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Katsura: Tradition And Creation In In Japanese Architecture (First Printing In Dust Jacket)
by Gropius, Walter; Kenzo Tange
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$750.00
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Photographs By Yasuhiro Ishimoto; Design By Herbert Bayer. 36 Pp Text, Followed By Hundreds Of Photographs. First Printing, 1960. Book Fine, No Fraying, No Marks Or Stains, Spine And Cover Lettering As New. In The Scarce Dj Priced $15.00, Taller Than The Book And Thus… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Katsura: Tradition And Creation In In Japanese Architecture (First Printing In Dust Jacket)
by Gropius, Walter; Kenzo Tange
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$600.00
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Photographs By Yasuhiro Ishimoto; Design By Herbert Bayer. 36 Pp Text, Followed By Hundreds Of Photographs. First Printing, 1960. Book Near Fine, No Fraying, No Marks Or Stains, Spine And Cover Lettering As New. In The Scarce Dj With Wear And Short Tears And Small… Read more about this item Item Price
$600.00
Notes On Recent Researches In Electricity And Magnetism Intended As A Sequel To Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism
by Thomson, J. J.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1893
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$1,250.00
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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Drawings, Photographs. Xvi, 578 + 2 Pp And 8 Pp Catalogs At End. First Edition, Probable Second Issue With 4 Errata Printed At End Of Contents Rather Than On An Inserted Slip. Green Cloth, Gilt And Stamped In Blind. Black Endpapers. Slight Wear, Gilt Bright, Cloth Clean… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography, Volume Xx (20) 1929
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1929
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$325.00
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New York City Ny: James T. White & Company, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Portrait Plates. 495, (V) Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. Major Compilation Of American Biographies, Primarily Business And Professional Men, But In All Fields, A Major Resource For Genealogical Information With Details Not Available Elsewhere. Near Fine, No Marks.
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$325.00
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by Madley, Benjamin
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Printing
- Published
- 2016
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300181361
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$750.00
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Yale University Press, 2016. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xv, 692 Pp. Third Printing. The Complete Story Of Nineteenth Century American Genocidal Imperialism In California, Widely Supported In Democratic America. Would Be Fine But A Little Yellow Highlighting In First 76 Lp; Fine Dust Jacket . Stated Third Printing. Should Not Be An Uncommon Book But… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Notes On Recent Researches In Electricity And Magnetism Intended As A Sequel To Clerk-Maxwell's Treatise On Electricity And Magnetism
by Thomson, J. J.
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1893
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$475.00
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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Drawings, Photographs. Xvi, 578 + 2 Pp And 8 Pp Catalogs At End. First Edition, Probable Second Issue With 4 Errata Printed At End Of Contents Rather Than On An Inserted Slip. Red Cloth, Gilt And Stamped In Blind. Black Endpapers. Light Wear, Gilt Bright, Cloth Clean… Read more about this item Item Price
$475.00
Engineering Cybernetics
by Tsien, H. S. [Hsue-Shen], Qian Xuesen (Simplified Chinese: ???; Traditional Chinese: ???; Pinyin: Qián Xuésen; Wade-Giles: Ch'ien Hsüeh-Sên) (11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009)
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- Used - Near Fine Book
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition 3rd Printing
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Blue Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$450.00
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First Edition 3rd Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine Book/No Jacket. 289 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. Third Printing "Iii" On Copyright Page). Wear At All Edges, Smal Frays At Some Corners. No Marks. Analysis And Formulas Throughout. Groundbreaking Work Applying Principles Of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics To Problems Of Engineering, Particularly Aeronautics.… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Man and the computer
by Kemeny, John G
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1972
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684130092
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$350.00
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Scribner, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Viii, 151, (I). Black Cloth, Spine Lettered In Red, Red Endpapers. First Printing Indicated. Fine; Gift Inscription. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Light Rubbing At Corners.
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$350.00
Archive Of 69 Articles, In Complete Journals And Offprints, All By Alexander Haggerty Krappe Circa 1924 - 1948
by Krappe, Alexander Haggerty
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1920
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- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$2,500.00
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New York Ny: Hispanic Society Of Anericva, 1920. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Archive Of 69 Separate Scholarly Philological Articles, All Well Preserved, Very Good+ To Fine. No Marks. Apparently The Author's Own Copies. Per Wikipedia, Alexander Haggerty Krappe (1894 -1947) Was A Folklorist And Writer. Along With Francis Peabody Magoun, He Was The First Translator Of… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
Billy Baldwin Remembers
by Baldwin, Billy
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition [stated]
- Published
- 1974
- Binding
- Original Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151120706
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$650.00
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. First Edition [stated] . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Color and B/W Photographs. 232 Pp.Cloth. First Printing Indicated. Incomparable Memoirs Of New York's Fashionable Elite. Inscribed By Billy Baldwin To Another Professional In The Business Of Decorating. With A Clipped Review Of The Book, And A Newspaper-Size Extract Of A… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
Recollections And Reflections
by Thomson, J. J.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1936
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$325.00
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London Uk: G. Bell And Sons, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Viii, 451 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Lightly Used, Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Tiny Former Owner's Name. Dust Jacket Priced 18S. Net, Wear,Browning, Small Losses At Corners, No Loss Of Lettering.
