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1956709608NY: Farrar Straus and Cudahy. 1956. Good in Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy hardcover books
2002036774New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2002. 1st American Edition. xxiii 338p. map b/w illus. dj. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1979ESB12546Secaucus: Lyle Stuart 1979. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Lamb to George McGovern on the front endpaper: "To / George McGovern / with admiration / Toledo Ohio." From the library of George McGovern. Lamb 1901-1987 was an American businessman broadcasting executive and labor lawyer. He is best known for having defended striking workers during the Auto-Lite Strike in 1934 and for successfully resisting the federal government's attempt to strip him of his broadcasting licenses during the McCarthy era. On page 211 Lamb states: "George McGovern is clearing away the myths which separate us. Most of your American political leaders like Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey do not seem to recognize the fundamental ethics of revolution in forcing change and improvements." On the next page 212 when speaking about politicians who wanted to visit Castro in Cuba he states; ".Senators Eugene McCarthy William Fulbright Frank Church and Jacob Javits and Justice William O Douglas all of whom had indicated interest in visiting Cuba" .but Castro himself stated his preference he wanted ".of all the American politicians he most wanted to see were Senators George McGovern and Wayne Morse." 272 pages with index. Illustrated from photographs. <br/><br/> Lyle Stuart hardcover books
201061325bd2Madeira Beach Florida: Sirena Press 2010. First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo paperbound full-color photo. illus. blue wrappers 265 pp10 pp. Very Good with light rubbing to edges. From lower cover: When millions of rebellious college students and high schoolers sat smoking the same thing and singing the same songs Steve Lamb was practicing the laws of supply and demand hop-scotching through the Caribbean in search of his first million dollars. I was in Federal Law enforcement during the sixties and seventies worked hundreds of narcotic cases and though I’d either seen or heard everything there was about drugs and drug trafficking. I was wrong. The Smugglers Ghost straightened me out. It’s a page turner. Sirena Press, (2010). First Edition. unknown books
19701317545London: The Limited Editions Club 1970. Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 302; VG/no-DJ; dark tan spine with gilt text to label; slipcase shows slight soiling to exterior; intact panels; original publisher's cloth has light exterior wear; mild wear to edges; text block has little wear to exterior edges; interior clean; illustrated; very good condition;. 1317545. FP New Rockville Stock. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
2010288514New York: PublicAffairs 2010. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Color Illus. 8vo black boards d.w. lightly dampstained. New York: PublicAffairs 2010. Very good<br/><br/> PublicAffairs unknown books
1976142166New York: Taplinger Publishing Company 1976. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Collects thirteen stories by William Hope Hodgson John Blackburn E. H. Visiak and others. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-279. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #142166 Taplinger Publishing Company unknown books
1976140620New York: Taplinger Publishing Company 1976. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Collects thirteen stories by William Hope Hodgson John Blackburn E. H. Visiak and others. Tymn ed Horror Literature 4-279. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild creases at spine ends. #140620 Taplinger Publishing Company unknown books
1977161894West Kingston Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant 1977. Octavo illustrations by Cathy Hill cloth. First edition. Oriental adventure novel first published as a three-part serial in ADVENTURE in 1923. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161894 Donald M. Grant unknown books
19751328297New York: Taplinger Publishing Company 1975. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine green with black print; DJ has light edgewear small tears to front top edge remainder of vendor label on front; Boards in green cloth with silver print slight wear to spine tail else clean and strong; Text block has light age-toning to paper else clean and tight; xiii 207 pages. 1328297. FP New Rockville Stock. Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
19645197New York: Basic Pamphlets 1964. 1st ed. Printed wrappers. A VG copy. 49 pp 16mo. <br/><br/>Scarce early ephemeral piece challenging of US involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Basic Pamphlets unknown books
