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Uber quantentheorestische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen; Zur Quantenmechanik; Zur Quantenmechanik II [in] Zeitschrift für Physik. Vols. 33, 34 & 35
by Born, Max; Heisenberg, Werner; Jordan, Pasqual
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. 1925-26. First edition. Three extremely influential papers marking the theoretical foundation for modern quantum mechanics and defining the discipline: "Uber quantentheorestische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen" by Werner Heisenberg; "Zur Quantenmechanik" by Max Born and Pasqual Jordan; and "Zur Quantenmechanik II" by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan. In Zeitschrift fur Physik, Vols. 33, total pp.879-950 (Heisenberg paper pp. 879-893); Vol. 34, total pp. 795-953, lean to spine; (Born, Jordan paper 858-888);... Read More
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Die trage Masse und das Relativitatsprinzip (Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 28)
by Born, Max
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1909. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 571-584 pp. Bound in publisher's tan wraps lettered in black. In the original German. Very Good. Fragile with separating joints, tanning to covers, light creasing to corners, and "1840" red marking to front cover. A scarce author's offprint of a treatise on force and relativity in response to Albert Einstein's 1905 Annus mirabilis papers, early in his career. Born later won the Nobel Prize in Physics in... Read More
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Lavengro; The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest
by Borrow, George
London: John Murray, 1851. First Edition. Good+. First edition, first printing in three volumes. xx, 360, 32; xi, 366; 32; xi, 426 pp; cancelled preface leaf. Bound in Carter's A binding, "very dark blue-green rubbed cloth, uncut, with labels." Good+ with lean to spines, mottling and sunning to cloth, spine lining exposed at head and tail, and dust-soiling to upper textblock edges. Light soiling, inked numbers and and evidence of label removal to endpapers, some hinges and joints... Read More
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De Nova Quaestione: Tractatus Tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus
by Bossuet, Jacques Begnine
Paris: Johannem Anisson, 1698. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting, bookplate on paste down with former owner's name in ink there and on title page, slight rippling to pages. Three tracts by theologian and... Read More
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Kitchen Confidential
by Bourdain, Anthony
New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anthony Bourdain and inscribed to former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in red. Near Fine with light edge wear to binding, in an unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and light soiling. Signed copies of the first printing are scarcen.
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Kitchen Confidential
by Bourdain, Anthony
New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in red. Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A lovely copy.
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You Have Seen Their Faces
by Bourke-White, Margaret [Photographs]; Erskine Caldwell [Text]
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. Second Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. Second edition. Publisher's grey cloth stamped in red. Very Good+ with foxing to cloth and textblock top edge, light fraying at bottom of spine. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, light tape ghosts to endsheets, light blue stain to recto and verso of half-title page. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear, foxing to edge of front flap and publisher's price penciled-through, toning... Read More
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Eyes on Russia
by Bourke-White, Margaret
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Bourke-White on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with black stamping. Very Good. Toning to spine. Front inner hinge exposed and pages toned. The photographer's first book, a travelogue of a trip to the Soviet Union on behalf of Fortune magazine. This brought images of Stalinist Russia in its first five-year plan, a breakneck-pace race into industrialization, to... Read More
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One Special Summer
by Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee [Jackie Kennedy Onasis]
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Very Good. Folio. Signed limited first edition. One of a limited 500 unnumbered copies, signed by the Bouvier sisters, Jacqueline [Kennedy Onasis] and Lee. Bound in publisher's blue marbled-paper covered boards stamped in metallic blue, in slipcase with photo onlay of Jackie and Lee. Very Good with foxing to covers, fading to spine and bubbling between the paper and board of the covers, light musty odor to pages. In a Very... Read More
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One Special Summer
by Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee [Jackie Kennedy Onasis]
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Near Fine. Folio. Signed limited first edition. One of a limited 500 unnumbered copies, signed by the Bouvier sisters, Jacqueline [Kennedy Onasis] and Lee. Bound in publisher's blue marbled-paper covered boards stamped in metallic blue, in slipcase with photo onlay of Jackie and Lee. Near Fine with sunning to spine, in slipcase with bubbling to surface, light bumping to corners and several small stains. A charming, illustrated travel memoir about the... Read More
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The Star Conquerors
by Bova, Ben
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titles in dark blue. Near Fine with light edge wear and light toning to cloth, light insecting to edge of page block. In a Near Fine dust jacket with price intact, though with a small ink notation near price on flap... Read More
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The Star Conquerors
by Bova, Ben
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. vii, 215 pp. Bound in green publisher's cloth with blue lettering to spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, faint soiling to upper margins of pp. 4 - 13. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and toning and light soiling to exposed panels. Faint blue ink initials to Winston logo on spine, two short scratches to upper... Read More
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Ann Lee's: And Other Stories
by Bowen, Elizabeth; Celia M. Fiennes [Illustrator]
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing of the Irish author's second collection of short stories. Scottish author Fred Urquhart's copy, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Urquhart is considered one the greatest Scottish short stories writers of the 20th century and was praised by George Orwell. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with variant dark brown lettering, (62) per Sellery & Harris. Near Fine with light wear... Read More
