NEW Winter 2023-24 Offerings from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

4to. Page 71-110. Publisher s Original brown wrappers. Sporadic underlining in pencil and red pencil. On the back - special print from the 'Festschrift for Edmund Husserl'. First edition off-print of Heidegger s influential work on the origins and essence of reason which was later translated into English by American film director Terrence Malick in 1969. From the estate of… Read more about this item

An in-quarto volume of VII, (I), 528 pages, foxing throughout the book, more marked at the beginning and end. Illustrated with 18 out-of-text engravings, including one in frontispiece, engraved on steel by Bentley and Fischer, according to the drawings of Thomas Allom. Publisher's contemporary binding with a black grained-morocco spine, dark blue pebbles boards, spine title is gilt-lettered with raised… Read more about this item

First American Edition, First printing. Octavo, Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red. With dust jacket. A near fine copy in a slightly worn Very Good dustwrapper showing Slight rubbing to spine and corners and nicks, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 125pp. This is the first book on machine learning. An Approach to Machine Intelligence… Read more about this item

Octavo. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Stated First Edition, Trade Issue. 213pp. near fine. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the corners, covers lightly rubbed, spine somewhat toned and furrowed, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the covers are bright and distinct. With the scarce original wrap-around. As pictured. First trade edition, first… Read more about this item

Octavo. 1st edition thus, 1962. A Near Fine book in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo., 412 pp., bound in publishers red cloth with red dust jacket, $10.00. Jacket has some light rubbing along the edges and tips. Spine is very slightly faded. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.… Read more about this item

Original publisher s wrappers. A fine fresh copy which appears to have never been read. Rare first edition of the highly elusive first collectible book devoted exclusively to the now legendary model, actress and sex symbol, with 39 black & white photographs of her in the early stages of her career. While her husband served in the merchant marine during… Read more about this item

First edition. 8vo, 131pp + 6 ads. Yellow cloth boards. Corners and spine ends bumped. Small flecking to spine title. Minor rubbing along joints. Partial bubbling of front pastedown fore edge with light separation. Pastedowns and endpapers toned. Spine moderately darkened, half-title and title pages foxed with minor margin foxing on some subsequent pages. Overall a very good copy of… Read more about this item

First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxi + 394pp. Publisher s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & more than 80 illustrations throughout. The first edition of one of the best-known works on Spiritualism, and in particular Spirit photography, of the early twentieth century. James Coates was a committed Spiritualist, a regular contributor to the… Read more about this item

First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xx + 466pp (+ iipp publisher's adverts). Very Good+. A rare copy in the original cloth boards of this fascinating work by a man better known for being the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and the father of Mary Shelley. Housed in a matching custom slipcase with chemise wrapper. An intelligent, skeptical account of witchcraft and… Read more about this item

Original stiff paper covers. (16)730pp Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer in rear packet, with sheet. Index. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾". A near-fine copy now Mylar protected. In order to anticipate the physical damage and personal injuries that would result from a nuclear attack, and thus to encourage emergency responders and public officials to prepare themselves, numerous federal agencies joined… Read more about this item

First British edition, FIRST ISSUE. Publisher's grey-green cloth binding with paper title label on spine. Octavo, 534pp + colophon + 32pp, top edge gilt, Black endpapers, publisher's catalogue to rear; Nietsche misspelled at line 11 on page 38; binding tight and sound and text block is clean with moderate rubbing & wear to the boards & spine label (as usual)… Read more about this item

Publishers Cloth. 12mo. Stated third edition. 347 pp. + ads. Very good. Small repair at crown of spine. Some light foxing. SIGNED in ink by the author on the front free end paper: "presented by Mr. Wm. L. Stone." rare third edition of this unusual account, involving sojourner truth ('isabella'). In 1832, Isabella Baumfree, who had freed herself from bondage… Read more about this item

[ii], xvi, 286, [ii] pp. 8vo (14,5 x 22,5 cm.). Half grey cloth over marbled baords, spine gilt tetered (slightly faded). A very good copy. First separate edition of this curious physiological study of mystics. The author, a clinical physician, contends that the attributes of medieval and early modern mystics melancholy, meditativeness, ecstasy, hallucinations were not divinely ordained, but rather… Read more about this item

Une archéologie des sciences humaines. 8vo. (225x140 mm), 400pp., Original printed French-fold wrappers, folding plate of Las Meninas, full-page plate of diagrams. First edition, first impression of the author's magnum opus, the work which made him famous. Foucault examines the origins of the modern human sciences through an "archaeological" approach to the history of thought, analyzing how the meaning of… Read more about this item

First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, original red cloth with gilt titles. Top Edge Gilt, internally tight & unmarked. Slight wear to head & foot of spine. Overall, in near fine condition. 551 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), journalist and African explorer, was famous for finding Dr. Livingstone in 1871. With 16 tissue guarded… Read more about this item

The very scarce uncorrected proof copy of the first English edition of this foundational text of contemporary feminism, despite its being unsatisfactorily translated by H.M. Parshley, and not given another translation for more than 50 years. (The wife of Alfred Knopf, Beauvoir s American publisher, heard of the book while in Paris and asked Parshley, a retired zoology professor, for… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. In-8° (21.5x13 cm), pp. 503, (11), red rigid canvas editorial binding with golden titles on the back, inside boards illustrated with the labyrinth pattern appearing on the floor of the cathedral of Reims, paratestual fins, counterplates and figurative glances. Printed price present at the rear flap of the overhead. A fine Excellent and exemplary copy now brodart protected.… Read more about this item

Octavo, 273pp. Publisher's original half dark blue cloth, original unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket. A fine copy displaying no previous signs of ownership with minor edge-wear to the spine ends of the bright, near-fine dust jacket. First trade edition of David Grubb s debut novel, basis for the 1955 film classic starring Robert Mitchum. To Nelson Algren, David Grubb s Night… Read more about this item

8vo, 420pp. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Blue dust jacket over Publisher s black cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is… Read more about this item

Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Light blue cloth titled in gilt within a black rectangle on the spine. 363 pages, with a frontispiece illustration of a "Portable microwave transmitting and receiving installation" and several diagrams throughout. FIRST EDITION. An excellent bright near-fine copy in a very attractive unclipped ($8.75) dustwrapper displaying slight wear on the cover… Read more about this item