New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. 16 pages plus wrappers. 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). Original wrappers bound in marbled boards. Exlibrary (properly withdrawn) from Bowdoin College Library. Embossed library stamp on title page, inked number on verso. Original wrappers bound in, but front wrapper detached. Good. Boards..... More
London (58, Holborn Hill): William Darton, Jun. 1816. [1-3], 4-66, [6-catalogue] pages. Approx 6 3/4 x 4 inches. Marbled paper wrappers, string bound. Binding loose with strings deterioriated and signatures loose. Wrapper worn overall. Well used noting thumbing from use and creased corners. Good. Pamphlet.
The instruction booklet ONLY..... More
London: Wm. Darton, Jun 1810. 24 pages. Approx 7 x 4 inches. Light pink drab wrappers, string bound. Wrapper soiled, with several spots and fading. Foxed throughout internally. Very Good. Pamphlet.
The instruction booklet ONLY (there would have been an accompanying map which is not present here). A direction..... More
New York, NY: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated March 1951. First Separate Edition. 48 pages. Self wrappers. Blue cloth spine over stapled printed grey, black and blue wrappers. 5 hole punched at spine as issued. A bright clean copy noting soft bump to upper corner and some minor discoloration to rear..... More
New York, NY: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated April, 1950. First Collected Edition. [1], 155 pages. Self wrappers. Blue cloth spine over stapled printed grey, black and blue wrappers. 5 hole punched at spine as issued. A bright clean copy, one of the best copies we've handled, noting a small bump..... More
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated 1949. First Separate Edition. 18, [2 (blank)] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Original blue and gray printed wrappers with 5 hole punches at the spine (as issued). A touch of wear to the extremities, and offsetting to rear panel (apparently from an..... More
![Item #29191 Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action [Bell Monograph]. J. Bardeen, W. H....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29191_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696874229)
New York, N.Y. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated March 1951. First Separate Edition. 15, [1-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm). Publisher's printed grey, blue and black wrappers. Stapled, with five holes punched at the spine as issued. One of two variants known, this example printed..... More
![Item #29190 Prediction and Entropy of Printed English [Bell Monograph]. C. E. Shannon, Claude Elwood](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29190_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697849362)
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. 1949. First Separate Edition. 1-40 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm) Original wrappers, printed in grey, light blue, and black. Stapled with five holes punched at the spine as issued. Creased lower right corner, staining to the rear cover..... More
![Item #29189 The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits [Bell Monograph]. Claude E. Shannon,...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29189_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696874229)
New York, NY: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated April 1950. First Separate Edition. 60 pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Original printed grey, blue and black wrappers, stapled. Five holes punched at the spine as issued. A touch of wear to the extremities, a nice copy. Near Fine. Wraps.
During..... More
![Item #29188 Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems [Bell Monograph]. C. E. Shannon, Claude Elwood](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29188_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696874229)
London: Quekett Microscopical Club 2010. First Edition. viii, 221,[1] pages. 4to (9 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches). Publisher's blue and white printed boards. A clean, apparently unread copy. No dust jacket as issued. Near Fine. Boards.
