Allen milton a (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Pamphlet; Paper wrappers; ex-library; light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover; ex-library; light dampstain on lower edge of several leaves; o/w in good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; ex-library; minor edgewear; o/w in very good condition. This is a heavy item; extra shipping might be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 2nd edition, oblong shaped 4to: frontispiece, x, 226pp., more than 200 illustrationsindex. Contents: Introduction. 1. World History. 2. Transportation. 3. United States History. 4. The American Scene. 5. Architecture in the United States. 6. The Lively Arts. Artists'Prints. Very fine copy.. …

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Single issue. Winter, 1954-1955. 67pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers lightly age-toned and stained internally, holes in wrapper near staples, small pen mark on rear wrapper, still very good. Many interesting literary contributions including Allen Ginsberg's "Last Stanzas in Denver". "Words to a Young Man" by John McAlpin Berryman. "Bureaucrats: Diggers" by Tom Merton. "Serenade, and Old Songs" by John Erskine. "Identity" by Mark Van Doren. Other contributors are: Brander Matthews, Joyce Kilmer, Alfred A. Knopf, Guy Sommerville, Paul W. Gallico, Henry Morton Robinson, Irwin Edman, Mortimer J. Adler, Whittaker Chambers, Millen Brand, H. Lloyd Frankenberg, Ben Maddow, Corey H. Ford, William Y. Tindall, Clifton Fadiman, Jacques Martin Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Eleazar Lipsky, Milton Rugoff, Herman Wouk, James A. Wechsler, Ralph de Toledano, Daniel G. Hoffman, Herb Gold, Robert Laguardia, John Hollander, Richard Howard, and Stephen Orgel.…

First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Scarce in the original dust jacket and signed by Friedman "An important activity at [the Statistical Research Group] was consulting with the military on procedures for inspecting batches of material submitted by suppliers to determine whether they met specification and should be accepted or rejected. Such acceptance inspection, and the closely related problem of inspecting samples of items coming off the production line to control quality, are of long standing, and standard procedures had been developed well before the war. The contributions of SRG were of two kinds. The first was simply to advise the military about relevant procedures and to assist in drafting manuals for various groups to use. The second was to improve the existing procedures. The development of sequential analysis and its application to specific problems was the main contribution of this kind. These activities led to a request that SRG prepare an inspection manual for the Navy. Because of the obvious peacetime importance of sampling inspection, the work we had done during the war was published after the war in a volume entitled Sampling Inspection: Principles, Procedures, and Tables for Single, Double, and Sequential Sampling in Acceptance Inspection and Quality Control Based on Percent Defective.".…