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193334571New York: Street & Smith Publications Inc. 1933-1949. Tanning to pages of all some minor losses throughout front and back covers present bindings are bright with the exception of volumes 10-13 which are quite faded. All issues trimmed for binding. Overall the magazines are very good to nearly fine. The complete list report upon request. Note for shipping extra funds required. 34571. Octavo thirty-two volumes pictorial wrappers uniformly bound in green cloth. A complete file of 181 issues in bound volumes. Doc Savage was a precursor to the modern super hero. Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. was trained from birth with a rigorous regimen resulting in extraordinary strength and intelligence. He never killed unless necessary he had scientific gadgets a headquarters and a secret base a fortress of solitude. The stories combined mystery adventure and some science fiction. He also had a team of five experts in various fields to assist in his adventures. His stories were extremely popular during the pulp era and then found a new audience in the 1960s-70s when the series was reprinted in paperback. The novels were written using the house pseudonym of Kenneth Robeson the main author was Lester Dent who wrote nearly 80% of the novels. Other author contributors as Robeson included William Bogart Alan Hathway Harold Davis Laurence Donovan and W. Ryerson Johnson. There were many excellent contributors to the short stories which rounded out the magazine with authors such as Steve Fisher E. Hoffman Price Q. Patrick John D. MacDonald Bruno Fischer Frank Herbert William Lindsay Gresham to name a few. Street and Smith publishing executive Henry Ralston and editor John Nanovic established the initial idea for Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. - .a brawny 'superman' a master of many fields-surgeon mineralogist engineer inventor linguist. His skin was a glowing bronze.his hair was a matching hue and so too his eyes resembling gold flake. He would be known as the Man of Bronze."- Server Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers p.81. "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character but under Lester Dent's imaginative manipulations he became something more - the first superhero and an inspiration for countless pulp comic-book and television characters." - Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. "The enormously wealthy Doc Savage – headquartered in a fantasticated New York with his five sidekicks who specialize in various crafts and sciences at the borderline of sf – devotes his life to combating criminal conspiracies almost all masterminded by the kind of charismatic villain later given definitive form by Ian Fleming in the James Bond books. Doc Savage himself clearly influenced the creation of Superman." - SFE online. A note on artists Walter Baumhofer contributed the initial look to the character with his striking cover painting through late 1936. Other artists include Robert George Harris Emery Clarke Modest Stein and George Rozen. An ideal collection for an institution. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 183-185. Street & Smith Publications, Inc. unknown
2015111723Park Books. New. 2015. Paperback. 3906027538 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and German. -- with a bonus offer-- . Park Books paperback
193334709Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear closed tears at upper spine edge mild spine fade a nearly fine to fine copy. 34709. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. "The Wheel of Death" by R. T. M. Scott. This is the last to be written by Scott starting with the next third issue a house pseudonym was used. The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
192731969New York: Experimenter Publishing Co. 1927. Text paper mildly tanned front cover shows a touch of edge rubbing a lovely copy bound in brown cloth which has preserved this issue quite nicely. This issue does not appear to be trimmed for binding. 31969. Large octavo single issue bound volume pictorial wrappers in brown cloth with spine stamped in gold. Bedsheet-sized pulp bound. This features the first printing of "Master Mind of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The only issue of AMAZING STORIES ANNUAL. Released in July 1927 its 100000-print run sold out. The success of the ANNUAL encouraged Gernsback to launch AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY in January 1928. Reference: Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 49-51. Experimenter Publishing Co. unknown
