viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1952

Author: Villaseñor y Sánchez, José Antonio (1703-1759)
        Theatro Americano, descripción general de los reinos y provincias de la Nueva España y sus jurisdicciones
      Mexico City: Editora Nacional, 1952. Description:2 volumes. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in facsimile velum with title printed in red and black on covers and horizontally ink lettered. Introduction by Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition limited to 500 copies of which this is number 13.José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez was an 18th-century geographer, historian, and mathematician in New Spain. He was born in San Luis Potosí, México and studied at San Ildefonso in Mexico City. He became an accountant, and later official cosmographer (geographer) of New Spain. By order of Philip V, the viceroy of New Spain, Conde de Fuenclara, was commanded in 1740 to have a report prepared on the true condition of the provinces of his jurisdiction. He commissioned José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez to prepare the report. Villaseñor occupied a number of important posts: official mayor of the Contaduria de Reales Tributos, contador general de la azogues, and cosmographer of New Spain. He wrote a number of works of mathematical and astronomical interest. The outcome of this commission by Fuenclara was the Theatro Americano, descripción general de los reinos y provincias de la Nueva España y sus jurisdicciones. It appered in two volume in 1746 and 1748. The first volume contains introductory chapters on pre-Spanish and Spanish history of Mexico, followed by a jurisdiction-by jurisdiction description of the archdiocese of Mexico and diocese of Puebla. The second volume continues the description for the diocese of Puebla. The second volume continues the description for the diocese of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Guadalajara and Durango. The work comprehends a great mass of data regarding the ethnology and population of the Mexican provinces in the mid-18th century. Handbook of Middle American Indians.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of his major publications have been reprinted and/or translated. Provenance from the executor of Foster's library laid in.Condition:Foster's stamp to front limited page, some wear to edges, small linear tear at spine head of volume 2 else a very good copy.

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(JOYCE, James.) HUXLEY, Aldous, & Stuart Gilbert
        Joyce the Artificer
      [London:] Issued for Private Circulation, printed by the Chiswick Press, 1952. [London:] Issued for Private Circulation, printed by the Chiswick Press,, 1952. Two Studies of Joyce's method; with five Collotype reproductions from the Proofs of "Ulysses" and "Tales of Shem and Shaun", together with a letter and notes thereon by J. Schwartz. Quarto. Original light green paper wrappers printed in black, single quire of 10 leaves bound with thread. With 5 full-page collotype facsimiles of Joyce's corrected proofs and an autograph letter to the printer of a section of Work in Progress. Small pencil correction to p. [8] ("conscience" instead of "conscious") Edges of wrappers faintly faded, tiny closed tear to fore edge of front wrapper. An excellent copy. Limited edition, number 87 of 90 copies. "James Joyce was a man of afterthoughts. His inspirations, as we can see from these much-corrected proofs of Ulysses, were successive. The first was a key, as it were, to a second, and the second to a third. His discovery of what he wished to say was like the conquest of Mexico. It began with the islands, touched the mainland, climbed to an astounding vision of pyramids and feathered warriors, and ended in the triumphant capture of Tenochtitlan. Shakespeare would have landed on the roof of Montezuma's palace by helicopter. Joyce had to take the longer, harder road. However, he got there in the end. And that, after all, is the only thing that matters" (Aldous Huxley).

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Kazantzakis, Nikos
        Zorba The Greek
      London: John Lehman, 1952.. London: John Lehman, 1952. First edition in English, preceding the American edition by one year. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis. From the library of Odysseas Elytis, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1979. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Carl Wildman. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Trade editions signed by Kazantzakis are exceptionally rare. Zorba the Greek is the epic tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. Kazantzakis has made a work of stunning genius. The book is about life. How does one live it? How does one deal with the vicissitudes of it? The tragedies? The failures? Does one stand on the sidelines of life and never jump in? Does one fear getting married or fear having children or fear doing any activity that could fail or come to naught? Zorba tells us what to do. And in the end, when the whole bloody mess comes falling down around us, and all our plans and schemes are for naught, what do you do? Dance. Dance as hard and as wild as you can. Spit and fume and sing and smash your heels into the dirt. And laugh at it all. the absurdity of worry and wondering. Zorba shows us the joy of just "being" and "doing." The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.

