London: John Murray, 1837. Signed by Babbage "To Mrs. Davenport with the author's regards" on half title in ink; Edward Davies Davenport's bookplate on front endpaper. First edition. 240 (1, ads) pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with paper label on spine, light yellow endpapers. About Very Good with backstrip coming..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. First trade edition, preceded by an extremely rare suppressed issue. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled, darkened at spine, chipped at crown, and with areas lightly lifting from paperboard. Gilt stamping rubbed on spine but very strong on cover. Small label remnant to front paste down..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. First trade edition, preceded by an extremely rare suppressed issue. Good. Cloth soiled and unevenly sunned. Small bookseller ticket to front paste down. Pages toned, and with foxing at the prelims and terminals. The first published edition, following an issue rejected by Carroll. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum-brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with black endsheets. Very Good. Cloth worn at extremities, unevenly sunned, and wormed. Contents toned, with foxing to preliminary and terminal pages. A scarce mathematical work by Dodgson, better known..... More
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Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Physical Society, 1913. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First American edition. 216 pp. Blue cloth with spine label. Near Fine in Fair original dust jacket. Book itself in unusually nice shape. Bookplate on paste down. Faint stain to spine label, light foxing to cloth. Dust jacket price intact (on spine, $4.00);..... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1957. Signed by both authors on front endpaper in Washington dated October 4, 1957 with a small squiggle underneath. First edition, American issue in dark gray cloth, flap priced in dollars. xvii, 303pp. Original gray cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good..... More
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Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1930. Kurt Gödel's paper "Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls," published in Monatsheften für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 37. Complete volume, Pp. [iv], 404, 52 "Literaturberichte," with Gödel's paper on pp. [349]-360. Bound without wraps in modern grey suede-like binding with spine lettered in gilt. Pages..... More
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Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1933. Kurt Gödel's "Zum Entscheidungsproblem des logischen Funktionenkalküls," published in Monatsheften für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 40. Complete volume, Pp. 470, 41 "Literaturberichte," with Gödel's paper on pp. 433-443. Bound without wraps in modern grey suede-like binding with spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, lightly bumped at..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1979. First edition, first printing. xxi, 777 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in sunned, unclipped dust jacket with a few closed tears at head, Very Good. The first appearance of the Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1979. First edition, first printing. xxi, 777 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in thoroughly-sunned, unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, heaviest at tips, Good+. The first appearance of the Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1995. First edition, first printing. A lovely association copy, signed and inscribed by Douglas R. Hofstadter to Stephen Jay Gould and his family, "To Steve, Deborah, Jesse and Ethan with much fondness from Doug April, 1985." Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First English-language edition. [8], 158, [6] pp. Illustrated with 12 lithograph plates and a large folding synoptical table of mechanical movements. Rebacked quarter-calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Very Good with wear to calf and boards, some finger smudges, slight stubtear with..... More
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000. Nineteenth printing. Signed and inscribed on half-title page by Benoit B. Mandelbot. Bound in publisher's red glazed cloth with gilt lettering to spine, Near Fine with boards lightly splayed, in Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. More
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982. First edition. A fantastic association copy signed in the year of publication by Benoit Mandelbot and inscribed to John Hubbard, "For John Hubbard / Cordially / Benoit Aug 31, 1982. / John: This book was [?] written long ago and delivered to..... More
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1963. First edition. Signed by Oskar Morgenstern on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's brown leatherette binding decorated in blind with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light shelf lean, foxing to textblock top edge, pages toned..... More
Cheltenham, UK & Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1996. First edition, first printing. Signed by John F. Nash on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with gilt titles on spine; lacking dust jacket as issued. Very Good+, with light bumping..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. First edition. (First printing with date on title page, which publisher used in lieu of a first edition statement.) xii, 424 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good copy with wear at extremities, slight wave to pages, p...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1940. First edition. (As stated on copyright page.) 348 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket with price intact ($4.00), chipped head, a bit of wrinkling darkening to spine panel, creased snag to to top of..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Cooperative Society, 1948. First edition, presumed first issue. 156 p. Mimeographed of typescript, printed on rectos only, bound in plain paper wraps. Fair with staining and creasing to cover and former owner's notes throughout in pencil and pen, name and dorm address on title page. Includes a final..... More
Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1985. First edition. xii, (2), 499 pp. Purple cloth with white lettering. Miniscule name written on paste down, else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped jacket with very slight sunning to spine panel. A very nice copy of the philosopher's autobiography. More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. Signed by author on front flyleaf and inscribed to his friend distinguished mathematician Stephen C. Kleene, a co-creator of computability theory, "for Steve Kleene / in admiration and / warmest regard / Van [his nickname]." Kleene is mentioned numerous times in this autobiography. First edition. xii..... More
Boston, Basel, and Berlin: Birkhauser, 1995. First edition. Inscribed by Rota on half-title: "To Andy / with best wishes / [signed] Gian-Carlo / Cambridge / November 26, 1995." This "Andy" is Harvard mathematician Andrew Mattei Gleason, best known for his work on Hilbert's fifth problem. xliii, 624, [2] pp. Original..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. First edition. xii, 326 pp. Red cloth with black stamping. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Name on front paste down, pages otherwise free of marks. Spine panel a bit faded, light wear. A very neat, clean copy. With an appendix "Cardinal Products..... More
New York: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. xiii, 236 (2) pp. Dark navy cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, including all six cards in pouch at rear. Near Fine, envelope at rear improperly opened and a little torn, small stain to fore edge, in Very Good+ unclipped, unfaded dust..... More