194833277Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House 1948-1949 volume 1 number 1-volume 2 number 4. First edition. Touch of wear to corner tips and spine ends to several issues the usual rust staining from the staples a nearly fine to fine set. A very nice set. 33277. Octavo printed wrappers. All published. A short lived but important periodical. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Theodore Sturgeon A. E. van Vogt and many others the magazine published essays criticism memoirs and book reviews. One issue was devoted to science fiction. The final issue included an index. All issues were limited to 1200 copies except the "All Science-Fiction Issue" that had a 2000-copy print run. Reference: Parnell Monthly Terrors pp. 14-15 listing contents. Tymn and Ashley eds. Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 112-114. Arkham House unknown
100977<p>New York October 14 1976. 1976. Very good. - Over 110 words penned in two columns on his personal 7 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide ruled "Message/Reply" stationery. John Cage writes to Sydney Cowell Henry Cowell's widow about Henry Cowell's compositions "Recv enclosed letter from my Japanese composer friend. Located piece in Ms. at Lincoln Center. It is actually 2 pieces called Set of Two but one was too difficult and the other was recorded in Japan under the title Prelude for Vn & Hapschd. I have given Kuniharu Akiyama's address to Mr. Jackson." He goes on to indirectly refer to his own compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" which were performed in Boston: "The Boston piece went very well. Seiji was marvelous. Now must wk with Boulez on it. Singers were great." Signed "John". There are minor annotations along the top edge in an unidentified hand and staple holes at top left. Else near fine.</p><p>John Cage's compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" were performed simultaneously by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa on September 29 1976. Boulez performed the works with the New York Philharmonic on November 5th of that year.</p><p>The Japanese avant-garde composer Kuniharu Akiyama 1929-1996 was also a music critic and a poet. He was a founding member of the Jikken Kobo group of avant-garde artists.</p><p>The American avant-garde composer John Cage 1912-1992 was a pioneer in electroacoustic music and the unconventional use of instruments. An artist and music theorist he was Merce Cunningham's lover and influential in the development of modern dance. Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg were both his teachers.</p><p>Henry Cowell's wife Sidney Robertson Cowell 1903-1995 was a pianist and an American ethnomusicologist and collector of folk songs.</p> New York, October 14, 1976.
193334710Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear reading crease with separation at lower left spine edge inked date stamp to upper front cover spine is bright red a nearly fine to fine copy. 34710. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The third issue. With this issue and the remainder of the run the house pseudonym of Grant Stockbridge is used. This issue "Wings of Black Death" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193631578New York: C.J.H. Publications Inc. 1936. Text paper tanned but quite supple light edge wear with tiny closed tears at the upper and lower spine. A very good or better copy with bright front cover. 31578. Large octavo single issue illustrations by Fred Meagher pictorial wrappers saddle stapled. Pulp magazine. The only issue which includes eight full page color illustrations. An attempt to blend the comic strip and pulp field which did not find the right audience. Includes the lead story which stars Flash Gordon and three other SF stories. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 273-274. C.J.H. Publications, Inc. unknown
196121274Pasadena TX: Glenn Lord 1961-1973. Some age tanning to edges of early issues a nearly fine to fine set except for the Winter 1965 issue has a closed tear to the lower front cover and some wear along upper front edge a very good copy. Complete sets are uncommon. 21274. Small octavo printed wrappers. All published. A major source for material by and about Robert E. Howard. Many Howard poems letters and fragments of fiction are printed here for the first time. Most issues are scarce especially the early numbers. Glenn Lord unknown
193634746Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1936. First edition. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear slight wear to spine ends a bright fine copy. 34746. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Laboratory of the Damned" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
2015<p>First English Language Edition. 897 pp. offset in stiff wrappers chiefly illustrated in black and white. 4to. Very good. 2015</p><p><em>Catalogue raisonné of the artist's books of Raymond Pettibon. From the library of translator and onetime member of the Situationist International Donald Nicholson-Smith inscribed to Nicholson-Smith by Pettibon at half-title page and additionally by editor Ohrt at title page. A nice association copy which suggests an affinity between Pettibon's illustrations and the graphic work of the Situationist International.</em></p> D.A.P.