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Eliot, T. S.:
        [Typed Letter, Signed, to Charles Maurras]
      London. 24 August 1952. London. 24 August 1952.. One page, quarto. On 24 Russell Street letterhead. In French. Old folds from mailing, else very good. A warm letter, in French, to an elder colleague of many years, the French poet, critic and political theorist, Charles Maurras (1868 - 1952), written three months before the recipient's death. Addressed to "Cher monsieur et maître ...," Eliot thanks him for the copy of LA BALANCE INTÉRIEURE, then recently published, and (roughly translated) comments that "I was first of all very touched that you would have thought of me after so many years. I read certain of those poems with a delight that I experience only rarely with those poets called 'modern'; noting there above all the perfect accord between intelligence and feeling: a harmony that I appreciate to the highest degree in a world that is tending to lose at the same time both the spirit of order and the spirit of refinement ...." Signed in ink, and with the original typed envelope, bearing a forwarding address in an unknown hand to Maurras at the Clinique St. Gregoire. In March, due to his failing health, Maurras had been released from prison, where he had been sentenced to life on the basis of certain activities during the war. He entered a hospital, and then was transferred to the clinic in Tours where this letter was forwarded. Eliot translated one of Maurras's critical essays for THE CRITERION in 1928, and the following year dedicated DANTE to him.

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Hemingway, Ernest
        The Old Man and the Sea
      Charles Scribner's Sons, First Shelf 1952 - Hardback book with original dust jacket. True First Edition/First Printing with first state dust jacket. Meets all collector's points: Blue cloth boards with silver lettering; Hemingway's name pressed on front board; the copyright 1952 with the "A" and Scribner's colophon below; DJ flap has the original $3.00 price intact; back dust jacket cover has the portrait of Hemingway with a blue tint; no mention of the Nobel Prize on the DJ; no deboss spot on back board. Jacket is mylar-protected. Condition: Strong, straight boards and binding. Crisp, clean pages. Free from any musty odors, dust jacket bright and clean. Flaws: slightest rubbing to a few small spots on bottom/top of boards. Two small chips to dust jacket on spine. Former owner's name written in fountain pen on inside, with later bookplate place on top. Photos will be available shortly. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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ROGGERO, Mario Frederico
        Il Contributo di Mendelsohn alla evoluzione dell'architettura moderna
      Milan: Libreria Editrice Politecnica Tamburini, 1952. Milan: Libreria Editrice Politecnica Tamburini,, 1952. Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed tan paper boards, titles to front board in black. Numerous black and white illustrations. Tiny bump to fore edge of front board. Contents faintly toned. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by Erich Mendelsohn on the front free endpaper, "To Alexander and Cally Cochran, Erich Mendelsohn, [VII ?] 53", and with the recipients' bookplate on the front pastedown. Alexander Cochran was an American architect, who founded the firm Cochran, Stephenson and Donkervoet. This monograph, to which Mendelsohn contributed, was published for the Facoltà d'Architettura del Politenico in Milan.

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J.N. Price
        The Penal Code of the Federated Malay States. The Criminal Procedure Code. The Evidence Ordinance. Notes and Commentaries from the Penal Code
      52 - Kuala Lumpur - Government Press, 1952. 52 - Kuala Lumpur - Government Press, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A collection of scarce mid twentieth century legal publications from the Federation of Malay States. Comprising: 'The Penal Code of the Federated Malay States as extended throughout the Federation of Malaya by virtue of the Penal Code (Amendment and Extended Application) Ordinance, 1948' (1952); 'The Criminal Procedure Code of the Federated Malay States as extended to apply in the Malay States by virtue of the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, 1947, and incorporating all amendments up to 1st October 1951' (1951); 'The Evidence Ordinance of the Federation of Malaya', compiled by S. Kula Singam (1951); and 'Notes and Commentaries from the Penal Code' (1951). With a bookbinder's label forthe Caxton Press, Kuala Lumpur,to the front pastedown. There are regular blank ruled pages. The Federation of Malaya refers to the federation of eleven states - comprising nine Malay states and the British settlements of Penang and Malacca - that existed from 1948 until 1963, and was eventually superseded by Malaysia. Condition: In a leather-effect cloth binding. Externally,some shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Bright, with light foxing to endpapers and extreme outer margins, rarely affecting text. A rare primary source. Overall: VERY GOOD..