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$325.00
The Science of Interstellar
by Thorne, Kip
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 3rd Printing
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN 10
- 0393351378
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$450.00
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. X, 324 Pp. Soft Cover, Third Printing Stated (2014). Signed By Thorne And Dated 19 Feb 2015. Fine, No Wear Or Damage.
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$450.00
Wealth, Virtual Wealth And Debt: The Solution Of An Economic Paradox
by Soddy, Frederick
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$2,500.00
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London Gb: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 320 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, Re-Backed Attractively But In A Rougher Weave Of Cloth Than Covers. Soddy Writes Of The Essence Of Economics, And Where It Should Change For Everyone's Best Interests, In Such An Intelligent, Thoughtful And Understanding Way That He… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
Computer Power And Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation [On Tools; Where The Power Of The Computer Comes From; How Computers Work; Science And The Compulsive Programmer; Theories And Models; Computer Models In Psychology; The Computer And Natural Language; Artificial Intelligence; Incomprehensible Programs; Against The Imperialism Of Instrumental Reason)
by Weizenbaum, Joseph
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good + Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Printing
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0716704641
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$650.00
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W.H. Freeman and Company, 1976. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + Jacket. Xii, 300 Pp. Charcoal Gray Cloth Lettered In Silver. Second Printing Indicated; Hardcover Issue (Issued Simultaneously In Paperback). Inscribed By The Author " To The Uerands At Whose Gracious Home This Work Was Begun. With Thanks J. Weizenbaum". Near Fine. Dust Jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
Panic Spring
by Durrell, Lawrence (Writing As "Charles Norden")
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1937
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$650.00
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New York Ny: Covici Friede, 1937. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 372 Pp. Very Light Green Cloth Stamped In Red And Dark Green. First American Printing. Near Fine, A Few Tiny Foxing Marks On Top Edges Of Boards, No Foxing To Endpapers Or Contents, No Marks.
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$650.00
Fortune ( Magazine) Vol. Xxv January - June 1942
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$450.00
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New York: Time - Fortune, Inc., 1942. First Edition . Cloth. Fine. 14" Tall. Six Issues, Complete, With Covers And 6-Month Index, As New Except Solidly Bound In Morocco Buckram, Apparently Unopened Since Binding For A School Library. No Internal Marks; Pages Cut Down From 14" To 13 5/8" Height, And From 11 1/4" Down To 11"… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Money Versus Man: A Statement Of The World Problem From The Standpoint Of The New Economics
by Soddy, Frederick
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 1931
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$2,500.00
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London Gb: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Viii, 9-121, + 7 Pp. Ads At Rear. Red Cloth Stamped In Black. First Edition, 1931, London, Colonial Issue With "Colonial Edition" Stamped On Copyright Page. Fine; Owner's Name Stamp On Each Pastedown. Dust Jacket Priced 3S6d Net, Also Fine. Soddy Writes Of The… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
Pitfcs / Proceedings Of The Institute For Twenty-First Century Studies, 139, March 1961
by Cogswell, Theodore (Editor); Kingsley Amis, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Bob Briney, A. J. Budrys, Robert Bloch, John W. Campbell Jr., John Christopher, Arthur Clarke, George Cowgill, Betsy Curtis, Avram Davidson, L. Sprague Decamp, Miriam Allen Deford, M
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$325.00
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Muncie In: Proceedings Of The Institute For Twenty-First Century Studies, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 23 Pp. Tall Mimeo Sheets, Stapled. Slight Usage But Low Quality Mimeo, Slight Signs Of Usage. Rare.
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$325.00
Extra / Balboa High School / Eptember 12, 1O30,And Another Undated Issue With Story "Message From Mars
by Ackerman, Forrest, Et Al
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- No Binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
- Item Price
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$750.00
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Balboa High School, 1930. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Two Sets Of Mimeo Sheets, 11 Pp And 10Pp, The Second, Undated, Includes A One Page Story "Message From Mars" Which Apparently Was By Ackerman. Both From The Estate Of Forrest Ackerman, Sf Fan Supreme, Agent, Collector, And P;Robably Unique Survivals.
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$750.00
Ihc Art Dept. News / Art Sale (Inscribed By Sister Coria To Detta Lange)
by Kent, Sister Mary Corita
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- No Binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, USA
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$2,500.00
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Los Angeles: Immaculate Heart College, 1968. 1st Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Sister Mary Corita. Single Large Sheet Folded Vertically To Make Six Pages. Invitatio To Art Sale At Ihc November 14-15, "Paintings And Prints By Detta Lange, Paul Laporte And Corita Kent + Students". Return Address Dated Ihc Bulletin / February 1968, This May Be A… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
