Proof of the Ergodic Theorem. WITH: Proof of the Quasi-Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Physical Applications of the Ergodic Hypothesis. WITH: Recent Contributions to the Ergodic Theory
by VON NEUMANN, JOHN; BIRKHOFF, G.D.
Easton, PA and Washington, DC: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 1932. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. IMPORTANT PAPERS - IN BOTH OFFPRINT AND JOURNAL FORMATS - RELATED TO VON NEUMANN'S PROOF OF THE ERGODIC THEOREM, A FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. In 1877 the great physicist Ludwig Boltzmann published a paper that sought to explain why systems tend toward maximum-entropy... Read More
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Signed Family Letters
by VONNEGUT, JR., KURT
np: np, 1930. First edition. Custom box. Very Good. RARE AND REVEALING COLLECTION OF FAMILY LETTERS WRITTEN BY KURT VONNEGUT. This collection of 12 letters, most of which are addressed to Vonnegut's father, brother (Bernard), sister-in-law (Bow), and family as a whole, chronicle the life, rise, and development of one of America's most beloved writers. Taken together, these letters - in which he begins to test the possibilities of a career in writing - are a unique glimpse... Read More
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Early Unpublished Short Stories, including "One for 'A'
by VONNEGUT, KURT
Indianapolis: n.p., 1945. First edition. Custom folder. Very Good. UNPUBLISHED SHORT STORY, TYPESCRIPT DRAFT; WITH FRAGMENT OF SECOND STORY. These two short stories survive from Kurt Vonnegut's early attempts to become an author, after the end of the Second World War in 1945 and years before the publication of his first piece of fiction, yet alone novel, in 1950. The period between Kurt Vonnegut's return from war-torn Europe and the publication of his first piece of fiction... Read More
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Andy Warhol (Los Angeles, 1986)
by [WARHOL, ANDY.] GORMAN, GREG
Los Angeles, 1986. LARGE PORTRAIT OF WARHOL. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. NO. 24 OF 25. One of Gorman's most iconic images, demonstrating his mastery of light and shadow, is his portrait of Andy Warhol. Taken one year before Warhol's death in 1987, the image captures a side of him not often seen, an austere and slightly more intimidating appearance. But with the invariable shock of white hair, it is immediately recognisable as Andy. From an edition of 25,... Read More
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Photograph of Capote, Inscribed to Warhol
by WARHOL, ANDY; CAPOTE, TRUMAN
New York: np, 1979. first edition. Very Good. LARGE PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMAN CAPOTE, INSCRIBED BY CAPOTE TO ANDY WARHOL. THE PRINT USED AS THE CENTERFOLD FOR WARHOL’S FAMOUS INTERVIEW WITH CAPOTE IN INTERVIEW MAGAZINE. FROM THE ANDY WARHOL COLLECTION. “for Andy Love Truman” Fabulous portrait from 1979 of a dapper Capote staring straight into the camera looking happy (and perhaps a little mischievous). This exact print was used for the centerfold of the famous Warhol interview with... Read More
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Vanishing Animals
by WARHOL, ANDY; BENIRSCHKE, KURT
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WARHOL TO DIVINE: "to divine / love / Andy Warhol". Also with four illustrations signed by Warhol. Exquisitely illustrated with sixteen color plates after screenprints by Warhol. Additionally inscribed to Divine by (presumably) his manager Bernard Jay. A wonderful association copy uniting two of the most headline-grabbing stars of the 80s. Warhol was, well, Warhol, and Divine was the drag-queen star of John Waters'... Read More
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Andy Warhol: Moderna Muséet Exhibition Catalog
by WARHOL, ANDY
Stockholm: Moderna Muséet, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, profusely illustrated with full-page black and white photographs. Warhol's Moderna Muséet catalog "is a fine example of the catalogue-as-artist's-book, a form that ostensibly began with the Dadaists and Surrealists, and is produced with some of the roughest reproductions ever seen, which are entirely appropriate, and supplemented by a long section of Factory snapshots by Billy Name. The genre was revitalized by the Pop movement, and Warhol... Read More
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Edward Weston: Nudes, with original platinum print "Nude, 1920
by WESTON, EDWARD
