Search Results: Authors starting with E from Kuenzig Books

Washington, D. C.: The National research Council, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. We offer a nearly complete run of this important early computer serial: Numbers 1, 2, 5-59, 66-70, each in the original wrappers as published. Small quarto and octavo sizes, approx 12 inches shelf space. Occasional minor soiling. From the library of Frank M. Verzuh, with his name on some covers. Wraps. MTAC is the first period journal devoted entirely to the literature of computation. The journal had a very small subscription base in the early years. Through 1946, it's subscription list was less than 350 readers. Many were discarded as computing advanced at a rapid pace. As of this writing, Worldcat shows less than 80 institutions with even partial runs. The first volume contains lists and descriptions of printed tables, where they were published, as well as new errors discovered in the published sources. These errors, introduced by humans whose job description were "computers", continued to… Read More

New York: Christie's East, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 160 pages. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Printed wrappers. 1002 lots, b/w illustrations. Received stamp on the front page. Wraps. Includes science, medicine and technology, early printed books, books on art, travel, printing and illustration, americana, and 19th century photographically illustrated books.

1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 125, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's light blue flexible wrappers with embossed emblem of Booklovers Reading Club and other titles. Minor wear to the extremities, a very nice example. Wraps. Course III of the "Booklovers Reading Club Hand-Book" "Ramblings among art centres." Internally (p 9) notes "Books selected for this reading course by Mr. F. Hopkinison Smith and Dr. John C. Van Dyke." The work is an odd arrangement, with various additional articles, summaries of the books to be read, and guidance to readers. Several articles by Sturgis, Cox, La Farge and others about the books under consideration. Apparently part of an ongoing effort by a very large scale subscription library in Philadelphia to engage readers. The rear includes a variety of other recommended works as well as a list of 21 general reading club suggestions. "The Tabard Inn Library of Philadelphia was one segment of a series… Read More

1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. [12],45, [3] pages. 8vo. Publisher's tan printed flexible wrappers with embossed decorations. An uncut, unopened copy. Minor wear to the extremities, some soiling to the covers, a very nice example. Laid in is a small leaflet noting the German catalog should soon be at the Press. Wraps. Apparently part of an ongoing effort by a very large scale subscription library in Philadelphia to engage readers. This booklet contains a catalogue of books in the French foreign literature portion of the library, with numbers 7001 thru 7093 plus additional items concerning literary criticism of this field. What is perhaps most interesting about this pamphlet is each book listing records author and title, and a paragraph or two about why the reader should be interested in it. But no bibliographic information, not even a publisher is listed. The focus is entirely on the reader and the writers' opinion of… Read More

1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 143, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark grey flexible wrappers with embossed emblem of Booklovers Reading Club and other titles. Minor wear to the extremities, a very nice example. Wraps. Course V of the "Booklovers Reading Club Hand-Book" "Six New England Classics." Page 9 notes "Books selected for this reading course by Dr. Edward Everett Hale." Apparently part of an ongoing effort by a very large scale subscription library in Philadelphia to engage readers. The rear includes a variety of other recommended works as well as a list of 21 general reading club suggestions. The Six classics are "Representative Men" by Emerson, "The House of the Seven Gables" by Hawthorne, "Montcalm and Wolfe" by Parkman, "Select Orations" by Webster, "The Bigelow Papers" by Lowell, and "Evangeline" by Longfellow. "The Tabard Inn Library of Philadelphia was one segment of a series of entrepreneurial businesses… Read More

Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1981. Cloth. Very Good. xiv, 530 pages. Publisher's green mottled cloth with black titles. Minor loss to titles on spine, shelf leaned, previous owner information stamped and embossed on front endpaper. Otherwise a clean working copy. Cloth. The second edition was first printed in 1959. This is a reprint of that work from 1981.