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Henry Green
        Doting
      London - Hogarth Press, 1952. London - Hogarth Press, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A first edition of the last novel written by Henry Green. Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 13 December 1973), an English author best remembered for the novels Nothing and Loving. Green's novels are often described as being among the most important works of English modernist literature, along with those of Virginia Woolf. Condition: In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally smart, with just some light shelfwear. Dustwrapper hassomechipping, but is otherwise generally smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, and generally clean, with just the odd instance of spotting. Overall:VERY GOODwith a GOOD dustwrapper..

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Orders and Medals Society of America (Herausg.),
        The Medal Collector - The Medal Collector Bulletin,
      . 1. Band: Vol. 3 (1952), Nr. 1 - 12, Vol. 4 (1953), Nr. 1 - 6 (Januar bis Dezember) 2. Band: Vol. 1 (1954) Nr. 1 - 12, Vol. 2. (1955), Nr. 1 - 12, Vol. 1956, Nr. Jan. - March, 3. Band: Vol. 1956, Nr. April - Dec., Vol. 1957, Nr. Jan. - Dec., Vol. 9 (1958) Nr. 1 - 6 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 10 (1959), Nr. 1 - 6 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 11 (1960), Nr. 1 - 6 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 12 (1961), No. 1 - 10 (Jan. - Dec.), 4. Band: Vol. 13 (1962), No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 14 (1963), No. 1 - 12 (Jan - Dec.), Vol. 15 (1964) No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), 5. Band: Vol. 16 (1965), No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 17 (1966), No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), 6. Band: Vol. 18 (1967), No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), Vol. 19 (1968), No. 1 - 12 (Jan. - Dec.), verschiedene Formate, 1. Band in Halbleinen, 2. - 6. Band in Ganzleinen gebunden Zustand 2 (R201A) ZUSAMMEN:.

