Over 100 Press Photographs that Helped Define Hemingway's Public Image
by HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
np: np, 1930. Very Good. THE RISE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM AND MASS-MEDIA HELP MAKE HEMINGWAY ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S FIRST AMERICAN INFLUENCERS. After graduating from high school in 1917, Ernest Hemingway worked as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. This job exposed him to the media's growing addiction to sensationalism and taught him the craft of writing clear and succinct prose. Hemingway's journalism experience, his interest in boxing and big-game hunting, and his military service during... Read More
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![[Obituary Notice of] Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 629](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/109/1614109216.0.l.jpg)
[Obituary Notice of] Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 629
by HERSCHEL, CAROLINE LUCRETIA
Astronomische Nachrichten, 1848. first edition. Fine. SIGNIFICANT TRIBUTE TO THE WORLD'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL FEMALE ASTRONOMER. Standing at just 4 feet 3 inches tall, under a 40-foot telescope, Caroline Herschel's small size belies her immense scientific accomplishments. Though she disliked any praise that diminished her older brother William's achievements, she was a giant in the field of astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her accomplishments enabled generations of women to develop their careers in the sciences, a field... Read More
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Ueber sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen, et al.
by Hertz, Heinrich
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST PRINTING of Hertz's first three papers on electromagnetic waves; the foundation for wireless communication. "Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis that electrical waves can be projected through space was begun in 1887, eight years after Maxwell's death. The two main requirements were (a) a method of producing the waves, supposing that they existed, and (b) a method of detecting them once they were produced. Hertz found... Read More
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Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space
by Hertz, Heinrich
London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH in original cloth of Hertz's collected papers on electromagnetic waves; the foundation for wireless communication. "By inducing the waves to produce an electrical spark at a distance, with no apparent connection 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... Read More
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Men at Work
by HINE, LEWIS W.
New York: Macmillan, 1932. first edition. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY COPY INSCRIBED BY HINE TO HIS WIFE: “To Sara / Lewis W. Hine.”. With signed letter to Hine from legendary New Yorker Al Smith who at the time was president of the Empire State company, thanking him for the “very fine photographic record” of the construction of the Empire State Building. Smith was the governor of New York from 1923-1928 and was the Democratic... Read More
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Faster than Thought. The Ferranti Nimrod Digital Computer
by FERRANTI; NIMROD; [COMPUTER HISTORY]
Hollinwood/Lancs: Ferranti, Ltd, 1951. First edition. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE MANUAL FOR ONE OF THE FIRST VIDEO GAMES. VERY POSSIBLY THE FIRST COMPUTER GAME MANUAL. Although they were "keen to be involved" in the 1951 Festival of Britain, electrical engineering firm and computing pioneer Ferranti was still without an exhibit by late 1950. John Bennet, an employee of the firm, stepped up and suggested the construction of a machine that could play Nim,... Read More
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China Diary: Red Square and the Forbidden City
by HOCKNEY, DAVID; SPENDER, STEPHEN
London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY DAVID HOCKNEY. One of only 1000 copies (#334) signed by Spender and Hockney. With the original folding five-color lithograph ("Red Square and the Forbidden City") signed in pencil by Hockney loose in printed card sleeve; book with 158 illustrations, 84 in color. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1982. Quarto, original red cloth gilt, original card box with red printed label.... Read More
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Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life
by Hornby, Nick
London: Victor Gollancz. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, original grey boards, original dust jacket. Slight creasing to top of rear panel of dust jacket. A BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY.
