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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition (stated) 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. 8 1/8" Tall. Stated First Edition, 8 1/8" Tall (Taller Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"), 1 5/16" Thick (Thicker Than Some Other Copies Stating "First Edition"). The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks, Without Marks Or Damage, Just A Tiny Point Of Fraying Of Cloth At Each Of The Two Lower Tips, A Little Wear/Dulling To The Spine Gilt And A Little Rubbing/Bumping To The Ends Of The Spine. Dust Jacket With The Portrait Of Salinger On The Rear Panel, And With The $3.00 Price On The Front Flap, Second State With Slight Space Between Top Of Head And Top Of Dust Jacket (Apparently The First Issues Of The "First Edition" Were Slightly Shorter And With Cropping Of Salinger's Head In The Photograph On The Dj). The Dust Jacket Is Spectacular, No Chipping Or Tears, Without Restoration Or Cleaning Of Any Kind: No Fading To Orange-Red Or Yellow Colors On Spine And Front Panel, The… Read More

London [circa 1880]: J. S. Virtue and Co, 1880. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 13" Tall. Engravings on Steel and Wood. Vol 1: X;Vi; 240; Vol 2: Vi, 240; Vol 3 Vi, 240; Vol 4 Vi, 236. Half Morocco [Spine And Tips) Over Purple Pebbled Cloth; Spines With 5 Bands, Six Compartments, Gilt Title And Volume Number, Ornate Gilt Decorations In Other Four Compartments; Original Yellow Endpapers; All Edges Of Page Block Gilt. The Books Are 13" Tall, 10 1/2" Deep, And The Four Volumes Are 6 3/4" Wide On The Shelf. Undated But Circa 1880. Front Hinge To Vol Ii Cracked, Binding Solid. Original Leather Recently Professionally Conditioned And Refreshed, Professional Repairs To A Few Splits At Top/Bottom Of Spine Edges; Gilt Bright; No Names, No Marks, No Bookplates. Also With An Additional 41 Loose Plates Of Same Size As Those In The Books(Possibly From Another Copy Of This Set, Or Perhaps Never Bound). Shipping Weight About 30 Pounds, Insurance Required, Shipping Requires Additional Charges Depending On… Read More

London: A. Bell / B/ Lintot, 1712. First Edition . Full Leather. Fair. 8+" Tall. Lacking All Maps / Plates. (I)-(Xii), Including "Memorandum" On Xii, Noting That The Recent Publication Of A Continuation Of Cook's "Voyage", Containing Attempts At Views Of Harbors And Land In The South -Sea, Prevented His Intention Of Supplying Such Views In This Book, But Indicating That They Could Be Presented In A Later Coasting-Pilot-Book For That Trade; 50 Pp., The Appendix, Placed At The Front Of The Book, Containing A Description Of Coasts Etc. 17 Degrees N To 44 Degress S;1-428 Pp; (14) Pp, An Unpaginated Index At End. Defective And Worn, Lacking The Preliminary Pages Before The Title Page, And Lacking All Maps / Plates, Which Were Apparently Neatly Excised; Book Begins At Title Page And Is Otherwise Complete; Conditioned And Furbished. Pages Clean And Square. The First Of Several Early Editions, All Scarce. [Also Included Is A Separate Book, The Longmans, Green & Company Reprint Of This Edition, With… Read More

New York: New York: Gnome Press, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1951. First Edition, First Issue, First State . Hardcovers. Very Good + / Near Fine Books/Very Good + / Near Fine Dustja. An Attractive Set Of The True First Editions, All In First State Bindings And First Issue Dust Jackets (Priced $2.75, Not Price-Clipped), Without Any Writing Or Marks, Second Foundation Inscribed By Asimov. Foundation: Gnome Press (1951) Near Fine Book, No Marks Or Damage, Stated "First Edition" In First State Binding Of Blue Cloth With Red Lettering, Sheets Bulk 1.9 Cm Across The Top; Black Dust Jacket With Red, Blue White And Yellow, By Kyle, Is Vg+, First State With Three Books And Calendar Discussed On Back Panel, Wear With Minute Paper Loss At Corners And Tips, Very Light Wear At Edges, 1" Mostly Closed Tear Along Top Front Spine Fold (Not Very Noticeable), 1 1/2" Closed Tear And Associated Wrinkle At Upper Left Corner Of Front Panel. Very Slight Fading To Red Lettering On Spine, Otherwise All Panels Are Clean And Bright.… Read More

Los Angeles: Art Center School, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Photographs. 35 Pages In Red Plastic Binder, 13" X 10 1/4" With White Plastic Comb Spine. The Book Consists Of 32 Pages Of Photographic Paper On Card, Each With A 10 1/4" X 8 3/8" High Quality Photographic Image At Top On Each Side, Documenting All Kinds Of Class Settings In The Studios And In Outside Locations, And 3 Pages Of The Same Paper Each With Four 4 3/4" Square Photographs Attached To The Pages On Each Side, Portraits Of The Teachers, For A Total Of 88 Photographs. There Is No Text Or Writing Of Any Kind Anywhere In The Book, But It Is Very Similar To A Set Of Pages In The Art Center School Of Design Archives In Pasadena, Punched For A Spiral Binding But Unbound, Having Four More Pages Than This Set, But Lacking Some Of The Photographs Present Here. Ansel Adams Is Shown Instructing Many Of The Classes, As Are Fred Archer, Clarence Bull, James H. Doolittle, Edward Kaminski, Paul Dorsey, C. K. Eaton, Otto Hulmer, A B… Read More

