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Catalogue 46
Sam’s Last Catalog
Welcome to our catalog of Sam's last purchases. Sam died in September before he
could complete assembling books for a fall catalog. Here we have Art and Illustrated
books, Edward Gorey and our favorite Figbash "in person", Children's books,
Literature, Americana, Physics, and Economics.
Caroline and I will be closing the store early next year. This is our last catalog, but
we will be putting out lists of books in categories of Sam's special interests before
we close.
Featured Items
Art & Illustrated
Edward Gorey
Children’s
1-7
8-15
16-20
21-27
Literature
Americana
Physics
Economics
FEATURED ITEMS
1. CHARLETON, Walter. ONOMASTICON ZOICON.
Plerorumque Animalium Differentias and Monina Propia
Pluribus Linguis Exponens. Cui Accedunt Mantissa
Anatomica; Et Quædam (Quaedam) De Variis Fossilium
Generibus. [ Garrison-Morton 292; Norman 461]. London:
James Allestry, 1668. A Very Good+ hardback First Edition
First Printing bound in later vellum. Some archival repairs to
imprimatur leaf, small dark stain title page and two following
pages, tear archivally repair to plate p. 201. With 8 finely
engraved natural history plates (7 folding), 4 large text
engravings, on full page. 8vo. 305 pp.
$2,500.00
Walter Charleton (1619-1707) physician to Charles I and II
published medical, philosophical and antiquarian tracts. He
was one of the first elected fellows of the Royal Society. He
was an exact scholar and a man of wide reading in both
medicine and classical literature. A list of the English, Greek,
and Latin names of all the then known animals. The work is a
particular interest in the history of ornithology, as he was the
first English author to add illustrations to a list of birds. This
is the first of an important and celebrated classic which not
only treats of living animals, but contains discourses on their
anatomy and paleontology. (Wing C3688, Nissen 872,
Garrison-Morton 292, Norman Cat. 461).
28-32
33-38
39-45
46-49
2.
[Charles Cotton]. THE COMPLEAT GAMESTER: Or,
Full and Easy Instructions for Playing at Above Twenty
Several Games Upon the Cards; with Variety of Diverting
Fancies and Tricks Upon the Same, Now First Added. As
Likewise at all the Games on the Tables. Together with The
Royal Game of Chefs, and Billiards. To Which is Added, The
Gentleman's Diversion in the Arts and Mysteries of Riding,
Racing, Archery, Cock-Fighting, and Bowling. London: J.
Wilford, 1725. A Very Good+ hardback Fifth Edition with
additions bound in full brown leather rebacked with
contemporary boards and new endpapers. Raised bands spine.
Gilt lettering on red leather spine label. Small owner book
plate and label front paste-down, faint owner name ffep,
scattered toning and foxing. 16mo. xii, 224 pp.
$2,500.00
Charles Cotton (1630-1687) was an English writer best known
for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne, for his
contributions to The Compleat Angler and for the influential
The Compleat Gamester—the currently offered work.
3. EULER, Leonhard. [Produced with John Bernoulli].
TENTAMEN NOVAE THEORIAE MUSICAE. Ex
Certissimis Harmoniae Principiis Dilvcide Expositae. Auctore
Leonhardo Eulero. St. Petersburg: Academia Scientiara, 1739.
First Edition. A Very Good++ hardback First Edition First
Printing bound in full modern calf, blind tooled ruling and
paneling, banding spine in six compartments with title in gilt
lettering. Edges trimmed, top edge trimmed close. Very light
toning and foxing with marginal dampstain not affecting text.
Very small hole in side margin of Kk4, with no effect on text.
Sm. 4to. 21 pp. 264 pp. With six tables, five of which foldout.
$2,500.00
Leonard Euler (1707-1783), a mathematician of Basel, was
the perfecter of integral calculus, the inventor of calculus
using sines, and particularly renowned for his study of the
science of motion. He was called, around 1727, to the newly
established academy at St. Petersburg where he wrote the
present offering. This work, produced together with John
Bernoulli, presents a new theory of music based upon
Pythagorean principles. It tends to give as much emphasis to
geometry as to music, but is of great use to composers as well
as crafters of musical instruments. (Graesse II, 518).
4. KOEHN, Alfred. WINDOW FLOWERS. Symbolical
Silhouettes for the Chinese New Year. Peiping, China: At The
Lotus Court, 1948. A Near Fine hardback First Edition First
Printing bound in green cloth covered boards with paste-on
paper red silhouette illustration front cover. Though not called
for, there are four silhouette cut-outs laid-in. Minimal cover
edge wear. A Scarce history of Chinese symbolic window
patterns. Text in English. Index bound in upside-down. 4to.
$1,250.00
Window Flowers
5. NIMITZ, Chester W. Fleet Admiral. SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED
PHOTOGRAPH
OF
JAPANESE
SURRENDER. Dated 2 September 1945. With TYPED
LETTER SIGNED BY CHESTER NIMITZ. 1945. Framed 8"
by 10" photographic image with wide margins of the Japanese
surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The
photograph is dated 2 September 1945. SIGNED AND
INSCRIBED BY CHESTER W. NIMITZ AS FOLLOWS:
TO PAUL C. SMITH / WITH BEST WISHES, WARMEST
REGARDS AND GREAT APPRECIATION OF YOUR /
CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT THAT MADE
POSSIBLE THE ABOVE SCENE / C. W. NIMITZ, FLEET
ADMIRAL, U. S. NAVY. To the right of the inscribed
photograph is a letter on Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
official U. S. Navy stationery dated 12 October 1964,
SIGNED BY C. W. NIMITZ to a third party in which he lauds
Paul Smith's autobiography "Personal File". Both the
photograph and the letter are included in the same frame, each
double matted separately. The handsome frame is of dark
wood and measures 16" by 26.5" overall. Fine.
