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New York: Grossman, 1972. The General of the Dead Army ponders the futility of war as it follows an Italian general and a priest who seek the remains of a fallen comrade. It received many positive reviews: "Mr. Kadare advances wryly and dryly into the darkness[he] doesn't do messages; he brings them to lethal life" (New York Times). And the Boston Globe called it "a powerful and poignant Albanian novel." The novel has also been entered into the Parisian magazine Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, and twenty years after its publication by Sh.B. Naim Frashëri in 1963 it was adapted into an Italian drama film directed by Luciano Tovoli.
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The General of the Dead Army.
by Kadare, Ismail
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Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis].
by Kafka, Franz
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Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1916. True first edition of one of Franz Kafka's most important works. Octavo, original wrappers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, rebacked. An exceptional example. The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect. "While critics have interpreted this chilling story variously as a description of despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to institutional authoritarianism, and as an expression of conflict between the author and his father, its power seems to rest in its resistance to explanation. W.H. Auden has said of it, 'Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka would be the first one would think of" (New York Public Library's Books of the Century, 13).
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Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology.
by Kahneman, Daniel; Ed Diener; Norbert Schwarz
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New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gene Crofts. The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-Being draws upon the latest scientific research to transform our understanding of this ancient question. With contributions from leading authorities in psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience, this volume presents the definitive account of current scientific efforts to understand human pleasure and pain, contentment and despair. The distinguished contributors to this volume combine a rigorous analysis of human sensations, emotions, and moods with a broad assessment of the many factors, from heredity to nationality, that bear on our well-being. Using the tools of experimental science, the contributors confront the puzzles of…
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Attention and Effort.
by Kahneman, Daniel
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973. First edition of the Nobel laureate's influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive sciences. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "For William D. Kahneman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable signed. Daniel Kahneman was a psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982; Tversky &…
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General Chiang Kai shek: An Account Of The Fortnight In Sian.
by Kai-shek, Chiang and Madame
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. First edition of this autobiography of Chiang Kai-shek. Octavo, original cloth. Signed on the half-title page in Chinese by Chiang Kai-shek and in English by Mei-ling Soong Chiang, former First Lady of the Republic of China, 1948-1975. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. Exceptionally rare signed by both Chiang and Madame Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT, following the Canton Coup in early 1926. Having neutralized the party's left wing, Chiang then led Sun's long-postponed Northern Expedition, conquering or reaching accommodations with China's many warlords. From 1928 to…
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In Search Of Memory.
by Kandel, Eric R
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. First edition of the scientist's autobiography which deals with the groundbreaking work on the biological process of memory, which earned him the Nobel Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For John Life is a circle you come back to a lot of interests that you had early in life. With warm regards Eric Kandel." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. While most memoirs merely give the reader the contents of memory, this remarkable account by a pioneering neurobiologist actually opens up the cellular and biochemical structure of memory and details the epoch-making science that has uncovered that structure. Through the doors of his own memory, Kandel revisits the Vienna of his childhood, a city recalled with appreciation for its intellectual and artistic life and with antipathy for the anti-Semitism that swept through the region in the thirties, forcing the Kandel family to flee to New York. Kandel…
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In Search Of Memory.
by Kandel, Eric R
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. First edition of the scientist's autobiography which deals with the groundbreaking work on the biological process of memory, which earned him the Nobel Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Mayshan with best wishes Eric Kandel." Fine in a fine dust jacket. While most memoirs merely give the reader the contents of memory, this remarkable account by a pioneering neurobiologist actually opens up the cellular and biochemical structure of memory and details the epoch-making science that has uncovered that structure. Through the doors of his own memory, Kandel revisits the Vienna of his childhood, a city recalled with appreciation for its intellectual and artistic life and with antipathy for the anti-Semitism that swept through the region in the thirties, forcing the Kandel family to flee to New York. Kandel carried a career-shaping interest in Freud with him to Brooklyn, but he soon…
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Andersonville.
by Kantor, MacKinlay
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Cleveland & New York: World Publishing, 1955. Andersonville tells the story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War. "The best Civil War novel I have ever read, without question" (Bruce Catton)
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A New Zionism.
by Kaplan, Mordecai M
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New York: Herzyl Press, 1959. Second enlarged edition. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily Inscribed by Mordecai Kaplan to a noted Zionist on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
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Geometry of Moment Spaces.
by Karlin, Samuel and Lloyd Stowell Shapley [L.S.]
