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194827263Paris: Éditions surréalistes 1948. First edition. 13 p. 17 cm. Wrappers fine. One of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper. Fine. An anti-clerical tract signed in type by Adolphe Acker Sarane Alexandrian Maurice Baskine Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer Jean Bergstrasser Roger Bergstrasser Maurice Blanchard Joë Bousquet Francis Bouvet Victor Brauner André Breton Jean Brun Pierre Cuvillier Pierre Demarne Charles Duits Jean Ferry André Frédérique Guy Gillequin Arthur Harfaux Jindrich Heisler Georges Henein Maurice Henry Jacques Hérold Véra Hérold Marcel Jean Alain Jouffroy Nadine Kraïnik Jerzy Kujawski Pierre Lé Stan Lélio Pierre Mabille Jehan Mayoux Francis Meunier Nora Mitrani Henri Parisot Henri Pastoureau Benjamin Péret Gaston Puel Louis Quesnel Jean-Dominique Rey Claude Richard Jean Schuster Iaroslav Serpan Seigle Hansrudy Stauffacher Claude Tarnaud Toyen Clovis Trouille Robert Valançay Jean Vidal Patrick Waldberg. <br/><br/> Éditions surréalistes unknown books
1956397361956. Wilkes Maurice V. and Willis D. W. A magnetic-tape auxiliary storage system for the EDSAC. Offprint from Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 103 part B suppl. 2 1956. Original white printed wrappers. Signed by Wilkes on the front wrapper. 337-345 1pp. 281 x 217 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. Fine. First edition offprint issue. A description of the experimental magnetic-tape storage system developed for EDSAC which was the direct ancestor of the magnetic tape units on EDSAC 2. Spurred by the work then being done in the United States on the use of magnetic tape for computer purposes Wilkes became the first in Britain to pursue this line of research. "After some initial experiments I designed with the help of the workshop staff a magnetic tape unit of advanced specification. The tape was moved at 100 inches per second by means of a pair of pneumatic capstans one for each direction. . . . I had as a collaborator in this work D. W. Willis who had been on our staff in the early days and who had now rejoined the Laboratory. . . . We connected an early version of the tape unit to EDSAC 1 via a shift register. The system did not work particularly well and contributed little to the operation of the machine. It did however enable some practical experience to be obtained. In due course Willis joined Decca Radar taking with him the knowledge he had acquired while with us and the result was the Decca twin tape unit. We purchased two of these for the EDSAC 2 giving us four tape positions in all and they gave very good service" Wilkes 1985 190. Wilkes 1999 no. 40. Origins of Cyberspace 1037. unknown books
1925137867Paris: G. Crès et Cie 1925. Softbound. Fair contents loose covers soiled. A reading copy only. Cream paper wraps 40 pp. of text plus 42 leaves of black and white plates. Text in French. Uncommon. G. Crès et Cie paperback books
1940397431940. Wilkes Maurice Vincent 1913- . A method of solving second order simultaneous linear differential equations using the Mallock machine. Offprint from Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 36 part II April 1940. Original buff printed wrappers. Signed by Wilkes on the front wrapper. 1 204-208 2pp. 257 x 184 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. <p>First edition offprint issue. Wilkes directed the design and construction of EDSAC the first readily usable full-scale stored-program computer. EDSAC was preceded in operation by the Manchester "Baby"prototype stored-program machine which ran for only a short time in 1948; in America BINAC was probably running programs about the same time but it too was a very short-lived machine.</p> <p>In addition to developing EDSAC Wilkes was responsible for a number of programming innovations such as labels macros and microprogramming that became standard in the computer industry. He studied physics at Cambridge University where he received his Ph.D. in 1936 with a thesis based on work performed in the Cavendish Laboratory on the propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere. While engaged in postgraduate research on this topic he was allowed to use Cambridge University's model differential analyzer to solve a difficult equation. This machine which Wilkes found "irresistible" Wilkes 1985 25 inspired an abiding interest in automatic computing. At the end of 1936 Wilkes was put in charge of Cambridge's model differential analyzer and the following year he joined the staff of the university's newly founded Mathematical Laboratory becoming its director after the close of World War II. The Mathematical Laboratory renamed the Computing Laboratory in the 1960s played a critical role in the development of the electronic digital computer.</p> <p>One of Wilkes's tasks during 1937 was to gather information about the special-purpose calculating machine invented by R. R. M. Mallock of Cambridge's Engineering Department which the Mathematical Laboratory was interested in purchasing. Wilkes described the machine as follows:</p> <p>The Mallock machine was an analogue device and was capable of solving ten simultaneous linear equations in ten unknowns. It was based on the use of tapped transformers with the windings connected to form a network. The accuracy obtainable from such an arrangement might be expected to be very low because of losses in the transformers. What made the Mallock machine give a useful accuracy-one part in 1000 in favourable cases-was the use of a highly ingenious feedback circuit known as a compensator associated with each transformer. As a piece of electronics this was well ahead of its time. . . .