$3,000.00
Still in his 20's, he went to Europe, interviewed Hitler,
Mussolini and had a tête-à-tête with Stalin's first wife. Back in
the United States, he had a warm daily relationship with expresident Herbert Hoover, and by his 27th birthday was the
editor and general manager of the San Francisco Chronicle, a
post he held for seventeen years. In 1938 he accompanied
Hoover on a tour of European capitals and made himself so
extensively disagreeable to Nazi leaders that they somewhat
admired him. During World War II he resigned as a Naval
lieutenant to reenlist as a Marine private. Three weeks after
the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
he found himself wandering, horrified through the remains of
those cities. (See Kirkus Review of Paul Smith's
autobiography, Personal File).
6. VON BRAUN, Wernher and Frederick I. Ordway
(SIGNED by both Von Braun & Ordway). Illustrations by
Harry H-K Lange. Introduction by Frederick C. Durant.
HISTORY OF ROCKETRY AND SPACE TRAVEL. New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED
BY WERNHER VON BRAUN. ALSO SIGNED,
INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF
PUBLICATION BY FREDERICK I. ORDWAY. A Fine
hardback Revised Edition First Printing in a Very Good++
Dust Jacket with minimal edge wear and tape verso of Dust
Jacket. 4to. ix, 276 pp.
$1,400.00
7. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (SIGNED) (Additionally
SIGNED by Aaron Green). A TESTAMENT. New York:
Horizon Press, 1957. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED
BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON TITLE PAGE.
ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
ON RED SQUARE ON DUST JACKET. ALSO SIGNED
DATED AND INSCRIBED BY AARON GREEN,
RENOWNED SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT AND
PROTÉGÉ OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT on ffep. A Near
Fine hardback First Edition First Printing in a Very Good++
Dust Jacket with mild edge wear, sun spine and front panel,
short closed tears. 4to. 256 pp. With 210 Illustrations. A
Rarely found Signed First Edition.
$3,000.00
Aaron Green (1917-2001) was an American architect and
protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. Green worked on forty of
Wright's projects, including the Marin County Civic Center,
which he saw to completion when Wright died in 1959. He
served as lecturer and critic at Stanford University
department of architecture for fifteen years.
ART & ILLUSTRATED
Signed binding by Zaehnsdorf
8. AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (SIGNED). Descriptive
Text by Les Line. SOME BIRDS AND MAMMALS OF
NORTH AMERICA. Limited Edition. London: Tryon
Gallery, 1971. SIGNED BY AXEL AMUCHASTEGUI ON
LIMITATION PAGE without personalization. A Fine
hardback First Edition LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. THIS IS
No. 474. Though not called for this copy is Signed. Signed
binding by Zaehnsdorf. Bound in quarter blue leather and
marbled boards with gilt lettering spine, top edge gilt. In
original clear plastic Dust Jacket with short closed tears and
tape. 16 full page color plates with tissue guards, 8 of birds
and 8 of mammals. In original Very Good++ blue cloth
covered slipcase with mild wear. Folio.
$325.00
9. (SIGNED by Raymond Ching). FULLER, Errol
(Additional Text). STUDIES AND SKETCHES OF A BIRD
PAINTER. Paintings Drawings and Text by Raymond Ching.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981 SIGNED BY
RAYMOND CHING ON LIMITATION PAGE without
personalization. A Fine hardback First Edition LIMITED
EDITION OF 500 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 89. Bound
in full gray morocco with raised bands spine, gilt lettering on
black leather spine labels. In the original plain light brown
Dust Jacket. Housed in Near Fine original clamshell case with
color paste-on paper illustration front. Slipcase with mild edge
wear. Folio. 260 pp. 96 illustrations and 25 full page color
plates.
$400.00
10. CHWAST, Seymour and Leonard Seastone
(SIGNED). THE HAT. Tideline Press, 2004. SIGNED BY
SEYMOUR CHWAST AND LEONARD SEASTON ON
COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. A Near Fine
First Edition LIMITED EDITION OF 100 SIGNED COPIES.
THIS IS No. 4. Color pictorial Dust Jacket over wrappers. The
woodcuts are hand-pulled on a Vandercook No. 4 and a SP25. The wood type is from the collection at the Center for
Editions, The School of Art & Design, Purchase College,
SUNY. Mild dampstain lower spine of Dust Jacket and book.
4to.
$750.00
In the introduction Cecelia Holland celebrates the "Hat",
which has "witnessed every step of human history". Chwast
illustrates that with humorous, colorful woodcuts throughout
this marvelous book.
14. (SIGNED Print by Barry Windsor-Smith). GOULD,
Robert (Design). THE DRAWINGS OF BARRY
WINDSOR-SMITH. The Drawing Collection. Limited
Edition. Arlington MA: Cygnus, 1982. PRINT SIGNED IN
PENCIL BY BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH. A Near Fine First
Edition LIMITED TO 750 SETS. EACH WITH 8 PRINTS,
ONE OF WHICH IS SIGNED IN PENCIL. "Paolo and
Francesca 1976" Signed and numbered print. All prints
bumped at lower left corner. Housed in Very Good++ original
printed box with paste-on printed title label top of box and silk
ribbon. Box with mild wear and bumped at lower left corner.
