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Tapa blanda. Zustand: Muy bien. Primera edición. Contents in photograph. Robert Coover; Theodore C. Sorensen; John V. Lindsay; Kenneth B. Clark; Peter Matthiessen; Jerome B. Wiesner; Charles H. Percy; William Sloane Coffin; Edward P. Morgan; Denneth Tynan; Harvey Cox; Justice William O. Douglas; Sean O'Faolain; Henry Miller & Ckil Kaphu; P. G. Wdehouse; Robert : Green; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Testament of Hope" ; Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Budd Schulberg; Lytton Strachey; Art Buchwald; Frederik Pohl; Le Roy Neiman; Don Addis. MUY BUEN ejemplar. 304pp.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original blue printed wraps 21 x 34cm, original title pages, xviii + 164pp. Wraps fair only, with loss to spine, and small chips to edges. Interiors near fine. Document, containing 339 items dated 13 Feb to 7 Oct 1913. Recurrent themes include the rumoured return of ex-Shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar who had been deposed in 1909 ("The Cabinet are anxious about his real movements, as there are repeated reports of activity among His Majesty's partisans in Europe, and they fear that the influence of Shuja-ed-Dowleh would secure his reception in Azerbaijan with open arms. Reports of the arrival of suspicious persons disguised as dervishes on the Turco-Persian frontier are constantly coming in." (p16), followed by much on his actual or rumoured whereabouts, possible disguises, Russian help blocking his return etc; operations against Salah ed Dowleh, capture, escape and banishment; Mohammerah-Khoremabad and Julfa-Tabriz Railways; regional and oil field security; Indian and Russian troop movements; damage to trade from exorbitant mule transport costs; caravan movements and security; Colonel Harald Hjalmarson's Swedish Gendarmerie (protecting against tribal raids on roads and in rural areas); the murder of Mme Constant (wife of Belgian Director of Customs); Captain Wilson's "urgent" survey (demarcating the Turco-Persian boundary); debt to Russia. A final document refers to abandonment of elections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Boston: Andrew F. Graves (1870). 279 pages+ Ads. Hardcover (Brown cloth, Gilt stamping and lettering, no dj). One inch tear of the page 13 otherwise the Book looks Fine. VERRYGOOD+ to NEARFINE condition. 6.9"x4.5"x1.1". be17887.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Michael Vittitow (Creative Arts Department) (illustrator). Various paginations (32 pages plus covers). Illustrated covers. Illustrations (some with color). Footnotes. Appendix A - Glossary. Appendix B - Bibliography (with five sections). The authors were a diverse group drawn from Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. RARE SURVIVING COPY. FDRFT-VERS2 is understood to mean that this is a revised, likely the last revised Final Draft version and can be the baseline against which any subsequently published version or update can be measured. The ASCI Software Quality Engineering: Goals, Principles, and Guidelines (GP&G) is a Department of Energy (DOE) document that establishes practices for creating high-quality software for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program. Its goals are to ensure software reliability, safety, performance, and renewal for the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The principles emphasize integrating quality throughout the software lifecycle, while the guidelines detail specific practices for software development and management to meet these goals. Presumed Finan Draft. Presumed first printing thus.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Cox, E.A. (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1930. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Light brown and orange pictorial cloth. 4 b/w plates. 223 pages. SIGNED by author. Corners lightly bumped. Overall a very bright copy. Rare with Westerman's signature. All plates present. Reduced from £350 Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

One volume comprising six issues. 8vo (23.4 x 15 cm). pp. vii+595. Quarter pale blue buckram over marbled boards, titles and date to spine gilt. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Ex libris St. Catherine's College Cambridge Library with their stamp to top and bottom text block edges. A very good copy. Contents include: No. 1. July 1902. Address to the Royal Geographical Society. By Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., President; Notes on a Map of "The Glaciers of Kangchenjunga," with Remarks on Some of the Physical Features of the District. By Prof. E.J. Garwood, M.A., F.G.S. (with 2 Sketch-maps, Plate, and Map); Kikuyu: Notes on the Country, People, Fauna, and Flora. By Major Richard Crawshay.; The Eruptions in Martinique and St. Vincent. By H.N. Dickson, M.A., B.SC. (with two Sketch-maps and Section).; The Volcanic Eruption at St. Vincent. By E. André (with 6 Illustrations); Lieut. Rhoades' Survey of Lake Nyasa (with Map); A Journey from Quetta to Meshed via the