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A Magician Among the Spirits
by HOUDINI, HARRY
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First edition. Original cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND TWICE SIGNED BY HOUDINI: "To Frederick H Young / Best wishes / Houdini / Sept 19. - 1924 / 1:30 AM." Additionally signed "Houdini" on dedication page. Harry Houdini, the son of a rabbi and a doting mother, was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. After moving to Wisconsin at age 4 then to New York City at 13, Erik... Read More
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La Septieme Face Du Dé
by HUGNET, GEORGES; DUCHAMP, MARCEL. [SURREALISM]
Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1936. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, THE PRINTER JACQUES GROU-RADENEZ'S COPY, WITH TWO LONG PERSONAL INSCRIPTIONS BY HUGNET. WITH COVER MY MARCEL DUCHAMP. ONE OF ONLY 294 COPIES IN THE EDITION; AN OUT-OF-SERIES COPY LABELED "EXEMPLAIRE NO. G.H.". "This is Georges Hugnet's first volume of 'poemes-decoupages.' The title echoes Andre Mallarme's Un Coup de Des N'Abolira Jamais le hazard (1895), and Hugnet's poems, printed on the left-hand pages of the book, mirror... Read More
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Le Modulor: Annotated Typescript Signed with Drawings
by LE CORBUSIER. [Charles-Édouard Jeanneret]
Paris: np, 1951. first edition. folder. Very Good. UNIQUE ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT SIGNED WITH TWO FULL PAGES OF LE CORBUSIER DRAWINGS PRESENTING ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL ACHIEVEMENTS. Born in 1887, Le Corbusier found himself situated between two competing historical and architectural moments: an intricate history of grandiose Gothic and Renaissance style, and the sleek, efficient creation of the Second Industrial Revolution. In his canonical 1923 Towards an Architecture, Le Corbusier argued that modernity must be... Read More
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![On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/131/950/1276950131.0.l.jpg)
On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]
by JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY
London: Taylor & Francis, 1870. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. A LANDMARK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: FIRST EDITION OF JEVONS'S PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF HIS "LOGICAL PIANO", THE FIRST MACHINE TO SOLVE A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM AT SUPERHUMAN SPEED. Jevons invented a "logical piano" (so named because it resembled a small upright piano) that could perform, through a sequence of switches, various types of logical calculations. In doing so, he became "the first person to construct a machine with sufficient... Read More
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Foirades / Fizzles: Maquette
by JOHNS, JASPER; BECKETT, SAMUEL
London, Paris, New York: Editions de Minuit and Petersburg Press S.A., 1976. First edition. Wrappers and box. Very Good. UNIQUE MAQUETTE FOR ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ART BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. With all the etchings, aquatints, and lithographs of the completed book, plus additional versions of the double-page illustrations. From the estate of Rudolf Rieser who designed and created the binding for Fizzles. Fizzles, the magnificent collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns, was recognized early... Read More
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A Dictionary of the English Language
by JOHNSON, SAMUEL
London: Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1755. First edition. Calf. Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF JOHNSON'S LANDMARK DICTIONARY. A monumental work by anyone's standards, Johnson's Dictionary took over eight years to complete. "With no real library at hand, Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words... illustrating the senses in which these words could be used by including about 114,000 quotations drawn from English writing in every field of learning during the two centuries... Read More
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On the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity and in the Cells of a Battery During Electrolysis
by Joule, James Prescott
London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of the derivation of Joule's Law, one of the fundamental laws of electricity. Joule, "in the paper now under consideration, was the first to announce the definite law that 'when a current of voltaic electricity is propagated along a metallic conductor, the heat evolved in a given time is proportional to the resistance of the conductor multiplied by the square of the electric intensity,' i.e. electric... Read More
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On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
by JOULE, JAMES PRESCOTT
London: Richard and John E. Taylor. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Joule's most developed and complete account of the results of his famous "paddle-wheel" experiments; includes his most accurate determination of what would later be known as the "Joule." "Joule began work about 1845 on a fourth method for determining the mechanical value of heat. His latest efforts received a polite but unremarkable reception at the Cambridge meeting of the British... Read More
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Photograph
by JOYCE, JAMES; BREITENBACH, JOSEF
Paris: np, 1937. Very Good. POWERFUL IMAGE OF JAMES JOYCE BY SURREALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER JOSEF BREITENBACH. A remarkable set of circumstances had to come together to this photograph of James Joyce by German born photographer Josef Breitenbach to first exist, and then to survive. Throughout the summer of 1937, as he experienced increasingly painful flashes in his right eye, Joyce pored over early proofs of Finnegan's Wake, then known only as "Work in Progress". Perhaps he was preoccupied with correcting the... Read More