London: Taylor And Hessey, 1820. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. [200] Pp. First Edition, Half Title Present, Original Paper Spine Label Bound In. Keats' Last Book, Of Modest Success When Published, Later Found To Have Some Of The Finest Poems In The English Language. When Shelley's Body Was Recovered In The Roads Of Viareggio (Not The Gulf Of Spezia) In 1822, Identification Was Made Possible By Two Books He Carried In His Pocket, A Sophocles, And A Copy Of "Lamia" Doubled Back At "The Eve Of St. Agnes". Binding By Riviere, In Late 19Th Or Early 20Th Century Full Calf, Five Bands, Gilt In All Compartments, Gilt Rules On Boards With Small Devices At Corners. Binding Re-Backed Preserving The Riviere Spine, Boards And Green Endpapers.17.2 X 10.7 Cm [The Uncut Leaves Were 7" X 4", Thus These Leaves Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Presumably When Bound]. Complete, Including The Half Title, And The "Advertisement" Leaf After The Title Page. With The Correct "London: Printed By Thomas… Read More

London: G. Nicol, 1797. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Quarter Morocco Over Boards. Very Good +. 11 1/8" Tall. Frontispieces, Plates And Illustrations. (Ii), Xxxiv,518; (Ii), Xx, 626. The Two Complete Text Volumes In Full Size, Text Blocks 10 5/8" Tall; The Plates Were Issued 1796 In A Separate Volume, Not Present Here; But The Plate Of The Camellia Sesanqua Is Present Between Pp 466 And 467. Original Quarter Morocco Binding, Five Bands, Morocco Spine Labels, Over Boards Covered With Marbled Paper, Original Off-White Endpapers, Preliminary And Final Blank In Each Volume. Bindings With Old Wear But Nicely Furbished, Morocco Labels Clean With Brilliant Gilt, A Little Loss Of Leather At Tops Of Spines And At Top Right Front Spine Edge, Paper Frayed Along All Edges Of Boards, Hinges Tight, Contents Clean, Just A Few Tiny Foxing Spots. Small Very Old Booksellers' Label Of The China Times, Bookseller, 94 Consular Road, Tientsin. And Another From Sydney. Former Owner's Signature Dated 1894, Erased In Volume 1,… Read More

London: William Innys, 1730. 4th Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. New Calf Spine And Tips Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards, New Endpapers. Two Preliminary Blanks, Title, Advertisements To First, Second And Fourth Editions382 Pp + 12 Folding Plates And Two Pages Of Publisher's Ads At Rear. Page Block 19.5 Cm (Text Block 6.5" X 3 1/2" From Top To Bottom Of Printed Area, Including Page Running Headings) Tall. Top Edge Of Page Block Is Dark (Grey Or Black), Fore Edge And Bottom Edge Red, All Polished. Leaves 7 5/8" Tall; Binding 7 3/4" X 5 3/16". The Last And Best Edition Prepared By Newton, Corrected From The Third Edition By Newton; In This Fourth Edition Of 1730, There Are 31 Queries, And It Is The Famous "31St Query" That, Over The Next Two Hundred Years, Stimulated A Great Deal Of Speculation And Development On Theories Of Chemical Affinity. The Publishers Have Added To This Edition Several Citations From The Lectiones Opticae (1669-1671) To Show Where Demonstrations, Omitted From The… Read More

Munich / Los Angeles: Herman Sachs / Hermann Sachs, 1918. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Large Modernist Batik On Silk, 46" X 39". Designed And Made By Herman Sachs Circa 1918/1925 While He Was In Munich Studying Circa 1918, Or Perhaps Later In Chicago, Dayton, Or After His Move To Los Angeles Circa 1922. From The Collection Of Muralist And Artist-In-General Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, An Employee Of Sachs Who Was Gifted Many Items From Sacs, And Later Purchased Much Of The Sachs Estate At Auction. A Similar Batik Is In The Collection Of The Metropoitan Museum Of Art In New York. Sachs Was A Fine Artist And Art Teacher, An American Who Went To Germany To Study Art, Then Remained There Until After The End Of Wwi. He Moved In Avant Garde Circles, Was Friends With More Famous Artists Such As George Grosz, Whose American Representative He Later Became. Sachs Was Friends With Schindler And Other Innovative Artists In Los Angeles; Schindler Designed The Apartment Building For Sachs In The… Read More

