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A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from "Passages from the life of a philosopher. by BABBAGE, CHARLES

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Title: A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from "Passages from the life of a philosopher.
Author: BABBAGE, CHARLES
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Murray, 1864. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN "PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER". "Lady Lovelace wrote that Babbage hated music. He tolerated its more exquisite forms, but abhorred it as practiced on the street. 'Those whose minds are entirely unoccupied,' he wrote with some seriousness in Observations of Street Nuisances in 1864, 'receive [street music] with satisfaction, as filling up the vacuum of time.' He calculated that 25% of his working power had been destroyed by street nuisances, many of them intentional. Letters to the Times and the eventual enforcement of 'Babbage's Act,' which would squelch street nuisances, made him the target of ridicule. "The public tormented him with an unending parade of fiddlers, Punch-and-Judys, stilt-walkers, fanatic psalmists, and tub-thumpers. Some neighbors hired musicians to play outside his windows. Others willfully annoyed him with worn-out or damaged wind instruments. Placards were hung in local shops, abusing him. During on 80-day period Babbage counted 165 nuisances. One brass band played for five hours, with only a brief intermission. Another blew a penny tin whistle out his window toward Babbage's garden for a half hour daily, for 'many months.' "When Babbage went out, children followed and cursed him. Adults followed, too, but at a distance. Over a hundred people once skulked behind him before he could find a constable to disperse them. Dead carts and other 'offensive materials' were thrown at his house. Windows were broken. A man told him, 'You deserve to have your house burnt up, and yourself in it, and I will do it for you, you old villain.' Even when he was on his deathbed, the organ-grinders ground away implacably." (John A.N. Lee, et al., International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers). To this day, Babbage's preoccupation with "street nuisances" is often cited as a subject for ridicule, but A Chapter on Street Nuisances is a sincere plea from a suffering man that yields valuable insight into the mind of the great scientist. Interestingly, his "autopsy report, which came to light in 1983, raises the intriguing possibility that Babbage's acute sensitivity to noise was due to a medical condition involving cochlear degeneration caused by arterial disease" (Dictionary of National Biography). Although labeled as an "Extract" from Passages in the Life of a Philosopher, this volume precedes the publication in book form. There is even an ad on the verso of the front cover for Passages, noting optimistically that it "in a few days will be published" by John Murray (the publisher of the "Extract"). The book would, however, be delayed; Murray objected to a perceived off-color passage, and refused to publish it, ultimately yielding the publication rights to the eventual publisher Longman. The first edition is extremely rare: While the book publication was still awaiting the book publication, Murray published a second edition, and Longman published a third edition. The only other copies we have been able to locate that have been on the market have been the later editions. With a detailed "List of Mr. Babbage's Printed Papers" included at rear. London: John Murray, 1864. Octavo, original sewn printed wrappers; custom silk box. 32 pages. Title with light toning and small damp stain on outer edge; stitching loose. RARE.

[Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook] The Minidoka Interlude. September, 1942 - October, 1943 by [Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook]

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Title: [Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook] The Minidoka Interlude. September, 1942 - October, 1943
Author: [Japanese Internment Camp Yearbook]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hunt, ID: Residents of Minidoka Relocation Center, 1943. Near Fine. An annual yearbook documenting the residents at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Hunt Idaho. Bound in the original dark blue cloth stamped in blind. Near Fine with rubbing to extremities, light soiling to rear. Former detainee/owner's name on front pastedown "Margaret [Masako] Tomoguchi 38-12 Hunt, Idaho", and several instances of red underlining throughout. Depicted in this yearbook are various employment divisions and recreational activities including ikebana flower arranging and cheerful Christmas celebrations. Included are black of white photos of each block and barrack members by name, including Tomoguchi's. Tomoguchi was ten years old when she and her parents, Tomoji & Ayako, were initially sent to Camp Harmony at the Puyallup Assembly Center and then later relocated to Minidoka.

