Search Results: Titles starting with I from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, [1989] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

A description of the special-purpose wartime punched-card calculators originally developed by IBM for the United States Army. . The complete issue, in original printed wrappers. Octavo. Library rubberstamp on front wrapper. Very good. The first two machines of this type, were built during the war for the Aberdeen proving ground, were delivered in December 1944, and were in operation during the last eight months of the war…For comparison with the I.B.M. Sequence Controlled Calculator at Harvard this machine is limited in internal storage capacity, number of significant figures, and flexibility of sequencing; on the other hand, multiplying speed is about twenty times as great."

Northridge: Santa Susana Press, California State University, Northridge, 1977 First edition. Limited to l00 signed copies, to inaugurate the installation of Herb Yellin as president of the Bibliographic Society. Signed by both Purdy and Block. Wrappers. Octavo. Illustrations by Irving Block A fine copy.

[New York:] Helikon Press, 1972 One of 110 copies printed for sale and signed by the poet. (There were also twenty-six copies for private distribution. Gray printed wrappers. Octavo. Fine,.

[London:] Turret Books, [1965] One of 100 numbered copies signed by Zukofsky. A forty-four line poem. Light brown boards, stitched at spine. Printed rice-paper dust jacket. Oblong twelvemo, 6 1/8" x 4. A fine copy.

London: William Pickering, 1830 Contemporary straight-grained brown morocco over marbled boards. . Octavo. Woodcut printer's device on title and colophon. Illustrations engraved by John and Mary Byfield. Extremites a bit rubbed, extremities of spine darkened. A very good copy.

New York: Praeger, [1967] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped, lightly edgeworn d.j.

New York: Praeger, [1967] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Top corners lightly bumped. A very good, clean copy, without d.j.

[Berkeley:] University of California Press, 1982 First edition thus. Clothbacked boards. Large octavo. Black and white illustrations in text. Fine in fine slipcase.

Paris: Martin Jouvenel et George Jouvenel, 1696 First edition of the first work; first edition in book form of the second, though it only contains a portion of the work. [Bound with:]. Le Noble, [Eustache]. La Grotte des Fables...Par Mr. Noble. A Paris: George Jouvenel and Martin Jouvenel, 1696. Twelvemo in five parts (parts 9-14). 36 pp each. Contemporary mottled calf and gilt-tooled spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. Edges stained red. Marbled endpapers. . Twelvemo. Engraved title page, headbands, and initial letters. Crown of spine worn away less than 1/4." Other binding extremities lightly rubbed with minor scuffing to boards. Contemporary ink signature on title page. A very good copy. Ideé General des Sciences contains fifteen articles for young students in a questions-and- answers format about many topics including theology, philosophy, and medicine. Parts nine through thirteen from a fourteen part series published in a weekly periodical. Copper-engraved frontispiece and publisher's… Read More

[Paris: 1954] One of 250 copies, signed by the artist. Decorative boards with cloth spine. . Oblong small quarto. Former owner's name in ink on front and back endpapers. A very good copy. Edgard Pillet (1912-1996) was known for his paintings and sculptures. He served as secretary general La revue d'avant-garde Art d'Aujourd'hui and founder with Jean Dewasne of l'Atelier d'Art Abstrait in Paris. He was the winner of le prix de la Jeune Peinture in 1948 and of la Critique à Bruxelles in 1953. He taught at the University of Louisville and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Guben [Germany] F.Fechner, [n.d., ca. 1840] First edition. Idleness and Industry tells the story of Felix, a lazy and disobedient boy who falls into poverty after the death of his father and must be pulled back from the brink of suicide by his kind, hardworking, and pious friend Robert. Original printed cloth-covered boards with decorative border in blue and gilt on both boards, title on upper board, and an image of a man on lower board. . Small octavo. With 16 color-printed plates. Some rubbing to corners and a bit of toning to edges of boards. Neatly rebacked with blue cloth, endpapers replaced, and inner gutters restored. Plate facing page six is loose and laid in at original position. Still a very good, very bright and clean copy of an uncommon item. Painter and lithographer Jean Victor Adam (1801 – 1867) trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and under the direction of Charles Meynier and Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Adam was commissioned by the Museum at Versailles to paint several pieces, including… Read More

London: Edward Moxon, 1859 First edition, first issue, with verso of title-page blank. . Original light green blindstamped cloth with title in gilt on spine, expertly rebacked. . Small octavo. Spine lightly faded, a few small stains on covers, light foxing in a couple of gatherings. A very good, attractive copy. Also, an early copy, with a former owner's signature, dated September 1859, on the half-title.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1988] Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Venezia: Cavallino, [1983] First edition in English. Dark blue boards, stamped in white. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

Glasgow: Printed for Robert Urie, 1767 First Scottish edition, published by Glasgow scholarly publisher, Robert Urie. The London edition, which was the first edition in English, appeared the same year. Contemporary sheep. . Octavo. Hinges cracked, but sound, binding extremities rubbed. Contemporary ink signature of Rev. Henry W. Duchachet on half-title. Bookplate of the Duchachet Library in Philadelphia on front pastedown, old library pocket on back pastedown. A good, clean copy. The Philosophe Ignorant 'was written in a mood of exasperation and disgust produced by the impossibility of resolving the great metaphysical problems. In a series of brief sections Voltaire tries to answer the questions with which he begins: 'Who are you? whence do you come? what are you doing? what will you become? Or rather, he more and more irritably points out how unanswerable they are, and how insignificant is man when confronted with them" (Besterman, Voltaire, p. 488). Though less well-known than his Glasgow neighbors,… Read More

New York: Putnams, [1987] Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: John Calder, [1982] First edition in English. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., [ 1875 ] Publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt, gilt spine. All edges gilt. . Twelvemo. Chromolithographic frontispiece and every page with four chromolithographic illustrations, each accompanied by a Bible verse. Every illustrated leaf is followed by a blank leaf, ruled in red and meant to be filled in by hand Binding extremities a bit worn, spine slightly toned. Front hinge cracked, but sound. Light foxing, contemporary ink inscriptions on the blank leaves, with most of the writing space empty. A very good, tight copy Fourth edition. The Preface refers to it as a "Pictorial Edition" that is "in every respect equal to its predecessors, and in some points superior." Though pagination differs between the 1872 edition (108 pp.) and the 1873 and 1874 editions (76 pp.), what textual differences there are between those editions and the fourth edition is something we cannot determine without being able to compare them. All editions are scarce, with… Read More

Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1897 First edition. Cloth, gilt. Square octavo. Colored frontispiece, heightened in gold, twenty black and white plates. A fine, bright copy, mostly unopened.