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The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein's Creative Mind by ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Title: The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein's Creative Mind
Author: ALBERT EINSTEIN
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: A unique and important artifact of his childhood. [ALBERT EINSTEIN]. Ephemera. Set of Anker-Steinbaukasten children's building blocks by F. Ad. Richter & Cie., Rudolstadt, [Germany], c.1880s. Approximately 160 composite quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil blocks in red, limestone and slate gray, in various sizes and shapes, together with three or more sets of building plans, all contained in two wooden boxes with printed Anker-Steinbaukasten labels. Einstein spent his childhood building "complicated structures" with these Anker-Steinbaukasten blocks. Accepting his later theory that "Imagination is more important than knowledge," the toys that encouraged his imagination became building blocks for the most important scientific theories of the last millennium. His sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, describing his childhood, recalled that "The games he played … were very characteristic of Albert's capacities. These were mostly puzzles, fretsaw work, the erection of complicated structures with the well-known Anker building blocks, and above all the construction of multi-storied card castles, with which he filled his leisure." ("Beitrag für sein Lebensbild" in The collected papers of Albert Einstein. ed. John Stachel. Volume 1: The early years. 1879-1902. (Princeton University Press, 1987) p.lix. Translated from German.) Based on the work of German educator Friedrich Froebel (who created the concept of kindergarten) these composite stone blocks were a popular toy of the 1880s and 1890s. The blocks were designed to help develop childrens' tactile senses and manual dexterity, and also to stimulate imagination, creativity and three-dimensional perception. Fellow scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius are among the geniuses who are known to have played with Anker blocks. Provenance The set had passed by direct descent from Albert Einstein to the consignor from whom we acquired the blocks at Christie's London on July 13, 2016. Condition A few blocks chipped and worn, with original instructions and boxes worn, soiled and defective. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-Swiss born theoretical physicist internationally recognized as one of the greatest physicists of all time. He enunciated the general theory of Relativity, with law explaining the relationship between the speed of light and its consequence, the equivalence of mass and energy (E=MC2). For his work in theoretical physics—largely for his 1905 paper on photons and photo-electricity—Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics (announced in November 1922, retroactive for 1921). Working on a unified field theory, he then attempted to explain gravitation and electromagnetism within one set of laws. With the expulsion of Jewish scholars from Germany after Hitler's rise to power, Einstein joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1933), which became the most celebrated research center in the world. In 1939, he signed a letter written to President Franklin Roosevelt warning him of the possibility of Germany developing a nuclear bomb. He urged the U.S. to begin uranium research, thus beginning the top secret "Manhattan Project." Later, at Princeton, he tried to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics, both unsuccessfully. Einstein received U.S. citizenship in 1940.

General Grants election has brought such actual Peace, that there is not a part of a peg even, to hang an excitement on by WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

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Title: General Grants election has brought such actual Peace, that there is not a part of a peg even, to hang an excitement on
Author: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Sherman turns down an invitation to a "Grand Reunion of the Western Armies at Chicago." WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. Autograph Letter, to an unnamed general. Annapolis, Maryland, December 8, 1868. 2 pp., quarto. Sherman originally wrote this content as part of a longer letter; he marked this leaf "copy" and ends it with marks that show this section to be complete. Complete Transcript Copy U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis Md. Dec 8, 1868 Dear General, I had already received an invitation to the Grand Review of the Western Armies at Chicago, when I received your letter of Dec 2. I am however too unwell to go any where, and am now under the care of a physician who has put me under a certain course of treatment that I have to comply with. I assure you that I would be most happy to witness your Reunion which I expect will be a very pleasant affair, and I should be much pleased to meet there, the officers of the army with whom I have been at different times associated. I would not be surprised if this were the last meeting held by your Association, as General Grants election has brought such actual Peace, that there is not a part of a peg even, to hang an excitement on. Your old Army Corps will in the next four years have almost forgotten that there has been any thing like war, and the members devoting themselves to money making pursuits, will be unable to attend these meetings as they have done heretofore. Perhaps it is just as well that it should be so, and that there should be nothing to remind us of the strife through which we have passed. x x x x x x x Historical Background The election of 1868, which saw Grant as the Republican candidate, was the first post- Civil War election. The Republican campaign theme — "Let us have peace"— was taken from Grant's letter of acceptance. After four years of war, three years of wrangling over Reconstruction, and the impeachment of President Johnson, the nation craved the peace Grant pledged to achieve. Johnson was so unpopular that he failed to secure the Democratic party nomination, which instead nominated Horatio Seymour against the wildly popular (at least in the North and among the Freedmen) hero of Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant. William T. Sherman (1820-1891), a West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran, served as a corps commander under General Grant in successful campaigns down the Mississippi and in Tennessee. He then took command of the western armies when Grant was reassigned to the Virginia theatre. He was both recognized and criticized for his tactics of "scorched earth" and "total war," evidenced by his capture of Atlanta and "March to the Sea" through Georgia. He followed this feat by a swift campaign north through the Carolinas to force the surrender of the last major Confederate army. Sherman served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army from 1869-1883, during a period of Westward expansion and Indian Wars.