</p> <p>In order to solve a set of simultaneous equations one had first to set the coefficients on an array of digital switches. The roots were then obtained by adjusting another switch until a galvanometer showed zero. This had to be done for each root in turn. When I got to know him Mallock was experimenting with a device based on the use of telephone relays for performing this operation automatically and printing the result on a paper strip. Although this gear came with the Mallock machine it was not fully developed and we made no attempt to use it. However it gave me my first introduction to the use of telephone relays in computing or rather control circuits and to some of the tricks one can play with them Wilkes 1985 29. Wilkes 1999 no. 6. Origins of Cyberspace 1014</p> . unknown books
1960143236Paris: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 11 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade director Molinaro in white straw hat and images of starring actress Petit including a striking portrait image of her under an elegant sconce and with Auclair reading scripts. All but one photograph with annotations in the verso in holograph ink film title names of persons pictured and all but two photographs with numerical annotations on the verso in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on a novel presumed by screenwriter Clavel. Philippe Auclair is an unsung artist with a mistress he does not love. He spends leisurely vacations at Paule's Presle in the Riviera where he meets Manette Petit a poor girl whom he befriends and lusts for to the chagrin of Manette herself under the romantic allure of Philippe. <br/><br/>Late in the canon of cinematographer Jean Bourgoin whose credits include some of Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s Orson Welles' film noir "Confidential Report" 1955 and Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" 1958. <br/><br/>1 photograph 3.25 x 4.25 inches remaining photographs 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Filmsonor unknown books
1923186437New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co 1923. Hardcover. VG- scratches to cloth; foxing to edges; back cover has stain to lower edge area. spine top rubbed tail rubbed at edges w/ tears. corners rubbed to corners; back lower corner bumped & creased. faint dampstaining to the edges of pg 200 to close. oversized tan & brown cloth boards w/ gilt embellishments & printing; gilt spine printing. 212 pgs copiously illustrated. A handsome tan and brown cloth edition. Pages may have instances smudges and occasional staining to back of plates otherwise nice and bright copy. Wonderfully illustrated. The Architectural Book Publishing Co hardcover books
1784WRCAM48601Isle de France: Imprimerie Royale 1784. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Moderately worn with loss at fore- edge and gutter margins not affecting text. Lightly soiled and dampstained. Good. An early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. The text comprises a poem in eleven stanzas by an anonymous soldier from the Regiment of the Isle de France who retired to the island of Bourbon. As most early imprints from Mauritius are official documents this piece a work of local literature is particularly interesting and desirable. <br> <br> The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base; as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. <br> <br> Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1784284321784. Quarto. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Moderately worn with loss at fore edge and gutter margins not affecting text. Lightly soiled and dampstained. Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius also known as the Ile de France. The text comprises a poem in eleven stanzas by an anonymous soldier from the Regiment of the Isle de France retired to the island of Bourbon. As most early imprints from Mauritius are official documents this piece as a work of local literature is particularly interesting and desirable. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton the Dutch abandoned the colony in 1710. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France" and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810 and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea rice and other produce. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period until 1810 only about 400 imprints were produced mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. unknown books
1988120931Toronto: The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism Revolution and Propaganda 1988. 30p. wraps. Mackenzie paper no. 2. The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda unknown books
