Search Results: Titles starting with U from Kuenzig Books

[ no place ]: U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, Inc, 1990. Wraps. Very Good. 24 pages. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Illustrated. Some creasing and minor soiling to covers. Wraps.

Jefferson, North Carolina, U.S.A. And London: McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 2003. Wraps. Near Fine. ix, 204 pages. Illustrated wrappers. A crisp clean copy. Wraps.

New Bedford, Mass: The Union Organ Co, 1883. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. Broadside, single sheet. 11 x 14 inches. Folded for mailing. A bright and clean impression. An advertising broadside for the Union Organ Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In short, the offer is to send in $12 plus a list of 25 names (heads of families who have no organ or piano), and the manufacturer will ship an organ directly to you. Their hope is that word of mouth advertising will sell the organs for them: "Our only purpose in making such an offer is to have our Cabinet Organs more fully introduced. We challenge the world for a more liberal offer than this, and guarantee a faithful performance of every promise made in this circular. Workingmen, Laborers, Mechanics and Farmers can now have a Cabinet Organ in their homes by embracing this grand offer at once..." With a nice engraving of the Cabinet Parlor organ, and a smaller set of illustrations of the "Golden Toned Reeds" below. Gellerman's… Read More

Berlin: G. Reimer, 1843. Stiff Wrappers. Good. 41, [1-blank], [1-druckfehler], plus one foldout color plate marked "Taf. III" (probably mis-labelled as we can only find textual references to Taf. I). Early robin egg blue paper boards with remnants of a paper label at the lower spine. Signature on front flyleaf (R Pumpelly). 2 x 5 cm piece of paper removed from title page to the right and just below the author's name (perhaps an earlier signature?). Otherwise apparently complete, noting the assumed mis-labelling of the single plate. Stiff Wrappers. There are no copies listed on OCLC as of this listing. "The discovery of the wonderfully rich fossil locality of St. Cassian in South Tyrol proved a turning-point in the history of Alpine geology...In 1843, Klipstein published a geological and palontological account of the same districts. His observations in Abtey and Fassa valleys had been taken in unusual detail, but led to no satisfactory explanation of the tectonic relations of the district. Klipstein,… Read More

New York: Platt & Munk Co. Inc, 1939. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Elmer Rache. Elmer Rache. 184 pages. 5 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches. Color frontis, otherwise not illustrated. Green boards with illustration in light green. Dust jacket with minor chipping to lower edges, edge tears, and a few scuffs and minor wear. Presents nicely. '85' penciled on front endpaper (perhaps an old price). An above average copy in a nice dust jacket. Soiling/mottling to the page edges. Cloth. No 550B. Copright MCMXXXIX by the Platt & Munk Co., Inc.printed in design on the lower edge of front dj panel. Publisher notes that the stories appeared originally in the Evening News, of Neward NJ, with permission. A beloved children's book series.

Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ..: Springer-Verlag, 1989. Wraps. Near Fine. 108, [4] pages. Original yellow printed wrappers. An unread copy with minor soiling to wraps. Wraps.

London: Richardson & Company, 1861. First Printing. Cloth. Fair. First Printing. [3- publisher ads, count includes front pastedown and endpaper], [foldout leaf with Plates I & II], [1 leaf Plate IV], [i-vi], [ 1 leaf Plate VI ], vii-viii, [ 2 leaves Plates III and VII ], ix-xi, [1-general contents], [11 - "PART I"], [1 - "PART II | FOREIGN VESSELS OF WAR | The list of the French Navy being no longer published, this Part cannot be continued" ], [ 2 leaves plate V ], [ 154 (last leaf apparently an insert with additional information on front, verso blank) - "PART III | MERCHANT VESSELS" ], [ 2 - "BRITISH MERCHANT VESSELS | OFFICIAL NUMBERS, &c" ], [ 72 ( last blank ) - "PART IV | LIGHTHOUSES, HEADLANDS, PORTS, and HARBOURS | ..." ], [ 85 - "PART V | MEM. - Several New ..." ], [ 51, "PART VI | VOCABULARY | ..." ], [ 2, "ADMIRALTY NOTICE" ], [10 - "LIST | OF | AGENTS TO LLOYD'S" (bottom of last page with printer imprint)], [2 - "ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S | DIRECTIONS | FOR THE | RECOVERY OF THE APPARENTLY… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956. Wraps. Near Fine. [1 (title page)], [1 (blank verso)], 157-165, [3 (blank)] pages. 10 x 7 inches. Stapled printed self-wrappers, with leaves trimmed at the spine. Light staining at foreedge The construction of this item is unusual. It consists of separate leaves of the printed paper in the original journal fonts, with a new title page "AUTOMATA STUDIES" (blank verso) and an added trailing blank leaf, all stapled at the spine. All examined copies from Shannon's files are the same, leading us to conclude it was likely an author offprint even though a reprint statement is not present. Wraps. Originally printed as an internal Bell Laboratories Memorandum: Number 54-114-38, May 15, 1954. "Automata Studies," Annals of Mathematics Studies number 34, 1956 (edited by Claude Shannon and John McCarthy), first published this Shannon paper as "A Universal Turing Machine With Two Internal States" on pages 157-165. "Our main result is to show that a universal… Read More

New York: [ University of the City of New York ], 1880. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. 24 pages plus printed grey wrappers. 8vo. Stitched. Thin spine paper perished.. Creased vertically as if for mailing. Front wrapper with cut of University of the City of New York. Rear panel with cuts of Bellvue Hospital and Charity Hospital (both by Coughlan, Sc). Rear wrapper with stamp of Yale Medical Library Gift and stamped withdrawn. Light dampstaining to bottom edge not affecting text. Wraps.

Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1962. Comb. Near Fine. vii, 298, [1] pages. Comb bound. 9 x 11 inches. Blue printed wrappers. A collection of more than 90 papers reporting work done at the laboratory under Contract No W-7405-eng-48. Comb. Technical Information Document 4500, UCRL-10023, UC-4 Chemistry.

Grantsburg, Wisconsin: Centennial Photo Service, 1991. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine. First Edition. 272 pages. Pictorial boards in red white and black. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. A bright clean copy noting soft bump to corners. Boards. "The pages of this book contain a concise and conclusive study of the Universal Camera Corporation - the company, the people, and the products. Every known Universal product is chronicled and reviewed. In addition, many common misconceptions generally associated with Universal have been brought forth and discussed in detail... To date, this is the most accurate and complete story of an unforgettable American photographic manufacturer - the Universal Camera Corporation." (foreword).

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Boards. Very Good. VI, [2], 295, [1] pages. 8vo. Half leather over marbled boards. Minor wear and scuffing to the leather extremities, front joint just starting at top. Bright and clean internally. Boards. 'This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communications, television and radar.' This volume collects and reprints papers on electrical waves first published between 1887-1890 in Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Includes explanatory notes and Hertz's 31 page introduction. Hertz produced experimental proof of Faraday and Maxwell's hypothesis that 'electrical waves can be projected through space...' starting in 1887. 'By inducing the waves to produce an electric spark at a distance, with no apparent connexion between the oscillator and the spark gap, and by moving the sparking apparatus so that the length of the spark varied, [Hertz] proved beyond question the passage of electric waves through space...J. J. Thomson described the results as… Read More