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Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns by ABC BOOK; VOLTZ, Johann Michael

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Title: Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns
Author: ABC BOOK; VOLTZ, Johann Michael
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Nurnberg: G.N. Renner, 1838. One of the Most Beautiful 'ABC' Books of the Biedermeier Period Johann Voltz's Wonderful Picture Alphabet Depicting the Everyday Life of Country and Townsfolk VOLTZ, Johann Michael. [ABC]. Bilder-Alphabet zur Erweekung des Scharfsinns oder viele Original Darstellungen, nach jedem Buchstaben in 24 Gemälden. Eine neue Bilderlust herausgegeben für Kleine und Grosse. Schwarze und illum Ausgabe. Nürnberg: G.N. Renner, ca. 1838. Translation: "Picture alphabet to awaken the intellect; or many original depictions, after each letter in 24 paintings. A new joy in pictures for young and old. Black and colored edition." Folio (13 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 337 x 238 mm.). Complete with the pictorial hand colored lithograph title-page and twenty four magnificent hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic. Two lithographed leaves of text at end. Twenty-seven leaves complete. Plates "I" and "J" are combined on one plate which has the date MDCCCXXXVIII - the letter "Y" was left out by Voltz. Mid twentieth century quarter black calf with black calf corners over patterned boards. Smooth spine, plain endpapers. An exceptionally fine and clean copy with just some 'color bleed' showing on the verso of the plates only. Exceptionally rare hand colored alphabet by Johann Michael Voltz (1784-1858). Each plate represents a letter of the alphabet with numerous objects and actions beginning with the relevant letter, two tables at the back list the words applying to each plate. Extraordinarily rare series of ABC tables, which are counted among the most beautiful ABC books of the Biedermeier period, in the hand colored edition on thick paper. The finely executed, magnificently colored and partly washed plates represent alphabetical search images in which the individual objects and people, each beginning with the same letter, have been combined to form large, colorful, colorful and partly whimsical scenes rich in figures. "The idyllic-realistic children's book illustrations by Voltz describe scenes from bourgeois and rural life in an idealized way, which, despite all idealization, provide an insight into the life of these classes" (H. Herbst in LKJ IV, p.533). The Biedermeier period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and ended with the onset of the Revolutions of 1848. OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Princeton University (NJ,US); Staatsbibloithek Zu Berlin (Germany). Braunschweig University Library have an uncolored copy. Hauswedell 55 (with color); Düsterdieck 666 (black and white edition bound without the 2 ll. text). Stuck-Villa II, 10. Not in Wegehaupt Alte Deutche Kinderbücher band I-IV; Rümann [Old Children's Books]; Brunken, Hurrelmann & Pech Handbuch zur Kinder, Schug Die Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch or Pressler Schöne alte Kinderbücher.

You and Your Surfboard by Bartlett, Vernon; Maurice Bartlett

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Title: You and Your Surfboard
Author: Bartlett, Vernon; Maurice Bartlett
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rye, Sussex: Vernon Bartlett at Mermaid Cottage, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Staple-bound in publisher's textured cream colored wraps lettered in brown and black. 24 pp. Near Fine with soiling and wear to covers. Rusting to staples with light toning to contents. A charming how-to British surfing guide for beginners. The author, a politician and journalist, was forward thinking in telling his readers not to litter beaches, “You wouldn’t show yourself so unworthy of the beautiful beaches on which you are privileged to spend your holidays.” No other copies listed according to WorldCat.