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Hemingway, Ernest (Signed Presentation Copy to Waldo Peirce's daughter)
        The Old Man and the Sea
      Scribner's, New York 1952 - A very good copy bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped brightly in silver on the spine with no flecking to the lettering. With rubbing and light wear to the extremities. This copy was published in 1958. A newspaper photo of Ernest and Mary Welsh Hemingway has been glued onto the second free endpaper and dated July 3, 1961, creating some offsetting. In a later dust jacket with the price of $3.00 and with the notice of the Pulitzer Prize at the top of the front flap. Heavy chipping and small pieces missing at the top of the spine ends and at the corners. This copy is inscribed in black ink on the front endpaper: "For Karen from her friend Ernest Hemingway." And dated: "Tucson 20 March '59" by the recipient. The recipient was Waldo Pierce's daughter, Karen, who has written a letter of provenance dated Sept. 6, 2007: "When I was 10 years old, Ernest Hemingway came to our house in Tucson, Arizona, to visit my father, Waldo Peirce. He signed a book for everyone in the family, and I got The Old Man and the Sea. Karen Peirce." Waldo Peirce (1884?1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor, Maine. Peirce was both a prominent painter and a well-known character. He was sometimes called "the American Renoir". A long-time friend of Ernest Hemingway, of whom he painted the cover picture for Time magazine in 1937, he was once called "the Ernest Hemingway of American painters." To which he replied, "They'll never call Ernest Hemingway the Waldo Peirce of American writers." In a letter written in the mid-1930s, Ernest Hemingway described a visit by Peirce to his home in Key West, Florida: "Waldo is here with his kids like untrained hyenas and him as domesticated as a cow. Lives only for the children and with the time he puts on them they should have good manners and be well trained, but instead they never obey, destroy everything, don't even answer when spoken to, and he is like an old hen with a litter of ape hyenas. I doubt if he will go out in the boat while he is here. Can't leave the children. They have a nurse and a housekeeper too, but he is only really happy when trying to paint with one setting fire to his beard and the other rubbing mashed potato into his canvasses. That represents fatherhood." (Wikipedia) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Doyle, Arthur Conan
        ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. With LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. With FINAL ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.|THE
      The Limited Editions Club, New York 1952 - 8vo. black cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards, black cameo of Sherlock Holmes in the center of each cover, original slip. xxii, (ix),764 ; (x), 765-1222 ; (x), 1223-1777 +(1) pages. 8 Volumes. A Definitive Text, Corrected and Edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an Introduction by Vincent Starrett, and Illustrated with a Selective Collation of the Original Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and Others. Limited to 1500 numbered sets. The first volume contains: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The second volume contains: The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The third volume contains: His Last Bow, The Valley of Fear, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Designed and planned by W.A. Dwiggins and printed by Peter Beilenson. Slipcases rubbed along edges. Bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. black cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards, black cameo of Sherlock Holmes in the center of each cover, original slip [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Grotewohl, Otto.
        Deutsche Kulturpolitik. Reden von Otto Grotewohl. Mit einer Einleitung von Nationalpreisträger Johannes R. Becher.
      Dresden, VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1952.. 1. Auflage 185 (3) Seiten mit ganzseitigem Porträt von Otto Grotewohl und faksimilisierter Unterschrift. 4°, gebundene Ausgabe, Original-Ganz-Leineneinband mit geprägtem Deckel- und Rückentitel, Farbkopfschnitt.. mit Schutzumschlag, dieser mit zwei kleinen fachmännisch hinterlegten Einrissen, auf dem Vorsatz persönliche Widmung des Autors: "Gen. P........../ mit freundlichen/ Geburtstagswünschen/ 19/11.56/ O. Grotwohl". EA WG² 88,112. Beiliegend Zeitungsartikel vom IV. Parteitag der SED und zum 150. Todestag Schillers. Otto Grotewohl (* 11. März 1894 in Braunschweig - + 21. September 1964 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Politiker (SPD, ab 1946 SED). Er war von 1949 bis 1964 Ministerpräsident der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Bitte warten Sie nach Ihrer Bestellung unsere Vorausrechnung per E-Mail ab oder zahlen Sie per Paypal an info@signiertebuecher.de.

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Hemingway, Ernest; Eisenstaedt, Alfred
        The Old Man and the Sea
      New York: Limited Editions Club. New York: Limited Editions Club. 5th Edition or later Edition. Hardcover. Fine. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 600 COPIES SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER ALFRED EISENSTAEDT. Introduction by Charles Scribner. Illustrated with five photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt printed from the original negatives created by Eisenstaedt in 1952 for the Life Magazine appearance of the novel. "Over a career that lasted more than 50 years, Mr. Eisenstaedt became famous as the quintessential Life photographer, producing more than 2,500 picture stories and 90 covers for the magazine" (New York Times obituary, August 25, 1995). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Oblong folio, blue goatskin & linen; in a black suede-lined clamshell slipcase. With original Limited Editions Club newsletter about The Old Man and the Sea laid in. A few spots to slipcase, otherwise fine.