New York: Aperture, 1977. First edition. Fine. FIRST EDITION OF EDWARD WESTON: NUDES WHICH ELEVATED PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE STATUS OF FINE ART. In 1902 Edward Weston (1886-1958) received a Kodak Box camera from his father and in 1903 dropped out of high school and chose a life in photography. As a young photographer he took mainly portraits and became a student of pictorialism, the dominant style of photography at the time, that prioritized the beauty of the subject... Read More
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![Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/006/1522006720.0.l.jpg)
Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
Camden, NJ: np, 1888. First edition. Fine. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter is the famous photo of Whitman touching the (prop) butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect".... Read More
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Albumen Photograph Given to Mary O. Davis
by WHITMAN, WALT
np: np, 1878. custom folder. Very Good. Walt Whitman Albumen Photograph by Napoleon Sarony given to his caregiver and house mate Mary O. Davis. Signed by Davis. To call Mary O. Davis, Walt Whitman's housekeeper is akin to calling a parent its child's babysitter. Perhaps history has undermined Ms. Davis' role simply because the English language lacks the proper word to describe their relationship. Nurse? Roommate? Modern-Family? Rather than finding a catchall word, let's try to briefly describe... Read More
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Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads
by WHITMAN, WALT
Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co, 1889. First edition. Original wrap-around leather. Very Good. SCARCE 70TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES SIGNED BY WHITMAN. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER WRAP-AROUND BAND. The collector of Walt Whitman is hard pressed to choose which edition of Leaves of Grass best represents the poet’s vision of his works. After all, Whitman famously attended each of the printings of his poems like a parent in the... Read More
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Autograph Letter Draft to Alfred Pratt. WITH: Alfred Pratt's autograph letter to Whitman
by WHITMAN, WALT
Washington, D.C.: np, 1869. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. A LOVE LETTER FROM "FATHER WHITMAN" TO A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER. A rare and significant letter to one of the young soldiers Whitman aided at a military hospital during the Civil War. Whitman corresponded with Pratt for some 8 years, beginning after Pratt's hospitalization in 1865. Whitman's letter is a response to Pratt's own of May 9, 1869, in which Pratt asks why he has not heard... Read More
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![Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 [Leaves of Grass]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/076/1402076848.0.l.jpg)
Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855... 1888 [Leaves of Grass]
by WHITMAN, WALT
Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co, 1889. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. SIGNED FIRST EDTION OF THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION OF WHITMAN'S WORK; A REMARKABLE COPY FROM WHITMAN'S PERSONAL LIBRARY. On this Edition: "Whitman never lost his passion for joining disparate parts into a whole: it was the basis of his politics, his philosophy, and his bookmaking. He wrote to one acquaintance in 1886 that 'I think of... bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in... Read More
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Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell
by WIENER, LEIGH [MONROE, MARILYN]
Los Angeles: 7410 Publishing Company, 1990. First edition. Original box. Very Good. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION PHOTO-BOOK DOCUMENTING THE PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE; WITH TWO SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINTS; COPY A OUT OF ONLY 26 LETTERED COPIES. Front-page news across the US and Europe, the death of Marilyn Monroe on Saturday, 4 August 1962 shocked all who had come to know and love the star over her dramatic rise to fame in the proceeding decade. Just... Read More
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Stuart Little: "Summer Memories" Signed Lithograph
by WILLIAMS, GARTH. [WHITE, E.B.]