A standard reference in the field which has not been well distributed. This..... More
London: Paper Tiger 1999. First Edition. 112 pages. Publisher's original black paper boards with pictorial dust jacket. One of a limited hardcover edition of 500 unsigned copies. This copy specially SIGNED by Jane Frank on the half-title page. Just at touch of wear at the corner tips and extremities. Near..... More
London: Asher & Co. 1873. First English Edition. [4], [1]-148 pages + 8 plates (one folding). 8vo (9 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches). Publisher's original brick cloth with gilt decoration of Eruption of Vesuvius 1872 on front panel. "Palmieri, Vesuvius" in gilt on spine. This copy has been expertly recased..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1883. First Edition. xv, [2], 18-204 pp + 20 heliotype plates (including frontis) extra to the pagination with tissue guards. 8vo. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth with beveled edges. Stamp of "Chas. F. Prentice 201 Singer Building 149 Broadway, N.Y." on front flyleaf. Discoloration to..... More
Washington: The Neale Publishing Company 1903. iv, 320 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt stamped titles and white stamped border and large '?' on front panel. Spine titling, etc faded. Top edges soiled. Page edges untrimmed as published. Previous owner Malcolm M. Ferguson's copy with his Ex-libris on front..... More
![Item #29174 Can Such Things Be ? [Malcolm M. Ferguson's copy]. Ambrose Bierce](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29174_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696874225)
New York: D. Appleton & Co 1905. Sixth edition, first state. 1 leaf (presentation copy leaf), xvii, [1], 1143 pages. Original (red) cloth. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid down. Original boards preserved with color toning mostly to the rear board to address mild dampstaining. Light marginal dampstaining to the..... More
Menasha, Wis., and Albany, N. Y. Mathematical Association of America. Inc. February 1950. First Edition. 73-146, [4] pages. 10 x 7 1/8 inches. Publisher's original printed blue wrappers. Heavily soiled front cover and first leaf. The paper by Shannon is found on pages 90-93. Upper corner bumped. A decent reading..... More
[Little Falls, NY]: Village of Little Falls 1847. 12 1/4 x 8 inches. Light blue paper, creased and with discoloration at the folds. Embossed stamp upper left (paper manufacturer?). Writing in ink and pencil. Verso with single word "Telegraph" Very Good.
"For the purpose of having the New York..... More
![Item #29176 [Manuscript document] A subscription letter from the Village of Little Falls, NY ...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29176_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696488616)
28 Cornhill, Boston: American Tract Society [ca 1876?]. 64 pages. 5 x 3 3/8 inches. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt spine titling and decorations. Cloth faded. Front blank flyleaf excised. Foxing throughout. A sound copy. Good. Cloth.
One of "The Banner Stories" (so noted at head of title page)..... More
Hartford, Conn.: Chicago, Ill. : Cincinnatti, Ohio. / San Francisco, Cal. The American Publishing Company / A. Roman & Co. 1879. Later printing. [10], [17]-274, [2] (conclusion, blank) pages. 8 3/4 x 7 inches. Publisher's blue cloth with debossed black and gilt decorations. Sunning to the spine and edges of..... More
Buffalo, NY: American Optical Company c1967. First Edition. 9 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Stapled, publisher's wrappers. Contains principles and parts lists (with blow-up parts diagrams) of the Model 41T and Model 42 with #615 illuminator microscopes. Creased. Good working copy. Good. Wraps.
A useful reference for those..... More
Newburyport, Massachusetts: M.C. Teel & Son 1883. 1 sheet folded (four pages). Light tanning overall. Folding creases, with some tearing. Local news, much advertising. Very Good.
Preceded by the Newburyport Tri-weekly germ, this paper began Nov. 1, 1881 and ceased in Jan. 1887. It was a daily except Sundays..... More
Newburyport, Massachusetts: William H. Huse & Co 1883. 1 sheet folded (four pages). Light overall browning as normal. Folding creases, with tearing (and minor loss) at the folds. Local news, much advertising. Fair.
The Newburyport Daily Herald ran from 1819-1890. More
New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1972. Later printing. xx, 485 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black spine titles. A crisp clean uncirculated copy. Fine. Cloth.
"This treatise was written for and published by the Grolier Club of the city of New York in February, 1901. Three..... More
New York: Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation 1952. Later printing. [1]-8 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Staple upper left. A xerox copy of a printed paper. Printing quality is not great but still readable. The original printout had hand-written notations ("Cybernetics - Transactions of the 8th Conference 1952, Josiah Macy..... More
![Item #29160 Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine [xerox copy of a printed paper]. Claude E....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29160_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692200889)
New York: Gordian Press 1997. x, 406 pages. 4to. 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A new copy. Fine. Cloth.
Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 5 (Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger NONFICTIONAL PROSE). Each issue of the Southern Literary Messenger is documented..... More
