C.j. karpinski (5 Ergebnisse)

Oprawa wydawnicza kartonowa. Zustand: Pozycja w ladnym stanie. @ Cover design and illustrations / Projekt okladki i ilustracje: Oprawa graficzna J. C; @ Blurb / Notka wydawnicza: [Torun]: Wydawnictwo Kwadrat, [1989]; @ Size of the book block / Wymiar bloku: 22 cm; @ Circulation / Naklad: -; @ Comments/ Uwagi: Wydawnictwo drugiego obiegu. Przedruk faksymilowy z: London: Polonia Book Fund Ltd, 1989. - Seria oryginalna: Najnowsza Historia Polski, 9; @ Weight / Waga: 390; @ Pages / Strony: 286s.; @ Thematic categories / Kategorie tematyczne: historia Polski wspolczesnosc od 1945 - h. Polski, varia druki niezalezne (drugi obieg) / history of Poland Contemporary Times (after 1944 / 45), general / Geschichte Polens Gegenwart, Allgemein. Oprawa graficzna J. C (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. HARDBACK original green cloth, gilt spine lettering, head tail and corners very lightly rubbed, off-setting of original d-j to end-papers, spine of original d-j loosely inserted (no other parts of d-j present) otherwise very bright and clean. Please contact me for photographs or more information if required.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation; Booth Tarkington Talks of Many Things; Farming Must Become a Chemical Industry - development of co-products will solve present agricultural problem; Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech; The Use of Great Names in 'Blue Sky' Swindles; Ye Knife - Ye Forke - Ye Spoone - a brief history of those noble tools; Henry Ford's Page - money, a national commodity, has been made a private concession; Editorial - news from Russia that the only Jew remaining in a position of importance is Litvinov as the Communist Party threatens to become anti-Semitic after the death of M. Djerjinski; The Harvard of Our Forefathers; The Ebb and Flow of Winged Waves - bird article; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 12) - When Pirates Ruled; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - M. Loewenstein Makes an Offer, That Monkey Opera in Budapest, Chess Comes from India; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Bennett, R.O.; Broecker, Richard; Clarke, W.W.; Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Honore, Paul (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Noise the Destroyer - ; Lincoln's Friend at Court - the girl across the river; Are We Scrapping the Whole Navy? - article with statistics and photo of the U.S.S.'West Virginia' and photo of the U.S.S. 'Detroit' in drydock; Lincoln in Marble and Bronze - article with illustrations of the Brenner Medal, J.E. Roine Medal, and more; A Letter and a Reply - The Opening of the Civil War; Henry Ford's Page - the 'crush my rival' kind of competition is bound to come to grief; Editorials - Judge Landis protected from facing Ban Johnson, Civil War is On in China, the bonded indebtedness of the U.S.A., Chief Justice Taft suggests Grand Juries by abolished; Julia Taft Bayne Recalls Good Times in the White House; The Great Anneke Jans Delusion - most remarkable lawsuit in American History, as described by noted economic author Charles Albert Collman; Little Lost Speeches and Anecdotes of Lincoln; The New Salem of Abraham Lincoln -how he clerked in a store and whipped a bully; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Aaron Sapiro and money losing Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Association prove there is no magic in agricultrual co-operatives, Auto Thief displaces Horse Thief in Middletown, NY; News Bits; Wonderful photos of the perils and problems of bridge building. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Sturgis, Dwight C. (cover); Warren, Raymond H.; Fitzgerald, W.O.; Clarke, W.W.; Van Der Heyden, Gerald (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. Philidor [François] A[ndré] D[anican] & Stamma, Philip. Die Kunst im Schachspiel ein Meister zu werden. Das ist : Ein neuer Unterricht, wie man in kurzem dieses so edle und beliebte Spiel nach seiner Vollkommenheit erlernen könne. Gewiesen nach den neuesten Mustern des berühmten großen Schachspiel-Meisters in England. (and:) Stamma, Philip. Des Arabers Philipp Stamma, gebürtig von Aleppo in Syrien, entdeckte Schachspiel = Geheimnisse, nebst einigen Regeln, dieses Spiel wohl zu vollziehen, und den Sieg durch seine und subtile Züge davon zu tragen. Strassburg, Amand König, 1754. 8vo. Title + [20] + 351 + [1]p; 1 folding table. Contemporary sprinkled boards, worn. First German translations of two influential 18th century chess manuals. Philidor s Analyse du jeu des Échecs (first published 1749) which advocated a strong defensive centre using pawns, became the standard handbook for a century. Philidor (1726-95) was a French composer and friend of Voltaire,who regularly played chess at the Café de la Regence in Paris. He became a formidable player, surpassed his mentors, and was eventually recognized as world champion after beating the Syrian master Philip Stamma (c1705-55) on a visit to London in 1747. Stamma was also regarded a pioneer of modern chess; his Middle Eastern concept of endgame is set out in his Essai sur le jeu des echecs (first published 1737 and translated into English as The Noble Game of Chess in 1745); the German version is here contained on pp231-351. Presentation copy by the mathematician Louis Charles Karpinski (1878-1956) who played championship chess at Cornell University and took a doctorate at Strassburg University in 1903 with his autograph ink inscription To J.A.Horowitz Greetings Louis CKarpinski, Souvenir of Ann Arbor, 1315 Cambridge Rd, Feb. 22, 1943 on recto of front fly leaf, presumably referring to a chess tournament. A fresh copy.…