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“Solvable and unsolvable problems.” In Science News, 31, pp. 7-23 by TURING, Alan

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Title: “Solvable and unsolvable problems.” In Science News, 31, pp. 7-23
Author: TURING, Alan
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9780198250791
Description: Melbourne, London, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1954. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Original printed wrappers. First printing. This article constitutes a summary of Turing’s most theoretical work in computer science to date (a year before his death). He here expounds the ideas used in proofs of unsolvability since 1936 and enumerates some of the results and open problems. These include proof of the existence of mathematical problems that cannot be solved by the universal Turing machine. This is a turnabout from his earlier position that “any algorithmic procedure that can be carried out by a human or group of humans can be carried out by some Turing Machine.” Though common sense might say that a universal machine is impossible, Turing proved that it is possible, though later proved that there are mathematical problems which cannot be solved by any systematic method – in other words, be solved by any algorithm. In “Solvable and unsolvable problems” Turing sets out to explain this result to a lay audience. Starting from concrete examples of problems that do admit of algorithmic solution, Turing works his way towards an example of a problem that is not solvable by any systematic method. Loosely put, this is the problem of sorting puzzles into those that will “come out” and those that will not. Turing gives an elegant argument showing that a sharpened form of this problem, which he call the “substitution type of puzzle,” is not solvable by means of a systematic method. Of interest is that his puzzle examples are quite similar to those invented by Lewis Carroll in his Doublets: a word puzzle (first published in London, 1879). Turing suggests that any puzzle can be re-expressed as a substitution puzzle. Some row of letters can always be used to represent the “starting position” envisaged in a particular puzzle, e.g. in the case of a chess problem, the pieces on the board and their positions. Desired outcomes, for example board positions that count as wins, can be described by further rows of letters, and the rules of the puzzle, whatever they are, are to be represented in terms of permissible substitutions of groups of letters for other groups of letters. It is much easier to understand by reading the article than by reading this description. See Turing, Alan, ‘Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)’, in Copeland (ed.), The Essential Turing (Oxford, 2004; online edn, Oxford Academic, 12 Nov. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198250791.003.0024, accessed 22 Sept. 2023.

Automatisme et suggestion by BERNHEIM, Hippolyte

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Title: Automatisme et suggestion
Author: BERNHEIM, Hippolyte
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: Alcan, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Original printed blue wrappers preserved in a glassine sleeve, unopened. A good copy in original condition. First edition of this rational treatment of hypnotism by the “father of psychotherapy.” Reflecting on 25 years of clinical research, here Bernheim considers the role of automatism in human behavior as well as the ethics and methodology of hypnotism, induced somnambulism, and psychoanalysis. This book represents an attempt to consolidate and elucidate the complicated notions about animal magnetism, hypnosis, and metaphysical research that were borne out of the late 19th century and put them in reasonable scientific rhetoric. Nijhoff, Books on Philosophy 337.

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Brautigan, Richard

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Title: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
Author: Brautigan, Richard
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1969. first. hardcover. very good/very good. Signed and dated first printing, as stated on copyright page. Book very good plus, slight rubbing to cover edges, very slight soiling to covers, tiny hole to spine. Dust jacket very good, some tanning, rubbing, small hole to spine and front panel. Flap price $9.95.

Flash Gordon (Original publicity photograph of Buster Crabbe from the 1936 film) by Alex Raymond (comic); Frederick Stephani (director, screenwriter); Ella O'Neill, George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey (screenwriters); Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton (starring)

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Title: Flash Gordon (Original publicity photograph of Buster Crabbe from the 1936 film)
Author: Alex Raymond (comic); Frederick Stephani (director, screenwriter); Ella O'Neill, George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey (screenwriters); Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage publicity photograph of Buster Crabbe from the 1936 serial film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the 1934 comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond. The first screen adaptation of "Flash Gordon," presented as a serial film in 13 chapters and starring Buster Crabbe in the titular role battling to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, portrayed by Charles B. Middleton. Followed by two sequels, also in serial form, "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" (1938) and "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" (1940). Remade in 1980 as a superhero space opera film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Sam J. Jones and Melony Anderson. Shot on location in Bronson Canyon, California. 8 x 10 inches, mounted onto a 8.25 x 10.25 inch black art board. Near Fine, with even toning. National Film Registry.

