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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 47 # 5 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1966. Contains stories by Ed McBain (Eighty Million Eyes), Hugh Pentecost (Jericho and the Go-Go Clue), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee - The Broken T), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone - K is for Knife), Ogden Nash (They Don't Read De Quincy in Philly or Cincy), and others. Light wear at the edges with at the bottom of the spine. A very good copy.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1958). (1940) 1958 4th edition reprint. Small 8vo (130 x 186mm). Pp231,ads. B/w photographs & illustrations, fold-out graph. Good-plus in used and clipped dust-wrapper. This is a detailed account of marksmanship with the rifle. Much material on the .22, with more on how the skills so learned may be transferred to the .303. "The author has gone thoroughly into the many refinements which affect the marksman's success in attaining accuracy, whatever his weapon, and there can be very few who will not find Mr. Banks's experience add to their knowledge." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). 1943 1st edition. Small 8vo. Pp198. B/w photographs, illustrations. Red cloth. Rather faded and used. Good only. "'A.G.'s Book of the Rifle' was composed largely of matter taken from my articles previously published in 'The Rifleman'". A book largely on the .22 rifle for miltary and sporting purposes. Chapters on telescopes, sights and backsights, the .22 at long range and at 200 yards, on penetration and killing power, on trajectories and techniques, and much more. .…

Erstausgabe, 8°, 78 S. mit zahlreichen s/w-Abbildungen und einer farbig illustr. Faltkarte im Anhang, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Karte mit minimalen Eckknich, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). (1943) 1948 reprint. Small 8vo (123 x 185mm). Pp198. B/w photographs, illustrations. Red cloth. Bubbling to cloth, slight browning to pages but good copy in remnant dust-wrapper. "'A.G.'s Book of the Rifle' was composed largely of matter taken from my articles previously published in 'The Rifleman'". A book largely on the .22 rifle for miltary and sporting purposes. Chapters on telescopes, sights and backsights, the .22 at long range and at 200 yards, on penetration and killing power, on trajectories and techniques, and much more. .…

Eltville, Walter 1984.120 Seiten m. zahlreichen Abbildungen. Orig. Hardcover, 4°, Gut erhalten..

Lord Longueville's once-celebrated judgement was that 'of all bad men he is the worst'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. From the collection of Irish nationalist autographs of Miss Burgess of Norwich. On a neat piece of cream paper, 7 x 3 cm. In good condition, lightly aged. Nothing on the reverse. Reads: 'Faithfully yours / Arthur O'Connor.'. …

Zustand: Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the blue cloth spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains small colour vignettes to the titles, 63 printed pages of text with 7 full-page colour illustrations. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0517066300 ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).…

Quarto, one page. Good, on lightly aged paper spotted by paperclip, with some creasing to extremities. 'If you will let your list down to this level, here you are'. The letterhead carries the names of the Pageant's officers with a Welsh dragon in red in the top left-hand corner. From the collection of Rev. E. J. F. Davies.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition in publisher's original illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 1890 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour archive photographs and theatre posters throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781841586175 STAGE & THEATRE.…