Folio. 10 loose sheets laid-in box.
$500.00
11. IRISH BOTANICAL WATERCOLORS. [Original Art].
1860. A Very Good++ hardback half red morocco leather
marbled paper board oblong album (6" by 9.2"). Leather spine
in five compartments with gilt lettering "Botanical Plates".
The album contains of 106 Near Fine to Fine delicate pencil
outlined botanical watercolor drawings on 61 leaves.
Numerous blank leaves at rear of album. The album is undated
except for one date (1860) beside drawing 68 (Woodbine,
Clifden). Captions are in Latin, occasionally with Gaelic,
usually including a place name. The most common of which is
Clifden (probably County Galway, Ireland). The first 62
drawings are on a slightly smaller and thicker paper.
Stationer's ticket front paste-down of E. Madden who
occupied premises on Church Street, Dublin into the early
twentieth Century.
$1,850.00
The colors are fresh and vibrant. An exquisite album of 106
original botanical drawings notable for the fine pencil
outlines and artistic watercolor work.
12. (SIGNED Print by Jeffrey Jones). GOULD, Robert
(Design). THE DRAWINGS OF JEFFREY JONES. The
Drawing Collection. Limited Edition. Arlington MA: Cygnus,
1982. PRINT SIGNED IN PENCIL BY JEFFREY JONES. A
Fine First Edition LIMITED TO 750 SETS. EACH WITH 8
PRINTS, ONE OF WHICH IS SIGNED IN PENCIL.
"Chastity" Signed and numbered print. Housed in Near Fine
original printed box with paste-on printed title label top of box
and silk ribbon. Box with minimal wear. Folio. 10 loose sheets
laid-in box.
$220.00
13. SARGENT, John Singer (SIGNED). AUTOGRAPH
LETTER SIGNED (ALS) BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN SINGER
SARGENT. An Autograph Letter Signed ALS on 9 x 7 inch.
On Sargent's 31 Tite Street, Chelsea, S. W. stationary with
creases from quarter folding, minimal soil and stains. $500.00
A letter to the New York Herald newspaper denying them the
right to photograph and print the portrait of Almina
Wertheimer, one of Sargent's most notable portraits, before it
has been displayed at the Royal Academy in London.
…whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory
15. WRIGHTSON,
Berni
(SIGNED).
MARY
WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN. A
Portfolio by Berni Wrightson. Limited Edition. Paris: Les
Editions Du Triton, 1980. SIGNED BY BERNI
WRIGHTSON OF FRONT COVER OF PORTFOLIO
without personalization. The 18 prints are in Fine condition.
A Very Good+ portfolio First Edition First Printing LIMITED
TO 1200 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 1067. Printed
wrapper portfolio with mild soil and toning, short closed tears
archivally repaired. This portfolio was to contain 6
illustrations not included in the final illustrated
"Frankenstein." However, though not called for this copy has
3 suites of 6 different illustrations--18 prints in total. The
suites are dated 1977, 1978, and 1980. The 1977 and 1978
prints have printed captions as issued. The 1980 prints are not
dated. Folio.
$250.00
EDWARD GOREY
1970. SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY ON LIMITATION
PAGE without personalization. A Near Fine First Edition
LIMITED TO 300 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES.
THIS IS No. 164. Bound in original printed wrappers. 16mo.
This book was published as part of the Fiftieth Anniversary
Celebration of the Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, Inc. $275.00
Toledano A35b.
CHILDREN’S
16. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). FIGBASH BEANBAG.
SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY without personalization ON
THE ORIGINAL TAG WHICH READS: "DESIGNED LIFESIZE AND SEWN BY HAND AND FILLED WITH RICE
BY EDWARD GOREY". The Figbash Bean Bag is of a
patterned midnight blue fabric with branches and leaves in tan,
brown and sage-green. The doll measures approximately six
and a half inches tall and has an arm span of nineteen inches.
Rare.
$1,200.00
See Toledano "Goreyography" page 156.
21. BURTON, Virginia Lee. CALICO THE WONDER
HORSE Or The Saga of Stewy Slinker. Houghton Mifflin,
1941. A Near Fine hardback First Edition Review or Gift
Copy from Publisher with slip laid-in. In a Near Fine Dust
Jacket with minimal edge wear. Oblong. 6 x 9 inches. $600.00
17. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). THE BROKEN SPOKE.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1976. SIGNED BY EDWARD
GOREY ON LIMITATION PAGE without personalization. A
Fine hardback First Edition LIMITED TO 250 SIGNED AND
NUMBERED COPIES. THIS IS No. 30. In a Near Fine Dust
Jacket and original slipcase. oblong. 5.5 x 7.5 inches. $475.00
Toledano A63b.
18. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). CATEGORY. Fifty
Drawings by Edward Gorey. New York: Gotham Book Mart,
1973. SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY ON LIMITATION
PAGE without personalization. A Near Fine hardback First
Edition LIMITED TO 100 SIGNED AND NUMBERED
COPIES. THIS IS No. 92. Bound in blue cloth with printed
title label spine and front cover. Minimal sun spine. In Housed
in Fine original gray slipcase. 16mo. With typed card from
Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, Inc. laid-in.
$650.00
Toledano A50b.
19. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). THE GLORIOUS
NOSEBLEED. Fifth Alphabet. New York: Dodd Mead, 1974.
SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY ON LIMITATION PAGE
without personalization. A Fine hardback First Edition
LIMITED TO 250 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES.
THIS IS No. 227. In a Near Fine price clipped Dust Jacket
with sunning spine. In the original red slipcase with mild
scuffs. 12mo.