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HALLIE R. DOLIN
        SONG OF THE OXEN By HALLIE R. DOLIN signed 1952 Rare First Edition
      PAGEANT PRESS, NY 1952 - TITLE: SONG OF THE OXEN By HALLIE R. DOLIN signed 1952 Rare First Edition AUTHOR: HALLIE R. DOLIN PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) /COPYRIGHT: PAGEANT PRESS, NY 1952 EDITION: First Edition stated CATEGORY: Signed, First Edition, Rare, Adventure BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Red CONDITION: The jacket is in good condition with a really minor split to the upper front edge. The $3.00 price is still on the front flap. The front free endpaper is signed by the author "Sincere good wishes To: Lucille Curry From: Hallie R. Dolin." Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean, and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 149 pages. Good+/Good+ dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Signed First Edition stated. PAGEANT PRESS, NY 1952. THERE ARE NO OTHER COPIES OF THIS BOOK FOUND FOR SALE ON THE INTERNET AT THE TIME OF THIS RESEARCH!!!!! COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, books will ship immediately without email notification to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 1750 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 006297 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Christopher Ward; Edited by John Richard Alden
        The War of the Revolution
      New York - The Macmillan Company, 1952. New York - The Macmillan Company, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A history of the American Revolution and Civil War from Christopher Ward. First edition. Including chapters on the siege of Boston, Arnold's march to Quebec, civil war in the South and much more. Illustrated throughout with numerous maps. Complete in two volumes. Condition: In a blue cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though with some slight bumping and a few marks. Hinges are a little strained, but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of foxing throughout. Faint aroma of tobacco smoke to pages. Overall: VERY GOOD..

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Professor V. Cavara and Professor G. B. Bietti
        Le Manifestazioni oculari delle Malattie da Virus e da Rickettsie
      Bologna - Licinio Cappelli, 1952. Bologna - Licinio Cappelli, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A scarce presentation copy of Professor V. Cavara and Professor G. B. Bietti's text on the effects of Rickets on the eye, signed by the authors to prominent ophthalmologist Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. Bound in card. Presumed First Edition. In Italian. With an ink inscription to the front free-endpaper, 'To Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, with the compliments of Cavara and G. B. Bietti'. It seems this is signed individually by both authors. Illustrated throughout with in-text photographs and diagrams. With a fold-out table showing localisation of the effects of Rickets on the eye. From the XXXIX Congress of the Italian Ophthalmological Society. G. B. Bietti gave his name to the disease Bietti's crystalline dystrophy (BCD), also called Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy - a rare autosomal recessive eye disease. Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder, GCVO, DSc, LLD, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCS, FRS, 1898 - 1978, a Scottish ophthalmologist, was a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century. He is best remembered as a talented and prolific writer and editor. Condition: The binding is generally tight and firm. There is only mild wear to the extremities, with just mild bumping and small closed tears to the edges, and some discolouration. Internally the pages are bright with mild browning to the page edges. Overall the condition is very good..

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Secondari, John H
        Coins In The Fountain
      Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1952. Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott. NF/NF. 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. LOC 52-8785 . Signed and Inscribed by the author on the front end page (in Italian, though the book is in English - the author lived in the U.S. from the age of 4 until his career took him abroad again as an adult). Stated First Edition and it is the First Printing. The book is in Near Fine condition - straight, clean, tight with no writing in it other than the author's inscription. It is bound in green cloth with silver gilt printing on the spine and the front panel. It has only a small amount of shelf and handling wear to the cloth at spine ends and 1 lower corner tip to keep it from being Fine. The dustjacket is price intact, bright, clean and unfaded with just a touch of shelfwear to spine and flap fold ends, a very short, completely closed tear (no material loss) to upper back edge, and a small amount of rubbing along the spine folds. The dustjacket was printed just a tad shorter, about 1/32", than the book - not noticeable unless you're looking for it. Great condition, and a very scarce book - particularly signed. Made into a 1954 U.S. romantic movie set in Italy called 'Three Coins In The Fountain' - that reputedly vastly increased U.S. tourism in Italy as nominated for an Oscar. As was the song from the movie (same title as the movie). That song was an enduring romantic favorite for a couple of generations and won the 1954 Oscar for best original song. The story was remade as a musical in 1964 called 'The Pleasure Seekers' and then in 1990 was made into a TV film. The song from the original movie was a #1 single in the U.K. as recorded by Frank Sinatra, and was also recorded both by The Four Aces (another #1 single, in the U.S.) and it was yet again recorded by Dinah Shore (take your pick; they were all done extremely well). ; 8.25" x 5.75" x 1.25".; 320 pages; Signed by Author .