Nushki-Sistan Trade-route - I. By the Earl of Ronaldshay (with Sketch-map and 4 Illustrations), II. By Edward Penton (with 5 Illustrations); The Aro Country in Southern Nigeria; Reviews:- Europe - The Scenery of England, Asia - Persia, General - C. Muller's Ptolemy.; The Monthly Record; Obituary of the Year; Correspondence; Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society; Geographical Literature of the Month; New Maps. Maps: Sketch-map of the Glaciers of Kangchenjunga.; Map of Lake Nyasa. No. 2. August 1902. On Snow-waves and Snow-drifts in Canada, with Notes on the "Snow-mushrooms" of the Selkirk Mountains. By Vaughan Cornish, D.SC., F.G.S., F.C.S., F.R.G.S. (with Sketch-map, 2 Plates, and 36 Illustrations);Through the Great Canon of the Euphrates River. By Ellsworth Huntington (with Map and 9 Illustrations); Report on the Identification of the Bay of San Felipe and Santiago visited by Quiros in 1606.; Note on the Identification of La Sagittaria of Quiros. By Rear-Admiral Sir W.J.L. Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S.; The National Antarctic Exhibition. The Departure of the Morning (with Illustration and Portrait); The Russian Polar Expedition. Summary Report for 1901. By Baron Ed. Toll.; Reviews:- America - Central America, Oceanography - The Voyage of the Gauss.; The Monthly Record; Correspondence; Geographical Literature of the Month; New Maps. No. 3. September 1902. The Geographical Conditions Determining History and Religion in Asia Minor. By Prof. W.M. Ramsay (with Map); The Caura Affluent of the Orinoco. By E. André (with Sketch-map); Summary of the Results of Dr. Sven Hedin's Latest Journey in Central Asia (1899 - 1902). By Dr. Sven Hedin (with Sketch-map, 4 Illustrations and Diagram); The International Council for the Study of the Sea.; The "Sudd" of the White Nile. By Edward S. Crispin, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (with 9 Illustrations); Geographical Results of the Explorations of the French "White Fathers" in North-Eastern Rhodesia. By Henri Maitre (with Sketch-map); Reviews:- Africa - Uganda, America - Charlevoix's 'New France', Polar Regions - Dr. Nansen's Third Volume of Scientific Results.; The Monthly Record; Obituary; Geographical Literature of the Month; New Maps. Maps: Sketch-map of Venezuela; Sketch-map showing Dr. Sven Hedin's Routes in Central Asia; Sketch-maps of Journeys of the French "White Fathers" in Lobemba and Lobisa; Maps of Asia Minor. No. 4. October 1902. From the Somali Coast Through Southern Ethiopia to the Sudan. By Oscar Neumann (with 11 Illustrations and Map); A Trip up the Khor Felus, and Country on the Left Bank of Sobat. By Captain H.H. Wilson, Lancashire Fusiliers (with Sketch-map); The Winter Expedition of the Antarctic to South Georgia. By Dr. J Gunnar Andersson; The Shore of Demerara and Essequibo, British Guiana. By Frank J. Gray (with 4 Illustrations); Some Geographical Problems. By Colonel Sir T.H. Holdisch, C.B., K.C.I.E., V.P.R.G.S.; Recent Papers on the Karst Landscape; The Recent Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions; The Arctic Expeditions - Return of Sverdrup, Peary, and Baldwin.; The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (with Sketch-map); Reviews:- Africa - The Azores, Australasia and Malaysia - The Malay Archipelago. Torres Straits and Borneo. The Geography and Geology of Celebes., Polar - Voyage of the Belgica.; The Monthly Record; Obituary; Correspondence; Geographical Literature of the Month; New Maps; Ordnance Survey Maps. Maps: Sketch-map of the Khor Felus; Sketch-map showing Proposed Route of the Scottish Antarctic Expedition; Sketch-map showing the Journey of Mr. Oscar Neumann. No. 5. November 1902. Arctic Problems. By Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, R.G.S. (with Sketch-map); The Upper Congo as a Waterway. By the Rev. George Grenfell, B.M.S. (with Map); The Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in South Georgia. By C. Skottsberg, Botanist of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901 - 1903.; The Mediterranean Coast Region of Egypt. By Major Rycroft.; A Visit to the Hoggar Twaregs. By W.J. Harding King (with 9 Illustrations); Hot Springs and Volcanic Phenomena. By Prof. Eduard Suess.; Geography at the British Association, Belfast, 1902.; Reviews:- Africa - Scientific Results of Captain Ch. Lemaire's Expedition in Central Africa. Again the Ophir Question.; America - Peruvian Antiquities. The Amazon.; The Monthly Record; Obituary; Geographical Literature of the Month; New Maps; Ordnance Survey Maps. Maps: Preliminary Sketch showing Captain O. Sverdup's Explorations, 1898 to 1902; Map of the Congo River, Sections 1 - 10. No. 6. December 1902. The President's Opening Address. Session 1902-1903; A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan. By M.A. Stein, PH.D., India Educational Service (with 12 Illustrations and Map); Notes of a Journey through Uganda, down the Nile to Gondokoro (July, 1902). By Sir C.N.E. Eliot, K.C.M.G., C.B., H.M. Commissioner and Consul-General, East Africa Protectorate.; To the Jof and Back. By the Rev. A.

