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Wroclaw, Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 1977. Very Good condition. 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Bound in the original green wrappers, a little rubbed at the edges. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. Text in Polish except for a 2 page summary in French which has a brief margin note in pencil that appears to be in Professor Church's handwriting. Matematyka, Fizyka, Astronomia XXI. Tables. Graphs. Bibliographical references. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature, or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately, this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. [But please check our inventory for several others that do]. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA (1967-1990). He… Read More

Chichester [UK]: Phillimore, 1986. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (one short closed tear). NO chips, creases or fading. Paper clip mark to the top edge of a few early leaves. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean and unmarked. Square and reasonably tight. Corners are NOT bumped. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. With double page map, and 19 illustrations on 8 glossy paper stock plates. Six pages of O'Brien family tree genealogical charts. Long list of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original brown boards, stamped in bright gold. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xx, 266pp. + 8 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Grove Press, 1993. Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($24.95). A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 7.25" wide by 9.25" tall. "First Edition 1993" is so stated, with complete number row (0987654321) on the copyright page. Profusely illustrated (including lots of ephemera - posters, sheet music, playbills, set drawings, stage photos, telegrams, etc.). From the Dust Jacket: "A Celebration of the [50th] Anniversary of America's Most Loved Musical." List of sources. Index. Bound in the original tan boards, with a maroon cloth spine lettered in shiny gold.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 276pp .

New York:: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 1991. A bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (29.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. "With more than eighty illustrations, many of them never before reproduced." Bound in the original pale yellow boards, and off-white cloth spine, lettered in copper. Sharp corners. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Sources. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "In this remarkable double portrait, based upon five years of exhaustive research and access to newly discovered documents, Benita Eisler has recreated this era of promise, as personified by two of its key figures. Almost twenty-four years his junior, [Georgia] O'Keeffe was the 'Eve' that [Alfred] Stieglitz sought in his quest for an authentic American idiom...… Read More

Las Vegas, Nevada: UNLV Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), 2016. Fine condition. Previous owner's tiny address label. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently seldom, if ever read. Profusely illustrated in full color. Bound in the original wraps, with a full color painting of an owl by Barbara Stevens on the front cover. This is an anthology of prose, poetry, photographs, and works of art produced by OLLI at UNLV. Spiral-bound so when opened the book lies perfectly flat for ease of use. Oversize Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. This large book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail.. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Oversize Softcover (spiral). Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 165pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London:: Tavistock Publications, 1970. A solid copy. Square and reasonably tight. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings (but NO pocket). Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in shiny gold over a red spine panel. Contains 78 papers arranged into 14 sections, as follows: 1) Prologue; 2) Corporate planning and corporate objectives; 3) Operational research in the public sector; 4) Social and political sciences; 5) Stochastic processes; 6) Transport and traffic; 7) Market strategy and marketing; 8) Mathematical methods of optimization; 9) Informatics; 10) Network flows and graph theory; 11) Decision analysis; 12) General interest papers; 13) Working group reports; 14) Epilogue. . First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No jacket.. 8vo. cxxvi, 855pp. [981 total pages].

New York / London:: Academic Press, 1972. A bright, clean, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is only a little frayed at the edges. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrations. Contains 7 major sections: 1) Basic Principles, Definitions, & Units; 2) ORD and CD of Organic Functional Groups; 3) Solvent and Temperature Effects; 4) Amides, Peptides, Nucleosides, Nucleotides, Pigments, & Porphyrins; 5) Optically Active Polymers; 6) Metallic Complexes; 7) Magnetic Optical Rotatory Dispersion and Magnetic Circular Dichroism. Appendices. Problems. Table Author Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket.. 8vo. x, 230pp..

Vancouver, British Columbia: William Hoffer, 1982. Appears unread. Near Fine. Condition would be Fine but for light rubbing to the cover. Bright, clean and tight. Sharp corners. The spine is uncreased, square and flat. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked - apparently never read. 1982. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. A full scale bibliography of the Canadian editions of L. Frank Baum's writings, including his non-OZ, pseudonymous, and anonymous works. An important complement to BIBLIOGRAPHIA OZIANA. Illustrated with nearly 100 useful photos of book covers, title pages, variants, spine imprints, and ephemera. From the introduction by Peter E. Hanff: "Experienced collectors of early editions of the Oz books have long recognized that many titles were apparently issued in Canada in forms nearly identical to the original American editions. Indeed, most large collections of Oz books have a[t] least a copy or two of the… Read More

Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Demco clear-plastic sleeve. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Beautiful full color illustrations throughout. Index. The book's dedication is to "My Dear Friend, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)." Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in bright gold on the front cover and over a black label on the spine. Oversize Hardcover. 10" wide by 11.5" tall by 2" thick. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. lxxiii, 429pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Moscow, USSR: Trudy Matematicheskogo instituta inteni V. A. Steklova, 44, 1955. Text in Russian. Because this marketplace does not accommodate Cyrillic charcters, all Russian language words from this book have been here transliterated into Latin script. Good condition. Spine is worn. Edges of the cover are sunned. Pages are clean and unmarked. From Encyclopedia: "In 1952 Novikov constructed a finitely defined group H with an unsolvable word problem, that is, a group with no algorithm to solve the word problem for H. This result was first announced in his 1952 paper “Ob algoritmicheskoi nerazreshimosti problemy tozhdestva” (“On the Algorithmic Unsolvability of the Word Problem”). The complete proof was published three years later [i.e. in this 1955 edition]. In 1957 William W. Boone gave another example of a group with an unsolvable word problem, and therefore this result is called the Novikov-Boone theorem. Important corollaries derived from this theorem have suggested… Read More