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled paper covers with monochrome photograph to the front cover. Quarto 9½'' x 7''. Contains 8 pages with period monochrome photographs throughout. In Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Rock & Pop].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Xviii, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Stated Third Edition, Newly Corrected And With Updated Bibliography. Includes Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; Major Essays On Einstein; And An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Covers Near Fine, Gilt Bright, No Marks, Small Browned Area On Front Free Endpaper From A Loose Clipping About Einstein's Bequests. Dj Clean And Bright, Light Chipping And Small Tears At Edges, No Loss Of Lettering Or Design.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good DJ. 2nd Edition. Xvi, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, With Bibliography Brought Up To 1951. Contains Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; And Major Essays On Einstein, Including An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Book Is Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, Bookplate Of Philosophy Professor David R. Luce And His Name Stamps On Rear Endpapers. Dj With Light Usage, A Small Tape Reinforcement To Inside Of Dj At Spine With No Visible Trace On Outside, A Few Small Edge Tears And Chips, Fading To Spine Panel.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Xvi, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Stated First Edition. First Printing Of Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; First Publication Of Major Essays On Einstein, And An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Book Is Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Lightly Used. Short Owner's Last Name On Front Pastedown. Light Browning To Endpapers, As Usual. Small Dampstain At Bottom Of Text Block Adjacent To Spine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Xvi, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Stated First Edition. First Printing Of Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; First Publication Of Major Essays On Einstein, And An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Book Is Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Lightly Used, Previous Owner's Name Under Front Flap. Dust Jacket Priced $8.50, Very Worn, Interior And Exterior Clear Tape Reinforcement Along Front Spine Edge, Entirely Separated Along Rear Spine Edge, Small Chips And Tears, With Chipping Removing Part Of Einstein's First Name And Most Of Volume Number On Spine, No Other Losses Of Lettering.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good DJ. 2nd Edition. Xvi, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, With Bibliography Brought Up To 1951. Contains Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; And Major Essays On Einstein, Including An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Book Is Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, No Marks Or Bookplates. Dj With Light Usage, Bright And Clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xvi, 781 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Stated First Edition. First Printing Of Einstein's Autobiography, With Text In Both German And English; First Publication Of Major Essays On Einstein, And An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Near Fine Book, Gilt Bright, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $8.50, Wear, Browning, Minute Losses At Edges, Dust To Rear Panel.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut bis sehr gut. umschlag hat lagerspuren, sonst sehr gut, 228 seiten - NUR A-773 Language: DEU.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. The 'Gentlemen' are clearly the publishers of a book which they wish Bell to review. She writes that she is greatly obliged to them for offering her 'a copy of your beautiful book on Japan', and has written 'to 4 editors to ask for space for early notices of it'. The book is 'indeed a marvel of technical skill in reproduction & it would be a pleasure to me to speak as highly of it as it deserves'.…

1p, 4to. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper. Addressed to 'Sir Arthur Cope | London'. The letter reads: 'My dear Sir Arthur: | This will introduce Mr. William Edward Cope of New York, a member of the National Press Club, who is going abroad to do some newspaper work. He desires a brief interview with you and I bespeak for him such courtesies as you may find it convenient to render him.' The subject of the letter W. E. Cope would appear to have been a government agent. See Gage's 'The Day Wall Street Exploded' (2010), in which he is described as 'one of those mysterious figures who appears [sic] to occupy a no-man's-land between his roles as a newspaper publicist specializing in antiradical affairs and as an undercover operative working for both private agencies and government firms'.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

dj. First Edition. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of a dust-wrapper, priced at £17.99. A fine, as-new copy. A novel set at the turn of the 20th century, following two actual historical figures: the rather obscure George Edalji, a half-Indian solicitor wrongfully accused of ruthlessly slaying a number of farm animals, and the well-known Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Upon the death of his first wife, Doyle finds himself unable to find pleasure in either life or the mistress he's kept for some time. When he stumbles upon the case of Mr. Edalji, he decides for the first time to enter into the real world of detective work. Basis for the acclaimed ITV drama starring Martin Clunes as Conan Doyle. Signed.…

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. In good condition. 11.5 x 9 cm card, without illustration. Printed in red at head: 'MICHAEL REDGRAVE.' The message concerns the London production of Fry's 'The Lark' (a translation of Anouilh's 'L'Alouette'), which opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 11 May 1955. Redgrave would star in Fry's next play, 'Tiger at the Gates' (a translation of Giraudoux's 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'), which premiered in New York on 3 October 1955. Written out in an elegant calligraphic hand, and reading: 'My dear Christopher: / This is rather late for the first night but I hope better than never. / The show goes well, I think. / Yours / Mike.' See Image. …