Zustand: Very good. First printing. Rare first edition of this unusual New Hampshire travelogue novel with shades of JANE EYRE, featuring a heroine who wants to attend a university and refuses to get married. PROFILE HOUSE is the story of young Edith, who dreams of attending the not-yet-founded Simmons College but must instead travel as paid companion to the mountain Profile House. The novel opens with a newspaper account of John Simmons's 1870 bequest providing $1.4 million for "the foundation of a woman's college, wherein girls are to be taught medicine, music, drawing, designing, telegraphing, and other branches of art, science and industry" so as to earn an independent livelihood. As this is not a novel promoting Curtiss's native Boston, but rather the grand New Hampshire hotel of the title, the heroine is soon barred from her dream of a Simmons education and dispatched to live with a grumbling invalid and the intermittent presence of several horrible young men. At length the party makes its way to the famous Profile House where, after a tour of the Franconia mountains, Edith withstands several horrible marriage proposals in quick succession and ends the book triumphant, "resolved never to enter into one of the marriages of convenience of which she had seen so many during the past six months, not even if she lived unmarried always." Scarce, with only six holdings listed via OCLC (and none at any women's colleges). A remarkable if disjointed ode to staunch New England feminism, independence, and the New Hampshire tourist trade. 6.5'' x 4.25''. Original black and gilt-stamped red pictorial cloth. 274, [2] pages. The White Mountain Series. Light edgewear and bumping, moderate spine lean. Offsetting to endpapers.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Self-wraps 16x25cm. 44pp. Good. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and supporting agreements contained here, build on commitments made at the 1921 Cairo Conference to establish a Hashemite monarchy in Iraq with Emir Faisal on the throne. It granted Iraq a degree of self government on the path to full independence, and Britain significant control or influence over military, economic and political affairs. Although it was signed on 10 October 1922, it was not until 19 December 1924 that Iraq ratified under pressure from High Commissioner Henry Dodds, who was threatening to suspend the Constitution. It was replaced with a new Treaty in 1930. In 6 parts, this document presents the Treaty itself (signed by High Commissioner and Consul General Percy Cox for Britain and PM Saiyid Abd-ur Rahman for Iraq on 10 Oct 1922); the Protocol confirming its termination when Iraq joins the League of Nations (Cox and PM Abdul Muhsin Al-Sa'adun, 30 Apr 1923); and subsidiary Agreements on British Officials, the Military, Judiciary, and Finance (Dobbs and PM Ja'far Al Askari, 25 Mar 1924).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. A highly detailed description of early Mandate Iraq and its challenges by its first High Commissioner. Self-wraps 16x25cm. Printed by Harrison & Sons, London, for HMSO, (1), v, 126pp, dated 8/23 to the printer's code, with an apparent print run of 625 copies. Disbound from a larger volume with extraction residue to spine. Good with reference number and small ink stamp inside front wrap, and corner creasing to several leaves. The author, identified by his position to the main report and as P.Z. Cox in the appendices, was Percy Zachariah Cox, who served as High Commissioner from October 1920, also as Commander-in-Chief from 1922, until his retirement in 1923. His wide ranging report opens with a survey of political developments, followed by sections on administration, finance, the Iraq Army, Iraq Levies, justice, education, health service, communications and works, Iraq Railways, administration of Auqaf, Christian (Assyrian and Armenian) refugees, and foreign relations. The survey deals with political landscape including pacification of the country region by region, HMG's policy, and Shia leadership; Provisional Government (formation of Cabinet, work done so far, the Cairo Conference, Saiyid Talib, Kurdish districts); and Amir Faisal's arrival, election and accession. Cox's review of internal administration addresses how the new system is running, difficulties and tribal issues in various divisions, and French authority beyond the frontier; elective bodies; police (regular, CID, Railway police, Camel Corps ("so conspicuous a success led by Capt Williams at Nasiriyah", etc); prisons; agriculture; arms traffic from Syria, Central Arabia, Persia and in the Persian Gulf ("a lucrative business"). On the Syrian traffic, the report describes how the British sought to