1964232373New York: Basic Pamphlets 1964. Pamphlet. 49p. wraps 3.25x5.25 inches very good condition. Basic pamphlets no. 17. Basic Pamphlets unknown books
1889183591New York: White and Allen 1889. Softcover. Fair heavy wear to wraps damp staining along all edges spine torn and pages loose but all accounted for. Tan wraps red and blue lettering; 86 pp bw illustrations throughout. Includes: Program of celebration.--First paper. The inauguration of Washington 1789. Read before the New York historical society Oct. 2 1888--Second paper. Washington as president 1789-1790. New York city the seat of government.--Third paper. Historic homes and landmarks. The Battery Bowling Green and vicinity. Includes advertisements. White and Allen unknown books
19761319887Norwood: Norwood Editions 1976. Hardcover. Octavo; Facsimile reprint of the 1892 ed. published by Putnam New York;<br /> G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine black with silver print; Boards in black cloth staining to front and rear; Text block has penciled name on front flyleaf slight spotting to endpapers else clean and tight; xii 267 pages frontispiece port. 1319887. FP New Rockville Stock. Norwood Editions hardcover books
7257New York G.P. Pubnam's Sons 1892. One of 150 numbered copies of the Large Paper Edition. Bound by Blackwell in half brown morocco and marbled paper boards with gilt ornaments and letters on the spine marbled endpapers a.e.g. 267 pp. mounted frontispiece portrait title page printed in red and black. Text clean and bright. Fine. <br/><br/> New York, G.P. Pubnam's Sons, [1892]. hardcover books
025242New York; 1892: Putnam's. Limited Edition. Octavo. ix 267 pages frontispiece portrait. index. Large Paper Edition. No. 110 of 150 copies. The scholar Ernest Dressel North traced not only what he had written by how other major writers had quoted him. After confirming the quotes and anecdotes he arranges the sections so they can be read either consecutively or by topic with the helpful index. Bound in ¼ light brown polished calf spine lettering and top edge gilt internally fresh. A very good copy with light rubbing to spine. Putnam's unknown books
184349791NY: Harper 1843. First American edn. 8vo pp. x439; viii 476. Engraved portrait Bound in publisher's cloth some stained end papers foxed with some light foxing here and there. Contemporary inscription on the end paper to Edwin metcalf. A very good set. Harper unknown books
185658090New York: Derby & Jackson 1856. Signed on the first free end page in pencil with his ownership signature "J. A. Garfield Hiram Ohio Sept. 1856." Garfield's personal bookplate "Inter Folia Fructus Library of James A. Garfield" is affixed to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise case. Rare and desirable from the library of the 20th President of the United States. At Geauga Academy which he attended from 1848 to 1850 Garfield learned academic subjects he had not previously had time for. He shone as a student and was especially interested in languages and elocution. Later Garfield graduated from Williams College in August 1856 as salutatorian giving an address at the commencement. Garfield biographer Ira Rutkow pointed out that the future president's years at Williams gave Garfield the opportunity to know and respect those of different social backgrounds and despite his origin as an unsophisticated Westerner he was liked and respected by socially conscious New Englanders. "In short" as Rutkow later wrote "Garfield had an extensive and positive first experience with the world outside the Western Reserve of Ohio." On his return to Ohio the degree from a prestigious Eastern school made Garfield a man of distinction. He returned to Hiram to teach at the Institute and in 1857 was made its president. He did not see education as a field that would realize his full potential. At Williams he had become more politically aware in the intensely anti-slavery atmosphere of the Massachusetts school and began to consider politics as a career. Derby & Jackson unknown books
1876278755Boston MA: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Half Leather. Very Good binding. .With a Sketch of Hogarth's Life and Career by William Makepeace Thackeray and an Essay on the Genius and Character of Hogarth by Charles Lamb. Complete with heliotyped plates. Bound in three-quarter morocco. Some repair to the moire endpapers and loss to the first blank page. A handsome volume. Very Good binding. James R. Osgood and Company unknown books
1876133810Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1876. Hardcover. VG ex -library with minimal markings. a few smudges here and there and some chipped page corners small marginal tears and wear to page edges on bottom. library binding slightly dusty. Burgundy library buckram. All edges gilt. xix 16 pp of text and 120 plates each preceded by a letterpress page with a description. Very nice 19th century compliation of Hogarth engravings. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover books