LETTER: 1p, 4to. On aged and spotted paper. Folded once. Written in the shaky hand of a ninety-seven year-old. She thanks him for his 'letter so well written', adding: 'I don't think I wrote as well as that when I was eleven years old!' She wishes him every success with his autograph collection, and is pleased to add her signature to it. 'I will put it to the end of this sheet so that you can cut it out and paste it in where you wish.' The signature is at bottom right: 'Yours with sincere good wishes | Berta Ruck | 12th March | 1975'. CARD: On the reverse of a card with printed advertisement for 'A Flamingo in the Drawing Room | Tales of Sicily | by Arthur Oliver | Scorpio Press, 56 Godstone Road, Purley, Surrey'. Aged and spotted. Folded once. On the back Ruck has written, evidently at the same time as the letter: 'from BERTA RUCK | BRYN TEGWEL | ABERDOVEY | GWYNEDD | WALES | Dear STEPHEN - | Now it is my turn to ask you something! Please get someone to ask for my son's book at the nearest Library! | Advertisement enclosed | Sincerely | Berta Ruck'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket (one tiny ping on rear panel of dust jacket). Story proceeds with text on the left and picture on the right. Two page openings are blank but that seems to be the way the book was printed. Another metamorphosis (or should we say meatamorphosis) tale from Yorinks, evidencing his interest in Kafka and Gogol; a boy who is harassed by other family members is given some magic chopped meat which turns them into succulent dinner items. We offer along with the book the original cover art, framed under glass.…

dj. [Detective Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 294. One of 1000 numbered copies, SIGNED by the author on the half title. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers, typographic dust-jacket. Housed in the publisher's black cloth-covered slipcase, titled in silver and priced at £35. A fine, as-new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed by Moriarty in 2014. Signed. …

See Fry's entry by Michael Billington in the Dictonary of National Biography. His brother survives as a rather shadowy figure: he was certainly alive in 1978, when Fry referred to him in the account of his family background 'Can You Find Me / A Family History' (OUP). In that volume Fry describes his 'brother Leslie' as a baby 'growing sturdily', noting that 'though he was later called by his first name Charles, he was Leslie for many years to come'. The four years of diary entries that are present here are short and factual and rather uneventful, but they have a double interest: at once casting light on the family background of one of England's finest twentieth-century playwrights, and giving a picture of the development of an average English middle-class schoolboy around the period of the First World War, as he rises to position of 'Head of School' at Bedford. The four volumes are in fair condition, aged and worn, with the 1916 diary sprung from its covers at the gutter of the rear endpapers. The four volumes are uniform in embossed brown cloth, (described by the publisher as 'Art Linen'), each with back loop for pencil. Each volume provides space for four days' entries per page, with numerous preliminary printed pages with the customary useful information, including endpapers and other matter reflective of the conflict, with maps of the Europe theatre, illustrations of medals and of a 'soldier-' and 'sailor-boy hero of the Great War', the last volume carrying a 'Message from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe to the Readers of "The Schoolboys' Diary'. In the first three volumes Harris writes in pencil, filling in the diary assiduously from 1 January 1916. In the final volume, by May of 1919, the entries become intermittent, and on 15 August 1919, they cease entirely. In additional to the daily record, Harris also provides details of 'Pocket Money', personal information (including 'Size in Hats') and memoranda (dates of significant events, such as 'Promoted to Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C.', 'Received 1st XV colours' and, on 24 July 1919, 'Made HEAD OF SCHOOL.'). Loosely inserted are a few postal order counterfoils and Chatham bus tickets. The entries begin in 1916 with Harris on his school holidays, doing errands for his widowed mother and reading to her, and entertaining his brother 'Arthur' (i.e. Christopher Fry), for example by taking him on walks (to town for a haircut) and helping him with his stamp collection. The monotony of school begins (repeated entries in early volumes start with 'School as usual') and the entries reflect the rounds of sport (he is captain of the 'Wasps' cricket team in 1916), cadet corps, bible classes, exams, trips to London (2 January 1919: 'Went over St Dunstans in morning with Jack / Uncle Walter took Jack, girl, Madeleine & myself up to the "Old Vic" to see Shakespear's "Macbeth" 2.0-5.0. Jolly fine performance though a bit tragic / Left & returned by train took 1 hr each way.'), his health (recurring toothache, mumps, etc), the weather, involvement (for the war effort?) in agriculture (11 September 1918: 'Another dismal day all by myself. Have quite made up my mind to chuck farming if this goes on, especially as when I was happily walking home at 4.30, I ran into more work & had to load wheat till 7.9.'). By 1918 the entries begin to loosen up a little. On 19 March for example: 'Rotten, wet beastly, muddy, miserable day, with a boil on my chin about the size of an egg & a Corps Inspection 2.30 by Lieut Col Pilkington on top of that. The rest may speak for itself. Also EII beat WII by 1/4 length.' And on 10 September; 'G [his friend Gerald, often referred to] & I shocked barley all the morning & then ditched until 5.30. Shocking barley is qute a decent job.' The signing of the armistice, 11 November 1918, is greeted with 'Flags all over the town, bells, etc. Bands in afternoon; town packed.' And on the following day 'Whole Holiday for Armistice / Thanksgiving Service in Hall instead of Prayers.' Final entry, 14 August 1919: 'Went over St Mary Redcliffe Church in morn. More wonderful even than the Cathedral. Employed myself immensely. Went on to Downs by myself in even to hear band.'.…

