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8 typed letters signed to Martin Davis, plus 2 drafts of one of Davis's replies by Kleene, Stephen C.

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Title: 8 typed letters signed to Martin Davis, plus 2 drafts of one of Davis's replies
Author: Kleene, Stephen C.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1950. Kleene, Stephen C. (1909-94); Martin Davis (1928-2023). Collection of correspondence and other materials, consisting of: (1) 8 typed letters signed from Kleene to Davis. 8 sheets total. 1950-52. (2) Autograph letter signed from Davis to Kleene plus 2 draft versions of another of Davis's letters to Kleene. 15 sheets total. 1951-52. (3) Davis. Some preliminary remarks on recursively enumerable sets. Typed and autographed draft. 25 sheets total. N.d. [1952]. (4) Rice, Henry Gordon (1920-2003). Classes of enumerable sets and their decision problems. Offprint from Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 74 (1953). 358-366pp. 255 x 179 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertically creased, light soiling. Some creasing, soiling and marginal fraying, but very good. Complete listing available. "Kleene, along with Rózsa Peter, Alan Turing, Emil Post and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer science. Kleene's work grounds the study of computable functions. A number of mathematical concepts are named after him: Kleene hierarchy, Kleene algebra, the Kleene star (Kleene closure), Kleene's recursion theorem and the Kleene fixed-point theorem. He also invented regular expressions in 1951 to describe McCulloch-Pitts neural networks, and made significant contributions to the foundations of mathematical intuitionism" (Wikipedia article on Kleene). We are offering a collection of correspondence (plus related materials) between Kleene and Martin Davis, a mathematician and logician who made important contributions to computability theory. Davis's work on Hilbert's tenth problem-asking for a general algorithm to decide the solvability of Diophantine equations-led to the Matiyasevich-Robinson-Davis-Putman (MRDP) theorem implying that a solution to this problem is impossible. In No. 1 (see the calendar below), dated 26 April 1950, Kleene warned Davis of an error in his (Kleene's) 1944 paper "On the forms of the predicates in the theory of constructive ordinals," and expresses "the hope that nothing in the part of your thesis concerning the transfinite extension of the hierarchy of predicate forms depends on my alleged theorem that a O is expressible in the form (x) (Ey) R (A, x, y) . . ." Nos. 2 - 7, written between March and October 1952, center on Davis's "Arithmetical problems and recursively enumerable predicates," a paper he had submitted earlier that year to the Journal of Symbolic Logic, of which Kleene was the editor. The JSL had sent the paper to a referee for review (per Kleene's letter to Davis of 18 April), which, as Davis informed Kleene, "is giving rise to one of those rather futile author-referee wrangles I have heard so much about . . . I replied to the original referee's report claiming that his proof was incorrect as I had been unable to fill in several gaps in his proposed argument. The referee counter-replied showing me how the gaps might be filled in; his argument now seems to me to be correct. There remain, then, two questions: 1) Is the referee's proof superior to mine? 2) If so, in what form should it be published? . . ." On 7 May Kleene replied that "we shall easily settle the author-referee wrangle . . . I shall simply submit the paper, together with the first referee's reports, to an experienced second referee and take his verdict." This 7 May letter (no. 5) also includes some discussion of Davis's work compared to Kleene's own: "In regard to publication of the material from the second section of your thesis, it is a little hard to advise you. For one thing, of course, there is some question of competition between your material and mine . . . Until I have seen the mimeographed student notes on the course which you are giving, I will not know whether your development is substantially different from developments that are in the literature or will be in the literature when and if I succeed in getting my book [Introduction to Metamathematics] published . . ." On 4 June (No. 6) Kleene informed Davis that "I now have the second referee's report on your paper . . . I am returning the manuscript to you, for you to revise in accordance with the referee's suggestions." On 2 October, per Kleene's letter of that date (No. 7), Davis's paper was sent to the first referee for a final check. Nos. 8 - 12, written in January and February 1952, concern a report that Davis was preparing at Kleene's request on H. G. Rice's "Classes of recursively enumerable sets and their decision problems," a paper Rice had submitted to the JSL. "You will recall that I mentioned to you at the Bryn Mawr meetings (or was it Providence?) that, owing to the fact our pages are very crowded now, and the length of the paper of H. G. Rice, we may wish to transfer it. Under these circumstances it is embarrassing to us to hold it too long before raising this question with the author . . . Could I have [your] report within the next week . . ." (letter of 29 January). Davis replied on 3 February: "Although I told you at Providence, that I would let you have my report very soon, I am afraid that it is not yet ready. There are two reasons for this. The first of these is that my initial reading of the paper convinced me that it should be revised considerably before publication. As a result a more detailed report will be required than would ordinarily have been necessary . . ." By 18 February, per Kleene's letter of that date (no. 12), Davis had sent in his "exceedingly careful and thorough report" (No. 11), which recommended that Rice's paper "be rewritten with Parts II and IV omitted." A copy of Rice's paper is included with this collection. .

CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE) by WHITMAN, Walt

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Title: CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)
Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case
Description: Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate publication (outside of LEAVES OF GRASS) of Whitman's Calamus poems devoted to male romantic relationships. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by another of Whitman's literary executors, Thomas B. Harned, on 9 January 1898 to renowned author Mary Mapes Dodge, the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. For more than 30 years Dodge edited ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, the primary magazine for children at the time. She also wrote the classic HANS BRINKER, OR THE SILVER SKATES.

Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful; Conversations With Phil Griffin by Bon Jovi, Jon [Daughtry, Chris]

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Title: Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful; Conversations With Phil Griffin
Author: Bon Jovi, Jon [Daughtry, Chris]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: HarperCollins/Collins Design, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The first edition of Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful, inscribed by Jon Bon Jovi for singer-songwriter, Chris Daughtry.. Quarto, 184pp, [8]. Black hardcover, title stamped in silver on the spine. Stated "First Printing, 2009" on the copyright page. Includes hundreds of photographs from filmmaker and photographer, Phil Griffin. In the publisher's dust jacket, $30.00 on the front flap, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Chris / my brother / my friend / Hope you have a great 2010. / Jon Bon Jovi." Chris Daughtry opened for Bon Jovi during the 2007-2008 Lost Highway Tour of the United States, Japan, Canada, and Europe.

The Court of Claims, In the Painted Room of the Palace of Westminster by Stephanoff, James, After; Reynolds, S W, Engraver

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Title: The Court of Claims, In the Painted Room of the Palace of Westminster
Author: Stephanoff, James, After; Reynolds, S W, Engraver
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Description: 1824. A View of the Court of Claims in the Early Nineteenth Century Stephanoff, James [1788-1874], After. Reynolds, S[amuel] W[illiam] [1773-1835], Engraver. The Court of Claims, In the Painted Room of the Palace of Westminster. London: Published by Sir George Naylor, [1839]. Glazed and matted hand-colored mezzotint. Image size: 16" x 13-1/2" (40.5 x 34.2 cm). Housed in a handsome 27-1/2" x 15" (70 x 38 cm) wood frame. Light, uniform toning to margins; the hand-colored image remains exceptionally vivid and clean. An attractive, well-preserved piece. $950. * A choice plate from Sir George Nayler's monumental work, The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth (London, 1839). While the majority of the volume's architectural views were executed in aquatint, this striking depiction of the Court of Claims stands out as a dedicated color mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds. Established in 1377, this historic court is traditionally convened following the accession of a new British sovereign. It sits to judge the validity of petitions from nobles and dignitaries claiming the hereditary right to perform honorary services during the coronation ceremony. James Stephanoff was a premier British watercolorist who specialized in grand ceremonial occasions, pageantry, and historical scenes. Samuel William Reynolds was one of the most celebrated master engravers of the 19th century, particularly renowned for his technical brilliance in mezzotint work Whitman, Samuel William Reynolds 449.

[ Manuscript notebook recording folktales, legends, and axioms.] by [ Underhill, John ]

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Title: [ Manuscript notebook recording folktales, legends, and axioms.]
Author: [ Underhill, John ]
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Description: [ Manchester, England: 1826 – 1833] [Bound with:] [Pollard, , John.] [Manuscript poetry and family history of the Underhill lineage by Pollard, the great-grandson of John Underhill.] [Manchester, England?: 1899 – 1900.] 2 inches by 4 inches. 1-64, 66, 66-69, 69-188, [5] pp. Despite inconsistencies in manuscript pagination, the various writings recorded here are each continuous. Text in two hands: John Underhill (pp. 1-95) and John Pollard (p. 96 and onward). About 50 pages throughout have been left blank aside from page numbers. . Late nineteenth century dark brown leather. Marbled endpapers. Some light toning throughout. Some shorthand on second-to-last page, in pencil, recalling the ink shorthand notation by John Pollard on page 188. Ink signature of John Pollard, dated December 1893, noting that his mother gifted the book to him. A very good, clean item. A unique compilation of f legends, folktales, and other stories, with interspersed humorous quotations and axioms. The diverse range of stories recorded here by Underhill include the fourteenth century legend about Aubrey de Mondider and the dog of Montargis and a brief anecdote about the Dutch poet Willem Bilderdijk (1756 – 1831), the tutor of Napoleon's younger brother (pp. 7-8). Underhill also includes a reworking of a story titled "The Abducer or the Lady's Cave," which was first published in The Lancashire Literary Museum, a periodical founded in 1827.In the genealogical sketch by John Pollard included at the end of the present item, he explains that John Underhill was his paternal great-grandfather, who died at the age of eighty-four in his home in Manchester (pp. 185-186). Pollard writes that both Underhill and his wife died "in the same house that I was born, they were living with my grandmother and mother and father," (p. 186). Pollard also notes that John Underhill's mother died at the age of twenty-one, though he does not provide any other details about Underhill's life or parentage.

Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain, Anthony

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Title: Kitchen Confidential
Author: Bourdain, Anthony
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Description: New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in red. Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A lovely copy.

I Want to Take Picture by Burke, Bill

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Title: I Want to Take Picture
Author: Burke, Bill
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780932526168
Condition: Fine, very minor wear on boards
Description: Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine, very minor wear on boards. Glossy pictoral covers. Richly illustrated throughout in both B&W and color. Unpaginated. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. Combination travelogue and artist book featuring the artist's photographs of Southeast Asia in the wake of the Vietnam War and amidst the Pol Pot regime. Often cited as one of the most significant photo books of the 1980s.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Gives Thanks For A Poem And A Compliment by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Gives Thanks For A Poem And A Compliment
Author: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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Description: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. (1809-1894). Holmes was a celebrated New England poet. His son was a Supreme Court Justice of the same name.ALS. 1pg. November 12, 1886. Boston. An autograph letter signed Oliver Wendell Holmes. My dear sir I am much obliged to you for the copy of the Harvard Advocate, containing your poem which I have read with much interest. I must thank you also for a very kind allusion to myself which I wish I deserved better but which I accept just as cheerfully as if it were my unquestioned due. With fond regards, Yours very truly, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes was a Harvard graduate. The letter is in fine condition and comes with the original mailing envelope.

An Anthology of War Poems. Compiled by Frederick Brereton. Introduction by Edmund Blunden by BRERETON, Frederick

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Title: An Anthology of War Poems. Compiled by Frederick Brereton. Introduction by Edmund Blunden
Author: BRERETON, Frederick
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Some offsetting & foxing to endpapers, covers lightly foxed, else fine copy in a little worn jacket
Description: London: W. Collins Sons & Co, (1930). First edition. With works by Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Ford Madox Hueffer, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, among others. Some offsetting & foxing to endpapers, covers lightly foxed, else fine copy in a little worn jacket. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Some offsetting & foxing to endpapers, covers lightly foxed, else fine copy in a little worn jacket.

Glory's Net by Tilden, William T. 2nd

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Title: Glory's Net
Author: Tilden, William T. 2nd
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Condition: Good
Description: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with white lettering under illustrated dust jacket. White stain to edge of front board & larger triangle to rear board, else very good condition. Dust jacket has rubbing & green stain from cloth on reverse, but presents well. Tilden was one of the greatest tennis players of all time--largely forgotten now because he was jailed for having sex with boys. This is "a tennis romance with all the speed an thrill of his smashing cannon ball serve." Edition not stated, NAP.

Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloe. Traduites par Jacques Amyot, texte de 1559. by Amyot, Jacques; Courier, Paul-Louis (trans.); Prud'Hon, Boilvin (illus.)

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Title: Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloe. Traduites par Jacques Amyot, texte de 1559.
Author: Amyot, Jacques; Courier, Paul-Louis (trans.); Prud'Hon, Boilvin (illus.)
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Condition: Very Good+
Description: Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth-backed marbled paper over boards, paper spine label; with 6 etched plates by Boilvin, after the drawings of Prud'hon. Just some light scuffing at spine tips and along edges of boards; paper spine label a bit tanned. A pretty little volume.

Daniel Blum's Screen World 1951 (Volume II) by Blum, Daniel

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Title: Daniel Blum's Screen World 1951 (Volume II)
Author: Blum, Daniel
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: New York: Greenberg: Publisher. Fair. (c.1951). (Volume 4) First Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [considerable wear to edges and extremities, light soiling and a vertical scrape on the front cover, binding a little loosey-goosey but all pages still attached; a good reference copy, but no more]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1950. The "Promising Personalities" of the year were about evenly split between those who went on to really become something, and those who never quite did, with full-page photos of: Charlton Heston, Mala Powers, Marlon Brando, Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Rock Hudson, Debra Paget, Anthony (Tony) Curtis, Patrice Wymore, Nancy Olson, John Barrymore Jr. (very deliberately posed to evoke his famous father's profile), Jean Hagen, and Howard Keel. The second installment of the hideous "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" feature presents a group photo of doll versions of Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Rudolph Valentino, Carmen Miranda, and Harold Lloyd. The volume is dedicated to "Silent Screen Star and A Good Friend," Eugene O'Brien. (Oh, come on -- you remember Eugene, right? Hm?) .

The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea by MARSHALL, S. L. A.

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Title: The Fields of Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi, Three Battles Just Beyond the South China Sea
Author: MARSHALL, S. L. A.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Dial Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Field Sketches by Mark Lennox and the Author. 242pp. Near fine in a very good dust jacket touched up with black marker, and interior tape repairs.

The Knowledge Context by Altbach, Philip G.

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Title: The Knowledge Context
Author: Altbach, Philip G.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780887064456
Condition: Very Good
Description: Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 200pp+ index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.

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