Search Results: Authors starting with U from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Washington, DC: U.S Government Printing Office, 1974., 1974.. Good. - Octavo, softcover, bound in stapled printed self-wrappers. v & 335 pages. There is some minor soiling to the title page & fore-edge. Black-and-white illustrations. A number of top & bottom page corners are bumped & there is creasing to the front edges of the last few leaves. Good. <p>The two bills S. 2350 and S. 3484 were intended to establish an Office of Earth Resources Survey Systems within NASA and an Earth Resources Observation Administration within the Department of the Interior. Both proposals were designed to move the Earth Resources Technology Satellite system from an experimental to an operational phase. Dr. James C. Fletcher, Administrator of NASA, objected, stating that splitting the Earth Resources Satellite system between two different departments would adversely affect NASA's activities in this area.

(Wien): Rhombus Verlag, (1977).. (1977).. Good. - Small quarto [9-3/8 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed red wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped. 126 & [1] pages. The book has a very slight musty odor. Very good. <p>Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Dick Higgins of Something Else Press and signed in full. The text is in German.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1946.. 1946.. Very good. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Octavo, charcoal cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a printed green dust wrapper. The covers are slightly soiled and bumped at the corners and the dust jacket is rubbed and soiled along the extremities, with several small chips to the edges. 251 pages. The endpapers are darkened at the edges. Very good in a good dw. <p>First edition. Inscribed and signed by Robert Ulich on the front endpaper.<p>"Tracing the pattern of modern living back through the history of civilization, the author shows how society changed from a compound of conflicting elements into a medieval harmonization of parts, and then decayed into modernism. This decay is illustrated by the deliberate lowering of modern standards of mass entertainment forms, the modern philosophy of education pressing all men into a single mold and the one-sidedness of character resulting from over-specialization of skills… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1958.. 1958.. Fine. - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. xix & 139 pages. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed by Robert Ulich to a friend on the front endpaper: "Dr. H. Brugsch / friend and physician without whom these essays would not have been written / Robert Ulich".

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.. 1961.. Fine. - Octavo, cloth in dust wrapper. The covers are very lightly bumped. The dust jacket is lightly chipped & soiled with its spine faded & the extremities darkened. xiii, [1] leaf & 325 pages. The front endpapers are darkened, else near fine in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed by the author to Heinrich Brugsch on the front endpaper and signed "Robert".

Editions Stock, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY LIV ULLMANN - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial black & white wraps. The front wrap is lightly soiled & there are small scoremarks to both wraps. 352 & [5] pages plus the colophon. The front edges of 2 pages are creased. Very good. <p>Inscribed by Liv Ullmann to her hairdresser on the half-title: "Thank you for making me feel good -- because you do beautiful things! / love Liv."<p>A French translation of "Changing", published NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

(Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt), (1999)., (1999).. Fine. - Small quarto [approximately 7-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial red & black wrappers The binding is slightly rubbed. 127 pages plus 1-page series catalog. Numerous full-page & double-page illustrations in black & white. Near fine. <p>This title in the series "db das buch" explores industrial decay.<p>The text is in German.

New York: November 19th, 1886.. 1886.. Good. - The singer has penned in black ink "Very truly yours / Geraldine Ulmar / New York / Nov. 19.1886." on a piece of cream-colored card, 3-1/2 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide, There are areas of offsetting to the card & its top corners have been unevenly rounded off. Remnants of paper & glue adhere to the verso where the card has been removed from an album. Good. <p>Geraldine Ulmar [1862-1932] was an American singer and actress, best known for her performances of soprano roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. She was hired to play Yum-Yum in the company's first American production of The Mikado at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City. The production ran from 1885 to 1886 and she then played the part in a touring company in England and Germany. She later played parts in Ruddigore, The Pirates of Penzance. and The Yeomen of the Guard.

Nordiske landes bogforlag, 1963., 1963.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is slightly rubbed with some foxing & darkening to the front cover & a small, light stain to the rear cover. 166 & [2] pages plus colophon. Very good. Underbjerg's memoir on the twenty-five years he spent in East Greenland working as a schooner captain. The text is in Danish.Scarce.

Tel Aviv, Israel: Lamed Books, (1992).. (1992).. Fine. INSCRIBED TO DICK HIGGINS AND SIGNED BY LOIS UNGAR - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. 62 pages. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>Inscribed to Dick Higgins on the inside front wrap in the year of publication: "Feb 27, 1992 / To Dick / Best wishes / Lois".

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1988).. (1988).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The front cover is lightly spotted. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the edges of its flaps darkened. Half- title, title, [2] leaves & 230 pages. Good in a very good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>Laid in is a typed letter signed from Ted Solotaroff. Harper & Row Senior Editor, to author John Irving, sending him this copy of the book: "Here's a copy of THE TURKEY WAR that you were so helpful and forceful in my presenting it here..."