engage with the French and the kinds of response received, revealing that caravans were taking arms to Najd which Ibn Saud corroborated, with concerns expressed about this passing through Iraq. Central Arabian traffic is difficult to monitor as arms are carried by caravan in small quantities, though the Shaikh of Kuwait is making attempts to control it. Steps are also being taken to limit traffic into Iraq via the Gulf to Hail, Kuwait and Shatt al-Arab. The section on finance addresses the impact of the 1920 disturbances, decisions reached at the Cairo Conference, with details on wider receipts and expenditures, institutional arrangements etc. The section on Auqaf (Waqf, or charitable giving) notes the Ottomans "left a legacy of ruined or dilapidated religious establishments", describing what is being done with respect to rebuilding, staffing, schools, Ramadan bonus, etc. Discussion of foreign relations covers Turkey (rumours of Kamalist attack, the Kurds, frontiers); Najd with much on the activities of Ibn Saud, his relations with Kuwait, Ikhwan propaganda, the provisional frontier, etc; Persia; and Pusht-i-Kuh. Appendices include key Proclamations and Communications. Rare.

8vo. (24 x 16cm). pp.x+96. Original blue printed card covers. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout, double-sided folding sheet depicting sketches of Weigeu and Japen. Some light trivial wear, generally a very good copy. With an obituary of Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox: "The sudden death of Sir Percy Cox on 20 February 1937 while hunting with the Oakley Foxhounds brought to an end a career of unusual distinction and brilliance, made in the torrid climate of the Persian Gulf, and in Arabia, Persia, and Iraq". Contents include the following articles: Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox. NIELSEN, A Volcano Under an Ice-Cap. VatnaJokull, Iceland. FORDE, Land and Labour in a Cross River Village, Southern Nigeria. BALCHIN, W.G.V., The Erosion Surfaces of North Cornwall.

First edition, first impression, of this article describing Cox's travels as political agent in Muscat from 1899 to 1903. Cox had profound effects on Anglo-Omani relations: "By the end of his term Oman was more firmly in the British sphere than ever before" (Landen, p. 239). Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) was an army officer and administrator in the Middle East who made significant contributions to its reorganization in the early 20th century. He was appointed political agent and consul at Muscat in 1899 by Lord Curzon and played a critical part in reducing French influence in the region. He later became the first British Acting Political Resident in the Arabian Gulf, where he helped to co-ordinate the Treaty of Darin with Ibn Saud that gave recognition to the Saudi state for the first time. In this article he describes his journeys "first, from Abu Dhabi to Baraimi and thence onwards along the fringe of Oman to the desert side of the Jabal Akhdhar or Green Mountains and home to Muscat by the Wadi Samail. secondly, from Ras al-Khaima to Baraimi, and thence direct to the coast at Shinas and on by the seashore to Sohar" (p. 193). He further describes Ras Al Khaimah and the southern Arabian Gulf, as well as his encounters with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa. This also journal also contains Charles H. D. Ryder's "The Demarcation of the Turco-Persian Boundary" (pp. 227-42). Ryder (1868-1945) was an explorer and surveyor who mapped Yunnan, Tibet, Mesopotamia, parts of India, and many other regions. This article describes his work delineating the border between Turkey and Iran, which had been debated and fought over for the previous century. "The work of the commission proved unexpectedly smooth and good-humoured, something which the leader of the British delegation, Arnold Wilson, attributed partly to the trust that the Russian, Persian, and Turkish commissioners placed in Ryder, permitting him to correct and alter their maps. By 27 October 1914 the commission had demarcated 1180 miles of the frontier from the Arabian Gulf to Mount Ararat. Two days later Ryder and Wilson crossed the border into Russia, just hours short of Turkey's entry into the war" (ODNB). Macro 772 for Cox's piece; Wilson, p. 196 for Ryder's. Robert Geran Landen, Oman Since 1856, Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society, 1967. Octavo, pp. 193-226 in the journal. Excursions: 4 half-tone photographic plates, folding map at rear. Original blue wrappers, spine and wrappers lettered in dark blue. Tick marks in neat ink to front wrapper. Spine toned and a little creased, foot and inner hinge neatly secured, contents clean: a very good copy.