$400.00
Toledano A59b.
20. GOREY, Edward (SIGNED). THE SOPPING
THURSDAY. New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery,
Origami Book from Gershon Legman’s Collection
22. LAREO, Giordano. Cover by Federico Ribas.
Prologue by Eduardo Blanco-Amor. PAPIRO - ZOO.
Manual Practico de Coctologia o Papirologia (Figuritas de
Papel). Dibujos del Autor. [Origami, Paper-Folding]. From the
Library of Gershon Legman with his signature on the front
flap of the Dust Jacket. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Larco, 1941.
A Very Good+ First Edition First Printing in Dust Jacket over
wrappers with minimal toning and foxing endpapers and
edges. Text and plates bright and clean. Mild edge wear to
Dust Jacket. 12mo. 89 pp + Plates and Index. Rare. OCLC
lists only 3 copies.
$300.00
Good intermediate manual of the Unamuno figures. (Legman,
Bibliography of Paper-Folding). A significant moment came
when Gershon Legman discovered a forgotten article...titled
'The Art of Paper-Folding in Japan' by Professor Frederick
Starr. Intrigued by this article, Legman decided to delve
further. The result was Legman's 1952 pamphlet
"Bibliography of Paper-Folding" which summarized, in
bibliographic outline almost the entire history then known
about paper folding. It listed with brief notes books in English
and other languages which Legman was able to find in the
bookstores and libraries to which he had access. It was the
first such bibliography published and brought origami
forward as a discipline with a literature that could be
referenced. (See David Lister on Gershon Legman at the
British Origami Society website.)
23. KEENE, Carolyn (SIGNED as Mildred Wirt
Benson). Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy. THE
WHISPERING STATUE. Nancy Drew Mystery Series No.
14. [A Signed First Edition--Centerpiece of a Nancy Drew
Collection]. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. SIGNED
BY MILDRED WIRT BENSON AKA CAROLYN KEENE
ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A Near Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing with minimal cover edge
wear, soil edges in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with edges
wear and short closed tears.
$1,000.00
Farah's Guide 1927B-1.
25. MITCHELL,
W.
G.
AFTERNOON
TEA.
Photogravures from Original Photographs. Boston: Joseph
Knight Company, 1891. A Very Good+ hardback First Edition
First Printing bound in Original quarter white cloth and floral
patterned paper boards with silver lettering and floral design.
A charming book with 8 mounted photogravures of two little
girls having a tea party with a toy tea set. Each image is
captioned. The images were printed on Japanese tissue by N.
Y. Photogravure Company. Cover edge wear. Mild soil and
stains covers. Photos in lovely condition. Oblong. 9.5 x 11.5
inches. Scarce.
$325.00
26. NORTON, Mary (SIGNED). Illustrated by Beth and
Joe Krush. THE BORROWERS AFLOAT. New York:
Harcourt Brace, 1959. SIGNED, INSCRIBED "SALISBURY
- JULY - 1959" BY MARY NORTON ON TITLE PAGE
without personalization. A Very Good++ hardback Stated
First Edition First Printing with foxing spine, edges and hinges
in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with foxing and toning covers.
8vo. 191 pp.
$650.00
24. KOENIG, G (Designer), Thäter (Engraver). Golden
A. B. C. (ABC, A.B.C.) [A Translation of the German
"Güldenes A.B.C."]. London: Trübner & Co., 1856. Very
Good++ First Edition in English in the original cloth hardback
binding with gilt title within gilt ribbon design on upper board,
all edges gilt. Scattered foxing, mild cover edge wear.
Translation of "Guldenes A.B.C". A scriptural verse for each
letter of the alphabet (except J and X) with a decorated initial
for each letter. Complete with 26 engravings, printed recto
only on India paper, as issued. Oblong. 5.8" by 8.1". Scarce
with OCLC listing only 3 copies.
$650.00
27. TUDOR, Tasha (SIGNED). THREE AUTOGRAPH
LETTERS SIGNED (ALS) and ONE SIGNED CARD BY
TASHA TUDOR. All addressed to members of the Mathers
Family. Offered are three Autograph Letters Signed (ALS)
and one signed card with original stamped envelopes. House
in a bifold card stock page Inscribed " Dearest ---, Here are a
(?) to hold you over. Will mail the box in a day or two. Much
love!" Signed by Tasha Tudor. One letter is on European Air
Mail blue stationary addressed from France and dated January
27, 1985. Another is two pages on gray paper and includes a
pack of apricot seeds. The third letter is on Tasha Tudor
illustrated stationary dated August 8, 1989 and includes two
photos; one of a Tasha's doll Emma and the other is of Tasha
milking a goat. The printed Tasha Tudor illustrated card is
inscribed by Tasha "Congratulations on the Great Day" and
initialed.
$750.00
Beth Mathers, of Jenny Wren Press beginning in 1989, in a
partnership with Tasha Tudor, published many of Tudor's
later work. These are a very nice personal collection of letters,
fine Association Copies.
Original, Signed Color Drawing by Ernest Franklin
Tasha Tudor Letter and Photos
LITERATURE
28. (Alfred Liebmann) MILLER, Henry (SIGNED).
TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALS) AND
THREE AUTOGRAPH POSTAL CARDS SIGNED. ALL TO
DR. ALFRED LIEBMANN. 1954. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
AND POSTAL CARDS SIGNED BY HENRY MILLER.
