardbound. VG/VG. Black cloth with illustrated dustjacket. 257 pp. profusely illustrated in bw. Includes an original lithograph as the frontispiece. Includes the errata slip at front. A very nice copy of a vital book relating to this artist's work. Lithograph is not signed in pencil. De Capo Press hardcover books
193015221930. Hand colored view 16.5 cm x 26.5 cm Better than very good. Nice hand-colored image likely from T. J. Hileman 1882 - 1945 who for decades photographed in Montana primarily Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park originally for the Great Northern Railway. In 1926 Hileman opened photo studios in Glacier Park Lodge and for many years he produced and sold countless photographs of the area. unknown books
196517812NY:: Taplinger Publishing Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Foreword by B. J. Chute. First edition. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else good in a good edge worn chipped at the spine ends faded along the spine three inch closed edge tear on front panel dust jacket.; 118 pages . Taplinger Publishing Co., hardcover books
1963S8610No place:: Journal of Molecular Biology 1963. 1963. 8vo. 23-42 pp. Figs. tables. Self-wraps. Ownership signature of Norman Horowitz. Fine. RARE. Jacob was one of the most important geneticists of the 20th century. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Journal of Molecular Biology, 1963. paperback books
1988017030Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press 1988. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. 240 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. The unclipped dustjacket has minimal wear to the edges; protected in archival mylar. Contains approximately 200 illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Cambridge University Press Hardcover books
1987141527São Paulo Brasil: SESC 1987. Hardcover. VG; museum ex-lib. with plate inside front cover slight corner bumps and very faint sunning to some page edges. Tigh and clean. Glossy white boards with black lettering. 265 pp. with color images throughout. Printing of 3000 copies. Text in Portuguese. With brief essays about Brazilian art on The Main Question of Our Art How to Classify Our Art Art of the 20th Century Divided Art and Creation Some Criteria Realism Somewhat Beyond followed by the images. SESC hardcover books