8vo. (24 x 16cm). Original blue printed card covers. With Cox's interesting review of Ameen Rihani's book "Ibn Sa'oud of Arabia: His People and his Land" (1928), which he praises and critiques in equal measure, concluding that his book is "particularly valuable at the present time.whether Sultan 'Abdul 'Aziz, since recognized by H.M.'s Government as King of the Hejaz and of Nejd, will altogether appreciate the partial lifting of the veil from the recesses of his private life is perhaps doubtful". Numerous photographic illustrations throughout, folding map of the Valleys and Glaciers in Hunza. Light wear and soiling to covers with partial losses to extremities of spine, generally very good. Contents include the following articles: Morris, Captain C.J. - Some Valleys and Glaciers in Hunza Cameron, Lieut. D.R.G. - A Journey across the Sahara from Kano to Ouarghla Grossland, Cyril - The Islands of Tahiti Cochran-Patrick, Major C.K. - The Kabompo Gorge in Northern Rhodesia A.R.H. - Air Survey: Review P.Z.C. - The Wahhabi King: Review D.W.F. - Raymond's Map of the Alps.

A wide-ranging collection of formal documents, chronicling Cox's stellar service as a political operative and military officer in the Gulf. Cox was Winston Churchill's key advisor at the Cairo Conference, and his career peaked with his appointment as high commissioner in the new state of Iraq. Cox (1864-1937) served as political resident in the Gulf between 1904 and 1920, proving a highly successful manager of Britain's relationships with the rulers of the Trucial States, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. "That he was nevertheless little known to the general public was due in part to his own silence and profound dislike of anything that savoured of self-advertisement; and in part to the widespread and erroneous belief that Colonel Lawrence had something like a monopoly of knowledge of Arab affairs and of prestige among the Arabs" (Graves, p. 19). The earliest document in this collection, dated 23 April 1915, promotes Cox to resident of the first class. Accompanying it is 1921 appointment, signed by George V and Winston Churchill (as secretary of state for the colonies), making him Britain's senior political and military representative in Iraq. A warrant from the following year, signed by George V, empowers Cox to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with Faisal I, and also included is a grant of arms for Lady Cox (1866-1956), issued following her receipt of the DBE in 1923 for services in Iraq. Diplomatic success and proximity to power brought many grants and gongs. In 1925, for example, Cox's contribution to Middle Eastern affairs was marked by a grant of heraldic supporters, allowing him "on the dexter side a Persian tribesman holding in his exterior hand a rifle proper, and on the sinister side an Arab Bedouin carrying a laker falcon upon the fist of his exterior hand". In the opinion of Sir Arnold Wilson, writing in the foreword to Phillip Graves's biography (included here), Cox exercised "a remarkable, almost effortless, moral supremacy. So long as there are men living in the Gulf and in Iraq and Arabia who held converse with him, he will be remembered with affection and respect. So long as Britain exercises responsibility and, therefore, a measure of authority in those regions, his despatches, his policies, his methods, and his example will be invoked" (pp. 13-14). This collection was sold at Sotheby's, London, on 18 December 1986 (lot 249), passing into the collection of Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Magazine and a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Phillip Graves, The Life of Sir Percy Cox, 1941. Together, 25 items, including 18 loose certificates and documents, 4 grants in red cloth boxes, 2 framed pieces, and octavo vol. (Full inventory on request.) Light creasing and soiling from handling, red boxes worn and stained, loss to one clasp, framed pieces unexamined out of frame, one framed piece with backing beginning to come away: very good.