(New York: Comstock & Gest, Inc.), [1912]., [1912].. Very good. - Quarto [11-3/8 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial cream-colored wrappers with a drawing by the Irish American artist John Frew in brown on each cover. The covers are slightly darkened & lightly soiled with a few tiny chips & some very light creasing. There is a stain to the left margin of the front cover. 16 pages, including 1 page of music & lyrics [the song "Oh! What a Night"] and 11 pages of photographs of the cast members in brown & cream in decorative frames. The contents are very good. The London version of this production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 30, 1911. The Broadway production was presented by the Shubert Brothers at the Casino Theatre for 135 performances, opening on August 20, 1912 and closing on December 14 of that year. The New York cast of this musical based on "Die Fledermaus" starred Jose Collins as Countess Rosalinda Cliquot, Forrest Huff as Count Max Cliquot and Maurice… Read More

Berlin: May 18th, 1935.. 1935.. Very good. - 88 words typed on sheet of cream paper, 11-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide, with her name & address typed at the top. Signed "Dr. M. Unger" with 2 ink corrections. Attached is a typed, single-spaced report on the 1934/35 Winterhilfswerk campaign filling a 2nd sheet of the same paper. The top corners of both sheets are creased with light creasing to their top & bottom edges. There is a paper-clip mark to the letter at bottom left. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. <p>Marta Unger writes in English to a Mr. B. von Schenk in Hoboken, New Jersey thanking him for his letter. "I was interested to read the article by Mrs. Ruth Frances Woodsmall about 'Women in the new Germany'. I met Mrs. Woodsmall last summer and showed her myself our German women work. But it is rather difficult to explain to people that, what we want, if the otherside stands on a quite different standpoint". She encloses a typed article in… Read More

1956.. 1956.. Very good. - sc This is an 7-1/4 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide black & white news copy photograph with the text of press release photographed onto the bottom of the image. Such photos were copied by the newspaper from the original which were distributed by the International News Photos. The press release serving as caption for the photograph reads as follows: "N.Y. 386 INP SOUNDPHOTO...UNITED NATIONS, N.Y...11/12/56...Senator Hubert H. Humphrey; Senator William F. Knowland and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, representing the U.S. at today's opening of the eleventh annual UN Assembly are all smiles as they take their place in the Assembly Hall. Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary General in a dramatic overture to the opening session announced he will make personal trips to Egypt and Hungary for active intervention in both critical situations". The photograph is soiled and unevenly cropped along the bottom. <p>The Suez Crisis of 1956 was sparked when Egyptian leader… Read More

Oxford: Henry Frowde, 1900.. 1900.. Very good. - Octavo, soft cover bound in printed blue wraps. The overlapping corners of the wraps are creased with a chip out of the bottom corner of the front wrap. A label has been partially removed from the front wrap along the spine. 62 pages plus colophon. Very good. <p>Printed by Horace Hart.<p>Scarce.

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1930.. 1930.. Good. - 12mo, blue pictorial paper covered boards. Rubbed & lightly bumped; spine darkened with a piece out of the head. [viii] & 31 pp. plus colophon. B&W frontispiece & B&W plates & illustrations. Good. <p>Includes notes on the library of Cambridge Books preserved at the University Press.

Providence, RI: Brown University Library, 1947.. 1947.. Very good. - Octavo, brown printed wraps. Slightly creased. 83 catalogued items. Illustrated with B&W facsimiles. Very good. <p>First edition.

Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 1934.. 1934.. Very good. - Small quarto [9-3/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide] softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The spine & the adjacent edges of the wraps are darkened. The edges of the wraps are slightly creased & there is a small stain to the rear wrap. Title, 15 & [1] pages. Black-and-white frontispiece & black-and-white illustrations. The gutters are a bit darkened. Very good. <p>Laid in are a plan of the new science buildings and the original four-page program for the visit of the King and Queen and the opening of the library. The edges of the program are creased.

(New York: Pleiades Club, 1915).. 1915).. Good. - Small quarto, 7 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Six issues, each with their own original pictorial wrappers, bound together in light gray boards backed with a brown suede spine. An illustrated pictorial title label is mounted on the front cover. The covers are soiled and the spine is heavily chipped and splitting along the joints. 143 & [3] consecutively numbered pages. These 6 issues are each illustrated with full-page color cover illustrations, numerous textual and full-page monochrome illustrations and a total of 12 tipped-in plates, including works by Dan Smith, Herb Roth, L.F. Conrey, E.H. Miner, Gordon Ross, and Archie Gunn, among others. The rear hinge is cracked. Good. <p>As early as 1896, a group of Greenwich Village artists, poets and other artistic and literary personalities were meeting weekly at Maria Del Prato's Italian restaurant on MacDougal Street. The group, which became known as The Pleaides Club, included Paul Du… Read More

NY: Burt Franklin, (1968)., (1968).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt. 1576 pp. Numbered consecutively throughout the 3 volumes. A trifle soiled. Very good. <p>A reprint of the original edition published in London 1818.