First edition. The Bohr-Einstein Debate Begins. First edition, rare in the original printed wrappers, of the proceedings of the fifth Solvay Congress, where the debate between Bohr and Einstein on the consistency and completeness of quantum mechanics began. It was at this, the most famous of the Solvay conferences, that Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's uncertainly principle, made his famous remark that "God does not play dice," to which Niels Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!" Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees, which included nearly all the principal architects of the old and the new quantum theory, were or became Nobel Prize winners. "The three and a half years since the fourth Solvay Conference . were marked by enormous progress in quantum physics. Partly based on discoveries and ideas that had been available already before 1924 ? such as the Compton effect and matter waves ? the new atomic theory had arisen, which did more than throw new light on the difficulties discussed at the 1924 conference: quantum or wave mechanics went right to the heart of the problems posed by atomic phenomena. The two subjects put programmatically into the title of the fifth Solvay Conference ? electrons and photons ? designated the crucial points of interest, because 'electrons' also stood for the smallest, massive constituents of matter, and they now became associated with waves, and 'photons' (a name given only recently, in October 1926 by the physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis, to Einstein's light-quanta) characterized the quantum-theoretical aspect of electromagnetic radiation. It was the declared intention of the Scientific Committee of the Institut International dePhysique Solvay to contribute by scientific reports and discussions about them to the clarification of the scientific concepts in the physics of the day. In retrospect, one may indeed attribute an important success to the 1927 Solvay Conference in marking the completion of the ideas that had first been discussed in the international physics community sixteen years previously at the first Solvay Conference of 1911" (Mehra & Rechenberg, pp. 233-4). Following a 'Notice nécrologique' by Lorentz, the present volume contains the following reports, and discussions about them by the participants (all articles in French): 'The Intensity of the Reflection of X-rays,' by Bragg; 'Disagreement between Experience and the Electromagnetic Theory of Radiation,' by Compton; 'The New Dynamics of Quanta,' by de Broglie; 'The Mechanics of Quanta,' by Born and Heisenberg; 'The Mechanics of Waves,' by Schrödinger; 'The Quantum Postulate and the New Development of Atomic Theory,' by Bohr. No copies located in auction records. In 1911 the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay invited a group of the world's most prominent physicists, including Einstein, Planck, Lorentz, Sommerfeld, Rutherford and Marie Curie, to participate in a scientific conference on the difficulties of reconciling classical physics with quantum theory. The conference "set the style for a new type of scientific meetings, in which a select group of the most well informed experts in a given field would meet to discuss the problems at its frontiers, and would seek to define the steps for their solution" (Mehra, Solvay Conferences, p. xv). The first Solvay Conference-widely considered a turning point in the history of modern physics-was so successful that in the following year Solvay established a foundation, now known as the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, "to encourage the researches which would extend and deepen the knowledge of natural phenomena" (ibid.) and to sponsor further conferences. The next two Solvay Conferences met in 1913 and 1921; subsequent conferences have been held every three years except during wartime. "From amongst the members of the Scientific Committee [of the 1927 Congress], two had already played a leading role in 1911: the Chairman Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein; th.…