New York: Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc, 1927. First Edition. Photograph. Near Fine. First Edition. An unframed press photograph (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) with the original paper description affixed to rear. Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. credit instructions stamped on rear. Some minor offsetting of ink apparently from paper description on lower 3/4 inch of the image. Tonality very nice. Glossy finish shows a few minor imperfections including a little of the usual glue "moisture waving". Would present nicely framed. "watermark" does not appear in the actual photo. Photograph. "Fifty years ago, in a little laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, Thomas Alva Edison, Electrical Wizard, Invented the primitive Talking Machine. One August 12th, with a replica of that same machine at his side, Mr. Edison uttered over the modern rival of his own invention - the Radio - the first words ever reproduced on his phonograph 'Mary had a little lamb, etc'. Photo shows Mr. Edison (left) and Governor Moore of New Jersey on the… Read More

London: Paper Tiger, 2000. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Bob Eggleton. Bob Eggleton. First Edition. [6], 112 pages. Pictorial wrappers. 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. SIGNED by Bob Eggleton on the title page. Lightly worn and read, a great reading copy. Wraps. Occasional text and captions are written by established author Nigel Suckling. A really fun collection of Eggleton's work with dinosaurs, pet monsters, "moody castles and bleak cliffs" and much else. "Winner of the 1999 Hugo award for Best Professional Artist, an award he has now won for four consecutive years, Bob Eggleton is one of the most original and influential fantasy and sf artists of our time. 'Greetings from Earth', his new collection of work, spans his visions of space, landscapes of earth and creatures of fantasy and horror, and includes paintings published here for the first time." (rear cover).

Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. [681]-1038 pages. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue/green printed wraps. Entire number offered. A clean copy noting minor browning to the extremities, spine tips, and spotting to the textblock edges. Bright and clean internally. One article in this issue is 'Leptonic Decay Modes of the Hyperons' IN The Physical Review, Vol 112, Second Series, Number 3, November 1, 1958, pages 979-981. Wraps. Ezhela notes that this article documents 'Failure of universal Fermi interactions in the beta decay of hyperons.' 'We have searched for the leptonic decay of the A0 and E-. The sensitivity of the experiment was such that 5-6 events should have been found according to the predictions of the 'universal' V-A model of beta decay.' (abstract).

East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. li, [1 (blank)], 1299, [1 (blank)] pages. 11 x 8 inches. Original black cloth with orange embossed lettering and design on front cover. Light overall soiling, binding warped somewhat. Well used, but still a sound copy. Cloth. An amazing catalog with a broad range - everything from small insulators to massive generators for industrial applications. Front pastedowns with lists of Westinghouse representatioves in the United States. Hours of great reading for those interested in electrical apparatus.

West Lynn, Massachusetts: General Electric Company, 1945. Hard Cover. Very Good. xi, [1 blank], 286 pages. Publishers' blue cloth. Marked restricted, each copy of this report was numbered (this one #125) so that they could be tracked when if released "into the wild". This copy has the restricted cancelled, and marked 'unclassified' in an unknown hand. Some soiling to the binding, clean bright and sound internally. Hard Cover.

New York, N.Y.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1957. First Separate Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Separate Edition. 117-119, [1-blank] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (275 x 213 mm). Publisher's printed grey, blue and black wrappers. Stapled, with five holes punched at the spine as issued. Wraps. The I. R. E. Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-2, pp 117-119, December 1956 first published this paper. We are not aware of an IRE offprint of this paper. Unless an IRE offprint is discovered, this Bell Telephone Systems Monograph (#2768: May 1957) constitutes the first separate edition. "In computer science and optimization theory, the max-flow min-cut theorem states that in a flow network, the maximum amount of flow passing from the source to the sink is equal to the total weight of the edges in a minimum cut, i.e., the smallest total weight of the edges which if removed would disconnect the source from the sink....An account of the discovery of the theorem was given by Ford and… Read More

[ New Haven, Connecticut ]: Roger Sherman Studio, 1916. First Edition. Photograph. Near Fine. First Edition. An original silver print mounted on board. Image is 10 1/2 inches x 13 1/2 inches. Overall mount size 13 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. Very nice tonality, presents nicely in person. Photograph. A photograph of what is no doubt the 1916 Civil Engineering class at Yale showing students, teachers, and the" tools of the trade". It was taken in front of Winchester Hall, then part of Yale's Sheffield School of Engineering. The building is no longer standing but we have included an reproduced image of the building for the new owner's reference. Much like medical class photographs which are prized for skeletons and other medical oddities, collectors prize surveying instrumentation in Civil Engineering class photographs. This one has lots of great surveying instruments including four instruments on tripods, surveying sticks, an axe, and a model of a bridge span. Several equations are chalked on the building… Read More