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The Sheltering Sky
by Bowles, Paul
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth, with spine stamped in black and blue. Near Fine with strips of browning to edges of front and rear free endpapers, pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig, with several tiny edge-chips and light rubbing, but largely a much nicer example than normally found. A classic of existential fiction set... Read More
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The Sheltering Sky
by Bowles, Paul
London: John Lehmann, 1949. First Edition. Good. First edition. 304 pp. Original cloth with with blue title label, gilt lettering. Good, lacking dust jacket. Cloth well-sunned and worn along edges, a little frayed here and there, boards a bit warped, two tiny pen marks. Internally in better shape with pages free of marking. One of only 4,000 copies printed of the author's first novel, a story of an American couple out of their depths in North Africa. ... Read More
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Five Eyes
by Bowles, Paul [Editor and Translator]; Abdeslam Boulaich; Mohamed Choukri; Larbi Layachi; Mohammed Mrabet; Ahmed Yacoubi
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. First edition. 145, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with red cloth backstrip, paper title label. Fine in original acetate wrapper, slightly cloudy. A collection of stories by five Moroccan authors, all except Choukri's being spoken texts only. American novelist and composer Paul Bowles transcribed them, his writing talents coming in handy to create a very different sort of short story than American readers are typically used to: very unpretentious... Read More
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Let It Come Down
by Bowles, Paul
London: John Lehmann, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Bowles and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page, "For Gregory Stephenson [,] inscribed in Tangier on the occasion of his first visit there. 15/VIII/79 [signed] Paul Bowles". Bound in publisher's original pale blue cloth with spine decorated in red. Near Fine with some light fading and discoloration to cloth, light bumping to corners, small vintage bookseller ticket to... Read More
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The Sheltering Sky
by Bowles, Paul
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition. Neatly signed by Paul Bowles on half title. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with blue and black stamping on spine. Near Fine with a little staining to edges, offsetting to endpapers, in a slightly toned, unclipped dust jacket with two small tears in spine panel, small tear to back panel bottom corner, easily Very Good+. The American expatriate's first and best-known novel, a classic... Read More
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A History of Mathematics
by Boyer, Carl
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 1968. First Edition. First edition. (First printing in correct binding.) xv, [iii], 717 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with light rubbing, corners a little bumped, small stain on top edge, bookplate from former owner's estate on verso of front free endpaper. A nice copy.
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Boston Blackie
by Boyle, Jack; W.H.D. Koerner [Illustrations]
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First edition. First edition. [ii], 318 pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's black cloth with dark orange stamping, lacking jacket. About Very Good with wear to extremities, a little dampstaining to cloth and top edge with slight waviness to top edge of textblock towards end of book, name written on paste down, a few light pencil checkmarks throughout. The first in a popular series of crime novels featuring the titular... Read More
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Boston Blackie
by Boyle, Jack; W.H.D. Koerner [Illustrations]
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First edition. First edition. [ii], 318 pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's black cloth with dark orange stamping. Near Fine with subtle lean to spine, light wear, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with small chips to spine ends, rubbing to spine panel and edges, two tiny indents to spine as well. An attractive example of the rare dust jacket. The first in a popular series of crime novels featuring... Read More
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Short Stories
by Boyle, Kay
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First Edition. First edition. Copy #39 of 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks in New York. [viii], 55, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps in glassine, housed in gold foil chemise with ribbon ties. Near Fine in glassine with a very small tear at the foot, in a Very Good chemise, rubbed along hinges with a little chipping to foil, a little... Read More
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Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Author's Presentation Binding. Near Fine. First edition, one of 50 copies bound in full red cloth stamped in gilt specially for Ray Bradbury's personal use (Currey's B binding). Signed by Bradbury on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To John one of 50 specially bound copies of F451 for Presentation! [signed] Ray Bradbury 3/29/98." Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket. Subtle abrasion to inscribed page. A very bright and clean copy.... Read More
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Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Asbestos Binding. Fine. First edition, #106 of 200 copies with limited issue asbestos binding, hand-numbered and signed by author on colophon. [viii], 199, (3) pp. Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos binding, lettered in red. Fine, with light wear to crown heaviest to the rear, light bumping to bottom corners, trivial soiling. Two tiny spots to the textblock edge. Issued without a dust jacket. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The... Read More
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Christus Apollo
by Bradbury, Ray; D'Ambrosio, Joseph [Artist]
Newport Beach: The Gold Stein Press, 1998. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 17pp. Copy #30 of a limited 50 copies, designed and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio, signed by Ray Bradbury on the last page, and by D'Ambrosio on the limitation statement. Letterpress printed text mounted in thick pages, adorned with hand-made collage decorations, bound in glittered blue cloth with pyrite inlays, housed in publisher's blue cloth clamshell case with title paper label on spine. Fine. A wonderfully... Read More
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