Game Book. A. McDonnell by McDonnell, Alexander (1857-1945) [or MacDonnell]

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Title: Game Book. A. McDonnell
Author: McDonnell, Alexander (1857-1945) [or MacDonnell]
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1917. Full Morocco. Very Good. Oblong, 21 by 30 cm. 92 numbered leaves with content, with log entries, more or less statistical, on all the versos, and pictures and/or original drawings, mostly mounted, on 58 rectos, with some additional loose material. (129 numbered leaves in all.) Several of the log pages have mounted photos obscuring the log, as it is clear that this game book was at some point re-purposed to be a more general album, with some emphasis on sports, including also fishing, foxhunting and sailing, but also there are two pages of photos from South Africa, with photos of native tribesmen, ostriches, a hut, Cecil Rhodes house, etc. 13 original works of art -- watercolored, pencil, pen and ink -- in addition to numerous painted fish hook and fly vignettes, these sometimes done directly onto the page. Most charming are the comical illustrations of anthropomorphic foxes. Sepia photos are of the country estates, their stately homes and rural settings of the hunts as well as the people involved -- the hosts and guests during these country weekends. Many, but by no means, all of the photos have captions helpfully identifying the participants or the locations. And the log proper provides the names of those participating in the shooting, and often what would now be regarded as obscenely large kills. Among the many aristocrats and wealthy in the photographs and/or logs are Lady Randolph Churchill (Jennie Churchill), Arthur Balfour, Lady Minto (Mary, the famous 4th Countess), Henry Lascelles, the 5th Earl of Harewood, the 5th Earl of Carnavon (of King Tut fame, as well as the owner of the castle used in Downton Abbey), Baron Rothschild, Lord de Grey, Lord Ashburton, Prince Murat, the Duke of Buccleuch, Prince Duleep de Singh, Lord Rosebery, and on and on. Country homes include Longleat, Greystoke Castle, the Hirsel, Highcliffe Castle, etc. Alexander McDonnell was a son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and a clerk in the House of Lords. Obviously he was very well connected, and surely very popular, among the upper echelons of English society back then. And we would note that many of the most illustriously titled have frequent entries here; what we have here is a window into a cohesive social network, it is our sense. Condition: morocco binding has moderate to heavy wear along edges, some scuffs on the boards and spine. The leaves can have a waviness, the result of the interaction of the mounted material upon the leaves. A few photos are loose. There is a little bit of a scrappy quality to the book, as befitting a log book that was partially turned into something much more, and this quality is part of its charm as well.

Edward Ruscha--Young Artist by RUSCHA, Edward; EDWARD RUSCHA

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Title: Edward Ruscha--Young Artist
Author: RUSCHA, Edward; EDWARD RUSCHA
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1972. RUSCHA, Edward. Edward Ruscha--Young Artist, A Book Accompanying the Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Books. Unpaginated catalogue [approximately 250 pp.] Illustrated with over 80 black & white and monochrome illustrations. 16mo, bound in original light green boards, housed in a new cloth folding box, 1972. This catalogue from a Ruscha retrospective in 1972 features a catalogue raisonne of his prints and artist's books complete excepting student work through the date of the exhibition. Though it does not include his paintings, this is a thorough catalogue with a wide variety of Ruscha's pre-1972 artistic production. Of particular note are his text pieces, photographs from the "Tanks, Banks, Ranks, Thanks" series, and drawings from his Apartment series. Ruscha and Foster business cards laid-in, as issued. Inscribed by Ruscha "To Mark-Ed Ruscha". Front hinge splitting but still intact, flyleaf with inscription loose, spine and front cover faded to light blue.

The Maltese Falcon by [Arion Press] Hammett, Dashiell

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Title: The Maltese Falcon
Author: [Arion Press] Hammett, Dashiell
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. One of 400 copies printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem, the press proprietor. It was the eleventh publication of the press. This copy is inscribed on the colophon: "To Joe Costello/29 VIII 83/Andrew Hoyem." This is a magnificent book from the Arion Press that more than does justice to this Hammett's novel. The preface describes this book as the apex of his work. The publishers write in a preface that "this edition is a tribute to Hammett's achievement. The design of the book reflect the spirit of the period in which it was written while giving its format an enduring presence. The forty-six illustrations are photographs of San Francisco Bay Area locations named or established by Hammett in the narrative. Most pictures were shot around the time of the actual setting of the story, five days during 1928." There are notes at the end of the book identifying each photo and its reference in the text." A few of the photographs are more recent and were provided by California photographer Edmund Shea. Bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery in gray cloth with a quarter leather black spine with silver titling. On the front and back covers are a striking and stylized image of a falcon done in black leather with silver trim and a red eye. Printed on Byron-Weston Linen Record paper using Bodoni semi-bold and Corvinus medium types. The photo-lithography was by Phelps-Schaefer. Housed in a gray cloth covered slipcase with a black leather spine label with silver titling. In fine condition. Measures 8.25 x 10.25 inches. 291 pages plus photographs. PRI/103124.

