These are in addition to the 1,800 vintage LPs in our bins and glass display cases at the brick & mortar store, inside the Charleston Antique Mall, open 7 days a week next to Arizona Charlie’s at 560 South Decatur Boulevard, downtown Las Vegas, 89107. (Call 702-228-4783 for store hours and driving directions.) If it\u2019s unusual, we might have it.<\/p>\n
Meantime, the online store also features some interesting new arrivals in the book department, this month:<\/p>\n
In Marconi’s Footsteps \/ 1894 to 1920 \/ Early Radio<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to – over 9\u00be – 12″ tall. “First published in 1994 by Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd.” Contains a fair amount of material about the 1912 Titanic disaster, and a section on “The Replication Projects,” including The Rhumkorff or Induction Coil, the Coherer Detector, the Multiple Tuner and Jigger, etc. 176 pp. including index, on a nice coated stock. Bookseller Inventory # 002831<\/p>\n Nadar \/ A photographic pantheon — from Baudelaire to Bernhardt — of nineteenth-century Paris: the most striking figures of that extraordinary world of art, intellect, and culture, recorded by the camera of France’s greatest pioneer photographer, FELIX NADAR<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4to – over 9\u00be – 12″ tall. “First American edition” stated. With a wonderful 37-page biography of the eccentric photographer, theater critic, caricaturist and aeronaut — born the son of a Lyon printer, Gasspard-Felix Tournachon. 298 pp. including index. Bookseller Inventory # 002830<\/p>\n The Island of Sodor \/ Its People, History and Railways (SIGNED TO BOOKPLATE)<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed “W. Awdry” on railroad silhouette bookplate to front pastedown. Not price clipped; original L12.95 price showing. “First published by Kaye & Ward Ltd. 1987.” There is a small black mark to top page edges near the spine. Sodor, which lies between the mainland and the Isle of Man, was discovered by the Rev. Wilbert Awdrey and his brother George, a librarian by trade, during a visit to the Isle of Man in 1950. It became the setting for, at the time of this writing (1987), some 34 books of the Railway Series, starring Thomas the Tank Engine and friends — the final six of which had been written (as of 1987) by the Rev. Awdry’s son, Christopher. Oddly, few adults traveling in the region have subsequently been able to locate Sodor with any precision. 154 pp., with several B&W maps bound in at rear. Bookseller Inventory # 002818<\/p>\n The Crazy Years \/ Paris in the Twenties<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. with 74 illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. First thus — first paperback after the Atheneum hardcover. This book has been read, but carefully — corners are lifting slightly but NO reading creases, NO spine creases. Wiser “gives us almost everything and everybody. . . . better balanced than any preceding history of the times and richer in characters,” commented Malcolm Cowley. Hemingway, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Miro, Sylvia Beach, Coco Chanel, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Chagall, Gurdjieff, Katherine Mansfield, Nijinsky, Ezra Pound, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, J.P. Morgan’s nephew Harry (and Caresse) Crosby, and a lot of the other financial patrons whose names are now less familiar, including Nancy Cunard and Winnaretta Singer. The book is episodic, doesn’t really have a major theme or build to a dramatic conclusion, but maybe that’s part of the point. They were , after all, les annees folles. Originally priced at $9.95. Total 256 pp. including index & bibliography. Bookseller Inventory # 002814<\/p>\n The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3-volume hardcover set) and Exercises (accompanying 3-volume softcover set)<\/strong> Item Description: Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. These are nice solid books, based on Professor Feynman’s lectures to the freshmen and sophomore classes at Caltech in 1961 and ’62. but with some modest wear to spine heels and with board corners poking through on Volumes II and III. The three matching softcover volumes of “Exercises” are in condition “very good.” All appear to be first printings. Volume I is dated 1963, as is Robert Leighton’s Foreword, with no later dates. Volume II (“The Electromagnetic Field”) is dated 1964, as is Matthew Sands’ Foreword, with no later dates. Volume III (“Quantum Mechanics”) is dated 1965, with Matthew Sands’ Foreword dated December, 1964, with no later dates found. The first two volumes of “Exercises” are dated 1964; the third volume 1965, with no later dates found. Each hardcover volume signed by the previous owner, EE Professor V.A. Suprynowicz. All six books are quartos and they weigh a lot. We’re talking 9 pounds, which is a little more than 4 kilos. That means domestic “Media Mail” for the entire set of six volumes should run about $7.50, while overseas shipping could easily run $64. Yes, really. We love our overseas customers, but stop whining. You’re buying from us because we offer the least expensive copies which are accurately and adequately described, right? There is no more “surface mail”; everything now leaves these shores by air, and we ship our (now your) valuable books in nice sturdy boxes, not plastic body bags. We will happily remit any substantial overage. Price is for the entire set of six volumes — three hardcover and three matching softcover “Exercises.”