George H.W. Bush Inscribes a Photograph to Lee Atwater, the Man Who Made Him President by George H.W. Bush

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Title: George H.W. Bush Inscribes a Photograph to Lee Atwater, the Man Who Made Him President
Author: George H.W. Bush
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 18/08/1988. Lee Atwater engineered Bush’s come-from-behind victory in the 1988 election. After a short tutelage as a Republican election consultant in his native South Carolina, where he got a reputation as an take-no-prisoners campaigner, he went to Washington and became an aide in the Reagan administration, working under political director Ed Rollins. In 1984, Rollins managed Reagan's re-election campaign, and Atwater became the campaign's deputy director and political director. Rollins later described Atwater as ""ruthless”. During those years in Washington, Atwater became aligned with Vice President George H.W. Bush, who chose him as his campaign manager for his 1988 presidential bid. Atwater developed a particularly aggressive media program featuring television advertisements designed to implement the Republican “Southern strategy” by playing on racial fears - the Willie Horton ads - and the idea that Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis was a lightweight unqualified to lead the military - the tank ads. The Horton ad campaign created a public opinion that Dukakis might be too liberal, and the ad that ridiculed Dukakis for riding in a tank by implying he was trying to seem military when he was not, were instrumental in Bush overcoming Dukakis' 17-percent lead in early public opinion polls, and win both the electoral and popular vote by landslide margins.Atwater was only 37 years old when Mr. Bush named him chairman of the Republican National Committee as a reward for managing the 1988 campaign. There Atwater focused on undermining Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley and organizing a public relations campaign against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who he viewed as a serious potential threat to Bush in the 1992 election. However, Atwater soon developed brain cancer, and he died March 29, 1991, at the age of 40.An 8 by 10 inch presentation color signed photograph showing Bush standing triumphantly before the Republican Nation Convention accepting its presidential nomination, inscribed “To Lee Atwater, August 18, 1988. A real ‘pro’, with many thanks on this special day.” It is still in its original George Bush frame. We obtained this directly from the Atwater heirs, and it has never before been offered for sale.

Collection of Incoming and Retained Copies of Outgoing Correspondence of Nathaniel Goodwin, Hartford City Treasurer and Probate Judge, 1810-1855 by Goodwin, Nathaniel (1782-1855)

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Title: Collection of Incoming and Retained Copies of Outgoing Correspondence of Nathaniel Goodwin, Hartford City Treasurer and Probate Judge, 1810-1855
Author: Goodwin, Nathaniel (1782-1855)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: 236 letters, 312 pages, 50 deeds, receipts et cetera, in very good, clean, and legible condition. Nathaniel Goodwin was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 5, 1782, and died there May 29, 1855. He was apprenticed to a printer in Albany, and afterward became a teacher and land-surveyor. At Hartford he was for many years City treasurer and judge of probate, and was often employed in the settlement of estates, He published Descendants of Thomas Olcott (1845), and The Foote Family (1849). After his death appeared his Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, with a memoir (1856). This collection consists of incoming correspondence written to Nathaniel Goodwin as well as retained copies of Goodwin's outgoing correspondence, 1811-1855. The correspondence is almost entirely business related, involving the settlement of estate, land disputes, and other legal matters. Several letters have manuscript surveys, ranging from nearby towns in Connecticut to lands in Ohio and New York. The collection can be divided into three sections: 1. Incoming Correspondence to Nathaniel Goodwin a. 1826-1829, 9 letters, 10 pages b. 1830-1838, 35 letters, 40 pages c. 1840-1849, 57 letters, 69 pages d. 1850-1855, 16 letters, 15 pages 2. Retained Copes of Outgoing Correspondence by Nathaniel Goodwin a. 1811, 1816, two letters, 2 pages b. 1829, 28 letters, 44 pages c. 1830-1837, 78 letters, 120 pages d. 1843-1844, 11 letters 12 pages 3. Documents, receipts, etc., pertaining to Goodwin's tenure as Hartford City Treasurer a. 1810-1852, 50 items Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. II, p. 683

ALCUIN: A Dialogue. The Gehenna Press,1970, with Leonard Baskin Lithograph Signed by BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN

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Title: ALCUIN: A Dialogue. The Gehenna Press,1970, with Leonard Baskin Lithograph Signed
Author: BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: This is copy 250 of 300 books printed in 1970, orange cloth boards in marbled slip case. This edition's "Afterward" offers an explanation for this work. Brown (1771-1810) has been recognized as, "the first professional man of letters in the United States." The first and second parts of this three part book, "were printed originally as a book in New York in 1798...the second parts..posthumously published in 1815...." as part of Brown's biography by William Dunlap. The 1970 edition offers, "a single volume containing the entire text of all parts of Alcuin...." The book promoted the rights of women when the topic was actively debated in the late eighteenth century with Mary Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792) leading the way.