193732685Chicago: Manvis Publications Inc. 1937. Mild tanning to text paper slight wear to yapp edges light pencil name to upper front cover a fine copy. 32685. Octavo single issue cover by J.W. Scott pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. All Ka-Zar stories written by Bob Byrd a house pseudonym here Thomson Burtis. A Tarzan pastiche. Reference: Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 368-69. Manvis Publications, Inc. unknown
193334708Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild tanning to text paper mild edge wear with a few tiny tears reading crease at spine rear cover re-glued with several chips to left edge mild color fade to spine a very good to nearly fine copy. 34708. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. "The Wheel of Death" by R. T. M. Scott. This is the last to be written by Scott starting with the next third issue a house pseudonym was used. The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
200328617BECKETT C56980 AUTHENTICATED STICKER ON BACK OF 13 1/2 IN. RULER. 2003. PROMOTIONAL MOVIE RULER HAND SIGNED BY VAL KILMER and BECKETT AUTHENTICATION SERVICES BAS AUTHENTICATED 13 1/2" x 1" The John Holmes Big Boy Promotional Ruler. The ruler is in BRAND NEW/NEVER BEFORE DISPLAYED condition This signed ruler is in BRAND NEW/NEVER BEFORE DISPLAYED CONDITION. There are no defects of any kind. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Unbound. BECKETT C56980 AUTHENTICATED STICKER ON BACK OF 13 1/2 IN. RULER.
1999__0750306165Inst of Physics Pub Inc 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. Inst of Physics Pub Inc hardcover
193434719Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Mild tanning to text paper slight color fade at spine to orange slight edge wear a nearly fine copy. 34719. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Prince of the Red Looters" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
194072114Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1940. First edition. Narrow octavo. 14 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Together with 274 IBM punch cards each with the same printed title across the top - "Quadratic Character of m" and with Robinson's name and copyright data. Both housed together in the publisher's cloth case with metallic snap and spine lettering in black. Bit of wear to bottom case joint but overall an excellent copy.From the introduction - "Since quadratic congruences play a fundamental role in the theory of numbers it seems very desirable to have a simple way to solve them even when moderately large numbers are involved. The method of exclusion when combined with a suitable mechanical device such as these stencils provides an easy method for solution" Raphael M. Robinson was a leading figure in mathematics and taught at Berkeley from 1937 to 1973."Even among world-renowned mathematicians Robinson was exceptional. In an age of specialization he contributed significantly to six fields: logic set theory geometry complex analysis number theory and combinatorics; and in a subject often considered a young person's game he continued to produce significant mathematics into his eighties. He also anticipated most of the mathematical community by a good 20 years in making use of computers to obtain results in pure mathematics. In 1951 never having seen one of the new computing machines and working only from a manual he coded the first successful program to test very large numbers for primality. “That the code was without error was and still is a remarkable feat†according to the recently published history of the Institute for Numerical Analysis on the UCLA campus. “In an age where most of our journals are filled with papers which even if good exploit theories for their own sake. it is refreshing and stimulating to encounter one of Robinson's papers†one of the foremost number theorists of the century has written. “In each of them he takes a problem old or new which can be stated in simple and intelligible terms and either solves it or at least adds much that is new. His scholarship is impeccable; it is plain that he never writes until he has thought deeply and until he has sought out every relevant piece of existing knowledge.â€Approximately a quarter of Robinson's publications are distributed among seven different topics in logic and the foundations of mathematics. The one to which he gave most attention was that of undecidable theories an interest that he shared with his wife Julia. By way of illustration the mathematical structure consisting of the integers with their operation of addition is said to have a decidable theory. This means it is possible to program a computer so that given any sentence about the structure in a logically defined language the computer will make a finite computation that determines whether the sentence is true or false. Another mathematical structure with a decidable theory is that of all real numbers with their operations of addition and multiplication. This was shown by Alfred Tarski also of Berkeley But a major mathematical discovery of this century was the fact that that the structure of integers with both operations of addition and multiplication has an undecidable structure because there is no computer program that can decide the truth or falsity of every sentence of its language. In several papers Robinson was able to show that a number of other mathematical theories are also undecidable. His most valuable contribution however was devising a theory with a finite number of axioms that is “essentially undecidableâ€--a concept introduced by Tarski. The book Undecidable Theories Mostowski Robinson and Tarski has provided a tool for researchers to identify undecidable theories in all parts of mathematics. " Calisphere. University of California Press hardcover
