[Southampton, MA]: The Antiquarian Scientist 2006. First Edition. 64 pages. Photographically illustrated wrappers. 8 x 8 inches. A new copy with just a touch of wear. Bright and clean internally. SIGNED by author Raymond V. Giordano. NOTE: the publisher is sold out, and this work will not be reprinted. Fine..... More
[New York]: [Pynson Printers] [November, 1935]. First Edition. [8] pages plus one plate. String bound. Overall light wear and mild creasing. Inserted plate shows two photogravures of papermaking (images 33 and 57 from the book). Rear cover notes works by Dard Hunter, is dated November 1935, and is watermarked "JAPAN"..... More
(Chillicothe, Ohio): (The Mountain House) c1932. [4] page advertisement, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, a single sheet folded. Untrimmed. Folded horizontally as if for mailing. Small stain to upper edge, tanning to the paper at the extremities. Dard Hunter watermark on rear page with a decorative motif. This is a...... More
Boston: Daniel Davis, Jr. 1842. First Edition. viii, 218, [2 - ads] pages. 8 vo. 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Frontispiece dampstained. Publisher's brown stamped cloth with gilt titles. Basic rebacking with the original spine laid down and salmon endpapers preserved. Boards where worn through the cloth wer poorly re-colored..... More
New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1944. First Edition. vii, [1], 460 pages. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. Margins trimmed (not affecting the text), bound in blue buckram with gilt titles (NOT exlibrary). Includes all four quarterly issues of the Bell System Technical Journal (Volume 23). Original issue covers..... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1925. First Edition. xi, [1], 494 pages. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Light marginal dampstaining to the lower margins throughout, otherwise a nice clean sound copy of this book. Very Good. Cloth.
Intended as a supplement to Underhill's book "Magnets"... More
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1920. First Edition. ix, [1], 517, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth gilt. A well used copy, with worn corners and both hinges cracked and very loose with webbing showing (this should be repaired but we've left it to the next..... More
London and New York: MacMillan and Co. 1887. Later printing. xiv, 456 pages + 80 page catalogue of Educational Books published by Macmillan & Co, Bedford Street, Strand, London dated March,1887. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth gilt. Overall light wear, spine cocked. A sound copy. Very Good. Cloth.
A..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1961. 611-644 pages. 10 1/16 x 6 3/4 inches. Stapled self-wrappers. Creased, some soiling. Very Good. Wraps.
The Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium Probability and Statistics first published this paper. The construction of this item leaves us a little unsure of its..... More
Murray Hill, N. J. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated November 1, 1954. [1-cover sheet], [1]-5 leaves + four figures on one leaf of plates. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. A reproduced typescript with four holes punched at the spine as issued. Stapled upper left, with light overall wear and minor..... More
New York City: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. [ no date ]. [1]-7 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Typescript carbon on thin paper printed recto only. Old paperclip upper left with some creasing/marking to the leaves. Provided with a copy of the published offprint: [1-blank], 148-151, [1-blank] pages. 8..... More
[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] July 1949. [1-blank], 148-151, [1-blank] pages. 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Publisher's printed self-wrappers. Three separate leaves stapled twice near the spine. While oddly constructed, the reprint statement on the first leaf indicates this is an offprint and not an extract - all..... More
New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers [AIEE] September 16, 1938. [1]-11, 12 pages. 10 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches. Stapled self-wrappers. Hand-applied ink-stamp upper left "A Reprint from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering 141 Mass. Institute of Technology" partially covering the title and author of the paper. An excellent..... More
[London]: [Taylor & Francis] July 1950. Later printing. [1], [1-blank], 256-275 pages. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. A reproduced copy of the original Philosophical Magazine printed on oversized legal paper. Double stapled upper left corner. An odd copy, as some of the pages are reproduced on normal copier paper..... More
[London]: [Taylor & Francis] July 1950. Later printing. [1], [1-blank], 256-275 pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. A reproduced copy of the original Philosophical Magazine printed on regular sized paper. Stapled upper left corner. Near Fine. Wraps.
This paper was first presented at the National IRE Convention, March..... More
[London]: [Taylor & Francis] March 1950. First Separate Edition. [1], 256-275, [1-blank] pages. 9 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches. Self-wrappers stapled and glued. The five examined offprints [as here] have been oddly but consistently constructed. The first leaf (wrapper title) is tipped onto a gathering formed by pages 257-272 (signed..... More
New York: Gordian Press 1986. Two volume set of the Broadway Journal (Text AND Annotations). Vol 3 [Broadway Journal Text]: [6],364 pages. 4to. 8 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Vol 4 [Broadway Journal Annotations] lix, 279 pages. 8vo. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. Publisher's blue cloth..... 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
[no place of publication stated]: [no publisher stated] October 27, 1948. One leaf printed recto only. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Mimeographed typescript. Edge creasing, one edge tear. Near Fine. Wraps.
"This note calls attention to a certain class of numbers that are easily shown to be transcendental..... More
[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] December 1941. 337-354 pages. 9 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches. Publisher's pale green printed wrappers. Stapled near the spine (slightly rusty). Soft crease to upper right corners. Near Fine. Wraps.
The Journal of Mathematics and Physics, Vol XX, No. 4, December 1941, first..... More
Boston: James M. Usher 1862. First Edition. vii, [9]-444 pages. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with titles on spine in copper, and embossed design to front and rear boards. "With the compliments of Oliver P Remick (?)" inked on the front pastedown. Penciled in front is "Lieut." and underneath is "Bro of..... More
Murray Hill, N. J. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated March 16, 1944. Later printing. One Memorandum group highlighting three different reproduction techniques, all 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. 1) One leaf. Printed "Cover Sheet for Technical Memoranda" form on thin translucent typewriter paper (watermarked "Esleek Superior Manifold"). Names, subject, abstract..... More
[New York, NY]: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated June 8, 1955. [1], 2 leaves. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Reproduced typescript. Four holes punched near the spine, stapled upper left, creasing and minor edge staining. Near Fine. Wraps.
Abstract: "The following theorem is proved: In a discrete noisy channel..... More
Milano: Editrice La Fiaccola 1954. Later printing. 115-130 pages. 234 x 188 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches). Printed light green printed wrappers. Tanned pages, light browning to the extremities. “Reprinted by kind permission of the Author and the Editors from the Proceedings of the I.R.E. October 1953." Near..... More
[New York]: [The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc.] 1949. First Separate Edition. [9]-22 pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Self-wrappers, last page (rear cover) blank. Two staples near spine printed on buff paper. Light staining to wrappers, creasing to rear panel and soft reading creases at foreedge. Very Good. Wraps..... More