[Trade Catalogue] Glaces Verres Cadres Troncy Frères. Manufacture de Glaces, Verres et Cadres

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: [Trade Catalogue] Glaces Verres Cadres Troncy Frères. Manufacture de Glaces, Verres et Cadres
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lyon: Printed by H. Richard, Lyon; Helio Aulard, Paris and Lyon; Imprimerie des Faculte, 1937. Stab binding. Cover of card stock. Brass clasp pins passing through holes. Very Good. A huge variety of mostly Art Deco mirrors, from vanity mirrors, to larger dressing mirrors, mirrors attached to furniture, etc. as well as some tables, serving carts, etc. Art Deco is definitely the dominant aesthetic, but there are frames that are in the more traditional Rococo, Empire and other styles that of course never died out completely and for which there was demand. The decorative bands on most pages, too, is pure Art Deco, as is the cover design. Unpaginated. 23 leaves, with first twenty on a thicker paper. Nine of these are folding, and basically the equivalent of two pages, with content of these leaves entirely on rectos, with versos blank. The last three leaves, on a thiner paper stock, with six pages of price listing. First leaf has title page, with following leaves filled with photos of the company's products. Scarce -- no copies listed on OCLC First Search.

Higan Nite by Araki, Nobuyoshi

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Title: Higan Nite
Author: Araki, Nobuyoshi
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: Tolyo: AaT room / Eyecencia, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Near fine.. 4to. Unpaginated. Flexible white boards lettered in gold. Pictorial color wraparound dustwrapper.Roman letter title page with a translucent overlay in Japanese. Illustrated throughout with color photos of Tokyo street scenes and people, as well as numerous nudes. Very minor bump at bottom fore-corner, but still a fine, as new copy.

Alan Paton Writes About His Book The Land & People Of South Africa by ALAN PATON

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Title: Alan Paton Writes About His Book The Land & People Of South Africa
Author: ALAN PATON
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ALAN PATON (1902-1988). A South African author, Paton is best remembered for Cry, the Beloved Country. He was an outspoken opponent of apartheid.TLS. 1pg. 8 x 10. November 5, 1962. South Africa. A typed letter signed Alan Paton on blue air mail stationery. He wrote to Mrs. Peter Scott of West Orange, New Jersey: Thank you for your letter of October 23. At the moment THE LAND & PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA is being revised, and I do not have a copy of the earlier edition. I have translations, but do not suppose you would want any of these. However, if you were to approach the publishers, J.B. Lippincott, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, and ask them when the revised edition is likely to be out. I would be glad to autograph a copy for your fund raising effort, if the book were sent to me in time. The Land & People of South Africa was published in 1955. The letter has a rough right edge and is in very good condition.

Two Poems. by ABRAHAMS, William.

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Title: Two Poems.
Author: ABRAHAMS, William.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: Woodside: Occasional Works, (1977).. First edition.. [8 pp]. Spine tanned, else near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 25 copies. Poems that originally appeared in Poetry Magazine in May 1948. An early item from the Press

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. by ALCOTT, Louisa May.

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Title: Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
Author: ALCOTT, Louisa May.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Norwalk:: Easton Press,. Near Fine. 1976. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward Weeks. Collector's edition. Octavo, fully bound in dark blue leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine. ; 429 pages .

Escape from Corregidor by Edgar D. Whitcomb

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Title: Escape from Corregidor
Author: Edgar D. Whitcomb
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Frooman retaining original price ($4.50); xi,[3],274pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, spine panel a bit toned, corners gently bumped, else Very Good overall. World War II memoir of the future Governor of Indiana Edgar B. Whitcomb (1917-2016) describing his experiences as an airman during the Battle of Corregidor, his evasion and capture by the Japanese, and his successful escape attempts, the final involving swimming eight hours through the night to the mainland where he managed to book a passage to China using a false identity.

Resistance, an anarchist bi-monthly, vol. 12, no. 1, April 1954

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Title: Resistance, an anarchist bi-monthly, vol. 12, no. 1, April 1954
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Resistance Group, 1954. Magazine. 12p., wraps, paper lightly toned, rear wrap browned else good condition, 8.5x11 inches. Contributors include Gaston Leval (on Spanish anarchist collectives), George Woodcock and Paul Goodman.

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