William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness: A Screenplay [Bookplate Signed by Styron Laid in] by William Styron and Richard Yates; George Bluestone [intro.]

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Title: William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness: A Screenplay [Bookplate Signed by Styron Laid in]
Author: William Styron and Richard Yates; George Bluestone [intro.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780933277007
Condition: Fine
Description: Watertown: Ploughshares Books, 1985. Fine/Very Good+. Watertown: Ploughshares Books, 1985. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket; 208pp. Very light wrinkling to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bookplate signed by William Styron laid in.

Autograph Letter Signed by CROKER, J. Wilson (1780-1857)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed
Author: CROKER, J. Wilson (1780-1857)
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (United States)
Description: This Irish-born British literary critic, essayist and satirist is remembered for his controversial 1831 edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson"; as Member of Parliament and long-time secretary to the admiralty (1810-30) he is best known for slashing the size of the Royal Navy. ALS, 4pp (lettersheet), 4½" X 7", Aldeburgh, Great Britain, 1831 October 2. Addressed to George Lamb (1784-1834, British politician and writer; appointed under-secretary of state in 1830). Very good. Mild wear; being a four-page lettersheet, there's remnants of old archival tape along the fold. Croker comments on Lamb for answering his letter to British secretary of state The Viscount Melbourne -- George Lamb's own brother, William Lamb. Regards some cryptic naval incident -- in part: "I think it proper to observe that you do not appear to have seen the difficulty which I intended to submit to Lord Melbourne. My doubt did not apply so much to the treatment of the seamen who might be stranded, as to that of the town into which such persons may have been thrown" and he goes on at length to explain that the whole town may have been subjected to the stranded seamen. Good content from the tail end of Croker's admiralty career and the beginning of his literary career.

STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN by Andersen, Hans Christian; Richardson, Agnes

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Title: STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN
Author: Andersen, Hans Christian; Richardson, Agnes
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: London & New York: Geographia, 1920. Very good plus.. First edition of this illustrated collection, with 14 of Andersen's fairy tales in a color palette similar to Ann Anderson's work. 10.5'' x 7.75''. Original boards. Pictorial paste-on. Light cover soil. Includes eight charming color plates (including cover plate that is not repeated in text) and several line illustrations in text.

Cowboy Lingo. by ADAMS, Ramon F.

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Title: Cowboy Lingo.
Author: ADAMS, Ramon F.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. First edition. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few small chips, faded along the spine) dust jacket. ; 257 pages .

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Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher. by ACKLEY, Clifford S., et al.

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Title: Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher.
Author: ACKLEY, Clifford S., et al.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780878466771
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description: Boston:: MFA Publications,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0878466770 . Exhibition catalog. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Stated first edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

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Gumuchian; Les livres de L'Enfance. 2 volumes

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Title: Gumuchian; Les livres de L'Enfance. 2 volumes
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780900470936
Condition: Fine
Description: London: The Holland Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Preface by Paul Gavault. One of 600 numbered copies. "Elaborate descriptions of more than 6,000 nursery books."

Poems by William Allingham by Allingham, William

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Title: Poems by William Allingham
Author: Allingham, William
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. [1], x, 276 pages, [2], 16 pages of advertisements, [1]. Blue cloth hardcover with ornate blind stamped decorations on the covers. Gilt lettered title on the spine. All edges gilt. Brown end sheets. Light shelf wear to the cloth binding. Corners slightly bumped. Light foxing to the front and rear end papers. Interior contents clean.

On the dysenteries of India: with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue. by ACTON, Hugh William (1883-1935); KNOWLES, Robert (1883-1936).

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Title: On the dysenteries of India: with a chapter on secondary streptococcal infections and sprue.
Author: ACTON, Hugh William (1883-1935); KNOWLES, Robert (1883-1936).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Calcutta:: Thacker, Spink, 1928., 1928. Tall 8vo. xiv, 178 pp. 2 tables, 25 plates (2 folding). Original gray cloth. Ownership signature of Daniel Beltz, 1934. Very good copy. Robert Knowles was a British parasitologist, known for his discovery, with Biraj Mohan Das Gupta, of the Plasmodium species now known as Plasmodium knowlesi. He became a professor of protozoology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in 1928. Knowles was the director of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine from 1933 to 1935; in the directorship his predecessor was Hugh William Acton and his successor was Sir Ram Nath Chopra. / Acton, entered into the Indian Medical Service in 1907. In 1910 he was appointed director of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli, a post he maintained until 1916. He then served in the military while station in Mesopotamia. He then served as chair of the tropical pathology and bacteriology at the newly founded School of Tropical Medicine at Calcutta. PROVENANCE: Dr. Daniel Beltz, attended the College of Medical Evangelists, now called the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and practiced in Los Angeles.