Autograph Letter Signed, Paris June 8, 1762, to an unidentified recipient by d’Estaing, Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, Comte, (1729-1794)

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed, Paris June 8, 1762, to an unidentified recipient
Author: d’Estaing, Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, Comte, (1729-1794)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: small quarto, one page, formerly folded, in very clean, legible condition, fine. Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, comte d’Estaing, French general and admiral who fought in the American War for Independence. He began his service as a soldier in the Seven Years War, spending time as a prisoner of war of the British. Following the entry of France into the Revolutionary War in 1778, he led a fleet to aid the American rebels, and participated in failed Franco-American attacks on Rhode Island and the Siege of Savannah. He returned to France in 1780. D’Estaing was subsequently executed in the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. The letter reads: “On ne peut être, Monsieur, plus flatté que je le suis des marques d’amitiés et de souvenir que vous avés la bonté de me donner; vous êtes assurément du nombre de ceux qu’on n’oublie point lorsqu’on s’eu l’honneur de les connaitre; la reconnaissance m’y oblige, les marques d’amitiés que vous avez bien voulu me donner sur le Superbe me sont toujours présentes; je partage bien sincèrement nos regrets sur notre ami commun, pénétré comme je le dois de tout ce que vous me marques; je n’en fais trop de cas pour n’en pas proffitter de ce que je ne prevois nullement aravit; soyeé persuadé de la vérité de ces deux choses. Je suis à Calais, et à Dunkerque ce n’est pas le chemin de Brest, ce n’est même-celui de nul part, ainsi j’imagine que je ne serai de longtemps dans le cas heureux de loger chez vous et d’augmenter les obligations que je vous ai déjà croyés que je choisirai toujours les- occasions de me raprocher de vous renouveller tous les sentiments avec lesquels j’ai l’honneur d’être. …”

A Death in the Family by Agee, James

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Title: A Death in the Family
Author: Agee, James
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First State. Near Fine in an about Near Fine first issue jacket, unclipped ($3.95), bumped to creasing at the corners, lightly rubbed, toned on the back panel. Blue cloth, faded at the edges, with silver and green gilt on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faint blue top stain, clean internally. The true first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winner and one of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923 according to Time.

Catalogue of An Exhibition of Recent Works by Distinguished Sculptors

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Title: Catalogue of An Exhibition of Recent Works by Distinguished Sculptors
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-. pencil writing on cover, which is somewhat tender
Description: Brooklyn Museum, 1930. Softbound. VG-. pencil writing on cover, which is somewhat tender. Orange printed stapled wraps. 16 bw plates. Lists 500 works by over 120 American sculptors. This must have been a whale of a show. Index to artists at rear, with current addresses. Includes 87 works by the deceased sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey.

Fine China-Trade Porcelain And Paintings: Thursday, February 23, 1984 by Christie's New York

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Title: Fine China-Trade Porcelain And Paintings: Thursday, February 23, 1984
Author: Christie's New York
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG. light edge-wear to covers; scratches & scuffs to covers. previous owners name to inside cover edge, otherwise, pgs clean. ti
Description: New York: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc, 1984. Softcover. VG. light edge-wear to covers; scratches & scuffs to covers. previous owners name to inside cover edge, otherwise, pgs clean. tight binding.. glossy, grey & pictorial wrappers w/ white printing. 117 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. Auction of 264 items.

Facts About Syphilis and Gonorrhea - In English and Spanish

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Title: Facts About Syphilis and Gonorrhea - In English and Spanish
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Near-fine. Minor staining.
Description: New York, New York: New York City Department of Health, 1973. Near-fine. Minor staining.. A bilingual public health pamphlet offering the general public facts about the sexually transmitted infections Syphilis and Gonorrhea. In English and Spanish, and published for residents of New York City by the Health Services Administration of the city's Health Department. Includes information on "free social hygiene clinics", as well as basic information on symptoms and treatment of the diseases. Tri-fold pamphlet (8.5" by 4"), printed in blue.

PLAN SEXENAL DEL P.N.R.