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Alan Dent
        Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
      London - Victor Gollanz, 1952. London - Victor Gollanz, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardbound volume in burgundy cloth covered boards with dustjacket. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Mrs Patrick Campbell (February 9, 1865 April 9, 1940) was one of the most successful British stage actresses of her generation. Shaw corresponded with an array of people, many of them well-known. His letters to and from Mrs. Patrick Campbell were adapted for the stage by Jerome Kilty as Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters, as was his correspondence with the poet Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas (the intimate friend of Oscar Wilde), into the drama Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship by Anthony Wynn. Condition: The binding is tight and firm with both covers and all pages securely attached. There is little wear to the extremities. The dustjacket is fully intact and has not been price-clipped. There are some small closed tears to the edges and a larger tear to the bottom of the front has been repaired to the rear with brown paper. The dustjacket isslightly spotted on the front and heavily spotted on the rear. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and isolated spot. Overall the volume is in very good condition indeed, with the dustjacket in good condition..

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Hayek, Friedrich A
        The Counter-Revolution of Science
      Glencoe, Illinois.: Free Press, , 1952. Glencoe, Illinois. Free Press, 1952. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshel box.The Counter-Revolution of Science is divided into two parts. "The first part is an acute and abstract study of the essential differences in method required in the study of the physical sciences on the one hand and the social sciences on the other The second part of the book gives an amusing and enlightening account of the origin of 'scientism' [in the 19th century]" (Hazlitt, 83). This work complements Hayek's classic work of the free market, The Road to Serfdom.

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Dau al Set [De sur le Sept]. THARRATS (J. J.) [dir.]
        Il salon jazz.
      Barcelone, Dau al set, 1952.. 25 x 18 cm, n. p., 12 ill. originales n.&b. + 3 ill. orig. coul. contrecollees. Broche, feuillets volants, couv. argentee premier plat ill. n.&b. + titre en trois vignettes contrecollees colorees et une vignette photo n.&b.. Second plat ill. n.&b. par Aulestia.. Dau al Set (" De sur le sept ") est le premier groupe artistique d'avant-garde catalan d'apres la Seconde guerre mondiale, ne a Barcelone en octobre 1948 autour de la revue homonyme. Ses fondateurs sont le poete Joan Brossa, les peintres Antoni Tapies, Joan Ponc, Joan-Joseph Tharrats et Modest Cuixart et le philosophe Arnau Puig. Plus tard, le poete et theoricien Juan-Eduardo Cirlot a rejoint le groupe, qui s'inscrit d'abord dans le mouvement dadaiste, et explore l'hyperrealisme, le surrealisme et l'existentialisme pour developper un style personnel, tres eloigne de l'ambiance culturelle du premier franquisme. Le groupe se proposait de dynamiser l'art et la societe catalane en les mettant en parallele avec les grands mouvements culturels internationaux de son epoque. Il a eu une grande influence sur les generations suivantes d'artistes catalans. La revue Dau al set se distingue par son eclectisme et aborde des sujets tres varies : art roman catalan, folklore populaire, musique classique et jazz... Ce volume, date de juin-juillet 1952, est intitule "II salon Jazz" et reunit des contributions de J. V. Foix, Luis Romero, C. Rodriguez-Aguilera, Mercedes de Prat, J. J. Tharrats, Arnald Puig, Alfonso Pinto, Michel Perrin, J.-E. Cirlot, V. Castells, A. Papo. En catalan, un texte en francais. Contient notamment un hommage a Mahalia Jackson. Richement illustre par Planasdura, Santi Suros, Luis Poveda, Juan Brotat, Guanse, Jose Roca, Javier Ciria, Antonio Saura, Marcos Aleu, Tapies, Matilde Tarres, Joan Ponc, Rogent, Subirachs. . Emballages soignes, expedition rapide. Photographies originales du livre visibles sur librairie-solstices .