[ARCHITECTURE] PRIZE HOMES OF WEST COAST WOODS

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Title: [ARCHITECTURE] PRIZE HOMES OF WEST COAST WOODS
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Good binding
Description: Seattle, Washington; Longview, Washington; Portland, Oregon: West Coast Lumber Bureau, 1928. Original Wrappers. Good binding. With illustrated views of the interiors and exteriors of the houses, in addition to architectural plans of each. Tearing with loss to the fore edge of the front cover, affecting the initial leaf, and some additional tearing and beginnings of separation along the spine. Stapled pamphlet. Good binding.

Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners by Torre, Joe; Dreher, Henry

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Title: Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners
Author: Torre, Joe; Dreher, Henry
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Hyperion, 1999 First edition, first printing. Signed by Torre on half title page and dated "9-24-99." Publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in gilt; in its original pictorial dust jacket with embossed gilt title to front panel, designed by Gerald Pfieffer, photos of Torre to front and rear panels by Carolyn Jones. A hint of creasing to spine ends, else fine; about fine unclipped dust jacket, with a touch of creasing to head of spine and a tiny dimple to bottom left of front panel. With a Barnes & Noble book signing event advertisement slip laid in. Overall, a bright copy. In this book, famed baseball player and manager Joe Torre lays out his twelve keys for success. These include Key #2: Fairness, Respect, and Trust: Torre's Triple Play, Key #4: Maintain Serenity (As Best You Can), and Key #10: Steadiness and Small Bites: How to Handle Setbacks. The jacket flap claims that "Torre's invaluable insight will provide readers with the tools they need to develop a winning outlook, and to get the most out of themselves and their colleagues, whether in sports, business, or life. As a player, Torre earned nine All Stars selections and was voted NL MVP in 1971. His greatest success as a manager came with the Yankees, helping the team win four World Series titles (1996, 1998-2000). Torre is the only individual in baseball history with at least 2,000 hits as a player and 2,000 wins as a manager. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

Transplantation of a Portion of the Tibia into the Spine for Pott's Disease.; A Preliminary Report by ALBEE, Fred H.

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Title: Transplantation of a Portion of the Tibia into the Spine for Pott's Disease.; A Preliminary Report
Author: ALBEE, Fred H.
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description: pamphlet. 2 pahes (pp. 885-886) IN: Journal of the American Medical Associatioin, vol. 57, no. 11. Tall 4to, modern wrappers. chicago, 1911. First Edition. Whole number offered entire. Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. He used cutting machines and saws to make his inlaid, perfectly fitting grafts. GM 5757.

Labor's Economic Review, Vol. 2, no. 12, December, 1957 by AFL-CIO

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Title: Labor's Economic Review, Vol. 2, no. 12, December, 1957
Author: AFL-CIO
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Washington, DC]: AFL-CIO, 1957. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); stapplebound self-wrappers; 73-80pp.; illus., text in double columns. A hint of wear from handling, else Near Fine. Issue entirely devoted to the article "Broader Minimum Wage Protection.

Destiny and Golden Thoughts by Arnold, Edwin; Van Dyke, Henry; Manning, Cardinal; Carlyle, Thomas; Eliot, George; Temple, W.

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Title: Destiny and Golden Thoughts
Author: Arnold, Edwin; Van Dyke, Henry; Manning, Cardinal; Carlyle, Thomas; Eliot, George; Temple, W.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1912. Leather_bound. Good. Leather_bound. 7" X 4 3/4". Unpaginated. Rubbing, toning,Light soiling, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of leather wraps. Inked gift inscription dated 1912 to front endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. A solid copy of this 1912 book of poetry.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values vol. 6 by Tanner, Obert Clark

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Title: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values vol. 6
Author: Tanner, Obert Clark
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: University of Utah, 1985. Fine. Tanner, Obert Clark. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values vol. 6. SLC: University of Utah, 1985. 208pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle bumping.

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