2015, ISBN: 9780387954578

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US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++.Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [[1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-corne… Plus…

US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++.Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [[1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original weave textured brick-brown/red cloth boards,front board witha central impressed 3-line bordered vertical lozenge /cartouche panel with book's title within - assumed(?) once gilt,but now oxidised - if it ever was present, similar lettering to spine also oxidised - also if it ever was present,rear board plain with no design or decoration.Negligible shelf-wear or bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears, splits or fraying,a brick-red/brown+yellow(?) headband and off-set foxing to all the glued edges of both front+rear pastedowns - the free endpapers lightly aged but generally clean.Top edges trimmed but slightly aged/toned,fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and also toned; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear unread - apart from my own collation.US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus,13- 193pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,a First version with 75 quatrains - each accompanied by a facing,full-page b/w line illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan,a 5th version with 101 quatrains but without illustration,and the reverse of the last page of quatrains a publisher's advert/catalogue list of other Uniform titles.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w line illusrtated frntis by Edmund J. Sullivan,title page,a contents list/table,title separator page. The book is a translation of a selection of poems,originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand,attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) who was a Persian mathematician, astronomer,and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.Later,a body of quatrains became attached to his name,although not all were his works. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic,Omar Khayyám,through FitzGerald,spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response.As a result,the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883),an English country gentleman,published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry.FitzGerald's source were transcripts sent to him in 18561857 by his friend and teacher Edward B. Cowell of two manuscripts,a Bodleian manuscript with 158 quatrains and a "Calcutta manuscript".FitzGerald completed his first draft in 1857 and sent it to Fraser's Magazine in January 1858. FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful commercially.But it was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England.After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others,the verse became extremely popular. He had made a revised draft in January 1859,of which he privately printed 250 copies.This first edition became extremely sought after by the 1890s,when more than two million copies had been sold in two hundred editions. The fifth edition,published posthumously in 1889,was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition. FitzGerald's text was eventually published in five editions,with substantial revisions: 1st edition,1859 with 75 quatrains,the 5th edition,1889 with 101 quatrains.Of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of FitzGerald. The fifth edition, which contained only minor changes from the fourth,was edited posthumously after his death,on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. The 5th edn believed the more mystical and philosophical of the two versions.A bibliography of editions compiled in 1929 listed more than 300 separate editions,however,many more have been published since. The believed,first UK edition with this illustrator,was in 1913.The illustrator died 1933.The above edn includes the famous illustration for Quatrain 26,later adopted by The Grateful Dead. Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933.) Born London,brother of illustrator James Frank Sullivan.Studied under his father,artist Michael Sullivan,in Hastings.Recognition came early with his appointment (1889) to the staff of the newly-founded Daily Graphic,but was fired in 1892 (it was suggested that his work was 'too artistic and unconventional' for the paper's proprietor). Indeed Sullivan was one of the most innovative and original of the b/w artists of the 1890's - the generation whose early careers coincided with the introduction of the photographic line block and halftone reproductive processes.His distinctive style was based on a freely drawn and very expressive linear 'handwriting',and he used shading both to describe form,and to generate a dynamic over the whole area of the drawing.He always worked within a defined rectangular format that served to compress and intensify the energy of his compositions.His inventive and often bizarre imagery could be simultaneously witty and macabre. His earliest book commissions came in the mid-1890's from publishers Macmillan and George Bell,and with 'Sartor Resartus' (1898) his reputation became established.He was particularly respected by his fellow-artists,many of whom apparently also envied his capacity to consume very large quantities of alcohol with no apparent ill-effects.He lectured in book-illustration and lithography at Goldsmith's College,and was an examiner for the Board of Education and the Joint Matriculation Board in Manchester.Elected AWRS (1903),ARE (1925); President of the Art Workers' Guild (1931) and member of the Council of the International Society of Sculptors,Painters and Gravers. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, US,NEW YORK.THE ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS CO.,INC./THREE SIRENS PRESS,[n.d.], 3, US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG++. Neat, handwritten black ink Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date [1932(?) xii] to top edge of ffe,Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original weave textured brick-brown/red cloth boards, front board witha central impressed 3-line bordered vertical lozenge/cartouche panel with book's title within - assumed(?) once gilt,but now oxidised - if it ever was present,similar lettering to spine also oxidised - also if it ever was present,rear board plain with no design or decoration.Negligible shelf-wear or bumping to edges and corners - no nicks,tears,splits or fraying,a brick-red/brown+ yellow(?) headband and off-set foxing to all the glued edges of both front+rear pastedowns - the free endpapers lightly aged but generally clean.Top edges trimmed but slightly aged/toned,fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and also toned, contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners would appear unread - apart from my own collation.US,slim 8vo HB,no (issued?) dw/dj,1st edn thus,13-193pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,a First version with 75 quatrains - each accompanied by a facing,full-page b/w line illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan,a 5th version with 101 quatrains but without illustration,and the reverse of the last page of quatrains a publisher's advert/catalogue list of other Uniform titles.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w line illustated frntis by Edmund J. Sullivan,title page,a contents list/table,title separator pageThe book is a translation of a selection of poems,originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand,attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1122) who was a Persian mathematician, astronomer,and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.Later,a body of quatrains became attached to his name,although not all were his works. Essentially a hedonist and a skeptic,Omar Khayyám,through FitzGerald,spoke with both an earthy and spiritual freedom that stirred a universal response.As a result,the Rubáiyát became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859,when Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883),an English country gentleman,published a free adaptation of this Persian poetry.FitzGerald's source were transcripts sent to him in 18561857 by his friend and teacher Edward B. Cowell of two manuscripts,a Bodleian manuscript with 158 quatrains and a "Calcutta manuscript".FitzGerald completed his first draft in 1857 and sent it to Fraser's Magazine in January 1858. FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful commercially.But it was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England.After its discovery by D. G. Rossetti and others,the verse became extremely popular. He had made a revised draft in January 1859,of which he privately printed 250 copies.This first edition became extremely sought after by the 1890s,when more than two million copies had been sold in two hundred editions. The fifth edition,published posthumously in 1889,was based on FitzGerald's handwritten changes in a copy of the fourth edition, and is traditionally printed with the first edition. FitzGerald's text was eventually published in five editions,with substantial revisions: 1st edition,1859 with 75 quatrains,the 5th edition,1889 with 101 quatrains.Of the five editions published, four were published under the authorial control of FitzGerald. The fifth edition,which contained only minor changes from the fourth,was edited posthumously after his death,on the basis of manuscript revisions FitzGerald had left. The 5th edn believed the more mystical and philosophical of the two versions.A bibliography of editions compiled in 1929 listed more than 300 separate editions,however,many more have been published since. The believed,first UK edition with this illustrator,was in 1913.The illustrator died 1933.The above edn includes the famous illustration for Quatrain 26,later adopted by The Grateful Dead. Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933.) Born London,brother of illustrator James Frank Sullivan.Studied under his father,artist Michael Sullivan,in Hastings.Recognition came early with his appointment (1889) to the staff of the newly-founded Daily Graphic,but was fired in 1892 (it was suggested that his work was 'too artistic and unconventional' for the paper's proprietor).I ndeed Sullivan was one of the most innovative and original of the b/w artists of the 1890's - the generation whose early careers coincided with the introduction of the photographic line block and halftone reproductive processes.His distinctive style was based on a freely drawn and very expressive linear 'handwriting',and he used shading both to describe form,and to generate a dynamic over the whole area of the drawing.He always worked within a defined rectangular format that served to compress and intensify the energy of his compositions.His inventive and often bizarre imagery could be simultaneously witty and macabre. His earliest book commissions came in the mid-1890's from publishers Macmillan and George Bell,and with 'Sartor Resartus' (1898) his reputation became established.He was particularly respected by his fellow-artists,many of whom apparently also envied his capacity to consume very large quantities of alcohol with no apparent ill-effects.He lectured in book-illustration and lithography at Goldsmith's College,and was an examiner for the Board of Education and the Joint Matriculation Board in Manchester.Elected AWRS (1903),ARE (1925); President of the Art Workers' Guild (1931) and member of the Council of the International Society of Sculptors,Painters and Gravers. Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,and in this year too, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template, altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, US,NEW YORK.THE ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS CO.,INC./THREE SIRENS PRESS,n.d., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,white background with silver+gilt bell art-decoesque illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.There is a very tiny,tiny horizontal nick to vertical page edge of pp65/6.Bright,crisp, clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's plain white paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate grey+white bell design (from dw/dj illustration) illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-259pp [paginated] includes author's (Faulks's) note and 11 chapters,plus [unpaginated] publisher's printed, blank facsimile ex-libris page, title- page,a dedication,and at the rear,1pp publisher's advert for Wodehouse official website etc,and 2pp blanks.Authorised by the P.G. Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster,recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes,finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset.Bertie is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentleman's personal gentleman,is never less than immaculately dressed.On this occasion,however,it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs - and he doesn't care for it at all.Love,as so often,is at the rot of the confusion.Bertie,you see,has met Georgiana on the Cote d'Azur.And though she is clever and he has a reputation for foolish engagements,it looks as though this could be the real thing. However,Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry Hackwood and,in order to maintain his beloved Melbury Hall,the impoverished Sir Henry has struck a deal that would see Georgiana becoming Mrs Rupert Venables.Meanwhie,Peregrine 'Woody' Beeching,one of Bertie's oldest chums,is desperate to regain the trust of his fiancee Amelia,Sir Henry's tennis-mad daughter.But why would this necessitate Bertie having to pass himself off as a servant when he has never so much as made a cup of tea? Could it be that the ever loyal,Spinoza-loving Jeeves has an ulterior motive? Evoking the sunlit days of a time gone by,'Jeeves and the Wedding Bells' is a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity,a midsummer village festival,a cricket match and love triumphant. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2013., 5, New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. xxi, 628 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford "the last of the great humanists," and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning. The author of some thirty books, Mumford produced a body of work almost unequaled in the twentieth century for its range and richness. A New York Times Notable Book, Donald Miller's engagingly written biography reveals Mumford's full and fascinating life. Based on ten years of research and unprecedented access to original and private papers, Miller penetrates Mumford's reserved public persona and takes in the complete man, his works as well as his days, as he struggles to transform the world -- and his own life -- in decades marked by unparalleled change." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, 5, Newport Beach, CA, Los Angeles, Munich and New Yor: Orange County Museum of Art; Fellows of Contemporary Art; DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2012. Pictorial boards, 104 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held October 9, 2011 to January 22, 2012 at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Representing contemporary artists from the last half century, this unique exhibition catalog captures the spirit of a daring experiment to pair California icons with their new millennium comrades. In the 1960s and 1970s a group of aesthetic adventurers transformed L.A. from cultural desert to artistic oasis. These West Coast artists, poets, dancers, filmmakers, and photographers fomented a creative outburst that rivaled New York City's. Nearly four decades later, Southern California remains a fertile ground for some of the most exciting and daring art being made today. This book accompanying an exhibition of the same name explores the two Schools of Cool in collaborative, intergenerational pairings between John Baldessari and Shana Lutker; Llyn Foulkes and Stanya Kahn; George Herms and Sarah Cain; Ed Moses and Robert Williams; and Allen Ruppersberg and Amanda Ross-Ho. These pairs have worked together on new, collaborative installations that reveal and transcend the shifts that have taken place in the art world in the past half century-including the increasing prominence of female artists, distinct methodologies and artistic practices, and the use of new technologies. This catalog features the five installations, including paintings and works on paper, sculptures and assemblages, audio-video and interactive installations, that are the result of these collaborations, as well as insightful interviews with the curator and with the artists in which the artists offer thoughts on their own work, their collaborative process, and their projects for the exhibition." - Publisher. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Orange County Museum of Art; Fellows of Contemporary Art; DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2012, 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,white background with silver+gilt bell art-decoesque illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.There is a very tiny, accidental diagonal corner crease to the very last paginated page (pp259) pre publisher's advert.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's plain white paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate grey+white bell design (from dw/dj illustration) illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-259pp [paginated] includes author's (Faulks's) note and 11 chapters,plus [unpaginated] publisher's printed,blank facsimile ex-libris page,title page,a dedication,and at the rear,1pp publisher's advert for Wodehouse official website etc,and 2pp blanks.Authorised by the P.G. Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster,recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes,finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset.Bertie is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentleman's personal gentleman,is never less than immaculately dressed.On this occasion,however,it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs - and he doesn't care for it at all.Love,as so often,is at the root of the confusion.Bertie,you see,has met Georgiana on the Cote d'Azur.And though she is clever and he has a reputation for foolish engagements,it looks as though this could be the real thing. However,Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry Hackwood and,in order to maintain his beloved Melbury Hall,the impoverished Sir Henry has struck a deal that would see Georgiana becoming Mrs Rupert Venables.Meanwhie,Peregrine 'Woody' Beeching,one of Bertie's oldest chums,is desperate to regain the trust of his fiancee Amelia,Sir Henry's tennis-mad daughter.But why would this necessitate Bertie having to pass himself off as a servant when he has never so much as made a cup of tea? Could it be that the ever loyal,Spinoza-loving Jeeves has an ulterior motive? Evoking the sunlit days of a time gone by,'Jeeves and the Wedding Bells' is a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity,a midsummer village festival,a cricket match and love triumphant. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2013., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean,white background with silver+gilt bell art-decoesque illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.There is a very tiny,tiny horizontal nick to vertical page edge of pp65/6.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's plain white paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate grey+white bell design (from dw/dj illustration) illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-viiipp+1-259pp [paginated] includes author's (Faulks's) note and 11 chapters; plus [unpaginated] publisher's printed,blank facsimile ex-libris page,title page,a dedication,and at the rear,1pp publisher's advert for Wodehouse official website etc,and 2pp blanks. Authorised by the P.G. Wodehouse estate and an homage to the P.G. Wodehouse. An important and welcome addition to the Wodehouse canon for all Wodehouse collectors. Bertie Wooster,recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes,finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset.Bertie is more than familiar with the country-house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves,his gentleman's personal gentleman,is never less than immaculately dressed.On this occasion,however,it is Jeeves who is to be seen in the drawing room while Bertie finds himself below stairs - and he doesn't care for it at all. Love,as so often,is at the root of the confusion.Bertie,you see,has met Georgiana on the Cote d'Azur.And though she is clever and he has a reputation for foolish engagements,it looks as though this could be the real thing.However,Georgiana is the ward of Sir Henry Hackwood and,in order to maintain his beloved Melbury Hall,the impoverished Sir Henry has struck a deal that would see Georgiana becoming Mrs Rupert Venables.Meanwhile,Peregrine 'Woody' Beeching,one of Bertie's oldest chums,is desperate to regain the trust of his fiancee Amelia,Sir Henry's tennis-mad daughter.But why would this necessitate Bertie having to pass himself off as a servant when he has never so much as made a cup of tea? Could it be that the ever loyal, Spinoza-loving Jeeves has an ulterior motive? Evoking the sunlit days of a time gone by,'Jeeves and the Wedding Bells' is a delightfully witty story of mistaken identity,a midsummer village festival,a cricket match and love triumphant. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2013., 5, UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published UK,in 1935. The novel arose from a set of conversations sent to Longman's publishing firm from Alexander McArthur,an unemployed worker which was then sent to Kingsley Long,a journalist who completed it into a complete novel of of life in the Gorbals,a run-down slum district of Glasgow (then) with the hard men and the razor gangs.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price removal - absence of publisher's price.Red+black background with Big Ben black silhouette illustration to front cover and with b/w lettering,b/w lettered spine/backstrip;rear cover with publisher's list of 30 other published titles in this series by diverse authors; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges aged/toned but without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean,solid and sound - no foxing/spotting,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread - apat from my own collation.No reading creases to spine/ backstrip either.UK,slim 12mo p/back,1st p/back edn,9-191pp [paginated] includes XX(20) chapters and an appendix at rear; plus [unpaginated] front free endpaper,half-title+title pages and contents list/table.A very acceptable copy of an example of the vintage 'pulp'. An epic of the Glasgow slums.A tale of slums and poverty; of brutality and vice; of the razor gangs and gangsters in the second city in Britain - a story of the "other side" of Glasgow.UK publisher from 1930s to 1960s.Thomas Volney Boardman founded his London-based company Boardman Books (a.k.a T. V. Boardman Ltd.) in the 1930s and was responsible for first British hardcover printings of Rbt. E. Howard's 'The Coming of Conan.' as well as introducing several American newspaper strips into the UK,thereby pioneering British reprinting of US comics.During WW2,British import restrictions prevented US comics being officially imported,but Boardman arranged permission to to produce abridged British printings of a couple of US comic titles.After the war they produced new titles through their Popular Press imprint,starring amongst others space hero Swift Morgan and secret agent Roy Carson,as well as annuals 'Buffalo Bill True West',1961 and the last