np: np, 1996. First edition. nb. Fine. EXTREMELY RARE LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR GARTH WILLIAMS OF THE COVER ART FOR E.B. WHITE'S CLASSIC STUART LITTLE. WITH HAND-COLORING BY WILLIAMS. Pulled by hand from the original pen and ink drawing by Garth Williams. Marked "Bon à Tirer" ("ready for press") in pencil by the printer. This image was acquired directly from the lithographer; Williams added the delicate gray hand-coloring in this image as a guide for the lithographer to... Read More
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Condensation of Water Vapour in the Presence of Dust-free Air and other Gases
by Wilson, C.t.r
London: Harrison and Sons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of the first description of WIlson's famous cloud chamber, the first type of detector to show the tracks of elementary particles. Cloud chambers "developed from the work of Charles Wilson at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1890's. He was interested in creating artificial mist, in order to investigate its effect on light, and did so by building a desktop-sized apparatus in which a glass chamber full of moist... Read More
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Relation of a Voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the Observation of the Transit of Venus, June 6, 1761. WITH: Two Lectures on the Parallax and Distance of the Sun, as Deducible from The Transit of Venus
by WINTHROP, JOHN
Boston: Edes and Gill, 1761. First edition. uncut and sewn; custom box. Very Good. VERY RARE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST PUBLICLY FUNDED AMERICAN SCIENCE EXPEDITION: JOHN WINTHROP'S VOYAGE TO NEWFOUNDLAND TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO TIME THE 1761 TRANSIT OF VENUS AND THUS DETERMINE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SUN. WITH THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF HIS SUBSEQUENT LECTURES ON THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. Transits of Venus and Their... Read More
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Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright
by WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD; STEICHEN, EDWARD; JONES, GARETH
New York: np, 1931. first edition. Very Good. Edward Steichen. EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPH OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BY EDWARD STEICHEN; INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT TO WELSH JOURNALIST GARETH JONES. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT ON VERSO: "To Gareth Jones / Frank Lloyd Wright". Also with Steichen's New York Studio stamp (80 W. 40th Street) and a signed autograph note by Gareth Jones: "Urgent. This photograph is valuable. I should like it untouched and returned to Edgar Jones, Eryl, Porthycastell... Read More
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![Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Completed Building and Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright) [The Wasmuth Portfolio]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/564/369/1444369564.0.l.jpg)
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Completed Building and Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright) [The Wasmuth Portfolio]
by WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. First edition. Original boards. Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MAGNIFICENT WASMUTH PORTFOLIO, COMPLETE WITH ALL 100 LARGE FOLIO PLATES. Known the world over as the Wasmuth portfolio, the immensely influential Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe (1910) was a project conceived by Ernst Wasmuth-a Berlin publisher of high-end art books who "intended to publish a complete portfolio of Wright's work to that date [...] that would become a collector's item" (Secrest, Biography, p. 203).... Read More
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Photograph Signed
by YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. [VOS, MARTIN]
New York: np, 1932. First edition. Fine. STUNNING SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY MARTIN VOS. A classic studio portrait of Yeats by the New York portrait photographer Martin Vos, signed "W.B. Yeats" in ink in the bottom right corner. Vos was a popular portrait photographer in New York in the 1930s, known for his portraits of celebrities, most notably Albert Einstein (a famous photoshoot with Einstein and Tagore) and Franklin Roosevelt. Yeats visited New York from... Read More
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BROADSIDES, A COLLECTION OF NEW AND OLD SONGS, 1935
by YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER; STEPHENS, JAMES; HIGGINS, F.R.; O'CONNOR, FRANK; DOYLE, LYNN; GUINESS, BRYAN; COLUM, PADRAIC
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Fine/Very Good. ILLUSTRATIONS BY: YEATS, JACK B; BROWN, VICTOR; O'SULLIVAN, SEAN; PEET, E.C; KERNOFF, HARRY; MCGONIGAL, MAURICE MUSIC BY DUFF, ARTHUR. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF W.B. YEATS'S BROADSIDES, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY W.B. YEATS AND F.R. HIGGINS AT END OF INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND ACCOMPANIED BY BREATHTAKING HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Collection of 12 broadsides originally issued individually from January-December 1935. Containing both traditional and new... Read More
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Photograph Signed
by YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. [BOUGHTON, ALICE]
New York: np, 1903. First Edition. nb. Very Good. EXCEEDINGLY RARE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY ALICE BOUGHTON. ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SIGNED YEATS PHOTOS. A rare bust portrait of Yeats as a young man, signed and inscribed by Yeats to U.S. politician and later U.S. secretary of state Bainbridge Colby: "To Mr. Bainbridge Colby with kind regards from WB Yeats March 1904." Inscribed in ink on the flush board mount beneath the photograph. On the verso... Read More
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![On the Influence of Magnetism on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance (Parts I and II and Appendix) [Zeeman]; WITH: Radiation in a Magnetic Field [Michelson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/204/717/1358717204.0.l.jpg)
On the Influence of Magnetism on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance (Parts I and II and Appendix) [Zeeman]; WITH: Radiation in a Magnetic Field [Michelson]
by ZEEMAN, PIETER; MICHELSON, ALBERT
Leiden: various, 1896. First edition. Very Good. FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE DISCOVERY ("THE ZEEMAN EFFECT") THAT EARNED ZEEMAN THE SECOND EVER NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS; WITH MICHELSON'S REPORT (IN OFFPRINT FORM) OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBSERVATIONS OF QUANTUM EFFECTS, "THE ANOMALOUS ZEEMAN EFFECT." Although it was not entirely unexpected following the work of Faraday, Zeeman was the first to observe the influence of a magnetic field on spectral emission lines - what... Read More
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