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WONDERFUL C.S. LEWIS LETTER RESPONDING TO A YOUNG FAN ABOUT THE NARNIA SERIES. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
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WONDERFUL C.S. LEWIS LETTER RESPONDING TO A YOUNG FAN ABOUT THE NARNIA SERIES. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
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FIRST EDITION of the famous "EPR" paper, one of the most discussed and debated papers of modern physics. WITH: Bohr's response. More about Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Einstein,...
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FIRST EDITION OF THE RAREST RUSCHA BOOK; ONE OF ONLY AN ESTIMATED 200 COPIES. IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION. More about Dutch Details
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FIRST EDITION of Vannevar Bush's landmark paper credited for originating the idea of hypertext and, by extension, providing many of the theoretical underpinnings for the world wide web. More about As We May Think
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A remarkably complete collection of works documenting the history of the theory of communication of information – what ‘information’ actually is, and what are the theoretical restrictions on the accurate transmission of information from source to receiver. More about Communication / Information Theory: A Collection
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– A MAJOR TOLKIEN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON THE CENTRAL THEMES OF HIS WORK AND CONTAINING A VARIANT HISTORY OF THE FIRST AGE; LIKELY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT IN PRIVATE HANDS – A VISUALLY STUNNING HAND-DRAWN CHART, “KINSHIP OF THE HALF-ELVEN,” TRACING THE GENEALOGY FROM FËANOR TO ELROND, ARWEN, AND ARAGORN..... More about Autograph Manuscript “Concerning ‘The Hoard’". WITH: Autograph Manuscript Genealogical...
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A REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTER: TOLKIEN DISCUSSES HIS SPECIFIC FEARS ABOUT THE TWO TOWERS AND DEFINES “THE FOUNDATION” OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND CONNECTS IT TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] on The Lord of the Rings
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EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE PUBLICATION, TOLKIEN ANXIOUSLY INTRODUCES HIS MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TO A FAN OF THE HOBBIT. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS] introducing The Lord of the Rings
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ORIGINAL, HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT DRAWING OF THE YOUNG VIRGINIA STEPHEN BY FRANCIS DODD. DODD’S WORK FROM HIS 1907-1908 SITTINGS WITH WOOLF ARE THE ONLY EXTANT LIKENESSES OF HER FROM THIS PERIOD. FROM THE BENJAMIN SONNENBERG COLLECTION. More about “Miss Virginia Stephen”: Large Charcoal Drawing of Virginia Woolf
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Pauli's influential paper demonstrating the superiority and validity of the new quantum mechanics. More about Über das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik [On the Hydrogen Spectrum...
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A REMARKABLY EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF A UNION SOLIDER, INCLUDING DIARIES FROM 1861-1865 SPANNING HIS ENTIRE CIVIL WAR CAREER. THE SOLDIER, CHARLES E. SMITH, PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE MOST CRITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR, INCLUDING THE SEIGE OF VICKSBURG, THE FALL OF ATLANTA, AND SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA. More about “A View from the Ranks”: The Civil War Diaries and Manuscripts of Charles E. Smith, 32nd Ohio...
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INSCRIBED BY PICASSO IN RED AND BLUE CRAYON TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER, CECIL BEATON: “pour Cecil Beaton. Ami Picasso 9.6.65.”. More about Photograph: Self-portrait with Picasso, 1965
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CATALOG FOR THE LANDMARK ARTISTS IN EXILE EXHIBITION, SIGNED BY ALL 14 ARTISTS, INCLUDING ANDRÉ BRETON, MARC CHAGALL, MAX ERNST, AND PIET MONDRIAN. More about Artists in Exile
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SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' Which Attacked Stalinism and Changed the Course of World History. More about O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences
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One-of-a-Kind Beatles Images Portend the End of an Era. More about Contact Sheet of Rare Beatles Photographs, Candlestick Park, 1966
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THE RISE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM AND MASS-MEDIA HELP MAKE HEMINGWAY ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S FIRST AMERICAN INFLUENCERS. More about Over 100 Press Photographs that Helped Define Hemingway’s Public Image
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ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH BY YOUSUF KARSH, INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY IN INK ON THE IMAGE. More about <b>Large Format Portrait Photograph of John F. Kennedy, signed by Kennedy</b>
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Vpered introduced Bolshevik strategy and led to Lenin’s dominance during the Russian Revolution. A complete run with noted provenance. More about Vpered (Vperyod) [Forward
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EXTREMELY RARE 1564 FIRST PRINTING of the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, one of the most important publications in the history of the Catholic Church; printed by Paulus Manutius and Aldus the Younger of the Aldine Press and the request of Pope Pius IV. More about Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti Oecumenici, et Generalis Concilii Tridentini sub Paulo III, Iulio...
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Complete run of one of the earliest and most important revolutionary Bolshevik émigré newspapers: Proletarii. More about Proletarii [Proletarians
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FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 750 COPIES, OF HOPKINS'S FIRST BOOK. VITA SACKVILLE-WEST'S COPY. More about Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. More about Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
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CONTACT SHEET OF THIRTEEN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM CECIL BEATON’S ICONIC 1956 PHOTOSHOOT WITH MARILYN MONROE. With annotations by Beaton in white ink above the images, and his stamp on the back. Likely unique. More about Photographs
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Walt Whitman Albumen Photograph by Napoleon Sarony given to his caregiver and house mate Mary O. Davis. Signed by Davis. More about Albumen Photograph Given to Mary O. Davis
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FIRST EDITION (1555) of Magnus's great work - the first large geographical-ethnographical description of Scandinavia and one of the most important sources on the customs of the Northern peoples and daily life in the 16th century. Magnficently illustrated with 472 fine woodcuts. More about Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus, earumqve diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus,...
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