1937247394London: Dent 1937. First. hardcover. near fine. John Farleigh. 3 wood engravings by John Farleigh. 8vo gilt-lettered black cloth; shelfworn at bottom edges and slightly rubbed at head; red top edges are just a bit mottled. London: Dent 1937. First Edition. A very good solid copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Dent unknown books
1937S11350Minneapolis:: American Physical Society 1937. 1937. Offprint. 8vo. 187-90 pp. Self-wrappers. Fine. See below for the following: 2: "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" from Physical Review Vol. 58 No. 8. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1940. with 3: "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" from Physical Review Vol. 64 Nos. 5 & 6. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1943. with: "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" from Physical Review Vol. 58 No. 8. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1940. Offprint. 8vo. 696-702 pp. Original self-wrappers. Fine. with: LAMB Willis E. Jr. 1913-2008. & J. ASHKIN. "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" from Physical Review Vol. 64 Nos. 5 & 6. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1943. Offprint. 8vo. 159-78 pp. Original green wrappers. Fine. Lamb attended the University of California at Berkeley for both his undergraduate and post-graduate studies. "For theoretical work on scattering of neutrons by a crystal guided by J. Robert Oppenheimer he received the Ph.D. in physics in 1938. Because of limited computational methods available at the time this research narrowly missed revealing the Mossbauer Effect 19 years before its recognition by Mossbauer" Wikipedia. "A Note on the Capture of Slow Neutrons. . . " presented on November 9 1936 and published in Physical Review in 1937 contributed to the first part of Lamb's thesis dissertation. The title of the dissertation was "I. On the capture of slow neutrons in hydrogenous substances. II. Electromagnetic properties of nuclear systems." "At Ann Arbor I had heard Fermi lecture on the effect of chemical binding of a hydrogen atom on its scattering of slow neutrons. This interested me and I began to work on related problems. It seemed that there might also be an effect of the binding of a hydrogen atom on the capture cross section for slow neutrons. At first I thought the effect would be large but finally had to settle for a very rough estimate of the cross section for a very unlikely process: the radiationless capture of neutrons by bound protons to form deuterons with the excess energy and momentum going into vibrational motion of the deuteron instead of a gamma ray. The normal capture process was very little affected by the chemical binding. Even today this radiationless capture has never been seen but I am still hoping that someday it may be. This work formed part of my doctoral thesis. The other part dealt with electromagnetic properties of nuclear matter" Lamb p. 136. "There is no greater tribute to Oppenheimer than the list of Ph.D.s he delivered which includes Carlson Christy Dancoff Kusaka Lamb Morrison Snyder and Volkoff" Pais p. 369. "Lamb was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his precision measurements of details of the spectrum of hydrogen. These included studies of fine structure and measurements of the Lamb shift a key observational step on the road to the development of the theory of quantum electrodynamics p. 203. Gribbin John. "Lamb Willis Eugene Jr. 1913-." Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. New York: Free Press 1998; Lamb Willis E. Jr. "Five Encounters with Felix Bloch." Rice University Studies. 66.3 1980: 133-45; Pais Abraham. Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986. <br /><br /> LAMB Willis E. Jr. 1913-2008. "Passage of Uranium Fission Fragments Through Matter" from Physical Review Vol. 58 No. 8. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1940. Offprint. 8vo. 696-702 pp. Original self-wrappers. Fine. "Early theoretical efforts on heavy-ion stopping date back to Bohr 1940 who pointed out the importance of screening due to projectile electrons in the slowing-down of fission fragments and to Lamb 1940 and Knipp and Teller 1941 who studied the problem of charge equilibrium for penetrating heavy particles" Sigmund p. 19. Niels Bohr 1885-1962 the renowned Danish quantum and nuclear physicist had been working in Copenhagen on determining how fission fragments penetrate matter simultaneously with Lamb's experiments. In a letter that he wrote to Tom Lauritsen a contemporary physicist Bohr mentions this article specifically writing: "Just a few days ago I received a copy of Physical Review of October 15 which as you may have seen contains a paper of Lamb who has independently achieved many of the results arrived at in Copenhagen. I thought therefore that it might be best to my last paper in the Physical Review to add a small addendum like that enclosed and I should be glad if you will kindly see that it is introduced in the proof. . . . In Lamb's article I also found various references to experimental investigations of fission fragments which we have overlooked or not yet known in Copenhagen" Bohr et al. p. 239. At the conclusion of Bohr's paper "Velocity-Range Relation for Fission Fragments" he writes "Note added at proof.