193529971Detroit: Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court 1935. First Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 39pp. Rear wrapper a bit toned old newsclipping laid in has left offsetting to pp. 10 & 11 else Very Good or better. Successful defense speech by labor attorney Maurice Sugar best known for serving as General Counsel to the United Auto Workers Union 1937-1946. In 1934 James Victory an African-American WW1 veteran and car washer was accused of slashing the face of a white woman and stealing her purse. Thanks to Sugar's speech published here Victory was acquitted despite William Randolph Hearst's disparaging media coverage and an all-white jury. See Christopher H. Johnson Maurice Sugar: Law Labor and the Left in Detroit 1912-1950 1988 pp. 151-153. 5 copies in OCLC as of May 2016 at UC Davis Yale Library of Congress Michigan State and U. Michigan. Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court unknown books
1956397501956. Wilkes Maurice V. A note on the use of automativsic adjustment of strip width in quadrature. Offprint from Nachrichtentechnische Fachberichte 4 1956. Unbound as issued. Light toning. Signed by Wilkes on the first leaf. 182-183pp. 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. First edition offprint issue. A follow-up to Wilkes' 1954 paper on Chapman's grazing incidence integral describing the preparation of the program for the table. Wilkes 1999 no. 43. Origins of Cyberspace 1038. unknown books
2000247962New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000. Hardcover. 168p. frontis-piece signed on the title page near fine first edition stated in cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover books
1957144269France: Cinedis 1957. Collection of 61 original black-and-white single weight photographs from the 1957 French-Italian film released in the US as "On Foot On Horse and On Wheels" 1958. Starring actors Noel-Noel and Grey are in nearly every image with a few featuring Sophie Daumier. All with numerical annotations in holograph pencil housed in an original French Crumiere photo paper box. <br/><br/>Leon Martin's Noel-Noel daughter is engaged to the son of a wealthy businessman and he goes to the extreme to make a good first impression. Prolific Paul Misraki composed the music and a sequel was made by Jean Dreville with Noel-Noel reprising his role called "A pied a cheval et en Sputnik" 1958 "Sputnik" in the US.<br/><br/>5 photos 3.5 x 4.25 inches and 61 photos 5 x 7 inches all with small white borders at the foot. Photos and box Very Good plus photos with moderate curling and faint foxing and one split to the box lid. Cinedis unknown books
1911GG01447London:: English Review March 1911. 1911. 8vo. pp. 585-759 1 ads. xvi. Later half brown morocco brown cloth raised bands gilt stamped spine title t.e.g. Bookplates 3 of Staunton Hill David K.E. Bruce 1898-1977 Anne J. Smith and John Quinn. Very good. English Review, March 1911. hardcover books
39735180. Wilkes Maurice V. A programmer's utility filing system. Offprint from The Computer Journal 7 October 1964. Unbound as issued. Signed by Wilkes on the first leaf. 180-183 4pp. 281 x 218 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. First edition offprint issue. "The object of the Programmer's Utility Filing System PUFS is to provide the programmer with a means of storing on magnetic tape or on a disc file all the programs and data that he is making use of in his current work and to reduce to a minimum the quantity of punched paper tape or punched cards that is used" p. 180. Wilkes 1999 no. 63. Origins of Cyberspace 1046. unknown books
1990016370New York: Columbia University Press printed By J J Augustin 1990. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 653p. index. bibliography. appendices. In Ravel's own words both written and spoken we begin to understand the genius of the composer. The book begins with an overview of Ravel's career personality aesthetics and his formal lecture: "Contemporary Music" which he presented in 1928. The next section contains letters from Cocteau Colette Faure Stravinsky and others. Seciton III contains his articles he was known as a brilliant critic. The final section has his press interviews between 1911 and 1933 with all the material fully annotated. In addition there are sixteen plates and nine appendices as well as a unique discography. Essential for the devotee of Ravel's genius. Columbia University Press (printed By J J Augustin) unknown books
196447855Ithaca NY: Cornell 1964. First Edition. 8vo pp. ix 146. Index. Gray cloth stamped in gilt. Cover and edges lilghtly soiled o/w a nice copy. Cornell unknown books
196455990Ithaca: Cornell University 1964. ix 146p. spine faded. Cornell University unknown books
19641312450London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1964. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 160; G/G; ivory spine with black text; dust jacket shows moderate wear to exterior; minor chips to edges; cloth has slight sunning to exterior; strong boards; text block shows slight age toning to exterior edges; interior lightly toned; previous owner's name to ffep. 1312450. FP New Rockville Stock. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