Offered are two Autograph Letters Signed (ALS) to Dr. Alfred
Liebmann on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper dated 1954 and 1956 with
"recieved" ink stamp lower right corner and fold creases. Also
offered are three 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch postcards. One card with
"received" ink stamp.
$500.00
31. LEWIS, Sinclair (SIGNED). Nobel Laureate in
Literature (1930). GIDEON PLANISH. A Novel. New York:
Random House, 1943. SIGNED BY SINCLAIR LEWIS ON
FFEP without personalization. A Very Good++ hardback
Stated First Edition First Printing with mild soil rfep, toning
covers in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket with mild chips and
scuffs. 8vo. 438 pp.
$400.00
Sinclair Lewis (7 February 1885 - 10 January 1951) won the
Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic
art of description and his ability to create, with wit and
humour, new types of characters."
29. GOETHE [Johann Wolfgang von]. From the German
by John Anster. SIGNED by the Illustrator Harry Clarke.
FAUST. Limited Edition. New York: Dingwall: Rock
Limited, 1927. SIGNED BY HARRY CLARKE ON
LIMITATION PAGE without personalization. A Near Fine
hardback First Edition Thus LIMITED TO 1000 SIGNED
COPIES FOR THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS No. 650.
Complete with 21 full page illustrations including 8 in color,
as issued. With many smaller text illustrations by Harry
Clarke. Bound in quarter vellum and paper covered boards
with gilt lettering spine, top edge gilt. Mild cover edge wear.
4to. 253 pp.
$650.00
30. HILLERMAN, Tony (SIGNED). Original Color
Illustration SIGNED by Ernest Franklin. THE SINISTER
PIG. New York: Harper Collins, 2003. SIGNED BY TONY
HILLERMAN ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A
Fine hardback First Edition First Printing Deluxe Issue
SIGNED AND WITH AN ORIGINAL FULL PAGE COLOR
ILLUSTRATION SIGNED BY ERNEST FRANKLIN.
Bound in cream and royal blue paper-covered boards with
titles stamped in gilt on spine. In Fine Dust Jacket and gilt
stamped blue leatherette Slipcase. 8vo. 228 pp.
$400.00
32. PAZ, Octavio Nobel Laureate in Literature (1990).
Illustrated by Balthus (SIGNED). SIGHT AND TOUCH. In
Spanish, English and French with Three Woodcuts. Limited
Edition. Limited Editions Club (LEC), 1994. SIGNED BY
OCTAVIO PAZ AND BLATHUS ON COLOPHON PAGE
without personalization. A Fine hardback First Edition Thus
LIMITED EDITION OF 300 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No.
43. Bound in goatskin spine and linen covered boards. Printed
on handmade Kozo Uwazen paper. The text is set in
Monotype Lutetia by Julia Ferrari and Dan Carr at
Golgonooza Letter Foundry, Ashuelot, New Hampshire and
printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress Hadley Massachusetts. The
wood blocks were cut and edited by Keiji Shinohara. Housed
in a Fine linen covered clamshell box. With Limited Editions
Club newsletter laid-in. Folio. Hardcover. Fine.
$2,150.00
Octavio Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)
"for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by
sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity".
AMERICANA
33. [An Act Repealing Certain Duties]. ANNO REGNI
GEORGII III. AN ACT FOR REPEALING CERTAIN
DUTIES, IN THE BRITISH COLONIES AND
PLANTATIONS, GRANTED BY SEVERAL ACTS OF
PARLIAMENT: and Also the Duties Imposed by an Act made
in the Last Session of Parliament Upon Certain East India
Goods Exported from Great Britain: and for Granting Other
Duties Instead Thereof: and for Further Encouraging,
Regulating and Securing Several Branches of the Trade of this
Kingdom, and the British Dominions in America. London:
Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent
Majesty, 1766. Disbound otherwise fine in self wrappers. 4to.
pp. 831-846.
$250.00
34. [An Official Act Passed after the Stamp Act]. ANNO
REGNI GEORGII III. AN ACT FOR INDEMNIFYING
PERSONS
WHO
HAVE
INCURRED
CERTAIN
PENALTIES INFLICTED BY AN ACT OF THE LAST
SESSION OF PARLIAMENT, FOR GRANTING CERTAIN
STAMP DUTIES IN THE BRITISH COLONIES AND
PLANTATIONS OF AMERICA; AND FOR MAKING
VALID ALL INSTRUMENTS EXECUTED OR INROLLED
THERE ON UNSTAMPED PAPER, VELLUM, OR
PARCHMENT. London: Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to
King's most Excellent Majesty, 1766. Fine in disbound self
wrappers with blank rear wrapper. 4to. pp. 823-826. $1,000.00
35. GAY, Fisher (SIGNED). John Lawrence. David
Barns. REVOLUTIONARY WAR PAY VOUCHER.
Connecticut: 1775. SIGNED BY FISHER GAY, OF THE
"FISHER GAY SWORD" FAME. Offered is a document to
John Lawrence ordering the payment of 10 pounds 7 shillings
to David Barns (?) Capt. of the Eleventh Company in the
Fifteenth Regiment. This document is signed by Fisher Gay on
June 7, 1775 in Farmington. On the verso is receipt of
payment signed by Barns (?). It is in Very Good++ condition
with vertical and horizontal creases from folds with a short
closed tear in the bottom horizontal crease of the right hand
side. This document is of the Colony of Connecticut Militia
and is before Connecticut's official assimilation into the
Continental Army. An exciting artifact of America's fight for
independence. 5 x 7.5 inches. 13 x 19 cm.