. Bookseller Inventory # 002810<\/p>\n How It Happened Here \/ The Making of a Film<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. numerous B&W production stills (illustrator). 1st Edition. 16mo – over 5\u00be – 6\u00be” tall. “First United States publication 1968 \/ This book was published simultaneously in a hardcover edition.” Good-plus with edge wear and corner creases. Before he wrote his famous history of the silent movies, “The Parade’s Gone By,” Kevin Brownlow was a 16-year-old British lad who decided to make a low-budget, “What-if-the-Germans-had-conquered-England” movie called “It Happened Here.” This is the tale of how the film got made and distributed . . . sort of. 184 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 002800<\/p>\n Morphological Astronomy<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. with 55 figures (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo – over 7\u00be – 9\u00be” tall. This book is entirely in English, save for the publisher’s promotion of other titles to the dust-jacket flaps, which is primarily in German language. Printed on a nice coated stock, but bottom edge was once damp, with the result that the bottom edges of the first 200 pages are rippled. These pages, however, have not been stuck together, show no mildew, and are easily read; “Good only.” Dust jacket missing bottom half of spine; also “Good.” PON to FFE. The author was Professor of Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, and astronomer at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. “The Large Scale Distribution of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies”; “Kinematic and Dynamic Characteristics of Large Scale Aggregates of Matter”; “The Morphological Method and a Priori Knowledge — The Magic Numbers,” etc. 297 pp. including index. Bookseller Inventory # 002796<\/p>\n The Marine Chronometer \/ Its History and Development<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo – over 7\u00be – 9\u00be” tall. Third printing of the 1960 Holland Press second edition. (First Holland Press edition was 1923.) Very good minus in very good minus. Modest foxing to dust jacket only; dust jacket is price-clipped. The absorbing story of the obscure and self-educated Yorkshire carpenter John Harrison (1693-1776) whose marine timekeepers won him the British government’s L20,000 reward for “any method of finding a ship’s longitude within 30 geographical miles at the end of a six weeks’ voyage” . . . though only after the king himself took Harrison’s side and urged Parliament to pay up. Also covering the related inventions of Christian Huyghens, Henry Sully, and Gottfried Liebnitz. 287 pp. including index. Bookseller Inventory # 002791<\/p>\n Dune Girl<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 16mo – over 5\u00be – 6\u00be” tall. Unread, as new mass market paperback. “First Venus Edition, 1973 \/ First Printing.” So, first thus. As baboons are eventually involved, we believe this is a bootleg edition of Marcus Van Heller’s celebrated (and wildly pornographic) Olympia Press opus “Loins of Amon.” (“Van Heller brings to life ancient Egypt, with the bizarre religious rites of the Pharaohs, and the story of one man’s struggle against cruelty! Based on years of historical and archaeological research . . . The Loins of Amon is a superb re-creation of a turbulent era,” etc.) Spine coded V-1170R, priced at $2.25 to front wrap, otherwise no further author or publisher information provided. 223 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 002785<\/p>\n Battlestar Galactica \/ The Greatest Space Epic Ever — from ABC-TV and Universal<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 16mo – over 5\u00be – 6\u00be” tall. There’s some dimpling to the front wrap, but this book has no reading crease. It remains as new unread, save for a few hand-written notes to last blank page. “Berkley edition September, 1978 . . . published by arrangement with MCA Publishing, Universal City, California,” which may make this a “first edition thus.” Tie-in with the “Universal Picture” starring Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, and Richard Hatch, which we presume was essentially a pilot for the original 21-episode TV series. (And no mention of the gifted Laurette Spang, who network censors decided could no longer be a \u201csocialator\u201d?) Original price $1.95; total 244 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 002786<\/p>\n Baedeker’s The United States \/ With Excursions to Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska \/ Handbook for Travellers \/ With 33 Maps and 48 Plans<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. 