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Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1945. First edition. original wrappers. RARE LITHOPRINT ISSUE - THE FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING - OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. ONE OF SMYTH'S OWN COPIES, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. PMM 422e. Released to the public on 12 August 1945, just six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the "Smyth Report" (as it came to be known) contained a full account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project that culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. The first version of the report was a mimeographed copy (identifiable by the word "secret" stamped on every page), hand-delivered by military messenger, which the recipients were required to read immediately and return to the waiting messenger. These mimeographed copies were apparently destroyed for security reasons, as no copies, either whole or in parts, have been recorded in existence except for Smyth's…
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]
by SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF . [SMYTH, H.D.]
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Going After Cacciato
by O'Brien, Tim
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New York: Delacorte, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on title page: "To David, Peace, Tim O'Brien." The winner of the 1979 National Book Award. "Going After Cacciato was a breakthrough book not only for O'Brien, but for American literature, the first howl of the Vietnam Vet hurling through the public's disdain. It is that rare gem, a work of American magical realism" (Liz Rosenberg, National Book Foundation). New York: Delacorte, 1978. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth with a touch of fading at edges (as often); dust jacket with striking artwork by M.S. Chaing with only the most minute wear at edges. A beautiful copy.
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A Gold Book
by WARHOL, ANDY
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New York: Andy Warhol, 1957. First edition. Original gold wrapper, original cloth. Very Good. WARHOL'S RARE STUNNING SELF-PUBLISHED EARLY WORK. PRESENTATION COPY TO PHOTOGRAPHER DUANE MICHALS. INSCRIBED ON FRONT COVER: "To Duane / Happy Brithday [sic] / A.W." WITH LETTER OF PROVENANCE FROM DUANE MICHALS. "Warhol published A Gold Book [in 1957]. Printed on gold-coated paper with pink, lilac, and teal tissue laid between the pages, A Gold Book indulges the sensual in both its content and its materiality. It is dedicated to 'Boys filles fruits and flowers shoes tc and ew,' referencing both the broader gay subculture to which Warhol belonged, his close friend Ted Carey, and Warhol's then lover Edward Wallowitch, whose photographs were the basis of several drawings in the book." (Lucy Mulroney, Andy Warhol, Publisher). A Gold Book was one of "Warhol's promotional books - handmade and personalized - [that] often felt more like gifts. He sent A Gold Book at Christmas in 1957... He traced most of these…
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The Goshawk
by WHITE, T.H. [WHITE, TERENCE HANBURY]
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First edition. Original cloth, original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHITE: PERHAPS THE BEST POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A WARM AND LENGTHY INSCRIPTION TO HIS GOOD FRIEND SYDNEY COCKERELL - CONNOISEUR, BIBLIOPHILE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. T.H. White is best known for his magnificent re-telling of the Arthurian saga in his Once and Future King tetralogy - The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind. His life - as described by his biographer Sylvia Warner Townsend, and more recently in Helen Macdonald's prize-winning memoir H is for Hawk - was a sad one. He was a heavy drinker, pathologically fearful, estranged from humanity, emotionally crippled by a turbulent upbringing, troubled by dark sado-masochistic fantasies, and isolated, in a homophobic era, by his (likely) homosexuality. As an adult, he attempted to exorcise his demons through psychoanalysis; by…
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The Gospel Singer
by CREWS, HARRY
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New York: William Morrow & Co. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF CREWS' first novel. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Book very good with slight lean but no discoloration to endpapers (as usual); dust jacket near fine with only most minimal wear. A superb copy.
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Grant's Petersburg Progress
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Petersburg, VA: Eden & McCreery, 1865. First edition. framed. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF "GRANT'S PETERSBURG PROGRESS" PRINTED BY UNION SOLDIERS ON A CONFEDERATE PRESS THE DAY PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE SEIZED, SIX DAYS BEFORE LEE'S SURRENDER. "When, on that famous Monday, the third of April, 1865, the advance line of attack on Petersburg found the city evacuated by the Confederate troops, almost the first Federal soldiers to enter her doors took possession of the office of the Express and, before the day was over, from its presses there issued number one, volume one, of Grant's Petersburg Progress. It was a single sheet, twelve by twenty inches in size, printed on one side of the paper. Its cry was 'We are here!' Major Eden, 37th Wisconsin Volunteers, was editor, assisted by Captain Charles H. McCreery, 8th Michigan Veteran Volunteers and Chaplain D. Heagle. They proposed 'to publish a live paper as ling as circumstances will permit; that is, as long as we can steal the paper and get men…
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Grundbegriffe Der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
by KOLMOGOROFF, ANDREY NIKOLAEVICH
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Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933. First edition. original wrappers. Fine. THE FIRST EDITION, IN ITS ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, OF KOLMOGOROV'S FAMOUS PAPER PUTTING PROBABILITY THEORY ON A FIRM AXIOMATIC BASIS. A formal system is a set of precisely-specified definitions, axioms, and rules of inference relating to a particular domain (such as geometry or arithmetic) that allow the rigorous development of theorems within that domain. Such systems replace vague and intuitive conceptions of a domain, or empirical rules of thumb, with rigorous standards of proof. The first formal system to be developed in the West was of course the system set forth in Euclid's Elements (see quotation above). Recognizing in that system, or at least in idealized versions of it, the gold standard of rigor, mathematicians in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries began trying to develop comparable systems outside the domain of geometry. Peano, for example, famously developed an axiomatic basis for natural-number arithmetic,…
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