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Inscribed by author to Lewis M Rutherfurd who was an astronomer, and a pioneering astrophotographer and invented instruments including the micrometer for measuring photographsVolumes I, II, III and VI and Appendix I and II of 6. xiii, [2], 556 pages with frontispiece, illustrated with a very large folding panorama of Santiago, Chile, with some hand-tinting view in color, figures, tables, color plate, four lithographic plates, 8 engraved maps & plans (4 of them folding) and index; ix, [3], 300 pages with 15 color lithographed plates of birds; 4 other color lithographed plates; 4 duotone lithographed plates; 17 steel-engraved plates of fauna and fossils, mostly fish and reptiles, figures, tables, 2 maps one folding and index; cclxxxviii+492 pages with tables and one plate; xlviii+420 pages with charts; Appendix I: xlvi+420 pages with plates and foldout plate. Volumes III, VI and Appendix I on meteorological observations. Quarto (11 ¼" x 9") in original publishers half leather with marbled boards,… Read More

24 pages with diagrams and index. Duodecimo (7" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Details from Chess Reader, Volume 2, number 2. (Betts: 26-13) First edition. The match between Hungary and the USSR was played between teams of four, each member of each team playing each member of the other. Each team had one reserve. In variety of openings and diversity of play, the match was distinctly above average. Its final result, 2-12 for the USSR, once more confirmed the Russians as the world's best players--and at the same time justified Hungary's claim to second place on match play results. USSR beat the Argentine team 20 1/2 - 11 1/2 and the USA by 20-12 and (a few weeks after this match) by 25-7. Thirty two games with score charts and round by round resume of the games. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped else a very good copy.

29 type script on recto pages with table and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in spiral binding with clear cover. (Betts: 25-286) First edition.The U S Seeded Tournament held in honor of the Silver Anniversary of the Log Cabin Chess Club of West Orange, New Jersey and cosponsored by that club and the U S Chess Federation, was one o the most interesting and hard fought chess tournaments played in the United State that year. By winning this event, without a loss of a single game, former World Junior Chess Champion William Lombardy achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of his career. Lombardy's score of 7-2 placed him a h alf point above International Grandmaster Pal Benko, while two more International Grandmasters, Larry Evans and Arthur Bisguier, captured third and fourth, respectively, a sufficient indication of the strength of Lombardy's competition. The tournament was conducted at the Log Cabin Chess Club in West Orange, from August 7 to August 22, 1959, with some of the rounds held at Mary… Read More

277 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in pictorial jacket. Inscribed by author. First edition. The bestselling tale-powerful, compassionate, humorous-of the three Lovejoy sisters reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia, on the occasion of their mother s death. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother s funeral, the spirit of the selfish and manipulative Mudear hovers above them, complaining about her daughters ugly ways in death as she did in life. Condition: [inscribed] "For Cynthia, Tina McElroy Ansa. 5-31-93" else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

30 pages with diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's green wrappers with black lettering and pictorial to cover. C M Fox Fair Series price list laid in. C M Fox Fairy Series number 4 with C M Fox's Fairy Series index laid in. (Betts: 39-17). First edition.Various task problems by various composers with solutions and commentary, grouped in four main sections: Direct play of single men: its cumulation. Two or more men combined (Batteries, inverted batteries, pins and unpins, self-block and interference, injurious interpostion). - Some long range tasks (Retro-analysis, maximumers, synthetic games, help-mate, consecutive check sequences). - Constructionals (Minimum moves, Maximum moves, maximum captures, maximum checks, maximum mates, maximum keys and variations). Includes an introduction discussing task problems with an index of composers.Condition:Some light edge wear else a very good copy.