Honolulu, Hawaii: Mutual Publishing, 1996. Very Good condition (only light shelfwear). Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips, tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. 7.25" wide by 9.75" tall. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From a 2011 review by W. D. King: "Hawaii spooks!... Ah, what great memories! This was a classic book growing up in Hawaii. So many strange things would happen -- you really had to be blind or deaf in order to not experience something. Although not all of the stories in the book are true, there were quite a few that I could relate to my own experiences. Great little read, especially if you like Halloween or Hawaiian culture. Might be a little spooky for younger readers, but definitely worth the penny I spent on it.". 1996 edition. Oversize Softcover. Very Good condition. xxiv, 277pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Springer, 2002. NEW in PERFECT condition. Flat, uncreased spine. NO chips, tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Well illustrated with figures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2263. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "As part of the UML standard OCL has been adopted by both professionals in industry and by academic researchers and is one of the most widely used languages for expressing object-oriented system properties. This book contains key contributions to the development of OCL. Most papers are developments of work reported at different conferences and workshops. This unique compilation addresses many important issues faced by advanced professionals and researchers in object modeling like e.g. real-time constraints, type checking, and constraint modeling.". 2002 copyright. Softcover. New. viii, 284pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Warner Books, 1972. Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. Paperback. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with Vietnam war photos. "First Printing: October, 1972" is so stated. "The first significant book of poems written by an American to spring from the war in Vietnam" - Stanley Kunitz (in the Foreword). . First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine condition. 12mo. 93pp..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Cloth spine is lightly faded. The spine of the Dust Jacket is sunned (paper browning but lettering still distinct) else Very Good. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. First book appearance of three stories [Neighbor Rosicky; Old Mrs. Harris; & Two Friends] previously published in magazines. Original green cloth. Mounted on the spine and front cover are the original pale blue paper labels, printed in orange and black. This copy's Dust Jacket agrees with that described first in Joan Crane's Willa Cather, A Bibliography, i.e. gray-pink wove paper printed in red and blue. [Crane also describes an alternate jacket (no priority), printed in green and dark red on bright yellow paper]. Crane notes that "on all copies of both jackets, a corner is cut away from the front inner flap where the price was printed." Crane explains that… Read More

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Examiner Printing House, 1893. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Sketches of country scenes and ways that originally appeared in the Lancaster newspapers, The Daily and Weekly Examiner. Dedicated to the "Young Men and Maidens of Lancaster County." This copy is inscribed to H. H. Myers and dated October 5, '93. [According to History of Miami County Ohio, Henry H. Myers was born in Lancaster County in 1843, to Michael and Roney Myers, both immigrants from Germany. Henry became a shoemaker. During the Civil War, he served three years as a member of the 110th O.V.I. and participated in the battles of Winchester, the Wilderness, the Shenandoah campaigns, the siege of Petersburg, etc. After returning home, he engaged in farming, shoemaking, and as a dealer in boots and shoes. He married Miss Mary E. Jay in 1871 and raised 3 children.] . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition. 8vo. 504pp.

Cambridge University Press, 2004. Complete with CD-ROM by Nick James (the CD-ROM is still sealed in a clear plastic pouch at the end). Laid-in are two sets of Astronomydotcom viewing glasses (for use in planetariums?). Very Good condition. Light shelfwear. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrations. Glossary. List of resources. Index. Bound in the original black pictorial laminated boards. Oversize Hardcover. 7.5" wide by 10" tall. From the publisher: "Gerald North's complete practical guide and resource package instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness. Descriptions of the objects are accompanied by explanations of the background astrophysics, providing readers with real insight into what they are observing at the telescope. The main instrumental requirements for observing and estimating the brightness of objects by visual means… Read More

New York: Ace Books, 2000. INSCRIBED: "To Katie - Bigger, harder, scarier" and SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Near Fine dust jacket that is just a little rubbed at the high points. NO chips, tears, or creases. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($21.95 U.S.; $30.99 Canada). Sharp corners. Bound in the original two-tone boards (gray with blue spine), stamped in shiny silver. Complete with dust jacket.. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (x), 387pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Viking, 1994. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (21.95). No chips. No tears. Endpaper maps of the Naval Academy campus. Second novel by the author of Against the Wind. Set in 1957 on the Easter Shore of Maryland. From the Dust Jacket: "Ray Poole has to be smart because he is almost always on his own... His consuming dream, is to become a midshipman... This powerful and gritty coming-of-age novel will evoke memories of Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn. It also bears comparison to the novels of Pat Conroy." Jacket praise from Dorothy Allison and Larry Brown. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Ribik, Jack (jacket art) . 8vo. 351pp.

New York: Raven Press, 1990. Very Good EX-LIBRARY with usual library indications. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Tables. Diagrams. Photographs. Bibliographical references after each chapter. Index. Bound in the original silver-stamped blue cloth. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. xx, 215pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Ximenes Rare Books, Inc, 1991. Appears unread. Fine condition. The spine is square and flat with NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are creamy white, crisp and unmarked. Ximenes: Rare Books, Inc., priced bookseller's catalogue. Illustrated with 18 full-page facsimiles. No year of publication indicated, but circa 1991. From the introduction: "The books and manuscripts in this catalogue are all from the library of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (1908-1989)… The items listed here reveal the breadth of Mrs. Ekstrom's interests, and fall roughly into the following areas: (1) The beginnings of ballet. Illustrated books, early histories, music, and rare librettos of the 16th and 17th centuries, along with scholarly works relating to this period. (2) The 18th century. The works of Noverre and his contemporaries, and the development of dance notation, starting with Feuillet. (3) The Romantic ballet. A broad selection of memoirs, treatises on… Read More