16mo – over 5\u00be – 6\u00be” tall. Very good minus. Gilt titles lovely (albeit slightly copper-colored) to front board and spine. Head of spine has been repaired. ABE requires us to list as either “hardcover” or “softcover,” though of course these original travel guides have somewhat flexible red covers. “Fourth Revised Edition,” originally priced at $4.50. There are 30 titles to front endpapers, none dated. This copy distributed by Charles Scribner’s Sons and dated “1909” to title page. Fold-out color maps appear to be all in place and attached, specific inquiries welcomed. Dutch marbling of page edges remains attractive. 724 pp. including index. We are listing a collection of vintage Baedekers. Bookseller Inventory # 002783<\/p>\n Baedeker’s Nordamerika \/ die Vereinigten Staaten \/ Nebst Einem Ausflug nach Mexiko \/ Handbuch fur Reisende \/ Mit 25 Karten, 32 Planen und 1 Grundbissen (THE JOHN CARL DRIEMANN COPY)<\/strong><\/a> Item Description: Book Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 16mo – over 5\u00be – 6\u00be” tall. Fair. Book appears “very good” from exterior with lovely red cloth cover and nice gold gilt titling, will also close its own text block. But some (not all) of the interior maps are so fragile they can literally come apart in your hands (at the folds), requiring conservation beyond our means. Rear map of United States is intact but torn away from mounting and now laid in — weakness at fold lines of this map supported from rear with small pieces of Magic Tape. (Oklahoma shows up as “Oklahoma Indian Territory.”) Most of frontispiece map of Northeastern United States is torn away and missing. Long horizontal map of Manhattan Island at pp. 4-5 is coming apart at folds; one piece separated and laid in. Book signed in black ink to FFE and title page “J.C. Dielmann \/ San Antonio, Texas \/ 1909.” Prussian immigrant John Carl Dielmann was a Texas contractor and builder, father of the noted Texas architect Leo M.J. Dielmann. ABE requires us to list as either “hardcover” or “softcover,” though of course these original travel guides have somewhat flexible red covers. States “Zweite Auflage”; originally priced at $3.60 and sold in the U.S. by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Der gesamte Text ist in deutscher Sprache. 26 titles to front pastedown, none dated; this copy dated 1904 to title page. Dutch marbling of page edges considerably faded. A handsome copy — but with some of the maps quite fragile — of one of the rarer Baedeker variants, with an interesting provenance. We are listing a collection of vintage Baedekers. 591 pp. including index. Bookseller Inventory # 002782<\/p>\n
\nJensen, Peter R. (VK 2 AQJ and G 4 GZT)
\nPublished by Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst NSW, Australia (1994)
\nISBN 10: 0864176074 ISBN 13: 9780864176073
\nUsed Hardcover First Edition <\/em>
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\nGosling, Nigel
\nPublished by Knopf, New York (1976)
\nISBN 10: 0394411064 ISBN 13: 9780394411064
\nUsed Hardcover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 25.00 <\/p>\n
\nAwdry, The Rev. W., and G. Awdry
\nPublished by Kaye & Ward \/ an imprint of William Heinemann Ltd., London (1987)
\nISBN 10: 0434927627 ISBN 13: 9780434927623
\nUsed Hardcover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 415.00 <\/p>\n
\nWiser, Willism
\nPublished by G.K. Hall & Co. \/ A publishing subsidiary of ITT, no place given (1985)
\nISBN 10: 0839828594 ISBN 13: 9780839828594
\nUsed Soft cover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 22.50 <\/p>\n
\nFeynman, Richard P., Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands
\nPublished by Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. (1965)
\nUsed Hardcover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 250.00 <\/p>\n
\nBrownlow, Kevin
\nPublished by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. (1968)
\nUsed Soft cover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 20.00 <\/p>\n
\nZwicky, F.
\nPublished by Springer-Verlag, Berlin*Gottingen*Heidelberg (1957)
\nUsed Hardcover First Edition <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 250.00 <\/p>\n
\nGould, Lieut-Commander Rupert T., R.N.
\nPublished by Holland Press, London (1973)
\nUsed Hardcover <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 92.50 <\/p>\n![\"002785A\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/002785A.jpg?resize=188%2C300&ssl=1\")
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\nLargo, Paul
\nPublished by Venus Books, U.S.A. (1973)
\nUsed Soft cover <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 35.00 <\/p>\n
\nLarson, Glen A. and Robert Thurston
\nPublished by Berkley Medallion, New York (1978)
\nISBN 10: 0425039587 ISBN 13: 9780425039588
\nUsed Soft cover <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 17.00 <\/p>\n
\nBaedeker, Karl
\nPublished by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig (1909)
\nUsed Hardcover <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 65.00 <\/p>\n
\nBaedeker, Karl
\nPublished by Karl Baedeker, Leipzig (1904)
\nUsed Hardcover <\/em>
\nPrice: US$ 120.00 <\/p>\n