Search Results: Mathematics from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., (1965)., (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray cloth titled in black on the spine, laid into a printed red & white dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The edges of the soiled dust jacket are slightly chipped. xvii, [1] & 508 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. Very good.
First edition.

[New York]: The Macmillan Company, (1970)., (1970).. Good. - Octavo, 9-1/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in magenta & gold on the front cover and the spine, laid into a matching dust wrapper. The covers are slightly rubbed. The edges of the dust jacket are slightly chipped with a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel and small pieces out from the head & tail of the jacket's spine. xiv & 418 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition, first printing.

Reading, MA / Palo Alto / London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., (1964)., (1964).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in white on the spine, laid into a yellow dust wrapper. The covers are soiled and the head & tail of the spine bumped. The dust jacket is soiled with some minor chips and short tears to the top edge. ix, [1] & 163 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned on the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. The previous owner has additionally made the corrections noted on the errata page in their respective places within the text. Very good.
First edition.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1959., 1959.. Very good. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in gilt on the spine, laid into a tan printed dust wrapper. The dust jacket's spine is darkened and stained with minor chipping to the head of it's spine. xiii, [1] & 361 pages plus the colophon, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. Very good.
First edition.

Washington, DC: Thompson Book Company Inc., 1967., 1967.. Good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, laid into a blue & white dust wrapper. The covers are bumped. The dust jacket is soiled and the edges of the jacket are slightly chipped with a couple of tiny tears. xviii & 366 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and also on the rear pastedown. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition.

New York/London/Sydney: Interscience Publishers, (1965)., (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light grayish-blue cloth titled in black on the spine, laid into a printed yellow dust wrapper. The edges of the covers are slightly rubbed. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with very minor chipping to the edges. xiv, [2] & 355 pages. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. Very good.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, (1968)., (1968).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray cloth titled in gray on a black panel on the spine, laid into a green & white dust wrapper. The head & tail of the book's spine are bumped. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with a small chip to the top edge. viii & 216 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front endpaper and on the rear pastedown. Very good.

[Cambridge, MA]: The M.I.T. Press / New York/London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1962),. (1962),. Good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is very lightly soiled & chipped with its spine slightly faded. x & 285 pages. There is staining to both endpapers with an owner's name & address on the front endpaper. There are a few red pencil markings & underlinings. Illustrated with tables & diagrams. Good. <p>Second printing.

Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1932.. 1932.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with red staining to the bottom edge of the rear wrap. The head of the spine is lightly chipped. 80 & [1] pages. Good. <p>First edition. The text is in French.

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1970)., (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in blue printed wrappers titled in white on the front cover and the spine. The covers are slightly soiled. [8] & 152 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. Very good.
First edition.
A title in the "Chicago Lectures in Mathematics" series.

New York: Blaisdell Publishing Company, (1963)., (1963).. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the covers are slightly faded. The dust wrapper is lightly rubbed with the top edge of its rear panel chipped. There are pieces out of the tail of its spine & the top edge of its front panel. xiii & 393 pages. Profusely illustrated with mathematical formulas and diagrams. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. First edition.

New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., (1958)., (1958).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in printed gray cloth titled in maroon on the front cover and the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped & soiled. xi, [1] & 260 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. The previous owner's name and MIT address is penned on the front endpaper. He has made a very few pencil notes in the text. Very good.
First edition.

Menlo Park, CA/ Reading MA: The Benjamin / Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., (1986)., (1986).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial cloth titled in white on the spine. The corners of the covers are lightly bumped. xii, [4] & 320 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. Very good.

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1971)., (1971).. Very good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in blue printed wrappers titled in white on the front cover and the spine. The head and tail of the spine are rubbed. xi, [1] & 148 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. Very good.
First edition.
A title in the "Chicago Lectures in Mathematics" series.

New York & London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1962)., (1962).. Very good. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in gray cloth titled in white on the spine, laid into a printed orange dust wrapper. The dust jacket's spine is sunned and its rear panel is slightly soiled. The covers are very slightly cocked. xi [1], & 144 pages, profusely illustrated with diagrams. A previous owner's name and address is penned on the front endpaper. Very good.
First edition.
"This book, written on a level suitable for beginning students in the subject of signal-flow graphs for studying linear systems, presupposes a knowledge of simple electronic circuits and basic manipulation rules in matrices and determinants." - from the dust wrapper copy.

New York: Oxford University Press/ Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986., 1986.. Fine. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. viii & 155 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. Near fine.
First edition, first printing with the full number line.
Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917-1998) was Professor of Mathematics at Princeton and is best known for introducing the so-called "Iwasawa theory".

New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. / Cincinnati: H. W. Derby & Company, 1855.. 1855.. Good. - Octavo, grayish blue cloth. The spine & extremities are faded with the head & tail of the spine chipped. The covers are bumped, rubbed & lightly spotted. 375 pages. Illustrated with diagrams & mathematical formulas. The pastedowns & endpapers are foxed & stained & there is foxing & staining to the prelims & rear blanks. Despite its flaws, a good tight copy. <p>Later printing. "An analysis of that system of mathematical instruction which has been steadily pursued at the Military Academy over a quarter of a century, and which has given to that institution its celebrity as a school of mathematical science." [Author's Preface]. A title in the School Teacher's Library series.

(New York: published by the author), 1908., 1908.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. There is minor creasing to the wraps. 22 pages. Illustrated with arithmetical tables. There is very light staining to the bottom inner corners of the wraps & pages. Very good. First edition."A simple and positive method of rapid addition, is outlined in this book. Its basic principle is sight reading of grouped figures, which is developed by familiarizing the student with every possible combination of three figures, so that each group may instantly be recognized and read as an aggregate without resorting to the addition of the separate figures composing it...." [From a review in "The Journal of Accountancy", Volume 9 ( Nov. 1909 - April 1910)].Rare.

A la Haye [The Hague]: Chez T. Johnson, 1714., 1714.. - Octavo, 6-1/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Bound in vintage tan calf. The front cover is detached. The covers are heavily rubbed, scuffed and stained with wear to the edges and corners and the spine has perished and is thus mostly lacking. [iv], 456 & [12] pages, illustrated with 2 folding plates, including a large plate for an article on the Apotheosis of Homer, depicting a marble relief by Archelaus of Priene. There is some occasional light minor soiling and staining throughout. The top edge of the last of the index is creased and there is a short tear to the inner edge at the fold of the large folding plate. The frontispiece is lacking, else the book collates as complete. First edition.The "Journal Literaire" was published by Thomas Johnson, an Englishman who was living in The Hague. It was edited by Prosper Marchand [1678-1756]. among others..Of note is the inclusion of the first publication of Bernard Nieuwentyt's "Nouvel Usage des Tables… Read More

Wien / New York: Springer-Verlag, (1986)., (1986).. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in yellow cloth titled in black on the spine, laid into a printed yellow dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly soiled and the jacket's edges are slightly rubbed and creased. xi, [1] & 251 pages, illustrated with mathematical diagrams. Very good.
First edition.