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![Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/315/186/1188186315.0.l.jpg)
Minden másképpen van. (Ötvenkét vasárnap) [Everything is Different. (Fifty-Two Sundays)]
by KARINTHY, FRIGYES
Budapest: Athenaeum, 1929. First edition. Original cloth. Very Good. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT INTRODUCED THE IDEA OF "SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION" AS A FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKS. One of the key characteristics of social networks is what is known as the "small world phenomenon" - the idea that every individual can be linked to every other individual through a relatively short chain of acquaintance relationships. "[T]he first significant empirical study of [the phenomenon]... Read More
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Large Format Portrait Photograph of John F. Kennedy, signed by Kennedy
by KENNEDY, JOHN F.; KARSH, YOUSUF
Karsh, 1960. Framed. Very Good. ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH BY YOUSUF KARSH, INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY IN INK ON THE IMAGE. Yousuf Karsh's masterful portrait of John F. Kennedy, taken on August 25, 1960, just weeks after he accepted the Democratic nomination, captured the nation's imagination. By 1960 Kennedy was a rising star in American politics and this photograph embodied the aspirations and idealism of Kennedy and his presidential campaign. This image was widely circulated and is regarded as one of... Read More
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![O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/132/309/1571309132.0.l.jpg)
O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences]
by KHRUSHCHEV, NIKITA SERGEYEVICH
1956. first edition. Original wrappers, custom box. Very Good. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' Which Attacked Stalinism and Changed the Course of World History. On February 14, 1956 the twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union assembled in Moscow for their first meeting following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Almost nothing was said about the deceased leader until, in a closed session on February 25th, 1,500 delegates and visitors... Read More
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Captains Courageous
by Kipling, Rudyard
London: Macmillan, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale, with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan, 1897. Octavo, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked (as often); a few spots to cloth, crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket.
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![Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine [Erotic Tales and Novels]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/442/892/1700892442.0.l.jpg)
Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine [Erotic Tales and Novels]
by LAFONTAINE, JEAN DE; TICE, CLARA
Nijmegen, Holland: G. J. Thieme, 1929. first. Original publishers 3/4 morocco. Very Good. TICE, Clara (Illus). FIRST TICE EDITION – ONE OF ONLY APPROXIMATELY FIVE COPIES – WITH TWO ORIGINAL SIGNED CRAYON DRAWINGS AND TWELVE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS HAND COLORED BY TICE. Easily the most extravagant of Clara Tice’s illustrated works, the extra-limited edition (approximately 5 copies) of Tales and Novels showcases the remarkable abilities of a revolutionary woman. Born in 1888, in Elmira, New York, Tice lived... Read More
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Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method
by LAMB, WILLIS E; RETHERFORD, ROBERT C
Lancaster and New York: American Physical Society. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the discovery of the "Lamb shift" "Shortly after World War II, Lamb began his work to check the accuracy of the predictions of Paul Dirac as they related to the energy levels and spectral lines of hydrogen. Dirac's quantum mechanical theory predicted that the hydrogen atom had two possible energy states with equal energies. Lamb's accurate work using radiofrequency resonance... Read More
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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from and Antiphonal with Miniature of King David; Psalms 110, 111
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
Italy: np, 1525. first edition. vellum; framed. Very Good. ILLUMINATED ANTIPHONAL LEAF WITH EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL OF KING DAVID AS PSALMIST. The recto features a stunning, large (6 1/4 x 7 in.) initial “T” featuring a miniature of David the Psalmist, captured mid-song with instrument in hand as an angel unfurls the opening of the Psalm 110 (Dixit Dominus)—a classic image of divine inspiration rendered with rich pigments and a thickly burnished gold initial “T”. The... Read More
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Large Historiated Initial Featuring Illuminated Miniature of a Pope
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
Germany: np, 1491. First edition. Framed. Very Good. LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING A POPE, FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND RICH COLOUR. Reading from a lectern, the Pope is depicted in full regalia, wearing the distinctive triple crown, or triregnum, and holding the crucifix-topped crosier. His robe is a deep blue and likely pigmented by lapis lazuli-a mineral so valuable in Medieval Europe that is typically reserved for the Virgin Mary and occasionally referred to as blue gold. A... Read More
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