$650.00
Fisher Gay commanded a Connecticut state regiment at Long
Island on August 27, 1776. He died in camp after that battle.
A Wonderful Association Copy, Great Inscriptions
36. PLUMMER, Rachel. Preface by Archibald Hanna
(SIGNED) and an introduction by William S. Reese
(SIGNED). RACHEL PLUMMER'S NARRATIVE of
Twenty-One Months Servitude as a Prisoner among the
Commanche Indians. Reproduced from the Only Known
Copy. Austin TX: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1977.
SIGNED BY ARCHIBALD HANNA AND WILLIAM S.
REESE ON THE COLOPHON. LIMITED TO 400 COPIES.
Though not called for this copy has additional LONG,
INFORMATIVE AND SIGNED INSCRIPTIONS BY
HANNA AND REESE ON THE FRONT ENDPAPERS. Fine
First Edition First Printing hardback facsimile of the 1838
original edition (in the Beinecke Library, Yale University). In
the original Fine clear plastic Dust Jacket. 8vo. Laid in is a
prospectus for book.
$750.00
William Reese's inscription reads in part "...This book came
about in an odd way. No copy had ever been seen. But Streeter
speculated correctly on its form and content. One day I was
sitting in the Beinecke reference room fiddling my thumbs
when Archie Hanna walked in and showed me the Rachel
Plummer, which had been quoted to Yale at a price keeping
with its rarity, by John Jenkins. Archie was disturbed by the
price, but sometimes one must bite the bullet, so the R. P. is
now one of the gems of Yale, the greatest piece of printed
Texana Yale has acquired since the Streeter Collection. Yours,
May 5, 1978, Bill Reese" Archibald Hanna (1916-2010) was
the first Curator of the Western Americana Collection at the
Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. His
inscription reads in part: " ...I have to confess that without Bill
Reese's prodding I might have let this book slip by. His
enthusiasm tipped the scales... Archie Hanna"
37. PORTER, David D. (SIGNED). AUTOGRAPH
LETTER SIGNED ON U.S. MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON
LETTERHEAD and CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPH.
1863. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER BY DAVID D.
PORTER. Offered is an Autograph Signed Letter (ALS) on
U.S. Mississippi Squadron letterhead while Porter was
Commander of the Mississippi Squadron approving a plan for
paying his staff at Memphis Station dated March 14, 1863
with two folding creases, mild toning, scuffs verso of letter.
The letter measures 8 x 9 inches. Also offered is a carte de
visite photograph of Porter from the war years circa 1864 from
D. H. Willard's galleries in Philadelphia.
$500.00
David Dixon Porter (1813-1891) was from one of the most
distinguished United States Naval families. He was the second
person promoted to admiral after his adoptive brother, David
Farragut. He served as Superintendent of the U. S. Naval
Academy where he worked to raise standards of naval
officers. During the Civil war he saw important service. One
of his posts, as this letter indicates, was as commander of the
Mississippi Squadron.
38. TRUMAN, Harry S. (SIGNED & Inscribed to John
R. Steelman). MR. CITIZEN [Deluxe Author's Edition]. New
York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1960. SIGNED, INSCRIBED
AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY
PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN TO JOHN R. STEELMAN,
First person to fill the post of "Assistant to the President".
Near Fine First Edition First Printing specially designed and
bound for this, the "Author's Edition" in quarter Morocco
leather patterned board binding, gilt lettering spine. Mild soil
covers. In the original blue grey slipcase with tipped on label,
as issued. Mild sun, edge wear slipcase. 8vo. 315 pp. While
there were 1000 copies printed of the signed limited edition, it
is believed that this Author's Edition, specially made for the
President to give to friends and associates, was issued in a
small edition of approximately 100 copies.
$2,750.00
John R. Steelman (1900-1999) was the first person to serve as
"The Assistant to the President of the United States". That
office was later re-named "The White House Chief of Staff".
He served from 1946 to 1953, the longest that any person has
been in that post. President Truman's inscription reads: "To
Hon. John R. Steelman from his good friend of long standing
and in appreciation of a good man and a great public servant,
Harry Truman Independence August 27, 1960". A Nice
Association copy.
PHYSICS
39. BOHR, Niels, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1922). CAN
QUANTUM-MECHANICAL
DESCRIPTION
OF
PHYSICAL REALITY BE CONSIDERED COMPLETE? In
The Physical Review, Vol. 48, Second Series, No. 8, October
15, 1925, pp. 696-702. [Bohr's reply to 1935 Einstein et. al.
paper "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical
Reality be Considered Complete?" (EPR Paradox)] Lancaster
PA: American Institute of Physics, 1935. Offered is a Near
Fine entire issue No. 8 of The Physical Review for October
15, 1935 in original printed wrappers with owner name front
cover, mild creases top corner of front cover, minimal cover
edge wear. Sm. 4to.
$1,750.00
Einstein could never accept the absolute necessity of quantum
mechanical indeterminacy. For many years, in a series of
debates with Bohr, he tried all sorts of dodges to outwit
Heisenberg's principle. He never quite succeeded, but his final
attempt kept Bohr, and Bohr's successors, puzzled for decades.
This attack on quantum-mechanical indeterminacy was
launched in a short paper written in 1935 by Einstein with
Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. The authors argued
quantum mechanics was incomplete because there were
elements of physical reality that did not have counterparts in
the theory. Bohr published his reply [the current paper] in
which he argued that Einstein's criterion of physical reality
was ambiguous and that from Bohr's own complementarity
standpoint the theory satisfied any reasonable standard of
completeness. (DSB Vol. 4). Niels Bohr (1885-1962) was
awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for "His services in
the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation
emanating from them".
