New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus (notable artist/illustrations). Hardcover. Format is approximately 6.5 inches by 9.625 inches. [8], 253, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Bookplate of Lillian Bay Dickinson inside front cover. Booksellers label inside the back cover. Cover has wear and soiling. Front hinge has some weakness. Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and published sermons and memoirs. He attended Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt. With his new talent for writing, he published early volumes of his best-known novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Sterne traveled to France to find relief from persistent tuberculosis, documenting his travels in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published weeks before his death. His posthumous Journal to Eliza addresses Eliza Draper, for whom he had romantic feelings. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square. Sterne departed for France in 1762. Sterne was gratified by his reception in France, where Tristram Shandy had made him a celebrity. Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne's novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. [18], 493, [3] pages. Map. Partial Bibliography. A Note by Gore Vidal points out that he has written a novel and not a history. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Includes "A special message to subscribers from Robert Penn Warren." Signed by the author. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories, and delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, The City and the Pillar, offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, the plot being about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. In the historical novel genre, Vidal recreated the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–363) in Julian. Julian was the Roman emperor who attempted to re-establish Roman polytheism to counter Christianity. In satire, Myra Breckinridge explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. Quentin Fiore (February 12, 1920 – April 13, 2019) was a graphic designer, who worked mostly in books. More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. [22], 298 pages. Illustrations. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Includes "A special message to subscribers from Robert Penn Warren." Signed by the author. "This volume is of selected poems, arranged in antichronological order covering some fifty years.... I sometime feel in my poems a constant interplay and tension between the romance of nature and the romance of the city." Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and his two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry were for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and for Now and Then. Promises also won the annual National Book Award for Poetry. In 1974, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Warren's lecture was entitled "Poetry and Democracy" (subsequently published under the title Democracy and Poetry). More

New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1970. Reprint Edition. Library Edition [stated on DJ]. Hardcover. 452 pages. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling and sticker residue on front flap. Possibly the most interesting aspect of this, the eighth issue of Jane's, are the articles by combatants in the Russo-Japanese War, supplemented by a special series of photographs showing the ships destroyed and the extent of the damage suffered by others. There is a summary of naval actions during the war and notes on relevant strategy and tactics. All included are revised rules of Jane's "Naval War Games". This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. Its success launched a number of publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

East Hartford, CT: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, c1943. Presumed first edition and first printing thus. Three Ring Binder. No Title Page present. Various paginations. Illustrations. Front cover stained, soiled and torn at the three holes. Significant signs of moisture staining. Binder worn/soiled. Preface indicates that his text is an attempt to make understandable most of the complexities faced in present machine shop practices. This book should not only proved of value to you while you are in the status of a learner but you will find your text a source of reference in the future and we hope that it will serve as a first step in the pyramid of knowledge. This book is a result of the untiring efforts and sincere cooperation of the men from the Pratt & Whitney Division of the United Aircraft Corporation who voluntarily have acted as instructors in the Defense Training Center. No one can become a skilled machine tool operator just through reading a book. But life is far too short for anyone to become a skilled machine tool operator through the trial and error method. Thread grinder is usually used to produce accurate threads or threads in hard materials. The centerless thread grinder is used to make head-less set screws. More

London: Jane's Yearbooks, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 28, [2], 581, [2], 37, 35, [3], 57, [4], xvi, [3] pages. Illustrations. Tables. Addenda. Naval Staffs. Who's Who. Bibliography, Genera. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Some page discoloration noted. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This book covers 15,000 ships in more than 110 countries. Includes 3,000 photographs, plans, silhouettes and line drawings. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More