—After the present paper was sent from Copenhagen we received here the issue of The Physical Review of October 15 1940 which contains an article by W. E. Lamb on the passage of uranium fission fragments through matter. In main features the considerations of this article correspond to the arguments developed here and similar results are obtained" Bohr p. 275. Bohr Niels. "Velocity-Range Relation for Fission Fragments." The Penetration of Charged Particles Through Matter 1912-1954. Amsterdam: Elsevier 1987. 270-75; Bohr Niel Jens Thorsen and Erik Rudinger. The Penetration of Charged Particles Through Matter 1912-1954. New York: Elsevier 1987; Sigmund Peter. Stopping of Heavy Ions: A Theoretical Approach. 24. New York: Springer 2004. <br /><br /> LAMB Willis E. Jr. 1913-2008. & J. ASHKIN. "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" from Physical Review Vol. 64 Nos. 5 & 6. Minneapolis: American Physical Society 1943. Offprint. 8vo. 159-78 pp. Original green wrappers. Fine. "The Ising model is a well-known model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics. . . . In 1944 L. Onsager produced quite unexpectedly an exact evaluation of the partition function of the model in two dimensions. It was a real tour de force" Yang p. 11. Lamb Arnold Nordsieck and others were all interested in the Onsager solution. "Out of this interest grew a Ph.D. dissertation by Julius Ashkin at Columbia which contained an analysis published by Ashkin and Lamb of the low-temperature Ising model pair correlation function using the matrix approach" Hoddeson p. 533. This paper "The Propagation of Order in Crystal Lattices" is that analysis. "The exact solution of the Ising model opened up the possibility of a rigorous formulation of other phase transition problems. While the Ising model was originally constructed to describe a ferromagnet its physical applicability was extended later to entirely different physical systems. . . . In contrast to Kramers and Wannier who in their 1941 paper refer to the 'Ising model of ferromagnetism' Montroll was immediately concerned with treating mathematically all kinds of 'nearest neighbor systems' including not only ferromagnets but also binary alloys and hindered rotations. Ashkin and Lamb in 1943 likewise thought of binary alloys" Hoddeson p. 574. "Kramers and Wannier showed that there was a non-zero transition temperature for the Ising lattice. Moreover they and Montroll showed that the partition function could be expressed as the trace of a matrix the 'transfer matrix'. . . . Using Kramers and Wannier's tecnhiques as well as ones developed with Mayer for the theory of imperfect gases Montroll derived series solutions for the partition function for narrow strips of lattice. Again employing Kramers and Wannier's techniques Ashkin and Lamb derived a series expansion for the propagation of order in the lattice the result that Yang eventually uses to check his exact solution" Krieger pp. 99-100. Hoddeson Lillian. Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992; Krieger Martin H. Doing Mathematics: Convention Subject Calculation Analogy. Hackensack NJ: World Scientific 2003; Yang Chen Ning. Selected Papers 1945-1980 With Commentary. Hackensack NJ: World Scientific 2005. American Physical Society], 1937. unknown books
195759827New York: Pageant Press Inc 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Review copy with the publisher's slip and other material laid in. Fascinating study of the uprisings led by Canadian rebel Louis Riel 1844-85 on behalf of the Métis people and their effect on relations between the predominantly French province of Quebec and the predominantly English province of Ontario during the infancy of the Canadian Confederation. Octavo. Original green cloth binding with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. Light bumping to the spine ends and corners. A bit of mild rubbing and edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Pageant Press, Inc hardcover books
199124910New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell 1991. 1st edition. Color pictorial hardback. Dust jacket replicates binding design. F/F. 96 pp. Illustrated. 4to. <br/><br/>In Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of "Reading is Fundamental". Bantam Doubleday Dell hardcover books
196440968Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1964. 24p. wraps slightly soiled else very good condition. An occasional paper on the free society published the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions unknown books