193432337Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Creamy paper minimal edge wear tiny loss at lower right corner a nearly fine copy. 32337. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "THE CORPSE CARGO" by Grant Stockbridge pseudonym. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193434722Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Mild tanning to text paper small closed tear to upper and lower edges bright red spine a fine copy. 34722. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Builders of the Black Empire" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
19402110502150414612Nagoya Local Traffic Investigation Committee 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nagoya Local Traffic Investigation Committee paperback
19062111902160200727Toyuridono Castle General High School 1906. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Toyuridono Castle General High School paperback
192729018New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1927. Pages tanned mild edge wear small paper loss base of spine two large chips upper and lower left rear corners. A very good to nearly fine copy with attractive front cover. 29018. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Features part one of "The Land That Time Forgot" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Other authors include H.G. Wells Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg Garrett P. Serviss and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
192630572New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1926. Pages tanned and supple slight edge rubbing a fine copy. 30572. Large octavo single issue cover by Frank R. Paul pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine bedsheet format. Fiction by H. G. Wells Garrett P. Serviss Fitz-James O'brien Edwin Balmer and William H. MacHarg and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 14-49. Experimenter Publishing Company unknown
188833058London U.K.: 22 June 1888. 1888. Very good. - Letter: small octavo 7-3/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. 128 words penned in black ink on all 4 sides of a folded 4-sided sheet of House of Commons letterhead with the Commons seal at the top of the first side. Signed "Yours sincerely / Edward Hamley". There is occasional very light foxing to the letterhead & 2 pieces of mounting tape adhere to the right margin of the 4th side where the letter has been removed from an album. Folded once for mailing. Very good.<p>Manuscript leaf: small quarto 9 inches high by 7 inches wide. 83 words penned in black ink on one side of a sheet of cream watermarked paper. Folded 3 times with slight darkening down the top end of 1 vertical fold. 2 small pieces of tape adhere to the verso of the sheet where it has been removed from an album. Very good. <p>The letter addressed to "My dear Mrs. Ford" expresses his regret that he missed her when he called on her. He congratulates her on becoming "the Mistress of Pencarrow" her family's estate and her childhood home. He goes on to complain about the House of Commons workload though "we are not quite such slaves as we were last year." <p>The manuscript leaf is from Hamley's novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood" and is headed "Chap. II." The page which ends in mid-sentence describes the morning toiletries of two women characters. The first sentence of the extract reads: "Rosa constitutionally an early riser used to be always up before Orelia in the morning until the latter took it into her head to have a shower-bath fitted up in the closet that opened from their room."<p>Sir Edward Bruce Hamley 1824-1893 served in the Crimean War. He was professor of military history at the Staff College Sandhurst from 1858 to 1877 and was Commandant of the College from 1870-1877. He was chief of the commission for the delimitation of the Balkan and Armenian frontiers 1879-80 and commanded a division in the Egyptian war of 1882. He was promoted to General in 1890. Hamley was Member of Parliament for Birkenhead from 1885 until his death in 1893.<p>In addition to works on the Crimean War and his military manual "The Operations of War" Hamley was a short-story writer and poet a translator of French verse and the author of a novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood". He was a valued contributor to Blackwood's Magazine wherein the novel first appeared in 1853. It was subsequently published in two volumes by William Blackwood and Sons in 1854. Sadleir 1103; Wolff 2949.<p>Both the letter and the manuscript come from the autograph collection of Mrs. Mary Ford widow of Richard Ford who wrote the popular "Handbook for Travellers in Spain". The autograph collection known as the Pencarrow Collection was formed from the 1850s onwards largely by Mary Ford in her long period of widowhood. [London, U.K.]: 22 June 1888. unknown
194034799Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1940. Mild tanning to text paper slight trim to right edge several tiny tears tiny chip and small closed tear to upper left corner closed tear around upper right corner a nearly fine copy. 34799. Octavo single issue cover by Rafael DeSoto pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Spider and the Jewels of Hell" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