155 pages with plates, maps, illustrators, bibliography and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition limited to 500 copies. In recent decades there has been much discussion among archaeologists about the transformative roles material objects play in human societies. Various scholars have focused attention on the ways that material culture is an integral part of social and economic systems through time, with considerable discourse centered on the role of specialized crafting in ancient societies. In addition to the Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541), one of the best-known and most widely studied ethnohistorical documents in Michoacán is the Lienzo de Jicalán. This lienzo is a pictographic document used and elaborated upon in the second half of the sixteenth century as proof of the rights that the indigenous authorities of Jicalán believed they held over several mineral deposits, copper sources, and soil-based colorants in the Tierra Caliente (Hotlands) of… Read More

115-160 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ciencias Politicas y Social Ano XI (11) Volume 39 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Sobre ensenanza e periodismo y medio de by Jorge Fernandez; Apreciacion critica de la ensenanza periodismo. ?Responden las escuelas a las actuales necesidades de los medios de informacion? by Armando Rivas Torres; Apreciacion critica de la profesion y de los medios porlas escuelas de periodismo. ?Por que la Escuela no receibe la ayunda necesaria de los medios y de la profesion? ?Cuales son los medios para lograr el encaje desado? by Alfonso Valencia Rios; Planteamiento sobre los problemas de la informacion rural by Raul Noriega; El Estatuto del Periodista como medio para la integracion de los factores que intervienen en el periodismo: ensenanza, medios y profesion. Problemas del salario, establidad, mercado ocupacional, oportunidades para editorialistas, reparteros, fotografos, etcetera by Mario Rojas Avendadno; El futuro de… Read More

1347-1378 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revista Mexicana de Sociologia Volume XLIV (44) Number 4 complete issue. First edition. Contents: Alexis de Toqueville y las transformaciones del Estado democracico: una exploracion despues de siglo y medio by Atilio Boron; Las posibilidades de democracia by Ledda Aerguedas, Umberto Cerroni, Rossana Rossanda, Georgio Ruffolo, Alberto Azor and Norberto Bobbio; ?Se consodidara el proceso democratico ecuatoriano? by Cesar Verduga; En torno al debate marxista sobre el Estado by Amparo Casar; Argentina: ni democracia estable ni regimen militar solido by Liliana de Riz; Conjeturas politicas sobre la Argentina post Malvinas by Oscar Landi; Algunas consideraciones teoricas sobre el Estado peruano 1968-1978 by David Slater; El desarrollo del capitalismo agrario y la formacion de una burguesia agraria en Bolivia, Peru y Chile by Cristobal kay; Paz y administracion "ordem e progresso": notas para un estudio comparativo de los… Read More

669-677 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ciencias Politicas y Social Ano VIII (8) Volume 30 complete issue. First edition.Contents: Notase al libro de H Thomas sobre la geurra civil espanola by Pedro Bosch Gimpera; La situacion agraria en Espana by Enrique Ruiz Garcia; La burguesia y la democracia en Espana by Jose Bullejos; Los Estados Unidos. La primera nacion nueva by Seymour Martin Lipset; La reforma agraria en la America Latina by Pompeu Accioly Borges; Los gastos de publicidad en radio y television by Cesar A Ortega. Condition; Edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed some age toning to pages else very good.

551-569 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revista Mexicana de Sociologia Volume XXVIII (28) Number 3 complete issue. From the library of Robert Van Kemper. First edition. Contents: La Universidad ante el desarrollo economico by Jose Medina Echavarria; La teoria actual de la participacion politica y la enajenacion by Pablo Gonzalez Casanova; Situacion y perspectivas de la juventud en una poblacion urbana popular by Adolfo Currieri; Los movimientos campesinos contemporaneos en Latinoamerica by Anibal Quijano Obregon; La reforma agraria integral mexicana by Humberto Estevane Torres; Consideraciones sociologicas en torno a la reforma agraria en Latinoamerica by Eduardo Hamuy; Incorporacion de los sectores obreros al proceso del desarrollo by Enzo Faletto.Robert V. Kemper, born in San Diego, California, on November 21, 1945, resided in Dallas, Texas, where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in… Read More

152 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. In this book the authors provide the student with an "unbeatable" system for the White pieces after 1 e4, 35 2 Nf3. They justify the qualifications "unbeatable" in both theory Game is based on the long successful history of these closely related debuts. In each case, White can always have the "draw in hand" while waiting for Black to make that White the better of it. Condition: Edge wear else better than very good.

