Cybernetics And Management by Stafford Beer - 1967

Sharon, Massachusetts: Orchard Press, 1997. J.K. Ely is the pen name of Hugh Kelly, Howard Johnson's Corporation, vice president. 4to trade paperback; 144 pages with some black and white illustrations. Black and white photo illustrated front cover. From introduction: "What I am talking about is the development of a shopping strategy which will enable the alert consumer to build a portfolio of shopping techniques which, when applied on a regular weekly basis, will result in continuing reductions in the supermarket expense of up to 25% or more." 27 Chapters include: Learn to Anticipate Price Changes How to Recognize Price Cycles Shopping the Best Food Day Ads Consider the Cost per Ounce Coupons - Friend or Foe Never Enter the Supermarket without a Shopping List Also includes two pieces of ephemera: "Savings at the Supermarket" speech flyer from Motorcraft Ford and Hilltop Steakhouse Steer Beef Chart (which appears to be a copy of their placemat.) Some rubbing wear to… Read More

New York: Silk Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1925. Hardcover. Volume 18, 1925. January to June (No. 1-6) . Clean brown cloth. Hard binding with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled page edges & endpapers. Containing 6 magazines with covers, published on the 15th day of each month. Silk industry's technical authority. Text tight, clean & intact. Profusely illustrated with B/W photographs & drawings. Some in color. Internal markings only, " Smithsonian Institute, National Museum." Business; B&W Drawing & B/W Photo; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1891. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Xvi, 316 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition, First Printing, With 1891 Date On Title Page And Preface, But Publisher's April 1896 Catalog At End, Thus A Later (1896) Issue Of The First (1891) Printing Booknear Fine, Very Bright, Gilt Brilliant, Endpapers Immaculate, No Names Or Marks, Small Areas Of Rear Cover With A Numberof Small And Very Faint Brown Stains.

Bruno Munari's ABC. 1960 First American Edition, The World Publishing Company. Impression COHW. 8 ¾ X 11 7/8. EXLIB. Good condition/ Good+ original price-clipped dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Protected in mylar wrap. The alphabet as envisioned and and presented by brilliant Italian Artist and educator Bruno Munari, Father of: Modern Graphic Design,The Futurist Movement, Useless Machines, Mobiles, Spacial Environment, Kinetics, Concrete Art Movement, Direct Projections, Arrythmic Machines. RARE IN ITS ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Unpaginated. Pages are bright and clean. 1 torn page, taped.

Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair only dw (lacking spine). 8vo, 216pp, orange cloth stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First trade edition of this important occult work (which had been privately published in 1936). Text in German. Unmarked copy, the fragile dustwrapper is present but spine is lacking, interior pages have toning of acidic postwar paper stock.

Boonton, N. J.: Boonton Rubber Mfg. Co.. Near Fine. 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Immaculate brown soft covers protected in the original glassine cover. Text tight, clean & intact. B/W engraved illustrations. Pioneer molder of bakelite. Bakelite and rubber compositions; factory and laboratory. Includes the original mailing envelope and pictorial letter head of the company. New Jersey ; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 35 pages .

Self-Published, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good-. 142 pp. Directory of all Wisconsin breweries since prohibition with marks and info. Includes beer can collecting supplement. Scuffing to cover and wear to corners. Spine is heavily faded. Signed on title page "Wayne L. Kroll". Book No. 457. Pages are clean and crisp.

Springer. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2004. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 610 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 2.6: KB#007515: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Printing Number Line (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "This book is of interest to both academic and professional researchers working in the field of optical fiber communication. The focus is on engineering networks exploiting advanced optical technologies. Originally presented at OpNeTec 2004, the chapters cover optical network systems, transmission, and amplification; theoretical aspects; system implementation; and experimental test-beds." IFIP is The International Federation for Information Processing. Content Major Chapters include: Perspectives on Optical Networks and Technologies * Optical Packet Switching / Optical Burst Switching * Routing * GMPLS and Network Control * Traffic Engineering *… Read More

New York: Allegany County Telephone Company. Very Good+. 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Clean light green soft covers with black titles. Allegany County Telephone Book. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Top corner perforation for hanging. New York; 8vo; Unpaginated pages .

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Read More