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Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1951. Rare first appearance of mathematician Samuel Karlin and Nobel Prize-winning economist Lloyd Stowell Shapley's early work on the geometry of the moment space, a precursor to Shapley's development of von Neumann and Morgenstern's theory of games. Quarto, original wrappers, unbradded. From the collection of Lt. R.S. Weinberg with his ownership inscription to the front panel. In near fine condition. American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist Lloyd Stowell Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. Shapley received his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1948 and subsequently worked for one year at the Rand Corporation where he collaborated on the present treatise with fellow American mathematician Samuel Karlin. The 227-page dissertation contains definitions and algebraic descriptions of the moment space, distributions of given…
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Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.
by Karsten, Karl G
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923. First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition. First editions are rare.
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Scientific Forecasting: Its Methods and Application to Practical Business and to Stock Market Operations.
by Karsten, Karl
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New York: Greenberg, 1931. First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original maroon cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scientific Forecasting was based on Karsten's experience as stock market analyst, and was written as a handbook for stockbrokers. This work on scientific forecasting focussed on the methods and application to practical business and to stock market operations, and relied on the techniques of the economic barometers. "Karsten was fairly optimistic about his abilities to make prognoses, but, as he had to admit , 'at the present time this investigation can not account for economic changes which are wholly due to the element of mob-, crowd- or herd-psychology'.[18] In general, however, Karsten's conclusion is that these psychological factors are relatively unimportant, which leads him to find reason to state that his results support "economic determinism". There is only one exception: the stock market. Of course it is not…
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Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.
by Karsten, Karl G
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923. First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, from the Yale Club library with a stamp to the endpaper. First editions are rare.
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Mathematics and the Imagination.
by Kasner, Edward and James Newman [Madeleine L'Engle]
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition of this classic work which famously contains the first appearance of the term googol, which the search engine name, Google, is a play on. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Newbery award-winning novelist Madeleine L'Engle with her married name and husband [in her handwriting], "Hugh and Madeleine Franklin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With drawings and diagrams by Rufus Isaacs. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov: Volumes I-3.
by Kasparov, Garry
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London: Evveryman Chess, 2011-14. First editions of each volume. Octavo, original cloth, three volumes. Each is signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Each are fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Child of Change: An Autobiography.
by Kasparov, Garry
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London: Hutchinson, 1987. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov. Child of Change tells the story of of Kasparov, who many consider the greatest chess player of all time.
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Batsford Chess Openings 2.
by Kasparov, Gary & Raymond Keene
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New York: Macmillan Books/ Collier Books, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated in wrappers in near fine condition as issued. Signed by chess champion Gary Kasparov.
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Burning Village.
by Katz, Menke
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New York: The Smith, 1972. First edition of the acclaimed poet's crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Feb 3rd 1977 For Prof. Chimieu Abronsky from Menke Katz." Katz has also added a large illustration of flowers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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Silk Stockings Original Musical Script.
by Kaufman, George S., Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
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New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library. Rare original Silk Stockings shooting script with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Quarto, original black Hart Stenographic Bureau leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. In near fine condition. Annotations throughout. Accompanied by the vocal part of Ninotchka which is in fine condition. Loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story 'Ninotchka', Silk Stockings premiered on Broadway in 1955 and was the final musical that Cole Porter wrote for the stage. The production opened Broadway on February 24, 1955 at the Imperial Theatre, and closed on April 14, 1956 after 478 performances.
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On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir.
by Kaufman, Henry. Foreword by Paul A. Volker
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. First edition of Henry Kaufman's memoir of his life spent on Wall Street. Octavo, original half cloth. Foreword by Paul A. Volker. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Peter with best wishes Henry Kaufman 2/5/05." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A giant among pundits, Henry Kaufman is the Wall Street legend who founded the science of Federal Reserve watching, now a popular spectator sport. In a career that spans the last 50 years, his views and forecasts have grown increasingly influential, and his pronouncements often move markets, earning him the sobriquet "Dr. Doom" because of his oft-expressed concern about financial excesses and the failure of regulators to take steps to prevent them from occurring. "Policy can not be predicated on the assumption that reasonable financial behavior is the norm," he writes. On Money and Markets is both a personal memoir and a historical retrospective in which he elaborates on these…
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