Fort Detrick, MD: US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ,Public Health Training Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, 1998. Presumed First Edition of this compilation. Box with participant materials included. Box is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. Box has slight wear and soiling. Contents in very good condition. Unclear is some are reprints or produced for this satellite broadcast training. This includes a Dear Participant letter from the Office of the Commander, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Colonel Gerald W. Parker, dated July 7, 1998; Key Information (sheet of Dates of Broadcasts and Taped Rebroadcast Dates and Time, Telephone Call-in Instructions and Fax Instruction Forms; Optical Scan Forms Instruction Sheets; List of State and Territorial Health Departments; Student Booklet for Satellite Broadcasts on Tuesday, September 22, 1998, Wednesday, September 23, 1998, and Thursday, September 24, 1998; Student Booklet for Taped Rebroadcasts Saturday October 3, 1998 and Sunday, October 4, 1998; Handout on Packaging and Shipping Infectious Materials; Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance (CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report May 2, 1997 Vol. 46, No. RR-10 (approximately 60 pages); NATO Handbook on the Medical Aspects of NBC Defensive Operations (AMedP-6(B), Part II - Biological, FM 8-9, NVMED-P-509, AFJMAN 44-151V1V2V3, February 1996 (Approximately 100 pages); Medical Management of Biological Casualties, Handbook, Third Edition, July 1998 (approximately 150 pages plus fold-outs) (Format is approximately 4.5 inches by 6.25 inches); Defense Against Toxin Weapons by David Franz (approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches, approximately 50 pages); Booklet at Open At Final Exam Time (seal still intact--unopened). More

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10.25 inches. 272 pages. A Note on Contributors. Illustrations. Notes. A Feynman Bibliography. Index. Address label of Frank V. Tarkington of Silver Spring, MD on fep. Frank V. Tarkington, who lived to be 102, joined the United States Navy in 1940 and served five years. While on the island of Tinian, he witnessed the arming of the Enola Gay. Frank was advanced in rate to Chief Radioman until the war was over. His service in the Navy was a springboard for a long career with Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Frank installed the first television in the White House so that President Truman could witness the opening of Congress in January 1948. Christopher Sykes is a TV documentary producer based in London. He was born in 1945, and was educated at the Atlantic College and Merton College, Oxford where he read English. In 1970 he joined the BBC as a television researcher. He has made about seventy documentaries for BBC TV and Channel 4, some of which have been shown on PBS/Nova – notably the programs he made with and about Richard Feynman (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Last Journey of a Genius and The Best Mind Since Einstein). He is also a consultant to Web of Stories, an online video collection of in-depth interviews with many of the great minds of our time. More

Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [12], 488 pages. Tables. Figures. Formulae. References. List of Participants. Some text in French, Spanish and Russian. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Moisture stains noted--all pages separated and text clear. Some smudging of library markings. This is one of the Panel Proceedings Series. The present proceedings contain four Statements on National Programmes, seven papers dealing with specific applications, six papers dealing with Phenomenology, seven papers dealing with radioactivity considerations, and four papers on seismic considerations. These are followed by a Summary and Conclusions. There were 28 papers presented and the panel was attended by participants form 31 countries and three international organizations. Among the topics addressed are: Explosive excavation, Dam construction, Retorting of Green River oil Shale, Canals, Chemical Mining, Copper suplhides, Reservoir creation, Craters, Engineering Structures, Rock Fracturing, Marvel--a nuclear shock-tube experiment, underground nuclear explosions, radiological accident prediction, radioisotope formation, Fallout prediction, Seismic Waves, and geophysics. More

Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Apparently print run was limited to 1000 copies per last page. Hardcover. 222, [2] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. Decorative cover. No dust jacket present. Fep scuffed. Rose Gottemoeller was among the contributors. Dr. Alexei Georgievich Arbatov, Ph.D. (born January 17, 1951) is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is a Russian political scientist, academic, author, and former politician. Arbatov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and completed graduate and post-graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) and MGIMO. He has spent nearly 40 years in the academic and scientific communities, and also served for over a decade in Russia's parliament. He is one of Russia's foremost experts in the fields of international relations, foreign and military policy, international security, and arms control and disarmament. Major General Dvorkin (retired) is a chief researcher at the Center for International Security at the Institute of Primakov National Research Institute. Dvorkin previously served as the director of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Fourth Central Research Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in technical sciences. Dvorkin was one of the main authors of program documents on Russia’s strategic nuclear forces and strategic missile forces. He was involved in preparing the SALT II, INF, START I, and START II treaties; he helped shape the Soviet Union’s/Russia’s positions at strategic arms control talks. More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Presumed First English language Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 284 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index of Names. Name in ink inside front cover. DJ worn, torn, chipped and is partially price clipped. The final Russian text, which provided the basis for the present translation, resulted from numerous revisions by the author, and has been approved by him as represent his views. He did not see the translated, abridged, and edited manuscript before publication. This is the story of Soviet genetics in the period 1937-1964. This book consists of three parts. The first two were written in 1961-1962 and augmented in 1963-1964; the third was written in 1966-1967. Each part, for various reasons, differs from the others in style and method of analysis of the facts. Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. In 1962, Medvedev wrote his book on the history of Soviet genetics, which passed an editorial review but was withheld by state censors. It was later published in the United States in 1969 as The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko. Medvedev was dismissed from his position in 1969. Between 1968 and 1970, Medvedev wrote two more books: International Cooperation of Scientists and National Frontiers [5] and Secrecy of Correspondence is Guaranteed by Law (about postal censorship in the USSR). These works were widely circulated in the USSR, along with his history of Soviet genetics (which had been published in Grani, a Russian journal published outside the USSR), and this activity resulted in Medvedev's arrest and forced detention in a psychiatric hospital in May 1970. More

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965. Fourth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 25 cm. xvi, [4], 426, [2] pages. Name in ink, obscured, on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Foreword by Thomas C. Schelling Note on Rank. Maps and Charts. Footnotes. Appendix, Abbreviations and Special Names. Bibliography. Index. Was the Pearl Harbor disaster a result of criminal negligence in the Pacific theater? It seems unlikely that a country could have so many warnings pointing to the danger, and yet be so unprepared for the event itself. American intelligence could read top-secret Japanese codes and the U.S. was therefore in a position to transmit vital information to American commanders throughout the world. As this carefully documented book shows, the outlines of danger look sharp today because the disaster has occurred, and an entirely different image emerges upon reconstructing in detail the intelligence picture as it looked to the participants before the event. In 1941 the pieces of the puzzle were dispersed in a number of government agencies. Some were lost in the noise of signals pointing in other directions, some were slowed by bureaucracy; and some were silenced by security requirements. No one had a complete picture. Roberta Mary Morgan, better known by her married name of Roberta Wohlstetter (August 22, 1912 - January 6, 2007), was one of America's most important historians of military intelligence. Her most influential work is Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Donald Rumsfeld, is said to have required that his aides read it. Wohlstetter worked for the RAND Corporation from 1948 to 1965 and consulted with them through 2002. More

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2014. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 320 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Slight soiling noted on a few pages. Includes an Introduction and Chapters on: Early Wars and the Beginning of Physics, Basic Physics of Early Weapons, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Early English-French Wars; Gunpowder and Cannon: The Discoveries that Changes the Art of War and the World, Three Men Ahead of Their Time: Da Vinci, Tartaglia, and Galileo, From Early Guns to Total Destruction and Discovery The Impact of the Industrial Revolution, Napoleon's Weapons and New Breakthroughs in Physics, The American Civil War, Where Does the Bullet Go? Ballistics of Rifle Bullets and Cannon Shells, Hey, Look...It Flies! Aerodynamics and the First Airplanes, The Machine Gun War--World War I, The Invisible Rays: The Development and Use of Radio and Radar in War, Sonar and the Submarine, The Great War: World War II, The Atomic Bomb, and The Hydrogen bomb, Intercontinental Missiles, Lasers, and the Future. Barry Parker is a professor emeritus at Idaho State University where he taught physics and astronomy for 30 years. He is the author of 24 books and has written for the Smithsonian, Encyclopedia, Britannica, Time-Life Books, the Washington Post, and numerous magazines such as "Astronomy and Sky and Telescope. More