188554074London & New York: George Routledge and Sons Broadway Ludgate Hill 1885. Number 437 of 550 copies printed by H. Launtte Librairie Artistique Paris for George Routledge. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x inches. Bound in full blue contemporary morocco gilt lettered spine gilt dentelles t.e.g. original chromolithographed wrappers bound in. About fine. Leloir Maurice. Number 437 of 550 copies printed by H. Launtte Librairie Artistique Paris for George Routledge. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x inches. A Modern French Master Illustrator. Fine attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated book masterfully incorporating his drawings with the text in style of Johannot. Leloir 1853-1940 was one of the true professionals in the history of French illustration. Books with his designs appeared over five decades. Working by preference with stories laid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries he was at pains to make his costumes as accurate as possible. It was his celebrity in this field indeed which led Douglas Fairbanks to bring him to Hollywood as artistic director of The Iron Mask 1929. His illustrations are abundant precise and objective." -Ray French Illustrated Books.<br/><br/>As for A Sentimental Journey one of his masterpieces Ray observes that "every episode in Sterne's short text finds its appropriate visual commentary." Ray 292 French ed. George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill unknown books
188414879New York: J.W. Bouton 1884. First American edition thus. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 210pp. 1 vols. 4to. Full dark blue pebbled morocco gilt lettered spine original chromolithographed wrappers bound in. Very Good. Leloir Maurice. First American edition thus. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 210pp. 1 vols. 4to. A Modern French Master Illustrator. Fine attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated book masterfully incorporating his drawings with the text in style of Johannot. Leloir 1853-1940 was one of the true professionals in the history of French illustration. Books with his designs appeared over five decades. Working by preference with stories set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries he was at pains to make his costumes as accurate as possible. It was his celebrity in this field indeed which led Douglas Fairbanks to bring him to Hollywood as artistic director of The Iron Mask 1929. His illustrations are abundant precise and objective . " -Ray French Illustrated Books.<br/><br/>As for A Sentimental Journey one of his masterpieces Ray observes that "every episode in Stern's short text finds its appropriate visual commentary . " Ray 292 French ed. J.W. Bouton unknown books
188439857New York: J.W. Bouton 1884. Folio 31.1 cm 12.25". Add. col. t.-p. xvi 210 2 pp.; 12 plts. illus. <br><br>First American edition with Leloir's illustrations: beautiful production of a fictionalized travelogue that Sterne 171368 finished just weeks before his death inspired by his real travels through France and Italy. Narrated by Sterne's alter ego Mr. Yorick these deeply personal adventures brought new subjective life to a genre that had typically relied on objective writing and paved the way for a flourishing of the style in the late 18th century.<br>Â Â Â Â First published in 1768 the work appears here in a lavish edition with a prefatory life of the author and sporting an additional chromolithographic title-page. The text is decorated with => twelve full-page photogravure illustrations done by Leloir and reproduced "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text. Ray cites these illustrations as possibly => even better than Leloir's much-acclaimed work for Manon Lescaut.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff M.D. sans indicia. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Ray French Illustrated Books 292 for French first ed. Contemporary half brown morocco and brown cloth leather edges ruled in single gilt fillet spine with gilt-stamped title and author gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments binding done by W. Roach Co. of New York; edges and extremities showing moderate rubbing middle cloth portion of outer edges of covers with small area of light discoloration. All edges gilt. => A clean attractive unfoxed copy. J.W. Bouton hardcover books
195881724London:: Allan Wingate. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. B0000CK5PY . Stated first impression. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in a very good moderate edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. . Allan Wingate, hardcover books
8274paperback. Illustrated with tables. 6 pages pp. 405-410 IN: American Journals of Obstetrics & Gynecology vol. 21 no. 3. Tall 8vo modern wrappers. St. Louis 1931. First Edition. Whole no. offered entire.<br/><br/> Friedman test for the diagnosis of pregnancy. GM 6224.<br/><br/> unknown books
197475689Erie Pennsylvania: Hammermill Papers Group. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in a modern custom fine binding of white leather with gilt stamping to the covers. There is some wear to the upper hinge but with the binding solid. The contents are bright and clean with very nice color illustrations. Limited Edition #2117. . Hammermill Papers Group hardcover books