Paris: Hermann & Cie, 1941. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 114 pages. Original printed wrappers. 8vo. Spine sunned, small chip to head of spine panel. Clean internally. A great reading copy. Wraps. Title translates to : "Determinism and causality in Philosophy and History of Science

Leipzig: Verlag Von F. C. W. Vogel, 1882. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. viii, 693, [1-errata],[2-ads] pages. Publisher's original purple/brown cloth. Spine faded to brown and gold lettering faded. Upper corners bumped. Bookplate of the Janus Foundation (Haskell Norman's foundation, now defunct) on front pastedown endpaper. Silk marking ribbon still present. An above average copy, bright and clean internally. Volume 3 of Handbuch der Algemeinen Therapie. Cloth. 'Of the many German neurologists who flourished during the later 1800's, the most significant figure was Wilhelm Heinrich Erb. Primarily known for the advances he made in identifying, classifying, and treating the muscular dystrophies, many of which still bear his name, Erb also pioneered in the use of electricity in the diagnosis and treatment of nervous disorders. This work on electrotherapy contains first descriptions of several nervous disorders and was written while Erb was professor of neurology at the University of… Read More

Seattle, Washington: Hermetic Press, Inc, 2000. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. xii, 233 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket. A nice copy noting several tiny edge tears to the dust jacket. Boards. New CCard Compositions by 29 German and Swiss Masters.

New York: Matthew Bender, 1985. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good. First Edition. Contains Volumes 1-3 of the Cumulative Supplement, 3rd edition, Sept 1984 PLUS Statutory Appendices "Elements of the Offense", "Presumptions", and "Chemical Tests". PLUS January 1985 Revision Index Pamphlet to Defense of Drunk Driving Cases Criminal-Civil, Third Edition PLUS "Supplemental Table of Cases" The whole 5 hole punched as issued, and bound together temporarily with a make-do binding (in this case some telephone wire!). Various paginations, the whole bulking nearly 2 inches thick. Staplebound. These updates were made available to keep lawyers current as supplements. Supplements prepared by Elise Edelstein, J. D. and the Publisher's Editorial staff.

Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1958. First Edition. Wrappers. Very Good. First Edition. [227]-613 pages. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue/green printed wraps. Entire number offered. A clean copy, noting some shallow puncture marks and deeper impressions to the first 45 pages from what looks like staple impressions (storage on box bottom?). No damage at all to Esaki's article, his first work on Tunneling Diodes. Otherwise minor browning to the edges and a few tears to the spine panel. Bright and clean internally. Wrappers. Contains 'New Phenomena in Narrow Germanium p-n Junctions' . The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 was divided, one half jointly to Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively and the other half to Brian David Josephson "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in… Read More

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Springer Verlag, 1990. Boards. Very Good. XXVIII, 482, [2] pages. 8vo. Publisher's glossy red, white and black printed boards. Upper corners bumped, old sticker mark on front boards. Clean internally, a lightly used copy. Boards. "Interest in the fascinating field of multicriteria optimization and its application to design processes has grown very quickly in recent years. Researchers and practising engineers will find this book an comprehensive presentation of this subject. After an introduction to multicriteria optimization and the advantages of using multicriteria techniques, the first part of the book presents methods and computer procedures for solving multicriteria optimum design problems including interactive methods and knowledge-based systems. The second part presents an extensive range of applications of these methods to design processes in the fol- lowing fields: mechanisms and dynamic systems, aircraft and space technology, machine tool design, metal forming… Read More

Menasha, Wisconsin: The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. VI, 1097-1240, VII-XXIV pages. Entire issue offered. 8vo. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Staining to original wrappers near spine panel front and back. Page edges soiled. Nice illustration in advertisement for General Radio on rear. Wraps. Rare in the original wrappers. Contains articles by Espenshied, Bown, Norton, and others relevant to early radio and it's development. Articles include "The Origins and Development of Radiotelephony" by Espenshied (Sterlin and Shiers 9-103: "A unified account devoted primarily to American contributions from 1912 on. Photos, bibliography."), "Transoceanic Radiotelephone Development" by Ralph Bown, and "The Propagation of Radio Waves over the Surface of the Earth and in the Upper Atmosphere" by K. A. Norton. Ralph Bown was well known for his introduction of the transistor at the first press conference at Bell Labs. His article discusses how far… Read More