annual the company produced being one example.The company stopped producing comics in 1961 and finally finished publishing in 1967. It published paperback,hardcover books,pulp magazines,and comic books,and besides mystery,fantasy and sci-fi,the company also published other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.Particularly well-known for the long-running monthly series of hardback 'Bloodhound Mysteries with it's distinctive logo,and most with Denis McLoughhlin illustrated dw/djs.The pulp novel genre which peaked in popularity in the 1950s - it's ingredients of hard-boiled detective,sultry blondes,women as sex- kittens,murdered husbands et al - and of course,the lurid cover art - had little of literary merit.A term used to describe trashy story magazines produced on cheap,rough paper and by the 1930s,when their first paperbacks appeared,it was synonymous with fast-paced thrillers of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Paper shortages during and after WW2 meant both the banning of US pulp imports and with paper rationing and conservation of that and other materials,pulping was actively encouraged,so publishers with restricted and limited quantities for publishing,opted towards highly acidic and therefore cheaper paper,allowing for more books to be produced.Books made with this cheaper material tend to degrade faster,exhibiting several faults,blemishes,foxing/spotting etc.,and subsequently are uncommon and harder to find in a particularly fine condition.Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the light weight and also the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers note,p/backs' actual shipping costs/differences are adjusted and any difference is refunded after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P/p free. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.BIG BEN BOOKS,/WELLS GARDNER,DARTON & CO LTD.,/in association with T. V. Boardman & Co Ltd.,1940., 3, New York N.Y.: Springer, 2002. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 495, indexed. Apart from an ownership signature on the front end paper and paste down, a light bump on the tail of the spine strip and minor shelf wear, the book is as new. "S is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas that have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S environments to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S and a course in modern statistical methods. Implementations of S are available commercially in S-PLUS(R) workstations and as the Open Source R for a wide range of computer systems. The aim of this book is to show how to use S as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book is intended for would-be users of S-PLUS or R and both students and researchers using statistics. Throughout, the emphasis is on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets. Many of the methods discussed are state of the art approaches to topics such as linear, nonlinear and smooth regression models, tree-based methods, multivariate analysis, pattern recognition, survival analysis, time series and spatial statistics. Throughout modern techniques such as robust methods, non-parametric smoothing and bootstrapping are used where appropriate. This fourth edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 6.0 or R 1.5.0 or later. A substantial change from the third edition is updating for the current versions of S-PLUS and adding coverage of R. The introductory material has been rewritten to emphasis the import, export and manipulation of data. Increased computational power allows even more computer-intensive methods to be used, and methods such as GLMMs." (back cover) A title in Springer's series 'Statistics and computing', Springer, 2002, 4<

2002, ISBN: 0387954570

[EAN: 9780387954578], Near Fine, [PU: Springer, New York N.Y.], COMPUTING STATISTICS, x 495, indexed. Apart from an ownership signature on the front end paper and paste down, a light bump… Plus…

[EAN: 9780387954578], Near Fine, [PU: Springer, New York N.Y.], COMPUTING STATISTICS, x 495, indexed. Apart from an ownership signature on the front end paper and paste down, a light bump on the tail of the spine strip and minor shelf wear, the book is as new. "S is a powerful environment for the statistical and graphical analysis of data. It provides the tools to implement many statistical ideas that have been made possible by the widespread availability of workstations having good graphics and computational capabilities. This book is a guide to using S environments to perform statistical analyses and provides both an introduction to the use of S and a course in modern statistical methods. Implementations of S are available commercially in S-PLUS(R) workstations and as the Open Source R for a wide range of computer systems. The aim of this book is to show how to use S as a powerful and graphical data analysis system. Readers are assumed to have a basic grounding in statistics, and so the book is intended for would-be users of S-PLUS or R and both students and researchers using statistics. Throughout, the emphasis is on presenting practical problems and full analyses of real data sets. Many of the methods discussed are state of the art approaches to topics such as linear, nonlinear and smooth regression models, tree-based methods, multivariate analysis, pattern recognition, survival analysis, time series and spatial statistics. Throughout modern techniques such as robust methods, non-parametric smoothing and bootstrapping are used where appropriate. This fourth edition is intended for users of S-PLUS 6.0 or R 1.5.0 or later. A substantial change from the third edition is updating for the current versions of S-PLUS and adding coverage of R. The introductory material has been rewritten to emphasis the import, export and manipulation of data. Increased computational power allows even more computer-intensive methods to be used, and methods such as GLMMs." (back cover) A title in Springer's series 'Statistics and computing', Books<