40. BOHR, N. [Niels] Nobel Laureate in Physics (1922),
H. A. Kramers, and J. C. Slater. THE QUANTUM
THEORY OF RADIATION. In The Philosophical Magazine,
Sixth Series, Vol. 47, No. 281, May 1924, pp. 785-802.
London: Taylor and Frances, 1924. Offered is a Very Good++
entire issue of The Philosophical Magazine No. 281 for May
1924 in original printed wrappers with small pieces missing
spine tip covers. 8vo.
$1,350.00
After Kramers had succeeded in extending the scope of the
correspondence argument to the theory of optical dispersion thus rounding off a treatment of the interaction of atomic
systems with radiation that accounted for all emission,
absorption, and scattering processes - Bohr ventured to
propose a systematic formulation of the whole theory, in
which what he called the virtual character of the classical
model was emphasized. In this he was aided by Kramers and a
young American visitor, J. C. Slater, and the new theory was
published in 1924 under the authorship of all three. The most
striking feature of this remarkable paper, "The Quantum
Theory of Radiation," was the renunciation of the classical
form of causality in favor of a purely statistical description.
Even the distribution of energy and momentum between the
radiation field and the "virtual oscillators" constituting the
atomic systems was assumed to be statistical, the conservation
laws being fulfilled only on the average. This was going too
far: the paper was hardly in print before A. H. Compton and
A. W. Simon had established by direct experiment the strict
conservation of energy and momentum in an individual
process of interaction between atom and radiation.
Nevertheless, this short-lived attempt exerted a profound
influence on the course of events; what remained after its
failure was the conviction that the classical mode of
description of the atomic processes had to be entirely
relinquished. (DSB Vol 2, p. 247).
Feynman and Quantum Electrodynamics
41. FEYNMAN, Richard P. Nobel Laureate in Physics
(1965). A RELATIVISTIC CUT-OFF FOR CLASSICAL
ELECTRODYNAMICS. In The Physical Review, Second
Series, Vol. 74, No. 8, October 15, 1948 pp. 939-946.
Lancaster PA: American Institute of Physics, 1948. Offered is
a Near Fine entire issue of The Physical Review from October
15, 1948 in original printed wrappers finely rebacked to style.
4to.
$1,000.00
This paper is a further step in Feynman's plan to modify
classical electrodynamics as a forerunner to attacking the
problems of QED. It uses the action-at-a-distance approach,
half-advanced and half-retarded interaction, and the Fokker
action principle, although Feynman points out that his
modification of the classical "pointlike" interaction could also
be applied to the conventional electrodynamics. However, the
latter makes use of the Hamiltonian method that singles out
the time as a preferred variable, making it difficult to
construct a relativistic theory, which is more symmetrical in
time and space. (Brown, Selected Papers of Richard Feynman
with Commentary).
42. FEYNMAN, Richard P. SCHWINGER, Julian S.
Both Nobel Laureates in Physics (1965). A RELATIVISTIC
CUT-OFF FOR CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS In
The Physical Review, Second Series, Vol. 74, No. 10,
November 15, 1948 pp. 1430-1438. [Feynman's Second Paper
on Quantum Electrodynamics]. (Schwinger) QUANTUM
ELECTRODYNAMICS. 1. A COVARIANT FORMULATION. Physical Review Vol. 74, Second series No. 10
November 15, 1948. pp. 1439-1461. Lancaster, PA: American
Institute of Physics, 1948. Offered is a Very Good++ entire
issue of The Physical Review No. 10 from November 15,
1948 in original green printed wrappers. Owner name front
wrapper, sun spine, wear spine tips with mild chipping. Sm.
4to. $1,750.00
The Nobel Prize in Physics (1965) was awarded jointly to
Richard P. Feynman, Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro
Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum
electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the
physics of elementary particles".
Formal Proof of Feynman Diagrams and Feynman Rules
43. FEYNMAN, Richard P. Nobel Laureate in Physics
(1965). MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF THE
QUANTUM
THEORY
OF
ELECTROMAGNETIC
INTERACTION. In The Physical Review, Vol. 80, Second
Series, No. 3, November 1, 1950 pp. 440-457. Lancaster PA:
American Institute of Physics, 1950. Offered is a Very
Good++ entire issue of The Physical Review No. 3 from
November 1, 1950 in original green printed wrappers with
short closed tear spine, minimal soil and creases covers, soil
lower edge. Sm. 4to. Not ex-library.
$2,150.00
In 1950 [Feynman] wrote the current paper which establishes
the validity of the Feynman diagram methods. This paper
starts with Fermi's formulation of the field as a set of
oscillators and completely eliminates them completely as he
has done in a prior paper. Here, however, the charges are
treated in a completely relativistic manner, using either the
Dirac electron-positron field, or for spinless particles, the
relativistic Klein-Gordon (or Pauli-Weisskopf) field). All
virtual photons are eliminated; and Feynman shows how real
photons can be either introduced ad initio or derived from
general formulae for virtual processes. (Brown, Selected
Papers of Richard Feynman with Commentary).
44. SMOOT, George (SIGNED) Nobel Laureate in
Physics (2006) and Keay Davidson. WRINKLES IN TIME.
New York: William Morrow, 1993. SIGNED, INSCRIBED
AND DATED BY GEORGE SMOOT ON TITLE PAGE. A
Fine hardback Stated First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust
Jacket. 8vo. v, 331 pp.