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Title: PLAN SEXENAL DEL P.N.R.
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Condition: wear to spine; with some of backstrip missing some yellowing as usual
Description: México: P.N.R., 1934. wear to spine; with some of backstrip missing some yellowing as usual. b/w illus., tables, wrps. Plan (economic and governmental) for Mexico in 1934 by and for the National Revolutionary Party under Lázaro Cárdenas. Full page modernist illustrations. Artist unknown, but possibly Fernando Leal.

Banqiao ji 板橋集 by Zheng Xie; Shen Suyue 鄭燮（鄭板橋）；沈蘇約（標點）

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Title: Banqiao ji 板橋集
Author: Zheng Xie; Shen Suyue 鄭燮（鄭板橋）；沈蘇約（標點）
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Shanghai: Liangxi tu shu guan 梁溪圖書館, 1926. Slender paperback, variously paginated sub-sections; mild handling wear and toning. Third edition.

The Commemorator. Vol. 5 no. 1 (March 1995)

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Title: The Commemorator. Vol. 5 no. 1 (March 1995)
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Description: Oakland: The Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, 1995. 20p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Single issue of the paper published by former Black Panthers and supporters.

Peter Brandes: Keramiske Arbejder 1990-1991 by -

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Title: Peter Brandes: Keramiske Arbejder 1990-1991
Author: -
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Silkeborg: Galerie Moderne, 1991. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. The catalogue based on the August-October 1991 exhibition at Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg. Bright and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers.

Jean Wolff by WOLFF, Jean and Jim Reed

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Title: Jean Wolff
Author: WOLFF, Jean and Jim Reed
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Santa Monica, CA: Jean Wolff, 1988. First edition. Softcover. [24 pages.] Features an essay by Jim Reed. Includes numerous color illustrations and a brief artist statement. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Scarce.

John Armlender by ARMLENDER, John (artist); Lionel BOVIER (author)

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Title: John Armlender
Author: ARMLENDER, John (artist); Lionel BOVIER (author)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9782080305169
Condition: A near-fine copy; corners slightly bumped
Description: Paris: Flammarion, 2006. A near-fine copy; corners slightly bumped. 11.25 x 8.25 inches. 207 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pink, die-cut boards. First edition. "Internationally acclaimed Swiss artist John Armleder fuses genres and media; he borrows influences from modernist art, modern design, constructivism, art deco, minimalism, op art, music, and film. The resulting images, sculptures, and installations often involve the viewer's active participation; his art is as much experienced as it is viewed. This comprehensive book charts Armleder's career with an interview, an analytical retrospective text, and 150 images, which presents the artist's eclectic output from his early work to his current projects. Armleder's work is widely exhibited in international galleries and museums. He recently curated the exhibition None of the Above (winter 2004-05) at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York. A solo exhibition of his work opened in May 2005 at the Cosmic Galerie in Paris" (the publisher).

Constitution with By-laws and Rules of Order, of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order of Good Templars, of Washington, D.C.

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Title: Constitution with By-laws and Rules of Order, of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order of Good Templars, of Washington, D.C.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington DC: M'Gill and Witherow, 1867. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Includes a temperence pledge to not make, buy, sell, or consume any form of alcohol. Disbound with wrappers removed. A few chips and short tears to edges of pages. Occasional smudges, but clean overall. Size: 24mo - 5.5 x 3.75 inches. 26 pages. AMER/122823.

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Collected Poems, 1951-1971

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Title: Collected Poems, 1951-1971
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780393321920
Condition: Fine
Description: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972. Fine. . Collected Poems, 1951-1971. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972. xvii, 396pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine.

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens by Adler, David A.; Casilla, Robert

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Title: A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
Author: Adler, David A.; Casilla, Robert
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scholastic, 1992. Very Good. Adler, David A.. A Picture Book of Jesse Owens. Casilla, Robert. NY: Scholastic, 1992. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good.

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