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WAUGH, Evelyn
        Men at Arms
      Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Boston Little, Brown and Company,, 1952. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a red cloth folding case. Small bump and spot to upper board. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some short splits and fraying at the ends of the spine panel. First US edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For J. L. Naimaster, with thanks for his help to the author, Evelyn Waugh, Oct. 1952". With Naimaster's bookplate to the front pastedown. "The inscription is explained by a loosely inserted typed letter carbon, signed J. L. Naimaster, in response to an advertisement Waugh placed in the Times in late October 1952. A copy of the ad is affixed to the letter, and reads in full, 'Mr. Evelyn Waugh seeks detailed information p.o.w. routine from then junior officer taken prisoner unwounded France, 1940; hospitality, expenses, and £50 offered to applicant willing to spend two days in near future under interrogation.  Piers Court, near Dursley, Glos.' The response to the ad was overwhelming, and led Waugh to prepare a printed reply card, a sample of which is included. Naimaster was the successful applicant and became the source for much of the technical military information that went into this novel. In gratitude for Naimaster's assistance, Waugh forwarded this book; a carbon of Naimaster's signed note of thanks is inserted, along with Waugh's autograph thank you card for the loan of some military manuals: 'These were lent me by Major Wallas who I understand is no longer at Winchester. I return them with the deepest gratitude for the help they gave me'" (Radin Collection 49).

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Helmuth Theodore Bossert
        Ornamente Der Volkskunst
      Tubingen - ErnstWasmuth, 1952. Tubingen - ErnstWasmuth, 1952 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A beautifully illustrated work on folk art. In German. With numerous full-colour plates and many black and white plates also. Condition: In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with slight age-toning and shelfwear and slight splitting to front joint. Institutional blind stamp to front board. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean. Institutional label to front pastedown, perforated stamp to title page and ink stamps to verso of title page. Small ink stamp to the bottom margin of some pages and every plate, generally not affecting the illustrations. Overall: VERY GOOD.

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Avinoam, Reuven (Grossman) [= Reuben], edited by
        Gevile esh: yalkut kolel mivhar izvonam ha-sifruti-omanuti shel ha-banim she-naflu ba-milhemet ha-kumemiyut le-Yisrael/ Parchments of Fire: An Anthology comprising the literary and artistic works of those who fell in the service of the Israel Defence Forces during the War of Independence
      Hotza'at Memshelet Israel, Misrad Habitakhon. State of Israel Department of Defense, Israel 1952 - xxxii, 723, 43 pages. Signed inscription, in Hebrew, by the editor and signed and dated by David Ben-Gurion. Laid in are an invitation to July 24, 1952 party at the Department of Defense in Jerusalem celebrating the publication of this book. This insert indicates that Israel's president, prime minister, the IDF Chief of Staff, the author and the great stage actress Hannah Robina were in attendance. This work was conceived as a one volume, stand alone book. Unfortunately it turned out to be volume one of several became that War of Independence did not lead to peace but only to a cease-fire, which Israel's enemies broke again and again, with the loss of thousands of additional lives that were then commemorated in ensuing volumes. Pages are somewhat yellowed, since the book was not printed on high quality paper, since Israel was going through a very difficult economic period, trying to care for a million Jewish refugees from Arab countries. etc. Quarto, grey cloth spine with red lettering, paper covered boards with red lettering. Black and white photos. In Hebrew. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Fante, John
        Full of life
      New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Signed. First Edition as stated on copyright page. In original dust jacket with price of $2.75 intact. Signed and warmly inscribed by John Fante on the front free end paper to a Los Angeles artist, Edmond Kohn. Inscription reads "For Ed Kohn for painting those delightful pictures of my children, and at such reasonable prices. -John Fante" In Very Good Minus condition, in a Very Good dust jacket. Clean text, though pages are age lightly toned. Boards show toning, with a scuff on the rear. The dust jacket shows sunning to the spine panel, edge wear with a few tears, two of which have been repaired from the verso. Chip to spine panel. Light soiling. A lovely inscription from Fante, offering a peek into his Hollywood life.

