Rare books from Denominator Books (IOBA)

Moscow: Gos.transportnoe zheleznodorozhnoe izd-vo., 1946. First edition in Russian. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good, bound in contemporary green buckram with stamped illustration on lower front. Light wear and chipping to cover page, which also has previous owner's name. A few underlines in text. Inside clean, bright. Octavo. 276pp, illustrated. 104150

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Navy blue cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down with slight loss of edges and color. Ex-library with usual marks to interior (exterior is clean). Text block very good, lightly toned. The precursor to Principia Mathematica.

Warsaw (Warszawa): Widawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. Paperback. Very good/very good. Very good copy of the true (Polish) first edition in jacket. Title in orange and black. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, backstrip leaning; dust jacket, skillful paper restorations to folds, spine panel and bottom edges on verso, corners clipped; contents clean, 1 page publisher's adverts at end. Scarce in jacket. Filmed three times, most memorably in 1974 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970.

Currency, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, eighth printing, Fine hardcover, association copy, signed and inscribed by Thiel "with much admiration" to the chair of the New York Federal Reserve. Inscribed copies of this book are rare.

New York: Crown Business, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition, 1st printing, flat signed & dated by both Thiel and Masters. Photos of both authors at the book signing event are included with the signed book. Hardcover, as new condition, unread and unmarked. A #1 bestseller, but signed copies are scarce.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Large 8vo, xiv + 272 pp, two colored plates. Good. Text clean, plates excellent. Ex-library but exterior is unmarked except for stamp to bottom edge; usual labels inside. Shelfwear to head and tail of spine; rear joint reinforced. "Second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin's Origin" -- W.D. Hamilton. Garrison-Morton's Medical Bibliography #253.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939 . First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine copy, navy boards unfaded, corners crisp, binding tight and square. Lacking front free endpaper. First edition of Pecora's timeless account of the the 1930s Senate inquiry into Wall Street and the crash, which uncovered many corrupt and abusive practices and led to the Glass-Steagall Banking Act and the Securities Act of 1933, among others. Although Pecora was the chief counsel of the investigation, his role was so significant it became known as the "Pecora Commission."