$375.00
George Smoot (1945- ) is a researcher at the Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory who, with John C. Mather, shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics (2006) for "their discovery of the
blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave
background radiation". The current volume is the description
of the discoveries and their implications for the big bang
hypothesis of the origin of the universe.
45. WEINBERG, Steven (SIGNED). Nobel Laureate in
Physics (1979). A MODEL OF LEPTONS. In Physical
Review Letters. Vol. 19 No. 21. pp. 1264-1266. New York:
American Physical Society, 1967. SIGNED BY STEVEN
WEINBERG at his paper without personalization. A Near
Fine issue of the Physical Review Letters in the original green
wrappers with black lettering. Mailing label on rear. Minimal
cover edge and spine wear. Sm. 4to.
$1,750.00
In 1967 while Weinberg was a visiting professor at MIT, he
proposed his model for the unification of electromagnetism
and the nuclear weak force, with the masses of the forcecarriers of the weak part of the interaction being explained by
spontaneous symmetry breaking. One of its fundamental
aspects was the prediction of the existence of the so called
"Higgs boson". Experimental confirmation in 1973 of the
analogous Z boson was one form of verification of Weinberg's
postulated electroweak unification. The current paper is one
of the most highly quoted works in high energy physics. Steven
Weinberg (1933- ) (with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam)
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 "for their
contributions to the theory of unified weak and
electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles
including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral
current".
ECONOMICS
46. FISHER, Irving (SIGNED) & Hans R. L. Cohrssen.
[Also SIGNED by Frederic Delano and James Rand].
STABLE MONEY. A History of the Movement. New York:
Adelphi Company, 1934. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY
IRVING FISHER, FREDERIC DELANO AND JAMES
RAND on a colophon-label tipped to the front paste-down.
LIMITED EDITION No. 634 of the First Edition. Very
Good+ hardback First Edition First Printing in the original
blue cloth binding with mild wear cover edges, marginal
dampstain. No extraneous writing or markings. 8vo. xxiii, 484
pp.
$3,000.00
Irving Fisher (1867-1947) has been called by both James
Tobin and Milton Friedman "the greatest economist the
United States ever produced". In the 1920s Fisher founded the
Stable Money Association. A primary goal of the association
was to influence the Federal Reserve to adopt policies aimed
at price stabilization. Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953)
was an uncle of President Franklin Roosevelt, president of the
Stable Money Association and at one time first Vice-Chair of
the Federal Reserve. In his various roles and with the ear of
the president, he was able to strongly impact President
Roosevelt's economic policies. It is widely believed that at his
urging the President demonetized the dollar and went off the
gold standard. James Rand Jr. (1886-1968) was an American
industrialist who revolutionized the business record industry
and formed the Remington Rand Company which he later
merged with the Sperry Corporation to form the Sperry-Rand
Corporation. He signed this volume as the president of the
Committee for the Nation. This Committee, founded in 1933,
was dedicated to economic recovery (this was during the
height of the Great depression) and advocated abandoning the
gold standard. The volume itself is dedicated to President
Franklin Roosevelt. A very interesting Association Copy
bringing together Irving Fisher, two American industrialists
and The President of the United States.
47. HAYEK, F. A. Nobel Laureate In Economics (1974).
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM. [In the Scarce Original Printed
Dust Jacket]. London: George Routledge, 1944. A Very
Good++ hardback Third Printing with foxing in a Very Good
Dust Jacket with mild foxing, small pieces missing Dust
Jacket spine tips, chips, short closed tears. 8vo. viii, 184 pp.
$325.00
The Road to Serfdom is a singularly important economicphilosophical book of the twentieth century. It is viewed as
having shaped the political ideologies of many modern
conservatives including Ronald Reagan and Margaret
Thatcher. It led to a revival of neoclassical economics,
increased influence of libertarian thinking and a lessening of
the Keynesian dominance on Western economic thought.
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 (with Gunnar Myrdal) for
"their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic
fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the
interdependence of economic, social and institutional
phenomena".
48. KLEIN, Lawrence (SIGNED). Nobel Laureate in
Economics (1980). Edited by Jaime Marquez. ECONOMIC
THEORY AND ECONOMETRICS. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. SIGNED BY LAWRENCE
KLEIN ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A Fine
hardback First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket.
8vo. vi, 583 pp.
$900.00
The Nobel Prize in Economics 1980 was awarded to Lawrence
R. Klein (1920-2013) "for the creation of econometric models
and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations
and economic policies".
49. TINBERGEN, Jan (HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT and AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED).
ONTWIKKELINGSTHEORIE EN-PRAKTIJK; DE LESSEN
VAN DE JAREN ZESTIG EN ZEVENTIG; HET
ECONOMISCH ASPECT [Development theory and Practice;
The Lessons of the Sixties and Seventies; The Economic
Aspects] HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED MANUSCRIPT
BY JAN TINBERGEN Published in the Dutch scientific
periodical International Spectator, June 1984. With AN
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) IN GERMAN
forwarding the manuscript. 1984. SEVEN PAGE
HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED MANUSCRIPT IN
DUTCH BY JAN TINBERGEN on the economic lessons of
the sixties and seventies published in "International
Spectator". An AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED IN
GERMAN which reads in part: Dear _____Enclosed please
find a short manuscript for the Dutch journal "Internationale
Spectator". The title in German reads: Entwicklungstheorie
und -praxis: Die Lehren der Jahre sechzig und siebzig;..."
$1,000.00
Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Economics in 1969 (shared with Ragnar Frisch) "for having
developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of
economic processes".