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Pearcey & Beard
        Conference on Automatic Computing Machines (first Australian computer conference).
      Melbourne 1952 - [Pearcey and Beard.] Conference on Automatic Computing Machines. Proceedings of conference on automatic computing machines held in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, August 1951. Reproduced typescript. Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1952. Original tan printed wrappers, cloth backstrip, light wear and creasing, one corner chipped. Boxed. 220pp. 12 plate leaves, text illustrations. 248 x 198 mm. Provenance: Signature of N. F. Astbury of the New South Wales University of Technology on the front wrapper. Astbury was one of the participants in the conference. First edition. Proceedings of the first Australian conference on electronic digital computing as well as analog devices. Trevor Pearcey, designer of CSIRO Mk 1 (later known as CSIRAC) and Maston Beard, the machine's chief engineer, held the conference to demonstrate CSIRO Mk 1, the first electronic digital computer built in Australia. Their research group at the Sydney-based Radiophysics Laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research started to build the machine in 1948. It ran its first program in November 1949, becoming the fourth stored-program computer to operate, after the Manchester "Baby", EDSAC, and BINAC (which only ran for a short time). CSIRO Mk 1's main memory consisted of twenty-four acoustic mercury delay lines, each with the capacity to store sixteen twenty-bit words; this was later upgraded to 32 words to give the machine a total of 768 words of storage (a magnetic drum storage system was added in 1954). With two thousand vacuum tubes it could process about one thousand multplications per minute. In 1955 CSIRO Mk 1 was moved to the University of Melbourne, where it was renamed CSIRAC; it became operational again in 1956. The machine was retired in 1964.CSIRAC was notable for the originality of its architecture, which was not directly derived from ENIAC, EDVAC, the Manchester "Baby," or Turing's Pilot ACE, since Pearcey did not have close contact with the groups developing those machines. However, from the brief references in his 1948 report, it is clear that Pearcey did read von Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, and that he was influenced in his conception of CSIRAC by von Neumann's theoretical ideas. Considering that Pearcey was educated in England, and that the Cambridge EDSAC was being developed at the same time as CSIRAC, we may also assume that Pearcey and Beard had some contact with the Cambridge computing group. This might also explain why Douglas Hartree from Cambridge was the only non-Australian representative at this conference."The CSIRAC was in operation before the date of the first Computing Conference in Australia held in Sydney in June 1951, but the actual date of its first simple program run, late in 1949, was not properly recorded. It was first publicly demonstrated during the 1951 conference, which was attended by Hartree. From then until mid-1956 it was steadily improved and gave good service at the Division of Radiophysics; this was in spite of serious delays of six to nine months in its development caused by power shortages in Sydney that led to frequent prolonged power blackouts and subsequent fault-finding delays" (Beard and Pearcey 1984, 112).The first Australian computer conference proceedings is mimeographed from crude double-spaced typed text. Trevor Pearcey contributed four papers: 1. Digital calculating machines used by C.S.I.R.O. (pp. 42-50) This may be the first published description of the CSIRAC, which was then known as the "Radiophysics Mark 1 Automatic Computer."2. Programming for the C.S.I.R.O. digital machine. (pp. 81-92).This explains the differences in programming between the CSIRAC and the EDSAC, the programming for which Douglas Hartree described in another paper in the conference. Pearcey wrote, "Certain differences between the approach to programming for this machine and that for the EDSAC are due to the different met [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Lessing, Doris
        Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City
      London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.. London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969. First editions of the author's classic "Children of Violence Series". Octavo, 5 volumes. Original boards. Each of the five volumes are signed by the author. Martha Quest, the first book in the "Children of Violence" series, follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87, she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home, as she was returning from the grocery store, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.

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