Macmillan And Co. 1924, 1930, 1924. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Colored And Supplementary Plates, Figures In Text, Plans, Tables. Four Volumes, An Incomplete Set, In Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, With Dust Jackets And Slipcases. First Printings. Volume I: Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Slipcase With Wear At Open Corners, Mostly At The Right Open Corners. Volume Ii: Lacking Volume Ii Parts I And Ii. Volume Iii: The Great Transitional Age In The Northern And Eastern Sections Of The Palace ; The Most Brilliant Records Of Minoan Art And The Evidences Of An Advanced Religion. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, In Lightly Used Slipcase With Wear At Open Corners. Vol. Iv,Part I, Emergence Of Outer Western Enceinte. With New Illustrations, Artistic And Religions, Of The Middle Minoan Phase ; Chryselephantine 'Lady Of Sports', 'Snake Room', And Full Story Of The Cult : Late Minoan Ceramic Evolution And "Palace Style". Volume Iv,Part.2, 'Camp-Stool' Fresco ; Long Robed Priests And Beneficient Genii,… Read More

Donning, 2008. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvi,532 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Expanded Third (And Last) Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Quite Scarce; Worldcat Records Institutional Holdings Only In Denmark. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Munger And Buffet Have Been The Solidest American Investors For Half A Century. They Didn't Buy Crypto- Currency Or Nft's Or "Managed Risk" Bubbles Or Promised Wonders. They Paid Their Taxes After Making Landmark Charitable Gifts And Strongly Encouraged Others To Do Likewise. They Made Other Investors And Business Leaders Look Like Inmates Of A Deluxe Long Term Custodial Care Facility For Dangerous Sociopaths.

Dover Publications T1846, 1968. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Vi, 125. Soft Cover, Apparently First Printing, Priced $1.75, No Isbn. Inscribed "To Dick Feynman -Bill Mcmillan Ucla Chemistry". On P. 121, Feynman Has Underlined "2 To The K Power-1 Must Be A Prime If K Is Odd" And Added A Marginal "? 2 To The 9Th - 1 = 511 = 7 X (Actually He Uses A Period As A Multiplication Sign) 73". Per Ucla, William George Mcmillan (1919-2002) Graduated From Ucla With A B.A. In Chemistry In 1941. He Continued His Studies At Columbia University Where He Received An M.S. In Chemistry In 1943 And A Ph.D. In Chemical Physics In 1945. Bill'S Dissertation Research In Statistical Mechanics With Joseph E. Mayer Was Concerned With The Theory Of Solutions. The Results, Known As The Mcmillan-Mayer Theory, Are Still Widely Cited. From 1944 To 1946, Still At Columbia, He Was A Research Chemist On The Manhattan Project, Working On The Separation Of U235. Upon Receiving A Guggenheim Fellowship In 1946, Bill Carried Out… Read More

London Uk: George Routledge & Son, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Book/No Jacket. Ix, 188 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Lettered In Gilt, Red Boards. First Printing [London 1928]. Near Fine, Especially Well Preserved. A Major And Pessimistic Criticism Of Intellectuals Aka Leaders In Every Serious Field, Particularly The Previous Fifty Years. A "Printing And The Mind Of Man" Title, #419, Remarkable Not Just For Its Intelligent And Articulate Criticism Of Their Moral Failings In What They Did Or Failed To Do, But Because It May Also Be Taken As An Indictment Of The Entire Intellectual Establishment And The Classes Which Populate It. It Demonstrates Not Just Their Particularized Faults And Deficiencies As Intellectuals, But Also Their Lack Of Leadership In Public Discussion Of What Is Important For Society. He Shows The Lack Of Capability And Moral Fiber Of Intellectuals For The Task They Have Implicitly Chosen For Themselves, That Is, To Articulate What Are The Basic Purposes And… Read More

London Uk: Putnam, 1948. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ix, 416 Pp. Blue Cloth, Spine Gilt. Stated Fourth Printing, 1948, Lacking The Dust Jacket. Inscribed "------ From Karen Blixen / Rungstedlund 25.5.1959"; From The Library Of The Recipient. Light Wear, No Other Marks.

Sociology And Social Research (1938), Dorris Shelton Still (1939), John Day (1942), John Day (Circa 1960), Synergy Books (1989), Correspondence 1987-1996), 1903. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Original Photographs 1903-1922 Including Many Negatives (Most Annotated), Copies Of Photographs (Most Annotated), Original Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Books By And About Him 1912-2004, Etc. . Archive Of Photographs And Correspondence In Tibet, By Albert Leroy Shelton ("Als"), Medical Missionary In Tibet 1903-1922. The Archive Contains 6 First Printings Of Books By Or About Him, 1912-2004, A Paper "A Bibliographic Essay On American Missionaries To The Tibetans Prior To 1950" (1998) With Related Correspondence From William Martin, Also Shelton's 146 Photographs 1903?-1922? Of Which 85 Are Annotated In White Ink, One Photograph Printing Plate (Zinc?) Of Als And His Wife Flora And Two Daughters Dorothy And Dorris (All Of Which Accompanied Him), 7 Sets Of Reprint Sheets With 2 Photos Per Sheet Also With… Read More