260 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original jacket. First edition. Uncertainty is a darkly erotic, tautly plotted psychological thriller. It marks the American debut of the exciting young Danish writer Michael Larsen. Martin Molberg, a tabloid journalist with a history of mental instability,is suspected of murdering his girlfriend, Monique. To clear his name Molberg must track down the real killer. In the process he uncovers evidence that Monique was leading a double life: a photo of her engaged in kinky sex; an inexplicable deposit of millions in their joint bank account; a cryptic note from a man named Pascal. Molberg's obsessive search takes him from Copenhagen to Los Angeles. Along the way he stumbles into the realm of high technology gone awry and a web of intrigue and murder involving Hollywood, the National Security Agency, pornographers, and image manipulators. Downing Dexedrine and Thorazine… Read More

312 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in publishers original red cloth with silver lettering on boards and spine in original pictorial jacket. [APG Wodehouse 077b] First American edition in a first issue dust wrapper. Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1948 by Didier & Co., New York. It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939). Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again (Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad), and Reginald ("Pongo") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew (and Drones Club member) has every right to be petrified. Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law. Pongo is already in residence and has committed two rank floaters:… Read More

292 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark brown decoration on spine in original pictorial jacket. Precedes the British edition. (APG, Wodehouse: 069a) First American edition.Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 18 August 1939 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 25 August 1939 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is set at the idyllic Blandings Castle, home of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, the fifth full-length novel to be set there. It also features Uncle Fred, who first appeared in the short story "Uncle Fred Flits By", which was included in the 1936 collection Young Men in Spats, and would feature in three further novels. When Alaric, Duke of Dunstable decides to take Empress of Blandings away from her loving master and get her fit, Lord Emsworth calls in the services of the redoubtable Uncle Fred. Fred arrives full of the joys of spring, with nephew Pongo Twistleton and old… Read More

unpaginated with comic illustrations. Royal octavo (10" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.Walter Crawford Kelly Jr, or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary. The Pogo comic strip was syndicated to newspapers for 26 years. The individual strips were collected into at least 20 books edited by Kelly. He received the Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme, a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and… Read More

[i-ii], [i-x]-175+[printer's imprint] with frontispiece and 7 plates. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 7/89") bound original publisher tan cloth with brown lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. (BAL: 7168) First edition.Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped… Read More

231+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, 6 other plates and diagrams. Small octavo ((7 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt rabbit pictorial to cover with black back ground drawing. Illustrations by Frederick S Church and James H Moser. First edition, first state with "presumptive" on last line page 9 and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine" (BAL 7100:1).Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial… Read More

260 pages. 260 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with dull gilt to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Midway through this hilarious tale, the narrator, a short, inventive homeless man named Jan Moro, tells how two men chased him from his hut at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis: ``One of them only has seven toes and he works for a guy who microwaves puppies to death and trains dogs to fight pigs.'' Although he has no street address, Jan considers himself an entrepreneur, as distinguished from ``homeless riffraff.'' He keeps himself presentable, hangs out in hotel lobbies, believes loitering in bus stations to be great spectator sport and has hidey-holes all around town, one with a gun and three bullets that he won in a poker game. The appealing and unusual hero has a steady stream of ``great ideas'' like a ``slow-release deodorant'' for clothes instead of the body. How Jan, aka Clarence Starch Jr., gets tangled up… Read More

x+247 pages with figures, drawings, tables, appendices and bibliography. Quarto. (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original pictorial publisher's wrappers. Second printing. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations. Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped else near fine.

207-229 pages with figures and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Current Anthropology Volume 14, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. The essay sketches a comprehensive methodology for the study of beliefs and belief systems. It considers the situation of the anthropologist studying the beliefs of natives of whose language and society he is relatively ignorant, but its conclusions are thought to be applicable as well as understanding the beliefs of those speaking the same language and living in the same society. Condition: Previous owner's name to front wrapper, light edge wear, spine sunned, else very good.